I have seem plenty of bugs with both. I have seen engineers with lots of experience dismiss some things that other language take for granted - ie, I had one tell me flat out that he thought "const" was a waste of time and that it never found any bugs, ever.
C developers tend to be in two groups. Devs who know CS or have used lots of other languages at least so that they have a broad experience, and devs who use C as just a simple tool because their background is in EE or science or something else. The first group tends to understand why typing is important and what it can do, the second group you may see sticking in type casts everywhere even if not needed as they learned that this is how you get the warnings to go away.
Fixing the pointer problem can require additional code, which could rule that out on space constrained systems. However if the pointer problem is solved with static analysis, that would be useful. We already have static analysis tools though.
For types, I agree, we need stronger typing in C. The newer standards for C should have focused on that.
I think a lot of people just assume C++ is the solution, but it really isn't until it relaxes some of the rules in the standard. C++ seems to be going the opposite direction, supporting more bloat, more Boost silliness, and so forth.
I think they whole reason FBI is whining is for political purposes. They want the laws to allow them to search more with fewer impediments. Thus they don't ask Apple for help since that removes the ability to whine about it.
That said, why the 48 hour time? Does that mean living people must use the fingerprint sensor every 2 days or they're locked out?
I suspect not influenced by administration, as typically these merger decisions by the justice department have been hands off. The issue is more that this is unexpected. The last similar vertical merger (Comcast and NBC) required a consent agreement to not abuse that merger (exploiting its new content provider to promote its content deliver and vice versa). However Comcast was not really living up to that agreement. So now I seems possible that the justice department figred that a similar agreement for AT&T and Time Warner wasn't going to work.
That said, I'd rather that they just stop the merger outright, then leave the companies to figure out what they need to jettison on their own before they try to merge again.
(also note, this Time Warner is not the same as Time Warner Cable)
Which is why the telecom lines should be treated as public infrastructure. This was true after the breakup of AT&T, all the competing new phone companies were allowed to make use of AT&Ts existing infrastructure, even those companies that were not originally a part of AT&T (ie, Sprint and such). The infrastructure created by monopolies like Time Warner and Comcast should be opened up to allow competition under the same rules as for telephone companies.
Governments have already created monopolies, that's how Comcast got the upper hand in the first place. Forbidding municpal broadband would in essence be the same as supporting the Comast monopoly. Except for those people who somehow don't believe that monopolies exist or that they can last long because their free market religion forbids such heresy. People in the real world however know that the free market screws up all the time.
No microcode. However there's an enumeration process that involves reading data from the device. Ie, you can try to override some internal buffers of the buggy driver by claiming to have longer descriptors than it has room for.
Yes and no. Denial of service is easy for some of the drivers, on more than just Linux. Just say your device descriptor has the maximum number of interfaces, each interface has the maximum number of endpoints, and things like that. But then again, you can just have a USB device that fries your computer completely since it's really a big supercap.
Now taking over a computer this way is harder. Certainly there could be exploits, but I don't necessarily think this is just Linux either.
It is difficult. The problem is that the higher end TVs always have the smart features. It makes a bit of sense, if you had a top of the line dumb TV there's a big chance most of them won't get sold. And the people buying the top of the line TVs usually aren't worried about pinching pennies. So the dumb TVs tend to be the economy TVs, smaller screens, etc. Also better luck looking for older TV models rather than the current year.
Probably that's why Roku partners with some TVs now. Not as good as a dumb TV but a better set of smarts than most smart TVs, and it means Roku gets a sale before the customer decides to upgrade the smarts after a few years.
Checking Amazon, I can see reasonable dumb TVs, even with good sizes. Now finding out which local stores sell them is a bit harder. Probably not any "big box" stores. Ie, https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre...
LinkedIn seems bad at it then. It's the place where I have the most connections, and it still recommends complete strangers to me, and people I have no interest of ever linking to even if I do know them.
Facebook is pretty simple here, I have 10 friends on it, I turn off a lot of stuff and it's not on my phone. I expected it to at least suggest friends from my small high school class, people that I might want to actually connect to, but it has never done that despite having all the necessary info to do so. It has never recommended any family members to me either, people who I do want to follow. Instead it suggests complete strangers; for example coworkers of a friend of mine who lives on a different continent, students of a friend of mine at yet another different continent who don't share a common language with me, and so forth.
I'm probably just late to the game. Every time I try to find a particular person on Facebook I can never find them, so maybe it's just not popular anymore?
It is very difficult to be concise and have something worth saying at the same time. That is why almost all of the tweets I have read seem rather dumb.
