Bill Joy's Takes on C#

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Posted by Hemos on Thursday February 7, 2002 @08:32AM from the battle-is-joined dept.

f00zbll writes: "Cnet is running an article by Bill Joy on security and how it relates to C# and Microsoft at large. BJ quotes verbatim: 'C# provides the ability to write unsafe code. In unsafe code it is possible to declare and operate on pointers, to perform conversions between pointers and integral types, to take the address of variables, and so forth.'"

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Mea Culpa by nixadmin · 2002-02-07 08:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I have to come clean -- I've been Karma whoring. Apologies to any and all who wasted mod points modding me up. I'm finished.
1. Re:Mea Culpa by nixadmin · 2002-02-07 08:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Oh, the irony....my last post was my first First Post!
2. Re:Mea Culpa by nixadmin · 2002-02-07 08:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  wow, you're right. on both counts. okay, this is really it! the last one from me, i mean
3. Re:Mea Culpa by OpenDirectX · 2002-02-07 08:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Is there any reason you bother writing these non sense comments? It makes no sense to me that someone would waste their time posting "that's it, I'm done" and then respond to their own post. If you are leaving then goodbye. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
4. Re:Mea Culpa by Chris+Burke · 2002-02-07 08:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Seriously. If I ever stop reading /., I'm not going to post about. Who gives a shit if I leave? No one, that's who. Just go.
  
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5. Re:Mea Culpa by nixadmin · 2002-02-07 08:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I'm not leaving... I'm just not posting anymore !
Re:What we should really call it... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-07 08:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What if your life support system ran linux?
Heh by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-07 08:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

More SLOP dribbling all over the Slashdot front page. Complete, utter SLOP, I say! Bah! SLOP!!

Go suck ANAL COX's man boobies.
That's ok, we forgive you. by AltGrendel · 2002-02-07 08:39 · Score: 1, Offtopic

NOT!

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1. Re:That's ok, we forgive you. by Deleted · 2002-02-07 08:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  stop watching wayne's world, shit's old. fag.
I like foosball by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-07 08:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I like foosball
what else to expect! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-07 08:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What else to expect from microsoft!
Next one is to find a security issue with msxml3.dll which allow someone to control your computer.
C'mon. What about C and C++ and... by ErnoWindt · 2002-02-07 08:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dozens of other languages. Slashdot needs to filter out anti-Microsoft propaganda, particularly via a virtual press release from the paid hack of another would-be monopolist, and instead report on serious science and technology issues.
sex is good! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-07 08:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

sex is good!
Re:Music lesson... by Carp+Flounderson · 2002-02-07 08:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The reason for this is on the piano, the player needs to be able to look down and determine where their hands are based on the missing black keys between the notes B,C and F,E.
huh???? You're really going to write a comment titled "music lesson" and tell people that the only reason that there is a half-step between B and C is to make things look nicer on the piano??? Don't you think the structure of the major scale has something to do with it? I think you'll find that the conventions used for identifying the major scale will pre-date any piano construction.

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Re:Music lesson... by oddjob · 2002-02-07 09:18 · Score: 1, Offtopic

B and C flat are both valid names for the same note. The different names are used depending on the key in which the music is written. The same goes for B flat and C double flat -- the same note with different names in different contexts.
Re:So what? by jallen02 · 2002-02-07 09:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How is Counter-Strike these days. No more 90210?

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Re:Sun shouldn't be complacent by gillbates · 2002-02-07 09:50 · Score: 2, Offtopic

Gates could literally turn out to be the most significant philanthropist in the history of the world. They're giving so much money that you can almost see a chunk of what you spend on MS going to a good cause.
Who said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything - all she had to live on."?
What people fail to realize is that Bill Gates' money was obtained through immoral and oppressive means. One might as well count the drug lords in South America as philanthropists as well.
The fact that Bill Gates is giving away money doesn't make him generous. Were he a benevolent individual, he wouldn't have drummed Microsoft's competitors out of business, or artificially raised the price of Microsoft software. Do you really believe that the man who claimed that church was a waste of time is giving money for purely altruistic reasons? Isn't it more likely that he's doing these things to make he and Microsoft look good?
In case you didn't know, the second quote is from Jesus Christ (Mark 12:43).

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Re:Music lesson (off topic)... by pancrace · 2002-02-07 10:39 · Score: 1, Offtopic

And there is also a C-double flat. It just so happens that Cb is enharmonically equivalent to B, and Cbb to Bb.
Just to be *really* anal, the two are enharmonically equivalent only when tuning with equal temperament. However, if you use alternate tunings (such as tuning to perfect 5ths for a particular key, "just tuning," or using another Baroque tuning), there is a very audible difference between Cb and B, E# and F, etc.

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