Being raised a devout Catholic, I have to say this:
For an outsider, most of the new testament looks like this to an outsider:
1) Man and woman engage in pre-maritial sex, woman gets pregnant. Father considers finding new woman to knock up... 2) Woman claims 'divine' miracle to escape village mockery. Villagers buy it?!?! 3) Child has some social/behavorial problems, reading too many religious texts at a young age, believing himself to be the next coming of god. 4) Child manages to recruit some poor uneducated fishermen into his self-made cult. 5) Unconscious man in comma mistakenly believed to be dead wakes up, miracle cited. 6) Drunk party-goers at a weddding ceremony mistake water for wine, miracle cited. 7) Child walks on a coral reef/sandbar, friends think he is walking on water. 8) Stories spread & distorted through "word of mouth", child becomes famous. 9) More followers join cult, start preaching about the demise of those who do not follow their teachings. 10) Government gets suspicious of this new "terrorist" group. Executes leader (child). 11) Followers go into hiding. 12) Many years later, they come up and spread the stories... Later write them into gospels. 13) Some of these followers are also imprisioned, appearing to be lunatics/terrorists... 14) ****..) Followers unite into a "church"..) This "church" becomes a major political party...) Church approves of and wages bloody wars on infidels [Inquisition]..) Inner squabbling leads to three rulers claiming dominance [Papal Schism]..) ****..) Almost at world-wide domination in the 20th century!
[The ordering of these is likely inaccurate, but the events are accurate]
Interestingly, I learned in a Catholic high school that the 4 Gospels were written ~50 years after Jesus **died**. How well could you write about something that happened 10 years ago?? How about something that happened 50 years ago? 50 years later, how many people are going to be alive to verify/contest your story???
This fact seems to be heavily obscured... And of course, the Testaments have undergone revisions since then. Also the 4 Gospels are basically the same in content, so three seemed to have mainly copied off the 1st, and just re-wording them for different audiences.
If Jesus were alive today, he would be ex-communicated by most/all Christian groups, deemed as an international terrorist, and executed... And none of this would make the news in the US...
I don't know that to think about Revelation. I do know that there are many practical guidelines for living life that people have mistakenly mis-understood to be divine regulations in the Bible.
In that context and given that 2000 years ago, countries were still collecting taxes and taking census of their people, my guess is that Revelation is a warning about what could happen in a tightly-run society that documents, measures and meters out every little thing. What would happen in a restaurent if you only gave them 90% of the amount on the bill...? Would they let you walk away? Would the manager get involved? In India today, they would thank you smilingly and you would leave. In the US, there would likely be consequences... Which is quite ironic!
And considering technological & political trends nowadays.... yes, we have much to be concerned about.
The point is that it is much harder to hide malicious code when the source is available.
Yes, but still somewhat easy. How many source-based distros are there? How many binary-based distros are there? How many people use the latter? Enough said... Compiler & library variations/settings make it somewhat difficult to verify that the published source code matches the vendor-supplied binary...
Even with the source available, someone could include a malicous patch... Remember the fiacso a few years back when someone tried to change a "==" to a "=" in the linux kernel? How many people would catch that in a patch? Especially if a reasonable comment was added to justify the change.. Many patches don't come from the original source of the package... Both Gentoo and RedHat distros supply patched-up kernels and apps... They seem to write their own patches...
I like OSS, but there is a danger that the "openness" will breed too much complacency among users. And the "open source" nature of it also lowers the playing field, making it easier for subversive elements to accomplish their goals... (I would guess that this is _currently_ balanced/surmounted by the groups that audit OSS code, read patches, etc... for *now*...)
And for commercial/closed-source software, people are way too easy to fool.... Couldn't a video hardware manufacturer put a back-door in their code, so that when a specific sequence of opengl calls was executed, the driver's kernel-level code would so something highly malicious/surreptious...? Yes it is a stretch, but crackers always seem to manage to stretch what believe to be possible.... I'm under the impression that there aren't much access-controls at the windows driver/kernel levels...
