I'm surprised nobody's commented about Microsoft being treated as the primary victim in this case. The worm attacked tons of machines across the entire Internet, not just ones owned by Microsoft, yet the offender is ordered to pay restitution to Microsoft. They're not the victim here! In fact, I'd go so far as to say that their shoddy programming and quality control contributed to the situation (as it has many times over for various other bugs since Blaster). Why are they receiving restitution when they could more easily be considered liable?
Except that in foo, the static array x has gone out of scope, and the pointer x is in scope. Which is of course why foo will print 4 (on an x86 machine) rather than generate an error.
This also is not indicative of a specific lack of multidimensional array dereferencing, because the same will occur with single-dimensional arrays as well. In C, if you really need the dimensions of an array to reach another scope from where it was declared, you can pass them in as parameters in some fashion.
Either that's a bad example, or compiler optimization has come a long way, baby. Or maybe I just don't get what you're getting at. But a quick test using gcc reveals this:
Note that the code that calculates the offset into the x array (italicized for convenience) is one instruction shorter for x[i][j] rather than the code you listed.
it could have been Chewbacca that was the last hope for all we knew at the time.
Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee! Han: I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss! Luke: Uh.... I already kissed him. I thought he might be my sister.
Many of the journal-published articles I need are provided by the author on his or her web page, so there are at least some journals which don't demand exclusive distribution rights.
Really, the only way around exorbitant fees being socked to underfunded researchers is for researchers en masse to stop working within the publishers' system and to start establishing truly free journals. That is, journals with volunteer peer review, both in organizational staff and reviewing faculty; and free Internet distribution with universities placing copies in their libraries via just-in-time publishing. (Or even by holding only electronic copies locally, in their library, and allowing university-affiliated people to access articles via the network.)
So I hear in the re-re-release of ESB (the one you can get "today on DVD") blows the whole wad by having the Emperor say something to Vader about the "son of Skywalker" waaaay before the scene where Luke falls off the whatever that thing was.
Damn, Lucas. The telegraph has been obsolete for more than a century, yet it's still your favorite form of communication.
Yeah, I've been watching it on CN too. At first, I was curious because of the title, and then I started to wonder how serious it would be since Funimation (a la Dragonball Z) was distributing it stateside. Then I saw the episode with the chimera, and it hit me when I realized/they said how the guy created the chimera that this anime was actually fairly hardcore in a way.
That's an interesting thought, actually. My kneejerk reaction to this story was that regulators would never let such a deal go through (assuming that they were actually pondering such a move), but now that you mention it, this may be one case where competition (at least of this magnitude) is bad for the consumer.
Specifically, as you've mentioned, XM and Sirius have already split up two entire major sports leagues (MLB on XM, and NFL on Sirius). This sort of exclusive contract bidding limits the listener's options. Imagine if Sony had an exclusive deal with XM for all their music, while Universal had a deal with Sirius. Instantly, the selection of music any satellite radio customer can enjoy becomes significantly limited, and those limitations are based on which service the customer subscribes to. This isn't like iTunes versus Napster - a person can buy some music from either one, and doesn't have to pay a subscription fee.
While admittedly given the state of today's music, this might not be such a horrible thing, in general, exclusive contracts affecting subscriber services hurts the consumer. And fierce competition in an emerging market seems to be the root cause of a problem that quite possibly could grow if satellite radio becomes popular with Joe Anyperson.
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?
Bah. There are thousands upon thousands of good police officers in the US. But one of them shoves a broomstick up somebody's ass, and now they're all bad guys.
This should be compared to the hordes of Chinese sweatshop gold farmers which, in the opinion of many, ruined Lineage 2, and which are setting up shop in WoW.
According to WoW players who managed to find a farmer who spoke English (most don't, but will happily swear at you in Chinese if you hamper their gold farming), they run a pretty tight racket. Several people share one account (presumably to save on monthly fees, though they may be using stolen CC's anyway), leading to one character - generally the most apt race/class for farming whatever the current cash cow is, but usually a human paladin - being played 24/7. In some cases, the character is named the same across multiple servers (such as "Loly").
The farmers hand over all the cash and items they obtain to a boss, who auctions the items in the in-game auction house and stockpiles the cash. Using one of the various gold-for-money websites, they coordinate with their customers and hand out the purchased gold, often via in-game mail. The farmers must meet a gold quota each day in order to get paid their cut, which is why they often resort to unfriendly play practices.
Their weakness, however, is that they XP grinded to get to level 60, which means they haven't done any instance quests, so their gear is substandard. On PvP servers, many legit players have found that the farmers' PvP-fu is weak, in part due to the trans-Pacific lag, in part due to their gear, and in further part due to not having any experience in PvP combat.
In any case, there are numerous complaints about the gold farmers on the official WoW forums, though there has been no word from Blizzard on any account actions taken against the gold farmers for ToU violations. Many are concerned that if Blizzard takes too long to act, the in-game economy will be irreparably damaged.
