Incest can cause severe damage to a population's gene pool. Generic defects, such as sickle cell anemia, that would ordinarily show up a limited percentage of society occur far more often in a small group that interbreeds.
There is a difference between trolling, which is merely annoying, and posting someone's physical location online. Expect not only to be bitchslapped, but to be fed to the legal hounds as well.
C++ is type safe unless you use constructs which make it non-typesafe. As long as you don't use those constructs, like casting, it's a typesafe language.
At least gcc's features are open --- If people are worried about gcc accepting non-standards-conforming code, why not hack it into -pedantic or -ansi themselves and release a patch?
C is a good language. C++, of course, is not, though (hey, if you can get modded up for ignorant flamebait, why can't I?)
I'd rather not start a language flamewar, but I must defend C++.
C++ is "of course" not a good language? Why? You can do everything you can do in C in C++, and then some. If you don't like templates, don't use them. If you don't like operator overloading, don't use it. Unlike certain other languages *cough*Java*cough*, it doesn't force any particular paradigm on you.
That said, OO programming has many advantages over traditional C-style procedural programming, and using an OO language for it, furthermore, has many advantages over using hacked-up C to emulate it, ala GTK+.
Yes, some of the features in C++ can be implemented in C, but the resulting implementations are *more* prone to bugs.
Polymorphism can also be used for security --- If you want to add something in a procedural C program, you must update the code wherever that new things apprears or affects something else. If you want to do the same in OO-C++, by virtue of polymorphism, the new object can be used whereever the old one was.
The former, of course, but just because some of the buffer overflows are fixed in the former doen't mean it is invunerable to attack. Better to fix the latter so as to keep both performance *and* security.
Like a system, and langauge can be as secure or insecure as you can make it. One can write an extremely tight program in C++ while writing one in Perl or Java that leaves gaping security holes open.
Educate the programmer on *why* things like sprintf, strcpy, etc. are Bad Things, don't force them to use a Bondage and Discipline-style language like RPG or Java that forces the programmer to do what the *language designer* thought to be The Right Thing.
Instead of using a new language that probably wouldn't be suited to the task, why not write something like lint, but for security holes?
Also...
*PEOPLE SHOULD ENABLE ALL WARNINGS ON THEIR COMPILERS. WARNING CATCH MANY BUGS AND OTHER NASTY THINGS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE IGNORED.*
The problem is that buffer-checked languages, by definition, can be slower than non-buffer-checked languages because they must check the buffer. It may not make a difference for small things, but for something like Apache, which regularly manipulates large quantities of text, it could have a drastic effect.
Why is DeCSS necessary for a DVD rip? It's long been possible to simply play the DVD and rip frames from the framebuffer using a fake video driver which then passes it on the real video driver.
What if possible aliens used spread-spectrum? It doesn't require much technology above radio itself, has several advantages, and would be impossible to detect above the existing background noise.
LaTeX is a set of macros for TeX. Anything you can do in TeX, you can do in LaTeX as easily, but there are macros that reduce your workload substantially.
Two things that can cause textures to shimmer are bad mipmapping and a lack of sub-pixel (and texel) precision. Don't blame the hardware because the game programmer may have been lazy.
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A mailserver crashed by ORBS is like a house doused with gasoline --- If it burns down when the guy looking for guns drops a cigarette onto the patio, it'll ignite for many other things as well.
If a server is crashed by ORBS, then there is a serious problem with that mailserver that should be fixed. Anyone can launch a DOS attack!
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Incest can cause severe damage to a population's gene pool. Generic defects, such as sickle cell anemia, that would ordinarily show up a limited percentage of society occur far more often in a small group that interbreeds.
Yes, I am feeding the trolls.
There is a difference between trolling, which is merely annoying, and posting someone's physical location online. Expect not only to be bitchslapped, but to be fed to the legal hounds as well.
Ganymede is larger than Mercury, yet it is still considered a moon.
C++ is type safe unless you use constructs which make it non-typesafe. As long as you don't use those constructs, like casting, it's a typesafe language.