In the days when computers ran software off single (bootable) floppy disks, things were actually pretty secure. If the disk itself was uncompromised, not much else could happen to it or other stuff... Now that we have centralized storage (hard drives, etc), networking, and a virtually unlimited amount of space for program files, many more opportunities exist....
But there is no reason to give up using a computer at home.... As long as governments and cooperations increase their use, our personal stuff/data doesn't really matter... All of our legal records, financial records, and health information are at the mercy of those who write software... Especially since a great deal of info is never printed to physical form anymore...
True, one could fully audit all the code used on a system... But then each upgrade/patch would still need to be checked. Which would be quite a bit of work on a linux desktop running X applications..(consider the number of libraries/etc required for Gnome/KDE, although icewm is a could be an option)
Most people assume using HTTPS or any SSL-encrypted communication is secure, especially when they see the other side presenting an authentic key...
But suppose someone wanted to intercept & modify SSL traffic?
If they were in bed with Verisign, they could just get a copy of the signed key and use a simple transparent proxy to filter/modify traffic. If this was done at the office building and/or ISP level, it would be very difficult to notice. (At most, there might be an extra hop in one of many internal ISP hops in a traceroute)
Which means SSL is probably insecure (against large organizations/governments).
I'm not sure what kind of checking Microsoft's Windows Update site does, but considering they're using SSL, I bet they either have something to hide or they are relying on SSL for most of their security. And considering that Internet Explorer's "trust" mechanisms are based on DNS domainname, things could go really really bad....
Of course, most Linux distributions are probably not any better. Even though many rely in MD5 or other hashes of downloaded files, these could be intercepted and modified... One mitigating factor is that the distributed nature of the mirrors and users would make this more difficult.
Only those who write network hardware drivers have any chance of detecting "hidden" activity...
It seems to me that anti-virus efforts should only be half of Symantec's work... Isn't in their shareholders' interest to also write viruses [without being caught]?
They must either be really really good at reverse engineering binaries, or a few of the big ones were theirs... (How do they know the date and time that a virus will strike?)
Well, instead of working out some kind of shift scheme to divide the 24hr day, too many companies find it easier just to abuse a single individual/group 24hrs/day, 7days a week... Both this problem and its remedy do not involve technology.
There was a time not too long ago, when mail was carried on horseback... When telegrams were expensive and probably still took a few hours to deliver... The world did not end due to such delays.
If emergencies are going to be planned, then the people involved shouldn't be watching movies in theaters... They shouldn't be sitting in church. They shouldn't be attending an opera/lecture/etc...
There are really very few actual emergencies... A stock losing $0.50 is not an emergency.
If one's employment demands that they work 8-10hrs/day and handle "emergencies" at night, I think the bigger emergency is "WTF are they doing with their life".
Interestingly, I think I have seem some newly built buidling that were deisgned to block out cell phones... They are about the ground yet somehow there is no coverage inside the conference/auditorium rooms... Presentations are remarkably smooth...
I have a feeling that most "on-call" medical doctors don't go to the movie theater much. And considering their hours, its probably easier for them to rent the movie and watch it at home at 3am.
Most of the problems you cite are only truly applicable to "C".
In C++,
Macros largely unnecessary with the use of templates
C++ is strongly typed (much more than C)
Character strings unnecessary (object-oriented replacements more generic, more powerful)
GC? Well, it can be done a bit more nicely with some object-oriented techniques and programmer dicipline)
Could be extremely portable, but most people seem to not bother to make their programs that way.
I'm not sure what you mean about "extreme verbosity"... Sounds like you're a Perl programmer (;->
Also static introspection is possible in C++ using overloading and/or templates... [But it would have been more convenient if it was an explicitly-built-in feature] Also, templates can be used in very powerful ways (template metaprogramming), for example to automatically choose the best sort routine (at compile-time) for a particular data-type. It is even possible to use templates to create highly portable code (e.g. when char,short,int,long vary across architectures and a minimum level of precision is required).
In terms of writing complex, high-performance software, I don't see anything replacing C++ (not even Java). But for applications where performance is not an issue, I find the strong typing features of C++ to be an advantage...
