Same about overflows. If you just dereference a pointer, it's 2-3 asembler instructions. If you dereference and check for legal range, you increase the size of the code about 20 times. I think it would be best if we were given a choice between safe/fast and unsafe/slow types.
The hard part is that as a start-up they used a cheap and available system that allowed them to get going ASAP. They saved the months of development costs early, when these costs meant to be or not to be.
GPL is for corporations like the dark side of the power, a tempting, easy and available, but extremely corrupting.
Currently, I'm working on a big commercial embedded project which is based on Linux.
Most of it will remain proprietary and closed source, parts will be licensed subsystems that aren't only proprietary, they cost arm and leg, took years to write and there's no snowflake's chance in hell they would ever go GPL. And since our system will depend on them, it can't go GPL. But parts will have to be released. Fixed broken CAN kernel module. Changes to Busybox on top of which this is running. A short and sweet kernel module that does RT calls and realtime I/O to selected thread, replacing the huge ADEOS RT kernel. These will have to be released in compliance with GPL and we are making no fuss about it.
You mean mathematicians working for NSA would immediately trumpeted the triumph of cracking AES?
Also, how long would it take to crack a 256-bit AES protected file that uses 5 lowercase characters common word for the passphrase?
I'm assuming finding you, abducting and transporting you by a plane to a secret base in an obscure country would take up to 4 days. From then on, they have 3 days to crack the weakest link of the encryption. Would it take them more than 3 days to force you to reveal the password using torture?
In a stream of millions of various streams - plaintext and encrypted alike - they can identify some that are recognizable (by headers for example) encrypted with faulty algorithms, ridiculously short keys, they can try 5000 most common passphrases and give up on failure, they can decrypt transmissions that use one common private key for thousands of clients which makes sense to break and so on.
I never claimed that given 100 weak crypts they would decrypt all 100 in a minute. But given a million various weak crypts, they would decrypt a thousand of them in a minute just fine.
They can crack one strong crypt in a week or a thousand weak crypts in a minute.
But they can't break a 50 million various grade crypts in realtime, and that's what they need. They are barely capable of monitoring that amount of plaintext.
Exceptions would be made for online banking and shopping using a dedicated system that can't be used for anything else.
Using encryption for other purposes - even SSH to your work, or SSL login to your admin account on a web service would require special government certification and installing a dedicated monitoring software on the machine you're on. Otherwise, even posession of encryption software would land you in prison.
Other than that - mandatory government-issued spyware?
fuck you. do not attempt to censor people's efforts to bring to your attention your own stupidity. go fix the problem, and pay the guy who found the problem a lot of money, as a thank you.
Microsoft's standard policy of thank-you for people who help them prevent multi-million losses is a free T-shirt. You can't really hope for any better.
Well, my mistake, start off from 300 pounds then recount again, when will one start getting acceptably slim.
One waist size is noticeable in terms of clothing. Not in terms of physical condition or better looks or anything like that. It's a change from hopeless to slightly less hopeless, but still hopeless anyway, and you know you won't exit the "hopeless" zone for another year at least.
but as it continues you feel better and at the end of your workout you feel great. This is true whether your fat or thin.
Sorry, but this is simply false. You're taking your own measure and generalize it over everyone.
After my body warms up and I finish the exercise, I feel aching, strained, soaked with sweat, and generally far worse off than before I started. Maybe some people find physical effort to be pleasurable, I don't. At best I don't mind it, at worst it feels horrible. I always wanted my PE classes to finish already, and when it was finally over, I was feeling crawling out of the gym, aching all over and not in a good way.
I'd been riding my bike for the better half of the previous year, some 2h of biking a day, varied pace, often with steep hills. I visited every last forgotten street and back alley of my city, taking a different route every day. Some days I'd spend 5h or more biking, coming back totally exhausted after a further trip. I simply didn't mind the exercise and enjoyed the travel. It was fun while it lasted, but I found it increasingly boring. After a time I found every possible route between my workplace and my home, some taking detour of 10 miles or so and getting me home well into the night. And last year I found myself often so bored that I would just pack the bike on the bus and let it take me home, simply because going the same streets again and again became so nauseatingly dreary, that I just couldn't get myself to repeat it once again. It wasn't physical condition, it was forcing myself to spend another 2h doing the same thing I'd been doing ad nauseam previously. At last I took the bike the first and last mile between job and home, going by bus the rest of the way because it allowed me more time to read interesting books and was the shortest way to get to work.
