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Comment Re:Really, Slashdot? (Score 1) 135

When I log into my bank account, my username and password are not in the URL and certainly not passed unencrypted over the wire. They are happily stored in the LastSession.plist file though.

Feel free to supply a suitably masked copy of the lines from your own LastSession.plist that you believe is doing that.

I suspect that someone doesn't know exactly where the autofill passwords come from (Keychain) and assumes that they're in the LastSession properties list.

Comment Re:Hello Streisand. Welcome to the spotlight. (Score 1) 326

So now everyone on /. knows

Oh gosh. Now Slashdot knows. You do realize that, while a decade ago that meant something, now it's meaningless. There aren't enough eyeballs here anymore to Slashdot an IIS4 server running on a 128bps fractional T1. Okay, maybe if it was running NT 3.5.1.

Comment C The Source (Score 1) 199

#define P(X)j=write(1,X,1)
#define C 39
int M[5000]={2},*u=M,N[5000],R=22,a[4],l[]={0,-1,C-1,-1},m[]={1,-C,-1,C},*b=N,
*d=N,c,e,f,g,i,j,k,s;main(){for(M[i=C*R-1]=24;f|d>=b;){c=M[g=i];i=e;for(s=f=0;
s=0&&k=16!=M[k]>=16))a[f++
]=s;if(f){f=M[e=m[s=a[rand()/(1+2147483647/f)]]+g];j=jb++?b[-1]:e;}P(" ");for(s=C;--s;P("_")
)P(" ");for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_ "+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2
);}

shapiro.c from IOCC 1985

Submission + - Brazil Sues Samsung Over Work Conditions (ft.com)

konohitowa writes: The Financial Times is reporting that the Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Samsung for working conditions that put workers' health at risk (both through repetitive motion injuries as well as excessive consecutive work days). While Samsung has "promised to conduct a thorough review and fully co-operate with the Brazilian authorities once it receives details of the complaint", the article also points out the following:

The prosecutors’ office in the Amazon said that it started legal action against Samsung on August 9 following three government inspections at the plant, the first of which started in May 2011.

Perhaps Latin America won't be quite the easy alternate to China that manufacturing corporations had envisioned.

Comment Re:He just redifined everything. Its a strawman. (Score 1) 381

Defining efficiency would be a first step. Self-scavenging and self-modifying code fits into limited resources, but it's still complex. I once asked billg why the MS BASIC interpreter didn't tokenize numeric constants. He claimed that they pulled out the code for that to fit into 4k ROMs. So integers and reals that were encountered by the interpreter had to be parsed at each and every occurrence. The workaround was to create variables for all constants (I'd call them named constants but they were rarely longer than 2 letters). This is an example of being efficient with ROM usage and inefficient with storage (numbers represented in ASCII rather than machine) and inefficient with CPU (the constant reparsing).

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