Sounds like something done because the programmer was being "extra careful".
char buf[ BUF_LEN ];
while( strlen( src ) > BUF_LEN )
{
memcpy( buf, src, BUF_LEN )
src += BUF_LEN;
}
memcpy( buf, src, strlen( src ));
Then someone comes along and feels it would be safer if the buffer was initialized for the first pass:
char buf[ BUF_LEN ];
memset( buf, 0xDF, BUF_LEN );// Better safe than sorry(?)
while( strlen( src ) > BUF_LEN )
{
memcpy( buf, src, BUF_LEN )
src += BUF_LEN;
}
memcpy( buf, src, strlen( src ));// Whoops! buf is now 4k with "garbage" in end.
If you happen to see people wildly shaking and dancing with their white umbrellas in the street, don't call them crazy just yet.
In Philly they're called Mummers. And they're only allowed to do it once a year.
"We report a novel and spectacular instability of a fluid surface in a rotating system. In a flow driven by rotating the bottom plate of a partially filled, stationary cylindrical container, the shape of the free surface can spontaneously break the axial symmetry and assume the form of a polygon rotating rigidly with a speed different from that of the plate. With water, we have observed polygons with up to 6 corners. It has been known for many years that such flows are prone to symmetry breaking, but apparently the polygonal surface shapes have never been observed. The creation of rotating internal waves in a similar setup was observed for much lower rotation rates, where the free surface remains essentially flat [J. M. Lopez et al., J. Fluid Mech. 502, 99 (2004).]. We speculate that the instability is caused by the strong azimuthal shear due to the stationary walls and that it is triggered by minute wobbling of the rotating plate."
It was probably meant in homage. But Google should respond that it was a parody to show how greed is preventing people from knowing, let alone enjoying, an artist's work. And then tell ARS to go pound sand and stop violating the moral rights of the artist.
Who is this Theodore Feder guy?
"But in addition to providing access to top-quality art images --for a fee-- Feder is involved in protecting the artists themselves from copyright infringement, illicit use or piracy of their works. He founded the Artists Rights Society in 1986 to preserve artists' interests while also providing "reputable publishers and producers of commercial goods" with a clearinghouse for rights and permissions." link [bolding added]
Sounds more like this guy is more concerned about protecting his cash flow.
Have to agree after readong another another article on the same story. The guy was turned down for his study. Not because there isn't ample evidence that evolution is "correct" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean). But because it wasn't felt objective results could be obtained.
Here's the SSHRC committee's response (from the mentioned article) for his study titled: "Detrimental effects of popularizing anti-evolution's intelligent design theory on Canadian students, teachers, parents, administrators and policymakers."
The committee found that the candidates were qualified. However, it judged the proposal did not adequately substantiate the premise that the popularizing of Intelligent Design Theory had detrimental effects on Canadian students, teachers, parents and policymakers. Nor did the committee consider that there was adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of Evolution, and not Intelligent Design theory, was correct. It was not convinced, therefore, that research based on these assumptions would yield objective results. In addition, the committee found that the research plans were insufficiently elaborated to allow for an informed evaluation of their merit. In view of its reservations the committee recommended that no award be made.
I've read that MS won't support XSLT 2.0. Now I have not tried my hand at a real AJAX program. But what I've heard is that AJAX and XSLT go hand-in-hand. With processing occurs totally/primarily on the client-side.
The first article linked to notes ATLAS being "for AJAX-style development." Won't lack of XSLT 2.0 features, like regular expression, limit what ATLAS can do? And will the limitation be to the point where you're better off writting a standard ASP.NET page?
I don't have a link on hand. But I recall reading Microsoft reps touting VB.NET maintining the VB6 ability to "code and debug until the code works". To me that should be sufficient reason to not use VB.NET. If you want another reason, please excuse my following rant.
The language is not isomorphic. For example:
'2 ways to declare an array of types.
Dim s1 As String() = {"1", "2", "3"}
Dim s2() As String = {"1", "2", "3"}
'2 Different ways to instanciate a class
Dim o1 As Object = New Object
Dim o2 As New Object
'Support for
Dim n As Integer = 0
n += 1
'But not bits (booleans)
Dim f As Boolean = False
f And= True
'3 (unsafe) ways to convert to a char (and using reserved words for variable names?)
