How Microsoft can 'kill' Google

How Microsoft can 'kill' Google | The Register

[...] One estimate suggested that Google would lose as much as $380m of advertising revenue if AOL dropped its search engine and took on MSNs. That would cut Google’s profit by something like 25 per cent, potentially giving its huge share price something of a tumble. No wonder Google is thought to be entering the bidding to partner with Time Warner on AOL instead of Microsoft.
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Performance Tuning with GCC, Part 1

Performance Tuning with GCC, Part 1
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Optimizing transformations are performed at various levels of abstraction. In general, optimizations can be categorized into two groups: those that apply to all targets and those that are target-specific. The former are controlled by -f flags; the latter are controlled by -m flags.

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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. And, thanks to the fact that it's a topic of public concern and a "safe issue" for politicians, we can expect a flood of computer security-related legislation from lawmakers. So: computer security is definitely still a "hot topic." But why are we spending all this time and money and still having problems?
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