And of course the whole not being flung up into the air and onto the car is a rather nice side-effect too.
Unless the car/suv keeps on going and drives over you. The authors of the old study found that landing on the hood provided a cushioning effect - not to mention, if the driver didn't see you the first time, he will hopefully see you bouncing off the hood.:)
Whilst that will work, it probably doesn't do what you think.
Hint: dst and src are pointers.
It does exactly what I think it does if they are arrays, but that's not the point. Adding another parameter isn't going to make code that much safer if you're going to rely on the same programmers to "do the right thing" in memcpy_s() when they couldn't be relied on do something safe with the existing function. The only thing this buys you is that it now returns an error if you try to copy too much, which will probably be ignored. But, yes, doing sizeof() for a variable that is a pointer isn't going to return what many newbie programmers want it to do: return the size of the thing at that address.
The place I used to work at 15 years ago created global land cover classification maps based on satellite data. When they started creating their 1km resolution maps, a few GC scientists got pissed since the data broke their climate models. It seems their assumptions of what the land cover was like for different areas of the planet were quite different from observed reality.
If they've been screwing up and using the wrong size for the number of bytes to copy, what's going to stop them from screwing up and putting the wrong size for the size of the destination buffer? Nothing! Now the coders that have been using something like
MIN(sizeof(dst), bytes_to_copy)
for the last parameter for years will have to change their code. Oh well...it's job security for someone.
They were probably OK using that way before someone decided to use Craigslist as a way to find women to kill. Now it's crossed over to becoming a PR/political issue.
Thats the result of the real world becoming more and more replaced by a virtual one, when you have a mobile and can phone all your friends anytime you want, there just isn't much need to talk to your neighbor anymore.
Which is fine until there is something that comes along, disrupts the electronic/virtual world, and none of your friends will be able help you/find out what happened.
Actually, there were a few stories about people using false names/locations to donate to the Obama campaign. IIRC, one newspaper had a website were you could look up who donated & how much. Several different max donations by a "Good, Will" from Austin and not to mention those from Gaza City, GA.
So you don't mind if a bunch of non-Canadians decided to dump a bunch of money on your candidates? Or lots of people from your large provinces funneling money to candidates in the smaller ones?
Interesting. They found the exact opposite: higher the bumper & impact site, the more violent the rotation of the body and the impacts more severe. Maybe the materials/designs used today deforms better, and doesn't spring back, allowing some of the impact energy to be absorbed by the car.
That depends if your state allows people to take road kill game animals home after they hit them. I'd want the animal dead, not hobbling off into the woods/pasture to die sometime later.
I don't mind the right of way concept that much at the crosswalk. Drivers should expect to look out for vehicles turning from other directions and people using the crosswalks like they are supposed to be used. It's the jackasses that walk out into the street in the middle of the block. Sometimes it seems like they want to get hit.
I did see the result of a dump truck meeting one of these jaywalkers. The truck kept going and the jackass was left twitching in the street...the gene pool became just a little bit cleaner.
Earlier I had posted a link to an old Australian study about the effects of bull-bars on hitting pedestrians and it mentioned that low bumpers were better for pedestrian safety. Hoods/bonnets that were flexible w/o sharp leading edges were also mentioned as a way to reduce injuries. The study was done in 1980, so manufacturers were apparently implementing some of these features as far back as the 1970s.
In Australia, some cars have bull-bar/roo-bars as a factory installed option. There are enough of them fitted with these devices that someone decided to study the "effect of bull-bars on vehicle-pedestrian collision dynamics". I know you can get them here for pickups, but I wouldn't mind one on my car for those pesky deer.
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If one is collecting funds via the campaign website, how can you be certain that #1 is being followed and not open up the donors & their financial accounts to identity thieves? Are you going to restrict donations to the boundaries over which the office has jurisdiction too?
