That is actually misguided reasoning. If you remove this parenthesis and write it like that
if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && current->uid = 0)
the code will fail to compile for a completely different reason. In C (as well as in C++) the assignment operator has very low priority, lower than `&&` operator. That means that the above code would be interpreted as
if (((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && current->uid) = 0)
A code like that would not compile at all, since it attempts to assign 0 to something that is not lvalue. For this reason (and not some "warning"), you actually absolutely need that extra parenthesis.
Also, note that the first condition is also wrapped in parenthesis, which is formally excessive ('==' has higher priority than `&&`, but some users prefer to add that extra parenthesis since they believe it improves readability). For this reason, it is fairly safe to conclude that both parentheses where there from the very beginning. They were not added by that malicious coder.
So, someone in USA halliburtoned a huge chunk of taxpayer's money into their pockets, and then told American people a pretty fairy tale about how they made "a secret effort to clean up a Soviet nuclear site"? Where did I hear that story before? Please, don't make me laugh. It is 2013 already. Everybody knows what those mythological stories about "USA helping USSR to secure its nukes" are worth.
Well, virtually all such US events are "overrated" in a sense that the equipment is either directly bought from Russia, assembled from Russian components or at least based on Russian designs. This one is no exception. Antares is just another Atlas - an airkit pulled over a Russian main engine. While Russian superiority in this area is undisputed, it's already becoming a commodity. Nothing to write home about.
While this does bear certain similarities with Strava, there's no need to inject false information about the cyclist's death. The cyclist in question did not "break the laws of the road" and was not "killed in traffic". He died in a single-bicycle accident after losing control on a descent. Basically, he fell and got injured pretty badly.
"The Harrier"? Where did that come from?
This plane is known as Nakamura lock, although this design is normally recognized as the "defualt" paper airplane design. It doesn't really need a name. When someone simply says "a paper airplane" without providing any specifics, it is universally assumed that Nakamura lock is implied.
Incorrect.
The policy obviously does not apply to genuinely defective items, so customer's won't get concerned about that.
The policy applies to those who expect to be able to return their items without any reason, i.e. those who consider retail stores their personal "free loaner" service, at everyone else's expense. Amazon will not work for that purpose, for obvious reasons. And if these people try going to Target or Walmart with their abusive practices, the stores will either be forced to implement similar policies or be kicked off the market.
Kudos to BestBuy for doing at least something right. Honest people now have at least one store that stands for our principles.
"Neither VISA nor MasterCard have said which U.S.-based processor was the source of the breach"
Translation: US State Department dispatched armed propaganda-enforcement teams who are currently holding the PR departments of Visa and MasterCard at gunpoint, forcing them to immediately come up with an official explanation that would tie the crime to "Russian crooks", as is usually required by the State Department's censorship and propaganda guidelines.
So you put a typical camera on a typical RC model - something virtually every single RC pilot has been doing for years already. YouTube is choke-full of such videos. Where's the news? The fact that he call it a "personal surveillance drone"? Or the fact that a Stanford professor is playing with a toy) (He should have bought a real non-toy RC model)
P.S. And no, HAM radio licence is not sufficient for BVR operation.
You have to be careful with your statements. In USA people who dare to know history beyond what is transmitted into their heads by "History channel" tend to doubt the "Key Role Of USA In Winning The WWII" (TM). Under the US regime such people usually tend to have unfortunate and completely accidental slip-ups in their bathtubs that tend to lead to unfortunate, completely accidental and deadly breaking of their necks.
Er... WWII was the war between Germany and Soviet Union. What does the "quantity of the Sherman tanks" and the relative technological levels of USA and Germany have to do with winning WWII is not clear to me.
And no, it was not about "quantity over quality". Soviets won the war by the tactical and strategic skill. It would simply be impossible for them to win it in any other way.
The facts of first video from another planet in the history of mankind usually induce immense butthurt in "patriotic" Americans, not even mentioning that publishing something like that can lead to serious problems with federal censorship watchdogs. Sing the "Starts and stripes" 11 times and eat two pairs of US-flag-colored underpants to cleanse yourself of your sins!
33 km is 1/3 of the way to space. Please stop perpetuating the boyscouts' sensationalist claims about weather balloons taking their junk "to the edge of space". That nonsense was written for the housewife moms, not for/.
Ugh... Americanism of cerebral cortex is running strong on/. today.
