Or WhatsApp. It scrapes every user's contacts and shares the data with fb. The nice thing about this is you don't need WhatsApp yourself, any one of your friends with the app, your name and phone number will do
https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to...
Scientists theorised for quite a long time that light was transmitted through a medium called the "aether" which supposedly filled the "vacuum" of space. They had no actual evidence of its existence, they invented it for convenience because their theories were inadequate. I guess that's just human (scientific) nature. I suspect dark matter will one day go the way of the aether as well.
Forget rocket engines, when are we going to see a "Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range"? I wonder how far a supersonic jet of plasma could travel through regular air.
If you're in London during the next week or so, get on down to the (free) World Press Photo exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall. You can see some of these same images in poster size, along with a whole lot more thought-provoking images.
Unfortunately one of their rebuttals has dire consequences for anybody using out of date hardware:
The answer is to build a postage system which automatically increases based on a few factors such as local time to generate stamps
So once most people are using 100GHz processors, generating a stamp will require reallybignumber operations to be effective at stopping SPAM. The poor sap trying to send email from their old Macintosh will be compute-bound for days.
A class is a way of organizing "objects" in a hiarchical manner. You could almost say an OOP manner. The fact you can do more with C++ doesn't take away the fact that oop is the major difference. In fact I can't think of any other reason to use C++ over C aside from classes and the various forms of inheritance.
I think you're under-selling the value of objects. The fact that C++ includes deterministic destruction is very important for managing resources. Google for RAII or Resource Allocation Is Initialization (aka Resource Acquisition) to see what I mean. For me, this is the biggest win for C++ over C (and Java, for that matter).
As others pointed out, you also missed templates, although in the case of an OS kernel I'm not sure how widely used they would be.
What nobody else seems to have mentioned is that the lasers make use of hydrogen (or deuterium) fluoride. From what I've read, this is pretty nasty stuff. See Northrop Grumman's page on chemical lasers and then check out the some info on HF here or here. You won't catch me working near one of these things!
Cripes, he's 18 - he's barely out of school, and probably set to head off for a college
He's still in school. The German school system runs a little later than most others. The headline on www.tagesschau.de reads Schueler soll "Sasser" entwickelt haben, which translates as "School student suspected of developing Sasser".
at the VERY LEAST spend a million or so and tell they public they messed up, and how to fix it... (run windows update)
Yes! Just like a product recall where you return something to have a fault rectified. Your PC misbehaving is not in the same league as kids choking on detachable bits of a toy, but maybe governments should force software providers to better advertise their blunders.
Now for some really dangerous products, check out http://www.recalledproduct.com/
Wow, talk about a bad time to publish your book on the internals of SCO Unix! You've got to feel sorry for the guys that actually used to write and support the code at SCO - apparently the author (Steve D. Pate) is a senior engineer there. See http://www.aplawrence.com/Books/scounixint.html
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In Windows, you have to be logged in as a user with administrative rights to the computer, but there's no simple way to assume and release privileges for the purpose of installing an application.
Actually, there has been a way to execute programs as another user since Windows 2000 at least. Just shift-right-click on an executable and select "Run as", then enter the relevant login info. If you want "su" like functionality, just start a command shell as "Administrator".
A lot of people bag MS Windows on technical grounds, but most of the problems are at the application layer, in my opinion. The actual NT kernel took a lot of ideas (not to mention people) from DEC/VMS. I'm talking about things like ACLs and fine-grained, separately assignable user privileges. Unix just gives you root, non-root and group permissions on files.
So most users (outside the most restrictive of corporate environments) use their Windows environments from a login with full administrative privileges. This is the equivalent of running one's Unix environment while logged in as "root," a practice regarded as reckless and incompetent.
Yeah. I'ts not due to an inherent limitation in the operating system, though.
Finally, it wraps up with a list of windows dlls and function names.
Just about every Windows executable does - these are the dynamic linking dependencies. You can decode them with various tools like dumppe (included with masm32 last time I downloaded it) or objdump -p (MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin) or the Windows dependency walker.
Or is this a "nyaa nyaa we're not going to call it what you wanted us to call it" thing?