Okay. The Earth has roughly 150M km^2 of land surface. If a small-yield warhead renders 100 km^2 uninhabitable (just a guess based on your "several square miles" per weapon), then 140 weapons would render 14000 km^2 uninhabitable. That's 0.01% of the Earth's land surface area.
Since the OP didn't seem to bother reading the executive order:
"Federal funds will only be used for research on existing stem cell lines that were derived: (1) with the informed consent of the donors; (2) from excess embryos created solely for reproductive purposes; and (3) without any financial inducements to the donors. In order to ensure that federal funds are used to support only stem cell research that is scientifically sound, legal, and ethical, the NIH will examine the derivation of all existing stem cell lines and create a registry of those lines that satisfy this criteria. More than 60 existing stem cell lines from genetically diverse populations around the world are expected to be available for federally-funded research.
No federal funds will be used for: (1) the derivation or use of stem cell lines derived from newly destroyed embryos; (2) the creation of any human embryos for research purposes; or (3) the cloning of human embryos for any purpose. Today's decision relates only to the use of federal funds for research on existing stem cell lines derived in accordance with the criteria set forth above."
Harvesting of new stem cell lines is not prohibited - a PI merely cannot continue to expect to receive government funding if s/he does so.
Your assertion was that Bush is paying no attention to domestic issues, not that you disagreed with his stance on domestic issues. But anyway....
His plan is just an excuse to give more money to investment houses...
I don't see a problem with encouraging investment. In particular, I'm hoping that the administration picks up on the idea of replacing the federal income tax with a federal sales tax.
Additionally, I'm personally in favor of a plan that eliminates the Ponzi-esque "pay-as-you-go" feature of Social Security. Doesn't have to be Bush's plan, either, as long as the solvency of SS doesn't depend on population trends.
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I'm surprised nobody's commented about Microsoft being treated as the primary victim in this case. The worm attacked tons of machines across the entire Internet, not just ones owned by Microsoft, yet the offender is ordered to pay restitution to Microsoft. They're not the victim here! In fact, I'd go so far as to say that their shoddy programming and quality control contributed to the situation (as it has many times over for various other bugs since Blaster). Why are they receiving restitution when they could more easily be considered liable?
Except that in foo, the static array x has gone out of scope, and the pointer x is in scope. Which is of course why foo will print 4 (on an x86 machine) rather than generate an error.
This also is not indicative of a specific lack of multidimensional array dereferencing, because the same will occur with single-dimensional arrays as well. In C, if you really need the dimensions of an array to reach another scope from where it was declared, you can pass them in as parameters in some fashion.
Either that's a bad example, or compiler optimization has come a long way, baby. Or maybe I just don't get what you're getting at. But a quick test using gcc reveals this:
http://sokar.cwru.edu/multidim.html
Note that the code that calculates the offset into the x array (italicized for convenience) is one instruction shorter for x[i][j] rather than the code you listed.
it could have been Chewbacca that was the last hope for all we knew at the time.
Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee!
Han: I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss!
Luke: Uh.... I already kissed him. I thought he might be my sister.
The same theme of building up tension or pressure behind a latch or spring (though not necessarily the exact same implementation as in the flytrap) is at work in the tongues of some frogs and lizards, in the legs of crickets and grasshoppers, and in click beetle flipping, to name a few.
Many of the journal-published articles I need are provided by the author on his or her web page, so there are at least some journals which don't demand exclusive distribution rights.
Really, the only way around exorbitant fees being socked to underfunded researchers is for researchers en masse to stop working within the publishers' system and to start establishing truly free journals. That is, journals with volunteer peer review, both in organizational staff and reviewing faculty; and free Internet distribution with universities placing copies in their libraries via just-in-time publishing. (Or even by holding only electronic copies locally, in their library, and allowing university-affiliated people to access articles via the network.)
So I hear in the re-re-release of ESB (the one you can get "today on DVD") blows the whole wad by having the Emperor say something to Vader about the "son of Skywalker" waaaay before the scene where Luke falls off the whatever that thing was.
Damn, Lucas. The telegraph has been obsolete for more than a century, yet it's still your favorite form of communication.
And as a general policy, you don't want to be breaking the law in foreign countries. Their jails aren't as nice as ours.
...Except in Missouri.
Yeah, I've been watching it on CN too. At first, I was curious because of the title, and then I started to wonder how serious it would be since Funimation (a la Dragonball Z) was distributing it stateside. Then I saw the episode with the chimera, and it hit me when I realized/they said how the guy created the chimera that this anime was actually fairly hardcore in a way.
Now it's on my PVR's record list.
That's an interesting thought, actually. My kneejerk reaction to this story was that regulators would never let such a deal go through (assuming that they were actually pondering such a move), but now that you mention it, this may be one case where competition (at least of this magnitude) is bad for the consumer.
