This doesn't seem to be a fundamental problem with ASLR, at least. Things could be patched to prevent something from filling up memory like that, I assume.
I ended up pirating the entire catalog of D&D products because I couldn't find the AD&D 2nd Edition books for sale in either print or PDF form. So at least in my case, not printing them in the first place lead to piracy. Hopefully more companies get with the program.
For me, the best solution has been to just make sure I'm operating in a well-lit room. Doesn't have to be full on halogen lights or anything, but a simple stand lamp somewhere behind you is great. Just turn the brightness down a bit on your monitor, if needed, and that should do it.
What I can't do anymore is use darker color schemes like green text on black, especially in a dark room. It's fine sometimes, but the moment you open google or something, the contrast is too much.
Email, mostly. It's much easier to type out an email message (or text, for that matter) on a physical keyboard than on a touchscreen. For me, that's a really big deal.
There's also an argument to be made about the Blackberry feeling more "industrial" or "professional" than iPhones or Androids. I don't particularly care about being able to play games or watch Netflix on my phone because I use my phone for business and for placing calls. I imagine I'm in the minority on that one though, because it seems like many people today view their phone as some all-in-one gaming machine that happens to make phone calls as well.
Personally, I can't wait to be able to ditch my Android and get back to a half-screen-half-keyboard Blackberry, provided the phone is responsive and the battery life is decent.
I could actually see DDOS being considered legal. The problem that groups like anonymous would run into is their ability to execute a DDOS attack without first infecting enough machines with their malware to form a large botnet. That's the hurdle they will face, but something tells me the "hackers" themselves don't have the proper bandwidth at their homes to do any sort of meaningful DDOS as a single host. I'd say they are welcome to try though.
Just like ComDex, CES is becoming irrelevant due to the internet. The whole point of trade shows was always to get the reporters and salesman in front of new products and (hopefully) generate some positive press leading to consumer demand. Once the internet started to go big, and magazine reviews weren't quite as necessary for product exposure, the tradeshows tried to almost evolve into entertainment expos.
The final nail in the coffin has been when individual studios or manufacturers get enough industry cloud to host their own tradeshow, which just fractures the already weakened idea.
CES reminds me a lot of Kodak and Polaroid and other older businesses that have chosen to brute force their way into the future, rather than change their models to fit it. It never works out.
I don't want anything but basic drivers to get bundled with the kernel. Graphics drivers are some of the most important to keep up to date, if you care about performance, so I'll just be upgrading anything the kernel has anyway.
I want the burden to be placed on the hardware dev's precisely because it's their hardware, and I know the Linux kernel will never stay up to date with it.
The 3d driver situation on Linux needs to be addressed. Something along the lines of having up to date drivers in the basic repositories would be ideal, but even just having a download option on the vendor site would suffice.
I'm no planetary scientist, but I'd imagine this would depend greatly on the atmospheric composition at the time. If it was thick enough, liquid water should have been possible, especially with methane added to the mix.
If you can't explain to him why your code is so much better than his, and your argument boils down to something like "it just is" or "it's common sense" or something, then your method may not be nearly as great as you think. Your example of "Do you see how much better this function is when written this way" means nothing if you can't actually elaborate on why it's much better. Is it simply easier for you to read? Is it more efficient? Is it more secure?
A better approach would be to simply ask him why he codes the way he does. Bring up a particularly "bad" example of his work and just ask him about it. Maybe there's actually a reason you hadn't considered before. Or maybe he'll tell you why, and you can constructively offer an alternative method to see what he thinks. It's very possible he's just stuck in his old ways of coding, which is a situation you'll probably find yourself in sooner or later, but it's also possible there's a reason. Simply accusing him of bad coding practices means you'll never know.
Exactly. It's generally not a great idea to criticize people at the same "level" as you, only below. If the code is truly awful, and goes against the established code standards for your company (you have some right?), then bring it up to a manager and let them deal with it. Otherwise, you'll just cause a lot more problems than you'll solve, personally and professionally.
The CEO needs to be let go. It should have happened a long time ago, but I can't see them letting him off the hook yet again. He has literally done nothing positive for the company since he took over.
This is why sending robots to Mars, while scientifically interesting, doesn't really help rally the nation. Do you think sending a rover to the moon instead of an astronaut would have created the same excitement and motivation? How far behind would we be with technology had that excitement not lead to all kinds of collateral innovations along the way?
Set a vision for sending a team of scientists and engineers to Mars, within 10 years, with the goal of setting up a basic outpost. Nothing huge or complex, just some FEMA-type structures large enough for storage and manufacturing. Mars has a ton of iron, so there's little reason a foundry couldn't be setup up there.