On top of that, I saw almost no progress in the matter of weight, and I gained far more during the winter than I lost during the summer, voiding the whole effort.
Maybe for some, pushing the same weights up and down 300 times sounds like fun. For me, it's a menial labor. Even ignoring physical exertion, which I don't find pleasurable, it is a fucking "push the bar 100 times, then push another bar 120 times", day after day. I just don't get people who find that fun and interesting. I tried it. I was doing it for quite a while. It was totally mind-boggling for me, what these people see in this activity that they can do it month after month, discuss it for hours at a time and treat this as the most fun thing in the world. Goddamnit, shoveling coal is more fun, because you have to use some skill and thinking operating the shovel. And it's about as pleasurable as having flu. Feels very similar.
You're telling a chain smoker to smoke only Ultra Light, or an alcoholic to never drink anything but beer.
It doesn't work that way.
As long as eating is your necessity, your hobby, your common pleasure, it would work as described. But if after having an argument with your boss, you shake whole and feel like you NEED to devour a pound of cookies to start feeling better, you have a problem. When you feel your stomach begins to fill up, sugar begins cruising in your blood, you feel your blood pressure dropping to normal level, you relax and your mind stops circling around the argument and allows for pleasant thoughts... Yes, that's a shot of drug. And yes, it hurts your organism.
Someone is sick and tired of the bullshit. They write a virus that does exactly that, and spreads to millions of computers. As result, 25% of citizens of the US is in possession of child porn without even knowing it. After the initial wave of arrests the police finds out they are trying to stop a tidal wave with a bucket, and becomes completely powerless.
Except the virus wasn't quite as efficient as intended...
It's not an easy matter to decide what should/could be sacrificed, but there's one simple point where "protecting the children" should absolutely and definitely stop cold in its tracks. It's when it's ruining the lives of the children in question.
An underage posing nude in front of a camera should never be accused of production of child porn.
A child should never be taken away from the parents, unless they were directly abusive. Taking photos does not count.
To be deemed a pedophile, you should be at least 2 years older than your "victim".
Goddamnit, any day now we will see a law against underage masturbation deeming it child self-abuse.
7 pounds, in 12 weeks - some claim it's not bad, some claim it's weight loss so it's okay and so on.
First off, if you weight 238 pounds, going down to 232 pounds is just a pathetic joke. It took you 3 months to get there. It will take you 5 years to get there at current speed. It would be a reachable goal if it was fun, but...
But the second problem is that it's a dull, boring, miserable exercise. From a slim person's point of view, exercise makes you feel far less miserable than from an obese one's.
The thermal isolation makes you sweat like a pig and overheat in matter of minutes.
If lifting a weight uses 50 joules of energy, a fit person will easily lift it, expending the 50 joules distributed equally throughout the volume of thick muscles. A person with poor muscles will expend the same 50 joules but concentrated in thin, weak muscle that aches, hurts and throbs with exertion, it uses the same insignificant amount of energy but feels vastly worse.
The fat gives you extra weight for exercises like push-ups, sit-ups or pull-ups. Sure you use more energy but don't neglect the psychological effect, how miserable and ashamed you feel without breath after two push-ups.
Then you start feeling hungry, and the body which has a tendency to gain fat, usually gains it because your hunger feels more intense to you than to most slim people who just shrug it off. Take it from an obese person, getting really hungry feels somewhat like drug starvation, you feel ultra-miserable. And still you need to cut on the calories.
Oh, with even little strong will you will go like that for a month easily, suffering and feeling miserable, but telling yourself you're doing it to lose weight to be able to do all the things you can't do because you are obese.
After second month of being miserable like that you start having second thoughts.
