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  1. Re:CFLAGS on New Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Null Pointer Exploits · · Score: 1

    From the man page: -fdelete-null-pointer-checks Use global dataflow analysis to identify and eliminate useless checks for null pointers. The compiler assumes that dereferencing a null pointer would have halted the program. If a pointer is checked after it has already been dereferenced, it cannot be null. In some environments, this assumption is not true, and programs can safely dereference null pointers. Use -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks to disable this optimization for programs which depend on that behavior. Enabled at levels -O2, -O3, -Os. -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks to disable this optimization for programs which depend on that behavior. Enabled at levels -O2, -O3, -Os.

  2. Smart Radio Challenge on US Sets Up Emergency Multi-Band Radio Project · · Score: 2, Informative

    This year's Smart Radio Challenge is quite similar to this initiative http://www.radiochallenge.org/09SampleProblem.html

  3. Re:Perfect for the computer lab on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Yeah I really should have gone for the switchmode solution and saved a few microwatts. In my day sonny we were glad to have zeners. I had to walk all day in the snow....up hill...oh stuff it.

    Do you really think a voltage regular only saves a microwatts compared a zener?

  4. Re:Perfect for the computer lab on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might need to build a dumb USB power supply for it though. How about a 9 volt battery, a resistor and a zener diode?

    How about that's extremely inefficient. For an additional $0.50 you can get a voltage regular or DC-DC converter. Come on, I'm on the digital side of EE and I know better.

  5. This is true. on Restauranteurs Say Yelp Uses Extortion To Ply Ad Sales · · Score: 1

    I posted a negative review on yelp and not it's not there unless I sign in. Here is the link: http://www.yelp.com/biz/driscolls-package-store-inc-andover

  6. DRAM and SRAM on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    What's really important here is that the key would be kept in SRAM(CPU Cache), not DRAM(Memory). With DRAM the stored bit is stored in a capacitance and in SRAM the bit is stored in a latch(usually a D-type latch from what I understand). I would guess that it's harder to freeze SRAM and keep the bit in place.

  7. Re:iSeries is superior to a mainframe on The Mainframe World Is Alive, Even For Those Under 40 · · Score: 1

    are you aware that in 5 years system i will be dead (it's set to merge into system p) and system z will be rolling out z11?? I work at an IBM datacenter and system has the fewest amount of machines

  8. Re:bittorrent latency on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1

    one also has to consider that bandwidth is particularly important as delay is when considering VoIP (this is why when you sniff your skype call all you see is UDP packets -- no TCP packets) And since BT makes latency increase it is especially bad to use while using VoIP... this is one of the fundamental problems (and strengths) with thte internet -- it is a packet switched network, not one of direct connections

  9. Consider this... on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 1

    Suppose that border guards can't access the information that is kept in your mind, so if you encrypt all your data, and store the password in your mind (i.e. you remember it) Could you protect your privacy this way... or at very least you lie and say that you forgot, it would be impossible to prove othwerwise.

  10. Am I the only one... on Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thought was going to link to an onion article??