I just wonder what would happen if suddenly the creditors in Asia would call in the debts on the US and state that the debts may be prolonged only if the patent system is cleaned up.
Yet another indication of the protectionism that the US has. It's time to invalidate all current patents, clean out the current patent system and start over with a new system that is a lot more strict than the current system.
Some work is in not in a linear form - it can be intense periods broken up with idle periods.
Another factor is that a person is not always producing, but a competence resource. What is a five minute action for a person with competence can be a week long investigation for another - it doesn't matter if you have documentation, sometimes the volume of it makes it hard to sift through - especially if you don't know what you are looking for.
Unfortunately not all companies values the knowledge an employee has and only looks at productivity figures - not the loss of production that may occur when the person isn't there.
Car size is not the only thing that counts. If size is the only thing to decide which car to hit you may end up in a very bad decision. If the choice is between a 59' Bel Air or a Toyota IQ? The number of factors involved in a decision like that are crazy.
Or select between a head on crash with a truck compared to drive off the road - but then end up in a children's garden party.
Not necessarily - it's still possible to safeguard that critical systems are powered during a period from turning off the ignition power. But it's also necessary to realize that the reason for turning off power may not be a stuck throttle but a run-amok ABS/ESC system, so the only system that shall have this safeguard is the airbag system.
A basalt range means that the area has seen volcanoes. Basalt usually cracks into hexagonal prisms when it cools which in turn makes the ground "leaking".
Pure luck - maybe, but the quakes may show that something is going on. Don't forget that not far away (geologically speaking) is New Madrid where there was some considerable quakes (7.1 to 8.1) 200 years ago.
It may end up in a few accidents with push button systems before legislation takes over determining that the driver must be able to turn off the engine without delay whenever necessary.
Add to it the fact that someone stealing don't do it for the first time. The ignorance by the police to take care of criminals on that level just makes them grow bolder or more desperate for higher rewards.
Take someone hard for first case of petty theft and that person might realize that it was a very bad decision, but 10 muggings without being confronted is just bad and caused by cop ignorance because it will just be a cumbersome report to write which takes longer to perform than the jail time of the mugger.
There are also other statical analysis tools like splint. The catch is that it produces a large volume of data which is tedious to sift through, but once done you will have found the majority of the bugs in your code.
However the root cause is that the language itself permits illegal and bad constructs. It's of course a performance trade-off, but by coding part of the code in a high level language and leave the performance critical parts to a low level may lower the exposure and force focus on the problems to a certain limited area.
A secondary cause is that if you write code - write it as clean as possible and broken down into pieces. If coding C there's always the option of declaring a function as "static inline" to tell the compiler that what you do is going to get right into the execution flow because you know that it will improve performance.
Dynamic analysis is also good - like Valgrind, but they have shortcomings. Just be aware that fuzzing can confuse dynamic analysis tools as well producing inconsistent results, which means that for the initial tests you need to be able to turn off fuzzing to get rid of the consistent problems.
The security model is on a level that match the daily users of the system. When high tech is placing out cones and operating a shovel then a password more complicated than ABC123 will just result in a temporary sign not being used, it's easier to put up more cones instead. Or park a truck in the lane you want to block.
Don't expect all code to be bug free. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between intentional coding to optimize speed and a bug - especially in high performance computing.
On the other hand - now that this bug is widely known as a gateway to other systems I suspect that this also opens up for the possibility to set up honeypots to catch intruders.
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No, not yet. Samsung is still around.
I just wonder what would happen if suddenly the creditors in Asia would call in the debts on the US and state that the debts may be prolonged only if the patent system is cleaned up.
Yet another indication of the protectionism that the US has. It's time to invalidate all current patents, clean out the current patent system and start over with a new system that is a lot more strict than the current system.
The title is confusing. Is it "Anti Patent-Troll" laws or is it "Anti-Patent Troll" laws???
It's a slight difference there in the semantics.
Some work is in not in a linear form - it can be intense periods broken up with idle periods.
