Comment Re: strncpy never made sense (Score 1) 40

by JakeThompson1 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @07:45PM (#66203302) Attached to: After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy

Agreed. I always got the impression that the "n" functions are there to accommodate treating a binary file as an array of structs, so the nul-padding is beneficial so that random memory garbage doesn't make it to disk (and ekes out one more character in the on-disk layout). Today you'd use a deserialization/serialization library (perhaps protobuf) rather than trying to treat fread/fwrite as one and deal with endianness, word size, alignment, and other portability issues.

Comment Re:Inflation (Score 1) 29

by JakeThompson1 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:16PM (#65851989) Attached to: Cisco Stock Hits New All-Time High, 25 Years After the Dotcom Bubble Burst

That's true but you also have to add in the dividends Cisco has paid starting in 2011, offsetting it somewhat, particularly if they were reinvested.

Comment Re:Only good for free (Score 2) 163

by JakeThompson1 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @05:20PM (#65830973) Attached to: Michael and Susan Dell Donate $6.25 Billion To Encourage Families To Claim 'Trump Accounts'

These accounts may end up being a lifehack for affluent families to get $90,000 into the child's Roth IRA when they turn 18. Stay tuned as there are various moving parts that would have to be clarified as legal.

Comment Re:32-bit support? (Score 1) 106

by JakeThompson1 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @08:05PM (#65611330) Attached to: LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x

If you had 32bit 7 or 8 and accepted the free upgrade to 10, it keeps you on 32bit. To go from 32 to 64 required a clean install. I recall having more than a few OEM Win7 machines--particularly Lenovos--from the early 2010s that shipped with 32bit and had 2GB RAM.

Comment Re:hence new cali tax law (Score 2) 258

by JakeThompson1 on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:43AM (#60988010) Attached to: More Companies Are Joining 'Tech Exodus' From California

These aren't laws. These are proposed bills. No chance to pass, and it would violate the state and federal constitution if it did. It's a non-issue. I'm certain every other state out there has at least one moron also introducing stupid legislation that has no chance to pass.

I'm not sure that it's unconstitutional. In the 1990s, California and New York tried to pass a tax on retirement income of former residents with the following logic: if you get a California income tax deduction for what you put into your 401(k) while living in California, then you should still have to pay California tax on the withdrawal after retirement, even if you have left California. Congress stepped in and passed a law called PL 104-95 prohibiting this. I always wondered why this concept didn't keep coming up in political conversation until I heard about the law. http://pmstax.com/state/bull96...

Submission + - 21 Financial Sites Found to Store Sensitive Data in Browser Disk Cache (securityevaluators.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @02:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: The LA Times mentions that after visiting well known sites such as ADP, Verizon Wireless, Scottrade, Geico, Equifax, PayPal and Allstate, sensitive data remains in the browser disk cache despite those sites using SSL. This included full credit reports, prescription history, payroll statements, partial SSNs, credit card statements, and canceled checks. Web servers are supposed to send a Cache-Control: no-store header to prevent this, but many of the sites are sending non-standard headers recognized only by Internet Explorer, and others are sending no cache headers at all. While browsers were once cautious about writing content received over SSL to the disk cache, today, most do so by default unless the server specifies otherwise.

Submission + - Researchers hack over a dozen home routers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Security researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have published a report demonstrating that a slew of home and small office (SOHO) routers are vulnerable to previously undisclosed vulnerabilities. The report asserts that at least thirteen popular routers can be compromised by a remote attacker, and a number of them do not require knowledge of credentials or active management sessions. Some of the routers are not listed as they work with vendors to fix them, but there are 17 vulnerabilities disclosed, with another 21 pending release. An article on CNET includes an interview with some of the researchers.

Comment Re:Isaac Asimov (Score 1) 757

by JakeThompson1 on Friday August 05, 2005 @10:07PM (#13255600) Attached to: Pentagon Wants Screenplays From Scientists

Any kid who really is interested in things of a technical nature is probably going to be reading Popular Science or something like that at the age these comics are geared toward, and any kid who's not will say "You mean Thomas Edison couldn't fly?" and go back to betting they're life on a career in the NFL.

What those kids bet their lives on becoming English teachers?