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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…

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 operator…

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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 le…

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 teac…