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Jun 6, 2005
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Adam Felber teaches us how to avoid setting off motion detectors

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

In a sidebar discussion on this week's episode of Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, Adam Felber explains that "you can foil most motion detectors with a pair of insulated gloves, a piece of plywood, and a hat." [Windows Media] [RealPlayer]

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Jun 6, 2005
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A quick puzzle about security and synchronization

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

This quick puzzle floated past one of our internal discussion groups. In Process B, the succeeds, but the returns immediately instead of waiting. Explain. [Correction: I confused the matter by passing as the third parameter, thereby creating an event that is initially signalled. Change it to so that the event is created non-signall...

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