Dim [char] As Char
[char] = "C"c
[char] = CChar("C")
[char] = CType("C", Char)
Granted in the last case you see use of the "TCHAR" and other such macros in C/C++ code. But these are macros. And not part of the language.
MS also ported in many of the old global VB6 methods such as Trim(). Even though this is a redundant method of the String class. Format() is another example. But in that case the behavior differs from the the method of the same name in the String class.
From experience I've found it easy to transistion from one language to another. Except when that language had "quirks" like those in VB.NET.
VB.NET was a very successful way to move VB6 coders to VB.NET. But is it a Good Beginner's Language?
Your issue reminded me of a statement in this article (see #14):
Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. "It's usually caused by near-point stress." In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles--like the eyes--into relaxing as well.
Used to be I'd have a window to stare out when contemplating a real-world to computer translation problem. But 2 years ago I was moved into a cubicle and all I have to stare at is beige fabric. And I've noticed my eye sight has been getting worse.
You don't even have to pay to use it without adverts anymore!
This last statement answers the question why I found Firefox better than Opera. The primary reason I wanted to get away from IE was to get away from "in your face" advertising. And it appears you still have to purchase Opera to use it without adverts.
I'll accept that Opera is smaller and faster. But I don't accept that "best browser" is soley defined by being "smaller" and "faster" especially when they're given in non-meaningful terms.
Click here and begin...... and I get a modal dialog "NPDSPLAY - Can not create DirectShow Player". Can't even tab away. You think MS would make something that only works on IE? Naw, couldn't be.
But just to check I launch my copy of IE kept around for these occasions. Follow the link. Click here and begin... Ah, better. Now I just get a black box.
Whatever this thing is or does doesn't work in my XP with IE 6.0, both fully patched with the exception of SP2. Perhaps its because I don't have SP2. Or maybe I need a newer version of IE?
FTA - "The posters detected 87,000 Bluetooth phones over a two week period, of which about 17% were willing to download the clip, says Scott."
First 17% is more like 14,790. I couldn't find a reference to the 17,000 number. (Perhaps its somewhere on the corporate web site link.) But even ignoring this point I'd still question the "willing" statement. Does that mean people intentionlly enabled access to their cell phones. Or is it more like 17% of blue tooth cell phonesare left unsecured by their owners?
Sort of like claiming 40% of PCs are "willing" to be zombies for spam.
Perhaps by integrating the Ad directly into the game play?
Like embedding a clue or extra help in the Ad but have it come up randomly in the 15 sec time window. Or worse. Ads provide healing points when fully watched.
By at least one person in this comment on the Corante blog.
This may be a harmless prank to some. But it is just as bad as trolling or spamming in my opinion. And worse still; it appears it was done by a dumb cow that had the gate opened for them by information provided by/.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.
"`Look, my lawyers did some research and they found out that the copyrights on the earliest thirties Disney comic strip characters are in public domain. They copyrights have expired. If we use these characters and we don't use any names they may try and take us to court. They may do some kind of thing in the papers, but they won't have a leg to stand on and nobody will get hurt.'"
The more things change the more they remain the same.
"This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence."
Will the story be updated to show the problem is not with all members of the Covenant, but will be limited to those nasty "radical" Covenant believers?
They are just reporting the conditions on thier area of observation; the Pacific Basin. Its sort of like hearing the NASA mission control guys mumble out that all conditions are "nominal"
But I've noticed a hearing/seeing a number of news reports bemoaning that only the Pacific ocean merits any tsunami monitoring.
I think its likely that India will invest in monitoring/warning systems in the near future. I'll be curious to see if the US invests in any similar disaster prevention for the East Coast.
Slashdot Mirror
You now have five seconds to comply. Three... two...
...one. You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1-13, section 9. I am now authorized to use necessary physical force.
Just have a bad feeling about using algorithms to identify behavior when we can't fully define the algorithms that cause the same behavior.
