La France is indeed feminine. And gender assignments are fairly arbitrary: witness the way certain neuter nouns in Latin have become masculine in some Romance languages and feminine in others. (E.g. milk: in French it's le lait (m), in Spanish la leche (f)).
Well, if something like this took off programs could come with execution fingerprint files or whatever containing this information.
That's what I meant by a specialised distro - unless by "take off" you mean that Linus copies it to trunk.
The issue with any scanner like this is that you need to start from a known-good state.
I could be wrong - I haven't RTFA, just some of the comments on this thread - but my understanding is that it's not anti-virus but anti-buffer-overflow. In other words, the instructions which it's stopping aren't in the executable at all. I'm not sure* why this can't be fixed more easily by making the kernel memory management allocate non-adjacent sections for code and data such that a buffer overflow is either into more data or raises a segfault, but maybe that's why I'm not a kernel programmer.
* I realise that there are a small number of applications which absolutely need to convert data into code - e.g. JIT compilers. I can see ways to fix that, but they would probably break existing libraries.
I thought golf studies was a ridiculous degree, but hedge fund studies? Financial mathematics, sure; economics, likewise; and a degree which combines the two is perfectly reasonable, if liable to drive the mathematically inclined nuts and the mathematically disinclined to drink. But "hedge funds" sounds awfully specific for a major.
It creates (at compile time) an automaton representing the system call activity of the program
At compile time of the program? So in addition to a modified kernel you need a modified gcc and to compile everything from source or have a specialised distro? It doesn't surprise me that the summary should be lacking such details, but it would be nice if for once it gave a decent overview.
Sure, but 1958 is pre-packet switching. Teletype machines could be viewed as leading up to the Internet, but you would struggle to recognise anything pre-60s as an actual computer network.
When you say, "All posts", by my count there were 14 posts before yours. One of them was congratulating China, and the rest rather than being anti-Chinese were debating whether the article was true or not, given the history of Chinese news reporting - with two links to articles about previous false reporting on this very issue in the Chinese press. I'm sure some of the posters will be willing to congratulate China once they have independent verification of the feat.
The ideal is supposed to be a secret ballot. Obviously some people will need assistance, but the system should be designed to minimise the number of such people.
I don't think it's been clearly defined what the data is
Schedule 1 of the Identity Cards Act 2006. Note that it's the individual's responsibility to ensure that all that is kept up to date, and failure to e.g. notify the registrar when you move house makes you liable to a fine of £1000.
If the code is in someway not understandable for you than stop and rewrite it so that it is clear.
Proof of correctness? Warning maintainers that although there's a simpler, algebraically equivalent, way of writing the expression it overflows or has worse numeric properties (accuracy / stability)?
Maybe I got a broken one, then. Within four months of purchase the battery life was 12 hours, and I had to freeze the battery. I've had the phone now for 8 months, frozen the battery twice, and I too get 2-3 days of battery life. My Nokia 3310, which I've had for several years, gives me 4 days and I've never had to freeze the battery.
As for predictive text, perhaps you can tell me what I'm missing. If I type 6 6 and it gives me "No", how do I tell it that I want "On"? I've tried every single key, plus looking through the menu.
The LG isn't a good phone. Its battery life is awful, and its predictive text feature doesn't appear to support corrections. The only advantage it has over the Nokia 3310 is a smaller form factor.
If you have malware on your computer and you know it's executing, pull the network cable for a start. What you do then depends on how paranoid you are, but at minimum you should run some malware scans. If BIOS-resident malware is on the way back, as I recall reading somewhere a few months ago, you're pretty much screwed whatever you do, but otherwise I would suggest booting from a CD with malware scanning software or pulling the HD and scanning it in another computer.
A copyright is free, twenty to register. Why should a patent cost more?
In theory patent applications are screened by highly trained clerks who reject those which are insufficiently novel, non-trivial, capable of industrial application, or eligible for patent protection. Without getting into arguments about how well this corresponds with practice, it's certainly the case that the patent office has a lot of bureaucracy which must be paid for somehow. The only reasonable options are that everyone pay for it (via taxation), that the owners of profitable patents pay for it (which would inevitably generate accounting practices similar to those seen in Hollywood), that successful applicants pay for it, or that all applicants pay for it. The latter is the only option which doesn't require mechanisms to prevent griefers from filing all kinds of bogus patents at someone else's expense.
When I left my first job I spent my final week working solely on documentation. I later ended up back in the same company and discovered that no-one had read it.
However, you're forgetting that the USA isn't the world
As a Briton living in Spain, I can assure you that that is one mistake I never make.
In the general case, I think this kind of screening by universities or employers would be illegal in the EU under the data protection directive. I certainly don't condone it.
However, I think it's basic common sense to assume that individuals are nosy and to behave accordingly. Use a pseudonym for Facebook and Myspace and tell your friends but not your colleagues. Also choose your friends wisely: if you know that someone will take advantage of your drunkenness to write swear-words on your face and then take photos, don't get drunk with him.
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La France is indeed feminine. And gender assignments are fairly arbitrary: witness the way certain neuter nouns in Latin have become masculine in some Romance languages and feminine in others. (E.g. milk: in French it's le lait (m), in Spanish la leche (f)).
I think GP's point was that if you restricted your "Defense" budget to defence it wouldn't need to be nearly so big.
you could always do something crazy like read the article.
Just stay by your computer and the men in white coats will be with you shortly.
Well, if something like this took off programs could come with execution fingerprint files or whatever containing this information.
