I actually used to do that when I was playing around in high school (managed to trip the breakers a few times, shorted some bulbs, and managed to survive some mild shocks). Fun times!
...that with.net - a patch to the framework can fix the buffer overflows (and other bugs) which are discovered and the benefits will be instantly seen by all applications using it. With C/C++, etc - you need to scan and fix each individual application for bugs. Its easier to fix the runtime than individual apps because every exploit would generally be exploiting the runtime (as long as its managed) which would make the runtime very robust. WIth C/C++, each time you discover a buffer overflow or similar exploit in an app, it does say anything about other apps which might have similar problems.
I have not read scfi-fi from authors except clarke and asimov. none of these new names are familar to me - except greg egan. when i read your post - i remembered having read a short story authored by him called "Dust".
A google search led me to Permutation City. If ou have read Dust - is permutation city a novel made from that short story? (sort of like what clarke did with nightfall?)
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I actually used to do that when I was playing around in high school (managed to trip the breakers a few times, shorted some bulbs, and managed to survive some mild shocks). Fun times!
...that with .net - a patch to the framework can fix the buffer overflows (and other bugs) which are discovered and the benefits will be instantly seen by all applications using it. With C/C++, etc - you need to scan and fix each individual application for bugs. Its easier to fix the runtime than individual apps because every exploit would generally be exploiting the runtime (as long as its managed) which would make the runtime very robust. WIth C/C++, each time you discover a buffer overflow or similar exploit in an app, it does say anything about other apps which might have similar problems.
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I have not read scfi-fi from authors except clarke and asimov. none of these new names are familar to me - except greg egan. when i read your post - i remembered having read a short story authored by him called "Dust".
A google search led me to Permutation City. If ou have read Dust - is permutation city a novel made from that short story? (sort of like what clarke did with nightfall?)
thanks,
chirayu.