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Confessions of an Internet "Shock Jock"
An anonymous reader followed up on the Windows memory-leak fraud scandal, which is worth reading before you read the perpetrator's justification. "Randall C. Kennedy comes clean about his past, his relationship to Craig Barth and how it all came tumbling down. Includes an inside look at the politics of IDG and why you can never trust an IT publication that's as obsessed with page views as InfoWorld."
That which gives us the freedom to speak freely and openly and to be more politically honest citizens also gives us the freedom to lie, cheat, and to be griefers and general douchebags.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Why would I give this asshole yet another page view? What could the article possibly say that would make me think he's not a lying asshole? I think this is one case where everyone shouldn't RTFA. Oh, wait. I'm new here...
I'm using all of my mod points to mod ancient memes down. Please join me.
And implode it did. After publishing a particularly alarming set of findings – which I still stand behind while continuing to evaluate new data – the internet became engulfed in controversy. As the furor grew, and as more and more media outlets questioned just who this Craig Barth fellow really was and what made DMS tick, the house of cards came crumbling down. The persona of Craig Barth was exposed as one Randall C. Kennedy, and the entire web of half-truths and misdirection was exposed as the ruse that it was.
(Emphasis mine.) It seems like he has a reasonably technical background. What has he found that cannot be explained by SuperFetch (high memory usage) and Native Command Queuing (backlogged disk I/O queue)? Those were the two big percentage differences and apparently explainable if not desirable for the average user.
So, what next? For starters, neither the exo.performance.network or Devil Mountain Software, Inc., are going anywhere anytime soon.
Surely he must realize that open sourcing everything about exo.performance.network is the only thing he can do at this point. I mean, no one's going to trust him again if he has any way to manipulate the data/results without subject to complete inspection. The only option I see is to open source the software client and post the raw data alongside his own analysis. Without that I'm not stupid enough to trust an adoption rate quoted from this guy let alone average disk I/O queue on Windows 7. Without this kind of auditing, I'm sure those numbers will turn up to be just enough to make my eyes widen and my finger click his link. I am saddened that people will probably continue to run his client without knowing this whole story of how they were manipulated by a particularly crafty scam artist.
My work here is dung.
that Slashdot posts a link to a write-up about overzealous claims regarding Windows. Certainly CmdrTaco and crew would never stoop to the level of spewing unverified garbage for the sake of page hits...
His definition of internet "shock jock" appears to be closer to my definition of "unethical sack of shit," but why quibble over semantics.
I've never seen a CV written in a format like that before.
"Includes an inside look at the politics of IDG and why you can never trust an IT publication that's as obsessed with page views as InfoWorld."
Or, say, Slashdot, which got InfoWorld half those hits by regurgitating it's bullshit in the first place?
Come on Slashdot editors- you can't post that quote, almost as if you're pretending that you're somehow innocent of this. You may been unwitting pawns in the InfoWorld hits game certainly, but you posted a FUD article about Android fragmentation just a day after InfoWorld had been outed as guilty of this and untrustworthy and that suggests that perhaps you enjoy leeching hits off their FUD as much as they enjoy generating them. So why pretend that Slashdot too doesn't use shock articles sometimes to try and increase hits?
Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of Slashdot articles else I wouldn't come here, but it's pretty obvious that some of them are inflammatory FUD (hell Slashdot posted the original article in question) and that others of them are Slashvertisments.
Slashdot's credibility absolutely has decreased over the years because of this, and so it may want to read the above quoted sentence and take some lessons from it itself to ensure it avoids ever heading the same way. I suspect that the editors play the biggest role in this by you know, doing some actual editing and checking the authenticity of the article they're about to post.
After the 96th paragraph about how "Major IT firm X comes knocking at my door", I realized this guy is your usual narcissistic fuck and stopped reading. The choice of phrases like "comes knocking at my door" tells me everything about this guy: he wants to clone himself so he can finally fuck someone worthy of his love.
Seriously. I did not need a thousand word sub-essay on Dvorak, Windows NT and NetWare. What a fucking retard.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
According to MS, you can allocate up to 8TB in Windows x64 for a 64 bit process compiled with the default flags.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx
"“Most Reviled Person on the Internet, 2010 Edition.”", "while the future may see my name relegated to the role of punch line for a crude party joke". Sounds like this guy has a vastly overinflated sense of self-importance. Or maybe I don't spend enough time on the internet to know who the Most Reviled Person was and will be doomed to laughing uncomfortably trying to blend in at parties when people start busting out the Randall Kennedy jokes.