Hrm, interesting. Do you have a *real* Deja link?
At least gcc's features are open --- If people are worried about gcc accepting non-standards-conforming code, why not hack it into -pedantic or -ansi themselves and release a patch?
Where am I forced to use an array or raw string in C++? I can use STL containers and std::string, respectively. They are *much* safer.
I'd rather not start a language flamewar, but I must defend C++.
C++ is "of course" not a good language? Why? You can do everything you can do in C in C++, and then some. If you don't like templates, don't use them. If you don't like operator overloading, don't use it. Unlike certain other languages *cough*Java*cough*, it doesn't force any particular paradigm on you.
That said, OO programming has many advantages over traditional C-style procedural programming, and using an OO language for it, furthermore, has many advantages over using hacked-up C to emulate it, ala GTK+.
Yes, some of the features in C++ can be implemented in C, but the resulting implementations are *more* prone to bugs.
Polymorphism can also be used for security --- If you want to add something in a procedural C program, you must update the code wherever that new things apprears or affects something else. If you want to do the same in OO-C++, by virtue of polymorphism, the new object can be used whereever the old one was.
The former, of course, but just because some of the buffer overflows are fixed in the former doen't mean it is invunerable to attack. Better to fix the latter so as to keep both performance *and* security.
Like a system, and langauge can be as secure or insecure as you can make it. One can write an extremely tight program in C++ while writing one in Perl or Java that leaves gaping security holes open.
Educate the programmer on *why* things like sprintf, strcpy, etc. are Bad Things, don't force them to use a Bondage and Discipline-style language like RPG or Java that forces the programmer to do what the *language designer* thought to be The Right Thing.
Instead of using a new language that probably wouldn't be suited to the task, why not write something like lint, but for security holes?
Also...
*PEOPLE SHOULD ENABLE ALL WARNINGS ON THEIR COMPILERS. WARNING CATCH MANY BUGS AND OTHER NASTY THINGS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE IGNORED.*
The problem is that buffer-checked languages, by definition, can be slower than non-buffer-checked languages because they must check the buffer. It may not make a difference for small things, but for something like Apache, which regularly manipulates large quantities of text, it could have a drastic effect.
The persuit of knowledge and the betterment of all people by it doesn't count as "betterment of the nation" in your book?
What planet do you live on?
What the hell is so revolutionary about making a cubic case that it deserves a patent.
So it's like a dictatorship that changes hands every two or three years?
If *I had meta for a name, I'd change my middle name for Control and my last name to Alt.
Why is DeCSS necessary for a DVD rip? It's long been possible to simply play the DVD and rip frames from the framebuffer using a fake video driver which then passes it on the real video driver.
DeCSS in't necessary here at all.
What if possible aliens used spread-spectrum? It doesn't require much technology above radio itself, has several advantages, and would be impossible to detect above the existing background noise.
LaTeX? Junk?
LaTeX is a set of macros for TeX. Anything you can do in TeX, you can do in LaTeX as easily, but there are macros that reduce your workload substantially.
A recent study has shown that research causes cancer in mice.
Two things that can cause textures to shimmer are bad mipmapping and a lack of sub-pixel (and texel) precision. Don't blame the hardware because the game programmer may have been lazy.
A mailserver crashed by ORBS is like a house doused with gasoline --- If it burns down when the guy looking for guns drops a cigarette onto the patio, it'll ignite for many other things as well.
If a server is crashed by ORBS, then there is a serious problem with that mailserver that should be fixed. Anyone can launch a DOS attack!
It was a *joke*
It really shouldn't have been moderated up, IMO.
I propose a change to the RFC:
New header:
X-Monitored: ,
e.g.,
X-Monitored: Omnivore 3.3a
X-Monitored: Carnivore 1.0
etc.
:)
They wouldn't know how to close something like an xterm using its window decorations?
I really hate OpenSource, but I really like it. Rob sucks. Hemos rules.
moderator.c: moderating comment... segmentation fault (core dumped)
(Note: This is a joke, the opinions here arn't really mine)
Same thing happens with my Riva128 and Tribes.