There's 100s of companies that'll help you review your credit reports (judging by the spam) to keep your data square. I would RATHER that the private sector correlates the data, because that way I know I have a say in it's collection, and that it's being done right.
Everything I've ever heard about credit reports says that if the data about you is wrong, it will be next to impossible to clear away the errors. I think you're being very naive.
While it is correct that malloc does not guarantee that the memory will be cleared (even on Unix, it will contain random junk), it is still unacceptable that the OS leaks data from one application to the next. In Unix, if you find junk in a malloc'ed segment, it can only come from the application itself (previously allocated, used, and then freed memory), never from another app.
Not necessarily -- it is feasible that process A has allocated some pages of physical memory and then A stops running. Process B then allocates some memory and is given those same physical pages. Unless I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how virtual memory systems work, there is no guarantee that those pages get cleared.
Of course, if you care about security then you would want that memory zeroed. But that would be up to the kernel implementer. Apparently, the behavior of brk is not really consistent across the different standards (BSD, POSIX,...)
That's what I keep hearing these days about software, music and movies, but who is providing replacement media for only the cost of the materials when someone loses and/or breaks his? No one.
Proportional fonts for code look good if done right, like Stroustrup did (note how he used a monospaced font for operators). For an example of it looking horrible, see the code examples in Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Computer Networks.
That reminds me of a game I was playing the other night: Grand Theft Auto III for the PC. The graphics aren't horrible, but they leave a lot to be desired. It's one of those games where the leaves of the trees are just two textured planes perpendicular to each other. I thought they stopped doing that years ago.
Equating copyright violations with theft stems from the side effect that the copyright violation has in the mind of the big-business copyright owner: copyrights are property rights and it is theft because copyright entitles the owner to sales. The side effect is that those sales do not occur when people clone copyrighted things and freely distribute them, whether they were intending to buy them or not.
I do not agree with this thinking because I think most people use MP3s as a way of sampling and that they purchase what they want, but I do believe that it is this thinking that rationalizes "copyright violation equals theft."
The unfortunate thing is that the decline in music sales coincided with the proliferation of online file trading, so obviously it is an uphill battle for people who don't like the big media companies. What other conclusion were they going to come to?
If you think about sorting it should be pretty clear that O(n log n) is best you can get if you have no information about the data and it's uniformly distributed.
Sort of -- the information theory lower bound states that you cannot go faster than Omega(n log n) with a comparison-based sort. Note that "Big-Oh" notation is for stating upper bounds on function growth, not lower ones.
Your quote above is correct, but should be more clearly stated as "...Theta(n log n)" or "Omega(n log n)" because both imply lower bounds, whereas "Big-Oh" does not.
The important point is not that it costs nothing, it's that as long as it's licensed under the GPL, you are free to make changes to it as you see fit and redistribute those changes. In turn, you give others the same freedoms.
Stallman certainly has his detractors, but I think we owe him a huge debt for making this valuable point. Money is not the issue at all; freedom is. Too many people think the greatest thing about Linux is that it can be had for only the cost of the CD or download, but that misses the big picture.
Microsoft always tries to misconstrue the GPL as a license that does not allow them to make any money, but they are perfectly within their rights to license some of their software under the GPL and sell it. What they conveniently fail to mention is that they loathe the idea of releasing their source code, and that is why they hate the GPL. That is my theory.
Even though a pro-spam business might argue that point, it would be pure nonsense. In fact, by fighting spam, you are, in a sense, doing what the television executive was doing: you are telling people who use your resources (or resources you pay for) without compensation to stop doing so.
I still think that the television executive's claim is quite a stretch, because no one signs a contract to watch TV, and also because television is broadcast, whereas spammers target us personally. However, a spammer might claim that by allowing your email address to be viewed openly on the Internet, you have effectively "broadcast" it out.
Those are just some thoughts I had. I'm still at the conclusion that avoiding commercials is not stealing and spamming is.
hate the word "hella"? I don't even know where this came from; it seemed like suddenly right around 1998 everyone I knew was using it. That stupid word needs to be forgotten.
I'd say that right now it's because of bandwidth limitations and because, for some reason, music and flim studios seem to flip out over digital copying, but don't seem to care about analog (probably because they know that digital is the future and analog will be phased out). The movie world is still very much about VHS and analog projection.
