This assumes your subjects are literate, which I gather is true for the majority of Iraqis but not all of them. Here in my neighborhood in Japan we've got a rising foreigner population, at least some of whom are going to show up at the hospital on any given day complaining of chest pains, show up at a hotel and need a room, show up at a tourist site and want tickets for six. The hospital can afford a very pricey (per month and per minute) contract with a 24x7 multilingual medical emergency translation service: you dial, hand the phone to the patient, get them to speak a few sentences to a qualified screener, then the screener transfers you to an appropriate translator. For folks who CAN'T afford this sort of service and don't need it because lives are on the line, like the little sushi shop down the street, the government has handily prepared a visual phrasebook.
It looks something like a map which folds out into sections based on what circumstance you're in. For example, the hospitality phrasebook has a "turn the map this way if you are a waiter" section. You scan down the list of phrases and find "How many people are in your party?" Then you give the map to the customer, and point at the appropriate block, where it says "How many people are in your party?" in Japanese, Portuguese, English, Chinese, and Korean (that covers about 90% of our immigrant population, 99% if you assume the Peruvians can get by with the Portuguese). They hold up an appropriate number of fingers. You point to "Smoking or non-smoking?" They point to "Non-smoking" You point to "Thank you! Please follow me!"
Its my understanding that the US military used exactly this technique during the Occupation (I've saw one of the sheets in a war museum once -- oh, boy, every joke you have ever heard about Japanese English wouldn't come close to describing the reverse). The sheets are dirt-cheap when produced in quantity, you can carry them with you anywhere and they don't break if you drop them or get sand in them, and they can be enhanced with pictures to cover even non-literate people. Plus you can train someone to use them in under a minute, which is important: "We are chasing terrorists fleeing the scene of a recent attack. Which way did they go? Please point the direction or point to "I don't know"". Do you really want to be the soldier miming "Excuse me, grandpa, could you speak directly into this microphone and try not to mumble so much? Oh, and the Basran accent there sort of throws off the software, could we get a little more Baghdad? Thanks, thats perfect."
Anyhow, they're no substitute for having a fluent translator on the scene but, hey, that isn't always an option. And anything we can do to facilitate cooperation between the troops and the Iraqis is a good thing in my book.
>> There have been thousands of books about the Russian revolution, how come I can't walk into a library or bookstore and read alternative views on it? >>
One quick stop over to any bookstore in Berkeley or Amazon and you can get all the pro-Commie rubbish you can stomach. Better bring your credit card though -- socialism can be very intellectually satisfying but its hard to eat it (hard to eat if you're living under it, too). You can find Communist propaganda in America everywhere you'll find a market for it, same as just about everything else. And, yes, given that the USSR was "accused" of shooting people who didn't follow the party line (because they, well, did), that is a wee bit of a difference from you having to actually having to find a niche store for a niche audience.
Microsoft is a company known for paying a generous dividend. Their annual dividends on a share of stock ($28 as I write this) are $.40 cents at the moment, for a yield of 1.5%. If you want to make a $36k yearly income from dividends, you need a cool $2.4 million invested in a company with dividends of the same yield as Microsoft. Even if you get an unheard of yield of 4.5% you need $800k. Dividends are *not* tax free! You'll get a 1099 form from MSFT (or whoever) listing how much you made, and then you get to go through a fun process to decide whether they are ordinary dividends (taxable as income, same as if I paid you the same amount of money to play games for me) or qualified dividends (still taxable, but as capital gains -- you get either a 5% or 15% rate as opposed to whatever your normal income tax bracket puts you in, depending on what bracket you're in). The IRS says the overwhelming majority of dividends are ordinary, not qualified, and I'm inclined to agree with them since they'll break my kneecaps if I don't. (http://www.irs.gov/publications/p550/ch01.html#d0 e4586)
I'm skipping the impact of a traditional or Roth IRA, since neither of these applies to an 18 year old gamer -- you'd get penalized up the wazoo for touching a penny.
