Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 104
You COULD prevent millions of people from being able to do their job,
(And set up a honeypot it its place to catch the bad people)
You COULD prevent millions of people from being able to do their job,
(And set up a honeypot it its place to catch the bad people)
The carriers already can (and do) block stolen phones. Each phone has a unique IMEI number, in addition to the SIM card number.
IMEI can be changed. It's usually just a file on a special partition.
They want bureaucracy, they make the paperwork. Tell them to track windows and distro security pages, the changes are there.
Yep. They're the "experts". Just tell them the Microsoft KB number, that's all the information they need.
We are talking about little kids. You tend to get them the Big Blocks instead.
In what universe?
For the last two years every toddler-owner I meet is incredibly proud that their 2-year old knows how to swipe (and they keep reminding everybody in sight).
"Oh, you should see him use the iPhone!".
Having skill at playing with building blocks is not useful to most modern jobs. I'm sure the children are not great at milking cows either.
Either of those would make you stand out in a job interview alongside a bunch of people who only know how to swipe.
Then there's the customer surveys that ask people if they'd like to see more salads and healthy foods in McDonalds.
Of course they'd like to SEE it...but that's not why they go to McDonalds.
I remember a saying when I was learning programming;-
With C it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot, with C++ it is a lot harder, but when you do shoot yourself in the foot you take your entire leg off.
Pity you never bothered to find out who said it or in what context...
I think 1996 just called and wants it's Usenet flamewar back.
UTF8 is great for storing data in files, but
The problem lies squarely with C.
If they'd used C++ instead of C, heartbleed would never have happened - std::containers don't need to store their size as a separate variable.
Luckily for us, the people responsible for maintaining the Linux Kernel understand the difference between C and C++ and their software isn't full of manual memory management and arguments over which version of malloc()/free() to use. Oh, wait...
Most authors back in Asimov's day saw the world like that - astrogators using books of navigation tables, slide rules, taking sextant readings from the stars, etc.
You don't need 4K^2 pixels. Your "retina" can't see them anyway, apparently. At least if you're hardware is "iPC" compatible.
Sure, and your retina can't see VGA resolution resolution either.
Not if you stand far enough away from the screen...
Good catch...
The article makes it abundantly clear that this it's satire.
I'm guessing the submitter didn't bother to click his own link.
Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has
a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk
storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on
voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300.
What's the first question that the computer community asks?
"Is it PC compatible?"
(Source unknown...)
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_