After third month, when you went from 240 pounds to 220, you can see it will take you another 3 years of feeling miserable before you get out of this swamp. You say "fuck it", drop the exercise and start eating again.
If you can devise a diet that is low-calorie but filling and tasty, if you can devise exercises that are fun, it could work.
And even worse if eating is your method for stress. It becomes a habit. Something stresses you out and you won't calm down until you fill up your stomach. It's a habit like smoking or drinking. Unfortunately, the fundamental rule of dropping any habit is to drop it entirely. If you're a chain smoker, no one smoke a day, you just have to stop. If you're an alcoholic, you can't drink one and stop, you can't drink alcohol at all. But what about eating? You can't drop eating entirely. It's a horrible habit to drop, really.
Find me a direct counterexample then. AFAIR there were quite a few passages in NT that either endorsed slavery or treated it as a normal thing, and not one that would directly oppose it. The above quote in no way condemns the master.
OTOH, in Poland they have a backlog of overdue payments for traffic tickets as long as 5 years, and they keep the queue progressing as if nothing happened, calling people to court for 5 years old traffic offenses.
You can prove something doesn't work. But you can't prove something works.
There are the itty bitty differences between a virtual machine and the real one. You can be pretty sure if it broke on virtual machine, it won't work on the real one, so you can verify the product with virtual one till it passes all tests. But then you have to move your ass and snag time on all these machines to verify that it actually works, not just virtually.
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Same about overflows. If you just dereference a pointer, it's 2-3 asembler instructions. If you dereference and check for legal range, you increase the size of the code about 20 times.
I think it would be best if we were given a choice between safe/fast and unsafe/slow types.
But if you want to walk around with dangerous dogs that can attack me
I don't want you walking around with a dangerous tool of rape tucked in your trousers. You could rape me any time!
The hard part is that as a start-up they used a cheap and available system that allowed them to get going ASAP. They saved the months of development costs early, when these costs meant to be or not to be.
GPL is for corporations like the dark side of the power, a tempting, easy and available, but extremely corrupting.
Currently, I'm working on a big commercial embedded project which is based on Linux.
Most of it will remain proprietary and closed source, parts will be licensed subsystems that aren't only proprietary, they cost arm and leg, took years to write and there's no snowflake's chance in hell they would ever go GPL. And since our system will depend on them, it can't go GPL. But parts will have to be released. Fixed broken CAN kernel module. Changes to Busybox on top of which this is running. A short and sweet kernel module that does RT calls and realtime I/O to selected thread, replacing the huge ADEOS RT kernel. These will have to be released in compliance with GPL and we are making no fuss about it.
You mean mathematicians working for NSA would immediately trumpeted the triumph of cracking AES?
Also, how long would it take to crack a 256-bit AES protected file that uses 5 lowercase characters common word for the passphrase?
I'm assuming finding you, abducting and transporting you by a plane to a secret base in an obscure country would take up to 4 days. From then on, they have 3 days to crack the weakest link of the encryption. Would it take them more than 3 days to force you to reveal the password using torture?
No, I'm not.
In a stream of millions of various streams - plaintext and encrypted alike - they can identify some that are recognizable (by headers for example) encrypted with faulty algorithms, ridiculously short keys, they can try 5000 most common passphrases and give up on failure, they can decrypt transmissions that use one common private key for thousands of clients which makes sense to break and so on.
I never claimed that given 100 weak crypts they would decrypt all 100 in a minute. But given a million various weak crypts, they would decrypt a thousand of them in a minute just fine.
They can crack one strong crypt in a week or a thousand weak crypts in a minute.
But they can't break a 50 million various grade crypts in realtime, and that's what they need. They are barely capable of monitoring that amount of plaintext.
Exceptions would be made for online banking and shopping using a dedicated system that can't be used for anything else.
Using encryption for other purposes - even SSH to your work, or SSL login to your admin account on a web service would require special government certification and installing a dedicated monitoring software on the machine you're on. Otherwise, even posession of encryption software would land you in prison.
Other than that - mandatory government-issued spyware?
fuck you. do not attempt to censor people's efforts to bring to your
attention your own stupidity. go fix the problem, and pay the guy who
found the problem a lot of money, as a thank you.
