And remember to reset them to known values as soon as they are no longer necessary. Not only is it good practice, whether or not the compiler has a job, but it encourages the programmer to keep his variables in mind.
Mmm. History shows a different picture. Very convenient when the founders have the power to borrow money and sell those subjects into default debt.
So, basically, the whole copyright issue is pointless (preferably) or a distraction (more likely) since, from the very beginning, the entire purpose of the government was to allow for the already financially wealthy to place an entire nation into indebted perpetual servitude. Is that not just the happiest thought you've ever faced reality with?
Most of us who are knowledgeable about programmatic structure, syntax, idiosyncracies, faults, and exploits advised Adobe, either formally and directly through communique or informally and indirectly through public message boards, to patch their vulnerabilities about fifteen years ago.
One ring to rule them all? Patch one bug and patch them all? For #$*@'s sakes... you people have more code-holes than Ivory running 300 BAUD and a caller drop carrier with an immediate callback.
The only sane approach is to just assume (sane > CV_assume) that everything you do on modern day networks is compromised, intercepted, audited, and screened by someone with more money than you will ever even count.
Private, public, performance. There is no privacy on the street but you have a natural expectation that the people out of your line of sight are not waiting around the corner for you.
As you were riding this bicycle down the street, the first time you played the game, this dog would come running out to get in the way. If you hit the dog you wrecked and lost a "life" (3 lives==end of game). Then you got to know where the dog was in the game and, if you were watching ahead, you would know that the dog was, indeed, waiting just behind that house until you made it far enough along the sidewalk and _then_ the dog would deliberately run out at you. The dog was not coincidental. If you knew the dog was there you could watch the screen scroll and the dog was deliberately timing you and waiting for you to hit just the right spot on the sidewalk.
If you are making a performance (performance level privacy rating) then, yes, people are probably waiting around just to see your performance. Public is not private but neither is it performance.
OTOH, if you make use of a secured storage locker in a public facility you do have some expectation that people walking by are not going to be able to inventory everything you stored there.
Social networking web sites are public storage facilities. Your accounts, being yours and secured by a password, should not be open air cages with mechanical arms for insiders to go sifting through.
Would you use the lockers at the gym if you knew that every moron with an employee badge could go sifting through it or, worse yet, they would accept payments to allow outside third parties to go mining through it?
I am surrounded by sour grapes--they are the other homeless who resort to begging and panhandling and chasing around on the homeless treasure hunt to go here and get this and go here to get that and go someplace else to get more and still have nothing worthwhile by the end of the day.
So... exactly how do I profit? I do not have sour grapes. I did exactly what the parent poster indicated,"Well, I am better off without those jerks anyway"... but I am still homeless and everyone else in the world, eating their own sour grapes and unhappy with the jerks they work for, is completely against open charity.
So, again, exactly how should I go about profitting from all of the sour grapes around me? I, personally, have very good grapes--nobody wants to pay for them but, since I am homeless, everyone thinks they are entitled to my grapes for free.
Remember when the Pentium chip was first released and there was a flaw found in the processor? The flaw was most commonly demonstrated in something like the eleventh decimal place in a mathematical calculation which could be made inside an Excel spreadsheet. Intel released a firmware fix that compensated (obviously they were not about to recall, retool, and replace all of thsoe chips). That sort of hardware "flaw" exists in almost any hardware chip of sufficient complexity. I believe it is a mathematical nuance of binary logic gates; somewhat analogous to algorithms which purport to generate prime numbers or pythagorean triples--eventually the algorithm breaks down and it misses one, then it misses a few, then it begins missing a whole bunch, then eventually the algorithm is marginally useless and a new algorithm must be applied to reliably continue to find the (n+1)th prime number or pythagorean triple.
These hardware flaws exist in your routers, in your processors, in your sound cards, in your video cards, even in your monitors and the chips of your hard drives and, now that microchip technology is sufficiently advanced and complex, in darn near anything which does more than basic mathematical calculations presented on a mantissa.
No technology has ever been released to the mass public without first knowing its flaws--and there will be flaws. It is an unavoidable result of the mathematics behind binary logic. I believe that most programmers begin to come in contact with this premise when they are asked, in intermediate programming courses, to write code for multiplication and division, especially with floating point numbers, performed using binary registers.
