Where's the fun in compiling strict, when you can just let the casts fall where they may? Anyway, if you get really deep into it, p is just a pointer. Try compiling with strict off. I'm using Visual C++ 6.0 at level 3.
Hmm. Just testing, and I'm not getting gcc to work (even with -Wno-error) unless the pointers are cast (as in the previous post.) The C language reference does say that pointer subtraction is LEGAL, but not guaranteed to be meaningful except for members of the same array. That means that I may not be guaranteed to get 4 bytes of difference, but it should compile and while I should be able to get some number of bytes difference from it, there's no guarantee that I get the right number. Oh, well, cest la C.
WARNING -- SPOILER: I'm taking advantage of the fact that I want four characters output, and that longs are four bytes. Using the array gives me two longs that will be next to each other. I decrement the char pointer p (which points to the second long) until it equals the first. This happens in the while condition (which could be written as while((p--)-k){...}, if I wanted to make it longer, which I don't. Operator precedence lets the compiler grok what I mean.
...please insert retinas in backup display slot provided.
Acutally, I liked the idea Neal Stephenson used in Snow Crash: use the laser to rear-project onto translucent goggles the user's wearing. The indirection would keep the user safer from a system malfunction.
(I checked the document source, but there were no IRONY tags around it.)
How enforceable is that? Not only is it at the BOTTOM of the page (where you won't read it until you hit the end of the article in all Western languages), but you have to have done so BEFORE having read the page content?
Would you trust a surgeon who went home at night and liked his job so much he spent evenings and weekends operating on the family dog and neighborhood kids?
"Hey, Martha, I've got this new spleen-hack that regenerates tissue at twice the normal rate!"
"That's nice, dear, but would you please remember to load the dishwasher before you come to bed?"
Maybe you need a better example...
John
He may already be doing the right thing.
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[Sorry this rambles a bit, but I don't have time for more editing.]
The adoption of "zero-tolerance" speech policies (which I personally consider to be in violation of the first amendment) is taking its toll on otherwise good kids.
It used to be that a student who made a stupidly inappropriate remark was actually taught a lesson: what you said was wrong, this is why it was wrong, if you say it again you will be punished by X. With the dawning of the era which gave us the horriffic phrase "school shooting", administrations around the country have been under tremendous pressure to do something. "Take away all their rights, they're just kids, but keep my little Johnny Racist-Bigmouth safe from 'school shootings.'"
So, as more "normal" kids who screw up once are pulled from the schools, and as the complaints pile on from their suffering families, administrators might begin to see that they've been a bit heavy-handed. Perhaps point out that if your kid had simply gone off and slugged the other kid, he'd have gotten a five-day suspension for fighting. But verbally returning a threat in an already hostile situation makes him a potentinal murderer who must be expelled? Point out the inequity in their policies. Have them point out where in your school's policy it says "threatening language == expelled." Get in their faces, and don't give up. It shouldn't take a lawyer, (which simply turns off the ordinary people who make up your school board) but an outraged parent can actually make a difference.
Your first step in approaching your school board is to educate yourself on their written policies. Find out what their justification was for expulsion. Then, at the meeting, step one would be to sympathise with their position of trying to keep school safe. Next, demonstrate what you've personally done to teach Sean that murderous threats are not appropriate responses. (Perhaps have Sean demonstrate proof of completion of an "anger management course") Finally, attack the inequity of their policies. Point out that they're promoting physically violent solutions over verbal responses. Hopefully, you can get him reinstated after the next meeting.
Another true story, my wife and I were moving our couch out of the living room to clear the floor prior to replacing the carpeting. My foot stepped near the wall and sunk in a carpeted-over hole. I took out a knife (this was the old carpeting about to be replaced) and cut through it to discover a heat duct that had been forgotten when the house was built. Since it was at the edge of the wall where people don't walk (and had pretty much been blocked by furniture since day one) it went unnoticed for 13 years!
A law professor was speaking on NPR this morning, and he made several claims that have been repeated here before:
The internet is too big to effectively police
Law enforcement officials are not clueful enough to track "cybercriminals"
Jurisdiction is often a problem
His suggestion was for victims of cybercrime to take a more vigilante approach: 'hack unto others who hack unto you.'
While this is of course fraught with all the problems of vigilanteism, until a treaty allowing the RIAA to kick down doors in Uzbekistan is approved, it seems to be the most practial approach for effectively "getting some justice done."
Unfortunately, one of the keyloggers out there is a device that is placed INSIDE the keyboard case, between the circuit board and the cable. Physically, it's a small printed circuit with a couple of chips, an n-pronged jack for the cable end and an n-holed jack for the board end. An internal inspection of the hardware will discover it, of course, if you know what you're looking for. If you don't, it's just more "magic chips."