The reason most old folks can afford retirement isn't dividends (or bond income), its that their portfolio has appreciated to the point where they can live out the rest of their life expectancy through a combination of dividend income, bond income, and drawing down the value of the portfolio. Thats less of an option for a hypothetical 23 year old ex-pro gamer, since his hypothetical stash will not likely generate sufficient income to cover his expenses without liquidating a bit of it every year, and he will probably live long enough to see it vanish in its entirety. (Supposing a cool million in stock and $30k in annual living expenses, you'll need to either pray for an increasing market EVERY year of your life or liquidiate a few percent of your portfolio in year one, then a few more in year two, then year three, etc etc, and the amount you have to sell increases in every year because you're selling your future income stream down the river every time you sell a share).
Obligatory: THIS IS NOT TAX OR INVESTMENT ADVICE. I just have had these issues on my mind a lot recently as I've been working on starting my own retirement plan.
Grandparent is partially wrong, by the way, but he wasn't talking about AIDS. Libya's oil wealth gives rise to a very stratified society -- you're either cut into the oil profits (a socialist regime rewarding supporters and screwing the rest of the country -- stop the presses!), or you're in a situation such that "poor" does not even begin to describe your life. Like many African nations it STILL has a slavery problem. Thats slavery like "I own you and can sell you at will", for folks who are used to hearing the later-day American interpretation "I employ you and don't pay you as much as you'd like to earn". I'll give you one guess as to your likelihood of getting a laptop as a slave that the government (sole laptop distributor) says doesn't exist.
Its a sign that the market, such that there exists one for a product which has essentially always been free-as-in-beer, is working. Firefox was the critique of IE, in software form. IE7 is the reply. Everybody gets better software out of the deal for there having been a bit of competition there. (Even the Firefox guys -- you think they had a fire lit under their hindquarters to improve when they were pretty clearly superior feature-wise to IE?)
I'm sorry, I remember Snow Crash being funny, stylish, and freaking cool and not being a run-down virtual Las Vegas where the choice of avatars was limited to B, S, and M. Second Life seems to have nailed the "other people can crash your brain by uploading a virus into it" (look at any screenshot of the game, blam, BSoD in your cerebral cortex). Unfortunately, they haven't got:
1) An Eskimo with muscles the size of small nation states and a nuclear weapon on his motocycle 2) An Italian grandfather cum pizza baron who also happens to be a mobster who attacks said Eskimo with a razor blade over a point of honor (mostly), and wins 3) Man's best friend reimagined as a genetically engineered cyborg freakazoid who perishes in a self-induced fiery inferno after breaking the sound barrier to reach... 4)... an annoying brat with poor discretion in men but a very interesting after-school job 5) And, of course, somebody who couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a black samurai or a Japanese programmer so he just decided on "badass" and then named himself Protagonist so, out of all the other badasses in the book, you'd know who to root for.
I think there was also some mumbo-jumbo about a computer virus, the Internet, and whatnot. Ho hum. If I wanted that, I'd go to Second Life.
... in Bosnia, not only did they get nice little fundraisers, they got a US-lead military campaign. Which was about the only effective part of the operation (and I'm being generous calling it effective), since the UN, as per usual, let the genocide continue in the supposedly safe areas right under their nose. Now the area is mostly lawless, overseen by a toothless UN agency whose only mandate is protecting their mandate, and has a growing Islamic terrorist problem.
All in all, a pretty successful international peacekeeping operation by historical standards. By the way, have you heard about Kosovo in your newspaper in the last, oh, 5 years or so? The answer is probably a "no" for the same reason you hear about Darfur fairly little: it just isn't that useful as a talking point against the US. If you want to get some worldwide attention for Darfur, screw the little MySpace singalong: figure out a way that it reflects badly on Bush and I guarantee you AFRICANS DYING BY MILLIONS AS DUBYA YAWNS will be the headline of half the papers in the free world.