Stop porting over console games, and start designing them for PC's from the ground up again. As much as it's nice not really ever having to upgrade my video card due to dev's targeting 8 year old console spec's, it's been a real bottleneck for actual innovation. It's not even the graphics that are suffering so much, but the design as well, due to memory limitations.
And none of the examples you linked have anything to do with the crap the OP mentioned.
There are legitimate arguments to be made for the abuse of sex offender charges, but spouting out pure hyperbole like "scratching yourself in front of a cop" isn't really helping the case any. That was my point, and the one everyone seems quick to denounce, comically enough.
None of those say anything new, and certainly nothing related to what the OP mentioned. The closest is the public urination thing but, as I mentioned elsewhere, peeing in a thick forest off an interstate is hardly "public urination." All of those articles you linked (and pretty much all of the related offenses) have to do with peeing in public, hence the name. Taking a piss on a sidewalk, or in someone's front yard. Or maybe in a stairwell somewhere.
Not in 20 yards into a thick forest on an interstate. That's basically camping.
Part of the issue is that, unlike bank robbers or most other criminals, sex offenders (not talking the unlucky people who are just technically charged) tend to have actual psychological issues at the heart of their problems. Maybe a dad or priest molested them as a kid or something. Point is, the concept of rehabilitation for an actual sex offender isn't cut and dry. A lot of sex offenders that have "successfully" lived a post-offense life say the same things about rehabilitation. Namely, that the urges never go away, but the self control improves enough to mitigate them.
The problems are psychological in almost all cases, and treatment is more in line with that of a drug addict than a criminal. Look at AA folks, for example. Part of their whole motto is that there are no former alcoholics; only those that can manage the addiction. Sex offense is much the same.
Anyway, as I said before, I'm not talking about the guys (or girls) who get hit with a technicality or other really dubious circumstances. Stuff like date rape accusations kind of bother me due to the sheer number of false chargers as a result of the girl simply deciding after the fact that it was not a good idea, or that claiming rape would be easier to explain to her parents than the truth. Stuff like that freaks me out, but it's not the heart of my argument.
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This doesn't seem to be a fundamental problem with ASLR, at least. Things could be patched to prevent something from filling up memory like that, I assume.
This appears to be a 32-bit exploit, at least as tested.
I ended up pirating the entire catalog of D&D products because I couldn't find the AD&D 2nd Edition books for sale in either print or PDF form. So at least in my case, not printing them in the first place lead to piracy. Hopefully more companies get with the program.
For me, the best solution has been to just make sure I'm operating in a well-lit room. Doesn't have to be full on halogen lights or anything, but a simple stand lamp somewhere behind you is great. Just turn the brightness down a bit on your monitor, if needed, and that should do it.
What I can't do anymore is use darker color schemes like green text on black, especially in a dark room. It's fine sometimes, but the moment you open google or something, the contrast is too much.
You completely missed the point of my response...
Why would I buy an iPhone just to be able to get a case that acts like a keyboard, when I could just buy a Blackberry?
Email, mostly. It's much easier to type out an email message (or text, for that matter) on a physical keyboard than on a touchscreen. For me, that's a really big deal.
There's also an argument to be made about the Blackberry feeling more "industrial" or "professional" than iPhones or Androids. I don't particularly care about being able to play games or watch Netflix on my phone because I use my phone for business and for placing calls. I imagine I'm in the minority on that one though, because it seems like many people today view their phone as some all-in-one gaming machine that happens to make phone calls as well.
Personally, I can't wait to be able to ditch my Android and get back to a half-screen-half-keyboard Blackberry, provided the phone is responsive and the battery life is decent.
I've always thought dogs did a really great job of that.
I could actually see DDOS being considered legal. The problem that groups like anonymous would run into is their ability to execute a DDOS attack without first infecting enough machines with their malware to form a large botnet. That's the hurdle they will face, but something tells me the "hackers" themselves don't have the proper bandwidth at their homes to do any sort of meaningful DDOS as a single host. I'd say they are welcome to try though.
At first, I thought it was cool. Some classic story of a young kid defying odds in his back yard, or whatever.
Then I realized he's a kid with access to a lot of resources and an observatory... not nearly as impressive.
Which is probably why the OS has never had very good gaming support.
Just like ComDex, CES is becoming irrelevant due to the internet. The whole point of trade shows was always to get the reporters and salesman in front of new products and (hopefully) generate some positive press leading to consumer demand. Once the internet started to go big, and magazine reviews weren't quite as necessary for product exposure, the tradeshows tried to almost evolve into entertainment expos.
The final nail in the coffin has been when individual studios or manufacturers get enough industry cloud to host their own tradeshow, which just fractures the already weakened idea.