Think of how many web CGI scripts have security flaws because they are passing un-sanitized data from the GET/POST data to SQL queries or the command-line? Well, these flaws could have been prevented at COMPILE TIME, with a strongly typed language, such as C++. (Strings in different domains could have different types, forcing the programmer to run specialized functions for sanitizing one string before using it in a different domain)
My little knowledge of functional-based languages is that they tend to copy data unnecessarily. This doesn't matter in many applications, but it becomes a show-stopper in terms of performance for some.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Precision matters. You can never have enough of it.
Well, in embedded applications, precision is an enemy... Do you think your cell phone is performing all the calculations that do the modulation, filtering, and encoding of the transmitted/received signals in **floating point**?
Nope. Embedded communications/image devices often do everthing using integer arithmetic (fixed point). An I think many signal processing applications *can* be implemented with 16bit integers! [but it ain't easy]
I believe even some 3D graphics applications are implemented in fixed-point arithmetic for faster hardware/software performance.
I suspect the physics applications mentioned in the slides could have been implemented in a more numerically-robust manner. (My impression is that physists rarely care enough (or have enough time) about programming to do it well, which still works out better than trying to get CS people to do physics stuff)
So, forward your work cell phone to a private phone and permanently leave the work phone in its charger, inside a locked drawer of your desk.
If employers are taking employees, then perhaps it should be brought home 1-2 times a week. Then your boss will be really really impressed when he finds you spent 110 hours last week in the office.... (Or he might be pissed as to why you didn't accomplish 3x as much as a regular 40hr/week person).
An electrical engineer with a PhD degree, conducting research at a world-renown university in India will make less than $674/month.
Is he hurting anybody? Well, how would you feel if you were a real journalist and some punk was copying your words -- your hard work -- without attribution and getting paid for it? Journalists aren't exactly on the same pay scale as American lawyers...
And do you think this guy is paying taxes? Or even reporting to the IRS? Even at $8000k/year, THEY would care.
There is a lack of qualified journalists in the US, not scientists, and that is where the real problem lies.
Amen!!!!
The entire news industry has major problems, but since they report the news, most people won't know!
I recently read a Ziff-Davis publication that gloated over a quiet "fanless" computer. The article's photo prominently showed a large fan on it (and yes, it was the correct photo). The article writer who appeared to have "reviewed" this product wrote the article entirely without ever seeing it. It was just a thinly disguised advertisement.
While this is not of a political nature (and is really minor), it illustrates what kind of deception may be (in)advertently caused by apathetic "journalists".
Another problem is that most news companies are afraid to tackle truly controversial issues. (Funny how the topics in PBS's "extreme oil" video are never mentioned on local or national news). Instead, most news companies take mundane issues and harp on them enough to stir the public into a frenzy. (Janet Jackson, etc). They know they can do this safely and greatly increase their circulation/profits/etc....
I live in a major US capital city. What is the main topic of the local news? They seem to spend about 1/3 of the time talking about weather records, forcasts, etc. This might make sense if this area's (or state's) main industry was agriculture, but it is NOT. And besides, the weather here is fairly moderate, its not like it is going to snow one day and be scorchingly hot the next...
Coverage of international issues is virtually absent from all US news sources -- unless a single American is somehow involved. Some might say, well what would be the point?
Well, US-based companies are doing some pretty questionable things in other parts of the world. (soft-drink companies, pharmacuticals,etc) I think the US public would be interested to know what that the companies they support by buy products/services are doing to others... Whether or not the US public actually cares is highly irrevelant. It is the responsibility of journalists to make things *known*.
In another example, the US news seemed to entirely miss upon the point of the poor design used for the electronic voting machines. They easily could have interviewed a few "experts" that could relate in laymen's terms of how easily preventable/avoidable such design flaws are. Something to the effect ("they built the equivalent of a bank with no walls, etc")
A few years ago, I went on a cruise ship... I noticed that the side of the ship stated it was built in "Monrovia". Me, being a dumb American, figured that was somewhere in Europe. (Most of the crew were from poor areas in eastern europe). Last night, I watched "The Lord of War", whose plot included Monrovia (or the area). Needless to say, I was shocked...
