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In Germany, it was long years the custom, that when somebody asked the agency about his score, they in turn dropped his score.

This is not legal anymore, as much I know, but still also in Germany, your fate is sometimes bound to the street, in which you live, instead of your own behavior.

It all depends on the underlying technology. Yes, an indirection costs more. But in the same time, the first level array can be much smaller and it even can be that both arrays together are smaller than the old array before, because it had to had gaps. The new compact array does not need to have gaps.

It of course depends on many factors, like how is the filling factor.

But, preserving memory can potentially also preserve transfers between processor and main memory. In old processors, pure clock cycles and the complexity of the opcodes where the main factor when it came to speed. Today, the complexity of opcodes (for example indirection) are less and less interesting. The amount of cache misses and how much memory must be transferred between processor and memory chips are deciding.

After having a short look on the compilation, it shows one thing very accurately IMHO: C syntax is very error prone.

To sad, that so many new programming languages chose to use exactly this syntax that is so error prone.

C was a very good programming language and the short syntax might have some appeal -- but for learning programming, this syntax is not the best option, as long as you don't use it as type of intellectual test to find the best computer-people ...

You are right, that the Brexit does not help the British. But that is the problem with this voting, it is dominated by illogical feelings. The problem is also not the EU as such, but the governments of the EU countries.

That is a clear vote against a Europe that is not about democracy or peace, but solely about trade regulations and the interests of big corporations.

The people in Europe see, how many regulations just come from Brussels to be just acknowledged by their own parliaments and the democratic process is just circumvented. They see, how much is just for the benefit of big corporations and not for their benefit.

In Germany, we see, how the European idea is misused by our own politicians to bring up laws that they would not dare to let be voted on in their own parliaments. They just go to Brussels, let the law be decided there without much democratic intervention and than the law comes back into our country to be just acknowledged without discussions.

The European idea is (was) a good one. A really united Europe would be a good thing and also a strong one. But that is just an idea and not the reality. We saw it with Greece. We are not united. In the end, every nation is just looking on their own benefits and money. We Germans really acted shamefully in this situation and we already have a big trench between northern and southern Europe. Old sentiments and even hatred is growing again in the EU.

The idea was, to have a Europe, where never again will be war. We are now steering in a direction, where wars are getting more likely again, this time because of the EU and the Euro.

Is it good, that UK leaves the EU? No, it is not.

The only thing, I hope is, that the politicians might learn a lesson from it or the whole EU will break.

I always find it a very negative sign for a company, when the corridors are getting filled with pep talk posters, which could have come directly from the latest management magazine.

For me it is a clear sign, that innovation and real work done in the company is going rapidly downwards.

Continuously repeating, how good "we" are clearly says, that the company is currently "not good enough".

What might work in personal psychology, does not in corporations, where everything else tells the workers, that their work does not count, but only the work of the poster creators.

Such decisions are not made in the face of pressure. I think, they are made years ago and now they are (still) executed.

In the corporation centers, nobody thinks of critical users that look very carefully on things. They mostly think about the average user, that just wants more "power".

Part of the problem IMHO is, that SO tries to be two things at once. It says, it shall be a help portal for programmers, but at the same time they want to be something like Wikipedia for programmers.

Both things do not fit well together. When you want to help others, you must allow any question that is earnest. When you want to be an encyclopedia, you have to filter questions very harshly.

Sadly, together with this, the self-moderation feature of SO attract people that are more interested in enforcing rules, instead of helping people.

Then, they also can enjoy the (sole) company of robots.

It is a finger pointing game today.

The rich say, it is not our fault, the corporations are doing that.

The corporations say: We have to do that, because the "market" is demanding higher interest rates!

So, who is to blame: "The Market"?? The politics that do, what the "market" wants, or the workers, that do not work 10% fast every year to secure the rising interest rates?

We have created a system, that allows everybody to say, that it is not his or her fault, it is just the system. The politics also say, it is not their fault, that they fostered the system, because the business professors told them so. The scientists are also not to blame, because it is the "nature" of the money ...

So it is just a law of nature?

No, by nature, societies are better of, when everybody has his share and even when differences exist, some kind of sense for justice is implanted in every human being.

Today's system of zero responsibility has the power to destroy every basis of human societies. Some day, the super-rich will realize that nobody else is left, that cleans their rooms or empties their trash-cans ... while living themselves behind big walls and barb-wire.