Specifically, as you've mentioned, XM and Sirius have already split up two entire major sports leagues (MLB on XM, and NFL on Sirius). This sort of exclusive contract bidding limits the listener's options. Imagine if Sony had an exclusive deal with XM for all their music, while Universal had a deal with Sirius. Instantly, the selection of music any satellite radio customer can enjoy becomes significantly limited, and those limitations are based on which service the customer subscribes to. This isn't like iTunes versus Napster - a person can buy some music from either one, and doesn't have to pay a subscription fee.
While admittedly given the state of today's music, this might not be such a horrible thing, in general, exclusive contracts affecting subscriber services hurts the consumer. And fierce competition in an emerging market seems to be the root cause of a problem that quite possibly could grow if satellite radio becomes popular with Joe Anyperson.
Lrrr: We will raise your planet's temperature by one million degrees a day... for five days.
power outage like the one we had thew hit most of the Northeast in 2003 (thanks, Ohio!)
Oh.... um....
Our bad.
That'd be Davis-Besse.
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?
Bah. There are thousands upon thousands of good police officers in the US. But one of them shoves a broomstick up somebody's ass, and now they're all bad guys.
This should be compared to the hordes of Chinese sweatshop gold farmers which, in the opinion of many, ruined Lineage 2, and which are setting up shop in WoW.
According to WoW players who managed to find a farmer who spoke English (most don't, but will happily swear at you in Chinese if you hamper their gold farming), they run a pretty tight racket. Several people share one account (presumably to save on monthly fees, though they may be using stolen CC's anyway), leading to one character - generally the most apt race/class for farming whatever the current cash cow is, but usually a human paladin - being played 24/7. In some cases, the character is named the same across multiple servers (such as "Loly").
The farmers hand over all the cash and items they obtain to a boss, who auctions the items in the in-game auction house and stockpiles the cash. Using one of the various gold-for-money websites, they coordinate with their customers and hand out the purchased gold, often via in-game mail. The farmers must meet a gold quota each day in order to get paid their cut, which is why they often resort to unfriendly play practices.
Their weakness, however, is that they XP grinded to get to level 60, which means they haven't done any instance quests, so their gear is substandard. On PvP servers, many legit players have found that the farmers' PvP-fu is weak, in part due to the trans-Pacific lag, in part due to their gear, and in further part due to not having any experience in PvP combat.
In any case, there are numerous complaints about the gold farmers on the official WoW forums, though there has been no word from Blizzard on any account actions taken against the gold farmers for ToU violations. Many are concerned that if Blizzard takes too long to act, the in-game economy will be irreparably damaged.
This is reminding people, YOU ARE SERIOUSLY FUCKED if you don't change your behaviours, and influence behaviour changes in others.
Oddly enough, these people say more or less the same thing.
Okay. The Earth has roughly 150M km^2 of land surface. If a small-yield warhead renders 100 km^2 uninhabitable (just a guess based on your "several square miles" per weapon), then 140 weapons would render 14000 km^2 uninhabitable. That's 0.01% of the Earth's land surface area.
How is a seven year licensing deal "innovative"?
Especially when the NFL and EA already have an exclusive licensing agreement. Maybe the USPTO wrote the article.
Since the OP didn't seem to bother reading the executive order:
"Federal funds will only be used for research on existing stem cell lines that were derived: (1) with the informed consent of the donors; (2) from excess embryos created solely for reproductive purposes; and (3) without any financial inducements to the donors. In order to ensure that federal funds are used to support only stem cell research that is scientifically sound, legal, and ethical, the NIH will examine the derivation of all existing stem cell lines and create a registry of those lines that satisfy this criteria. More than 60 existing stem cell lines from genetically diverse populations around the world are expected to be available for federally-funded research.
No federal funds will be used for: (1) the derivation or use of stem cell lines derived from newly destroyed embryos; (2) the creation of any human embryos for research purposes; or (3) the cloning of human embryos for any purpose. Today's decision relates only to the use of federal funds for research on existing stem cell lines derived in accordance with the criteria set forth above."
Harvesting of new stem cell lines is not prohibited - a PI merely cannot continue to expect to receive government funding if s/he does so.
ignoring complaints from an industry trade group that doing so violates pre-Internet era agreements
I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
I wonder, could he manually dial via tap dance?
I was about to say that you don't have to be that old of a fart. But I guess 1986 really was a long time ago. Ouch!
I'd just like to add a "me too" to this comment. Here's hoping there is somebody in the video capture card business who's listening.
Your assertion was that Bush is paying no attention to domestic issues, not that you disagreed with his stance on domestic issues. But anyway....
His plan is just an excuse to give more money to investment houses...
I don't see a problem with encouraging investment. In particular, I'm hoping that the administration picks up on the idea of replacing the federal income tax with a federal sales tax.
Additionally, I'm personally in favor of a plan that eliminates the Ponzi-esque "pay-as-you-go" feature of Social Security. Doesn't have to be Bush's plan, either, as long as the solvency of SS doesn't depend on population trends.
Stepping on an orthogonal vector usually leads to a trip to the local urgent-care center.