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Comment Re:Algorithms (Score 1) 836

The issue is more like this.
If you don't know what a splay tree is you will never know when to use one. It's a problem of not knowing what you don't know. It is very rare that you will need a datastructure and then go find one. You will use the tools you have to solve the problems in front of you.

Spam

Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet 207

The Register is reporting on the takedown of a botnet once responsible for 1/3 of the world's spam. The deed was done by researchers from the security firm FireEye, who detailed the action in a series of blog posts. PC World's coverage estimates that lately the botnet has accounted for 4% of spam. From the Register: "After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the FireEye employees last week launched a coordinated blitz on dozens of its command and control channels. ... Almost immediately, the spam stopped, according to M86 Security blog. ... The body blow is good news to ISPs that are forced to choke on the torrent of spam sent out by the pesky botnet. But because many email servers already deployed blacklists that filtered emails sent from IP addresses known to be used by Ozdok, end users may not notice much of a change. ... With [the] head chopped off of Ozdok, more than 264,000 IP addresses were found reporting to sinkholes under FireEye's control..."

Comment Re:Curse of binary floating point (Score 1) 626

This is why writing software is more than simply learning a language. You also have to learn how the machine works.

Also, this isn't a problem with binary representation. You have the same issue with decimal representation. Try dividing 10/3 and then performing a bunch of math on it.

Submission + - Progress?

Binder writes: Thought questions:
In any real terms is putting someone on the moon today any easier than it was in the 1970's?
Programming

Submission + - Programming languages and threads

Binder writes: "I've been looking for a good language for multi threaded development. Specifically for utilizing multiple processors. Of course there is C/C++. OCaml has threads but won't actually run on more than one processor at a time. For the Lisps it depends on which implementation you have. Erlang doesn't support threads but does support parallelism through message passing. What are good languages which support computation on multiple cpu's?"
Security

Submission + - Responses to records theft

Binder writes: "So I just received a letter stating that my personal information has been stolen. So sorry, but we'll give you free identify theft services in the mean time.

Aren't companies required to protect customers personal data?
Is there anything action which can be taken against these companies?

Also, seeing as there is no way I can get this data back I have to wait around and see if anything bad happens. Then fight with the credit companies to try and repair my reputation after the fact.

Seeing as IANAL is there any advice as to either protecting my credit or action which can be taken against said companies?"

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