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On the other hand, when developing an application, you should think twice if you really need to write your own sorting routine. Better stick with the system library unless you have some use case that really requires your own sorting implementation.
There is still a C64 scene alive! http://noname.c64.org/csdb/
"IT security admins must understand that a computer can be compromised by almost any hardware device plugged into it. Hardware is hardware -- the instructions coded into it and its firmware takes precedence over software. When we talk trust boundaries in computer security, you always have to remember the hardware boundary must be discussed and defended. If I, as the attacker, can convince a victim to plug in some sort of hardware or if I plug it in myself, then it is, for all intense purposes, game over. If I can plug something into your USB, DMA, FireWire, and now mouse port, I'll likely succeed in carrying off a malicious action."
Wow, what a lot of nonsense! Why would a hardware USB device necessarily have access over the whole computer? And the author doesn't even know that there is no different between a USB port and a mouse port ...
This is important since many great games and demos for the C64 made heavy use of these quirks.
By using the die shot, you can reengineer all internal logic and find and understand those quirks fully.
A dedicated CAPTCHA hacker just has to create a mapping table once, and use it in all hacking attempts. The mapping table would map all unicode "A"-lookalikes to "A", and so on.
Also, this improvement breaks when a human user tries to use copy and paste to fill the word "apple" into the field instead of typing it in.
Furthermore, aren't most CAPTCHAs broken by humans being paid for that task?
You could also devise a "pregnancy test" app - simply take a picture of the woman's face - yes, of her face ;-) - and you get the result: pregnant or not, and whether it's a boy or a girl, and the due date. Honestly, people falling for the mealsnap app would also fall for this.
Some time ago, I sold some old, rare computer games on eBay this way. There are several boxes of games in my attic at this time that I "collected" some years ago, and I hope to sell them for a descent price some time in the future (when I find the time to take photos and craft good item descriptions).
Mouse vs. trackpad is an important point. In my experience, a TrackPoint is more usable than a touchpad (trackpad). So be glad when your laptop has got one.