I think that bubble will burst. If someone needs that much of a discount to get a TV, they will not be making up the difference in cost by buying the random crap that gets advertised. Already I think $10 a month of ad-free is seriously overestimating the ability of these ads to generate $10/month. Ie, I see ads for feminine hygiene products, and I can guarantee I'm not buying such a product no matter how fresh they promise to make me. I'm never going to buy that Ford F150 either, I'm not buying Coor's Light.
I know people who are short of money and could use the discount to purchase things, but they are counting every penny at the same time. They buy the bargain products, unbranded generic alternatives.
A bug has to be fixed. It can take the dev 5 minutes to fix it after running their own test. No one else's time has been involved yet. Only a really terrible dev is going to checkin code the moment it compiles and then wait for QA to find the bugs. Any dev like that won't be very expensive, they'll be at the bottom pay tier. A good dev will be creating higher quality results, and will know it's higher quality by doing smoke tests and unit tests up front.
I think a lot of DVDs are just remastered for blu-ray so they don't look much different. Re-mastering a movie for a new medium is expensive.
That said, I have DVD and the few times I use it I don't notice that it's lower resolution than my streaming netflix, except for the first 5 minutes, after that you forget the fact that you can't see the pores on everyone's face and start actually watching the show instead.
I was actually surprised by some DVDs of TV shows from the 60s that looked extremely good, I suspect they remastered them from film.
Ha, I got a new mouse recently, and indeed finding a good one that is not wireless was difficult. I think they're getting kickbacks from the battery industry.
I never got a blu-ray player for these reasons. Besides which, the blu-ray discs cost more than dvd, and I've got streaming so I never need the dvd except for the occasional gift when I explicitly say "no dvds please".
What is broken? If it works the day you turn it on, then it should be good forever as long as you don't use any "smart" features and keep it off of the network. Most of these firmware updates are most likely for adding new streaming channels, fixing the hastily and badly written "smart" part of the TV, or to add spyware.
If the TV actually did not work for its intended purpose without the firmware upgrades, then that's a lesson learned to never buy from that manufacturer again.
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I have seem plenty of bugs with both. I have seen engineers with lots of experience dismiss some things that other language take for granted - ie, I had one tell me flat out that he thought "const" was a waste of time and that it never found any bugs, ever.
C developers tend to be in two groups. Devs who know CS or have used lots of other languages at least so that they have a broad experience, and devs who use C as just a simple tool because their background is in EE or science or something else. The first group tends to understand why typing is important and what it can do, the second group you may see sticking in type casts everywhere even if not needed as they learned that this is how you get the warnings to go away.
Fixing the pointer problem can require additional code, which could rule that out on space constrained systems. However if the pointer problem is solved with static analysis, that would be useful. We already have static analysis tools though.
For types, I agree, we need stronger typing in C. The newer standards for C should have focused on that.
I think a lot of people just assume C++ is the solution, but it really isn't until it relaxes some of the rules in the standard. C++ seems to be going the opposite direction, supporting more bloat, more Boost silliness, and so forth.
I think they whole reason FBI is whining is for political purposes. They want the laws to allow them to search more with fewer impediments. Thus they don't ask Apple for help since that removes the ability to whine about it.
That said, why the 48 hour time? Does that mean living people must use the fingerprint sensor every 2 days or they're locked out?
And yet the truck driver got the traffic ticket. Next phase of AI is realizing that humans routinely ignore the traffic laws.
This is Las Vegas, that it went two hours without a fender bender is already doing better than human drivers.
I suspect not influenced by administration, as typically these merger decisions by the justice department have been hands off. The issue is more that this is unexpected. The last similar vertical merger (Comcast and NBC) required a consent agreement to not abuse that merger (exploiting its new content provider to promote its content deliver and vice versa). However Comcast was not really living up to that agreement. So now I seems possible that the justice department figred that a similar agreement for AT&T and Time Warner wasn't going to work.
That said, I'd rather that they just stop the merger outright, then leave the companies to figure out what they need to jettison on their own before they try to merge again.
(also note, this Time Warner is not the same as Time Warner Cable)
Which is why the telecom lines should be treated as public infrastructure. This was true after the breakup of AT&T, all the competing new phone companies were allowed to make use of AT&Ts existing infrastructure, even those companies that were not originally a part of AT&T (ie, Sprint and such). The infrastructure created by monopolies like Time Warner and Comcast should be opened up to allow competition under the same rules as for telephone companies.
Hmm, didn't GM dump its bankruptcy on the government?
Governments have already created monopolies, that's how Comcast got the upper hand in the first place. Forbidding municpal broadband would in essence be the same as supporting the Comast monopoly. Except for those people who somehow don't believe that monopolies exist or that they can last long because their free market religion forbids such heresy. People in the real world however know that the free market screws up all the time.