Robert Enderle still gets playtime on NPR.
Maybe it's better to just be an asshole than to be an asshole and try to hide behind a nom de plume.
--
BMO
I want somebody to try malloc() and resolve this.
When God goes to war, He drops big bangs.
Of course 64-bit Windows and Linux can malloc() more than 4GB. Why else compile an application for 64-bit? Even better, unlike LoseThos they can malloc all your free ram as if it was one contiguous block, because they actually support Virtual Memory.
LoseThos seems to trash any and all attempts at process separation made in modern CPUs and OSs. Any process run on the machine can crash the whole system, or even trash the system files, making it unbootable. It's just not practical for a desktop OS. It's ok if you only ever run your own code, but who only runs their own code? To have even posted to slashdot you must be running a modern web browser, which means not your own code.
to comment (4 or 5 months ago) that IDG news is a biased, paid up, propagandist, political mouthpiece. I was modded as a troll, back then.
I'll bite. I skimmed through your comments looking for this -1, Troll claim that you have made and was unable to find it. According to Google (not an authoritative source) I can only find one comment in which you name IDG and it's not modded Troll, it's modded Offtopic. Nor does it rest at -1, merely at 0. There's an important difference between the two. You may have had a legitimate point it just had no place on that article for Slashdot. I suspect that if you had compiled a list of examples that would conclusively lead the reader to agree with you, you might have even gotten a +2 Interesting.
... but who should be the ones laughing in those situations? Probably the people who are employed.
I've noticed unfortunately that, when you do cite sources, it appears as though you're trying to pound a square block into a round hole. Be careful not to look for things to prove you're right but instead to read many things about the subject before concluding that there is evidence from reliable sources or maybe your viewpoint needs adjustment.
I have several friends from India, they have never complained of the media bashing India. I cannot say I've noticed this beyond jokes about outsourcing and telemarketing
On top of that, you throw out the sporadic groundless conspiracy which can hurt your message:
No popular Indian newspaper reported anything like that. I'm pretty sure that this news has been created by the manipulation wing of CIA and published by its media partners. Those filthy bastards don't like to be idle. Now that they've exhausted all the crap they can publish about China, they've turned towards India. Please don't believe them.
Listen, if you have a message to get out, that's fine. But a short post with such large conspiracy claim is often outright dismissed.
Your comments are often curt and therefore don't have a lot of content. This results in you lashing out at your reader which violates the know-your-audience rule of writing and often brings nothing new to the discussion.
My biggest advice to you is to add more meat to your comments and don't get in little pissing matches with long back-and-forths between you and another poster. People don't enjoy reading ping-pong matches. Think out your argument or claim ahead of time and account for all viewpoints from the get-go. That's my advice. You rarely see me post more than one or two comments per article and it's not because I don't read the responses, it's because I come here to say something, I say it and then I'm done. Anything I missed was an error on my part and I deserve the valid rebuttal.
I know this post looks like a direct criticism or attack on you but it's not. It's meant to be constructive criticism because you have some real gems in your posts but every so often get really careless or resort to name calling or make outrageous claims with no proof. If someone had convinced me that this Randall C. Kennedy guy was a complete bullshitter months ago, I would have loved to have known ahead of time.
My work here is dung.
"I realized that I was now regularly espousing opinions and viewpoints that had almost nothing to do with what I truly believed. Rather, they were simply extensions of the RCK persona. I became the "Microsoft basher" when, at heart, I held the company in the highest regard. I became the "Vista basher" and the "Windows 7 basher" when, in truth, I used both every day and found them to be excellent products (yes, even Vista). "
After all, it’s not as if I had trafficked in nuclear secrets or or stolen someone’s credit card information.
"Look guys it wasn't so bad, I was just foolin, no big deal!"
I merely tried to shield what was important to me from the fallout of the world that had been created for me.
"I'm the victim here, but I'm still a manly man, look at my sacrifice, I'm jumping on the grenade here! (as I throw everyone close at hand under the bus)"
And in the end, I failed miserably.