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... someone uploads the unlocked additional content to the YoHoHoFTP server. And then you're back at square one again. Software as a service, on the other hand, works pretty well at preventing piracy: how many pirated disks of WoW do you think have ever been made? (Incidentally, folks who are pretty much OK with unrestricted piracy but hate monthly fees need to look at China. China's present is our future, folks: if piracy is inevitable and largely tolerated then you will not be able to own a PC game for love or money because no one will sell them to you. At best you'll be able to lease the right to play with your virtual items for a month or an item at a time.)
There is nothing to see here: he systematically disables all of IE7's protections, clicks past up to FOUR warning boxes to get some of the toolbars, and goes through the manual install process (!!) for some of them because IE was like "Uh oh, sorry, you look determined to shoot yourself in the foot and I just can't let you" and denied the install through the browser.
a) Go to Bank of America, tell them you're a college student, ask for student checking (free for five years) and a linked credit card account ($500 max).
b) Go to any credit card provider. Get a card for $2,000, which they will give to you if you have a pulse and haven't previously been a deadbeat. Call their customer service line, ask to get your credit limit lowered. (Did you know you can negotiate just about ANY number on your credit card contract? Try it, its fun. If you've been good about being ontime, call up your credit card company and say "Hiya, I deserve a few points off my interest." Doesn't cost you a dime and the worst they can say is no. Similarly, you can ask for a credit line increase, a higher grace period, whatever.)
c) Go to a credit card provider specializing in subprime borrowers (Orchard, Capital One, etc). Get a low credit line because thats essentially what they default to giving people. (Stupid idea, though, as most will also charge an annual fee).
I saw this linked above by an AC. http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1004/TKY20061 0040185.html Its an article in the Asahi Shinbun about the feat. My brief non-literal translation follows (if its inaccurate, sorry in advance, for accurate translations you can pay me my hourly):
"Using equivilence rules like 3 = sa [n.b. all numbers in Japanese have a variety of syllables which they can be read as -- thus, you can remember a phone number as roughly a two to three word phrase, like my bank being 555-GOT-MONEY], you can memorize the first N of the infinite digits of pi by constructing a story of sufficient length and memorizing that. His previous record was seven years ago.
After reciting the 100k digits they were checked against a computer printout. Mr. Haraguchi then retired with his family. They brought him his favorite beer, which he proceeded to chug. He commented 'Its good that I was able to relax'*"
* This is ambiguous in Japanese: my guess is he is referring to his ability to have been relaxed while reciting the digits, but eh, doesn't really matter either way.
By the way: my back of the envelope math suggests 100k digits of pi would leave you with a Japanese text about a tenth as long as the Bible, give or take. So its neither impossible nor a mean feat to have memorized a text of that length.
Microsoft has threatened to invade France to reimpose "order" on the chaos of the ODF. France has pre-emptively surrendered. The treaty will, naturally, be written in.doc. Microsoft intends, while they're at it, to fire half of France's work force and outsource their invading-poor-African-nations operations in favor of France's core competency, whining about American hegemony.
Its hard to go from overflow to arbitrary execution. Its freaking trivial to go from arbitrary code execution to a black hat library. All the bad guys need is one really smart guy and that exploit is then in play for anyone with a modicrum of technical skill. Thus is pays to be really freaking vigilant about memory management.
Incidentally: you can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Similarly, you can manage some of memory correctly all of the time, and you can manage all of memory correctly some of the time, but you can never manage all of memory correctly all of the time. Programmers should exit, stage left, from the memory management business. It is a security vulnerability and it always will be, the same way crypto routines are always, perpetually vulnerable. Do with memory what we do with crypto: have guys far above my pay grade define a few primatives after subjecting the field to rigorous study, subject those primatives to massive amounts of testing lasting decades, and instruct mere mortals to never, ever, ever re-implement a primative even if they think after 2 hours of reflection "Hey, I can save 2% of my clock cycles and STILL be just as secure!"
