No, that's wrong. A rootkit is the thing you install once you have root - not a way to get root initially. It usually gives the attacker a means to access the machine in the future, even if the vulnerability she used is…
The point the article makes on comparing floating point values and the floating point type is true, but it's not because of any rounding error. It's because the comparison operators are defined for every value. That is,…
qbittorrent? http://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php
Nit: The pigeonhole principle is exactly the opposite of "only one object being in one location at a time". It says that if you have m pigeons and n holes, and m > n pigeons, at least one hole is going to have two…
It's a fluff piece. The real story here is that a 10th grader, after using a Theorem that wasn't taught in class, was encouraged to prove it - which she did, successfully. The teacher then sent it to a few academics who…
No, that's wrong. A rootkit is the thing you install once you have root - not a way to get root initially. It usually gives the attacker a means to access the machine in the future, even if the vulnerability she used is…
The point the article makes on comparing floating point values and the floating point type is true, but it's not because of any rounding error. It's because the comparison operators are defined for every value. That is,…
qbittorrent? http://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php
Nit: The pigeonhole principle is exactly the opposite of "only one object being in one location at a time". It says that if you have m pigeons and n holes, and m > n pigeons, at least one hole is going to have two…
It's a fluff piece. The real story here is that a 10th grader, after using a Theorem that wasn't taught in class, was encouraged to prove it - which she did, successfully. The teacher then sent it to a few academics who…