Those wouldn't result in the execution of arbitrary code, just as the grandparent said. Sure, it could screw up your program, but many things can do that. So long as you always use static string buffers (setting the last byte to '\0') and use snprintf, etc. using the length of the buffer -1 you shouldn't have any of these problems.
I would never allow a user to define an arbitrary format string however (at least not without pre-processing the string first).
I certainly would NOT fire someone for using printf or strlen for crying out loud. Those are very useful, safe functions. You may as well outlaw malloc. Many C functions can be given arguments which will totally screw up the program after all, just 99% of them won't result in buffer overruns.
You didn't say 'concrete kill devices' rather 'kinetic kill devices'. Obviously there's no residual effects from concrete devices. But depleated uranium and other heavy-metal high-velocity ammunition has been blamed for higher rates of cancer and lukemia in places like Yugoslavia.
Kinetic kill devices are nice in that they aren't really dangerous after they hit.
So long as they aren't radioactive.
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Believe it or not, he has a point. I think everyone can agree that the current tax system is way too complicated. IMO, this is more of a systematic flaw in the way government works than anything. Most laws passed by Congress are also much too complicated, so complicated that no one voting on it or even considering it has time to read the whole thing. It would be nice if Congress would stop passing new laws for 2 years and just work on removing/simplyfing existing ones or form an agency to do so at which point they would ratify their recommendations.
That's what I thought at first too, but there are some apostrophes in the article (like 2 or so). I wonder why some were filtered while others were not.
It's "rich-person's" BTW. And for that matter, where the hell are the apostrophes in the article?! By my count, he's missing 14 of the little buggers! If the engineers working on the project where as skillful as this guy is with the English language the fins would probably come off the Pegasus as soon as it was lit. Oh, wait...
(just kidding engineers on the project, it's obviously a bit easier to learn 2 or so grammar rules than to accurately predict transonic air flows)
Another plus is that you are significantly decreasing your chance of being involved in an automobile accident.
However, you are also putting yourself in a perfect position to either a) become a workaholic or b) be abused by a workaholic. I think a mile or two of seperation (minimum) between work and home is a good rule of thumb. That way you can at least get some exercise on the way to/from work and have an incentive to arrive/leave during daylight hours.
Your imaginary "envirowacko" doesn't actually exist
Apparently you've never been to Boulder, CO. Believe me they're out there, WAY out there.
There's a difference between a generic environmentalist and an envirowacko. Envirowackos tend to be fairly hostile, especially when you disagree with them (think radical/fundamentalist <put word here>).
I'm not saying everyone in Boulder is an envirowacko, but I've met a couple there.
Not only that, but it insures that RFID scanners are common so people would know whether products they buy have RFID tags and would perhaps even know the info encoded in them (preventing the system from being abused).
You would go faster than these cars too (the press release said it averaged 15mph on a presumably flat track). These are 1st gen, so I guess we'll have to wait and see how they improve.
I believe you. I've seen a guy like that before when he was about 40. PLEASE do not continue doing this until you're 40 without getting rid of anything!!! Every time I went to his house I simultaneously felt a strange sense of horror and fascination; well mostly horror.
I second the sibling poster who mentioned Charlie Rose. They (really he, since he's the producer, host, etc.) have some great interviews with an assortment of guests. He even inivited the Taliban's foreign liason officer on the show shortly before 9/11 (as well as one of the US's top experts on the Taliban). This show is the total opposite of the Rush show (calm, intelligent, liberal, insightful, enriching, etc.).
You can also get pretty good economic advice and news on PBS on Friday.
I can see how that's possible. From a QA perspective, they would want to know your signal strength so that they can improve service in areas of weak/no reception for many customers. This information could then be subpeonaed by the police I suppose or used by the company itself I suppose.
I don't know if they actually do store signal strength, but I can certainly see a reason why the would. I'm not sure what legislation could passed to prevent this. Even if they passed legislation requiring your explicit permission to do this tracking, it would just be another line in a lengthy contract you have to sign to get a cell phone anyway.
When you say 'where', I presume you mean they know what cell you're in. They HAVE to know what cell you're in for the cell phone system to work and I personally couldn't care less if they know where I am to within a couple of miles. You could say the same thing about land-lines (ooh, at such and such time Joe Bob (or somebody using Joe Bob's phone) was at his house). The difference is that cell phones are continuously tracked while on (but only to the extent of knowing which cell it is in).
