According to the C standard, malloc does not initialize the memory it gives you. Its program X's responsibility to clear confidential info before calling free (or exiting - same thing). A program that doesn't care should not be penalized. Its pretty much like you have to shred confidential info before throwing it in the trash.
Although strlcpy and strlcat attempt to fix problems with buffer overflows due to lack of null termination on strn* results, it is interesting to note that they still have a problem if you pass a string argument that is not null-terminated, since they return the total length. This problem could be detected by the guard page on malloc.
ISTR that MS tried doing immediate free and it broke some programs that depend on the memory still being sround after being freed, so they made it optional. Sounds like OpenBSD is playing hardball here.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
-- Attributed to Socrates by Plato
The thing I saw was: "after inheriting the decision" which is the kiss of death in a corporate environment. Success of a project that you inherited doesn't help you, but if you let it drag on and it fails it can hurt you. Best to kill it off as quickly as possible and blame it on your predecessor.
By your definition, what does produce power? A generator is just converting mechanical energy to electricity, not actually creating power. The Sun is just a big battery converting nuclear energy to light and heat. It doesn't actually create energy. Nothing does. All places that you get power from are converters of one type or another, since the total amount of mass+energy in the universe doesn't change (much).
I went to a seminar on this topic at C-MU in the mid seventies where an industry rep was telling us how electric fields were harmless and that we could ignore them. One of my EE professors, Stan Charap, asked since they didn't care about the electric field then it should be OK to wrap a few turns of wire around his house and use the power for free. The rep immediately got upset and said "That would be stealing". He didn't seem to think his position was a little inconsistent.
I think there have been a couple of studies over the years since then that attempt to link electric fields with brain tumors, but they don't seem to show a strong link.
Telephone systems do it right. Power supplies charge battery, 48VDC. Each unit has an efficient DC-DC converter from clean battery power down to their working voltages. No surges, no dropouts. If Bell had designed the first PC, it would be modular, run on 48V and have a cool black Bakelite case.
I was going to say that the correct tool is a Xerox copier. Take Appendix A of the software design document and copy it. If you don't have the API in your design document, then how do you know whether its right? If you didn't need a design document up front when the code was written, then why bother now? Just hand out the source and tell people the API is whatever is in there, cause you'll never figure it out now.
Looks like you are correct. A previous article said the fix was in 1.0.7, but it appears to be patched in 1.0.6 as well. So Fedora updates had the fix on Sept. 10th. No beef from me.
yum doesn't download from mozilla.org. That's the point. Mozilla.org does have 1.0.7 on their website. The problem is that the Fedora update mirrors don't have it yet. Its wonderful to release a fix right away, but you still have to distribute it somehow. I could go get it from mozilla.org, but I'll be interested to see how quickly the different distros pick it up.
There was just an article on this in one of the pop science magazines. PV cells pay back about 7 times their energy cost to build. Wind turbines only pay back about 5 times. Corn-based ethanol is currently the worst energy source out there, costing 1.3 liters of oil per liter produced, about the same ratio as hydrogen produced using electrolysis.
Best energy sources (in terms of payback and renewability) are wood heat (1:22) and hydroelectric power (1:28). They didn't cover nuclear, since it isn't an option in the current political climate.
The converse is that one reason why recent Hollywood movies have less emotional impact is that they are always "winnable", ie. tehy always have happy endings. Movies from 50 years ago are darker and more emotional in part because they seemed more like real life then the escapist crap they make now.
What an interesting idea. Black hole forms an accretion disk, which ignites to form a star. So instead of the usual incandescent star, it would look like one of those low energy flourescent bulbs coiled around a black hole. The shape would be more like a flat disk with a hole than a toroid. The light would be red-shifted due to climbing out of the gravity well of the black hole. Imagine being on a planet in a polar orbit. It would probably look like an eye.
Even "nice" companies do this. Sales personnel get a (low) base salary, but their commissions are subtracted. Once they have "paid off" their base, commissions start to get really juicy. It doesn't kill morale quite so much if you still get a check in July (a dog month).
The amount should be based on the relative contribution. If anybody could sell it, then don't expect to get a fat deal for the sales side. If its a few weeks to develop, don't expect to get a year's salary out of it for the developers. Tech companies usually budgets less than 20% of revenue toward R&D.
System-wide applications on Linux are installed as root. Even if you compile from source, Mozilla is like 1 million lines of code, so malware in it's installer would not be obvious. I think about that every time I download and install something on Linux.
Here is the newspaper article reported by Snopes. This article claims that Doubletree did at one time put CC numbers on hotel keys. Both the article and the internet email are from 2003.
Peter Wallace, the originator mentioned in the blog, seems to be a real person involved in investigating spyware and such for the travel industry. It does match the Snopes article on details, though. If its a hoax, its pretty well contrived.
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According to the C standard, malloc does not initialize the memory it gives you. Its program X's responsibility to clear confidential info before calling free (or exiting - same thing). A program that doesn't care should not be penalized. Its pretty much like you have to shred confidential info before throwing it in the trash.
