The problem is quite a few of us with our own domains use a per site E-Mail address. It's useful to know that half my spam comes from equifax. Plus some people decide to forgo Gmail Labels and run their own mail server. In either case, when you have control of the domain you have control of all the E-Mails going to that domain. Many websites either don't have a password reset question, or the answer is easy to guess/brute force.

Put another way: Domain control = E-Mail control = Control of almost all your accounts.

To be fair the main reason SciFi TV shows have gravity is because they're filmed on Earth, and it's expensive to make it look like there's no gravity.

Plus viewers tend to appreciate the acting if the actors aren't upside down or sideways the whole time.

Well the last patch tried to prevent fires by assuming that if there was too much fluctuation then the contacts were bad.
My predication is the next anti Tesla story reads "Norway Tesla's more likely to catch fire" or something equally stupid.

Obamacare defines full time as 30+ hours: http://news.investors.com/poli...

So naturally all the places that would rather the government pay for healthcare cut their employees hours down to 29/week. Now they're complaining about not having enough qualified employees.....

When was the last time you saw a Walmart with most of the shelves stocked and the registers open?

In theory that's true, but many parts of the EU outright ban certain speech. For example, I don't like the Nazis and consider them to be horrible; However, when people are prevented from showing their colors to the world they, rightly, think that people are out to get them. So instead of some crazies yelling whatever they want you have people who can only get attention through things like violence.

"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order." Marginalized people like Neo Nazis* aren't allowed to speak in countries like France and Germany, they know there a minority so voting won't work, and no way that they would be allowed on a Jury. With that in mind it's surprising that we haven't seen more violence out of people like them.

*They're marginalized because they're horrid and nuts, but that just makes them more likely to do something dangerous and crazy.

The EU is also responsible for the Data Retention Directive. Worse, most of their spy agencies are just as bad as the NSA. When you combine that with the lack of free speech in many EU countries it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

They're going to force companies to keep user data on EU soil. Which sounds nice, but that means they can force companies to keep your data for as long as they want and hand it all over to "law enforcement" when you've done something inconvenient. They will then have things like search results censored. (See Google France) I hate to say it, but people in the EU have even less privacy than those of us in the US. Even with/especially because of these privacy directives.

The problem with that is the incumbent corporations have made it illegal to have a coop or municipal option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband#Controversy

They've effectively bribed the states into giving them a monopoly position. Which then allows them to squeeze their customers dry and use a portion of that money to pay more bribes. Since the US uses a winner takes all election system, and it's nearly impossible to properly research local/state representative candidates they can get away with things like this pretty easily. For clarity, I consider lobbying to be a form of legalized bribery.

You jest, but I'm pretty sure that they were launching cube sats using a spring loaded launcher.

Javascript and real time should never be used together. For all the improvements by browser vendors javascript is still almost as slow as the US congress.

Wait, there's more to Japan than Tokyo?

You'd never guess it by watching half of their movies and TV shows.

Quick guide to binary files. Mostly from my and others work on game saves.
Almost all of them store the size of an array right before the data. This is even true for things like null terminated strings. What gets fun is when you have an array of structs, which then holds an array. Most of those are read in using standard for loops, but an off by one error is still possible. Another (admittedly stupid) possibility is using a string read function that looks for the '\0' character while working with a fixed sized array instead of a true string object. Actually it's really easy for a malformed binary file to have a program attempting to read in gigabytes of data, or for a program that's not perfect to interpret some random number as an array size.

About font files:
Remember that font files tend to be ridiculously complicated. The new ones at least actually run code in a special virtual machine. Given everything that I've said about binary files an just how many Java/Flash/Javascript VM flaws we've seen it's not really surprising.

About X:
Hell, X11 is so complicated I wouldn't be surprised if an arbitrary function could load random fonts via a function call that no toolkit ever uses. At that point you're talking about a normal function with any of the normal error cases.

Pick your poison. There are many possibilities for errors.

The amazing thing is that cppcheck caught it. That means it had to be some static problem with the code.

cppcheck says this code is fine. Try to see why I disagree:

char f(int i,char * data)
{
        char array[6];
        array[i] = data[i];
        return array[0];
}

MKV has some amazingly useful and underutilized features. Everyone is (or should be) familiar with how it can do multiple audio/video/subtitle streams. It's chapter functionality is also really nice. The best and neatest thing is it's ability to pull in a separate file for a chapter. So instead of having 30 different TV show files each with the same opening and closing scene, you have those two scenes as separate files which are mixed in on the fly.

Data deduplication is a wonderful thing.

Per chip costs for embedded platforms are normally pretty cheap. As a hobyist, excluding labor, the most expensive part is board cost. Nevertheless, things like power regulators and transistors tend to add up to more than the processor. I would kill (not really NSA people) for a cheap SOC witch could drive 100mA per GPIO pin. It would certainly make working with LEDs easier.

If you look at most things like the Arduino the component cost is minuscule compared to labor and payback for R&D. Which still leaves decent room for profit. Just look at how cheap the Arduino clones are.

I've got one better. My old university required McAfee on all students computers before they could connect to the net.

In theory it was "any antivirus software," but their Cisco Connect piece of garbage that you had to install only reliably recognized McAfee, which they would generously install for free on users machines. Of course they'd install the enterprise version where the user doesn't really have any control over it.

Oh well, Cisco Connect's user manual straight up says it allows "remote administration" and the University's security cert wasn't valid, so it's not like all the student's machines weren't already compromised.

Short answer: Pretty much yes.

Long answer: While legally it's "no" the truth is that minors have significantly less rights than adults. It's even worse than that since in America you're no longer considered a minor when you turn 18 or 19 depending on the state, but you can't drink or own a pistol until you're 21.

There are several cases where US schools have punished students for doing things which aren't illegal while off school grounds. Student's have essentially no rights while they are on school grounds. They can be searched without any justification. They're punished if they have something that even like a weapon. Even worse, school is compulsory, so it's not like any of this is opt out.