While it may have value in wires, I doubt that it would be the same as copper, gold being approximately twice as dense as copper, means that best case it would have half the value of copper. Also, the greater density, and lower strength makes it less suited in many cases. Admittedly there are many cases where gold is better, but there are reasons other than cost for selecting a material, and gold doesn't always stack up well there.
Not all sites use their own code. Malicious JavaScript through advertisements would provide an attack vector. (As described in the article.)
There is malware that actually doesn't run if it is on a VM. This is in an effort to make reverse engineering/monitoring of the malware more difficult. I always thought that it also severely limited it's target, but if you are going after end-users, the limitation is probably irrelevant.
One ended fine. As long as you can teach the system the only way to win is not to play.
One of the points I found the most insightful is that the geeks don't like to take the time to make things work anymore. I remember a colleague saying that there was no better way to kill a hobby than to get it as a job.
The days of tweaking the OS and hardware as a common practice among the majority of geeks is gone. The field is too broad now. You have to pick which stack, and where on it, you want to hack.
The file system app has security uses. If you see a sudden change in behavior in file system access it can alert you to the fact that you have been compromised, or that an internal employee is doing something they shouldn't.
Take a look at his biography. His experience starts mid-90s in large corporations. Maybe he thinks computing started then?
I remember building a crane "by the numbers" using a lego building set. In 1980 or so (I know for a fact is was before 1984, since I moved out of the house that I did it in then. For some reason I still have the box, but the instructions/legos have all gone.
Yes, some sets are more specialized. Minecraft gives you a huge range of blocks that isn't possible in the physical world, but dealing with the way that they fit together in "meat space" has its own value.
That is nice in theory, but I have found all to often in practice, when people see what they ask for, they realize that they didn't really want that. When you have a multi-year process, requirements change (heck I've seen it in multi-week!). Even ignoring the issues of human nature which induce this type of event, there are so many external forces that can drive a change that being able to re-evaluate is key.
My take on agile, and the "developer rebellion" is that developers got fed up with 18 different "Number 1" priorities, and wanted to force management to actually do their job and prioritize.
True, but % 4 would be an adequate approximation given the expected lifetime of most consumer products.
I remember being allowed to bring notes with me to class. Would just making this open book/open notes accomplish the same thing?
Nope, just nuclear. Though it may travel 96,000,000 miles or so to get here.
Does that include the Universal Musical Group who have broken contracts, put up hundreds of MP3s on download services without consent of the artists and then have gone out of their way to obfuscate the revenue collected?
Sure.
These are both good. I'd mod up if I could.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