This is much harder to find than the KeyKatcher, which is an 8KB keyboard dongle about the size of two PS2 keyboard plugs back-to-back (longer and narrower than a quarter.) It has a KK logo on it which looks kind of like a fast forward or rewind icon. It's installed by plugging the keyboard into it, and plugging the other end of it into your PC. It's technically about within the installation limits of your typical boss.
I think all of the current technology keyboard memory dongles are physically very small and have quite stringent memory limits... 8KB and 32KB come to mind. If you have enabled your keyboard's typematic repeat (usually a BIOS setting, set the repeat rate to as fast as it'll go) you could probably blow a 32KB buffer by setting a book on your spacebar for an hour before typing your password. Of course, IANAS (I Am Not A Spook) so I don't know if they've got 512KB buffers or radio transceivers installed in your keyboard. So, if you get busted, I'm hereby officially disclaiming any liability.
While our hands aren't tied as far as VSS vs CVS vs others, we are (very much) tied to Windows NT. I'm curious to try Perforce out. Their web page promises much, and your references seem to bear that out.
What about NoCeMs? The idea where you trust only specific moderators, who you select as having viewpoints that "filter" the news as per your tastes?
You may decry moderation as a bad thing, but I stopped having time for Frist p0sts a long time ago. Yes, moderators can and definitely do abuse their power, especially so around here where moderation happens anonymously. Do I care? Not enough to give up using moderation. I simply don't have time to listen to everyone's drivel, and I truly don't care about the troll-of-the-week. For me, missing the occasional post that the chri$tian fscking coalition or the clam$ mod down to -1 still wasn't worth my time to hunt down, because, frankly, very little of what happens around here is really "stuff that matters."
Knowing how moderation works at least lets me recognize the dangers inherent to moderation. I'd still love to see NoCeMs implemented for moderation so I could filter out some of the idiot moderators who think goat-abuse is worth my time.
Unfortunately, we suffer from PVCS Trolls in our office. They're little creatures who administer our PVCS server and arbitrarily deny rights to all and sundry.
On the plus side, the PVCS Gnomes are still hard at work, damaging about one file in every 5000 checkouts. Since we have a 2100 file build at the moment, that's one in three builds getting trashed by this worthless system. We hope this is enough ammo to have PVCS shot, drawn and quartered, and sent to the Eastern front.
We've been considering both Visual Source Safe (which we've had good luck with, but find it feature-poor) and CVS. I'd love any feedback anyone has comparing the two on a fairly large project, particularily where we have two sets of developers working off-site through slow IP links.
If you go to www.freedb.org, you will see a link in the main menu called Applications. Select it, then select Configs for other applications. For Winamp, you end up at this page which has instructions for replacing the right stuff in your.INI file. But they have instructions there for many windows client CDDB-enabled apps.
I found that with DiscPlay 4 I could also replace the list server with ca.freedb.org and it provides me with a refreshable list of freedb servers.
Slashdot Mirror
John
Hmm. Just testing, and I'm not getting gcc to work (even with -Wno-error) unless the pointers are cast (as in the previous post.) The C language reference does say that pointer subtraction is LEGAL, but not guaranteed to be meaningful except for members of the same array. That means that I may not be guaranteed to get 4 bytes of difference, but it should compile and while I should be able to get some number of bytes difference from it, there's no guarantee that I get the right number. Oh, well, cest la C.
WARNING -- SPOILER: I'm taking advantage of the fact that I want four characters output, and that longs are four bytes. Using the array gives me two longs that will be next to each other. I decrement the char pointer p (which points to the second long) until it equals the first. This happens in the while condition (which could be written as while((p--)-k){...}, if I wanted to make it longer, which I don't. Operator precedence lets the compiler grok what I mean.
John
John
Acutally, I liked the idea Neal Stephenson used in Snow Crash: use the laser to rear-project onto translucent goggles the user's wearing. The indirection would keep the user safer from a system malfunction.
John
(I checked the document source, but there were no IRONY tags around it.)
How enforceable is that? Not only is it at the BOTTOM of the page (where you won't read it until you hit the end of the article in all Western languages), but you have to have done so BEFORE having read the page content?
John
"Hey, Martha, I've got this new spleen-hack that regenerates tissue at twice the normal rate!"
"That's nice, dear, but would you please remember to load the dishwasher before you come to bed?"
Maybe you need a better example...
John
The adoption of "zero-tolerance" speech policies (which I personally consider to be in violation of the first amendment) is taking its toll on otherwise good kids.
It used to be that a student who made a stupidly inappropriate remark was actually taught a lesson: what you said was wrong, this is why it was wrong, if you say it again you will be punished by X. With the dawning of the era which gave us the horriffic phrase "school shooting", administrations around the country have been under tremendous pressure to do something. "Take away all their rights, they're just kids, but keep my little Johnny Racist-Bigmouth safe from 'school shootings.'"
