If I understand you correctly, I can see what you mean about emotional openness being a more feminine trait, and understand your implication that homosexual males may lean more towards that behaviour too (stereotypically, at least) - but I really don't understand what race has to do with this?
If mixing our analytical culture with feminity resulted in a surprisingly insightful article that wouldn't have been written otherwise, it's possible that mixing it with gayness will produce some other surprising insight.
Obviously we won't know until it happens, just like we didn't know there were insightful things to be found about crying before a woman wrote this article.
The value of Twitter really depends on how you use it and whom you follow.
I get 3 main areas of benefit:
1) Exposure to new or alternative ideas: I follow a few people who post links to articles I don't see elsewhere and discuss ideas that haven't (yet) reached the mainstream. Of course, this could turn into an echo chamber if you follow likeminded people, but for me, it's broadening.
2) Casual updates from IRL friends & niche celebrities: I follow mostly people I actually know, and I enjoy seeing their random thoughts, links, pics, whatevs. I also follow a few people like Kent Beck, whom I've met a few times but don't really "know". In my slice of the tech world, he's a niche celebrity, and I like seeing his half-formed thoughts and observations.
3) Breaking news & immediate reactions: News often breaks first on Twitter. If something's happening, globally or locally, I usually check Twitter to see what news links people are recommending to find out more. I also check Twitter if I want to see how people in general are reacting. For example, I enjoyed last Sunday's Game of Thrones episode, and afterwards, I searched #GameOfThrones to see what others were saying, if they noticed the same things I did, etc. It was fun.
#1 & #2 can and does happen through other forms, but I like how it happens on Twitter. I think #3 is really where Twitter has a unique value and is exactly what they're saying with the tagline: "See what’s happening right now."
But part of the reason it works for me is that I'm a ruthless unfollower (or muter in Tweetbot). I'm very quick to unfollow/mute-forever if somebody just posts too damn much – or temporarily mute if they're on some jag about stuff I don't want to hear.
I understand how this vulnerability can be used to corrupt the heap, as it's writing more data than malloc was asked to reserve, so it can overwrite memory allocations from other parts of the program.
I am curious as to how would one create a reliable remote code execution exploit out of this? I guess that one may be able to find a function pointer somewhere to overwrite, and use that to control program flow to your shellcode - but as this is dynamically allocated memory, could it not be adjacent to pretty much anything?
How would an attacker approach making a remote code execution exploit, given these constraints? Is it possible in practice or more theoretical?
(I'm not challenging this classification, just would really like to know how this works!)
I agree with your comment but, what's with the capitalization of these words?