"Please feel sorry for me now that I've abused your trust for years and years."
It was a dumb move, born of frustration at feeling painted into a corner of my own making. I should have just walked away earlier – it’s just a blog in the end – but I lingered too long on the edge of the razor, and eventually it cut the heart out of everything I had tried to accomplish.
Wait is he trying to say that he almost got away with it, man he wishes he got away with it?
Fuck this asshole forever. As if what he's already done isn't enough, he tells his life story like anyone gives a shit. "Ohhh look how much money I made I am so awesome and knowledgable no wait feel sorry for me I'm just a man—a very manly man—protecting his family. But seriously, I'm rich and super smart, oh by the way buy my product you can trust me. I promise I won't create any more personas to review my own product and tell you how great it is."
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Dude has ego problems, but then again... who doesn't?
Just tried it on my 64-bit system with Linux 2.6.31, GCC 4.4 and Glibc 2.10.1. Yes, Linux does allow it.
The largest prime factor of my UID is 263267.
Journalists report shock not stories. They have always been willing to bend the truth to get more readers.
The wise man will always judge for himself.
Somehow, "the coming clean" doesn't feel very trustworthy, comming from him.
Ben Franklin filled his paper with tons of his own writing.
RCK got it backwards. He should have written/blogged as another name. That would have protected his "first love" in a better manner.
I see it as confirmation that Blogging and the "Blogosphere" is an empty and thoughtless echo chamber.
I'm pretty sure you can so long as you're a 64bit native app, and not just a 32bit app on a 64bit OS.
You can't win Darth. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
PCs are increasingly complex and there are lots and lots of things that can go wrong with them. Users are desperate for explanations for why their particular machine doesn't seem to run as well as it used to or is supposed to. Snake oil salesman like this doofus make a living selling simple explanations to complex problems that seem logical but are often wrong. Sometimes not just wrong but maliciously wrong. Instead of helping they're just making things worse. And rags like InfoWorld are just as bad, overlooking conflicts of interest and technical correctness in their pathetic quest for pageviews. Don't give them the attention they so desperately crave otherwise you're just playing their game.
TLDR
And even scanning the text nearly bored me to sleep.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
First!
Back in your cave troll.
ALL the industry publications are biased, paid up, propagandist, political mouthpieces. They cannot divorce themselves from the industry they cover and the ads that pay their salaries. Playing it straight and true does not PAY.
Only Consumers Reports maintains its integrity over time and it refuses any advertising.
An Unnamed source told me this. Also, Al Queda has yellow cake uranium from Nigeria.
This guy drags journalism through the mud, celebrates it like a pig rooting in his own feces, and then has the nerve to blame the media for blowing everything out of proportion and now is trying to claim his 15 minutes of fame like he's a GD Survivor villain. What a jerk. Oh, and by the way, XPNet's Windows 7 data is flat-out wrong and anyone who knows anything about Windows and memory will tell you the same thing.
Balancing the two worlds had become almost impossible, and I longed to escape from the "shock jock" persona that had been created for me...
I merely tried to shield what was important to me from the fallout of the world that had been created for me.
Sounds to me like this guy still is incapable of accepting responsibility for his own actions. If he can't accept responsibility for what HE created and what HE did, how is he ever going to have any measure of integrity?
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
This guy's rambling post reminds me of every last name-dropping, frat-boy, asshole I've ever worked with. He drops more names, completely at random, than your stereotypical Hollywood Agent. He must have had some really good editors throughout the years, because I can't imagine reading an entire book by this clown. Maybe this is what passes for journalism in the perpetually retarded, and wrong, "IT Analyst" industry.
SirWired
fair enough, thanks.
When God goes to war, He drops big bangs.
Danville is full of pricks with too much money that think they are better than everyone. Thanks for reinforcing this stigma.
Judging from the content and length of his article I can see why, if I had run across anything he'd written in the past I'd stop reading it two paragraphs in.
Most importantly, *DONKDONK* Law & Order, were you lying then? or lying now? I'm guessing both.
I had a blog where I wrote all sorts of articles about things from computing to history to literature. Things I personally liked and all that. Pretty tame, homely blog. 20 hits on a good month, but meh, who cares. It's not like I'm Tom Friedman. Then one day I wrote a post on scientology (basically, it's hypocritical to criticise it as a religion if at the same time you're okay with all the others).
