Right, because stuff scattered around memory is just as easy to read is if it was all inline. Utter shit that only a dolt would think of today.

Btw, theres a well known phrase hidden in the letters - in order - in the paragraph above. Prove your point - find it.

True, you'll always get people still fighting old wars whether left or right wing. But as the years go by they slowly slip into irrelevance and die off. However unless Putin suddenly decides Cuba is his new best friend - unlikely - its importance in world affairs is only going to go further and further down the list.

.. that the Cuban government still think the US gives a damn about their 3rd world Island apart from Guantanamo Bay. Since the USSR collapsed its been pretty irrelevant in the scheme of things other than a source of refugees and comedy revolutionaries in green slacks with silly beards.

Even though according to wonkypedia it has low GW potential and doesn't damage ozone, do we really want to be manufacturing more fluorinated hydrocarbons which almost never decay in the enviroment by themselves and just build up over time in the soil, plants and eventually us?

Producing them cheaply enough to rival chips made of processed sand is another matter entirely. Anyone remember gallium arsenide chips that were going to eat silicon for lunch back in the 80s? Yeah , well.... still niche.

"Of course, you have to make sure that broker is Really Damn Secure. Keep its attack surface minimal, make sure the mechanism by which it identifies whose key to use is extremely robust, and if possible make it a trusted part of the OS that is as secure from tampering as possible"

So in other words run it as root so when it gets compromised you're TRULY fucked. Yeah , genius idea. Far better is just to scatter parts of the password randomly around a block of memory and reassemble when required then delete when done.

Unless you were a roadie for Beyonce or Bieber she'd probably say the same about any job you did whether you were a top surgeon or an airline pilot.

Except for standard computers it doesn't work so well since the CPU is almost always faster than everything else so the other parts of the system almost never have a chance to kick back and relax - its usually the CPU waiting for them to do something. Also a serial computer is pretty much like a road - everything moves at the speed of the slowest vehicle/component. Slow one thing down and you slow everything down. Parallel systems improves things a bit - you now have a multi lane highway - but even so , the same basic rules still apply to each lane.

Fair point - but even so , it would still be a fsck load of energy required to create the anti matter in the first place.

I'm sure there is a reason though perhaps I'm just too wedded to cause and effect. Anyway, whether that mooted reason occured in this universe after the big bang , or the seeds were sown "outside" in the multiverse - if there is one - we don't yet know. If its the latter then we'll probably never know what it was - as you say , its just the way it is. If this universe is part of a multiverse or some other larger structure and isn't completely self contained then physics may find itself up against a brick wall because ultimately things may have happened - or even still happen- due to outside influences we simply cannot know about.

Unlike the energy from nuclear fission or fusion which we essentially get for free because its already in a sense locked up in the atoms, for an anti matter bomb you'd first have to make the antimatter - from scratch. And the amount of energy you'd have to put in to do that would have to be at least equal to the amount of energy you'd get out. So to create an anti matter bomb to physically destroy a planet (rather than just laying waste to the surface) you'd have to put in enough energy to do that in the first place which if you used the entire earth electricity generating capacity would - at a guestimate - take a few hundred years minimum.

It would be utterly obsolete by now and would just be a legacy function that would have to be supported for legacy apps and would be a security swiss cheese. TCP is better off just being a pure transport later protocol with modern crypto layered on top.

... the matching algo checks for zero length strings *before* it strips out whitespace so lets this through. Once it has stripped out this whitespace it *then* has a zero length string but doesn't know it and then the rest of the algo fails due to it.

I'll bet it something stupid like:

hashed_pwd = strip(input_pwd);

for(*ptr = hashed_pwd;*ptr;++ptr)
{ // Match
        if (hash char doesnt match) return BAD;
}
return MATCH;

Water just sloshing around isn't going to do much on its own if the rocks its sitting on don't have anything complex enough to kick off whatever chemical reactions were the precursors to life.

Already pre-existing life adapting to living there is one thing - evolving there from base chemicals is another entirely.