Well, one thing is now clear to me: There were multiple levels of exploitation involved in the construction and operation of that ship. Had I known that in advance, I wouldn't have done the cruise.
Truly, how ignorant are we?
In the words of D. Rumsfield, these types of issues fall into the "unknown unknowns" of the public, with a small minority knowing them as "known unknowns", and a very tiny few as "known"
What you did would not have sent a pointer. If "SERVER" was anything other than an integer-type, this wouldn't even have compiled under C. And if you did send "*SUN" to the "sentToBlog" function, there is no way that function could get the address, since using "&" there would just return an address pointing to the temporary copy on the stack, which is not what was intended.
What you meant was this:
SERVER *SUN; char HappyNerd[1337]; HappyNerd = sendToBlog(SUN);.... void sendToBlog( SERVER *s ) {
printf("Whoo-hoo! The pointer points to %p\n", s); }
That would be a really bad idea. In the 1980s, these jokers could re-file for the patent before the prior art was even invented! They would take over the world!
When I was in highschool (in the South), we toured a local chemical plant (big company).
One of the guys we met was the head "Safety Engineer". He was demostrating how he tested the air for poisionous chemicals, with some disposable syringe-like devices.
Know what happened?
He broke three of them in a row while trying to demonstrate to us how they worked!
He probably was just having a rough day. But such days are what history books are filled of.
Slashdot Mirror
If this can drive a wedge between those two ideologies ... maybe we'll have a chance at getting a balanced government again.
Perhaps.. But is that the kind of balance that we really want?
at what point do we give up and start again ? 20 years ? 50 ? 100 ? 500 ?
Wouldn't inaugurations be a more relevant unit than years?
I wonder if the guy hopes the tower will fall on the church when it goes...
Whatever happens, I don't think it will be lucky...
Being raised a devout Catholic, I have to say this:
..) Followers unite into a "church" ..) This "church" becomes a major political party. ..) Church approves of and wages bloody wars on infidels [Inquisition] ..) Inner squabbling leads to three rulers claiming dominance [Papal Schism] ..) **** ..) Almost at world-wide domination in the 20th century!
For an outsider, most of the new testament looks like this to an outsider:
1) Man and woman engage in pre-maritial sex, woman gets pregnant. Father considers finding new woman to knock up...
2) Woman claims 'divine' miracle to escape village mockery. Villagers buy it?!?!
3) Child has some social/behavorial problems, reading too many religious texts at a young age, believing himself to be the next coming of god.
4) Child manages to recruit some poor uneducated fishermen into his self-made cult.
5) Unconscious man in comma mistakenly believed to be dead wakes up, miracle cited.
6) Drunk party-goers at a weddding ceremony mistake water for wine, miracle cited.
7) Child walks on a coral reef/sandbar, friends think he is walking on water.
8) Stories spread & distorted through "word of mouth", child becomes famous.
9) More followers join cult, start preaching about the demise of those who do not follow their teachings.
10) Government gets suspicious of this new "terrorist" group. Executes leader (child).
11) Followers go into hiding.
12) Many years later, they come up and spread the stories... Later write them into gospels.
13) Some of these followers are also imprisioned, appearing to be lunatics/terrorists...
14) ****
[The ordering of these is likely inaccurate, but the events are accurate]
Interestingly, I learned in a Catholic high school that the 4 Gospels were written ~50 years after Jesus **died**. How well could you write about something that happened 10 years ago?? How about something that happened 50 years ago? 50 years later, how many people are going to be alive to verify/contest your story???
This fact seems to be heavily obscured... And of course, the Testaments have undergone revisions since then. Also the 4 Gospels are basically the same in content, so three seemed to have mainly copied off the 1st, and just re-wording them for different audiences.
If Jesus were alive today, he would be ex-communicated by most/all Christian groups, deemed as an international terrorist, and executed... And none of this would make the news in the US...
I don't know that to think about Revelation. I do know that there are many practical guidelines for living life that people have mistakenly mis-understood to be divine regulations in the Bible.
