asciilifeform: now cash did not go into this, but it is a sort of scathing indictment of the 'if only poor folk were LEFT ALONE!11111 they would FLOWER!11' thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: w.j.cash's 'the mind of the south' describes interesting thing: how the p000rwhitez of the old south were in a historically unique position, where the elite ~did not need them for anything~, nor even bothered to hunt for sport, because they took up space that wasn't cotton or tobacco - enabled
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, 'ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The hacker "Guccifer," alleged to be Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, made his initial appearance today here in federal court on charges relating to unauthorized access of protected computers. According to the indictment, from December 2012 to January 2014, Lazar hacked into....'
asciilifeform comes home and finds business card from woman, 'special investigator, diplomatic security service, u.s. dept of state', is momentarily puzzled, notices hand-written note on the back, asking for a fella who lives 2 houses DOWN THE STREET
asciilifeform: (yes you can walk up the stack - or heap, as the case may be - with a negative/overflowing array index)
asciilifeform: at one rupturefarm where i applied to work, there was a notebook of 'pwn this proggy' underhanded-c questions, and one of them relied on this fact.
asciilifeform: <phf> Upload em and I will implement mp-array that can be indexed with negatives << phun phakt, c will ~happily~ permit you to index with negatives.
