I want to know how a teenager who hasn't been bitten by a radioactive spider is going to be strong enough to swing from a few strands of silk 100 stories up between buildings on alternate city blocks.
If I develop something capable of winning this prize, I'm productizing it and making Microsoft pay for EULAs for it. That'll net me a lot more than $200k just from them, and more from everyone else.
Having a length parameter limits the length of your strings. As you note, a 1-byte length field is no different from a 1-byte terminator in terms of space.
But a 1-byte length field means you'll have to go through hoops to have a string longer than 256 bytes.
A terminator means you have to go through hoops to escape that character if you need it to appear in the string, but that's a problem you only have to solve once, whereas the length field has to be re-implemented every time someone makes a bigger string.
Water and Iron are not very uncommon. But the number of planets in this solar system that are made of iron and covered in water is...1.
And while oxygen is all over the place, O2 is not. In fact, its rarity is probably why we've got little chance of colonizing other worlds. We could make a dome with some O2 in it, but an entire planet? It would have to start with a CO2 atmosphere and "fertile soil". Or at least a wet medium amenable to algae.
Then Rupert bought it, and, well, there's less evil over on FB. At least, there was. Then the shift from MySpace gave it The Power, and with that came The Corruption.
Google+ will be next. How it turns out depends on when Larry and Sergey stop don't-be-eviling.
But, there are those who say that's already happened.
The whole Blackwater thing was a cash-grab by Cheney and Halliburton (which owned Blackwater), abusing the "sole-source" rules for contract awards. It's one of the reasons PNAC started the war.
And the Blackwater teams weren't good guys, or even bad guys turned good. They were crooks, spoiling for a fight. Their fuckups cost as much as their original contract, and crippled diplomacy, causing even more cost.
Moral: don't use mercs. If you want them to fight for you, conscript them and teach them you mean business about discipline before you let them loose on the battlefield.
Double-down on that for cyber-thugs, who think they're fucking invisible.
And it's still not so much that I would worry about it. I pay multiple times that for interest on my mortgage, and my bank isn't doing fuck-all for me for the money.
I forget the exact number, but it's somewhere between 1200 and 1400 years. Pretty shocking.
His numbers are cute, but we're far more resource-limited than that. Energy is just the one that we're battling because it's controlled by a cartel, giant forces propagandize its economic activity, and we're all scared shitless of having to walk to work, because we know there's no work within walking distance of any part of town we'd be willing to live in.
Yes, IT is holding back the end-users and their iPads.
It's always the end-user's responsibility to safeguard data, whether it's on their iPhone or printed out in their briefcase.
IT, by trying to be in control of everything, insists on disempowering users by refusing to allow them to use any such devices.
It's false security. It costs more than the problem you're trying to prevent. Give the user an encrypted container and show them how to use it and tell them that's where all business data goes.
Enterprise Software is no longer a productivity driver, and bloated IT departments are wasted bureaucracy.
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He's a were-spider?
I want to know how a teenager who hasn't been bitten by a radioactive spider is going to be strong enough to swing from a few strands of silk 100 stories up between buildings on alternate city blocks.
Transgendered person of arachnid origin.
"Politically correct" is what racists say now instead of "mud people".
No, they'll put in multiple switches and call it a Death Panel.
Have, or have not. There is no can has.
And, anything that is coming past Earth towards the moon is going to be lensed into the moon. Earth's gravity is dangerous.
Maybe that's why there are more big craters on this side.
1-2 miles per second doesn't make a crater?
that's 4000-8000 miles per hour.
that's certainly crater-worthy.
If I develop something capable of winning this prize, I'm productizing it and making Microsoft pay for EULAs for it. That'll net me a lot more than $200k just from them, and more from everyone else.
It's not just specious, it's completely stupid.
Having a length parameter limits the length of your strings. As you note, a 1-byte length field is no different from a 1-byte terminator in terms of space.
But a 1-byte length field means you'll have to go through hoops to have a string longer than 256 bytes.
A terminator means you have to go through hoops to escape that character if you need it to appear in the string, but that's a problem you only have to solve once, whereas the length field has to be re-implemented every time someone makes a bigger string.
And carrying a BFG that wasn't available in the original.
Water and Iron are not very uncommon. But the number of planets in this solar system that are made of iron and covered in water is...1.
And while oxygen is all over the place, O2 is not. In fact, its rarity is probably why we've got little chance of colonizing other worlds. We could make a dome with some O2 in it, but an entire planet? It would have to start with a CO2 atmosphere and "fertile soil". Or at least a wet medium amenable to algae.
Facebook isn't out of beta yet.
It always was.
For several years, everyone q00l was on MySpace.
Then Rupert bought it, and, well, there's less evil over on FB. At least, there was. Then the shift from MySpace gave it The Power, and with that came The Corruption.
Google+ will be next. How it turns out depends on when Larry and Sergey stop don't-be-eviling.
But, there are those who say that's already happened.
Take it down or take it over?
Down is easy.
Pwn is NP-hard.
IBM is not, in fact is the antithesis, of who I think of when I think of who might be attending a Black Hat convention.
Seriously. Just who thinks they're all badass and rebellious when they're hiring the Empire to hook up their wi-fi?
Unless we've got resources that are rare. Water, say. Or Iron. Or, it turns out, O2.
I recommend the Lensman books. Demand for Earth's unique resources is a plot point.
Use the expansion itself as the energy source.
No, because that, at least, helps me feel better about your intellectual failures.
The whole Blackwater thing was a cash-grab by Cheney and Halliburton (which owned Blackwater), abusing the "sole-source" rules for contract awards. It's one of the reasons PNAC started the war.
And the Blackwater teams weren't good guys, or even bad guys turned good. They were crooks, spoiling for a fight. Their fuckups cost as much as their original contract, and crippled diplomacy, causing even more cost.
Moral: don't use mercs. If you want them to fight for you, conscript them and teach them you mean business about discipline before you let them loose on the battlefield.
Double-down on that for cyber-thugs, who think they're fucking invisible.
And it's still not so much that I would worry about it. I pay multiple times that for interest on my mortgage, and my bank isn't doing fuck-all for me for the money.
Nobody's ever been given the keys to a company car?
I forget the exact number, but it's somewhere between 1200 and 1400 years. Pretty shocking.
His numbers are cute, but we're far more resource-limited than that. Energy is just the one that we're battling because it's controlled by a cartel, giant forces propagandize its economic activity, and we're all scared shitless of having to walk to work, because we know there's no work within walking distance of any part of town we'd be willing to live in.
Yes, IT is holding back the end-users and their iPads.
It's always the end-user's responsibility to safeguard data, whether it's on their iPhone or printed out in their briefcase.
IT, by trying to be in control of everything, insists on disempowering users by refusing to allow them to use any such devices.
It's false security. It costs more than the problem you're trying to prevent. Give the user an encrypted container and show them how to use it and tell them that's where all business data goes.
Enterprise Software is no longer a productivity driver, and bloated IT departments are wasted bureaucracy.
The judge saw that evidence and allowed it.
The judge would see how this evidence was gathered and order the gatherers arrested.