Considering that the amount of "loose money" in Russia is about two orders of magnitude higher than in USA, why would Russian hackers ever target USA? Do hackers anywhere in the world target Zimbabwe? Ivory Coast? Haiti? Hackers target rich populations with high accessibility of "easy money", i.e. countries with large number of proverbial blondes carrying around 1-2 millions of US dollars cash as pocket money. And that spells "Russia". Bit a piss-poor craphole like USA??? Why would any hacker target it? Last occurrence of Russian hackers targeting anyone outside of Russia was recorded sometime around 2003.
And now we get a suspiciously well-written piece with another set of fantastic claims... Sounds like someone in USA is trying to compensate for their inferiority complex by their delusion of grandeur:) Did Condoleezza Rice get back in the office? If not, who's guiding this 50-cent army on Slashdot? That's the question that needs answering.
97% of malware originates in USA. This is a well-known fact, which has been posted and discussed even here on/. repeatedly. Russia does produce malware, but most of it targets the local market. The reason this piece is making the news is that we are observing the rare case when foreign malware is detected on US market. This is indeed a rather strange and curious occurrence, since it makes no practical or economical sense for the perpetrators.
Well, it is all about comparative qualities, not absolute ones. Low or not, Russian product standards happen to be the highest available today. If you can find better ones - feel free to buy your batteries from them instead.
Last time I checked most of American secrets were secret for one reason only: so that no one would know that these secrets were stolen from Russians in the first place.
That's just doesn't make any sense. The amount of RAM is not a factor at all. The problem at hand is caused by the amount of _address_ _space_ required, not the amount of RAM. That's a completely different issue. I hope you understand the difference between the RAM and the address space.
And the culprit is not VS or Microsoft compiler. The culprit is the rampant massive-scale global namespace pollution, which has been taking place in FF source code for quite a while. Someone was indulging recklessly in Linus-Torvalds-style coding practices. The result is perfectly logical.
It is not news to anyone that we are currently living through a massive wave of anti-Russian propaganda cooked by the rampant Nazi lobby inside the GOP. However, I have to admit this particular piece is too primitive even for those guys. "U.S. Air Force cyber analyst"? Sounds like John "Adolfie" McCain to me...
... As for admitting anything. No, actually. I'm a human being, not that de-bred organism that you are (i'm not sure they even have a scientific name for you). You don't get to meet human being too often in your silly life (if you can call that "life", of course), but today is your day apparently. Having a chance to speak to me, even if just over the Net, is the highest point of you stupid little life. Enjoy the moment. It will be all downhill from here.
It is not about what you can do. It is about what makes sense. Hackers in Eastern Europe has long ago focused entirely on targeting Eastern European victims. Nobody in the Eastern European computer crime scene even heard about some country you call "USA" ("Where is it? Somewhere in Africa?"). Targeting Eastern European victims simply makes more economical sense. It is easier, it is closer and, just for starters, the people there are significantly richer a typical American, in a sense that they have significantly more "loose" money on their hands.
Anti-aliasing, by definition, must be performed in object space or, possibly, in picture space. But it cannot be possibly carried out on an already rendered image. They must be trying to market some glorified blur technique under the anti-aliasing moniker. Nothing new here...
Yes, it is supposed to be controversial. You just missed the controversy.
You see, the US State Department spends considerable amount of taxpayers money on disseminating propaganda about "Russian", "Ukrainian", "Romanian" and etc. hackers trying to get ahold of your credit card information in order to steal your identity. They just ignore obvious questions about why would all those people in Eastern Europe want to get this information (totally useless to them, of course), they just keep churning out the propaganda regardless of how nonsensical it is. The lemmings swallow this bullshit, and that's perfectly enough for the State Department.
And now, suddenly we have some guy in GA with all the "loot" on his hands. Doesn't really fit into the picture. Of course, it is possible to twist the story to get the "Russian hackers" involved, at least making it believable enough for a typical ignorant lemming, but the "controversy" will still be there. No, I don't have any high hopes for it. It will quickly be forgotten. (And those who are not too quick to forget will quickly be explained that it is better to be more forgetful for their own good...) But nevertheless, it is rather interesting to see this story to pop up instead of getting "contained" as usual.
