https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red/black_concept describes a notation sometimes used when discussing confidentiality:

• red denotes signals carrying secret plaintext;
• black denotes signals carrying ciphertext.

Is there any generally agreed coloring for the analogous integrity question? i.e.:

• a color which denotes signals where integrity matters (or ( Read more... )

From time to time I and colleagues find ourselves extending some function in C in a way that requires extra arguments. Often this happens in a context where it's impractical to change all the callers (for instance, because some of them are in customer code) so the extended version of the function gets a new name and the original name just calls ( Read more... )

I found http://www.bbcactivelanguages.com/OurProducts/Italian/ProductViewer.aspx?ISBN=9781406679236 pretty good for learning tourist Italian a few years ago. But we're going to Scandinavia next and there isn't a direct equivalent in the same range. Does anyone have any recommendations for learning a little tourist-level Danish and/or Swedish?

If a user of an ISP tries to visit a website controlled by an identifiable legal person, which does not contain any pornography, but the ISP instead serves them a block page informing them that the website does contain pornography, has the person controlling the website been libeled by the ISP? (All three parties located in the UK.)

(If you think ( Read more... )

Can we have a referendum on deficit-cutting, too?

What on earth is the point of the Thomson Local directory? I don't think I've used it once in my life (even before discovering the Internet) but it's been coming through the door for as long as I can remember (which in this case means at least back to the 1980s).

Have you ever used it?

So is the class of birds unusually full of verbs, or are other taxa comparably grammatically equipped?

The last time they did this they lent nearly half a trillion Euros. Anyone care to guess how much it’ll come to this time?

Apropos of this comment thread, since PTC and I don’t seem to have been able to come up with a good answer: If the Melian dialog is the middle of a trilogy, and Ozymandias the conclusion … what’s the first part?

#if __GNUC__ && __i386__ ( Read more... )