I found "Thinking in C++" to be quite useful for answering my specific questions about the minutae of C++. I always recommend it as the second book you should have on C++, after you've learned a bit of the language.
In light of that, I picked up a copy of "Thinking in Java", and whoo boy! I thought the Java people always derided C++ as a crufty graft upon C and that Java was designed from scracth to be a lot cleaner. So I fail to understand why "Thinking in Java" is 50% larger and 50% more unreadable that the C++ volume. WTF?
I told my managers about that exhaust port being a vulerability. My group did extensive simulations showing that a small, one-man fighter had a 0.0016% chance of getting close enough to launch a radiation missle down the port, triggering a chain reaction in the main reactors. When I threated to go to the GAO, they took the whole team off the project and put us on designing improved Bantha saddles. When I tried to tell my story to "Sixty Parsecs" Lord Vader himself saw to it that I was transferred to the cloud mines of Bespin.
$2000?! You could buy a pretty good laptop for that! I guess we see where Woz's priorities are these days. Apparently it's very important that he really know what the correct time is!
So, if, say, somebody was using FF with adblock, do the blocked elements get counted as viewed on the server? Wouldn't that give advertisers the mistaken impression that they've made, well and impression? Wouldn't this erroneously skew their statistics? If so, is that a good thing or a bad thing for consumers?
"Jeffrey Dean was convicted early '90s of 23 counts of computer-aided embezzlement. He was a computer consultant for a large Seattle law firm and defrauded them of about $450,000 in what US courts called a "sophisticated computer-aided scheme". In a statement to Seattle PD, he claimed he needed the money because Canadians were blackmailing him; in that country, he'd gotten into a fistfight and the other guy had died. (Yes, I've seen the police report.)"
Ok, aside from being a convicted felon who comitted the very kind of crimes one should be worried about someone pulling in this situation... Usually, rational people being duly diligent about security would not trust someone who had anything in their background that would make them succeptible to BLACKMAIL.
This is some sort of goddamned perverse JOKE, RIGHT?!!!
"requirement that suppliers place in escrow 'all software that is relevant to functionality, setup, configuration, and operation of the voting system,' "
It is my understanding that this is a fairly common requirement for government contracts involving software. Diebold should have been aware of such requirements before competing for the contract. I mean, when the government's actually being responible and not just handing out plums to favored campaign contributors.
Hell, they're probably not even going to audit the code. They just want to protect themselves if Diebold goes out of business, or loses the contract on re-bid or something. I mean, sure, they can potentially audit the code, but I haven't heard of such a thing ever happening. It's about support and fixin' bugs an shit.
New Coke was a ploy to change the formulation of "classic" Coke from wholsome cane sugar to high-fructose corn syrup. If they had just directly changed the formula without the intermediate New Coke step, people would have noticed the difference immediately.
That's how the guy selling "random numbers" got into trouble in "His Master's Voice" (I have my suspicions about whether pothead Carl had read this before writng "Contact".)
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"Impossibly negligent" --> malfeasance ?
"This even roots my computar, suckwit."
My Ipod's full, I can't buy any more music!
oh, was that in bad taste?
Somebody should found a religion like that. I'd join.
In light of that, I picked up a copy of "Thinking in Java", and whoo boy! I thought the Java people always derided C++ as a crufty graft upon C and that Java was designed from scracth to be a lot cleaner. So I fail to understand why "Thinking in Java" is 50% larger and 50% more unreadable that the C++ volume. WTF?
"Good ol' Grimey. Whatever happened to him?
I told my managers about that exhaust port being a vulerability. My group did extensive simulations showing that a small, one-man fighter had a 0.0016% chance of getting close enough to launch a radiation missle down the port, triggering a chain reaction in the main reactors. When I threated to go to the GAO, they took the whole team off the project and put us on designing improved Bantha saddles. When I tried to tell my story to "Sixty Parsecs" Lord Vader himself saw to it that I was transferred to the cloud mines of Bespin.
$2000?! You could buy a pretty good laptop for that! I guess we see where Woz's priorities are these days. Apparently it's very important that he really know what the correct time is!
How am I supposed to smuggle jokes for Mike into the computer complex if you instate a policy like that?!!!
Holy crap weirdbeard, thanks for the passing reference, I had never heard of that before! Next time, be nice a post a link.
Floppy RAID is still the most perverse such hack.
Laptop?! I think they'd get more use out of a llama!
Sorry mate, but I've paid off the USPO to re-route any remittances there to my address. I guess you could always put in a counter-offer, though.
What about popup blocking?
AHAHAHAHA! GRABOULOUS!
Ok, aside from being a convicted felon who comitted the very kind of crimes one should be worried about someone pulling in this situation... Usually, rational people being duly diligent about security would not trust someone who had anything in their background that would make them succeptible to BLACKMAIL.
This is some sort of goddamned perverse JOKE, RIGHT?!!!
It is my understanding that this is a fairly common requirement for government contracts involving software. Diebold should have been aware of such requirements before competing for the contract. I mean, when the government's actually being responible and not just handing out plums to favored campaign contributors.
Hell, they're probably not even going to audit the code. They just want to protect themselves if Diebold goes out of business, or loses the contract on re-bid or something. I mean, sure, they can potentially audit the code, but I haven't heard of such a thing ever happening. It's about support and fixin' bugs an shit.
Poor Harry. Poor, poor Harry.
Not to be confused with Black Thursday.
Then started the epedemic of teen obesity.
At least that's what THEY want you to think...
Strongbad's been doing just fine with his Lappy 486. I wonder what he runs on it?
SUN : The signal is the alien.
Do von Neumann machines suffer from buffer overruns?
STFU, carbonoid!