Microsoft's standard policy of thank-you for people who help them prevent multi-million losses is a free T-shirt.
You can't really hope for any better.
Again, a slim theoretician...
Well, my mistake, start off from 300 pounds then recount again, when will one start getting acceptably slim.
One waist size is noticeable in terms of clothing. Not in terms of physical condition or better looks or anything like that. It's a change from hopeless to slightly less hopeless, but still hopeless anyway, and you know you won't exit the "hopeless" zone for another year at least.
but as it continues you feel better and at the end of your workout you feel great. This is true whether your fat or thin.
Sorry, but this is simply false. You're taking your own measure and generalize it over everyone.
After my body warms up and I finish the exercise, I feel aching, strained, soaked with sweat, and generally far worse off than before I started. Maybe some people find physical effort to be pleasurable, I don't. At best I don't mind it, at worst it feels horrible. I always wanted my PE classes to finish already, and when it was finally over, I was feeling crawling out of the gym, aching all over and not in a good way.
I'd been riding my bike for the better half of the previous year, some 2h of biking a day, varied pace, often with steep hills. I visited every last forgotten street and back alley of my city, taking a different route every day. Some days I'd spend 5h or more biking, coming back totally exhausted after a further trip. I simply didn't mind the exercise and enjoyed the travel. It was fun while it lasted, but I found it increasingly boring. After a time I found every possible route between my workplace and my home, some taking detour of 10 miles or so and getting me home well into the night. And last year I found myself often so bored that I would just pack the bike on the bus and let it take me home, simply because going the same streets again and again became so nauseatingly dreary, that I just couldn't get myself to repeat it once again. It wasn't physical condition, it was forcing myself to spend another 2h doing the same thing I'd been doing ad nauseam previously. At last I took the bike the first and last mile between job and home, going by bus the rest of the way because it allowed me more time to read interesting books and was the shortest way to get to work.
On top of that, I saw almost no progress in the matter of weight, and I gained far more during the winter than I lost during the summer, voiding the whole effort.
Maybe for some, pushing the same weights up and down 300 times sounds like fun. For me, it's a menial labor. Even ignoring physical exertion, which I don't find pleasurable, it is a fucking "push the bar 100 times, then push another bar 120 times", day after day. I just don't get people who find that fun and interesting. I tried it. I was doing it for quite a while. It was totally mind-boggling for me, what these people see in this activity that they can do it month after month, discuss it for hours at a time and treat this as the most fun thing in the world. Goddamnit, shoveling coal is more fun, because you have to use some skill and thinking operating the shovel. And it's about as pleasurable as having flu. Feels very similar.
*shrug*
YMMV
Been cycling the whole warm half of the year, around 2h a day, without changing diet habits.
Lost 3 pounds.
You're telling a chain smoker to smoke only Ultra Light, or an alcoholic to never drink anything but beer.
It doesn't work that way.
As long as eating is your necessity, your hobby, your common pleasure, it would work as described. But if after having an argument with your boss, you shake whole and feel like you NEED to devour a pound of cookies to start feeling better, you have a problem. When you feel your stomach begins to fill up, sugar begins cruising in your blood, you feel your blood pressure dropping to normal level, you relax and your mind stops circling around the argument and allows for pleasant thoughts... Yes, that's a shot of drug. And yes, it hurts your organism.
TOR.
If you're even a bit of a nerd, you will try one of the anonymous networks, just for the hell of it and seeing how it works and what it is all about.
And if you even scrap the very surface, you will find enough CP to get lifetime sentence for a medium sized city.
Someone is sick and tired of the bullshit. They write a virus that does exactly that, and spreads to millions of computers. As result, 25% of citizens of the US is in possession of child porn without even knowing it. After the initial wave of arrests the police finds out they are trying to stop a tidal wave with a bucket, and becomes completely powerless.
Except the virus wasn't quite as efficient as intended...
It's not an easy matter to decide what should/could be sacrificed, but there's one simple point where "protecting the children" should absolutely and definitely stop cold in its tracks. It's when it's ruining the lives of the children in question.