Boom! 300 page views that month. A dozen comments. Flamewars and fans.
If I'd been earning money from that blog, you bet I'd have taken a hint and continued to write things about how Obama is a commie, Glenn Beck should head an armed invasion of those baby-eating godless socialists in Europe, minorities are shifty, oil companies are conspiring against hamsters, and gays are actively plotting against our way of life every time they go Satan-worshipping on moonlit nights. Real me wouldn't stand for any of those, but real me - the regular guy who lives and lets live - doesn't sell as well.
Fox and MSNBC are more attractive investments than middle-o'-the-road CNN. The New York Times is doing all it can to survive, while the Sun and the National Enquirer sell on like it's 1970. Trash sells. I blame the man, but I also pity him. Only human, and as LotR says, the hearts of men are easily corrupted.
Karma fed to this user will be promptly burnt. Be warned; be wary.
Just malloc'd 5GB on my 6GB Windows x64 machine, worked fine.
Here's the program, which I compiled with Visual C++ 2008:
#include "stdio.h"
#include "tchar.h"
#include "malloc.h"
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) // in GB
{
__int64 allocsize = 5;
void* pMallocated = malloc(allocsize * 0x40000000);
if (pMallocated)
{
_tprintf(_T("Successfully allocated %I64d GB\n"), allocsize);
}
else
{
_tprintf(_T("Failed to allocate %I64d GB\n"), allocsize);
}
return 0;
}
so he was barking with randal c kennedy persona to sell the data he produced legitimately with his real, craig barth identity.
what the fuck does it matter in regard to data, whether he was putting out a second, fake persona to advertise it ? the data wont change with the nature of advertisement, its still data. if the data is solid, it means it is valid. if the data is supported by similar findings from other sources, then noone can question the data.
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This guy drives me nuts, I can only presume that this post was some last-ditch effort to salvage some credibility, but in his quest to restore said trust, he continues to bloviate. He refers to himself several times as an "Internet 'shock jock'" and (my favourite) "industry’s most notorious internet “shock jock”.
Just like George Costanza couldn't pick his own nickname ("T-Bone"), YOU cannot decide who the most "notorious shock jock" is. Until I heard about your lying bullshit, I had never heard of you before.
Cram it up your ass you self-important douche.
I hate the term 'Sig'.
From what I understand, the slashdot submission process could be modified to include an automatic filter for blacklisted sites. Couldn't news aggregator (such as Slashdot) ban Infoworld? While you are at it, block that website that posts biased game reviews.
Actually I did skim it, and it looks like the relevant pieces start 2 paragraphs prior to the "A Slippery Slope" section, halfway into the novella. At least they didn't paginate...
Well, if you strip away the self-important tone of TFA, it boils down to this:
A guy with a technical background discovered the rush of trolling a large audience. The major difference between this and a large segment of /. readers is, he did it under a journalistic guise - which makes him an unethical asshat whereas the /. trolls are merely run-of-the-mill asshats.
So then he tried to have his cake and eat it too: he wanted to enjoy the respect of his peers in technical endeavors while still having his fun as an asshat blogger. So, big surprise, it backfired and now he's lost the respect of his peers.
As for the Windows 7 RAM usage data - he may well have reported that in good faith, but it doesn't matter because of who he'd chosen to become. (As much as he tries to sound like he was drawn into his situation, ultimately he chose to be what he was and is; this article really just shows that while he may be resigned to the consequences, he hasn't truly accepted responsibility.) Maybe he really has reason to believe his findings, or maybe the desire to save face is coloring his view. (He certainly wants some measure of justification; I guess it's easier to feel that it's all unfair if the story that gets you caught was a case where you were factually correct.)
Look, I enjoy reading the FUD on Slashdot, mostly because I love watching it get lambasted by people that know what they're talking/writing about. On primary news sites the masses stupidly either agree with the FUD or dismiss it for the wrong reasons, CNN is starting to seem like 4chan. On Slashdot you get people that have worked with the subject matter since it was in its infancy, or have spent much of their careers working with it. Please bring on the FUD and get it to the front page. It needs to be exposed for the shite it is.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley
No he isn't, God is cruel and heartless. If he was "just" no-one would fight wars, he would just smite the "bad" side. Instead he allows people to die by the millions.
