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  1. Re:No - there are plenty of safer alternatives on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    In your code what, dictated foo and bar were TYPES? You can use sizeof for arrays as well as types. This is problematic when some one changes the array to a dynamic array.
    char foo[4];
    char * bar;
    bar = malloc(sizeof(char)*16);
    printf("%d %d", sizeof(foo), sizeof(bar));
    assert(sizeof(foo) == sizeof(bar));
    memcpy(foo, bar, sizeof(bar)); //What just happened???

    I think you need to go and learn some C. Or at least common mistakes that people will make that Microsoft is trying to avoid, like using sizeof on a dynamically allocated piece of memory.

  2. Re:No - there are plenty of safer alternatives on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    lol, And them someone makes foo and bar dynamic, and for most implementations that will always be true. So do you write overflows for a living?

  3. Re:I guess it's official. on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a brilliant idea. To make it better, we will eventually want to allow this program on the motherboard to take updates. Of course at this point we will need another program to monitor the updates to our program that monitors the updates to the bios. To make that better, it will also have to take updates...

  4. Re:national security on FOIA Request For Pending Copyright Treaty Denied · · Score: 1

    Since it is not a power reserved for the federal government, it is reserved for the states.

  5. Re:Aside from that... that isn't scientific litera on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Critical thinking skills? you are asking the morons that travel at 85mpg 6 feet from the guy in front of him to think critically when they cant comprehend that their actions daily on the highway are incredibly stupid? If someone can travel at 85 mpg, more power to him. I don't think a Prius gets much better than 45. Why are you so against good gas mileage?

  6. Re:Still too high on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    So, In a sane world Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower sells for less than Brittney Spear's Toxic? It is older and shorter.

  7. Re:Still too high on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    Call me when the price is based on file size with new releases being allowed a slight premium cos they're you know, new.

    Yep, quality and quantity are the same metric. I have 20 minute song that you will love titled 'screeching love'.

  8. Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share on Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU · · Score: 1

    In my opinion we are in the transition to a change in the business model, similar to the musicians that make money with concerts (services) but not with CDs, in the software arena I expect something somewhat similar: software will be free and open source, and the bucks will be in parallel services (adaptation, support, etc.).

    I do not understand this business model. Free software and selling support. The primary developer would have to subsidize their development costs with the services, while another company could support the product without the cost of development, undercutting the primary in price and quality. Also, how does the sale go? Our software is great and free, you should use it. Meanwhile you are trying to selling them support; implying, that they may have trouble with the software? Obviously some businesses will want expert support for critical products, but that is very niche.

  9. Re:unsurprising. on Not All Cores Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    This is completely incorrect. The probabilities are exactly the same. There is no way to judge whether the number exhibits a random distribution with such a small sample. What you can do is take a very large set of randomly generated numbers can calculate if the distribution is unlikely. So, you should ask him to give you 100,000 more numbers to test his randomness.

  10. Re:Don't believe what Psystar says on Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS · · Score: 1

    As far as I know this is the legal view at this time, but it makes it no less ridiculous. I cannot wait for the day when remembering what you have read is a violation of a books copyright! The law should be fixed where: Selling bootleg DVD's on the street = illegal; Sharing a MP3 with one friend = legal; Sharing a MP3 with 100 people on an p2p system = illegal;

  11. Re:I want enforceable privacy on Yahoo Promises To Anonymize and Limit User Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course the implications could be much higher quality search results.

  12. Re:Indeed on 1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out · · Score: 1

    The epidemic of cancer is certainly proof that something that we are doing to the planet it making it and us very ill, let alone the undeniable evidence, built up over the last fifty years, that wherever industrial developments are, vibrant ecosystems are not.

    Is there evidence that there is an epidemic of cancer? We all have to die of something, and with longer lives, I would expect more cancer. Also, when did cancer diagnosis become the norm, as opposed calling it a normal death?

  13. Re:It can't be THAT hard on Torvalds Says It's No Picnic To Become Major Linux Coder · · Score: 1

    swoosh... Are you sure those are not operators? They seem to compile fine for me... and for some reason are on the operator precedence lists...

  14. Complex applications. on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    *And it's not the applications that are growing more complex, but the technologies themselves.*
    In my experience this is not true. Every year customers want to collect more and more data and have it analyzed in more complex ways. They also, want to interface with more and more systems.