No offense intended here... but it sounds like you could easily become the victim of a DoS attack. All that's needed is for someone to create their own front end and you'll be back to normal.
Have you investigated some sort of solution on the server side, and not the client side?
Oh come on dude! Nobody is really asking for PHP to be a clone of Python. Why can't PHP have a nice module system? It's not FUD to complain that it doesn't have one. It's commonsense!
One billion dollars... For Instagram? While it's a great company, is it worth this much? This doesn't sound like a sane amount to buy the company for...
Is there a reproducible test case? I can well believe that there might be issues, the post isn't really actionable without some sort of specific code to go along with it :(
My uncle put down 500k for a new lambo, and makes around a million a year. The semi-mansion he lives in with my other uncle is fully paid off, the kids colleges funds are full and so is retirement, so a purchase like that is very affordable for him.
Response: What does your uncle do?
Answer: Lives at the bro-mansion and drives a fuckin Lamborghini all day, am I the only one who reads?!
So instead of the original third party destroying your privacy, you hand control to another third party? What measures are being put into place to stop them from doing what the original third party did?
Also: what's to stop someone like Facebook from banning these sort of links?
100% agreed! Currently I'm trying to get access to a iTSM tool that uses HTTP as it's transport mechanism. It uses ActiveX controls to gather data into a grid-like mechanism.
As I particularly hate ActiveX, I have started reverse engineering what these controls do. So far so good, except that the format used for the data that the controls receive is an application/octet-stream binary format.
Now I've worked out how the format works, and by using JDataView I'm parsing the format. But you know what? Internet Explorer takes null characters in strings and will not go any further, even though ECMA-262 states that:
"The String type is the set of all finite ordered sequences of zero or more 16-bit unsigned integer values... All operations on Strings (except as otherwise stated) treat them as sequences of undifferentiated 16-bit unsigned integers; they do not ensure the resulting String is in normalised form, nor do they ensure language-sensitive results."
If they had passed the data back in something saner like JSON, or heck even XML!, then things would have be fine. As it is, I've decided to skip Internet Explorer as it's just not worth my time to get around this issue, and every other browser works fine with JDataView.
I have indeed played this game when I was much younger. I think I was disturbed by this part of the game even back then.
The reason I'm disturbed isn't superficial, and has nothing really to do with Larry losing his virginity. It is the terms they use to describe the prostitute.
Yes, I'm aware it's known as the "oldest profession".
Please stop saying I'm shocked. I'm not shocked, and I have never said I was shocked. The original post said I was disturbed by the comment in the screenshot, and it was mostly because of the way it described the prostitute.