In that context and given that 2000 years ago, countries were still collecting taxes and taking census of their people, my guess is that Revelation is a warning about what could happen in a tightly-run society that documents, measures and meters out every little thing. What would happen in a restaurent if you only gave them 90% of the amount on the bill...? Would they let you walk away? Would the manager get involved? In India today, they would thank you smilingly and you would leave. In the US, there would likely be consequences... Which is quite ironic!
And considering technological & political trends nowadays.... yes, we have much to be concerned about.
The point is that it is much harder to hide malicious code when the source is available.
Yes, but still somewhat easy. How many source-based distros are there? How many binary-based distros are there? How many people use the latter? Enough said... Compiler & library variations/settings make it somewhat difficult to verify that the published source code matches the vendor-supplied binary...
Even with the source available, someone could include a malicous patch... Remember the fiacso a few years back when someone tried to change a "==" to a "=" in the linux kernel? How many people would catch that in a patch? Especially if a reasonable comment was added to justify the change.. Many patches don't come from the original source of the package... Both Gentoo and RedHat distros supply patched-up kernels and apps... They seem to write their own patches...
I like OSS, but there is a danger that the "openness" will breed too much complacency among users. And the "open source" nature of it also lowers the playing field, making it easier for subversive elements to accomplish their goals... (I would guess that this is _currently_ balanced/surmounted by the groups that audit OSS code, read patches, etc... for *now*...)
And for commercial/closed-source software, people are way too easy to fool.... Couldn't a video hardware manufacturer put a back-door in their code, so that when a specific sequence of opengl calls was executed, the driver's kernel-level code would so something highly malicious/surreptious...? Yes it is a stretch, but crackers always seem to manage to stretch what believe to be possible.... I'm under the impression that there aren't much access-controls at the windows driver/kernel levels...
In the days when computers ran software off single (bootable) floppy disks, things were actually pretty secure. If the disk itself was uncompromised, not much else could happen to it or other stuff... Now that we have centralized storage (hard drives, etc), networking, and a virtually unlimited amount of space for program files, many more opportunities exist....
But there is no reason to give up using a computer at home.... As long as governments and cooperations increase their use, our personal stuff/data doesn't really matter... All of our legal records, financial records, and health information are at the mercy of those who write software... Especially since a great deal of info is never printed to physical form anymore...
True, one could fully audit all the code used on a system... But then each upgrade/patch would still need to be checked. Which would be quite a bit of work on a linux desktop running X applications..(consider the number of libraries/etc required for Gnome/KDE, although icewm is a could be an option)
Most people assume using HTTPS or any SSL-encrypted communication is secure, especially when they see the other side presenting an authentic key...
But suppose someone wanted to intercept & modify SSL traffic?
If they were in bed with Verisign, they could just get a copy of the signed key and use a simple transparent proxy to filter/modify traffic. If this was done at the office building and/or ISP level, it would be very difficult to notice. (At most, there might be an extra hop in one of many internal ISP hops in a traceroute)
Which means SSL is probably insecure (against large organizations/governments).
I'm not sure what kind of checking Microsoft's Windows Update site does, but considering they're using SSL, I bet they either have something to hide or they are relying on SSL for most of their security. And considering that Internet Explorer's "trust" mechanisms are based on DNS domainname, things could go really really bad....
Of course, most Linux distributions are probably not any better. Even though many rely in MD5 or other hashes of downloaded files, these could be intercepted and modified... One mitigating factor is that the distributed nature of the mirrors and users would make this more difficult.
Only those who write network hardware drivers have any chance of detecting "hidden" activity...
It seems to me that anti-virus efforts should only be half of Symantec's work... Isn't in their shareholders' interest to also write viruses [without being caught]? They must either be really really good at reverse engineering binaries, or a few of the big ones were theirs... (How do they know the date and time that a virus will strike?)
You could just run your datacenter off the 30 tons of TNT.
30 tons of TNT is an effective way to remove any viruses from the datacenter all at once!