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That is actually misguided reasoning. If you remove this parenthesis and write it like that
if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && current->uid = 0)
the code will fail to compile for a completely different reason. In C (as well as in C++) the assignment operator has very low priority, lower than `&&` operator. That means that the above code would be interpreted as
if (((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && current->uid) = 0)
A code like that would not compile at all, since it attempts to assign 0 to something that is not lvalue. For this reason (and not some "warning"), you actually absolutely need that extra parenthesis.
Also, note that the first condition is also wrapped in parenthesis, which is formally excessive ('==' has higher priority than `&&`, but some users prefer to add that extra parenthesis since they believe it improves readability). For this reason, it is fairly safe to conclude that both parentheses where there from the very beginning. They were not added by that malicious coder.
So, someone in USA halliburtoned a huge chunk of taxpayer's money into their pockets, and then told American people a pretty fairy tale about how they made "a secret effort to clean up a Soviet nuclear site"? Where did I hear that story before? Please, don't make me laugh. It is 2013 already. Everybody knows what those mythological stories about "USA helping USSR to secure its nukes" are worth.
Well, virtually all such US events are "overrated" in a sense that the equipment is either directly bought from Russia, assembled from Russian components or at least based on Russian designs. This one is no exception. Antares is just another Atlas - an airkit pulled over a Russian main engine. While Russian superiority in this area is undisputed, it's already becoming a commodity. Nothing to write home about.
While this does bear certain similarities with Strava, there's no need to inject false information about the cyclist's death. The cyclist in question did not "break the laws of the road" and was not "killed in traffic". He died in a single-bicycle accident after losing control on a descent. Basically, he fell and got injured pretty badly.
No, no, no. You got it backwards. "Sedan" is what people in some isolated countries call what the entire civilized world knows as "Saloon".
"The Harrier"? Where did that come from? This plane is known as Nakamura lock, although this design is normally recognized as the "defualt" paper airplane design. It doesn't really need a name. When someone simply says "a paper airplane" without providing any specifics, it is universally assumed that Nakamura lock is implied.
Incorrect. The policy obviously does not apply to genuinely defective items, so customer's won't get concerned about that. The policy applies to those who expect to be able to return their items without any reason, i.e. those who consider retail stores their personal "free loaner" service, at everyone else's expense. Amazon will not work for that purpose, for obvious reasons. And if these people try going to Target or Walmart with their abusive practices, the stores will either be forced to implement similar policies or be kicked off the market. Kudos to BestBuy for doing at least something right. Honest people now have at least one store that stands for our principles.
"Neither VISA nor MasterCard have said which U.S.-based processor was the source of the breach" Translation: US State Department dispatched armed propaganda-enforcement teams who are currently holding the PR departments of Visa and MasterCard at gunpoint, forcing them to immediately come up with an official explanation that would tie the crime to "Russian crooks", as is usually required by the State Department's censorship and propaganda guidelines.
So you put a typical camera on a typical RC model - something virtually every single RC pilot has been doing for years already. YouTube is choke-full of such videos. Where's the news? The fact that he call it a "personal surveillance drone"? Or the fact that a Stanford professor is playing with a toy) (He should have bought a real non-toy RC model) P.S. And no, HAM radio licence is not sufficient for BVR operation.
You have to be careful with your statements. In USA people who dare to know history beyond what is transmitted into their heads by "History channel" tend to doubt the "Key Role Of USA In Winning The WWII" (TM). Under the US regime such people usually tend to have unfortunate and completely accidental slip-ups in their bathtubs that tend to lead to unfortunate, completely accidental and deadly breaking of their necks.
Er... WWII was the war between Germany and Soviet Union. What does the "quantity of the Sherman tanks" and the relative technological levels of USA and Germany have to do with winning WWII is not clear to me. And no, it was not about "quantity over quality". Soviets won the war by the tactical and strategic skill. It would simply be impossible for them to win it in any other way.
The facts of first video from another planet in the history of mankind usually induce immense butthurt in "patriotic" Americans, not even mentioning that publishing something like that can lead to serious problems with federal censorship watchdogs. Sing the "Starts and stripes" 11 times and eat two pairs of US-flag-colored underpants to cleanse yourself of your sins!
The first photos and videos from Venus, as well as the first TV picture from another planet in the history of mankind are quite extraordinary.
33 km is 1/3 of the way to space. Please stop perpetuating the boyscouts' sensationalist claims about weather balloons taking their junk "to the edge of space". That nonsense was written for the housewife moms, not for /.
