Funny take on PHP function names, SQL injection attacks

R_Flowers

Over at Slashdot.org, there is an amusing exchange regarding an article on SQL injection attacks:

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by CHR1S (694833)

			on Wednesday July 19, @07:37AM (</span><a style="background-color: rgb(255, 165, 0);" href="http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191584&amp;cid=15742484">#15742484</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 165, 0);">)
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	<div id="comment_body_15742484"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">How

can it be that hard for web developers to check data before it is
submitted? I wouldn't imagine trusting the data that an anonymous user
can enter into my website.. so maybe I'm just trained to check data. Of
course, I'm also glad I use MySQL with PHP where a simple
mysql_real_escape_string can prevent any popular SQL Injection attempt.

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by Goaway (82658)

			on Wednesday July 19, @07:41AM (</span><a style="background-color: rgb(255, 165, 0);" href="http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191584&amp;cid=15742507">#15742507</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 165, 0);">)
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	<div id="comment_body_15742507"><font style="background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);" face="Tahoma" size="2">You're <em>glad</em>

that you use pretty much the only langauge where this is not done
automatically for you, but which instead forces you to use a function
with a name like mysql_real_escape_string()? And that
actually has a similarly-named function without the "real" that
doesn't do the job right? Just kidding with that other one, here's the
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That last line cracked me up. Not to mention also that PHP has the_most_absurd_funtion_names_sometimes().

Albatross

I alwyas love flame wars between Starcraft and Total Annihilation (spotted at http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.games.starcraft/browse_thread/thread/da3d96262b55e11b/33646c3f01315459?lnk=st&q=total+annihilation+command+line&rnum=6&hl=en):

@Random StarCraft guy said:

> Yeah. I think that's the wierdest thing about SC, that the air units
> aren't really "air" units. They never land, and are not really faster
> than ground units (can a Mutalisk outfly a fast Zergling?).

You TA freaks are so unbelievably stupid. Ever heard of round planets ?
You know the distance vs altitude modifier ? If I am at lets say 20.000 feet, I
have
to travel a longer distance than some peon walking or driving on the face of
the earth.

Columbus figured this out a long time ago. When will TA players do the same ?

And the slowest tank drives at about the same speed as the fastest fighter - this is one of the main reasons that air travel has been fading - people are learning (like Columbus) that it's actually faster to walk/swim to China than to fly there!

BTW what's with this edit box? Characters take like 4 seconds to appear after I type them! (PIII 1.33ghz, 768mb Ram, IE6, XPSP2, nothing else open)