Well, instead of working out some kind of shift scheme to divide the 24hr day, too many companies find it easier just to abuse a single individual/group 24hrs/day, 7days a week... Both this problem and its remedy do not involve technology.
ahead of time that they are planning an emergency
There was a time not too long ago, when mail was carried on horseback... When telegrams were expensive and probably still took a few hours to deliver... The world did not end due to such delays.
If emergencies are going to be planned, then the people involved shouldn't be watching movies in theaters... They shouldn't be sitting in church. They shouldn't be attending an opera/lecture/etc...
There are really very few actual emergencies... A stock losing $0.50 is not an emergency.
If one's employment demands that they work 8-10hrs/day and handle "emergencies" at night, I think the bigger emergency is "WTF are they doing with their life".
Interestingly, I think I have seem some newly built buidling that were deisgned to block out cell phones... They are about the ground yet somehow there is no coverage inside the conference/auditorium rooms... Presentations are remarkably smooth...
I have a feeling that most "on-call" medical doctors don't go to the movie theater much. And considering their hours, its probably easier for them to rent the movie and watch it at home at 3am.
In C++,
I'm not sure what you mean about "extreme verbosity"... Sounds like you're a Perl programmer (;->
Also static introspection is possible in C++ using overloading and/or templates... [But it would have been more convenient if it was an explicitly-built-in feature] Also, templates can be used in very powerful ways (template metaprogramming), for example to automatically choose the best sort routine (at compile-time) for a particular data-type. It is even possible to use templates to create highly portable code (e.g. when char,short,int,long vary across architectures and a minimum level of precision is required).
In terms of writing complex, high-performance software, I don't see anything replacing C++ (not even Java). But for applications where performance is not an issue, I find the strong typing features of C++ to be an advantage...
Think of how many web CGI scripts have security flaws because they are passing un-sanitized data from the GET/POST data to SQL queries or the command-line? Well, these flaws could have been prevented at COMPILE TIME, with a strongly typed language, such as C++. (Strings in different domains could have different types, forcing the programmer to run specialized functions for sanitizing one string before using it in a different domain)
My little knowledge of functional-based languages is that they tend to copy data unnecessarily. This doesn't matter in many applications, but it becomes a show-stopper in terms of performance for some.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Precision matters. You can never have enough of it.
Well, in embedded applications, precision is an enemy... Do you think your cell phone is performing all the calculations that do the modulation, filtering, and encoding of the transmitted/received signals in **floating point**?
Nope. Embedded communications/image devices often do everthing using integer arithmetic (fixed point). An I think many signal processing applications *can* be implemented with 16bit integers! [but it ain't easy]
I believe even some 3D graphics applications are implemented in fixed-point arithmetic for faster hardware/software performance.
I suspect the physics applications mentioned in the slides could have been implemented in a more numerically-robust manner. (My impression is that physists rarely care enough (or have enough time) about programming to do it well, which still works out better than trying to get CS people to do physics stuff)
So, forward your work cell phone to a private phone and permanently leave the work phone in its charger, inside a locked drawer of your desk.
If employers are taking employees, then perhaps it should be brought home 1-2 times a week. Then your boss will be really really impressed when he finds you spent 110 hours last week in the office.... (Or he might be pissed as to why you didn't accomplish 3x as much as a regular 40hr/week person).
So there's no "irony" here, nor is there any "comeuppance". It's just a common bookkeeping error.
True... But is funny how people react differently when a software company makes a common programming error.
An electrical engineer with a PhD degree, conducting research at a world-renown university in India will make less than $674/month.
Is he hurting anybody? Well, how would you feel if you were a real journalist and some punk was copying your words -- your hard work -- without attribution and getting paid for it? Journalists aren't exactly on the same pay scale as American lawyers...
And do you think this guy is paying taxes? Or even reporting to the IRS? Even at $8000k/year, THEY would care.
There is a lack of qualified journalists in the US, not scientists, and that is where the real problem lies.
Amen!!!!
The entire news industry has major problems, but since they report the news, most people won't know!
I recently read a Ziff-Davis publication that gloated over a quiet "fanless" computer. The article's photo prominently showed a large fan on it (and yes, it was the correct photo). The article writer who appeared to have "reviewed" this product wrote the article entirely without ever seeing it. It was just a thinly disguised advertisement.