... you should get an art department in the PC to touch up your screencaps, too!
"Dude, that C'Thun killshot was weak. It needs a lens flare! Get to it, graphics gnome!" "On it, boss! Can we interest you in paying another $4,000 for a $2000 Dell?" "Are you crazy?" "Its got a case mod." "Oh I'm so there!"
I am a fairly conservative Republican who comes from a family of modest means and think campaigns for "living wage" policies are generally wrongheaded. I went to college with a bunch of people who were neither Republicans nor of modest means, and many of them were quite in favor of instituting a "living wage". They expressed this desire via sit-ins (lasting months) and, in one incident, stickering a few administration buildings -- on the bathroom mirrors, where they are most difficult to remove. Guess who ended up spending hours of their day removing the bathroom stickers? Hint: its not the kid who can afford $40k per year for tuition -- Tuesdays are his rally-for-Palestine, yo.
Similar stuff happened at hotels frequently. I spilled some cola at a reception once and immediately scurried off to the restroom to get paper towels to wipe it up. This required briefly abandoning the conversation I was in, and someone asked what the hurry was. I told him that there was cola on the floor, it was my fault, and if I did not hurry to clean it the floor would get sticky. He said "Oh, leave that for the help". So help me God, you have my permission to slug me if I ever have "the help".
Yeah, but starting fresh doesn't ping the phisher saying "Oh, the guy with Bank of America acct #12345677 and password 'ihatep@sswordpolicies' has a secure computer now, so don't go compromising his bank account with those credentials you just got in his last compromised Firefox session. It wouldn't be fair."
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"Toilet seat up: not a bug."
"Poker night: won't fix."
"Nagging: duplicate of EVERY OTHER FREAKING DAY."
This assumes your subjects are literate, which I gather is true for the majority of Iraqis but not all of them. Here in my neighborhood in Japan we've got a rising foreigner population, at least some of whom are going to show up at the hospital on any given day complaining of chest pains, show up at a hotel and need a room, show up at a tourist site and want tickets for six. The hospital can afford a very pricey (per month and per minute) contract with a 24x7 multilingual medical emergency translation service: you dial, hand the phone to the patient, get them to speak a few sentences to a qualified screener, then the screener transfers you to an appropriate translator. For folks who CAN'T afford this sort of service and don't need it because lives are on the line, like the little sushi shop down the street, the government has handily prepared a visual phrasebook.
It looks something like a map which folds out into sections based on what circumstance you're in. For example, the hospitality phrasebook has a "turn the map this way if you are a waiter" section. You scan down the list of phrases and find "How many people are in your party?" Then you give the map to the customer, and point at the appropriate block, where it says "How many people are in your party?" in Japanese, Portuguese, English, Chinese, and Korean (that covers about 90% of our immigrant population, 99% if you assume the Peruvians can get by with the Portuguese). They hold up an appropriate number of fingers. You point to "Smoking or non-smoking?" They point to "Non-smoking" You point to "Thank you! Please follow me!"
Its my understanding that the US military used exactly this technique during the Occupation (I've saw one of the sheets in a war museum once -- oh, boy, every joke you have ever heard about Japanese English wouldn't come close to describing the reverse). The sheets are dirt-cheap when produced in quantity, you can carry them with you anywhere and they don't break if you drop them or get sand in them, and they can be enhanced with pictures to cover even non-literate people. Plus you can train someone to use them in under a minute, which is important: "We are chasing terrorists fleeing the scene of a recent attack. Which way did they go? Please point the direction or point to "I don't know"". Do you really want to be the soldier miming "Excuse me, grandpa, could you speak directly into this microphone and try not to mumble so much? Oh, and the Basran accent there sort of throws off the software, could we get a little more Baghdad? Thanks, thats perfect."
Anyhow, they're no substitute for having a fluent translator on the scene but, hey, that isn't always an option. And anything we can do to facilitate cooperation between the troops and the Iraqis is a good thing in my book.