Yeah. Paying contractors to put up housing, cook, and do lots of other crap that low paid military personnel used to do may sound OK as a way to make sure that the number of trigger pullers is a high percentage, but it doesn't help reduce overall costs when the contractors have to fork over lots of cash to get people to work in a war zone. Not to mention the potential security breaches by contractors hiring locals. But it does give politicians cover for providing a low head count of military personnel being sent to a location or being killed while doing the job. The contractors get lumped in with the other civilian casualties.
bookended by two recessions so any job losses and GDP reductions would not count for being 'on his watch'. Clinton was very lucky in that respect. The high home ownership yardstick is unfortunately what helped the current mess occur. That form of measurement doesn't factor in whether or not those people can afford the payments on their homes. Clinton encouraged less strict loan requirements in order to pump those numbers up and Bush continued that trend, which finally blew up after 10+ years.
Unfortunately, it seems that's what special prosecutors do: get someone to lie under oath during the investigation of suspected breaking of law XYZ, regardless of whether law XYZ was ever broken or if the lie had anything to do with it. That's how Libby was convicted.
Well, he could have not spent the remaining TARP funds, threaten to veto the FY09 spending bills unless the increases were taken out, and a demanded a stimulus package that would have the majority of the impact in FY09 instead of FY10 and later, not to mention his own horrendous budget....
There was a story not too long ago about how 20-30% of what Medicare/Medicaid pays out is due to fraud. That's a hell of a lot more than this 2 penny error!
Don't forget about the Congress-critters that want a part of the work to be done in their district. We spend about 4% of our GDP on defense (compared to the world average of 2%) and it makes you wonder how much of that is getting eaten up by standard bureaucratic waste.
I'm sure there are other ways for the companies to try to get around paying. The most drastic of course would be to move out of the US. IIRC, Microsoft threatened to move to British Columbia a few years ago over something like this.
If the Feds simplified the tax code, it would be easier to comply and enforce. If it was reduced, the companies wouldn't have to do stupid things like this as one of the ways to remain competitive. At $21B/year, this isn't a lot compared to the rest of the budget. If it was actually collected, Congress would probably squander it on more stupid shit....Medicare/Medicaid wastes more on fraudulent claims.
If the govt controls the production and taxation, then you would still have the various law enforcement agencies cracking down on people growing it illegally, just like they do with people who produce & sell alcohol & tobacco products illegally.
No, they can just hire people from the surrounding universities. They most often leave those states to find employment in their field and would be happy to stay (or move back).
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Unless the car/suv keeps on going and drives over you. The authors of the old study found that landing on the hood provided a cushioning effect - not to mention, if the driver didn't see you the first time, he will hopefully see you bouncing off the hood. :)
It does exactly what I think it does if they are arrays, but that's not the point. Adding another parameter isn't going to make code that much safer if you're going to rely on the same programmers to "do the right thing" in memcpy_s() when they couldn't be relied on do something safe with the existing function. The only thing this buys you is that it now returns an error if you try to copy too much, which will probably be ignored. But, yes, doing sizeof() for a variable that is a pointer isn't going to return what many newbie programmers want it to do: return the size of the thing at that address.
The place I used to work at 15 years ago created global land cover classification maps based on satellite data. When they started creating their 1km resolution maps, a few GC scientists got pissed since the data broke their climate models. It seems their assumptions of what the land cover was like for different areas of the planet were quite different from observed reality.
instead of
If they've been screwing up and using the wrong size for the number of bytes to copy, what's going to stop them from screwing up and putting the wrong size for the size of the destination buffer? Nothing! Now the coders that have been using something like
for the last parameter for years will have to change their code. Oh well...it's job security for someone.
They were probably OK using that way before someone decided to use Craigslist as a way to find women to kill. Now it's crossed over to becoming a PR/political issue.
Which is fine until there is something that comes along, disrupts the electronic/virtual world, and none of your friends will be able help you/find out what happened.
Actually, there were a few stories about people using false names/locations to donate to the Obama campaign. IIRC, one newspaper had a website were you could look up who donated & how much. Several different max donations by a "Good, Will" from Austin and not to mention those from Gaza City, GA.
So you don't mind if a bunch of non-Canadians decided to dump a bunch of money on your candidates? Or lots of people from your large provinces funneling money to candidates in the smaller ones?
Interesting. They found the exact opposite: higher the bumper & impact site, the more violent the rotation of the body and the impacts more severe. Maybe the materials/designs used today deforms better, and doesn't spring back, allowing some of the impact energy to be absorbed by the car.
