The cool thing about this discussion is how it highlights the brilliance of our slashdotty community. How many people here think "memcpy(dest, src, src_size)" is safe? How many people here think "memcpy(dest, src, dest_size)" is safe? They're both unsafe. memcpy_s() isn't much of an improvement, but at least it will overrun neither the source nor the destination (unless used very stupidly indeed).

Nobody seems to have mentioned the other problem with memcpy(), which is that it only works on untyped data. This is always dangerous and rarely required.

NPR had some coverage of this story too (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102386952&ps=cprs). One lovely nugget from that: "It is not a crime to view the photos, [sheriff's spokesman Bill Maer] said, but it is illegal to download them".

When did "optic" become a noun?

P.S. Why are you still on my lawn?

The fact that the sample is a very small fraction of the total population does not make it meaningless.

It may be meaningless for OTHER reasons of course...

Wow. Just seriously paranoid, or did you commit lots of crimes?

As opposed to ACs?

Actually, spending ("throwing") money is stimulus when the economy has a demand shortage. If nobody is buying anything, then nobody will have a job. So the government steps up and buys stuff. It almost doesn't matter WHAT they spend it on, as long as it gets spent. It's impossible for spent money to not stimulate the economy, because the economy is the sum of spending.

Now, let's quibble about how much to spend and how best to spend it.

It's not "whining" to resist change. All changes have a cost, measurable or not. Pretending they don't makes you look foolish.

I should learn to stop being amazed when people say "I don't understand it, so it (not me) must be stupid". Slashdot has really gone down hill in the last few years...

Oh, yeah, like anybody is going to follow a tinyurl link from /..