except its exception mechanism isn't the standard one. (And its not MS Structured Exceptions either, its something else completely new). Now I know they need to claim its a C thing too (memcpy isn't as useful in C++, as the standard doesn't guarantee you can copy non-POD objects with it), but every that wrapper function serves no real purpose. Seriously. If you're code is so labyrinthine that you can't keep track of your buffer sizes, you've got worse problems than memcpy().
Please try to read all the details before jumping to conclusions of scaremongering
I did. You are. So are the Independent (but I expect it of them). Next time you read a newspaper article, try thinking, rather than rote repitition. It's more fun that way.
"An image is "pornographic" if it is of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal."
That's a rather broad definition
And yet despite its breadth, it clearly would NOT apply to Watchmen, South Park or Lost Girls.
So, well done submitter, linking to the Bill, which proves he's a scaremongering douche.
Right. His level of technical knowledge is another reason why he's not exaggerating the figures himself -- he's just mindlessly regurgitating what the Swedish Anti-Piracy guy told him.
It's easier for the Government to crack down on Games than it is to face up to the Tobacco Lobby:
Right. Because all they've done is (i) completely ban smoking adverts; (ii) raise the legal smoking age to 18 from 16; (iii) put increasedly gruesome warning messages on packs; (iv) massively increased the size of those warning messages; (v) banned tobacco companies from sponsoring sporting events.
Of course the present government was elected. Every single sitting MP (except the Speaker) won an election in their constituency. If you're going to use words like "Totalitarian" and "unelected", can you please find out what they mean.
If (correction, when) the nuLabour regime feel like making any particular group unPersons, they could pick up the phone to the IWF, remind them that regulation is better than legislation, and have anything they like censored, opaquely and without oversight or appeal.
While we're just making shit up, I'd like to say that if you don't like the Conservative party, William Hague will phone up the head of organised crime in West Baltimore and have you tortured for 19 to 21 weeks.
That was fun. Let's all slander our political opponents with completely unsupported bullshit.
Clue: the IWF is not affiliated with the UK Government, or the Labour Party (or any other mainstream political party) in any way whatsoever.
I agree, what is happening to the UK government is very scary
I agree. I believe that the sheer number of morons mistaking an unofficial, voluntary, privately-owned-and-run blacklist like the IWF for the UK Government is very very scary.
I remember when the majority of slashdotters had basic reading comprehension and a desire to think, rather than parrot ill-informed knee-jerk idiocy.
Not sure how it works in most fields, but in the one I'm in, it's your boss that gets the funding, not you.
Well, yes. But a researcher would've signed a contract denoting their rights and responsibilities when they took the job, in exchange for their slice of that funding. I know I did.
The UK government did anything in their power to discredit him.
The UK government did fuck all to discredit him, besides continually restate the fact that every single meta-analysis disagreed with his conclusions. The BMA, the GMC and the Lancet eventually got round to chastising him, as did his co-authors, but neither of those are organs of the government.
The problem here is that many British newspapers have spread wholly-untrue scare stories about the MMR injections, largely based on erroneous analysis by descredited scientists, Andrew Wakefield.
No-one can be be expected to follow every major medical story by reference to the original papers (and despite your noxious smugness, you don't either). We all rely on the media, both to alert us to potential medical risks, and to give accurate and even handed treatment to medical stories.
The papers and journalist in question (and. Melanie Phillips, I'm looking at you) have put sales-grabbings scare stories ahead of providing actual information -- acceptable if you're just gossiping about celebrities, but children have lost their lives because well meaning parents have been swayed by newspaper medical stories written with scant regard for the truth. Like people who shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre, they should be held to account.
Keen's Silicon Valley career began in 1995, with the founding of audiocafe.com, which received funding from Intel and SAP. The firm folded in January 2000. After the demise of audiocafe.com, Keen worked at Pulse 3D, SLO Media, Santa Cruz Networks, Jazziz Digital, Pure Depth and AfterTV, which he founded in 2005.
Let's face it -- he's no amateur on this score. The guy knows something about failed Internet based industry, as he's founded at least two, and worked at four or five more.
Because there's a difference between the controlling party in power, and the machinery of state. And the dishonest media portrayal of things like this people have lost the ability to make that distinction, we get the whole "government is intrinsically incompetent" meme, and people come to believe that private-public partnership and running government like a free market is intrinsically better -- because the free market works and government sucks.
Cases like this therefore become so distorted that they are considered, in the public conciousness, as data points that cause people to trust government less with their data. Whereas the actual villain here is the policy of devolving governmental responsibilities to the private sector. But that is never, never, never portrayed as the story -- because the meme is "don't trust governments", and when the facts contravene the meme, the media print the meme.
We should be saying "No to outsourcing of private data -- because private companies cut corners to make profits." Instead, we blame the government because the government is accountable, rather than because the government is at fault. And that's seriously fucked up.
Additionally, all that is sending the British political discourse the way of the American one -- where a candidate's almost complete inexperience of government can be portrayed as a benefit.
As to why, I'm against that; well, that's left as a exercise for the reader.
