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The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639

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A new release for any project with a fix for a 12-year old CVE is going to stand out pretty obviously; a recent release has a fix of that nature, but the trail of CVE-2012-5639 is rather elusive. The Apache OpenOffice project made its 4.1.15

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Ancient Popcorn (2012)

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18, 2012. Reissued from Jan.

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The danger of delegating education to journalists (2012)

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Anders Ericsson, Department of Psychology, Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, October 28th, 2012 I have always viewed the APS Observer as a source for up-to-date summaries of advances in the wide research domains of the Association for…

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The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)

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One of the Neapolitan underworld’s most powerful bosses, Paolo Di Lauro was invisible to the Italian police for most of his career. But since his 2005 capture, William Langewiesche reports, some wonder if Di Lauro was the only man capable of controlling Naples’s meanest streets. Photographs by Massimo Vitali.

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Do we need copyright? (2012)

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The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree. … Continue reading Do we need copyright?

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Null is not false, part one (2012)

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The way you typically represent a "missing" or "invalid" value in C# is to use the "null" value of the type. Every reference type has a "null" value; that is, the reference that does not actually refer to anything.

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The hierarchy of innovation (2012)

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“If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?” ” -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to ring the &#…

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