So, as more "normal" kids who screw up once are pulled from the schools, and as the complaints pile on from their suffering families, administrators might begin to see that they've been a bit heavy-handed. Perhaps point out that if your kid had simply gone off and slugged the other kid, he'd have gotten a five-day suspension for fighting. But verbally returning a threat in an already hostile situation makes him a potentinal murderer who must be expelled? Point out the inequity in their policies. Have them point out where in your school's policy it says "threatening language == expelled." Get in their faces, and don't give up. It shouldn't take a lawyer, (which simply turns off the ordinary people who make up your school board) but an outraged parent can actually make a difference.
Your first step in approaching your school board is to educate yourself on their written policies. Find out what their justification was for expulsion. Then, at the meeting, step one would be to sympathise with their position of trying to keep school safe. Next, demonstrate what you've personally done to teach Sean that murderous threats are not appropriate responses. (Perhaps have Sean demonstrate proof of completion of an "anger management course") Finally, attack the inequity of their policies. Point out that they're promoting physically violent solutions over verbal responses. Hopefully, you can get him reinstated after the next meeting.
John
John
John
- The internet is too big to effectively police
- Law enforcement officials are not clueful enough to track "cybercriminals"
- Jurisdiction is often a problem
His suggestion was for victims of cybercrime to take a more vigilante approach: 'hack unto others who hack unto you.'While this is of course fraught with all the problems of vigilanteism, until a treaty allowing the RIAA to kick down doors in Uzbekistan is approved, it seems to be the most practial approach for effectively "getting some justice done."
John
Me.
Hey, look, I've got a pair of "l33t h4x0rs" I'll trade you for a pair of "geek hackers".
The idea is almost as exciting as watching the Xtreme Line Dancing finals on ESPN9.
John
This is much harder to find than the KeyKatcher, which is an 8KB keyboard dongle about the size of two PS2 keyboard plugs back-to-back (longer and narrower than a quarter.) It has a KK logo on it which looks kind of like a fast forward or rewind icon. It's installed by plugging the keyboard into it, and plugging the other end of it into your PC. It's technically about within the installation limits of your typical boss.
I think all of the current technology keyboard memory dongles are physically very small and have quite stringent memory limits... 8KB and 32KB come to mind. If you have enabled your keyboard's typematic repeat (usually a BIOS setting, set the repeat rate to as fast as it'll go) you could probably blow a 32KB buffer by setting a book on your spacebar for an hour before typing your password. Of course, IANAS (I Am Not A Spook) so I don't know if they've got 512KB buffers or radio transceivers installed in your keyboard. So, if you get busted, I'm hereby officially disclaiming any liability.
John
Render unto Monsanto what belongs to Monsanto...
John
While our hands aren't tied as far as VSS vs CVS vs others, we are (very much) tied to Windows NT. I'm curious to try Perforce out. Their web page promises much, and your references seem to bear that out.
Thanks again,
John
You may decry moderation as a bad thing, but I stopped having time for Frist p0sts a long time ago. Yes, moderators can and definitely do abuse their power, especially so around here where moderation happens anonymously. Do I care? Not enough to give up using moderation. I simply don't have time to listen to everyone's drivel, and I truly don't care about the troll-of-the-week. For me, missing the occasional post that the chri$tian fscking coalition or the clam$ mod down to -1 still wasn't worth my time to hunt down, because, frankly, very little of what happens around here is really "stuff that matters."
Knowing how moderation works at least lets me recognize the dangers inherent to moderation. I'd still love to see NoCeMs implemented for moderation so I could filter out some of the idiot moderators who think goat-abuse is worth my time.
John
On the plus side, the PVCS Gnomes are still hard at work, damaging about one file in every 5000 checkouts. Since we have a 2100 file build at the moment, that's one in three builds getting trashed by this worthless system. We hope this is enough ammo to have PVCS shot, drawn and quartered, and sent to the Eastern front.
We've been considering both Visual Source Safe (which we've had good luck with, but find it feature-poor) and CVS. I'd love any feedback anyone has comparing the two on a fairly large project, particularily where we have two sets of developers working off-site through slow IP links.
John
paste it to a file named test.CPP and see whut happens...
I think Microsoft would be much more of a valid comparison...
John
John
I found that with DiscPlay 4 I could also replace the list server with ca.freedb.org and it provides me with a refreshable list of freedb servers.
John
Acutally, though, .NET won't be carrying that much data. It's basically just a licensing engine.
John
Yes, but what they'll end up with is *nix prices and MS stability.
John
s/its worth it/it's NOT worth it/
John