Another factor is that a person is not always producing, but a competence resource. What is a five minute action for a person with competence can be a week long investigation for another - it doesn't matter if you have documentation, sometimes the volume of it makes it hard to sift through - especially if you don't know what you are looking for.
Unfortunately not all companies values the knowledge an employee has and only looks at productivity figures - not the loss of production that may occur when the person isn't there.
Car size is not the only thing that counts. If size is the only thing to decide which car to hit you may end up in a very bad decision. If the choice is between a 59' Bel Air or a Toyota IQ? The number of factors involved in a decision like that are crazy.
Or select between a head on crash with a truck compared to drive off the road - but then end up in a children's garden party.
Is just to cut the connection to those ISPs and see how long they will be around.
I'd rather take the Lordi version: arockalypse.
Not necessarily - it's still possible to safeguard that critical systems are powered during a period from turning off the ignition power. But it's also necessary to realize that the reason for turning off power may not be a stuck throttle but a run-amok ABS/ESC system, so the only system that shall have this safeguard is the airbag system.
A basalt range means that the area has seen volcanoes. Basalt usually cracks into hexagonal prisms when it cools which in turn makes the ground "leaking".
And volcanoes means potential earthquakes.
Pure luck - maybe, but the quakes may show that something is going on. Don't forget that not far away (geologically speaking) is New Madrid where there was some considerable quakes (7.1 to 8.1) 200 years ago.
It may end up in a few accidents with push button systems before legislation takes over determining that the driver must be able to turn off the engine without delay whenever necessary.
I would say that the US used to be, but the last decades have turned over to the dark side.
I agree - if it's more a party mode than work company then it might not work out well in the long run.
But a startup company also needs a few experienced persons that can take the lead and support when needed.
Harder, not impossible.
Add to it the fact that someone stealing don't do it for the first time. The ignorance by the police to take care of criminals on that level just makes them grow bolder or more desperate for higher rewards.
Take someone hard for first case of petty theft and that person might realize that it was a very bad decision, but 10 muggings without being confronted is just bad and caused by cop ignorance because it will just be a cumbersome report to write which takes longer to perform than the jail time of the mugger.
There are also other statical analysis tools like splint. The catch is that it produces a large volume of data which is tedious to sift through, but once done you will have found the majority of the bugs in your code.
However the root cause is that the language itself permits illegal and bad constructs. It's of course a performance trade-off, but by coding part of the code in a high level language and leave the performance critical parts to a low level may lower the exposure and force focus on the problems to a certain limited area.
A secondary cause is that if you write code - write it as clean as possible and broken down into pieces. If coding C there's always the option of declaring a function as "static inline" to tell the compiler that what you do is going to get right into the execution flow because you know that it will improve performance.
Dynamic analysis is also good - like Valgrind, but they have shortcomings. Just be aware that fuzzing can confuse dynamic analysis tools as well producing inconsistent results, which means that for the initial tests you need to be able to turn off fuzzing to get rid of the consistent problems.
Thanks for the useful info. The only catch with the map is that it's a bit slow.
I find parent post ironic and a bit sad with a tad of fun, but hardly worthy of downvoting.
Whichever operating system you do select you will have bugs that need to be patched if you are going on the net.
The lowest risk might be an obscure *NIX box with Lynx as web browser, but that's almost inhumane...
The security model is on a level that match the daily users of the system. When high tech is placing out cones and operating a shovel then a password more complicated than ABC123 will just result in a temporary sign not being used, it's easier to put up more cones instead. Or park a truck in the lane you want to block.
Or put the phone in the trunk. If you have a handsfree system you might be able to answer it.
But a side problem is that most roads today are pretty boring, and that's the main cause for distracting activities.
Don't expect all code to be bug free. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between intentional coding to optimize speed and a bug - especially in high performance computing.
On the other hand - now that this bug is widely known as a gateway to other systems I suspect that this also opens up for the possibility to set up honeypots to catch intruders.
So that's the junk that ended up in my backyard!?!
"Good..."
Don't be surprised if something new shows up.
At least they used to work unscripted from time to time, so something may show up in the heat of the moment!