Sounds like something done because the programmer was being "extra careful". char buf[ BUF_LEN ]; while( strlen( src ) > BUF_LEN ) { memcpy( buf, src, BUF_LEN ) src += BUF_LEN; } memcpy( buf, src, strlen( src )); Then someone comes along and feels it would be safer if the buffer was initialized for the first pass: char buf[ BUF_LEN ]; memset( buf, 0xDF, BUF_LEN ); // Better safe than sorry(?)
while( strlen( src ) > BUF_LEN )
{
memcpy( buf, src, BUF_LEN )
src += BUF_LEN;
}
memcpy( buf, src, strlen( src )); // Whoops! buf is now 4k with "garbage" in end.
And if a person is willing and happy to die for what they believe in then just the opposite can be true.
Biometric responses depend entirely on the person feeling what they are doing is "wrong".
If you happen to see people wildly shaking and dancing with their white umbrellas in the street, don't call them crazy just yet. In Philly they're called Mummers. And they're only allowed to do it once a year.
Thought I saw this before: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/1 1/1357219
"We report a novel and spectacular instability of a fluid surface in a rotating system. In a flow driven by rotating the bottom plate of a partially filled, stationary cylindrical container, the shape of the free surface can spontaneously break the axial symmetry and assume the form of a polygon rotating rigidly with a speed different from that of the plate. With water, we have observed polygons with up to 6 corners. It has been known for many years that such flows are prone to symmetry breaking, but apparently the polygonal surface shapes have never been observed. The creation of rotating internal waves in a similar setup was observed for much lower rotation rates, where the free surface remains essentially flat [J. M. Lopez et al., J. Fluid Mech. 502, 99 (2004).]. We speculate that the instability is caused by the strong azimuthal shear due to the stationary walls and that it is triggered by minute wobbling of the rotating plate."
The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection - Frenzied reporting of supposed pyramids in the Balkans ignores the truth and embraces the fantastic.
It was probably meant in homage. But Google should respond that it was a parody to show how greed is preventing people from knowing, let alone enjoying, an artist's work. And then tell ARS to go pound sand and stop violating the moral rights of the artist.
Who is this Theodore Feder guy?
"But in addition to providing access to top-quality art images --for a fee-- Feder is involved in protecting the artists themselves from copyright infringement, illicit use or piracy of their works. He founded the Artists Rights Society in 1986 to preserve artists' interests while also providing "reputable publishers and producers of commercial goods" with a clearinghouse for rights and permissions." link [bolding added]
Sounds more like this guy is more concerned about protecting his cash flow.
Have to agree after readong another another article on the same story. The guy was turned down for his study. Not because there isn't ample evidence that evolution is "correct" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean). But because it wasn't felt objective results could be obtained.
Here's the SSHRC committee's response (from the mentioned article) for his study titled: "Detrimental effects of popularizing anti-evolution's intelligent design theory on Canadian students, teachers, parents, administrators and policymakers."
The committee found that the candidates were qualified. However, it judged the proposal did not adequately substantiate the premise that the popularizing of Intelligent Design Theory had detrimental effects on Canadian students, teachers, parents and policymakers. Nor did the committee consider that there was adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of Evolution, and not Intelligent Design theory, was correct. It was not convinced, therefore, that research based on these assumptions would yield objective results. In addition, the committee found that the research plans were insufficiently elaborated to allow for an informed evaluation of their merit. In view of its reservations the committee recommended that no award be made.
I've read that MS won't support XSLT 2.0. Now I have not tried my hand at a real AJAX program. But what I've heard is that AJAX and XSLT go hand-in-hand. With processing occurs totally/primarily on the client-side.
The first article linked to notes ATLAS being "for AJAX-style development." Won't lack of XSLT 2.0 features, like regular expression, limit what ATLAS can do? And will the limitation be to the point where you're better off writting a standard ASP.NET page?
I don't have a link on hand. But I recall reading Microsoft reps touting VB.NET maintining the VB6 ability to "code and debug until the code works". To me that should be sufficient reason to not use VB.NET. If you want another reason, please excuse my following rant.
The language is not isomorphic. For example:
'2 ways to declare an array of types.
Dim s1 As String() = {"1", "2", "3"}
Dim s2() As String = {"1", "2", "3"}
'2 Different ways to instanciate a class
Dim o1 As Object = New Object
Dim o2 As New Object
'Support for
Dim n As Integer = 0
n += 1
'But not bits (booleans)
Dim f As Boolean = False
f And= True
'3 (unsafe) ways to convert to a char (and using reserved words for variable names?)