Although strlcpy and strlcat attempt to fix problems with buffer overflows due to lack of null termination on strn* results, it is interesting to note that they still have a problem if you pass a string argument that is not null-terminated, since they return the total length. This problem could be detected by the guard page on malloc.
ISTR that MS tried doing immediate free and it broke some programs that depend on the memory still being sround after being freed, so they made it optional. Sounds like OpenBSD is playing hardball here.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Attributed to Socrates by Plato
"malpractice premiums do not decrease for doctors in states where malpractice awards are capped to $250,000."
Various sources claim otherwise. Can you back up what you are saying?
Point a webcam at a weather rock
The thing I saw was: "after inheriting the decision" which is the kiss of death in a corporate environment. Success of a project that you inherited doesn't help you, but if you let it drag on and it fails it can hurt you. Best to kill it off as quickly as possible and blame it on your predecessor.
By your definition, what does produce power? A generator is just converting mechanical energy to electricity, not actually creating power. The Sun is just a big battery converting nuclear energy to light and heat. It doesn't actually create energy. Nothing does. All places that you get power from are converters of one type or another, since the total amount of mass+energy in the universe doesn't change (much).
We already know how well titles reflect the content:
"Patriot Act"
"Clear Skies"
"Medical Privacy Act"
The best-named recent bill was probably
"Can Spam"
I went to a seminar on this topic at C-MU in the mid seventies where an industry rep was telling us how electric fields were harmless and that we could ignore them. One of my EE professors, Stan Charap, asked since they didn't care about the electric field then it should be OK to wrap a few turns of wire around his house and use the power for free. The rep immediately got upset and said "That would be stealing". He didn't seem to think his position was a little inconsistent.
I think there have been a couple of studies over the years since then that attempt to link electric fields with brain tumors, but they don't seem to show a strong link.
Telephone systems do it right. Power supplies charge battery, 48VDC. Each unit has an efficient DC-DC converter from clean battery power down to their working voltages. No surges, no dropouts. If Bell had designed the first PC, it would be modular, run on 48V and have a cool black Bakelite case.
Speak of the devil
The O/S vendors look like the back of my amp: MIC, AUX, LIN
I was going to say that the correct tool is a Xerox copier. Take Appendix A of the software design document and copy it. If you don't have the API in your design document, then how do you know whether its right? If you didn't need a design document up front when the code was written, then why bother now? Just hand out the source and tell people the API is whatever is in there, cause you'll never figure it out now.
Looks like you are correct. A previous article said the fix was in 1.0.7, but it appears to be patched in 1.0.6 as well. So Fedora updates had the fix on Sept. 10th. No beef from me.
yum doesn't download from mozilla.org. That's the point. Mozilla.org does have 1.0.7 on their website. The problem is that the Fedora update mirrors don't have it yet. Its wonderful to release a fix right away, but you still have to distribute it somehow. I could go get it from mozilla.org, but I'll be interested to see how quickly the different distros pick it up.
There was just an article on this in one of the pop science magazines. PV cells pay back about 7 times their energy cost to build. Wind turbines only pay back about 5 times. Corn-based ethanol is currently the worst energy source out there, costing 1.3 liters of oil per liter produced, about the same ratio as hydrogen produced using electrolysis.
Best energy sources (in terms of payback and renewability) are wood heat (1:22) and hydroelectric power (1:28). They didn't cover nuclear, since it isn't an option in the current political climate.
The converse is that one reason why recent Hollywood movies have less emotional impact is that they are always "winnable", ie. tehy always have happy endings. Movies from 50 years ago are darker and more emotional in part because they seemed more like real life then the escapist crap they make now.
What an interesting idea. Black hole forms an accretion disk, which ignites to form a star. So instead of the usual incandescent star, it would look like one of those low energy flourescent bulbs coiled around a black hole. The shape would be more like a flat disk with a hole than a toroid. The light would be red-shifted due to climbing out of the gravity well of the black hole. Imagine being on a planet in a polar orbit. It would probably look like an eye.
FEMA announced plans to start working on the problem in 3.1 billion years.
Even "nice" companies do this. Sales personnel get a (low) base salary, but their commissions are subtracted. Once they have "paid off" their base, commissions start to get really juicy. It doesn't kill morale quite so much if you still get a check in July (a dog month).
The amount should be based on the relative contribution. If anybody could sell it, then don't expect to get a fat deal for the sales side. If its a few weeks to develop, don't expect to get a year's salary out of it for the developers. Tech companies usually budgets less than 20% of revenue toward R&D.
System-wide applications on Linux are installed as root. Even if you compile from source, Mozilla is like 1 million lines of code, so malware in it's installer would not be obvious. I think about that every time I download and install something on Linux.
Here is the newspaper article reported by Snopes. This article claims that Doubletree did at one time put CC numbers on hotel keys. Both the article and the internet email are from 2003.
Peter Wallace, the originator mentioned in the blog, seems to be a real person involved in investigating spyware and such for the travel industry. It does match the Snopes article on details, though. If its a hoax, its pretty well contrived.