Archive: November 11, 2004

Thursday, November 11, 2004

1. Schneier on Security: The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines, via ./.

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2. Jon Udell: Introduction to MSH, via Adam. The part about saving a result to a variable is really cool.

   Hmm, also see this list of Monad Shell verbs, via Christian.

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3. The Watchdogs of Fallujah - If a "muj" blinks, the Marines of VMU-1 see it. PoliPundit says, "UAVs are so cool!" Yeah they are! Our military rocks.

   This is what Matt calls "the terrible closed loop of networked firepower". See this post of his as well for some descriptions how we use this stuff.

   Update: More (to read), via PoliPundit.

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4. TCS: Tech Central Station - Why Religious Voters May Be More Inclusive than Seculars, via IP. It's a little more, er, multicultural than I'd prefer, but he makes an interesting point nonetheless.

   I stopped being an atheist before I formulated a political ideology, so, interestingly, while my atheist past often helps me intimately understand the secular mindset, here it fails.

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5. Camel!

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6. How Arafat Got Away With It (to read), via IP. More on Arafat at LGF. Also, Arafat the monster (to read).

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7. lgf: Ding Dong the Fish is Dead. Yes!! I was hoping for some farewell to Arafish!

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8. William Safire: After Arafat, Hope.

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C Puzzle

I don't know the answer to Steve's C puzzle, do you?

Actually, the code gives different answers on different compilers.

Update: Here's the puzzle, in case Steve's site doesn't exist forever (or, at least as long as this one does )

What does this code print? (hint: it's not 1):

struct { int a : 1; } b;
int i;
b.a = 1;
i = b.a;
printf("%i", i);

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