No microcode. However there's an enumeration process that involves reading data from the device. Ie, you can try to override some internal buffers of the buggy driver by claiming to have longer descriptors than it has room for.
Yes and no. Denial of service is easy for some of the drivers, on more than just Linux. Just say your device descriptor has the maximum number of interfaces, each interface has the maximum number of endpoints, and things like that. But then again, you can just have a USB device that fries your computer completely since it's really a big supercap.
Now taking over a computer this way is harder. Certainly there could be exploits, but I don't necessarily think this is just Linux either.
It is difficult. The problem is that the higher end TVs always have the smart features. It makes a bit of sense, if you had a top of the line dumb TV there's a big chance most of them won't get sold. And the people buying the top of the line TVs usually aren't worried about pinching pennies. So the dumb TVs tend to be the economy TVs, smaller screens, etc. Also better luck looking for older TV models rather than the current year.
Probably that's why Roku partners with some TVs now. Not as good as a dumb TV but a better set of smarts than most smart TVs, and it means Roku gets a sale before the customer decides to upgrade the smarts after a few years.
Checking Amazon, I can see reasonable dumb TVs, even with good sizes. Now finding out which local stores sell them is a bit harder. Probably not any "big box" stores. Ie, https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre...
LinkedIn seems bad at it then. It's the place where I have the most connections, and it still recommends complete strangers to me, and people I have no interest of ever linking to even if I do know them.
Facebook is pretty simple here, I have 10 friends on it, I turn off a lot of stuff and it's not on my phone. I expected it to at least suggest friends from my small high school class, people that I might want to actually connect to, but it has never done that despite having all the necessary info to do so. It has never recommended any family members to me either, people who I do want to follow. Instead it suggests complete strangers; for example coworkers of a friend of mine who lives on a different continent, students of a friend of mine at yet another different continent who don't share a common language with me, and so forth.
I'm probably just late to the game. Every time I try to find a particular person on Facebook I can never find them, so maybe it's just not popular anymore?
It is very difficult to be concise and have something worth saying at the same time. That is why almost all of the tweets I have read seem rather dumb.
MBA doesn't mean a whole lot for an engineering manager. MBA doesn't mean a lot for most managers.
I don't have an MBA, and I'm a manager.
I think that bubble will burst. If someone needs that much of a discount to get a TV, they will not be making up the difference in cost by buying the random crap that gets advertised. Already I think $10 a month of ad-free is seriously overestimating the ability of these ads to generate $10/month. Ie, I see ads for feminine hygiene products, and I can guarantee I'm not buying such a product no matter how fresh they promise to make me. I'm never going to buy that Ford F150 either, I'm not buying Coor's Light.
I know people who are short of money and could use the discount to purchase things, but they are counting every penny at the same time. They buy the bargain products, unbranded generic alternatives.
First recourse, disconnect from internet. Second recourse, adblock. Third recourse, sledgehammer.
Then don't watch TV. Humans are not lab rats, we shouldn't start behaving like them.
A bug has to be fixed. It can take the dev 5 minutes to fix it after running their own test. No one else's time has been involved yet. Only a really terrible dev is going to checkin code the moment it compiles and then wait for QA to find the bugs. Any dev like that won't be very expensive, they'll be at the bottom pay tier. A good dev will be creating higher quality results, and will know it's higher quality by doing smoke tests and unit tests up front.
I think a lot of DVDs are just remastered for blu-ray so they don't look much different. Re-mastering a movie for a new medium is expensive.
That said, I have DVD and the few times I use it I don't notice that it's lower resolution than my streaming netflix, except for the first 5 minutes, after that you forget the fact that you can't see the pores on everyone's face and start actually watching the show instead.
I was actually surprised by some DVDs of TV shows from the 60s that looked extremely good, I suspect they remastered them from film.
Ha, I got a new mouse recently, and indeed finding a good one that is not wireless was difficult. I think they're getting kickbacks from the battery industry.
Me and my bedbugs are very close to each other.
I never got a blu-ray player for these reasons. Besides which, the blu-ray discs cost more than dvd, and I've got streaming so I never need the dvd except for the occasional gift when I explicitly say "no dvds please".
What is broken? If it works the day you turn it on, then it should be good forever as long as you don't use any "smart" features and keep it off of the network. Most of these firmware updates are most likely for adding new streaming channels, fixing the hastily and badly written "smart" part of the TV, or to add spyware.
If the TV actually did not work for its intended purpose without the firmware upgrades, then that's a lesson learned to never buy from that manufacturer again.