Not to mention that the talk about promoting broadband via these legislative measures is all smokescreen bullshit anyway. If we all agree to the bill, we will definitely trade in our rights. On the other hand, there is no guarantee that Hollingswood will provide content to be downloaded at a reasonable price.
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Everything I've ever heard about credit reports says that if the data about you is wrong, it will be next to impossible to clear away the errors. I think you're being very naive.
Not necessarily -- it is feasible that process A has allocated some pages of physical memory and then A stops running. Process B then allocates some memory and is given those same physical pages. Unless I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how virtual memory systems work, there is no guarantee that those pages get cleared.
Of course, if you care about security then you would want that memory zeroed. But that would be up to the kernel implementer. Apparently, the behavior of brk is not really consistent across the different standards (BSD, POSIX, ...)
You should read the book Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Average people have a lot of interesting things to say.
Not to mention that Bush is under fire for cutting taxes!
That's what I keep hearing these days about software, music and movies, but who is providing replacement media for only the cost of the materials when someone loses and/or breaks his? No one.
Me too!
Proportional fonts for code look good if done right, like Stroustrup did (note how he used a monospaced font for operators). For an example of it looking horrible, see the code examples in Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Computer Networks.
That reminds me of a game I was playing the other night: Grand Theft Auto III for the PC. The graphics aren't horrible, but they leave a lot to be desired. It's one of those games where the leaves of the trees are just two textured planes perpendicular to each other. I thought they stopped doing that years ago.
Heh...next thing you know, a bunch of slashdot nerds will go help him out by "munging" his house for him...
I do not agree with this thinking because I think most people use MP3s as a way of sampling and that they purchase what they want, but I do believe that it is this thinking that rationalizes "copyright violation equals theft."
The unfortunate thing is that the decline in music sales coincided with the proliferation of online file trading, so obviously it is an uphill battle for people who don't like the big media companies. What other conclusion were they going to come to?
...that's when Palladium takes over.
Sort of -- the information theory lower bound states that you cannot go faster than Omega(n log n) with a comparison-based sort. Note that "Big-Oh" notation is for stating upper bounds on function growth, not lower ones.
Your quote above is correct, but should be more clearly stated as "...Theta(n log n)" or "Omega(n log n)" because both imply lower bounds, whereas "Big-Oh" does not.
The important point is not that it costs nothing, it's that as long as it's licensed under the GPL, you are free to make changes to it as you see fit and redistribute those changes. In turn, you give others the same freedoms.
Stallman certainly has his detractors, but I think we owe him a huge debt for making this valuable point. Money is not the issue at all; freedom is. Too many people think the greatest thing about Linux is that it can be had for only the cost of the CD or download, but that misses the big picture.
Microsoft always tries to misconstrue the GPL as a license that does not allow them to make any money, but they are perfectly within their rights to license some of their software under the GPL and sell it. What they conveniently fail to mention is that they loathe the idea of releasing their source code, and that is why they hate the GPL. That is my theory.
And how can something with a density only 1/100 of our Sun be called super-massive?
:)
It's just not super-dense!
Me too!
Amen, they are ALL corporate whores when the price is right.
What happened to all those people who were slamming single sign-on a few days ago?
I still think that the television executive's claim is quite a stretch, because no one signs a contract to watch TV, and also because television is broadcast, whereas spammers target us personally. However, a spammer might claim that by allowing your email address to be viewed openly on the Internet, you have effectively "broadcast" it out.
Those are just some thoughts I had. I'm still at the conclusion that avoiding commercials is not stealing and spamming is.
Hey genius: Columbus was Italian, not English.
I read that and got this image of Sally Struthers wading past rows of kids struggling with their reading.
hate the word "hella"? I don't even know where this came from; it seemed like suddenly right around 1998 everyone I knew was using it. That stupid word needs to be forgotten.
Internationalization. It's abbreviated "i18n" because there's an "i", 18 more letters, then an "n".
I'd say that right now it's because of bandwidth limitations and because, for some reason, music and flim studios seem to flip out over digital copying, but don't seem to care about analog (probably because they know that digital is the future and analog will be phased out). The movie world is still very much about VHS and analog projection.
Not to mention that the talk about promoting broadband via these legislative measures is all smokescreen bullshit anyway. If we all agree to the bill, we will definitely trade in our rights. On the other hand, there is no guarantee that Hollingswood will provide content to be downloaded at a reasonable price.
Well I never said I didn't use it myself. :)