Just have a header file that checks what compiler it's running under (probably #idef __MSVC__ or something like that) and if so, #defines snprintf to _snprintf.
They aren't unsafe if used properly. They're just easy to use unsafely. Furthermore, they're slightly slower than their bounded cousin functions.
I'm sure use of unbounded string functions were looked over and checked for possible bugs. This just makes it harder for another kernel bug to cascade into a kernel compromise.
Believe me, this is way, way more than our friends in Redmond have been doing.
(I've always been impressed by the pro-active stance BSD takes towards security -- I just wish the rest of the commercial world could afford the time to do things right, instead of the cheesy no liability out-clause in the EULA.)
Her radio reciever failed -- though the transmitter still worked. She couldn't locate the island she was intended to land on, and kept broadcasting requests for any response from a US destroyer that was nearby and supposed to be in touch with her. The destroyer kept responding to her requests for a long time, but her radio didn't pick it up. I believe the last transmission the destroyer picked up was related to fuel.
People argued about whether she *died* or not, because the plane was never found...kind of like Elvis, hoping against hope. But it's pretty commonly accepted that she died.
The other thing is that she was famous well before her last flight -- both Lindburgh and her were world-famous for their impressive flying feats. That was how they managed to raise money for each new attempt.
I mean, good work, translators, and there are a *hell* of a lot of people out there to whom the software is now actually usable, but I don't think any of those screenshots showed a completely translated application. They all had English menus or text mixed in somewhere.
Business email authentication is frequently piss-poor, and the names and information on top-level execs is publically available.
You probably wouldn't get someone fired, but you could cause absolute mayhem spoofing mail to lots of companies from various execs to other execs saying that an exec is resigning. Do so over Christmas, or some other time when people aren't immediately reachable for confirmation, and the impact could be quite nasty./me wants PKI with whitelists to be universal...
He may well have done all that. However, his two last major jobs were:
* Microsoft chief of security -- Microsoft placed very, very little emphasis on security for years. It came back and bit them on the ass -- hard -- with IIS worms and a few high profile exploits. This became one of the most severe threats to their market share. So, you could say that maybe he was recommending improvements and being ignored, but the point remains that his sole responsibility in his job was to ensure that Microsoft dealt well with the issues in the security world and allocated to security an appropriate amount of resources, to keep their product on top. He completely fucked up, and Microsoft is still scrambling to try to regain lost customers moving to reduce administration costs and improve security. Security issues are the biggest threat to MS's server market share. So he managed to fuck over Microsoft more than any other person at the company. I have to say that that doesn't sound all that impressive.
* Cybersecurity advisor for the US govt. He managed to get the Office of Homeland Security set up control over computer crime? Lovely...that's led to some of the most idiotic crap coming out of Washington in the last decade, like life sentences for hacking. Not what I'd call an accomplishment.
So he may be a nice guy. He may be smart. But he's done one hell of a lousy job being an administrator, and I have to say that I'm not sorry seeing him go.
'With the historic creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the transfer of many of the responsibilities from the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and the release of the strategy, I have decided to retire after approximately 31 years of public service and return to the private sector,' Schmidt said in his April 21 e-mail."
"Looks like I can't do much more damage around here!"
The topic never refered specifically to affirmative action.
No, the story topic did not, but the parent of my post referred to "reverse discrimination", which I took to refer to affirmative action.
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I don't think that you have to be the sort of snobbish person that you're representing (well, maybe you do and the people I've run into just hide it well) to fall into logical fallacies and try to use Christianity to justify itself.
The overwhelming majority of Christians that I know of take what they do without much rigor. They have a kind of warm, fuzzy set of "good" feelings about Christianity, which is why they tend to follow the doctrine. They trust and respect their parents, who were Christians. Or, perhaps all the media's depiction of Christians as being the sort of people one can rely on is what prompts this. But most people, when you start asking them, say, "Why" repeatedly a few times about a religious point, pretty much break down to "well, that's just the right thing to do" or use some particularly nice-sounding slogan like "God is beyond human understanding" to make everything right -- and they don't really think about or understand what they're doing.
I don't think it lives up to the Christian moral vision. Let's face it - Christianity is a religion founded by a bunch of convicted criminals
I don't think that anyone claimed that the people involved were perfect -- the thief upon the cross is probably intended to show that.
For me, Christian ethics is something that continually confronts me with my own failings. It requires (and I expend) enormous effort to avoid watering it down, making it practical.