Dim [char] As Char
[char] = "C"c
[char] = CChar("C")
[char] = CType("C", Char)
Granted in the last case you see use of the "TCHAR" and other such macros in C/C++ code. But these are macros. And not part of the language.
MS also ported in many of the old global VB6 methods such as Trim(). Even though this is a redundant method of the String class. Format() is another example. But in that case the behavior differs from the the method of the same name in the String class.
From experience I've found it easy to transistion from one language to another. Except when that language had "quirks" like those in VB.NET.
VB.NET was a very successful way to move VB6 coders to VB.NET. But is it a Good Beginner's Language?
No. Hell no.
Drexel required freshman to all have Macintoshes back in 1987-8. But that was O.K. because it was Apple and not evil old IBM!
Your issue reminded me of a statement in this article (see #14):
Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. "It's usually caused by near-point stress." In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles--like the eyes--into relaxing as well.
Used to be I'd have a window to stare out when contemplating a real-world to computer translation problem. But 2 years ago I was moved into a cubicle and all I have to stare at is beige fabric. And I've noticed my eye sight has been getting worse.
I got my facts straight from Opera's official site. Perhaps your comment would be better directed to them?
You don't even have to pay to use it without adverts anymore!
This last statement answers the question why I found Firefox better than Opera. The primary reason I wanted to get away from IE was to get away from "in your face" advertising. And it appears you still have to purchase Opera to use it without adverts.
I'll accept that Opera is smaller and faster. But I don't accept that "best browser" is soley defined by being "smaller" and "faster" especially when they're given in non-meaningful terms.
The article goes on about how accurate the clock is for a long time. But then uses this extremely vague word to describe its precision.
My first thought was of a George Carlin bit "There's a moment coming soon. Any moment now... Aw shit, its gone!" (probably mis-quoted)
Click here and begin... ... and I get a modal dialog "NPDSPLAY - Can not create DirectShow Player". Can't even tab away. You think MS would make something that only works on IE? Naw, couldn't be.
But just to check I launch my copy of IE kept around for these occasions. Follow the link. Click here and begin... Ah, better. Now I just get a black box.
Whatever this thing is or does doesn't work in my XP with IE 6.0, both fully patched with the exception of SP2. Perhaps its because I don't have SP2. Or maybe I need a newer version of IE?
Yep! Its a Microsoft Product!
Just another image of the buses left behind.
FTA - "The posters detected 87,000 Bluetooth phones over a two week period, of which about 17% were willing to download the clip, says Scott."
First 17% is more like 14,790. I couldn't find a reference to the 17,000 number. (Perhaps its somewhere on the corporate web site link.) But even ignoring this point I'd still question the "willing" statement. Does that mean people intentionlly enabled access to their cell phones. Or is it more like 17% of blue tooth cell phonesare left unsecured by their owners?
Sort of like claiming 40% of PCs are "willing" to be zombies for spam.
And get the senate to pass a special law just for them.
And how do they intend to track this?
Perhaps by integrating the Ad directly into the game play?
Like embedding a clue or extra help in the Ad but have it come up randomly in the 15 sec time window. Or worse. Ads provide healing points when fully watched.
I better stop now before I give anyone ideas...
This may be a harmless prank to some. But it is just as bad as trolling or spamming in my opinion. And worse still; it appears it was done by a dumb cow that had the gate opened for them by information provided by /.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.
Recall the Air Pirates?
"`Look, my lawyers did some research and they found out that the copyrights on the earliest thirties Disney comic strip characters are in public domain. They copyrights have expired. If we use these characters and we don't use any names they may try and take us to court. They may do some kind of thing in the papers, but they won't have a leg to stand on and nobody will get hurt.'"
The more things change the more they remain the same.
Exceprt from Halo guide, The Story So Far:
"This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence."
Will the story be updated to show the problem is not with all members of the Covenant, but will be limited to those nasty "radical" Covenant believers?
But I've noticed a hearing/seeing a number of news reports bemoaning that only the Pacific ocean merits any tsunami monitoring.
I think its likely that India will invest in monitoring/warning systems in the near future. I'll be curious to see if the US invests in any similar disaster prevention for the East Coast.
P.S. Any news from Diego Garcia?