Make them liable if they do not start patching their own devices.
Don't necessarily even need the cost to go up.
Your device is found vulnerable to hackers. a) release a fix or b) release the source code in a form that allows others to fix it.
In a dream world I could imagine a time where the source code is released with the device. How much IP can there really be in a webcam? The vast majority of the work involved in writing a firmware from scratch would be researching how to address the hardware.
Capslock (shiftlock) was above the shift key on mechanical typewriters. When you pushed it down it pushed down the shift key with it and then latched. You pressed the shift key again to unlatch it.
Of course, as shift physically moved the hammers down, every single key went into it's shifted state.
But pushing shift was significantly more demanding than typing any of the other letters (at least on any mechanical typewriter I ever saw) so shift lock was more useful when typing repeated shifted values than it is today.
You don't even need that. One finger unlocks the phone as normal. The other unlocks the phone but requires a pin as well (only needs to be one digit long) and an incorrect pin means that the phone shuts down. (or even that finger can make the phone shut down - however it should probably still require a pin even if there's *no* pin to unlock.
Don't know about obstruction of justice issues though...
The international dialing code for Kazakhstan from the UK would be 00 7 (I've just looked it up). I've never heard anyone quote a Kazakhstan telephone number to call from the UK but I would expect them to say oh oh seven, not double oh seven. Apart from anything else, if you did try to tell someone a Kazakhstan telephone number and started double oh seven I'd expect them to not hear the rest of the number while they were laughing.
Saying oh for zero is common in (British) English.
Dialing code for London: 020 - Oh two oh.
Start of a telephone number: 700 - seven double oh.
International dialing code for the US: 00 1 - oh oh one. (Don't know why we don't say double oh but I've never heard it said that way.)
Bus number: 205 - two oh five
In normal spoken or written English you can usually determine whether it's a zero or a letter-o from the context and where you can't it rarely matters.
In the UK for while we started getting little keypads - completely stand alone that you plugged your card into, entered the PIN, entered some other details (e.g. amount of transaction if necessary) and then got an 8 digit code back to use as a passcode.
Completely OS/browser agnostic.
Unfortunately, it never really took off. I think people just didn't find it convenient enough to have the keypad. Of course, had it taken off then people would have had multiple keypads and left one at work etc so they wouldn't have to carry them around. Also, of course, it was completely interchangeable between cards, so the business that paid to produce and distribute would have ended up subsidizing other businesses anti-fraud department.
I don't know whether something similar is possible now using a phone and near field communication with the card. But even if it is, I cannot see it taking off. The businesses that could do this are too concerned with locking customers into their app rather than getting together to solve a common problem in a common way.
Similar has happened with "smart meters" for electricity. We're in the middle of a national rollout (costing goodness knows how much) but change supplier and your smart meter will revert to a dumb meter.
Sorry, I'm hopeless at explaining hence why I could never teach.
There aren't two identical "messages" in quantum teleportation. That would violate the no-cloning theorem. Instead there's one message that originally exists at point A and later exists at point B instead.
But - and this is the bit where it involves QM weirdness - there is no way to "read" a complete quantum state and record it classically. Think of it as a two bit word in a computer where every time you read one bit the reading circuit randomly disturbs the other bit.
QM teleportation lets us move that word from one place to another without changing either bit (but note that the original word (letter) is destroyed in the process.)
I don't know what else you saw but basically the entanglement leaves the target (teleportation) end in a superposition of four states, only one of which is the one you want the others are complementary states.
The sender makes a measurement at their end to determine which one of the four states is the correct one and then transmits it to the receiver. The receiver can then isolate the correct state from the others that would otherwise cancel out all knowledge of the original state.
Oh well. I tried to write a comment with a diagram but hit submit instead of preview:-(
Consider four directions on a plane. x axis (we'll call that |+>), y axis (we'll call that |->) y=-x (we'll call that |0>) and y=x (we'll call that |1>)
Modulo some constant factors, I hope it's obvious that you can build up some of those vectors from others:
|1> = |+> + |-> |-> = |0> + |1> etc.
These are the directions of a plane polarized photon.
We setup some photons that are polarized in the |1> direction and then pass them through a polarization filter.
If the filter points along the |1> direction then all of them pass. If the filter passes along the |0> direction then none of them pass.
Now we put the filter along the |-> direction. What happens.
|1> = s|+> + s|-> (s is 1/sqrt(2) - which can be deduced from standard trig - the lines must be the same length)
When we measure along the |-> direction the s|-> part will pass the filter but the s|+> part wont.