That depends if your state allows people to take road kill game animals home after they hit them. I'd want the animal dead, not hobbling off into the woods/pasture to die sometime later.
I don't mind the right of way concept that much at the crosswalk. Drivers should expect to look out for vehicles turning from other directions and people using the crosswalks like they are supposed to be used. It's the jackasses that walk out into the street in the middle of the block. Sometimes it seems like they want to get hit.
I did see the result of a dump truck meeting one of these jaywalkers. The truck kept going and the jackass was left twitching in the street...the gene pool became just a little bit cleaner.
The hood will flex when you land on it and absorb some of the energy of the impact. The glass windshield won't.
Earlier I had posted a link to an old Australian study about the effects of bull-bars on hitting pedestrians and it mentioned that low bumpers were better for pedestrian safety. Hoods/bonnets that were flexible w/o sharp leading edges were also mentioned as a way to reduce injuries. The study was done in 1980, so manufacturers were apparently implementing some of these features as far back as the 1970s.
In Australia, some cars have bull-bar/roo-bars as a factory installed option. There are enough of them fitted with these devices that someone decided to study the "effect of bull-bars on vehicle-pedestrian collision dynamics". I know you can get them here for pickups, but I wouldn't mind one on my car for those pesky deer.
They've been around for a while
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If one is collecting funds via the campaign website, how can you be certain that #1 is being followed and not open up the donors & their financial accounts to identity thieves? Are you going to restrict donations to the boundaries over which the office has jurisdiction too?
Yeah. Paying contractors to put up housing, cook, and do lots of other crap that low paid military personnel used to do may sound OK as a way to make sure that the number of trigger pullers is a high percentage, but it doesn't help reduce overall costs when the contractors have to fork over lots of cash to get people to work in a war zone. Not to mention the potential security breaches by contractors hiring locals. But it does give politicians cover for providing a low head count of military personnel being sent to a location or being killed while doing the job. The contractors get lumped in with the other civilian casualties.
bookended by two recessions so any job losses and GDP reductions would not count for being 'on his watch'. Clinton was very lucky in that respect. The high home ownership yardstick is unfortunately what helped the current mess occur. That form of measurement doesn't factor in whether or not those people can afford the payments on their homes. Clinton encouraged less strict loan requirements in order to pump those numbers up and Bush continued that trend, which finally blew up after 10+ years.
Unfortunately, it seems that's what special prosecutors do: get someone to lie under oath during the investigation of suspected breaking of law XYZ, regardless of whether law XYZ was ever broken or if the lie had anything to do with it. That's how Libby was convicted.
Well, he could have not spent the remaining TARP funds, threaten to veto the FY09 spending bills unless the increases were taken out, and a demanded a stimulus package that would have the majority of the impact in FY09 instead of FY10 and later, not to mention his own horrendous budget....
There was a story not too long ago about how 20-30% of what Medicare/Medicaid pays out is due to fraud. That's a hell of a lot more than this 2 penny error!
Don't forget about the Congress-critters that want a part of the work to be done in their district. We spend about 4% of our GDP on defense (compared to the world average of 2%) and it makes you wonder how much of that is getting eaten up by standard bureaucratic waste.
Now you know why they mentioned that the goats were cuter.
I'm sure there are other ways for the companies to try to get around paying. The most drastic of course would be to move out of the US. IIRC, Microsoft threatened to move to British Columbia a few years ago over something like this.
If the Feds simplified the tax code, it would be easier to comply and enforce. If it was reduced, the companies wouldn't have to do stupid things like this as one of the ways to remain competitive. At $21B/year, this isn't a lot compared to the rest of the budget. If it was actually collected, Congress would probably squander it on more stupid shit....Medicare/Medicaid wastes more on fraudulent claims.
If the govt controls the production and taxation, then you would still have the various law enforcement agencies cracking down on people growing it illegally, just like they do with people who produce & sell alcohol & tobacco products illegally.
No, they can just hire people from the surrounding universities. They most often leave those states to find employment in their field and would be happy to stay (or move back).