So you are primarily attracted to the forms of Christianity? For example, I know a Jewish guy who isn't particularly religious -- doesn't put much stock in a God -- but sticks to the appropriate fasts and eats kosher food, because he likes the structure.
But I don't think it can explain a St. Frances or a Martin Luther King.
Sure, but there are also great people who are not Christian -- Nelson Mandela, or Ghandi.
Because the majority of women don't stay in math and science (because our culture supports other fields.. boy do I want a barbie that says "let's go kill something" and a GI joe that says "math is hard" in a girlie voice) and are not able to get IT jobs in the future.
GI Joe is a pretty *dumb* character. If anything, he's probably portrayed as dumber than the newer Barbies.
There aren't particularly good role models in pop culture out of the intelligentsia in general, regardless of gender.
And for chrissake...Lady Ada was a very major player in the foundations of CS! There were women involved in building ENIAC. How many other hard sciences can you think of that had women play such a role early on? Biologists are predominantly female, yet biology was built almost entirely on the work of males.
I was good at it because I had a teacher who let me work ahead as far as I wanted in the book.
I think schools that let students go as far as they want and make a subject interesting produce the best students. Cool extracurricular classes are *great*. Communities and schools that can provide them do wonders for people.
Good point. I mean..."What can we do to boost the number of one-handed red-haired ambidextrous Jews in computer science?" has the same degree of validity.
Up at Carnegie Mellon University, a couple of years ago the university started a push to get women in CS. They did this, predictably, by mucking with the admissions requirements.
The ratio of women that *know what they are doing* is, today, about the same as it was before CMU started playing with the ratios. Also, the upper classes start approximating the old ratio -- look at some of the more difficult elective classes, like compiler design, and you once again have the same ratio as you did originally.
Affirmative action is a quick patch that temporarily fixes the symptoms, but doesn't produce a healthier society. If, for some reason, society decides that it requires a 50/50 breakdown between men and women in computer science, fine. Provide programming classes in elementary school to get people interested in CS, or something along those lines. Trying to alter things at the college level is a lost cause. None of the real wizards I know started with computer science in college. Look earlier.
First of all, most men couldn't care less about what shoes a woman is wearing (unless they're some sort of fetishist--which I never understood).
It's easy to say that, and feel that how attracted you are to someone is perfectly understood by you. I'm a little dubious that that is actually the case.
Second of all, this whole blaming society bullshit is wearing thin.
I'm not blaming society -- I don't think this is a "foo is bad" situation. I don't have a problem with a male-dominated society. I'm just pointing out that the fact that for many, many, many years the success of a woman was determined very much by the man she could catch has had an impact.
Women embrace those things, not fight them.
Does an eel fight living in water? No. I'm not trying to be an activist -- just providing an explanation.
Women's spatial abilities can honestly be measured in video games like Tetris as well. An ex girlfriend of mine could kick my butt in just about every video game but Tetris. While I considered myself a great player, she never understood the "stick down the left side theory" of Tetris. Even though I was in high school I understood that she had problems with spatial relations. (many jokes can be inferred I'm sure)
The only video game my mother considers playing is Tetris, but she's some sort of goddess at it. I can't come remotely close.
I'd say simply that men place more emphasis on data in the center of their field of view than woman.
This bodes well for the VR goggles market. Just gotta find a good female market, the things become commodity items, and I can pick a pair up inexpensively.
Men tend to have a stabler personality during PMS, women tend to be more emotional during PMS.
Men do not menstruate. Thus, men do not suffer from PMS.
You may be talking about some sort of periodic hormonal syndrome that occurs among males. I've never heard of anything like this, but if it exists, it certainly is not PMS.
How many stinking pairs of shoes do you really need?:)
If your gender has a long tradition of living in a male-dominant society where the path to success is being attractive to obtain a desireable mate...shoes are kind of important.
The general higher emphasis of the female on appearance is something that evolved. It's not arbitrary.
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A simpler version of Jekyll/Hyde, yes.
Just have a header file that checks what compiler it's running under (probably #idef __MSVC__ or something like that) and if so, #defines snprintf to _snprintf.
They aren't unsafe if used properly. They're just easy to use unsafely. Furthermore, they're slightly slower than their bounded cousin functions.
I'm sure use of unbounded string functions were looked over and checked for possible bugs. This just makes it harder for another kernel bug to cascade into a kernel compromise.