If you think your internets are safe then think again. All your base belong to the people who wrote it.
There is a point of view, however, that questions the legitimacy of HFT to begin with (that appears to be an agreement with parent). HFT contributes to a system which affects salaries, wages, retirement funds, mortgage rates, interest rates, insurance premiums, and a host of other factors important to people who have no control over the profit margin retained by stock market manipulators. Honestly that rationale can likely be applied to the whole of the stock market: aside from a few quarterly reports or year-end summaries the market value of a company has little or nothing to do with the success or failure of its real world products. A particularly good example is that of the grocery store. Why should those people work for near minimum wage, why should you pay more for a bag of corn chips and a jar of salsa, just because somebody wanted to gain an edge in HFT?
If I were the judge I would refuse the request and leave the courtroom open. Industry trade secrets mean nothing if the American public deserves to know how it is being swindled en masse.
Totally agree. When the overall global network began to accumulate users who were not tech or science oriented and who were online solely out of the boredom driven search for entertainment then Geocities popped up as the world wide web equivalent of AOL. I think I tried to like Geocities at first because it seemed that the administrators were somewhat connected to the reigning netops and sysops of yore... but even if you like the administration it does not make up for a completely intellectually handicapped crowd of users.
My impression of social networking sites, anything more involved than discussion forums (or perhaps user journals), has always been "useless advertising fodder... the decrepit and pitiable descendants of the likes of AOL and Geocities."
Stop looking at internet pr0n or we're shutting off your cellular telephone.
It is called a phone booth, people. Do you remember phone booth? Do you know why we had phone booth? Because nobody else wants to hear your idiotic bullsh*t phone call in public!
Seconded. If I forget it then it wasn't really important. Train of thought, no passengers, was not important. If it was important then I will remember it when necessary.
Sochi, Rostov, Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, St. Petersburg... never made it to Vladivostok.
Which way is the money flow in this one? Does the Stanford board of reagents own a significant portion of Google and this was a business move for them or; is Google looking at making Stanford their next keyboard punching monkey farm? Just as likely there is a group of Stanford graduated attorneys and stock investors who managed to put together a solid case on some executives/VPs/major shareholders at Google and this fiber network is the token of appreciation to say,"Don't file that quite yet!"
Ninety percent or more of all traceroutes since at least the early nineteen nineties go through VA anyway--even international ones.
The technology was readily available, in the early nineteen nineties, to digitally filter and screen analog phone calls on a system of over one thousand lines with high customer usage in real time. That was analog communications, converted to digital, then screened. Today there is no need for an analog to digital conversion. Hub, router, switch, the key device here is called a repeater.
Anyone who maintains that modern day global network communications (telephone, text message, internet, even radio or satellite) are not aggregated and screened by some government agency somewhere is monumentally naive or deliberately putting their head in the sand.
Walking east from Phoenix, AZ in December of '08 I encountered a community around some new looking business developments like strip malls and stuff. To the south of the strip malls were housing communities--one hundred, two-fifty, and five hundred and overs. There were probably close to five hundred homes in the area. As I walked around the area from early morning to midafternoon (I was looking for the road to continue east) I realized that there were all of about twelve people currently living in those communities. East of Las Cruces, NM, in the foothills there was a similar area; new communities with close to zero residency. Sometimes I wonder if the entire community was merely an investment; they do not want anyone living there because it would decrease long term returns. The communities in Mesa looked somewhat cookie-cutter. The ones east of Las Cruces were ridiculous; each home was the size of your average supermarket and sat on twenty acres of irrigated and landscaped property... for miles upon miles.
Probably you run of the mill sots will wind up in AZ. Your Levite money managers will have their pick of the good ones.
I voted with my feet three times. Now there is not a single company who will talk with me. Meanwhile every ignorant fat-ass prik that walks by has no more intelligent remark than "get a job!" So while big-mouth food shoveling geeks on Slashdot complain about their corporate pay not a single one of them would have the gonads to "vote with their feet" and risk the path of Jesus Christ diet.
And... even if they did... they would spend all their time chasing charity meals, break themselves down, and go back to their rotting corporate pay and be even bigger slovenly sweaty slobs in their cubes.