While this is not of a political nature (and is really minor), it illustrates what kind of deception may be (in)advertently caused by apathetic "journalists".
Another problem is that most news companies are afraid to tackle truly controversial issues. (Funny how the topics in PBS's "extreme oil" video are never mentioned on local or national news). Instead, most news companies take mundane issues and harp on them enough to stir the public into a frenzy. (Janet Jackson, etc). They know they can do this safely and greatly increase their circulation/profits/etc....
I live in a major US capital city. What is the main topic of the local news? They seem to spend about 1/3 of the time talking about weather records, forcasts, etc. This might make sense if this area's (or state's) main industry was agriculture, but it is NOT. And besides, the weather here is fairly moderate, its not like it is going to snow one day and be scorchingly hot the next...
Coverage of international issues is virtually absent from all US news sources -- unless a single American is somehow involved. Some might say, well what would be the point?
Well, US-based companies are doing some pretty questionable things in other parts of the world. (soft-drink companies, pharmacuticals,etc) I think the US public would be interested to know what that the companies they support by buy products/services are doing to others... Whether or not the US public actually cares is highly irrevelant. It is the responsibility of journalists to make things *known*.
In another example, the US news seemed to entirely miss upon the point of the poor design used for the electronic voting machines. They easily could have interviewed a few "experts" that could relate in laymen's terms of how easily preventable/avoidable such design flaws are. Something to the effect ("they built the equivalent of a bank with no walls, etc")
A few years ago, I went on a cruise ship... I noticed that the side of the ship stated it was built in "Monrovia". Me, being a dumb American, figured that was somewhere in Europe. (Most of the crew were from poor areas in eastern europe). Last night, I watched "The Lord of War", whose plot included Monrovia (or the area). Needless to say, I was shocked...
Well, one thing is now clear to me: There were multiple levels of exploitation involved in the construction and operation of that ship. Had I known that in advance, I wouldn't have done the cruise.
Truly, how ignorant are we?
In the words of D. Rumsfield, these types of issues fall into the "unknown unknowns" of the public, with a small minority knowing them as "known unknowns", and a very tiny few as "known"
Well, I think the American public will prevent this....
When they find out that the next year's new cell phone won't have the promised 3D holographic screensaver, they will rebel.
What you did would not have sent a pointer. If "SERVER" was anything other than an integer-type, this wouldn't even have compiled under C. And if you did send "*SUN" to the "sentToBlog" function, there is no way that function could get the address, since using "&" there would just return an address pointing to the temporary copy on the stack, which is not what was intended.
....
What you meant was this:
SERVER *SUN;
char HappyNerd[1337];
HappyNerd = sendToBlog(SUN);
void sendToBlog( SERVER *s )
{
printf("Whoo-hoo! The pointer points to %p\n", s);
}
Lucky you! Nobody can claim "you're all thumbs!"
knock these jokers back to the '80s.
That would be a really bad idea. In the 1980s, these jokers could re-file for the patent before the prior art was even invented! They would take over the world!
(I must have seen too much Bill & Ted)
Dude, I think your off by at least a factor of 10.
12cm ~ 250mhz.
This wavelength is more like ~1cm.
It might be time to get a new envelope....
I hope whoever running it is qualified.
When I was in highschool (in the South), we toured a local chemical plant (big company).
One of the guys we met was the head "Safety Engineer". He was demostrating how he tested the air for poisionous chemicals, with some disposable syringe-like devices.
Know what happened?
He broke three of them in a row while trying to demonstrate to us how they worked!
He probably was just having a rough day. But such days are what history books are filled of.
Where????
Well, with the nearing end of big oil, I can see them putting back in the ground where the oil came from...
Is this a good idea? No.
Will it happen? I fear it would.
I have done for all the DVDs in my OWN collection is bypass the DRM using DVD decrypter (w00t!)
What's that? You're an enemy combatant? Engaging in terrorist activity? Well, hopefully you like tropical weather and daily beatings....
Probably should have posted as AC....
Why doesn't your company audit the auditor?