Imagine you are a black hat hacker, and are asked to evaluate the security. Wouldn't you be very tempted to keep silent about a few security problems you found, in order to exploit them later? What would you think if an airport employed terrorists as security personnel because they know better what to look for?
Of course they could go without internet access. But just think about the cost if all the porn would have to be stored on government computers in the intranet!
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Why use C? Just use the following shell script, which is much simpler anyway:
$0& $0&
Note that it's even harder to kill because each individual process terminates quickly, so as soon as you figured out the PID, it's not valid any more. Moreover, even killall will likely not help much, since the running process is just a shell, and you probably don't really want to kill all running shells.
I'm German, and I've never heared that word. I know people from the USA as "US-Amerikaner", which can be literally translated to "US-Americans". The USA themselves are indeed often called "Vereinigte Staaten" in Germany (but "USA" is just as common, of course with all letters pronounced the German way), but I've never heared the adjective form (and indeed it sounds very wrong, because in that case the "Vereinigte" (united) wouldn't grammatically refer to the states, but to the people from the states ("Staatler" - a word which by itself sounds very strange to me, although it's not exactly wrong)).
I, for one, do not expect a very intuitive definition. Just remember that a second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
The reason for this is that the best clocks we have are based on exactly that transition. There's nothing comparable for the definition of a planet. And the exact number of periods was chosen to best fit the previous definition of the second.
Well, make that recursion infinite, and you'll get an infinitely fast Linux, and as a bonus you don't need hardware ay more, because beyond every layer of virtualized Linux there's yet another layer of virtualized Linux, ad infinitum.:-)
However that quote tells the reason for the performance boost: fast address-space switch (FASS) is supported in L4-embedded, but not in Linux native. IOW, it's not really "virtualized faster than native", but "using FASS faster than not using it". I guess you'd get even better performance if you'd make Linux native support FASS.
Whose patches are infamously known to break stuff, released in 6 month batches (maybe just a mite too spaced out?), and so infamously poor at actually patching their bugs that they currently have an open, publically known 0day with no patch, because they screwed up patching it last time and it's still open?
If they don't want people to demand patches, the best way is to make the patches so bad that people don't want them. That is, make them worse than the problems they cure, and demand for them will reduce dramatically.
What if a book tells you how to build your own house, but it turns out that houses built following those instructions tend to collapse? Say I build such a house by exactly following the instructions, and it collapses and I get hurt, would the book author be liable?
I have heard the "justification" for not teaching students procedural code before, and it doesn't make any sense to assume that another person is so stupid from the outset. It's like insisting that once a kid learns how to use a hammer and nails, that they can never possibly learn to use a screwdriver properly. It's condescending and somewhat insulting.
It's not about procedural vs. OO, but it's specifically C vs. C++. If you learn procedural with Pascal, and then OO with C++, everything is OK. The point is that good procedural C generally is even bad procedural C++.
Without copyright, there wouldn't be any incentive to make the software.
Sure. That must be the reason why there's no software licensed under the BSD license (which is mostly equivalent to giving up copyright on the code). Oh, wait...
It is IMHO a bad idea to learn C directly before C++. Good style C programs are usually bad style C++ programs, so you'll have to "unlearn" a lot of habits from C. OTOH, when learning C++ first, then it will be easier to go to C, because the compiler will usually complain if you use C++-typical idioms.
If you insist on learning C first, it's probably a good idea to learn Java before C++, because that way I think it's easier to get into OO habits.
It may even be a good idea to have some LISP experience before going to C++, because some advanced template techniques are basically functional style (I guess that's why many people shy away from those).
Well, given that Linux is usually compiled to a form consisting of only two digits (0 and 1), it shouldn't be too hard to translate it into four letters instead.
Even better: Every random number series can be used as key for one-time pad encoding. So just have a process which constantly reads/dev/random and sends the results to the government!
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Imagine you are a black hat hacker, and are asked to evaluate the security. Wouldn't you be very tempted to keep silent about a few security problems you found, in order to exploit them later?
What would you think if an airport employed terrorists as security personnel because they know better what to look for?
Of course they could go without internet access. But just think about the cost if all the porn would have to be stored on government computers in the intranet!
You work with Data? I always thought he were just a fictionary Star Trek character
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An attempt at a joke can be a driver itself?
I'm German, and I've never heared that word. I know people from the USA as "US-Amerikaner", which can be literally translated to "US-Americans". The USA themselves are indeed often called "Vereinigte Staaten" in Germany (but "USA" is just as common, of course with all letters pronounced the German way), but I've never heared the adjective form (and indeed it sounds very wrong, because in that case the "Vereinigte" (united) wouldn't grammatically refer to the states, but to the people from the states ("Staatler" - a word which by itself sounds very strange to me, although it's not exactly wrong)).
What about Antarctica?
The reason for this is that the best clocks we have are based on exactly that transition. There's nothing comparable for the definition of a planet. And the exact number of periods was chosen to best fit the previous definition of the second.
You're lying!
In Soviet Russia, alien bacteria find you.
So how did the bullshit get into indian rain? Did they send bulls into the sky?
You know, we are approaching the date (200)6-6-6, the day of the beast. Probably those are the bacteria of the Apocalypse! :-)
Well, make that recursion infinite, and you'll get an infinitely fast Linux, and as a bonus you don't need hardware ay more, because beyond every layer of virtualized Linux there's yet another layer of virtualized Linux, ad infinitum. :-)
However that quote tells the reason for the performance boost: fast address-space switch (FASS) is supported in L4-embedded, but not in Linux native. IOW, it's not really "virtualized faster than native", but "using FASS faster than not using it". I guess you'd get even better performance if you'd make Linux native support FASS.
If they don't want people to demand patches, the best way is to make the patches so bad that people don't want them. That is, make them worse than the problems they cure, and demand for them will reduce dramatically.
What if a book tells you how to build your own house, but it turns out that houses built following those instructions tend to collapse? Say I build such a house by exactly following the instructions, and it collapses and I get hurt, would the book author be liable?
It's not about procedural vs. OO, but it's specifically C vs. C++. If you learn procedural with Pascal, and then OO with C++, everything is OK. The point is that good procedural C generally is even bad procedural C++.
Sure. That must be the reason why there's no software licensed under the BSD license (which is mostly equivalent to giving up copyright on the code). Oh, wait
It is IMHO a bad idea to learn C directly before C++. Good style C programs are usually bad style C++ programs, so you'll have to "unlearn" a lot of habits from C. OTOH, when learning C++ first, then it will be easier to go to C, because the compiler will usually complain if you use C++-typical idioms.
If you insist on learning C first, it's probably a good idea to learn Java before C++, because that way I think it's easier to get into OO habits.
It may even be a good idea to have some LISP experience before going to C++, because some advanced template techniques are basically functional style (I guess that's why many people shy away from those).
BTW, I guess you meant Perl, not Pearl.
It's XML. So how can it be a non-bloated format? <gd&r>
Well, given that Linux is usually compiled to a form consisting of only two digits (0 and 1), it shouldn't be too hard to translate it into four letters instead.
You forgot the children. Will anyone please think of the children!
Brains are used by criminals, paedophiles, and terrorists - I guess that's why they don't let anyone using his brain into government positions :-)
Even better: Every random number series can be used as key for one-time pad encoding. So just have a process which constantly reads /dev/random and sends the results to the government!