Dear internet: YHBT.
And what's the number one rule for dealing with trolls? Don't feed them.
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
He is a true Microsoft fanboy. Anyone who gushes so thoroughly about how good Microsoft and its products are is simply deluding himself and doesn't have any other experience to compare it with. And everyone knows Microsoft fanboys with no comparative experience are more honest than ... well, honest people.
He brags about the money he made when that has nothing to do with his excuse for a mea culpa. It looks more like begging for attention.
He pretends to show how innocent and naive and gullible he is, blogging as a jerk under his real name while keeping his aliases for the serious stuff. Why, he's so innocent and naive, it was the big bad editors at Infoworld and their focus on page views which got him in trouble, not his own actions.
I wonder what the real person is like. I wonder if anyone even knows any more, including his wife and partner. He sounds like he has been deluding himself for 20 years -- the wife and partner, other business associates, his readers, how much less important is it to tel them the truth if he can't even tell himself the truth?
Infuriate left and right
The slashdotters would immediately ignore his "mistakes" and hail him an expert....
Wow, too long, didn't read, giant wall of self-serving text. Did he actually talk about why he's ignorant? Does pulling cable really qualify you to comment on the memory management systems of OS kernels?
Is an extra semi-colon also too long for you? It's "TL;DR" you short sighted sap.
Infuriate left and right
Actually, maybe it's just me, but it sounded to me like an euphemism for "troll". I mean, that's what we used to call the people who posted something shocking or inflamatory, to get attention.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
The guy's a self-absorbed asshole.
There. I just saved you 20 minutes of wading through his long winded e-wanking.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
That was a self-indulgent overly long piece of crap!
Your comments demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of 32bit v 64bit memory management. Your high uid strongly hints (though does not confirm) that you may still be in high school Still, this lack of knowledge before posting is not excusable. Go do a bit of research, come back, and correct your post - that is your homework for tonight.
How did you not see that coming? Nobody likes a pompous "I told you so" post. Even mentioning the troll mod was just asking for it.
When I read the headline, I thought it was an interview with the guy in the Goatse picture.
I think some people are being a bit harsh. Self important? Definitely. Made bad decisions? Definitely...
The guy came right out and admitted what he did, and people make mistakes. It's very difficult to understand a situation unless you have been in that person's shoes.
He's gotta deal with the fallout over what he did, professionally and in public - and IMO, that's enough.
I guarantee that there are worse assholes posting less credible information all over the place. The moral of the story is that if you buy into the hype machine and sell your credibility to increase your standing it WILL eventually bite you on the ass; and also - it's a good idea to be able to do your own testing if you're really interested in understanding any particular piece of technology, because when money and ego are involved, you can't except anything at face value 100% of the time.
Randall Kennedy writes for a trade publication that presents itself as an authority in their space. I've read several of his posts in the past and wasn't shocked by his outrageous attitude, but by the poor thinking and conclusions he presented. That's shocking all right, but not in a good way. I unsubscribed from Infoworld after realizing they cared more about their click through rate then the quality of their "journalism."
Howard Stern is, for arguments sake, the original shock jock. Expresses his personal opinion on a radio show that is clearly identified as an entertainment program, no more, no less. His opinion of dwarves is not going to affect someones purchasing decision.
Frankly, I lay the blame at the feet of InfoWorlds editor. Read the comments on any of Kennedy's articles and you realize that the editor must have clearly known the audience found Kennedy's opinion's suspect. Clearly the page views were more important to them then the quality of their offerings.
Yes, you can. Well maybe. I'm not positive about a single alloc request of that size, but Windows and FreeBSD will be happy to allocate more than 4 gigs to a single process via multiple allocs. I can't recall ever preallocating that much, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work.
I've done so with both FreeBSD and Windows, and both will even go so far as to overcommit and allow the alloc to succeed even though they don't have 4 gigs of ram in the machine, just 64 bit kernels.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Interestingly enough, in OS X, you can use a 32 bit kernel and still run 64 bit apps that use more than 4G of ram, even though the kernel can't.
