Another explanation is that intelligent life always emerge as fast as possible. We did it, so did the aliens at Kepler-186f, but light speed makes us unable to detect each others, as we both see the other's activity as it was 400 years ago.
Heartbleed had nothing to do with their malloc replacement (at least not directly [*] ).
I understand that if they had been using libc's malloc, the overflow would have been mitigated on most system by ASLR. Instead of recently used data, you would get a crash.
What is the qualification of the person that took that decision. I suspect once again we hit the problem of pure manager in charge of technical decisions.
The problem with bandwidth management at the DSL router is that you cannot control inbound traffic that gets inside the uplink bottleneck. You would need to control the DSLAM to do it properly.
Replying to myself: I assumed they would cut expenses to feed the shareholders but I was wrong. TFA explains:
Amazon generated a whopping $74.45 billion in revenue for its financial year to 31 December 2013, but just $274 million in net income, a margin of roughly 0.3 percent. It sells Kindles at cost.
Compare this with Google, which saw net income of $12.9 billion on revenues of $59.8 billion for the year to 31 December 2013, a margin on 21.6 percent; or to Microsoft, which posted revenue of $77.9 billion for the year to 30 June, with a net income $21.9 billion, a margin of 28.1 percent
Question is: how do they manage to make shareholders accept that?
When OpenBSD forked from NetBSD, they fixed many bugs, and fixes were backported in NetBSD. Fixing OpenSSL bugs will benefit everyone, if OpenSSL people are reasonable enough to tick the fixes.
Here is more complete coverage (in french, since Ubisoft is a french company and the event was in Paris, but you will manage to translate)
In short, the Ubisoft person responsible for British PR decided to offer tablets to British journalists. No-brits had nothing, which suggests this is indeed an individual move
Please read me carefully. General Interest should be enforced. Cooperation is the way to enforce it, without sacrificing cooperating democracy that can exist in cooperating states.
The world currently operates primarily on competition. Competition between companies, workers and nations. But since there is only a single ecosystem that makes human life sustainable, that means there is a general interest for humankind, and cooperation is needed to enforce it.
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Only two active stem cells. But perhaps there were more inactive (that is, less sensitive to growth factors) stem cells ready to start working?
Are that places closer than a million light year?
Another explanation is that intelligent life always emerge as fast as possible. We did it, so did the aliens at Kepler-186f, but light speed makes us unable to detect each others, as we both see the other's activity as it was 400 years ago.
Is it possible to keep secret a deal with 64000 persons? That should leak.
In Russia, the government controls corporations. In USA, corporations control the government.
Well, perhaps finding things to fix should be the job of static code analyser.
I saw Coverity made progress to detect Heartbleed-like bugs in OpenSSL.
[most of the commits are cosmetics]
In other words, they are making impossible to easily backport their real fixes to the OpenSSL project
Heartbleed had nothing to do with their malloc replacement (at least not directly [*] ).
I understand that if they had been using libc's malloc, the overflow would have been mitigated on most system by ASLR. Instead of recently used data, you would get a crash.
The more these beliefs are discussed and examined, the more they are revealed for what they are.
Sure, but do we need to discuss forever? In France, scientology is officially considered as a sect.
What is the qualification of the person that took that decision. I suspect once again we hit the problem of pure manager in charge of technical decisions.
I do that with vi, find and grep on a collection of plain text files. It works rather well.
I was asking myself the same question: do they really consider that gasoline comes for free from the oil wheel to the car?
Someone will need to read the academic paper to tell us
I have been using an Apple Laserwriter 16/600 for 15 years now. It is obviously the best buy I ever made.
He attacked early. Did he wrote the attack tool himself? Or did he received it from someone else?
The problem with bandwidth management at the DSL router is that you cannot control inbound traffic that gets inside the uplink bottleneck. You would need to control the DSLAM to do it properly.
And how do you explain that you have much more chances to get threatened by a gun in the US than in a western european country?
Le Monde Diplomatique has many international editions, including in english
I am not used to shareholders able to foresee what can happen beyond 3 months.
Replying to myself: I assumed they would cut expenses to feed the shareholders but I was wrong. TFA explains:
Amazon generated a whopping $74.45 billion in revenue for its financial year to 31 December 2013, but just $274 million in net income, a margin of roughly 0.3 percent. It sells Kindles at cost.
Compare this with Google, which saw net income of $12.9 billion on revenues of $59.8 billion for the year to 31 December 2013, a margin on 21.6 percent; or to Microsoft, which posted revenue of $77.9 billion for the year to 30 June, with a net income $21.9 billion, a margin of 28.1 percent
Question is: how do they manage to make shareholders accept that?
And how are they cutting expenses that go on shareholder profits?
When OpenBSD forked from NetBSD, they fixed many bugs, and fixes were backported in NetBSD. Fixing OpenSSL bugs will benefit everyone, if OpenSSL people are reasonable enough to tick the fixes.
Here is more complete coverage (in french, since Ubisoft is a french company and the event was in Paris, but you will manage to translate)
In short, the Ubisoft person responsible for British PR decided to offer tablets to British journalists. No-brits had nothing, which suggests this is indeed an individual move
Please read me carefully. General Interest should be enforced. Cooperation is the way to enforce it, without sacrificing cooperating democracy that can exist in cooperating states.
We have learning techniques for reading and writing that work, just use them. Please stop using our children as guinea pigs for testing new methods!
Cooperation is the key word.
The world currently operates primarily on competition. Competition between companies, workers and nations. But since there is only a single ecosystem that makes human life sustainable, that means there is a general interest for humankind, and cooperation is needed to enforce it.