I dial 252 (ALArm) from the device I want to be called at, and enter a time at the prompt. At the appointed time, the lovely voice of Allison Smith tells me it's my wake up call and presents me with a random 3-digit number to enter. If I don't answer, hang up, or get the number wrong, I'm called back every two minutes until I get it right. The random number business is necessary because sometimes, if I don't have to do a slightly complex task, I'll just hang up and go back to sleep.

From now on, thanks to your misspelling and their behavior, I'll just call them Dumpstersoft.

That's what concerns me. If my ISP ever blocks (or redirects) access to the root servers, there goes djbdns and unbound.

If I could answer you specifically, I probably wouldn't have asked in the first place. My degree is in CS. It just seems that modifying multicellular organisms with non-natural amino acids might create a whole new class of threat. Say, a hardy, prolific insect with an insatiable appetite for all cereal grasses. Could there be naturally mutated single celled organism that would do the same? I suppose, but now the possibilities are growing.

I don't mean like haha, "I, for one, welcome our new C. elegans overlords" or tagging the story with whatcouldpossiblygowrong. I mean The Stand. Could somebody with a reasonable knowledge of GM organisms please offer some reassurance that this technique couldn't backfire in some disastrous way?

RTFM, dolt.

If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() pads the remainder of dest with null bytes.

My personal fave is strncpy(), which will silently not terminate the string if the buffer is too small, but if you give it a huge buffer it punishes you by NUL padding the string all the way to the end of the buffer.

I think his joke was very close to being right.

Personally, I would have chosen "fascist", but facist works, too.

This is all about politics and scaring older voters.

"Sorry, sir, but we've determined that you're likely to commit a crime soon. Please come with us. Thank you for your cooperation."

Urophagia!

It's not just for perverts anymore!

It seems that thanks to the economy, you'll also be competing with older workers for those internships now.

It can't. The the national minimum drinking age was established via the back door: The feds told the states that unless they raised the drinking age to 21, they would lose their federal highway funding.

The same thing happened 10 years earlier with the 55-mph speed limit.

Pretty clever, eh? The feds take money from the states (mainly in the form of fuel taxes) for highway funding, then give the money back to states that promise to be good little boys.

What can't be spoofed, and why you shouldn't try CID spoofing on, say, ransom demands, is Automatic Number Identification. ANI (not CID) is used by telcos for billing purposes, so spoofing is not allowed, and it is stored for long periods. ANI is also passed to 800 numbers, and to E911 services, so spoofing and *67 are of no use there.

The problem is that telemarketers and fraudsters don't call 911 or 1-800 numbers, and it generally takes a subpoena to get telcos to release ANI information to anyone else.