We know this because the US federal government held the sales receipt for them. Several thousand containers of HD (mustard gas). That is what the hubbub was hinged on.
He used them to kill thousands of people.
We were using Saddam as a repository--like a hazardous waste TSTD facility--so that those containers were not on our records. When he asked WTF he was supposed to do with several thousand containers of mustard gas (he didn't really want them but we promised lots of under the table compensation) the off-the-cuff suggestion was,"Use them on some pigs." Consider how the translation went.
None were found after the invasion
Had they actually been found after the invasion then the embarrassing question of,"Where did these come from?" might have found its way to the headlines.
Actually, it did. Towards the end of the whole invasion, when they were wrapping everything up, the news reported that they had found several barrels of what they identified as pesticide or herbicide chemical waste. That was the token nod to what the whole sh*t was about.
So... in the end... how much are those several thousand barrels of HD actually costing the US taxpayers?
One hundred posts in the discussion and this is the only one worth reading.
Discussions about spam today are not even relevant any more than discussions about the dress code for the length of a woman's attire on broadcast television. When people think of spam they think nearly exclusively about e-mail. Anyone generating trash e-mail in today's world is just cruft, leftover crap for legacy purposes. The real spammers have moved on to selling services to put your ads or results at the top of search engines or major launch and jump sites or bundling it with your ISP or your cell phone.
The most likely scenario is that the major players from the spam game of ten years ago are the financial investors who made the likes of facebook and twitter such a huge success. They do not actually make a product. You--your eyes and mouse clicks--are their product.
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Initialize all variables to known values
And remember to reset them to known values as soon as they are no longer necessary. Not only is it good practice, whether or not the compiler has a job, but it encourages the programmer to keep his variables in mind.
Mmm. History shows a different picture. Very convenient when the founders have the power to borrow money and sell those subjects into default debt.
So, basically, the whole copyright issue is pointless (preferably) or a distraction (more likely) since, from the very beginning, the entire purpose of the government was to allow for the already financially wealthy to place an entire nation into indebted perpetual servitude. Is that not just the happiest thought you've ever faced reality with?
Most of us who are knowledgeable about programmatic structure, syntax, idiosyncracies, faults, and exploits advised Adobe, either formally and directly through communique or informally and indirectly through public message boards, to patch their vulnerabilities about fifteen years ago.
One ring to rule them all? Patch one bug and patch them all? For #$*@'s sakes... you people have more code-holes than Ivory running 300 BAUD and a caller drop carrier with an immediate callback.
The only sane approach is to just assume (sane > CV_assume) that everything you do on modern day networks is compromised, intercepted, audited, and screened by someone with more money than you will ever even count.
Private, public, performance. There is no privacy on the street but you have a natural expectation that the people out of your line of sight are not waiting around the corner for you.
Did you play the video game Paperboy? (Google!)
As you were riding this bicycle down the street, the first time you played the game, this dog would come running out to get in the way. If you hit the dog you wrecked and lost a "life" (3 lives==end of game). Then you got to know where the dog was in the game and, if you were watching ahead, you would know that the dog was, indeed, waiting just behind that house until you made it far enough along the sidewalk and _then_ the dog would deliberately run out at you. The dog was not coincidental. If you knew the dog was there you could watch the screen scroll and the dog was deliberately timing you and waiting for you to hit just the right spot on the sidewalk.
If you are making a performance (performance level privacy rating) then, yes, people are probably waiting around just to see your performance. Public is not private but neither is it performance.
OTOH, if you make use of a secured storage locker in a public facility you do have some expectation that people walking by are not going to be able to inventory everything you stored there.
Social networking web sites are public storage facilities. Your accounts, being yours and secured by a password, should not be open air cages with mechanical arms for insiders to go sifting through.
Would you use the lockers at the gym if you knew that every moron with an employee badge could go sifting through it or, worse yet, they would accept payments to allow outside third parties to go mining through it?
I am surrounded by sour grapes--they are the other homeless who resort to begging and panhandling and chasing around on the homeless treasure hunt to go here and get this and go here to get that and go someplace else to get more and still have nothing worthwhile by the end of the day.
