Your customer's management got fudded.
Which is one reason that IT managers should be well grounded in the people they manage. Letting a higher up get politically bullshitted into pushing his subbies the wrong way is just plain not good.
Except that the program really WOULD crash if foo were NULL.
In the kernel, null pointer derefs have no place. It's not valid kernel space, and for userland access you're supposed to use special functions anyway.
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Your customer's management got fudded. Which is one reason that IT managers should be well grounded in the people they manage. Letting a higher up get politically bullshitted into pushing his subbies the wrong way is just plain not good.
Unless you can tell it to brick the firmware you won't get squat.
Besides, once it's been stolen all you can do is deny the thief any gain, or help him get caught. You've already lost the equipment.
My suggestion would be to invest in some physical security, such as a locked bag. If permissible, a loaded gun wouldn't hurt either.
Google did IIRC.
Tom tom would say different.
Only the pope has that kind of clout. And yes, he did once.
By contributing code, it might be an implicit patent license, especially if they don't demand anything in return. Promissory estoppel and all that.
Whoever modded parent as flamebait has forgotten about Tom Tom
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GP fail ftw!
Don't you know that being born in the early half of the century is the number one cause of death these days?
[citation needed]
How do you preserve anonymity?
Back up to a honking flash drive?
Maybe he liked the warrant provision more than he hated the immunity provision.
Sounds like a case of making lemonade out of lemons.
Do I really need to link you back to slashdot where TPB got nailed in swedish court?
Except that in order to install the program you have to get into windows.
...which implies agreeing to the EULA and making the windows tax nonrefundable.
One of the few times where you can get ripped off and still get your money's worth.
The problem is that the pirate bay operators were complicit.
Except addresses close to zero are userland from the kernel's POV and should NOT be accessed directly.
Why the hell is kernel code trying to dereference null pointers in the first place? Last time I checked, zero was in userland.
Except that the program really WOULD crash if foo were NULL.
In the kernel, null pointer derefs have no place. It's not valid kernel space, and for userland access you're supposed to use special functions anyway.
It was just a case of overly aggressive optimization. And attempting to dereference a value BEFORE you verify its non nullity is a programming error.
I was going to say fat tuesday but as an example of bloatware it goes without saying.
If getting raped in the ass is preferable to being all alone, then I say...wtf?
Getting man-raped in the butt 24/7 doesn't really improve your outlook on life.
If I were to reform a prison the first thing I'd do is make all cells solitary.
Bite my shiny metal ass!