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There have been thousands of books about the Russian revolution, how come I can't walk into a library or bookstore and read alternative views on it?
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One quick stop over to any bookstore in Berkeley or Amazon and you can get all the pro-Commie rubbish you can stomach. Better bring your credit card though -- socialism can be very intellectually satisfying but its hard to eat it (hard to eat if you're living under it, too). You can find Communist propaganda in America everywhere you'll find a market for it, same as just about everything else. And, yes, given that the USSR was "accused" of shooting people who didn't follow the party line (because they, well, did), that is a wee bit of a difference from you having to actually having to find a niche store for a niche audience.
When people in Second Life talk about things being "fully functional" they are usually not appropriate for a classroom setting.
Microsoft is a company known for paying a generous dividend. Their annual dividends on a share of stock ($28 as I write this) are $.40 cents at the moment, for a yield of 1.5%. If you want to make a $36k yearly income from dividends, you need a cool $2.4 million invested in a company with dividends of the same yield as Microsoft. Even if you get an unheard of yield of 4.5% you need $800k. Dividends are *not* tax free! You'll get a 1099 form from MSFT (or whoever) listing how much you made, and then you get to go through a fun process to decide whether they are ordinary dividends (taxable as income, same as if I paid you the same amount of money to play games for me) or qualified dividends (still taxable, but as capital gains -- you get either a 5% or 15% rate as opposed to whatever your normal income tax bracket puts you in, depending on what bracket you're in). The IRS says the overwhelming majority of dividends are ordinary, not qualified, and I'm inclined to agree with them since they'll break my kneecaps if I don't. (http://www.irs.gov/publications/p550/ch01.html#d0 e4586)
I'm skipping the impact of a traditional or Roth IRA, since neither of these applies to an 18 year old gamer -- you'd get penalized up the wazoo for touching a penny.
The reason most old folks can afford retirement isn't dividends (or bond income), its that their portfolio has appreciated to the point where they can live out the rest of their life expectancy through a combination of dividend income, bond income, and drawing down the value of the portfolio. Thats less of an option for a hypothetical 23 year old ex-pro gamer, since his hypothetical stash will not likely generate sufficient income to cover his expenses without liquidating a bit of it every year, and he will probably live long enough to see it vanish in its entirety. (Supposing a cool million in stock and $30k in annual living expenses, you'll need to either pray for an increasing market EVERY year of your life or liquidiate a few percent of your portfolio in year one, then a few more in year two, then year three, etc etc, and the amount you have to sell increases in every year because you're selling your future income stream down the river every time you sell a share).
Obligatory: THIS IS NOT TAX OR INVESTMENT ADVICE. I just have had these issues on my mind a lot recently as I've been working on starting my own retirement plan.
Grandparent is partially wrong, by the way, but he wasn't talking about AIDS. Libya's oil wealth gives rise to a very stratified society -- you're either cut into the oil profits (a socialist regime rewarding supporters and screwing the rest of the country -- stop the presses!), or you're in a situation such that "poor" does not even begin to describe your life. Like many African nations it STILL has a slavery problem. Thats slavery like "I own you and can sell you at will", for folks who are used to hearing the later-day American interpretation "I employ you and don't pay you as much as you'd like to earn". I'll give you one guess as to your likelihood of getting a laptop as a slave that the government (sole laptop distributor) says doesn't exist.
Its a sign that the market, such that there exists one for a product which has essentially always been free-as-in-beer, is working. Firefox was the critique of IE, in software form. IE7 is the reply. Everybody gets better software out of the deal for there having been a bit of competition there. (Even the Firefox guys -- you think they had a fire lit under their hindquarters to improve when they were pretty clearly superior feature-wise to IE?)