CES reminds me a lot of Kodak and Polaroid and other older businesses that have chosen to brute force their way into the future, rather than change their models to fit it. It never works out.
I don't want anything but basic drivers to get bundled with the kernel. Graphics drivers are some of the most important to keep up to date, if you care about performance, so I'll just be upgrading anything the kernel has anyway.
I want the burden to be placed on the hardware dev's precisely because it's their hardware, and I know the Linux kernel will never stay up to date with it.
The 3d driver situation on Linux needs to be addressed. Something along the lines of having up to date drivers in the basic repositories would be ideal, but even just having a download option on the vendor site would suffice.
I'm no planetary scientist, but I'd imagine this would depend greatly on the atmospheric composition at the time. If it was thick enough, liquid water should have been possible, especially with methane added to the mix.
If you can't explain to him why your code is so much better than his, and your argument boils down to something like "it just is" or "it's common sense" or something, then your method may not be nearly as great as you think. Your example of "Do you see how much better this function is when written this way" means nothing if you can't actually elaborate on why it's much better. Is it simply easier for you to read? Is it more efficient? Is it more secure?
A better approach would be to simply ask him why he codes the way he does. Bring up a particularly "bad" example of his work and just ask him about it. Maybe there's actually a reason you hadn't considered before. Or maybe he'll tell you why, and you can constructively offer an alternative method to see what he thinks. It's very possible he's just stuck in his old ways of coding, which is a situation you'll probably find yourself in sooner or later, but it's also possible there's a reason. Simply accusing him of bad coding practices means you'll never know.
Exactly. It's generally not a great idea to criticize people at the same "level" as you, only below. If the code is truly awful, and goes against the established code standards for your company (you have some right?), then bring it up to a manager and let them deal with it. Otherwise, you'll just cause a lot more problems than you'll solve, personally and professionally.
The CEO needs to be let go. It should have happened a long time ago, but I can't see them letting him off the hook yet again. He has literally done nothing positive for the company since he took over.
This is why sending robots to Mars, while scientifically interesting, doesn't really help rally the nation. Do you think sending a rover to the moon instead of an astronaut would have created the same excitement and motivation? How far behind would we be with technology had that excitement not lead to all kinds of collateral innovations along the way?
Set a vision for sending a team of scientists and engineers to Mars, within 10 years, with the goal of setting up a basic outpost. Nothing huge or complex, just some FEMA-type structures large enough for storage and manufacturing. Mars has a ton of iron, so there's little reason a foundry couldn't be setup up there.
Stop porting over console games, and start designing them for PC's from the ground up again. As much as it's nice not really ever having to upgrade my video card due to dev's targeting 8 year old console spec's, it's been a real bottleneck for actual innovation. It's not even the graphics that are suffering so much, but the design as well, due to memory limitations.
This reminds me of an urban legend (or maybe I just watched it on Fox) about some guys basically stinging their penis with bee's to make it swell up.
they do nothing to Apple and their rounded corners?
And none of the examples you linked have anything to do with the crap the OP mentioned.
There are legitimate arguments to be made for the abuse of sex offender charges, but spouting out pure hyperbole like "scratching yourself in front of a cop" isn't really helping the case any. That was my point, and the one everyone seems quick to denounce, comically enough.
None of those say anything new, and certainly nothing related to what the OP mentioned. The closest is the public urination thing but, as I mentioned elsewhere, peeing in a thick forest off an interstate is hardly "public urination." All of those articles you linked (and pretty much all of the related offenses) have to do with peeing in public, hence the name. Taking a piss on a sidewalk, or in someone's front yard. Or maybe in a stairwell somewhere.
Not in 20 yards into a thick forest on an interstate. That's basically camping.
Part of the issue is that, unlike bank robbers or most other criminals, sex offenders (not talking the unlucky people who are just technically charged) tend to have actual psychological issues at the heart of their problems. Maybe a dad or priest molested them as a kid or something. Point is, the concept of rehabilitation for an actual sex offender isn't cut and dry. A lot of sex offenders that have "successfully" lived a post-offense life say the same things about rehabilitation. Namely, that the urges never go away, but the self control improves enough to mitigate them.
The problems are psychological in almost all cases, and treatment is more in line with that of a drug addict than a criminal. Look at AA folks, for example. Part of their whole motto is that there are no former alcoholics; only those that can manage the addiction. Sex offense is much the same.
Anyway, as I said before, I'm not talking about the guys (or girls) who get hit with a technicality or other really dubious circumstances. Stuff like date rape accusations kind of bother me due to the sheer number of false chargers as a result of the girl simply deciding after the fact that it was not a good idea, or that claiming rape would be easier to explain to her parents than the truth. Stuff like that freaks me out, but it's not the heart of my argument.