Slashdot Mirror
So Microsoft has invented the wrapper:
memcpy_s(void*dest,const void*src, size_t dest_num, size_t src_num)
is basically the same as
if(dest_num > src_num) {
throw std::logic_error("You're incompetent");
}else {
memcpy(void*dest,const void*src, src_num);
}
except its exception mechanism isn't the standard one. (And its not MS Structured Exceptions either, its something else completely new). Now I know they need to claim its a C thing too (memcpy isn't as useful in C++, as the standard doesn't guarantee you can copy non-POD objects with it), but every that wrapper function serves no real purpose. Seriously. If you're code is so labyrinthine that you can't keep track of your buffer sizes, you've got worse problems than memcpy().
I did. You are. So are the Independent (but I expect it of them). Next time you read a newspaper article, try thinking, rather than rote repitition. It's more fun that way.
And yet despite its breadth, it clearly would NOT apply to Watchmen, South Park or Lost Girls.
So, well done submitter, linking to the Bill, which proves he's a scaremongering douche.
I didn't say they weren't exaggerated, I said that if they'd been exaggerated, it was someone other than the media.
Right. His level of technical knowledge is another reason why he's not exaggerating the figures himself -- he's just mindlessly regurgitating what the Swedish Anti-Piracy guy told him.
You're right. Internet discussion boards are rarely improved by the injection of factual evidence.
Even if the statement is not true (and you offer no actual evidence it isn't), this exaggeration comes from Antpiratbyrån, not from the media.
Right. Because all they've done is (i) completely ban smoking adverts; (ii) raise the legal smoking age to 18 from 16; (iii) put increasedly gruesome warning messages on packs; (iv) massively increased the size of those warning messages; (v) banned tobacco companies from sponsoring sporting events.
Pussies.
Sure. That's how Xenu killed all the Thetans.
Of course the present government was elected. Every single sitting MP (except the Speaker) won an election in their constituency. If you're going to use words like "Totalitarian" and "unelected", can you please find out what they mean.
While we're just making shit up, I'd like to say that if you don't like the Conservative party, William Hague will phone up the head of organised crime in West Baltimore and have you tortured for 19 to 21 weeks.
That was fun. Let's all slander our political opponents with completely unsupported bullshit.
Clue: the IWF is not affiliated with the UK Government, or the Labour Party (or any other mainstream political party) in any way whatsoever.
I agree. I believe that the sheer number of morons mistaking an unofficial, voluntary, privately-owned-and-run blacklist like the IWF for the UK Government is very very scary.
I remember when the majority of slashdotters had basic reading comprehension and a desire to think, rather than parrot ill-informed knee-jerk idiocy.
Well, yes. But a researcher would've signed a contract denoting their rights and responsibilities when they took the job, in exchange for their slice of that funding. I know I did.
I don't know. What did it say in the contract you signed when handing over the money?
Well they should've read the IP document they signed when they took the funding, then.
The UK government did fuck all to discredit him, besides continually restate the fact that every single meta-analysis disagreed with his conclusions. The BMA, the GMC and the Lancet eventually got round to chastising him, as did his co-authors, but neither of those are organs of the government.
The problem here is that many British newspapers have spread wholly-untrue scare stories about the MMR injections, largely based on erroneous analysis by descredited scientists, Andrew Wakefield.
No-one can be be expected to follow every major medical story by reference to the original papers (and despite your noxious smugness, you don't either). We all rely on the media, both to alert us to potential medical risks, and to give accurate and even handed treatment to medical stories.
The papers and journalist in question (and. Melanie Phillips, I'm looking at you) have put sales-grabbings scare stories ahead of providing actual information -- acceptable if you're just gossiping about celebrities, but children have lost their lives because well meaning parents have been swayed by newspaper medical stories written with scant regard for the truth. Like people who shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre, they should be held to account.
Did you have the sound turned off? How do you consider the constantly repeated phrase "really fast" to be a side effect?
... you would have just got a "4004 Not Found" error.
Isn't that usually spelled
M-| wc
Meta-pipe is a great one -- it's "pipe region to external command" (M-x shell-command-on-region)
What is the Unix equivalent of CTRL+Z
That one's easy : kill -STOP <PID>
Yeah, but Womp Rats occasionally emerge from their burrows into the sunlight.
WoW players are nocturnal, only emerging briefly to pay the pizza guy.
But check out Wikipedia:
Let's face it -- he's no amateur on this score. The guy knows something about failed Internet based industry, as he's founded at least two, and worked at four or five more.
Oh, yes those disks that were lost. By whom were they lost? TNT, a privately owned courier company.
Because there's a difference between the controlling party in power, and the machinery of state. And the dishonest media portrayal of things like this people have lost the ability to make that distinction, we get the whole "government is intrinsically incompetent" meme, and people come to believe that private-public partnership and running government like a free market is intrinsically better -- because the free market works and government sucks.
Cases like this therefore become so distorted that they are considered, in the public conciousness, as data points that cause people to trust government less with their data. Whereas the actual villain here is the policy of devolving governmental responsibilities to the private sector. But that is never, never, never portrayed as the story -- because the meme is "don't trust governments", and when the facts contravene the meme, the media print the meme.
We should be saying "No to outsourcing of private data -- because private companies cut corners to make profits." Instead, we blame the government because the government is accountable, rather than because the government is at fault. And that's seriously fucked up.
Additionally, all that is sending the British political discourse the way of the American one -- where a candidate's almost complete inexperience of government can be portrayed as a benefit.
As to why, I'm against that; well, that's left as a exercise for the reader.