Not sure WHY they went this route, perhaps it saves a little ram on pointers, its neat either way though.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
I see the writing on the wall
Journalist's are corporate for profit liars.
Journalist Bloggers are all "domestic terrorists, and conspiracy theorists"
"...It was there that I cut my teeth on technologies like NetWare, LAN Manager and SCO UNIX. ..."
Ah, so you can't blame the guy; he's been working for two of the biggest FUD factories of the past 10 years.
boycott slashdot February 10th - 17th check out: altSlashdot.org
Drivers. Also, bootloaders.
The driver issue should be pretty obvious, as any code that needs to be in the kernel probably wouldn't do well with the thunking required to mix word sizes.
The bootloader issue has to do with the EFI firmware that macs use. Some of the earliest Core 2 based macs only had 32-bit firmware, so getting it to load a 64-bit kernel would have required changes to either the kernel or the firmware. Since there was already a reason for allowing a 32-bit kernel to run 64-bit userspace processes, and a 64-bit kernel wouldn't really benefit any of the affected users, there was no justification for Apple to overhaul the firmware of machines they had long since stopped selling.
I have it on good authoritee that you are a communist subversive with plans to infiltrate Ben & Jerry's and have it produce RED ice cream. That is a matter of fact. I have this on good authoritee.
The difference is, there are too many stupid people that believe and repeat anything. Even that. Because that was and is true, because you are. See, more believers. There's no stopping this. Face it. 100 IQ means a whole lotta dumb. And they are on the internet now. God Save Our Souls. They are on slashdot. I have it on good authoritee.
I hope this article is a joke; it's the thing that would make this story interesting.
So I read the article, and what I get from it is:
1.) He knew what he was doing was scummy.
2.) He continued to do it anyway.
3.) It ruined his reputation.
4.) He wished he hadn't done it.
5.) Instead of eating shit for doing something stupid, he whips up a new name and used it to be 'reputable'; except he is not reputable. And he instead further proved how disreputable he is.
I'm not familiar with him, his blog, or much anything else to do with this story, but this is what you get when you behave poorly. So take your smug ass and your piles of cash, fuck off, and go away.
No one trusts you anymore, nor should they.
You rate right up there with every loser CEO who thinks he can do wtf he wants because he has piles of money and need not regard anyone around him.
Bastard.
On an unrelated note, a hint: since you're using VC++2008 anyway, use "long long" and "%LLd" printf specifier instead. It's been supported since at least VC++2005, and is much more portable (being in C99 and C++0x, and all).
Not guaranteed to be 64 bits though. No stock C++ types are guaranteed to be any size, which is actually horrible for cross-platform code.
I'm not saying the poster plagiarized Asimov, just that the post reminded me of this old joke the old man wrote, sung to the tune of "Home on the Range:"
The Clone Song
By: Isaac Asimov
Tune: Home On The Range
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Oh, give me a clone,
Is my sorrowful moan,
A clone that is wholly my own.
And if she's X-X,
And the feminine sex,
Oh, what fun we will have when we're prone.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
My heart's not of stone,
As I've frequently shone
When alone with my own little X.
And after we've dined,
I am sure we will find
Better incest then Oedipus Rex.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Why should such sex vex,
Or disturb or perplex,
Or induce a disparaging tone?
After all, don't you see,
Since we're both of us me,
When we're having sex, I'm alone.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
And after I'm done
She will still have her fun,
For I'll clone myself twice ere I die.
And this time without fail,
They'll be both of them male,
And they'll each ravage her by and by.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
Both C99, and the current C++0x draft guarantee "long long" to be at least 64-bit long (indirectly, by specifying the minimum range it must support via LLONG_MIN and LLONG_MAX in limits.h; same goes for other integer types, by the way, so long is at least 32-bit, int and short are at least 16-bit, etc). In practice, all existing implementations stick to 64-bit. And, of course, __int64 is not cross-platform in the first place, since it's VC-specific.
Did you read his comment? Any process (task) can allocate up to 8TB.
I did not know that (the limits thing). I thought they were still just each guaranteed to be at least the size of the previous one, with no absolutes. It was like that in C89, right?
Still, in my example I don't think I needed a 64-bit int in the end anyway, as I changed from storing number of bytes to number of gigabytes. A 64-bit int for storing "5" is a bit overkill, don't you think?