Believe me, this is way, way more than our friends in Redmond have been doing.
(I've always been impressed by the pro-active stance BSD takes towards security -- I just wish the rest of the commercial world could afford the time to do things right, instead of the cheesy no liability out-clause in the EULA.)
You're thinking of OpenBSD.
I didn't think anybody knew what happened to her.
Her radio reciever failed -- though the transmitter still worked. She couldn't locate the island she was intended to land on, and kept broadcasting requests for any response from a US destroyer that was nearby and supposed to be in touch with her. The destroyer kept responding to her requests for a long time, but her radio didn't pick it up. I believe the last transmission the destroyer picked up was related to fuel.
People argued about whether she *died* or not, because the plane was never found...kind of like Elvis, hoping against hope. But it's pretty commonly accepted that she died.
The other thing is that she was famous well before her last flight -- both Lindburgh and her were world-famous for their impressive flying feats. That was how they managed to raise money for each new attempt.
I mean, good work, translators, and there are a *hell* of a lot of people out there to whom the software is now actually usable, but I don't think any of those screenshots showed a completely translated application. They all had English menus or text mixed in somewhere.
That's a very good point.
/me wants PKI with whitelists to be universal...
Business email authentication is frequently piss-poor, and the names and information on top-level execs is publically available.
You probably wouldn't get someone fired, but you could cause absolute mayhem spoofing mail to lots of companies from various execs to other execs saying that an exec is resigning. Do so over Christmas, or some other time when people aren't immediately reachable for confirmation, and the impact could be quite nasty.
He may well have done all that. However, his two last major jobs were:
* Microsoft chief of security -- Microsoft placed very, very little emphasis on security for years. It came back and bit them on the ass -- hard -- with IIS worms and a few high profile exploits. This became one of the most severe threats to their market share. So, you could say that maybe he was recommending improvements and being ignored, but the point remains that his sole responsibility in his job was to ensure that Microsoft dealt well with the issues in the security world and allocated to security an appropriate amount of resources, to keep their product on top. He completely fucked up, and Microsoft is still scrambling to try to regain lost customers moving to reduce administration costs and improve security. Security issues are the biggest threat to MS's server market share. So he managed to fuck over Microsoft more than any other person at the company. I have to say that that doesn't sound all that impressive.
* Cybersecurity advisor for the US govt. He managed to get the Office of Homeland Security set up control over computer crime? Lovely...that's led to some of the most idiotic crap coming out of Washington in the last decade, like life sentences for hacking. Not what I'd call an accomplishment.
So he may be a nice guy. He may be smart. But he's done one hell of a lousy job being an administrator, and I have to say that I'm not sorry seeing him go.
'With the historic creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the transfer of many of the responsibilities from the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and the release of the strategy, I have decided to retire after approximately 31 years of public service and return to the private sector,' Schmidt said in his April 21 e-mail."
"Looks like I can't do much more damage around here!"
The topic never refered specifically to affirmative action.
No, the story topic did not, but the parent of my post referred to "reverse discrimination", which I took to refer to affirmative action.
I don't think that you have to be the sort of snobbish person that you're representing (well, maybe you do and the people I've run into just hide it well) to fall into logical fallacies and try to use Christianity to justify itself.
The overwhelming majority of Christians that I know of take what they do without much rigor. They have a kind of warm, fuzzy set of "good" feelings about Christianity, which is why they tend to follow the doctrine. They trust and respect their parents, who were Christians. Or, perhaps all the media's depiction of Christians as being the sort of people one can rely on is what prompts this. But most people, when you start asking them, say, "Why" repeatedly a few times about a religious point, pretty much break down to "well, that's just the right thing to do" or use some particularly nice-sounding slogan like "God is beyond human understanding" to make everything right -- and they don't really think about or understand what they're doing.
I don't think it lives up to the Christian moral vision. Let's face it - Christianity is a religion founded by a bunch of convicted criminals
I don't think that anyone claimed that the people involved were perfect -- the thief upon the cross is probably intended to show that.
For me, Christian ethics is something that continually confronts me with my own failings. It requires (and I expend) enormous effort to avoid watering it down, making it practical.
So you are primarily attracted to the forms of Christianity? For example, I know a Jewish guy who isn't particularly religious -- doesn't put much stock in a God -- but sticks to the appropriate fasts and eats kosher food, because he likes the structure.
But I don't think it can explain a St. Frances or a Martin Luther King.
