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Comment: Re:Don't give up on serial (Score 1) 165

by luder (#37883128) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists?

There are a large number of great USB to serial port adapters on the market and they're not too expensive either.

Don't waste your money on cheap USB to serial port adapters from ebay. I bought one really cheap and it gave me nothing but trouble. They even sent a free replacement, but nothing would work with it. I heard good things about FTDI adapters, next time I consider buying one that will be my choice.

Comment: Re:security? (Score 1) 195

by luder (#37793696) Attached to: Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It

It allows for something similar to eval in .NET. From the article:

"Hejlsberg demonstrated a C# program that passed a few code snippets to the C# compiler as strings; the compiler returned the resulting IL assembly code as an object, which was then passed to the Common Language Runtime (CLR) for execution. Voilà! With Roslyn, C# gains a dynamic language's ability to generate and invoke code at runtime.

Put that same code into a loop that accepts input from the user, and you've created a fully interactive read-eval-print loop (REPL) console for C#, allowing you to manipulate and experiment with .Net APIs and objects in real time."

If your program is doing what the demo code does, then sure, you're asking for code injection attacks.

Comment: Re:Honoring the dead is not a zero-sum game (Score 1) 725

by luder (#37701560) Attached to: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away

but still I'm saddened by the number of people using the occasion of Richie's death to take another gratuitous slam at Steve Jobs

Except it is relevant. Jobs' death caused mass hysteria that elevated him to god level, while Ritchie will go unnoticed by all except the IT community. What would be of Apple and Jobs without C and Unix?

But anyway, I haven't seen many people here are taking a gratuitous slam at Steve Jobs... Aren't you overreacting?

Comment: Re:Cell phone camera's (Score 1) 77

by luder (#37295608) Attached to: Toshiba Adds Two-Way Wi-Fi To SD Card

Comment: Re:You can do that right now (Score 1) 436

by luder (#37245770) Attached to: SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights

Gee, where did I said I brake hard when people are right behind me? That's obviously stupid. Eventually, people catch up to you and think "there aren't any cars between the 50 meters separating this guy and the red light, why the hell is he going at 20 kph?!". Way to take a general observation and extrapolate the worst possible case...

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