We live in a culture where as long as you say "I'm a journalist/blogger/commentator" you are allowed to say anything no matter how false without suffering any consequences. Sources you expect to have some level of truth to them are now equivalent to Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Lies are how money is made, so lies are what we get.
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He says:
>Simply put, the level of vitriol expressed felt way out of proportion, and the claims of "egregious ethics violations" and "insufferable breach of trust" were simply over the top. After all, it's not as if I had trafficked in nuclear secrets or or stolen someone's credit card information.
This is a false equivalency. He's saying that nothing less than stealing credit cards or nuclear terrorism can be an ethics violation or an insufferable breach of trust. He's either lying to us (because he has to know this is a false equivalency) or he's a moron.
(As a minor, but still important point: In the blog post, he states flatly that he had named a client in breach of his contract with that client, and that he didn't take the name down until he was warned by the client. Again, this shows him being a dope.)
He used IDG for years to gain street cred and advertising for his company, and he used false IDs to do it. He lied to the press and the public, and he therefore lied to his customers.
From this blog posting, I take away one piece of information that I believe to be true: Anyone who hires this mook ever again is an imbecile who will be taken for a ride.
was originally written by Randall Garrett, as just one verse. Asimov added the later verses.
I did not know that (the limits thing). I thought they were still just each guaranteed to be at least the size of the previous one, with no absolutes. It was like that in C89, right?
It was, actually. Of course, C89 didn't have long long in the first place, but it did have limits.h with constants for char/short/int/long; and it did have requirements on minimum values of those constants.
The trick is that they can be bigger - so long as the other requirement, that of sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long) <= sizeof(long long) is satisfied. For example, some DSPs out there are strictly word machines - they cannot process individual bytes. SHARC in particular has a 32-bit word, so sizeof(char)==sizeof(short)==sizeof(int)==sizeof(long)==1, and there are 32 bits in a char.
And, of course, the practice of directly freading/fwriting (or send/recv'ing, etc) structs is undefined when you cannot be sure that your long is exactly 32-bit long, rather than just at least 32-bit long (leaving byte order and alignment issues aside).
Still, in my example I don't think I needed a 64-bit int in the end anyway, as I changed from storing number of bytes to number of gigabytes. A 64-bit int for storing "5" is a bit overkill, don't you think?
In code as written, you needed the variable to be 64-bit, because if it were a plain int, you'd get 32-bit multiplication, which would overflow. Of course, you could also have made the constant itself long long by specifying the LL suffix, and then variable could just as well be int.
Sorry if I got a little carried away here. Happens when you hang out on StackOverflow too much :)
I look forward to plaigirizing you in my future conversations. So many people this applies to... :-)
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
Kennedy's blog post reads like someone who doesn't really feel the contrition he's publicly confessed. I'd guess he's still flush with the personal success that was concurrent with his disingenuity, and really doesn't see the harm caused by his choices and actions. This might be typical of all non-violent anti-social "criminals": ultimately they're narcissists and see their personal success as the only true test of what is right or wrong. Do you suppose Ken Lay (of Enron) even today truly feels that his actions were bad?
Deep down I'm a Microsoft lover at heart, but the persona THEY FORCED ME TO USE (that I made up years earlier) needs to know the answers. I'm just asking questions here, just putting it out there. With all the crazy spin in the media these days and the President of Microsoft with his 'bing' agenda that's meant to save us all, well I tell you, who is asking the questions? I'm just an ordinary blogger like you, who's sick and tired of getting no answers. I'm just saying Microsoft kills kittens and your RAM, they haven't denied it have they?
... that I have with this is that he expects to write this long semi-apologetic diatribe and then hope that the only capital he ever had in his chosen field, the trust of his clients, would just come flowing back in to him from the faithful. Well, I hate to say it, but if I'm looking for a firm that makes recommendations based on data, and I'm supposed to make a judgment call based on the data and word of the analyst, I'm not going to turn to a company run by a fraudulent internet "shock jock." The only thing he had was his ability to point to his years of expertise and say "See? I know what I'm talking about!", and he gave that away for what, page views for his crap blog on a foundering technology site? Not only was it a huge mistake, but it was probably the death knell in his career and his company. If it isn't, then there's no justice in the world.