Cue the insane villian tearing his hair out and vowing brutal revenge on the world. Seriously, it must drive those virus-writing morons crazy when the media gets it "wrong". Why give them the satisfaction?
In fact, the one-way trip idea has already been suggested by Professor Paul Davies at Macquarie University. See the article "One way to Mars, please" from ABC News Online on January 10. Unfortunately, I don't see how you're going to get enough people up there that they can have a happy existence.
We could end the film where somebody - get this - in a small spaceship flies up to the big enemy ship and - this idea is so good - blows it up from the inside using minimal fire power. Oh wait, we already did that three fucking times!
If you're lucky, you can also compile your Unix code using gcc from the MinGW package (http://www.mingw.org/). This eliminates the Posix emulation layer, which reduces overheads of course. For example, there is no pthreads support, but you can use any native Windows APIs. You can also run the Cygwin gcc in -mno-cygwin mode which is more or less the same thing.
Most of the GNU tools like grep, etc. are already precompiled in the related MSYS package, so it wasn't just Cygwin that gives you Unix-like tools for free on Windows.
configure can give you a lot more than just portable builds - it also allows you to select optional features for compilation. Check out the monster list of options for configuring gcc or just run
configure --help
for your favourite package (gdb is another good example).
Does anyone have a list of IP's / IP blocks that Verisign owns? I am going to set up my firewall to not allow any traffic to or from them.
As somebody else pointed out, you really don't want to block access to their DNS servers. On the other hand, a few of their netblocks might be worth blocking (e.g. the one that sitefinder is on). You can get the block info, for example, as follows:
So the 64.94.110/24 block is Verisign's. Interestingly, "nslookup sitefinder.verisign.com" reports a different IP address, 12.158.80.10. According to ARIN, this is on Verisign's netblock 12.158.80/24.
Another block you might be interested in: www.verisign.com is on 65.205.248.0 - 65.205.251.255 (65.205.248/22, I guess). Don't forget to update your firewall rules when these change:-)
Speaking of that online petition, does anybody else see only 178 signatures reported from the "View Current Signatures" page? I'm sure it was past 1600 a couple of days ago, but now seems stuck on just 178. Or is some cache out there just giving me an out-of-date copy of it?
Unfortunately, this guy (Stratton D. Sclavos) probably takes public hatred as a sign that he's doing a good job for the share holders. He's laughing all the way to the bank.
Yeah, *good* idea - add a hardcoded check for the first 24 bits of Verisign's IP address range in your resolver. So what happens when Verisign changes to a different server address? What happens if you actually *want* to connect to one of their servers?
The whole problem is that the wildcard responses are indistinguishable from real ones.
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Or WhatsApp. It scrapes every user's contacts and shares the data with fb. The nice thing about this is you don't need WhatsApp yourself, any one of your friends with the app, your name and phone number will do https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to...
It's basically the same as what map makers have been doing for at least a decade. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
Scientists theorised for quite a long time that light was transmitted through a medium called the "aether" which supposedly filled the "vacuum" of space. They had no actual evidence of its existence, they invented it for convenience because their theories were inadequate. I guess that's just human (scientific) nature. I suspect dark matter will one day go the way of the aether as well.
Forget rocket engines, when are we going to see a "Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range"? I wonder how far a supersonic jet of plasma could travel through regular air.
If you're in London during the next week or so, get on down to the (free) World Press Photo exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall. You can see some of these same images in poster size, along with a whole lot more thought-provoking images.
So once most people are using 100GHz processors, generating a stamp will require reallybignumber operations to be effective at stopping SPAM. The poor sap trying to send email from their old Macintosh will be compute-bound for days.
I think you're under-selling the value of objects. The fact that C++ includes deterministic destruction is very important for managing resources. Google for RAII or Resource Allocation Is Initialization (aka Resource Acquisition) to see what I mean. For me, this is the biggest win for C++ over C (and Java, for that matter).
As others pointed out, you also missed templates, although in the case of an OS kernel I'm not sure how widely used they would be.
What nobody else seems to have mentioned is that the lasers make use of hydrogen (or deuterium) fluoride. From what I've read, this is pretty nasty stuff. See Northrop Grumman's page on chemical lasers and then check out the some info on HF here or here. You won't catch me working near one of these things!
