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  1. Re:No - there are plenty of safer alternatives on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 2, Insightful

    strncpy() always bothered me. If len is too short, dst winds up unterminated, and if too long, as you say, you have a bunch of extra nulls at the end. What was the point of that? "Oh, we'll null fill it in case strlen() et al. miss the first one?"
    It would have been nicer if it returned the number of non-null bytes copied, so you could do a quick compare with len to check for the unterminated case.

  2. "The flies do not attack native ants..." on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I got to New Mexico, I couldn't even look at huevos rancheros. Within a year, they had become a breakfast favorite.

    The phorids will have whole generations to refine their taste.

  3. Will "bad" ISPs start blocking port 53? on Dealing With ISPs That Use NXDomain Redirection? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some ISPs already won't let you connect to port 25 on any server that isn't theirs (forcing you to relay outgoing mail through them), ostensibly to prevent zombies from sending spam. The ones that monetize NXDOMAIN could easily do the same for DNS. All they'd need is some flimsy pretext, and maybe not even that.

  4. Re:What is freedom? on The Electronic Police State · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's the "rules set out by the government" part that bothers me, because I see an increasing disconnect between the government's interests and mine.

  5. I love these hard-hitting reports on 3,800 Vulnerabilities Detected In FAA's Web Apps · · Score: 2, Interesting
    FTFR:

    35 Internet-based or public use web applications were tested. On those web based applications 212 high risk, 169 medium risk, and 1,037 low risk vulnerabilities were found.

    What apps? What vulns?
    Surely they've all been fixed/replaced by now (if not, why not?), so why not let the rest of us know what was discovered?

  6. Re:True, but ... on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: 1

    In Florida, a reasonably gun-friendly state, you can use deadly force in a public place only to stop a forcible felony, one in which the victim is likely to suffer physical harm. Unless you could reasonably claim that your truck was occupied, you would have a rough time ahead of you.

  7. We should apply this to software development on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    Hey, we saved you lots of money. All we had to do was leave out the hard parts.

  8. Re:This is new and controversial? on When Comets Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe you did. Were you in Siberia in 1908?

  9. Re:Humanity interfering... on Scientists Isolate and Treat Parasite Causing Decline in Honey Bee Population · · Score: 1

    Be sure to triple up on the fumagillin (not flumagillin as the article states). At that dosage, it is effective against N. ceranae.

  10. Somebody please mod this "underrated" on A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, this is the worst possible article in which to lose karma.

  11. Re:No Justic in the legal system. on Appeals Court Says RIAA Hearing Can't Be Streamed · · Score: 1

    Why do we keep trusting a dishonest Justice system.

    We haven't found an achievable alternative. But let's keep looking.

  12. Re:See a photo and download the 6600 manuals. on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 1

    Remember watching the CEs scrub the disks? Literally. With like a giant Q-tip between each platter as the disk was spinning.

    My niftiest program was a PP prog that played Conway's Game of Life on the operator console.

  13. Hey, they forgot SCOPE on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My first 3 years of programming were spent on CDC 6600s running SCOPE. You learn a lot about efficient debugging when you're using punched cards and even a short job has a half hour turnaround time.

  14. Re:Next stop. on 1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began · · Score: 1

    Time to party like it's 12.19.17.19.19?

  15. Re:Counter-intuitive! on Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life · · Score: 2, Informative
    From the research paper:

    The conventional LTCC package provides 3 times more range than the proposed design but consumes 12 times more power.

    So you save power versus the conventional design, but you lose range.

  16. Why ask MTS for compensation? on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He should be looking to the company that installed the system for compensation, not MTS.

  17. Re:"Digium wasn't certain" on FBI Vaguely Warns of Asterisk Vishing Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why not see for yourself?

  18. Re:Well, this should brighten up Theo's day... on Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released · · Score: 1

    So Reyk had the code before Leffler?

  19. Well, this should brighten up Theo's day... on Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD likes the ISC license. deRaadt was a bit unhappy with the old arrangement.

  20. Re:Trolls equal... on Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, by his definition he's really been moderated "right".

  21. Re:So what powers does the IETF have on this? on Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF · · Score: 1
    It sounds like they'd really like to see the root servers implement DNSSEC, which might result in a trickle-down effect to others DNSes.

    But if we can't even stop people from having their authoritative servers also act as recursive caches, I don't hold out much hope.

  22. Re:What about the internet? on Unhappy People Watch More TV · · Score: 5, Funny

    They analyzed 30 years of data. The internet data from 1978 was a little sparse.

  23. Re:Is this wise? on Google Earth Recreates Ancient Rome · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sound like a Carthaginian.

  24. Swedish, eh? on New Datacenter In Underground Lair · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope they didn't furnish it from IKEA so it looks like a weird subterranean college dorm.

  25. Re:Voting is a joke now on The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How small would they have to be? My precinct has only 813 registered voters. Supposedly, 644 of them voted. How could I possibly know? Personally poll each of them?