From one of the first links listed in your google search:
Because of the federal government's reluctance to regulate location-based wireless services, consumers must carefully research the privacy implications of these services before subscribing. Individuals are encouraged to only subscribe to services that offer maximum user control. Not only must users be able to turn off location-tracking features, industry must ensure that the wireless devices come out of the box with location tracking turned off, with the exception of E-911 calls. Further, one's "locatability" and the receipt of targeted ads should be subject to an "opt-in," requiring the user's affirmative consent.
So, as I said, this feature can be turned off (it usually is), thus requiring active tracking.
Doesn't really matter, as your cellphone (you carry one, right?) records will show your location for the past x months on demand.
I call BS. The cellphone operators aren't actively calcuating the postion of phones on the network, only on demand. Also, some (most?) phones allow this to be turned off or only on during a 911 call.
If someone told you they had to have a special 'key' to work on the car, they are on crack. In the US, there are laws preventing them from doing things like that.
a) The vehicle could be dropped from several km up in the air where no wildlife would be endangered (like the recent launch of SpaceShip One)
b) Being able to launch with reduced/no oxidizer would be a HUGE weight savings, significantly decreasing launch cost (as a sibling post noted). There are actually two tanks within the external fuel tank of the shuttle, a huge one storing LOX and a much smaller one storing the H2.
c) The lasers would be completely reusable (I presume their maintenance cost would be very modest compared with Shuttle maintenance, a pretty safe assumption IMO).
d) This depends on how fast you want this to pay for itself and exactly how much the initial cost is. It could catch up with traditional rocket systems pretty quickly if they can significantly reduce the amount of oxidizer they carry up.
Another concern would be blinding or damaging the optics of orbiting satellites. This could be a serious issue if each laser must be substantially powerful.
It has been my experience that giving a score on literary quality of a paper is very subjective and depends greatly on what the grader is used to reading. I agree, though, that many people try to fudge up their literary ability by writing run-on sentences, often much worse than your contrived example.
However, there isn't anything inherently evil with a long sentence so long as it doesn't try to introduce/augment too many ideas simultaneously (for essentially the same reason you wouldn't write a C program with 1 or 2 lines of code).
Or you could be patient and rent the DVD when it comes out. If the McDonald's DVD rental thing takes off that would only cost $1 per day even for a new release (currently, that's the only ones they're stocked with).
This has been done before. The original Viking missions used RTGs, with the Viking 1 lander lasting 6 years. The main problem with RTGs is that they require an enormous amount of red tape to go through in order to launch them, drastically increasing their cost.
The grandparent poster was kidding, but how hard could it have been to rig a simple centrifugal pump to blow the dust off? All it takes is a simple, small, electric motor (one per panel). Perhaps they ran out of space to mount them.
I guess it depends on the TV and the problem. I bought an extended warranty for a 35" standard TV there a while back. Roughly a year later, the s-video jack stopped working. After a short call, I scheduled an electrician to come repair it at my house (covered by the extended warranty). About 6 months later it broke again and once again they came out to fix it, telling me that if it broke a 3rd time they would just replace it either with the same set or an equivalent one (or store credit).
I guess sometimes you win with the extended rebate and sometimes you loose. In this case, if it was within the 1st year of warranty, I would have had to bring the TV to the store and wait a week or longer before retrieving it. After that, I would have been toast.
To be fair, (so far) I've lost on all my other extended warranties (IDE hard drives, camcorder).
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Those wouldn't result in the execution of arbitrary code, just as the grandparent said. Sure, it could screw up your program, but many things can do that. So long as you always use static string buffers (setting the last byte to '\0') and use snprintf, etc. using the length of the buffer -1 you shouldn't have any of these problems.
I would never allow a user to define an arbitrary format string however (at least not without pre-processing the string first).
I certainly would NOT fire someone for using printf or strlen for crying out loud. Those are very useful, safe functions. You may as well outlaw malloc. Many C functions can be given arguments which will totally screw up the program after all, just 99% of them won't result in buffer overruns.
You didn't say 'concrete kill devices' rather 'kinetic kill devices'. Obviously there's no residual effects from concrete devices. But depleated uranium and other heavy-metal high-velocity ammunition has been blamed for higher rates of cancer and lukemia in places like Yugoslavia.
So long as they aren't radioactive.