So... exactly how do I profit? I do not have sour grapes. I did exactly what the parent poster indicated,"Well, I am better off without those jerks anyway"... but I am still homeless and everyone else in the world, eating their own sour grapes and unhappy with the jerks they work for, is completely against open charity.
So, again, exactly how should I go about profitting from all of the sour grapes around me? I, personally, have very good grapes--nobody wants to pay for them but, since I am homeless, everyone thinks they are entitled to my grapes for free.
Eat my grapes!!!
Remember when the Pentium chip was first released and there was a flaw found in the processor? The flaw was most commonly demonstrated in something like the eleventh decimal place in a mathematical calculation which could be made inside an Excel spreadsheet. Intel released a firmware fix that compensated (obviously they were not about to recall, retool, and replace all of thsoe chips). That sort of hardware "flaw" exists in almost any hardware chip of sufficient complexity. I believe it is a mathematical nuance of binary logic gates; somewhat analogous to algorithms which purport to generate prime numbers or pythagorean triples--eventually the algorithm breaks down and it misses one, then it misses a few, then it begins missing a whole bunch, then eventually the algorithm is marginally useless and a new algorithm must be applied to reliably continue to find the (n+1)th prime number or pythagorean triple.
These hardware flaws exist in your routers, in your processors, in your sound cards, in your video cards, even in your monitors and the chips of your hard drives and, now that microchip technology is sufficiently advanced and complex, in darn near anything which does more than basic mathematical calculations presented on a mantissa.
No technology has ever been released to the mass public without first knowing its flaws--and there will be flaws. It is an unavoidable result of the mathematics behind binary logic. I believe that most programmers begin to come in contact with this premise when they are asked, in intermediate programming courses, to write code for multiplication and division, especially with floating point numbers, performed using binary registers.
If you think your internets are safe then think again. All your base belong to the people who wrote it.
There is a point of view, however, that questions the legitimacy of HFT to begin with (that appears to be an agreement with parent). HFT contributes to a system which affects salaries, wages, retirement funds, mortgage rates, interest rates, insurance premiums, and a host of other factors important to people who have no control over the profit margin retained by stock market manipulators. Honestly that rationale can likely be applied to the whole of the stock market: aside from a few quarterly reports or year-end summaries the market value of a company has little or nothing to do with the success or failure of its real world products. A particularly good example is that of the grocery store. Why should those people work for near minimum wage, why should you pay more for a bag of corn chips and a jar of salsa, just because somebody wanted to gain an edge in HFT?
If I were the judge I would refuse the request and leave the courtroom open. Industry trade secrets mean nothing if the American public deserves to know how it is being swindled en masse.
Totally agree. When the overall global network began to accumulate users who were not tech or science oriented and who were online solely out of the boredom driven search for entertainment then Geocities popped up as the world wide web equivalent of AOL. I think I tried to like Geocities at first because it seemed that the administrators were somewhat connected to the reigning netops and sysops of yore... but even if you like the administration it does not make up for a completely intellectually handicapped crowd of users.
My impression of social networking sites, anything more involved than discussion forums (or perhaps user journals), has always been "useless advertising fodder... the decrepit and pitiable descendants of the likes of AOL and Geocities."
Thank you for presenting that observation.
Stop looking at internet pr0n or we're shutting off your cellular telephone.
It is called a phone booth, people. Do you remember phone booth? Do you know why we had phone booth? Because nobody else wants to hear your idiotic bullsh*t phone call in public!
Seconded. If I forget it then it wasn't really important. Train of thought, no passengers, was not important. If it was important then I will remember it when necessary.
Meanwhile, in the real world...
Sochi, Rostov, Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, St. Petersburg... never made it to Vladivostok.
Which way is the money flow in this one? Does the Stanford board of reagents own a significant portion of Google and this was a business move for them or; is Google looking at making Stanford their next keyboard punching monkey farm? Just as likely there is a group of Stanford graduated attorneys and stock investors who managed to put together a solid case on some executives/VPs/major shareholders at Google and this fiber network is the token of appreciation to say,"Don't file that quite yet!"
Ninety percent or more of all traceroutes since at least the early nineteen nineties go through VA anyway--even international ones.
The technology was readily available, in the early nineteen nineties, to digitally filter and screen analog phone calls on a system of over one thousand lines with high customer usage in real time. That was analog communications, converted to digital, then screened. Today there is no need for an analog to digital conversion. Hub, router, switch, the key device here is called a repeater.