An underage posing nude in front of a camera should never be accused of production of child porn.
A child should never be taken away from the parents, unless they were directly abusive. Taking photos does not count.
To be deemed a pedophile, you should be at least 2 years older than your "victim".
Goddamnit, any day now we will see a law against underage masturbation deeming it child self-abuse.
you forget the fundamental psychological effect.
7 pounds, in 12 weeks - some claim it's not bad, some claim it's weight loss so it's okay and so on.
First off, if you weight 238 pounds, going down to 232 pounds is just a pathetic joke. It took you 3 months to get there. It will take you 5 years to get there at current speed. It would be a reachable goal if it was fun, but...
But the second problem is that it's a dull, boring, miserable exercise. From a slim person's point of view, exercise makes you feel far less miserable than from an obese one's.
The thermal isolation makes you sweat like a pig and overheat in matter of minutes.
If lifting a weight uses 50 joules of energy, a fit person will easily lift it, expending the 50 joules distributed equally throughout the volume of thick muscles. A person with poor muscles will expend the same 50 joules but concentrated in thin, weak muscle that aches, hurts and throbs with exertion, it uses the same insignificant amount of energy but feels vastly worse.
The fat gives you extra weight for exercises like push-ups, sit-ups or pull-ups. Sure you use more energy but don't neglect the psychological effect, how miserable and ashamed you feel without breath after two push-ups.
Then you start feeling hungry, and the body which has a tendency to gain fat, usually gains it because your hunger feels more intense to you than to most slim people who just shrug it off. Take it from an obese person, getting really hungry feels somewhat like drug starvation, you feel ultra-miserable. And still you need to cut on the calories.
Oh, with even little strong will you will go like that for a month easily, suffering and feeling miserable, but telling yourself you're doing it to lose weight to be able to do all the things you can't do because you are obese.
After second month of being miserable like that you start having second thoughts.
After third month, when you went from 240 pounds to 220, you can see it will take you another 3 years of feeling miserable before you get out of this swamp. You say "fuck it", drop the exercise and start eating again.
If you can devise a diet that is low-calorie but filling and tasty, if you can devise exercises that are fun, it could work.
And even worse if eating is your method for stress. It becomes a habit. Something stresses you out and you won't calm down until you fill up your stomach. It's a habit like smoking or drinking. Unfortunately, the fundamental rule of dropping any habit is to drop it entirely. If you're a chain smoker, no one smoke a day, you just have to stop. If you're an alcoholic, you can't drink one and stop, you can't drink alcohol at all. But what about eating? You can't drop eating entirely. It's a horrible habit to drop, really.
Your NEURONS are the last resort your body will try to metabolize.
Yes, as scary as that sounds, when you are starving and your fat and muscles are nearly gone, your precious brain goes next.
Find me a direct counterexample then.
AFAIR there were quite a few passages in NT that either endorsed slavery or treated it as a normal thing, and not one that would directly oppose it. The above quote in no way condemns the master.
It took a bird and turned it into something almost but not quite unlike a bird.
We hope it can repeat that trick.
They are drawing a goddamned CABLE.
Would it be so much hassle to transfer some electricity through it?
OTOH, in Poland they have a backlog of overdue payments for traffic tickets as long as 5 years, and they keep the queue progressing as if nothing happened, calling people to court for 5 years old traffic offenses.
The most ironical thing would be using Google Translate to translate the Google services to your native language while you're traveling.
Komatsu 930E-4 has been chosen the best car in the world. Safety of the driver was taken as the deciding factor.
It's typical mismatch between the promises and the expectations...
Vendor: This computer will reduce your workload by half.
Customer: Great! I'll take two!
There is one serious problem with that approach.
You can prove something doesn't work.
But you can't prove something works.
There are the itty bitty differences between a virtual machine and the real one. You can be pretty sure if it broke on virtual machine, it won't work on the real one, so you can verify the product with virtual one till it passes all tests. But then you have to move your ass and snag time on all these machines to verify that it actually works, not just virtually.