Believe it or not, he has a point. I think everyone can agree that the current tax system is way too complicated. IMO, this is more of a systematic flaw in the way government works than anything. Most laws passed by Congress are also much too complicated, so complicated that no one voting on it or even considering it has time to read the whole thing. It would be nice if Congress would stop passing new laws for 2 years and just work on removing/simplyfing existing ones or form an agency to do so at which point they would ratify their recommendations.
That's what I thought at first too, but there are some apostrophes in the article (like 2 or so). I wonder why some were filtered while others were not.
(just kidding engineers on the project, it's obviously a bit easier to learn 2 or so grammar rules than to accurately predict transonic air flows)
However, you are also putting yourself in a perfect position to either a) become a workaholic or b) be abused by a workaholic. I think a mile or two of seperation (minimum) between work and home is a good rule of thumb. That way you can at least get some exercise on the way to/from work and have an incentive to arrive/leave during daylight hours.
Apparently you've never been to Boulder, CO. Believe me they're out there, WAY out there.
There's a difference between a generic environmentalist and an envirowacko. Envirowackos tend to be fairly hostile, especially when you disagree with them (think radical/fundamentalist <put word here>).
I'm not saying everyone in Boulder is an envirowacko, but I've met a couple there.
Not only that, but it insures that RFID scanners are common so people would know whether products they buy have RFID tags and would perhaps even know the info encoded in them (preventing the system from being abused).
Hey, from a US perspective that even makes sense!
You would go faster than these cars too (the press release said it averaged 15mph on a presumably flat track). These are 1st gen, so I guess we'll have to wait and see how they improve.
I believe you. I've seen a guy like that before when he was about 40. PLEASE do not continue doing this until you're 40 without getting rid of anything!!! Every time I went to his house I simultaneously felt a strange sense of horror and fascination; well mostly horror.
I'll have to catch the streaming video for Frontline World (it isn't broadcasted in the Denver area). Thanks for the links.
You can also get pretty good economic advice and news on PBS on Friday.
I don't know if they actually do store signal strength, but I can certainly see a reason why the would. I'm not sure what legislation could passed to prevent this. Even if they passed legislation requiring your explicit permission to do this tracking, it would just be another line in a lengthy contract you have to sign to get a cell phone anyway.
From one of the first links listed in your google search:
So, as I said, this feature can be turned off (it usually is), thus requiring active tracking.
I call BS. The cellphone operators aren't actively calcuating the postion of phones on the network, only on demand. Also, some (most?) phones allow this to be turned off or only on during a 911 call.
Doesn't Rolls-Royce get away with that?
Do'h. I knew that... Thanks for the correction.
a) The vehicle could be dropped from several km up in the air where no wildlife would be endangered (like the recent launch of SpaceShip One)
b) Being able to launch with reduced/no oxidizer would be a HUGE weight savings, significantly decreasing launch cost (as a sibling post noted). There are actually two tanks within the external fuel tank of the shuttle, a huge one storing LOX and a much smaller one storing the H2.
c) The lasers would be completely reusable (I presume their maintenance cost would be very modest compared with Shuttle maintenance, a pretty safe assumption IMO).
d) This depends on how fast you want this to pay for itself and exactly how much the initial cost is. It could catch up with traditional rocket systems pretty quickly if they can significantly reduce the amount of oxidizer they carry up.
Another concern would be blinding or damaging the optics of orbiting satellites. This could be a serious issue if each laser must be substantially powerful.
However, there isn't anything inherently evil with a long sentence so long as it doesn't try to introduce/augment too many ideas simultaneously (for essentially the same reason you wouldn't write a C program with 1 or 2 lines of code).
Or you could be patient and rent the DVD when it comes out. If the McDonald's DVD rental thing takes off that would only cost $1 per day even for a new release (currently, that's the only ones they're stocked with).
This has been done before. The original Viking missions used RTGs, with the Viking 1 lander lasting 6 years. The main problem with RTGs is that they require an enormous amount of red tape to go through in order to launch them, drastically increasing their cost.
The grandparent poster was kidding, but how hard could it have been to rig a simple centrifugal pump to blow the dust off? All it takes is a simple, small, electric motor (one per panel). Perhaps they ran out of space to mount them.
I guess sometimes you win with the extended rebate and sometimes you loose. In this case, if it was within the 1st year of warranty, I would have had to bring the TV to the store and wait a week or longer before retrieving it. After that, I would have been toast.
To be fair, (so far) I've lost on all my other extended warranties (IDE hard drives, camcorder).