Sure, but there are also great people who are not Christian -- Nelson Mandela, or Ghandi.
When she died because of a navigational failure (in addition to equipment problems), her navigator was male.
Because the majority of women don't stay in math and science (because our culture supports other fields.. boy do I want a barbie that says "let's go kill something" and a GI joe that says "math is hard" in a girlie voice) and are not able to get IT jobs in the future.
GI Joe is a pretty *dumb* character. If anything, he's probably portrayed as dumber than the newer Barbies.
There aren't particularly good role models in pop culture out of the intelligentsia in general, regardless of gender.
And for chrissake...Lady Ada was a very major player in the foundations of CS! There were women involved in building ENIAC. How many other hard sciences can you think of that had women play such a role early on? Biologists are predominantly female, yet biology was built almost entirely on the work of males.
I was good at it because I had a teacher who let me work ahead as far as I wanted in the book.
I think schools that let students go as far as they want and make a subject interesting produce the best students. Cool extracurricular classes are *great*. Communities and schools that can provide them do wonders for people.
Good point. I mean..."What can we do to boost the number of one-handed red-haired ambidextrous Jews in computer science?" has the same degree of validity.
Up at Carnegie Mellon University, a couple of years ago the university started a push to get women in CS. They did this, predictably, by mucking with the admissions requirements.
The ratio of women that *know what they are doing* is, today, about the same as it was before CMU started playing with the ratios. Also, the upper classes start approximating the old ratio -- look at some of the more difficult elective classes, like compiler design, and you once again have the same ratio as you did originally.
Affirmative action is a quick patch that temporarily fixes the symptoms, but doesn't produce a healthier society. If, for some reason, society decides that it requires a 50/50 breakdown between men and women in computer science, fine. Provide programming classes in elementary school to get people interested in CS, or something along those lines. Trying to alter things at the college level is a lost cause. None of the real wizards I know started with computer science in college. Look earlier.
So far, I've seen plenty of "IANAW, but..." posts...
First of all, most men couldn't care less about what shoes a woman is wearing (unless they're some sort of fetishist--which I never understood).
It's easy to say that, and feel that how attracted you are to someone is perfectly understood by you. I'm a little dubious that that is actually the case.
Second of all, this whole blaming society bullshit is wearing thin.
I'm not blaming society -- I don't think this is a "foo is bad" situation. I don't have a problem with a male-dominated society. I'm just pointing out that the fact that for many, many, many years the success of a woman was determined very much by the man she could catch has had an impact.
Women embrace those things, not fight them.
Does an eel fight living in water? No. I'm not trying to be an activist -- just providing an explanation.
Women's spatial abilities can honestly be measured in video games like Tetris as well. An ex girlfriend of mine could kick my butt in just about every video game but Tetris. While I considered myself a great player, she never understood the "stick down the left side theory" of Tetris. Even though I was in high school I understood that she had problems with spatial relations. (many jokes can be inferred I'm sure)
The only video game my mother considers playing is Tetris, but she's some sort of goddess at it. I can't come remotely close.
Dammit. Every woman is now going to turn this into a reason why *their* workstation is the one that deserves a monitor upgrade.
Someone needs to do a study showing that women do best with 14" CRTs.
I'd say simply that men place more emphasis on data in the center of their field of view than woman.
This bodes well for the VR goggles market. Just gotta find a good female market, the things become commodity items, and I can pick a pair up inexpensively.
Uhh, really ... have you ever happened to figure out why women are not flying commercial flights.
They do.
Plus, I think that Amelia Earhart, more famous than any other aviator or aviatrix in history, puts the lie to claims that women make poor pilots.
Men tend to have a stabler personality during PMS, women tend to be more emotional during PMS.
Men do not menstruate. Thus, men do not suffer from PMS.
You may be talking about some sort of periodic hormonal syndrome that occurs among males. I've never heard of anything like this, but if it exists, it certainly is not PMS.
How many stinking pairs of shoes do you really need? :)
If your gender has a long tradition of living in a male-dominant society where the path to success is being attractive to obtain a desireable mate...shoes are kind of important.
The general higher emphasis of the female on appearance is something that evolved. It's not arbitrary.
And giving birth isn't exactly peaches-and-cream, either...
It's a small price to pay to not have to deal with having a penis.
Meh. We guys don't have to deal with PMS and can go shirtless in the summer.
He was probably trying to be sarcastic.