I'm sorry, I remember Snow Crash being funny, stylish, and freaking cool and not being a run-down virtual Las Vegas where the choice of avatars was limited to B, S, and M. Second Life seems to have nailed the "other people can crash your brain by uploading a virus into it" (look at any screenshot of the game, blam, BSoD in your cerebral cortex). Unfortunately, they haven't got:
... ... an annoying brat with poor discretion in men but a very interesting after-school job
1) An Eskimo with muscles the size of small nation states and a nuclear weapon on his motocycle
2) An Italian grandfather cum pizza baron who also happens to be a mobster who attacks said Eskimo with a razor blade over a point of honor (mostly), and wins
3) Man's best friend reimagined as a genetically engineered cyborg freakazoid who perishes in a self-induced fiery inferno after breaking the sound barrier to reach
4)
5) And, of course, somebody who couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a black samurai or a Japanese programmer so he just decided on "badass" and then named himself Protagonist so, out of all the other badasses in the book, you'd know who to root for.
I think there was also some mumbo-jumbo about a computer virus, the Internet, and whatnot. Ho hum. If I wanted that, I'd go to Second Life.
No. That is why it is called "science fiction".
If snorting orange juice all over my keyboard is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Your parentheses are borked, oh LISPing one.
... when the main social ill of Palestinian youth is their predilection for virtual violence.
... in Bosnia, not only did they get nice little fundraisers, they got a US-lead military campaign. Which was about the only effective part of the operation (and I'm being generous calling it effective), since the UN, as per usual, let the genocide continue in the supposedly safe areas right under their nose. Now the area is mostly lawless, overseen by a toothless UN agency whose only mandate is protecting their mandate, and has a growing Islamic terrorist problem.
All in all, a pretty successful international peacekeeping operation by historical standards. By the way, have you heard about Kosovo in your newspaper in the last, oh, 5 years or so? The answer is probably a "no" for the same reason you hear about Darfur fairly little: it just isn't that useful as a talking point against the US. If you want to get some worldwide attention for Darfur, screw the little MySpace singalong: figure out a way that it reflects badly on Bush and I guarantee you AFRICANS DYING BY MILLIONS AS DUBYA YAWNS will be the headline of half the papers in the free world.
... someone uploads the unlocked additional content to the YoHoHoFTP server. And then you're back at square one again. Software as a service, on the other hand, works pretty well at preventing piracy: how many pirated disks of WoW do you think have ever been made? (Incidentally, folks who are pretty much OK with unrestricted piracy but hate monthly fees need to look at China. China's present is our future, folks: if piracy is inevitable and largely tolerated then you will not be able to own a PC game for love or money because no one will sell them to you. At best you'll be able to lease the right to play with your virtual items for a month or an item at a time.)
There is nothing to see here: he systematically disables all of IE7's protections, clicks past up to FOUR warning boxes to get some of the toolbars, and goes through the manual install process (!!) for some of them because IE was like "Uh oh, sorry, you look determined to shoot yourself in the foot and I just can't let you" and denied the install through the browser.
a) Go to Bank of America, tell them you're a college student, ask for student checking (free for five years) and a linked credit card account ($500 max).
b) Go to any credit card provider. Get a card for $2,000, which they will give to you if you have a pulse and haven't previously been a deadbeat. Call their customer service line, ask to get your credit limit lowered. (Did you know you can negotiate just about ANY number on your credit card contract? Try it, its fun. If you've been good about being ontime, call up your credit card company and say "Hiya, I deserve a few points off my interest." Doesn't cost you a dime and the worst they can say is no. Similarly, you can ask for a credit line increase, a higher grace period, whatever.)
c) Go to a credit card provider specializing in subprime borrowers (Orchard, Capital One, etc). Get a low credit line because thats essentially what they default to giving people. (Stupid idea, though, as most will also charge an annual fee).
d) Secured card from your favorite lender.