But an individual photon can't get dimmer therefore it must either pass or not. Half the photons do pass and half don't (and it's random whether any one photon gets through the detector)
The ones that do get through are now in state |-> which is also |0>+|1> (again with factors of sqrt 2)
If we now measure along the |1> direction again we now lose half the photons again (due to that |0> component)
Quantum teleportation involves taking a photon in state a|0> + b|1> (for unknown values of a and b) and taking very careful measurements that don't destroy a and b but instead transfer them to another photon without us actually knowing what they are.
You got the first paragraph right. But then got sidetracked by tennis balls.
There are *two* complementary quantum states that you can measure. Measuring one destroys all knowledge of the other.
There is no classical system that behaves like this, therefore any analogy that doesn't invoke some magic artificial property of a classical object won't represent what happens in QM.
In your example you need tennis balls that randomly change colour when you measure their spin and can magically reverse spin when you look what colour they are.
Quantum teleportation requires the use of a classical channel. The entangled particles can be exchanged in advance (provided they can be stored without breaking the entanglement which is difficult in practice but trivial in theory)
The classical data can only be transferred at the time the teleportation is done - hence that limits the speed of the teleportation to the speed of light.
It's effectively** equivalent to having two identical letters containing a random message
No. you're describing entanglement.
Teleportation is subtly different.
Teleportation consists of transferring the quantum state of one particle to another particle via the use of entangled particles (and a classical channel)
The beauty of this is that the entangled state can be set up in advance. You then give me a particle that you might or might not know something about its quantum state (but importantly, I do not know what you know about it so cannot measure that quantum state in advance). I can transfer the state of that particle to another particle that Bob has via some entangled particles we exchanged earlier *plus* some standard classical information that goes over classical channels (it's this classical information that limits the teleportation to the speed of light)
The particle that Bob ends up with is in an identical state the the one you gave me (and which I still have).
N.B. This is quantum teleportation, not quantum cloning which is not possible. The act of getting the quantum state to Bob affects my particle in a way that means I cannot also extract any information from it about the original state of your particle.
The experiments that are discarded are where the two end points don't measure the same quantum variable.
For photons, for example, you can measure whether linear polarization is up-down/left-right or diagonal-left-up diagonal-right-down/diagonal-right-up diagonal-left down.
If both ends measure the up-down/left-right state then one will get up-down, one left-right. If both measure the diagonal polarization then again they will get complementary results. But if one measures up-down and the other measures diagonal then we cannot tell anything useful any more than trying to compare two sweets where one person says what shape it is and the other says what flavour it is so those results get discarded.
There is additional statistical analysis - due to the fact that these experiments are done on single photons and sometimes detectors fire when there is no photon and sometimes they don't fire when there is so we cannot expect 100% correlation - but that's nothing to do with discarding some of the results.
Basically, they have promised to veto any Article 50 agreement that doesn't continue to allow free travel (with ID) for their citizens to the UK, as is currently the case. Any Article 50 agreement requires a unanamous vote in favour - all 27 remaining countries
This isn't quite correct. An article 50 agreement requires, iirc at least 50% of member states representing at least 66% of the EU population.
However, I think disconnecting access to the free market from freedom of travel does require unanimity. That's an independent rule of the EU IIUC unrelated to article 50.
What isn't obvious at this point is whether the UK can negotiate some (acceptable) restrictions in trade in return for some (acceptable) restrictions in movement.
It may well end up with WTO rules due to the 2 year negotiating period expiring. Britain will then, of course, lose it's passporting rights to the financial markets. Whether the finance industry will have relocated in time is debatable - it probably depends on how early on failure of negotiations becomes apparent.
How does the energy efficiency of this drive compare to a normal rocket?
Utter crap. But what it would give (assuming it works) is freedom from having to carry reaction mass.
But if it works, then it's going to open a whole new world in physics that hasn't been considered up until now - and it's likely to be obsolete within a few years once a theory that explains it comes to light.
(I'm betting on measurement error but hoping for something much more exciting)
Could this allow interstellar travel, by humans, within a normal human lifespan?
In theory yes - provided you can carry enough energy in a small enough mass. But interstellar travel precludes the use of solar energy so it's most likely to be useful in manoeuvring spacecraft around the inner solar system.
What kind of reletavistic effects happen at high speed? I would assume thrust would drop as you approach C.
