It might have been better to phrase it such that you're asking Slashdot for help on gathering information that you plan to use to make decisions for yourself.

The buffer overflow would load a series of addresses of tiny pieces of trusted code that do the spraying, and then when the trusted code does the next RET, the CPU will happily execute those pieces of trusted code one after another.

Capital Metro operates Austin's public transit service. Unlike the bus service where I live, it even runs on Sunday. What do you claim it lacks?

This article states that like New Hampshire, Texas makes up for its lack of an individual income tax with higher property tax, which the landlord ends up passing on to the tenant.

Not everyone agrees with that. If you want to act on Broadway, for instance, you'll need to move to New York City. If you want to be a haute cuisine chef, you'll likewise need to move to a big city.

On iOS, as I understand it, no third-party app is allowed to have its equivalent of the execmod permission. Only Apple's code loader and Apple's JavaScript engine have that.

Unless the malicious code sprays itself over the writable area and returns to libc to make it executable.

For people trying to break into the video game industry, the four areas I hear repeated over and over are Silicon Valley (#5 per the article), Seattle (not ranked in the article), Boston (#4), and Austin (#1). I imagine that Austin's low cost of living gives it an even bigger edge over some of the other areas for people seeking to move from areas that aren't major tech hubs. So how much money should someone save up before relocating to Austin for the first time? Dutch Gun says it was $10,000 a decade and a half ago, but inflation has probably raised that.

The designer of the sound hardware can't tell what formats (plural) will become popular in the future. And we already have a perfectly good DSP on the CPU.

correction: the Google keywords were selinux jit

The JIT engine in Firefox's JavaScript runtime has had problems with SELinux in the past (bug 506693, found via Google firefox jit).

Without allowing code to be switched between writable and executable, how can dynamic recompilation work at all? Otherwise, your OS becomes iOS, whose strict W^X policy forbids third-party JIT engines.

I made up the limitations to approximate the model that a district court judge would use to determine whether two musical phrases are "substantially similar". With which of the made-up limitations do you disagree, and for each, why?

$35 per month minus $7 per month is also $28 per month. My gripe is that some carriers charge what amounts to a convenience fee of $28 per month just for having your phone and PDA in one device.

That might work for people who make and receive calls only at home. Am I the only one who needs voice but not data while riding transit?