The Sheet Music Industry is Pissed?

In other news: there actually is a viable sheet music industry. Go figure. And apparently this juggernaut of publishing is spittin’ mad at the web for making song lyrics available. They’re also spittin’ mad at Xerox for inventing the Xerox machine, but presumably they don’t have the cash or the balls to try and take [...]

Sony Rootkits its DRM, Part VI: Rise up, Son of Uninstaller, Rise!

Sony has finally released what they’re purporting to be the definitive uninstaller for the rootkit software their CDs installed on user’s unsuspecting computers. This falls closely, if closely is measured in weeks, on the heels of their previous uninstaller which was in fact worse than doing nothing at all:

CDs containing XCP content protection software [...]

The Future of PHP 6

This is good news for security in PHP: according to these meeting notes from a PHP Developers meeting held recently there will be no register_globals in PHP 6:

We shortly discussed how we want to attend users on the disappearance of this functionality. We decided that if we find the setting during the startup of PHP [...]

ASP.Net: Declaration Expected

If you’re working in ASP.Net and writing some VB like so (nonsensical pseudo-code):

<script runat=”server” language=”VB”>
Label_Name = Left( theName, 5 )
</script>

and you get a Declaration Expected error that highlights a line inside your <script /> block you may not actually have an error with your code per se. You may just [...]

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