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Difficult to find acreage/land in washington state

We’re trying to find a getaway property in washington state (currently live in Seattle), but it’s almost impossible to do any of it online. The ideal place would be:
5+ acres
Power available
Small cabin ready to live in
Creek/river
Septic
Water
1.5 - 2 hours from Seattle
~$50,000
We have a slightly different profile than many people would for what we want [...]

If a script says register globals should be on, then don’t use that script

When people who would otherwise like to be known as professionals (IE they are charging money for a script and/or services) tell you that their software needs register_globals (in php) to be enabled, it means that they can’t code their way out of a wet paper bag.
It takes like 30 seconds to change all of [...]

This is pretty bad, even for slashdot

Dupes come up sometimes, but usually they’re more than one story apart.

I mean, come on. Only 4 hours apart, if cowboyneal had even looked at the main page he would have seen it.

Zend Encoder bad for the internet

Like many hosting companies (although many won’t admit it), our customers often have problems with their accounts being compromised. 99% of the time this is because they were running a 3rd party script with a significant security flaw in it. The worst are the 3rd party billing scripts, sometimes people who compromise the [...]

ultradns, please go away

Just because I manage DNS for domains that get millions of requests per day doesn’t mean I want to talk to your sales people all the time about your product.
I find your service to be unreliable and expensive, I don’t want anything to do with it, so please go away.