However, you can't claim you're owed past money when Apple wasn't hiding anything.
I don't know about EU law but in the UK this is, indeed the case.
Tax avoidance schemes have to be registered with HMRC. If they are deemed to be invalid then you have to pay the tax that was due.
If you decide to fight it through the courts and the courts find in HMRCs favour then your tax liability is a multiple (greater than or equal to 1) of the tax that you tried to avoid. (plus any legal fees)
Early 5 1/4 floppy was 40 tracks, 18 sectors/track - 360K. That was 1024 bytes/K
Early 3 1/2 floppy was 80 tracks - 720K.
Double sided - 1.44M (we'd already started confusing multipliers)
At some point the remaining factor of 1024 got dropped - probably when we stopped thinking about heads, tracks, sectors/track. Prior to that the first 1024 was baked into the disk geometry. I don't remember enough detail of the early hard disks to recall whether a 30MB disk was 30000000 bytes or 30720000 bytes.
Be confident in yourself and be confident in your future.
Just try not to be arrogant or entitled.
All of the above are hard to do all the time (unless you're so insecure you're incapable of being arrogant or so arrogant that you're incapable of harbouring doubts about yourself) so forgive others who get it wrong some of the time - and hope that they forgive you.
And if you want to get laid, find something cheap to do that you enjoy doing and that has people of the right sex there that you can talk to and don't hurry things.
I would guess that volunteer groups tend to have a reasonably equal gender balance and if you're doing something that you believe in then you're likely to meet people you can connect with.
Most of my time is already committed (not volunteer work) but if it weren't I'd probably start somewhere like here: https://volunteerteam.london.g...
Probably something similar in your area of the world.
How the *fuck* did we function during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s without mobile phones
We used to plan.
There would be an agreed meeting point if we got separated (or common sense - go back to the place where we last saw each other)
People would arrive on time. If people hadn't turned up, five minute after the agreed time we'd be off and the latecomers were on their own.
Nowadays, people text five minutes before the agreed time to say they're going to be an hour late[1]. People also assume the most optimistic times for a journey instead of a realistic time.
Late entry into theatres and concerts has, IME, become much more common. 20 years ago there might one one or two couples who were let in in the first break - and you felt sorry for them because obviously there'd been an accident or something else completely unexpected that had delayed them excessively. Now it's dozens of people - often so many that it's not actually possible to seat them all in the few minutes before the second piece starts.
[1] This is the one that really pisses me off. It's taken me an hour to get to our agreed meeting point. I've arrived a good ten minutes early out of courtesy, and then I'm kept waiting around for another hour.
I've changed the signature to take an unsigned char* to avoid excessive casting in the function.
You then wrote
C requires you cast objects of type void* before dereferencing such as "*src".....
But if you're going to ignore my code and what I said, criticize something I didn't write and then write your own, it perhaps would be better not to try to do pointer arithmetic on void pointers.
For reference, a naÃve (acceptable in an interview) implementation of memmove can be achieved in 4 lines of code.
In an interview situation, without any additional instruction, I would tend to assume "a line of code" is a semicolon delimited statement. Comma operator may, or may not, be allowed. I'd ask.
However, I'm really struggling to get this down to four "reasonable" lines in C.
Here's the best I've got (I've changed the signature to take an unsigned char* to avoid excessive casting in the function.
Even more fun, in their original letter to her they said:
97. The Letter went on to state as follows: "Although this infringement might have been unintentional, use of an image without a valid license is considered copyright infringement in violation of the Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code. This copyright law entitles Alamy to seek compensation for any license infringement."
104. In the "Frequently Asked Questions" section of the Letter, the answer to the question "What if I didn't know?" includes the following language: "You may have employed a third party, former worker or intern to design and develop your company's site. However, the liability of any infringement ultimately falls on the company (the end user) who hired that party, employee or intern." The answer to the question "What if I simply remove the image?"Â includes the following language: "While we appreciate the effort of removing the material in question from your site, we still need compensation. Your company has benefited by using our imagery without our permission. As the unauthorized use has already occurred, payment for that benefit is necessary."
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Make them liable if they do not start patching their own devices.
Don't necessarily even need the cost to go up.
Your device is found vulnerable to hackers. a) release a fix or b) release the source code in a form that allows others to fix it.
In a dream world I could imagine a time where the source code is released with the device. How much IP can there really be in a webcam? The vast majority of the work involved in writing a firmware from scratch would be researching how to address the hardware.
