B-Con

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Profile In the CLoud Crypto Review(blog.mozilla.org)
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by B-Con 13y ago
Personally, THIS is what an "intro to language X" article should look like. It walks you through how the language thinks, which is one of the things you need to learn in order to understand how to best use it and why things are th
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by B-Con 13y ago
Very interesting, I'd like one too.
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by B-Con 13y ago
Not an expert, but in theory the CPU can detect specific contexts and change its behavior. If side-channel attacks can detect AES operations, the CPU can do an even a better job.
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by B-Con 13y ago
I have the same impression. The commenters tend to be techncially-savy, but really bizarre on pretty much everything else.
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by B-Con 13y ago
I feel really old now, but Adblock Plus was actually forked from the original Adblock. The "plus" part implied it was supposed to improve on the original project.
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by B-Con 13y ago
The contest ends in 2 days, having been open for 3 months. Not enough time to participate, but no public results to examine either. Probably better to submit back then or wait until there are some cool entries to examine.
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by B-Con 13y ago
How on earth did you read that out of what was said? He implied that homeschooling was advantageous, and said that his son felt it was. > "That has made it very easy for me[...]" No, he obviously does not think that public scho
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by B-Con 13y ago
1) Because it seems easy enough to make one. 2) Plus, there is a huge influx of users up for grabs. Even if you grab 0.5% of the Google Reader users, that's noticeable. 3) Everyone has their own opinion of exactly what "clean&qu
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by B-Con 13y ago
I think tau is really just motivated by people who like things to be "clean". You see them in all walks, wishing programming language syntax, math notation, spelling, grammar, etc, had been chosen to be cleaner or make more sense
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by B-Con 13y ago
The assertion that there are innate differences? Of course. They're flooded with different hormones from birth. Throughout life, the genders will experience vastly different hormones. Their development process is different from very ea
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by B-Con 13y ago
> It is also valid to conjecture that perhaps the observed difference is due to cultural/environmental forces and not due to one of the innate differences. It is. But we originally started with someone conjecturing that it wasn&#x27
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by B-Con 13y ago
There are a lot of innate differences. But sometimes we observe a difference (say, gender distribution in graduate math) and we don't know why we observe. It is valid to conjecture that perhaps the observed difference is due to one of
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by B-Con 13y ago
We've been watching subtle differences unfold for decades. The PC movement was aghast that anyone dare think that men/women had any differences at all. That's been chipped away at for decades now. The proof is now on those wh
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by B-Con 13y ago
There's a general question among cryptographers: How far ahead of the general public is the NSA? The answer: We don't know. Interestingly, back in the early 90s they were maybe 15ish years ahead of us. Decisions they made back the
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by B-Con 13y ago
I think it's really the whole philosophical "create vs discover" thing. Only things that are created (with other restrictions) can be patented, things that are discovered cannot be. The problem arises, when do you draw the li
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by B-Con 13y ago
Same story here. I was actually a math major and took the general GRE (which I believe is what we are discussing) in my senior year. I only studied the night before, just to see if their prep guide included any funky vocab or other memoriza
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by B-Con 13y ago
It is interesting what the media and public choose to be concerned by. 15 years ago I would've guessed that this sort of wide-spread operation would never have been tolerated by either. Post 9/11, it was surely scandalous when ATT got caugh
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by B-Con 13y ago
I would guess that it's possible that the way X works prevents this from happening. At least, easily. I use an offbeat windowing manager (WM) (aka, the client to Xorg that actually draws the base-level windows for the GUI). The WM gets to
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by B-Con 13y ago
It doesn't sound like that whatsoever. Here's what I interpreted: "If Google were pushing Go and it were on Android, it may feel as though Go's goal was political, ie another way for Google to assert control over the development process and
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by B-Con 13y ago
The fix has happened, it's just that most of the lifting came from other people and a change in circumstances. I think it makes sense.
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by B-Con 13y ago
I have never once (IIRC) used "sign in with Facebook" on any site that wasn't Facebook.
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by B-Con 13y ago
This is becoming common practice. A base level of common features are available to a normal login session with particularly sensitive operations requiring re-authentication. It seems that this really only defends against idle session hijack
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by B-Con 13y ago
Honestly, one of the big problems is that people confuse crypto primitives with crypto schemes. Developers need schemes, not primitives. Some people, who know what they're doing, need the primitives, but they are by far and away the excepti
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by B-Con 13y ago
> and somebody else doesn't understand what the fuck you are saying It seems that this community borderline prides itself in being so concerned with edge cases and minutia that they have no clue at all what people mean. There is no desi
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by B-Con 13y ago
This professor also has a book called "Einstein for Everyone", available for free online here: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/
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by B-Con 13y ago
That is a very unfair comparison. Riemann discussed these topics in an afternoon after having worked on them beforehand. Additionally, Einstein wasn't working on the math that whole time, he was pondering through the physics/math together
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by B-Con 13y ago
I don't get it either. 4.4 is way too low to be Reddit's current page view average. (Now, 44 would be closer.)
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by B-Con 13y ago
How is this going to be handled, as a money exchange system ("yo, here's for covering lunch for me yesterday"), or like a payment system ("send your payment to shop@gmail.com")? It seems presented as the former: > you can securely send
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by B-Con 13y ago
Yep. Coupled with the fact that 32-bit applications can still marginally outperform equivalent 64-bit applications, those who have little RAM/CPU are still recommended to choose 32-bit over 64-bit.

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