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by 16s 15y ago
I recall that the puzzle says "one ball is heavier than the others" not "one ball is a different weight". That being the case, here is the solution: 1. Split the 12 balls into 2 groups. Place the groups on the scale. The heavier group has t
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by 16s 15y ago
One point I would add is that by default, Macs have Perl, Python and Ruby (I think). So it's easy to script malware or write portable tools. I'm not suggesting that these languages are insecure or should not be installed, only that a malwar
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by 16s 15y ago
I'll preface this by saying that this is my personal opinion. Github (and the like) are becoming prerequisites. You should have a portfolio of personal code you've done that you can freely share. Stuff you are proud of and passionate abou
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That's the thing I like most about C++. I can do any type of programming in it (OOP, functional, procedural, templates, etc.). I can roll my own data structures or use the built-in STL containers while working with low-level C-like code. I'
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Portable threads (to me at least). Boost has had them for some time now and they work well.
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I've been a Gnome Linux desktop user since 1999. I'm still happy with it. Works great for me. No complaints.
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Yes, but they don't have marketing departments.
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I've programmed some for OTP devices. Vasco primarily, but some RSA too. Normally, the OTP algorithm takes two args... a "shared secret" (each customer has a different secret) and the exact date/time. All the fobs and the back-end server kn
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by 16s 15y ago
Don't carry this too far, the owner of a federally registered trademark can sue the hell out of you. I would not play this wait and see game. The trademark database is easily searched. Edit: US Registered Trademark search: http://www.uspto
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by 16s 15y ago
Very funny quote from the article: "August 2011: Your accountant, your Uncle Sal, and the garage attendant at your office building all confide they are cultivating start-ups on the side."
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Or beating people with canes until the meat is hanging off the butt and legs. Cruel, but not quirky.
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Java the language is OK. The only downside to it (in my opinion) is forcing OOP on everyone. Other than that, it's fine. Java the virtual machine (JVM) is what I dislike more. It's a platform (like Windows) and within its virtual world, thi
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What is this InlinedVector<> they speak of in C++ tuning? Is that a Google specific container or is it in the std library (or some other library)?
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I'm glad Zed made this an issue. No one should be harassed like that. Honestly, it made github look very unprofessional. I'm glad they stepped-in and fixed it.
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It's harder to get hashes than to crack them. For best results, you need to compromise a corporate Microsoft Windows Active Directory domain controller or an OpenLDAP server. Web apps are easier to compromise, but typically those passwords
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by 16s 15y ago
Speaking to easy hashes (NTLM, MD5, OpenLDAP SHA, etc.) One through four brute force is extremely trivial. A single core CPU will do all those in less than a minute. Five (all combinations... the entire space) in less than an hour. Modern G
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NTLM is not difficult to crack. It's basically md4. Edit: I forgot to mention that I have C++ code that will turn an ASCII string into its NTLM hash here: https://github.com/16s/NT_Hashes
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by 16s 15y ago
So do applicants who don't have facebook accounts have to create one to apply? That would be a deal breaker for me. I don't have an account and don't want one.
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by 16s 15y ago
The thing is, we're not "most folks" (as you say). We understand, and it bothers us. However, "most folks" don't care and use the same password "Letmein!" for every website they visit.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that the password is stored as plain-text. The customer support agent may have simply had the ability to initiate a process that decrypted it and sent an email notice to the customer. Granted, it's always alarm
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Some people build stuff for themselves and don't care if others "want" or "like" it.
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You can set margarine out in hot sun all day and it'll will not melt. Once I saw that, I knew I'd never eat it. I'll take butter any day.
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If obscurity is useless, then why does the Army camouflage tanks? Why not just paint them blazing orange/pink and let them stand on their own defenses? There is a place for obscurity in security and the endless parroting of "security throug
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40 character passwords, along with host-based firewalls that /dev/null you after 10 failed attempts are just as effective as keys. In case you are wondering, the passwords are pasted, not typed.
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This is a very good example of why you should never, under any circumstances, use a proprietary computing device that cannot be fully encrypted where you alone hold the decryption key. The convenience these devices provide comes at the cost
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They asked me how to rm a file named -f. Seriously. I thought to myself what a silly question. That's like 20 year old Unix trivia. I was dumb-founded. This was the second phone interview. I knew then I did not want to work for them and I t
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by 16s 15y ago
Really great article with a good insight into daily life. I like the way he talks about basic physical maintenance/updates and applies the same concepts to software/hardware updates. Cleaning the gutters is no fun, but I have to do it every
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My reason for using vi/vim is that it's the lowest common denominator text editor. You'll find it by default on most any Linux or BSD system.
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C++ gets a bad wrap from people who have never seriously used it. I'm glad to see someone slapping back. It's a fine language that is very useful and will be for decades to come.
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The explanation given (slight chance others may have accessed encrypted password data) and the action taken (locking user accounts) don't go together and led to the media frenzy.

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