Oh, don't worry, they are. After all, since my grandfathered unlimited data is now taken away, and my 2-year contract is long expired, I don't have any reason to stay with AT&T anymore aside from their *cough* superior prices, coverage, reliability, and customer service.
Uninitialized memory is not random and whoever thinks that shouldn't be allowed near a compiler until they not only understand that they're wrong, but why they're wrong.
In brief, when memory is released by a program, its contents aren't (usually) cleared. For anyone looking for random data, uninitialized memory is like a garbage bag full of old newspapers and post-its with passwords written on them. Not only is it just plain not random in that someone else might have a copy of the story you used for your "random" data, but there's private data in there (the password post-its), and a determined hacker might do some bag stuffing--fill as much RAM as possible with a predetermined pattern. If you manage to fill 80% of the computer's RAM (not even difficult to achieve, a 4GB computer would still have 819MB to run on), well, there's a pretty good chance you know what seed they used for the RNG.
You don't even need any special access to the computer to do that last one; get somebody to visit a huge page that's just your pattern--guess what's in their RAM now?
There are a ridiculous number of other ways that using uninitialized variables as a source of randomness is a terrible idea, these are just the first that came to mind.
If you thought fear-mongering and ignorance were exclusive to the American deep south and are now on the verge of changing your mind, then no, you're not going mad, you're going sane.
I doubt it'll be any more pleasant than the alternative though.
Perhaps you do. Apple users just want something that works. That's why Apple doesn't need to change designs between cycles and people still buy them anyway- because they are actually useful and people buy them for that more than for something they display for looks only.
What you say is true of cars and clothes, to give people some reason they might want a new car or new clothes.
I love the heck out of my iPhone, but as a generalization your statement is hilarious.
A-fucking-men. I used to be a... I don't know what you call it, but I cared about visual quality. But, when it was time to retire my dimming CRTs, in order to get any monitor that wasn't absolute shit in a resolution equal to or higher than what I was upgrading from, I found I'd have to pay thousands of dollars per display.
Well, that kind of money turns someone into a pragmatist pretty quickly. I'm now running the cheapest tolerable monitors I could find that did 1920x1200. They're... okay. 30ms display lag. Brighter at the edges. Terrible viewing angles, poor color reproduction that changes as you look at it from different angles. But, until they get something that's actually good at that resolution or better for $500 or less, forget it. I'd pay even more for increasing values of "good", but what's out there now just isn't worth it.
You must be one of those people who holds strong convictions about things they have absolutely no clue about and parrots things they've never investigated, because there's no way anyone familiar with the Windows API could believe they've stopped using Hungarian notation:
GetFileAttributesTransacted, first released with Windows Vista. I think you can figure out how close to 1995 that was. Look at the argument names. This isn't unique, almost API function (including newly released, maybe they'll break with it with WinRT) still uses Hungarian.
Many bug systems, often the best place to find answers to tricky problems, are HTTPS only.
It's not particularly tough to set up a logging MITM proxy that captures HTTPS as well though. Log every byte of traffic, do some basic searches on the whole data set to find traffic that indicates possible cheating to inspect further and combine that with your own hunches about possible cheating, then investigate the "interesting" traffic.
Merely informing the students that their every move is logged will discourage a lot of cheating right off the bat.
I am really sad that this is being modded up as insightful.
People should work on things they enjoy. The various technologies out there are so close to equivalent that it's more a matter of what you and your team (including partner companies, etc.) are familiar with and personal aesthetics than any real technical advantage--WIMP/LAMP/C#+MSSQL/Python+Oracle, there's really very little difference in what you can accomplish.
But, I have a personal aversion to Python. I just don't like semantic whitespace--maybe that's not a good reason, but that's not the discussion we're having and I'm not particularly concerned with it either way until there's a situation where Python vs. other actually matters to me. Anyway, you know what? Because I don't like it, I don't go looking for Python jobs. And if the place I worked at switched over to Python, I'd make that actual serious evaluation instead of the knee-jerk judgement I'm currently going on, and if I still didn't like it I'd start looking elsewhere. As an employee in an at-will state, that's my prerogative.