Capslock (shiftlock) was above the shift key on mechanical typewriters. When you pushed it down it pushed down the shift key with it and then latched. You pressed the shift key again to unlatch it.
Of course, as shift physically moved the hammers down, every single key went into it's shifted state.
But pushing shift was significantly more demanding than typing any of the other letters (at least on any mechanical typewriter I ever saw) so shift lock was more useful when typing repeated shifted values than it is today.
You don't even need that. One finger unlocks the phone as normal. The other unlocks the phone but requires a pin as well (only needs to be one digit long) and an incorrect pin means that the phone shuts down. (or even that finger can make the phone shut down - however it should probably still require a pin even if there's *no* pin to unlock.
Don't know about obstruction of justice issues though...
The international dialing code for Kazakhstan from the UK would be 00 7 (I've just looked it up). I've never heard anyone quote a Kazakhstan telephone number to call from the UK but I would expect them to say oh oh seven, not double oh seven. Apart from anything else, if you did try to tell someone a Kazakhstan telephone number and started double oh seven I'd expect them to not hear the rest of the number while they were laughing.
Saying oh for zero is common in (British) English.
Dialing code for London:
020 - Oh two oh.
Start of a telephone number:
700 - seven double oh.
International dialing code for the US:
00 1 - oh oh one. (Don't know why we don't say double oh but I've never heard it said that way.)
Bus number:
205 - two oh five
In normal spoken or written English you can usually determine whether it's a zero or a letter-o from the context and where you can't it rarely matters.
In the UK for while we started getting little keypads - completely stand alone that you plugged your card into, entered the PIN, entered some other details (e.g. amount of transaction if necessary) and then got an 8 digit code back to use as a passcode.
Completely OS/browser agnostic.
Unfortunately, it never really took off. I think people just didn't find it convenient enough to have the keypad. Of course, had it taken off then people would have had multiple keypads and left one at work etc so they wouldn't have to carry them around. Also, of course, it was completely interchangeable between cards, so the business that paid to produce and distribute would have ended up subsidizing other businesses anti-fraud department.
I don't know whether something similar is possible now using a phone and near field communication with the card. But even if it is, I cannot see it taking off. The businesses that could do this are too concerned with locking customers into their app rather than getting together to solve a common problem in a common way.
Similar has happened with "smart meters" for electricity. We're in the middle of a national rollout (costing goodness knows how much) but change supplier and your smart meter will revert to a dumb meter.
Sorry, I'm hopeless at explaining hence why I could never teach.
There aren't two identical "messages" in quantum teleportation. That would violate the no-cloning theorem. Instead there's one message that originally exists at point A and later exists at point B instead.
But - and this is the bit where it involves QM weirdness - there is no way to "read" a complete quantum state and record it classically. Think of it as a two bit word in a computer where every time you read one bit the reading circuit randomly disturbs the other bit.
QM teleportation lets us move that word from one place to another without changing either bit (but note that the original word (letter) is destroyed in the process.)
I don't know what else you saw but basically the entanglement leaves the target (teleportation) end in a superposition of four states, only one of which is the one you want the others are complementary states.
The sender makes a measurement at their end to determine which one of the four states is the correct one and then transmits it to the receiver. The receiver can then isolate the correct state from the others that would otherwise cancel out all knowledge of the original state.
Oh well. I tried to write a comment with a diagram but hit submit instead of preview :-(
Consider four directions on a plane. x axis (we'll call that |+>), y axis (we'll call that |->) y=-x (we'll call that |0>) and y=x (we'll call that |1>)
Modulo some constant factors, I hope it's obvious that you can build up some of those vectors from others:
|1> = |+> + |->
|-> = |0> + |1>
etc.
These are the directions of a plane polarized photon.
We setup some photons that are polarized in the |1> direction and then pass them through a polarization filter.
If the filter points along the |1> direction then all of them pass. If the filter passes along the |0> direction then none of them pass.
Now we put the filter along the |-> direction. What happens.
|1> = s|+> + s|-> (s is 1/sqrt(2) - which can be deduced from standard trig - the lines must be the same length)
When we measure along the |-> direction the s|-> part will pass the filter but the s|+> part wont.
