Actually, there *is* a way to solve this issue that does not require rewriting any existent code (only recompiling), and I've proposed it about ten years ago: make compilers utilize SEPARATE stacks for data and return addresses.
You know how they always start with automated message "This call may be monitored or recorded..."?
So I start the conversation with the rep like this:
Me: Oh hi, this call may be monitored or recorded, correct?
Rep: Yes.
Me: Okay.
Consent given: the rep has just said that this call may be recorded [by me]. (Well, he doesn't think he did, but hey... who cares. I am not supposed to be a psychic, and this exchange is a semantically correct expression of agreement from the English language perspective.)
I spoke at length with one of the taxi drivers who signed up for Uber while he was driving me. He says that while he indeed gets less of gratuity, he's really happy: Uber saves him effort to find clients. But, also, Uber offers big bounties (like $600!) for drivers who exceed service levels (i.e., like, when 90% Uber clients submitted to him are served within 5 minutes, etc.) All in all, he is on the plus side even though he gets less per ride.
And not to mention Uber is extremely convenient for me. (I still remember when we had to stand in the cold for about an hour because no dispatch wanted to send a cab our way -- and that was within city limits, mind you!) Every single taxi ride I take, I book on Uber now.
Mike, you'd be surprised, but I'm an example of blood type change. In my infancy, they did blood transfusion from my father, and after that, I ended up with his blood type rather than mother's.
Well, what do you expect? It only took the airline industry (and not all of it, either) about 15 years to realize that boarding passengers rear-to-front is faster. The Peter Principle at work.
I still have TV service by Comcast. You know why? Because they offered "TV + 6mbps" package for the price of 3 mbps internet (for a year). Sure I'll take that! But when the cable guy came, I told him, "get the data flowing and get outta here, I don't care about the video signal". So in [less than a year], Comcast is set to have another "cable cutter" on their stats, hehehehe.
Mike, he was fired for complaining to the President, not for complaining in general. No manager ever appreciated subordinates complaining directly to higher-ups bypassing "over his head".
I think it works well because those who donate satisfy the human's natural urge to "look better than the others". When you're *buying* something, it's nothing special, business as usual. When you're donating, you're, well, *doing something good*, that "any reasonable person" won't do! And, given that just about anyone wants to feel that he's better than others... more people end up donating than paying.
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Relax, guys. In Russia, nobody cares.
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They lawmakers can forbid aaaaaall they want. Nobody cares. We'll find our way around.
"The Duma pretends to make laws. People pretend to obey them."
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If you are a C programmer, you learn, about five years into your career, to never, /never/, NEVER forget to check the bounds.
strcmp burn in hell; strncmp rules and the like.
I place my bets on malice. He was made an offer he could not refuse.
P.S. The guy is now toast. He will have really, REALLY hard time finding a new job now.
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There, fixed it for them.
On the post: Time Warner Cable: We Can Record You, But You Can't Record Us
I go about it a bit differently.
So I start the conversation with the rep like this:
Me: Oh hi, this call may be monitored or recorded, correct?
Rep: Yes.
Me: Okay.
Consent given: the rep has just said that this call may be recorded [by me]. (Well, he doesn't think he did, but hey... who cares. I am not supposed to be a psychic, and this exchange is a semantically correct expression of agreement from the English language perspective.)
On the post: Amazon Patent Looks To Make Receiving Lousy Gifts A Thing Of The Past
[x] Convert [any gift] from [anynone] to [gift card].
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And not to mention Uber is extremely convenient for me. (I still remember when we had to stand in the cold for about an hour because no dispatch wanted to send a cab our way -- and that was within city limits, mind you!) Every single taxi ride I take, I book on Uber now.
On the post: Deconstructing Reasons To Buy
Competition.
YES, buyers do compete, when the seller gives them a chance to compete!
Top Contributions list at http://www.humblebundle.com/ is a brilliant, if underappreciated idea.
Am I the only one who noticed?
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I have a theory...
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(If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.)
-- Cardinal Richelieu
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On the post: Canon Creates Keyword-Based DRM For Copy Machines?
Re: DRM?
Because it's Digitial, and it Manages Restrictions?
On the post: Canon Creates Keyword-Based DRM For Copy Machines?
But will that OCR work...
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Sincerely yours,
Nitpicker.
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