And still, the (mis-)use of antibiotics in meat production carries on (at least in Europe) -- even using last-resort antibiotics.

The problem with the automotive industry is, that the top lobbyist in the EU for it is the German chancellor (which name soever he/she has).

As non-US citizen, I consider also non-US citizen ;)

But Obamas voters where US citizen, of course.

(and I choose to take the most obvious problem for my statement)

So, it is OK, to violate the rights of the people in a "transparent" way?

Or are you just want to say, that it is an improvement that he at least kept one of his promises?

The problem will be, that with such treaties as TTIP, the worst of both systems will become the default.

So it is very likely, that the US will get the standards for air pollution (from automobiles) from the EU and the EU will get the food standards from the US.

Before Obama was elected, they said the same thing about him and spying on US citizen.

Edit: Seems, I said something right here -- hence the many downvotes!

For those not knowing: Obama was much criticizing the spying when he still was Senator.

This article is behind a paywall!

Are we already at the same point of history, as it was 1933?

Western democracies are unable to protect democracy or even stand for democratic rights. Instead they are more fearful about some refugees.

Who does not learn from history, is doomed to repeat it.

That are mostly the smaller companies (at least in Germany). The bigger corporations also avoid taxes, but the legal way and with electronic transactions.

First politics should do something about this!

I'd love to have only electronic money. It would have so many advantages.

BUT:

The risks of it and the potential for misuse are so many, that all advantages of electronic money are not worth to go in this direction. We are in a situation today, where privacy is one of the greatest assets we have and should preserve. When we loose it, we very likely loose our freedom and essential democracy. Instead we might get a "democracy" that is controlled by opinion-formers and big corporations that make money with our privacy.

In theory, yes. But currently, there exist enough structural problems, as much I know, that Bitcoin or similar schemes can not replace cash.

Further, even with a total secure system, there will always be the pressure of the governments to control it.

Thank you very much!

> you might be happier with a commercial vendor

Might be a viable option.

I just don't know a commercial vendor, that also gives more transparency.

I knew, that there are also fixes from the Debian team, that add to the core functionality. But still my problem is the transparency. It is just very difficult in such a case, to find out the relevant changes, if you lack the time to observe all security changes in the distribution.

When such a thing pops up, like today, it is very tedious work for people like me, to find all the strings involved. So many packages, that can potentially involved, so many applications (eg. WebServer, SSH-Server, ...) and everywhere could be a hole. Here, I would appreciate, some more focused information, about the particular distribution.

I am using Debian because of its good reputation -- but of course if you could point out a commercial distribution with more transparency, it would be worthwhile!

Ok, can you tell in short, which server software is involved?

Nginx is not the only one, I guess. At least ssh should also be in the boat ... and the mail server .... and ....

Ok, is there any CVE that covers this attack / disables SSLv2?

This is rather in-transparent to me. Would be nice, if somebody could give better advice on this soon.

To make it more clear:

According to the info page, I can disable SSLv2 on OpenSSL only by installing a newer version of OpenSSL, that is not available on Debian (as I found).

(I also updated my original post)

One reason: Using a distribution that uses old OpenSSL versions (see my own post).

According to the info page, SSLv2 can only be disabled on OpenSSL by having the right (newer) version of OpenSSL installed.

I just checked Debian versions.

Wheezy (oldstable): Much to old OpenSSL versions, according to the info site

Jessy (stable): Still to old OpenSSL version.

Stretch (testing): Still to old OpenSSL version.

Sid (unstable): The same version of OpenSSL as Stretch -- Still to old.

What to do?

The point of wealth inequality is, that it is rapidly increasing -- particularly in the last 20 years.

The parent poster implied, that by increasing the wealth of some, all will benefit. In my country, this was not the case in the last 20 years. The middle class that was rather broad and healthy, is loosing particularly in the less wealthy part -- many of those people fall down the ladder and are poor and will be even poorer when they are in old age.

My country once was one of the wealthiest of the world, because many people where wealthy and earned good money. It was unthinkable once, that big parts of the society might be poor or have to live from "soup kitchens" -- today it is reality and all projections show, that it will become even worse!

To be complete: My country is still one of the wealthiest of the world -- but with a much much smaller fraction of people owning the biggest part of this wealth.

> In 1911 the Xinhai Revolution in China, which the quote alludes to, demonstrates what is possible when income disparities reach a tipping point...

That is just the reason, many countries and many people of a specific fraction already arm themselves against revolutions.

What fantastic innovations are robots and drones!