Ugh... Americanism of cerebral cortex is running strong on /. today.
Considering that the amount of "loose money" in Russia is about two orders of magnitude higher than in USA, why would Russian hackers ever target USA? Do hackers anywhere in the world target Zimbabwe? Ivory Coast? Haiti? Hackers target rich populations with high accessibility of "easy money", i.e. countries with large number of proverbial blondes carrying around 1-2 millions of US dollars cash as pocket money. And that spells "Russia". Bit a piss-poor craphole like USA??? Why would any hacker target it? Last occurrence of Russian hackers targeting anyone outside of Russia was recorded sometime around 2003.
And now we get a suspiciously well-written piece with another set of fantastic claims... Sounds like someone in USA is trying to compensate for their inferiority complex by their delusion of grandeur :) Did Condoleezza Rice get back in the office? If not, who's guiding this 50-cent army on Slashdot? That's the question that needs answering.
97% of malware originates in USA. This is a well-known fact, which has been posted and discussed even here on /. repeatedly. Russia does produce malware, but most of it targets the local market. The reason this piece is making the news is that we are observing the rare case when foreign malware is detected on US market. This is indeed a rather strange and curious occurrence, since it makes no practical or economical sense for the perpetrators.
Well, it is all about comparative qualities, not absolute ones. Low or not, Russian product standards happen to be the highest available today. If you can find better ones - feel free to buy your batteries from them instead.
Last time I checked most of American secrets were secret for one reason only: so that no one would know that these secrets were stolen from Russians in the first place.
That's just doesn't make any sense. The amount of RAM is not a factor at all. The problem at hand is caused by the amount of _address_ _space_ required, not the amount of RAM. That's a completely different issue. I hope you understand the difference between the RAM and the address space. And the culprit is not VS or Microsoft compiler. The culprit is the rampant massive-scale global namespace pollution, which has been taking place in FF source code for quite a while. Someone was indulging recklessly in Linus-Torvalds-style coding practices. The result is perfectly logical.
It is not news to anyone that we are currently living through a massive wave of anti-Russian propaganda cooked by the rampant Nazi lobby inside the GOP. However, I have to admit this particular piece is too primitive even for those guys. "U.S. Air Force cyber analyst"? Sounds like John "Adolfie" McCain to me...
... As for admitting anything. No, actually. I'm a human being, not that de-bred organism that you are (i'm not sure they even have a scientific name for you). You don't get to meet human being too often in your silly life (if you can call that "life", of course), but today is your day apparently. Having a chance to speak to me, even if just over the Net, is the highest point of you stupid little life. Enjoy the moment. It will be all downhill from here.
It is not about what you can do. It is about what makes sense. Hackers in Eastern Europe has long ago focused entirely on targeting Eastern European victims. Nobody in the Eastern European computer crime scene even heard about some country you call "USA" ("Where is it? Somewhere in Africa?"). Targeting Eastern European victims simply makes more economical sense. It is easier, it is closer and, just for starters, the people there are significantly richer a typical American, in a sense that they have significantly more "loose" money on their hands.
Anti-aliasing, by definition, must be performed in object space or, possibly, in picture space. But it cannot be possibly carried out on an already rendered image. They must be trying to market some glorified blur technique under the anti-aliasing moniker. Nothing new here...
Yes, it is supposed to be controversial. You just missed the controversy. You see, the US State Department spends considerable amount of taxpayers money on disseminating propaganda about "Russian", "Ukrainian", "Romanian" and etc. hackers trying to get ahold of your credit card information in order to steal your identity. They just ignore obvious questions about why would all those people in Eastern Europe want to get this information (totally useless to them, of course), they just keep churning out the propaganda regardless of how nonsensical it is. The lemmings swallow this bullshit, and that's perfectly enough for the State Department. And now, suddenly we have some guy in GA with all the "loot" on his hands. Doesn't really fit into the picture. Of course, it is possible to twist the story to get the "Russian hackers" involved, at least making it believable enough for a typical ignorant lemming, but the "controversy" will still be there. No, I don't have any high hopes for it. It will quickly be forgotten. (And those who are not too quick to forget will quickly be explained that it is better to be more forgetful for their own good...) But nevertheless, it is rather interesting to see this story to pop up instead of getting "contained" as usual.
They have train vultures now? Ugh... Next time I'm in Germany I'll better take a car or a bus.