I'm sorry that you or someone you know is having a hard time finding a job, but unfortunately a job is a lot like a girlfriend, in that it's much easier to get one when you already have one. There's no justice in this universe, and that's a fact. But this guy being miserable at his job isn't going to create more opportunities for you. If you hate everyone who's got more than you, well, you'll hate a lot of people for no good reason, and judging by your ability to make the post you did, there's a lot more people out there with even less than you.
A company will make the same decision--if they have an employee who obviously doesn't enjoy their job and is ineffective at it, they'll replace them. The only real difference is, while I'd give at least a two week notice to avoid being blackballed and probably more than that plus training a replacement because it's the right thing to do, if my employer decided to replace me I'd be out on my ass on a Friday afternoon with no notice. Or even better, and I've seen it happen, I'd be told I'm training an assistant, and then canned. All in all, there's no reason to make your money any way other than what makes you happy, provided you have that option. Don't begrudge somebody their options just because you don't have the same options, that's practically the definition of childishness. It's also how super-villains get started too though, so if deciding who lives and who dies at the point your frozen chaos laser from the top of your skull throne is your thing, disregard everything I just said.
Yes, when somebody is trying to save my life, I'm happy to provide them with as much information as they need, and when somebody is trying to ruin my life to justify their worthless job, I'll do everything I can to be unhelpful.
Hint: It's not a privacy invasion if I volunteer the information. And, "if you don't want to share you're obviously hiding something" is the very definition of coercion.
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Immune systems do not work that way!
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/misconceptions.htm
And in the state of Texas to be mandatory.
Oh, don't worry, they are. After all, since my grandfathered unlimited data is now taken away, and my 2-year contract is long expired, I don't have any reason to stay with AT&T anymore aside from their *cough* superior prices, coverage, reliability, and customer service.
It takes 2 hours to watch the Grammys. How much time do you think it takes to wade into an entire new super-genre of music?
Uninitialized memory is not random and whoever thinks that shouldn't be allowed near a compiler until they not only understand that they're wrong, but why they're wrong.
In brief, when memory is released by a program, its contents aren't (usually) cleared. For anyone looking for random data, uninitialized memory is like a garbage bag full of old newspapers and post-its with passwords written on them. Not only is it just plain not random in that someone else might have a copy of the story you used for your "random" data, but there's private data in there (the password post-its), and a determined hacker might do some bag stuffing--fill as much RAM as possible with a predetermined pattern. If you manage to fill 80% of the computer's RAM (not even difficult to achieve, a 4GB computer would still have 819MB to run on), well, there's a pretty good chance you know what seed they used for the RNG.
You don't even need any special access to the computer to do that last one; get somebody to visit a huge page that's just your pattern--guess what's in their RAM now?
There are a ridiculous number of other ways that using uninitialized variables as a source of randomness is a terrible idea, these are just the first that came to mind.
Laaaaaaaaaaaah!
Well, yeah.
See, the great thing about this system is, the ones in charge eventually die, usually before you. Then you get to be in charge, yaaay!
Love in a subway is something very different from love in an elevator.
If you thought fear-mongering and ignorance were exclusive to the American deep south and are now on the verge of changing your mind, then no, you're not going mad, you're going sane.
I doubt it'll be any more pleasant than the alternative though.
You must know some 12-year-olds with exceptional vocabularies.
Where?
Perhaps you do. Apple users just want something that works. That's why Apple doesn't need to change designs between cycles and people still buy them anyway- because they are actually useful and people buy them for that more than for something they display for looks only.
What you say is true of cars and clothes, to give people some reason they might want a new car or new clothes.
I love the heck out of my iPhone, but as a generalization your statement is hilarious.
My response to anyone who suggests I should be an "<anything> man" is "fuck you."
A-fucking-men. I used to be a ... I don't know what you call it, but I cared about visual quality. But, when it was time to retire my dimming CRTs, in order to get any monitor that wasn't absolute shit in a resolution equal to or higher than what I was upgrading from, I found I'd have to pay thousands of dollars per display.