God I must have been asleep this morning. Can I mod myself down? :)
I saw this linked above by an AC. http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1004/TKY20061 0040185.html Its an article in the Asahi Shinbun about the feat. My brief non-literal translation follows (if its inaccurate, sorry in advance, for accurate translations you can pay me my hourly):
"Using equivilence rules like 3 = sa [n.b. all numbers in Japanese have a variety of syllables which they can be read as -- thus, you can remember a phone number as roughly a two to three word phrase, like my bank being 555-GOT-MONEY], you can memorize the first N of the infinite digits of pi by constructing a story of sufficient length and memorizing that. His previous record was seven years ago.
After reciting the 100k digits they were checked against a computer printout. Mr. Haraguchi then retired with his family. They brought him his favorite beer, which he proceeded to chug. He commented 'Its good that I was able to relax'*"
* This is ambiguous in Japanese: my guess is he is referring to his ability to have been relaxed while reciting the digits, but eh, doesn't really matter either way.
By the way: my back of the envelope math suggests 100k digits of pi would leave you with a Japanese text about a tenth as long as the Bible, give or take. So its neither impossible nor a mean feat to have memorized a text of that length.
The last $100 is for the MousterCable.
Microsoft has threatened to invade France to reimpose "order" on the chaos of the ODF. France has pre-emptively surrendered. The treaty will, naturally, be written in .doc. Microsoft intends, while they're at it, to fire half of France's work force and outsource their invading-poor-African-nations operations in favor of France's core competency, whining about American hegemony.
Who is the Slashdotter to root for? Hmm... I know, third option! It is Microsoft's fault!
Its hard to go from overflow to arbitrary execution. Its freaking trivial to go from arbitrary code execution to a black hat library. All the bad guys need is one really smart guy and that exploit is then in play for anyone with a modicrum of technical skill. Thus is pays to be really freaking vigilant about memory management.
Incidentally: you can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Similarly, you can manage some of memory correctly all of the time, and you can manage all of memory correctly some of the time, but you can never manage all of memory correctly all of the time. Programmers should exit, stage left, from the memory management business. It is a security vulnerability and it always will be, the same way crypto routines are always, perpetually vulnerable. Do with memory what we do with crypto: have guys far above my pay grade define a few primatives after subjecting the field to rigorous study, subject those primatives to massive amounts of testing lasting decades, and instruct mere mortals to never, ever, ever re-implement a primative even if they think after 2 hours of reflection "Hey, I can save 2% of my clock cycles and STILL be just as secure!"
... you should get an art department in the PC to touch up your screencaps, too!
"Dude, that C'Thun killshot was weak. It needs a lens flare! Get to it, graphics gnome!"
"On it, boss! Can we interest you in paying another $4,000 for a $2000 Dell?"
"Are you crazy?"
"Its got a case mod."
"Oh I'm so there!"
I am a fairly conservative Republican who comes from a family of modest means and think campaigns for "living wage" policies are generally wrongheaded. I went to college with a bunch of people who were neither Republicans nor of modest means, and many of them were quite in favor of instituting a "living wage". They expressed this desire via sit-ins (lasting months) and, in one incident, stickering a few administration buildings -- on the bathroom mirrors, where they are most difficult to remove. Guess who ended up spending hours of their day removing the bathroom stickers? Hint: its not the kid who can afford $40k per year for tuition -- Tuesdays are his rally-for-Palestine, yo.
Similar stuff happened at hotels frequently. I spilled some cola at a reception once and immediately scurried off to the restroom to get paper towels to wipe it up. This required briefly abandoning the conversation I was in, and someone asked what the hurry was. I told him that there was cola on the floor, it was my fault, and if I did not hurry to clean it the floor would get sticky. He said "Oh, leave that for the help". So help me God, you have my permission to slug me if I ever have "the help".
Yeah, but starting fresh doesn't ping the phisher saying "Oh, the guy with Bank of America acct #12345677 and password 'ihatep@sswordpolicies' has a secure computer now, so don't go compromising his bank account with those credentials you just got in his last compromised Firefox session. It wouldn't be fair."