But an individual photon can't get dimmer therefore it must either pass or not. Half the photons do pass and half don't (and it's random whether any one photon gets through the detector)
The ones that do get through are now in state |-> which is also |0>+|1> (again with factors of sqrt 2)
If we now measure along the |1> direction again we now lose half the photons again (due to that |0> component)
Quantum teleportation involves taking a photon in state a|0> + b|1> (for unknown values of a and b) and taking very careful measurements that don't destroy a and b but instead transfer them to another photon without us actually knowing what they are.
0 - 1
\ | /
\ | /
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------- +
/ | \
/ | \
You got the first paragraph right. But then got sidetracked by tennis balls.
There are *two* complementary quantum states that you can measure. Measuring one destroys all knowledge of the other.
There is no classical system that behaves like this, therefore any analogy that doesn't invoke some magic artificial property of a classical object won't represent what happens in QM.
In your example you need tennis balls that randomly change colour when you measure their spin and can magically reverse spin when you look what colour they are.
Quantum teleportation requires the use of a classical channel. The entangled particles can be exchanged in advance (provided they can be stored without breaking the entanglement which is difficult in practice but trivial in theory)
The classical data can only be transferred at the time the teleportation is done - hence that limits the speed of the teleportation to the speed of light.
It's effectively** equivalent to having two identical letters containing a random message
No. you're describing entanglement.
Teleportation is subtly different.
Teleportation consists of transferring the quantum state of one particle to another particle via the use of entangled particles (and a classical channel)
The beauty of this is that the entangled state can be set up in advance. You then give me a particle that you might or might not know something about its quantum state (but importantly, I do not know what you know about it so cannot measure that quantum state in advance). I can transfer the state of that particle to another particle that Bob has via some entangled particles we exchanged earlier *plus* some standard classical information that goes over classical channels (it's this classical information that limits the teleportation to the speed of light)
The particle that Bob ends up with is in an identical state the the one you gave me (and which I still have).
N.B. This is quantum teleportation, not quantum cloning which is not possible. The act of getting the quantum state to Bob affects my particle in a way that means I cannot also extract any information from it about the original state of your particle.
I think you misunderstand.
The experiments that are discarded are where the two end points don't measure the same quantum variable.
For photons, for example, you can measure whether linear polarization is up-down/left-right or diagonal-left-up diagonal-right-down/diagonal-right-up diagonal-left down.
If both ends measure the up-down/left-right state then one will get up-down, one left-right. If both measure the diagonal polarization then again they will get complementary results. But if one measures up-down and the other measures diagonal then we cannot tell anything useful any more than trying to compare two sweets where one person says what shape it is and the other says what flavour it is so those results get discarded.
There is additional statistical analysis - due to the fact that these experiments are done on single photons and sometimes detectors fire when there is no photon and sometimes they don't fire when there is so we cannot expect 100% correlation - but that's nothing to do with discarding some of the results.
Basically, they have promised to veto any Article 50 agreement that doesn't continue to allow free travel (with ID) for their citizens to the UK, as is currently the case. Any Article 50 agreement requires a unanamous vote in favour - all 27 remaining countries
This isn't quite correct. An article 50 agreement requires, iirc at least 50% of member states representing at least 66% of the EU population.
However, I think disconnecting access to the free market from freedom of travel does require unanimity. That's an independent rule of the EU IIUC unrelated to article 50.
What isn't obvious at this point is whether the UK can negotiate some (acceptable) restrictions in trade in return for some (acceptable) restrictions in movement.
It may well end up with WTO rules due to the 2 year negotiating period expiring. Britain will then, of course, lose it's passporting rights to the financial markets. Whether the finance industry will have relocated in time is debatable - it probably depends on how early on failure of negotiations becomes apparent.
How does the energy efficiency of this drive compare to a normal rocket?
Utter crap. But what it would give (assuming it works) is freedom from having to carry reaction mass.
But if it works, then it's going to open a whole new world in physics that hasn't been considered up until now - and it's likely to be obsolete within a few years once a theory that explains it comes to light.
(I'm betting on measurement error but hoping for something much more exciting)
Could this allow interstellar travel, by humans, within a normal human lifespan?
In theory yes - provided you can carry enough energy in a small enough mass. But interstellar travel precludes the use of solar energy so it's most likely to be useful in manoeuvring spacecraft around the inner solar system.
What kind of reletavistic effects happen at high speed? I would assume thrust would drop as you approach C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
extremely advantageous tax arrangements in Ireland for Apple were incompatible
FTFY.
The problem is that Ireland didn't even charge Apple it's standard corporation tax rate that other businesses were liable for. That is state aid.
However, you can't claim you're owed past money when Apple wasn't hiding anything.