He's still in school. The German school system runs a little later than most others. The headline on www.tagesschau.de reads Schueler soll "Sasser" entwickelt haben, which translates as "School student suspected of developing Sasser".
Yes! Just like a product recall where you return something to have a fault rectified. Your PC misbehaving is not in the same league as kids choking on detachable bits of a toy, but maybe governments should force software providers to better advertise their blunders.
Now for some really dangerous products, check out http://www.recalledproduct.com/
Wow, talk about a bad time to publish your book on the internals of SCO Unix! You've got to feel sorry for the guys that actually used to write and support the code at SCO - apparently the author (Steve D. Pate) is a senior engineer there. See http://www.aplawrence.com/Books/scounixint.html
In Windows, you have to be logged in as a user with administrative rights to the computer, but there's no simple way to assume and release privileges for the purpose of installing an application.
Actually, there has been a way to execute programs as another user since Windows 2000 at least. Just shift-right-click on an executable and select "Run as", then enter the relevant login info. If you want "su" like functionality, just start a command shell as "Administrator".
A lot of people bag MS Windows on technical grounds, but most of the problems are at the application layer, in my opinion. The actual NT kernel took a lot of ideas (not to mention people) from DEC/VMS. I'm talking about things like ACLs and fine-grained, separately assignable user privileges. Unix just gives you root, non-root and group permissions on files.
So most users (outside the most restrictive of corporate environments) use their Windows environments from a login with full administrative privileges. This is the equivalent of running one's Unix environment while logged in as "root," a practice regarded as reckless and incompetent.
Yeah. I'ts not due to an inherent limitation in the operating system, though.
Just about every Windows executable does - these are the dynamic linking dependencies. You can decode them with various tools like dumppe (included with masm32 last time I downloaded it) or objdump -p (MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin) or the Windows dependency walker.
Cue the insane villian tearing his hair out and vowing brutal revenge on the world. Seriously, it must drive those virus-writing morons crazy when the media gets it "wrong". Why give them the satisfaction?
In fact, the one-way trip idea has already been suggested by Professor Paul Davies at Macquarie University. See the article "One way to Mars, please" from ABC News Online on January 10. Unfortunately, I don't see how you're going to get enough people up there that they can have a happy existence.
We could end the film where somebody - get this - in a small spaceship flies up to the big enemy ship and - this idea is so good - blows it up from the inside using minimal fire power. Oh wait, we already did that three fucking times!
If you're lucky, you can also compile your Unix code using gcc from the MinGW package (http://www.mingw.org/). This eliminates the Posix emulation layer, which reduces overheads of course. For example, there is no pthreads support, but you can use any native Windows APIs. You can also run the Cygwin gcc in -mno-cygwin mode which is more or less the same thing.
Most of the GNU tools like grep, etc. are already precompiled in the related MSYS package, so it wasn't just Cygwin that gives you Unix-like tools for free on Windows.Whoaa! Inefficiency there, dude. You're starting a new grep process for every file. Much better like this:
As somebody else pointed out, you really don't want to block access to their DNS servers. On the other hand, a few of their netblocks might be worth blocking (e.g. the one that sitefinder is on). You can get the block info, for example, as follows:
So the 64.94.110/24 block is Verisign's. Interestingly, "nslookup sitefinder.verisign.com" reports a different IP address, 12.158.80.10. According to ARIN, this is on Verisign's netblock 12.158.80/24.
Another block you might be interested in: www.verisign.com is on 65.205.248.0 - 65.205.251.255 (65.205.248/22, I guess). Don't forget to update your firewall rules when these change :-)
Speaking of that online petition, does anybody else see only 178 signatures reported from the "View Current Signatures" page? I'm sure it was past 1600 a couple of days ago, but now seems stuck on just 178. Or is some cache out there just giving me an out-of-date copy of it?
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Yeah, *good* idea - add a hardcoded check for the first 24 bits of Verisign's IP address range in your resolver. So what happens when Verisign changes to a different server address? What happens if you actually *want* to connect to one of their servers?
The whole problem is that the wildcard responses are indistinguishable from real ones.