Visibility, those who scream loudest win, people were screaming about NTP (long before heartbleed as it happens).
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To quote Ted Tso (author of the above patch and the original writer of /dev/random in the first place)
The two other interfaces are two character devices /dev/random and * /dev/urandom. /dev/random is suitable for use when very high * quality randomness is desired (for example, for key generation or * one-time pads), as it will only return a maximum of the number of * bits of randomness (as estimated by the random number generator) * contained in the entropy pool. * * The /dev/urandom device does not have this limit, and will return * as many bytes as are requested. As more and more random bytes are * requested without giving time for the entropy pool to recharge, * this will result in random numbers that are merely cryptographically * strong. For many applications, however, this is acceptable.
http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/The_second_paper_to_read_...
What do they hope to disrupt in London, the transport infrastructure is phenomenal, with the private car hire business (be it black cabs, minicabs, addison lee ...) being an extremely well serviced and competitive space.
Wouldn't Uber be better off of focusing in places where the market for private cars is more nascent ?
It was the one that finally lifted intel in peoples viewpoint. I think that a lot of people fail to realise just how much of intel's product lineup in the last 14 years can be traced to the P6 microarchitecture.
UK bills don't tend to use a fake cursive font, they don't tend to have common language like "Greetings!", there is no court at Sandringham that I have heard of, and the bill to pardon Mr Turing is not through its full process in the house of commons.
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/alanturingstatut...
that's insane
It still intrigues me that this happens, I do wonder if it is limited to languages like C or if it could conceivably happen in anything with an advanced runtime (think the porter stemmer bug that broke java7 on release)
Maybe we can introduce this to jit-spraying ? (http://dsecrg.com/files/pub/pdf/HITB%20-%20JIT-Spray%20Attac...)
I am also reminded of this http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/04/ukcrime.features11
With all that said, whilst I might wade into a crazy situation; ignoring a situation is not some that I think is specific to china or a specific culture, but rather a failing of our innate social skills. There is a long list of research into the bystander effect (e..g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5YwN4NW5o) where if it is out of the comfort zone for people the simply choose not to observe the event, why do you think that most emergency guides start with the line "Call 911, don't assume that someone else will because they assume you already have"
In the UK I do my taxes in 0 minutes most years, maybe in 10 minutes if I get a small return through the post.
Fwiw (I didn't use turbotax but some other online software) when I did my last US tax return; it was wrong and I had letters come through adjusting the calculations.
The US system seems to guarantee you need an accountant.