That's what I meant by a specialised distro - unless by "take off" you mean that Linus copies it to trunk.
The issue with any scanner like this is that you need to start from a known-good state.
I could be wrong - I haven't RTFA, just some of the comments on this thread - but my understanding is that it's not anti-virus but anti-buffer-overflow. In other words, the instructions which it's stopping aren't in the executable at all. I'm not sure* why this can't be fixed more easily by making the kernel memory management allocate non-adjacent sections for code and data such that a buffer overflow is either into more data or raises a segfault, but maybe that's why I'm not a kernel programmer.
* I realise that there are a small number of applications which absolutely need to convert data into code - e.g. JIT compilers. I can see ways to fix that, but they would probably break existing libraries.
I thought golf studies was a ridiculous degree, but hedge fund studies? Financial mathematics, sure; economics, likewise; and a degree which combines the two is perfectly reasonable, if liable to drive the mathematically inclined nuts and the mathematically disinclined to drink. But "hedge funds" sounds awfully specific for a major.
It creates (at compile time) an automaton representing the system call activity of the program
At compile time of the program? So in addition to a modified kernel you need a modified gcc and to compile everything from source or have a specialised distro? It doesn't surprise me that the summary should be lacking such details, but it would be nice if for once it gave a decent overview.
Sure, but 1958 is pre-packet switching. Teletype machines could be viewed as leading up to the Internet, but you would struggle to recognise anything pre-60s as an actual computer network.
When you say, "All posts", by my count there were 14 posts before yours. One of them was congratulating China, and the rest rather than being anti-Chinese were debating whether the article was true or not, given the history of Chinese news reporting - with two links to articles about previous false reporting on this very issue in the Chinese press. I'm sure some of the posters will be willing to congratulate China once they have independent verification of the feat.
Especially when you consider that a US gallon is larger than an Imperial gallon.
The ideal is supposed to be a secret ballot. Obviously some people will need assistance, but the system should be designed to minimise the number of such people.
Well, Bush has authorised the invasion of Pakistan.
you had to take off your glasses
That could cause a problem for the person who has to sign my next passport photo to warrant that it's a faithful likeness.
I don't think it's been clearly defined what the data is
Schedule 1 of the Identity Cards Act 2006. Note that it's the individual's responsibility to ensure that all that is kept up to date, and failure to e.g. notify the registrar when you move house makes you liable to a fine of £1000.
Use a slow machine with little free memory to test your code.
Or, in other words, use Eclipse.
If the code is in someway not understandable for you than stop and rewrite it so that it is clear.
Proof of correctness? Warning maintainers that although there's a simpler, algebraically equivalent, way of writing the expression it overflows or has worse numeric properties (accuracy / stability)?
It's run by someone who would be a strong believer in democracy if he could pronounce it.
Maybe I got a broken one, then. Within four months of purchase the battery life was 12 hours, and I had to freeze the battery. I've had the phone now for 8 months, frozen the battery twice, and I too get 2-3 days of battery life. My Nokia 3310, which I've had for several years, gives me 4 days and I've never had to freeze the battery.
As for predictive text, perhaps you can tell me what I'm missing. If I type 6 6 and it gives me "No", how do I tell it that I want "On"? I've tried every single key, plus looking through the menu.
The LG isn't a good phone. Its battery life is awful, and its predictive text feature doesn't appear to support corrections. The only advantage it has over the Nokia 3310 is a smaller form factor.
If you enable it then you'll spot that there is indeed an absurd claim, but that it's made by IBBoard. BadAnalogyGuy was merely highlighting it.
Your sarcasm detector appears to be broken.
They may seem like a logical step after the fact, but if no-one else has made that step then it isn't that obvious.
It may be that it isn't obvious, or it may be that it's the obvious solution to a problem no-one has previously wanted to solve.
If you have malware on your computer and you know it's executing, pull the network cable for a start. What you do then depends on how paranoid you are, but at minimum you should run some malware scans. If BIOS-resident malware is on the way back, as I recall reading somewhere a few months ago, you're pretty much screwed whatever you do, but otherwise I would suggest booting from a CD with malware scanning software or pulling the HD and scanning it in another computer.
A copyright is free, twenty to register. Why should a patent cost more?
In theory patent applications are screened by highly trained clerks who reject those which are insufficiently novel, non-trivial, capable of industrial application, or eligible for patent protection. Without getting into arguments about how well this corresponds with practice, it's certainly the case that the patent office has a lot of bureaucracy which must be paid for somehow. The only reasonable options are that everyone pay for it (via taxation), that the owners of profitable patents pay for it (which would inevitably generate accounting practices similar to those seen in Hollywood), that successful applicants pay for it, or that all applicants pay for it. The latter is the only option which doesn't require mechanisms to prevent griefers from filing all kinds of bogus patents at someone else's expense.
When I left my first job I spent my final week working solely on documentation. I later ended up back in the same company and discovered that no-one had read it.
However, you're forgetting that the USA isn't the world
As a Briton living in Spain, I can assure you that that is one mistake I never make.
In the general case, I think this kind of screening by universities or employers would be illegal in the EU under the data protection directive. I certainly don't condone it.
However, I think it's basic common sense to assume that individuals are nosy and to behave accordingly. Use a pseudonym for Facebook and Myspace and tell your friends but not your colleagues. Also choose your friends wisely: if you know that someone will take advantage of your drunkenness to write swear-words on your face and then take photos, don't get drunk with him.