Well, that kind of money turns someone into a pragmatist pretty quickly. I'm now running the cheapest tolerable monitors I could find that did 1920x1200. They're ... okay. 30ms display lag. Brighter at the edges. Terrible viewing angles, poor color reproduction that changes as you look at it from different angles. But, until they get something that's actually good at that resolution or better for $500 or less, forget it. I'd pay even more for increasing values of "good", but what's out there now just isn't worth it.
At what distance? With your nose on the screen? From the earth to the moon?
You must be one of those people who holds strong convictions about things they have absolutely no clue about and parrots things they've never investigated, because there's no way anyone familiar with the Windows API could believe they've stopped using Hungarian notation:
GetFileAttributesTransacted, first released with Windows Vista. I think you can figure out how close to 1995 that was. Look at the argument names. This isn't unique, almost API function (including newly released, maybe they'll break with it with WinRT) still uses Hungarian.
Because that way there's only one success, and many failures.
0(false) = success
1(true) = failure
2(true) = different failure
3(true) = yet another failure
hth
Many bug systems, often the best place to find answers to tricky problems, are HTTPS only.
It's not particularly tough to set up a logging MITM proxy that captures HTTPS as well though. Log every byte of traffic, do some basic searches on the whole data set to find traffic that indicates possible cheating to inspect further and combine that with your own hunches about possible cheating, then investigate the "interesting" traffic.
Merely informing the students that their every move is logged will discourage a lot of cheating right off the bat.
Then stop having in-class tests! My god, you're killing the woman!
Other than "oooh" factor, the main reason for the gullwing doors appears to be extra headroom when getting in the 3rd-row seats.
I am really sad that this is being modded up as insightful.
People should work on things they enjoy. The various technologies out there are so close to equivalent that it's more a matter of what you and your team (including partner companies, etc.) are familiar with and personal aesthetics than any real technical advantage--WIMP/LAMP/C#+MSSQL/Python+Oracle, there's really very little difference in what you can accomplish.
But, I have a personal aversion to Python. I just don't like semantic whitespace--maybe that's not a good reason, but that's not the discussion we're having and I'm not particularly concerned with it either way until there's a situation where Python vs. other actually matters to me. Anyway, you know what? Because I don't like it, I don't go looking for Python jobs. And if the place I worked at switched over to Python, I'd make that actual serious evaluation instead of the knee-jerk judgement I'm currently going on, and if I still didn't like it I'd start looking elsewhere. As an employee in an at-will state, that's my prerogative.
I'm sorry that you or someone you know is having a hard time finding a job, but unfortunately a job is a lot like a girlfriend, in that it's much easier to get one when you already have one. There's no justice in this universe, and that's a fact. But this guy being miserable at his job isn't going to create more opportunities for you. If you hate everyone who's got more than you, well, you'll hate a lot of people for no good reason, and judging by your ability to make the post you did, there's a lot more people out there with even less than you.
A company will make the same decision--if they have an employee who obviously doesn't enjoy their job and is ineffective at it, they'll replace them. The only real difference is, while I'd give at least a two week notice to avoid being blackballed and probably more than that plus training a replacement because it's the right thing to do, if my employer decided to replace me I'd be out on my ass on a Friday afternoon with no notice. Or even better, and I've seen it happen, I'd be told I'm training an assistant, and then canned. All in all, there's no reason to make your money any way other than what makes you happy, provided you have that option. Don't begrudge somebody their options just because you don't have the same options, that's practically the definition of childishness. It's also how super-villains get started too though, so if deciding who lives and who dies at the point your frozen chaos laser from the top of your skull throne is your thing, disregard everything I just said.
$35 is cheap enough that I can both try it now and wait and see later.
I know this is a troll, but...
Yes, when somebody is trying to save my life, I'm happy to provide them with as much information as they need, and when somebody is trying to ruin my life to justify their worthless job, I'll do everything I can to be unhelpful.
Hint: It's not a privacy invasion if I volunteer the information. And, "if you don't want to share you're obviously hiding something" is the very definition of coercion.
Due to the ocean and the gulf stream, Trondheim is something like 35C warmer in January than you might expect.
That's one warm stream.