Anyone who maintains that modern day global network communications (telephone, text message, internet, even radio or satellite) are not aggregated and screened by some government agency somewhere is monumentally naive or deliberately putting their head in the sand.
They were finished scraping years ago, after years of mining, after decades of digging, after centuries of prospecting.
Clearly they have begun sandblasting what bare concrete prima facie is left--if there ever was any.
Walking east from Phoenix, AZ in December of '08 I encountered a community around some new looking business developments like strip malls and stuff. To the south of the strip malls were housing communities--one hundred, two-fifty, and five hundred and overs. There were probably close to five hundred homes in the area. As I walked around the area from early morning to midafternoon (I was looking for the road to continue east) I realized that there were all of about twelve people currently living in those communities. East of Las Cruces, NM, in the foothills there was a similar area; new communities with close to zero residency. Sometimes I wonder if the entire community was merely an investment; they do not want anyone living there because it would decrease long term returns. The communities in Mesa looked somewhat cookie-cutter. The ones east of Las Cruces were ridiculous; each home was the size of your average supermarket and sat on twenty acres of irrigated and landscaped property... for miles upon miles.
Probably you run of the mill sots will wind up in AZ. Your Levite money managers will have their pick of the good ones.
Webmasters have been doing this with cookies since lynx began supporting them in... when... what like '93?
Is Slashdot pandering to the completely naive or does nobody else know what cookies have been used for since the beginning?
I voted with my feet three times. Now there is not a single company who will talk with me. Meanwhile every ignorant fat-ass prik that walks by has no more intelligent remark than "get a job!" So while big-mouth food shoveling geeks on Slashdot complain about their corporate pay not a single one of them would have the gonads to "vote with their feet" and risk the path of Jesus Christ diet.
And... even if they did... they would spend all their time chasing charity meals, break themselves down, and go back to their rotting corporate pay and be even bigger slovenly sweaty slobs in their cubes.
So, basically, what you are saying is that anyone who has been seriously using a programmatic device on dial-up networks is out.
Where's my karma? Slashdot unfriended me a long time ago. :-)
Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction.
We know this because the US federal government held the sales receipt for them. Several thousand containers of HD (mustard gas). That is what the hubbub was hinged on.
He used them to kill thousands of people.
We were using Saddam as a repository--like a hazardous waste TSTD facility--so that those containers were not on our records. When he asked WTF he was supposed to do with several thousand containers of mustard gas (he didn't really want them but we promised lots of under the table compensation) the off-the-cuff suggestion was,"Use them on some pigs." Consider how the translation went.
None were found after the invasion
Had they actually been found after the invasion then the embarrassing question of,"Where did these come from?" might have found its way to the headlines.
Actually, it did. Towards the end of the whole invasion, when they were wrapping everything up, the news reported that they had found several barrels of what they identified as pesticide or herbicide chemical waste. That was the token nod to what the whole sh*t was about.
So... in the end... how much are those several thousand barrels of HD actually costing the US taxpayers?
One hundred posts in the discussion and this is the only one worth reading.
Discussions about spam today are not even relevant any more than discussions about the dress code for the length of a woman's attire on broadcast television. When people think of spam they think nearly exclusively about e-mail. Anyone generating trash e-mail in today's world is just cruft, leftover crap for legacy purposes. The real spammers have moved on to selling services to put your ads or results at the top of search engines or major launch and jump sites or bundling it with your ISP or your cell phone.
The most likely scenario is that the major players from the spam game of ten years ago are the financial investors who made the likes of facebook and twitter such a huge success. They do not actually make a product. You--your eyes and mouse clicks--are their product.
That isn't even a photon in the universe of illegal activity perpetrated by those clowns.
Would you want to stay in the kind of position where no matter what you do, you are penalized? If I have that kind of boss, I leave immediately
I did. Three times. Now nobody will hire me.
I have long said that the most interesting bits of information are in the copy and paste buffer.
Check my slashdot history. It is in there somewhere.
I only want the profits of my own intellectual property, you see.
Last time I had a system to work with ext3 was still considered experimental.
*sniff*
I miss LFS.