I don't know about EU law but in the UK this is, indeed the case.
Tax avoidance schemes have to be registered with HMRC. If they are deemed to be invalid then you have to pay the tax that was due.
If you decide to fight it through the courts and the courts find in HMRCs favour then your tax liability is a multiple (greater than or equal to 1) of the tax that you tried to avoid. (plus any legal fees)
There was a very recent case along exactly these lines:
http://www.taxation.co.uk/Arti...
And another that looks like it will go HMRCs way.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...
Was MB ever 1024K? (except for memory)
I didn't ever see/use a 8 inch floppy.
Early 5 1/4 floppy was 40 tracks, 18 sectors/track - 360K. That was 1024 bytes/K
Early 3 1/2 floppy was 80 tracks - 720K.
Double sided - 1.44M (we'd already started confusing multipliers)
At some point the remaining factor of 1024 got dropped - probably when we stopped thinking about heads, tracks, sectors/track. Prior to that the first 1024 was baked into the disk geometry. I don't remember enough detail of the early hard disks to recall whether a 30MB disk was 30000000 bytes or 30720000 bytes.
Be confident in yourself and be confident in your future.
Just try not to be arrogant or entitled.
All of the above are hard to do all the time (unless you're so insecure you're incapable of being arrogant or so arrogant that you're incapable of harbouring doubts about yourself) so forgive others who get it wrong some of the time - and hope that they forgive you.
And if you want to get laid, find something cheap to do that you enjoy doing and that has people of the right sex there that you can talk to and don't hurry things.
I would guess that volunteer groups tend to have a reasonably equal gender balance and if you're doing something that you believe in then you're likely to meet people you can connect with.
Most of my time is already committed (not volunteer work) but if it weren't I'd probably start somewhere like here:
https://volunteerteam.london.g...
Probably something similar in your area of the world.
How the *fuck* did we function during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s without mobile phones
We used to plan.
There would be an agreed meeting point if we got separated (or common sense - go back to the place where we last saw each other)
People would arrive on time. If people hadn't turned up, five minute after the agreed time we'd be off and the latecomers were on their own.
Nowadays, people text five minutes before the agreed time to say they're going to be an hour late[1]. People also assume the most optimistic times for a journey instead of a realistic time.
Late entry into theatres and concerts has, IME, become much more common. 20 years ago there might one one or two couples who were let in in the first break - and you felt sorry for them because obviously there'd been an accident or something else completely unexpected that had delayed them excessively. Now it's dozens of people - often so many that it's not actually possible to seat them all in the few minutes before the second piece starts.
[1] This is the one that really pisses me off. It's taken me an hour to get to our agreed meeting point. I've arrived a good ten minutes early out of courtesy, and then I'm kept waiting around for another hour.
I wrote:
You then wrote
But if you're going to ignore my code and what I said, criticize something I didn't write and then write your own, it perhaps would be better not to try to do pointer arithmetic on void pointers.
I think with modern cards there is only one chip.
But cutting the aerial is enough to disable the RFID features:
http://www.woodall.me.uk/barcl...
I was responding with this in mind:
In an interview situation, without any additional instruction, I would tend to assume "a line of code" is a semicolon delimited statement. Comma operator may, or may not, be allowed. I'd ask.
However, I'm really struggling to get this down to four "reasonable" lines in C.
Here's the best I've got (I've changed the signature to take an unsigned char* to avoid excessive casting in the function.
I think I'd be willing to argue in an interview that this does a memmove in 4 lines of C.
I rather like this solution as it's fairly easy to see that it copies forwards if dest < src and it copies backwards if dest > src.
Even more fun, in their original letter to her they said:
97. The Letter went on to state as follows: "Although this infringement might have
been unintentional, use of an image without a valid license is considered copyright infringement
in violation of the Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code. This copyright law
entitles Alamy to seek compensation for any license infringement."
104. In the "Frequently Asked Questions" section of the Letter, the answer to the
question "What if I didn't know?" includes the following language: "You may have employed a
third party, former worker or intern to design and develop your company's site. However, the
liability of any infringement ultimately falls on the company (the end user) who hired that party,
employee or intern." The answer to the question "What if I simply remove the image?"Â
includes the following language: "While we appreciate the effort of removing the material in
question from your site, we still need compensation. Your company has benefited by using our
imagery without our permission. As the unauthorized use has already occurred, payment for that
benefit is necessary."
Hoist by their own petard.