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Nikker
14y ago
I'm guessing the washrooms in your area don't have sanitary paper(toilet paper).
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So you are suggesting that it is out of reach for Google and Apple to publish libraries and frameworks that are optimized for a specific hardware platform (ARM A7 + A15) or is it that since Windows X already optimizes Intel / AMD offerings
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Let me clarify. When you program for Android/IOS how much of the logic you write is referenced from optimized libraries and how much is your own craft? Now look at the entire Market Place / App Store and figure how many of those apps entir
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I completely agree with performance per watt Intel is on the path to be where they need to be but ARM is on path to be par with a chip that even AMD's x86 offerings can't touch on a core by core basis. Now with Microsoft's Windows 8 trying
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Maybe 3 decades after it was released according to this paper; http://scholar.google.ca/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://59.1... Even if the NSA appointed S-Boxes did improve Lucifer then decreasing the block size does not really improve o
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Since many of these procedures are implemented in hardware directly, maybe it could be utilized as a conditional fall-back? An example might be a MITM attack that indicates an invalid hand shake or shows that an insufficient random pool is
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Don't forget that IBM actually designed Lucifer which was 128bits but it was the (edit:s/NSA/NHIS) that truncated it to 56bits and named it DES. So maybe this is an example of "6 of one or half a dozen of the other"?
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This sounds like it would likely be a Trademark infringement suit, which would be expected. Trademarks, if unprotected can lose their value. Having showing it on 100+ million of your devices should meet that requirement.
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I think I see your point but you have to admit you haven't really established a foundation for your argument. You seem to feel (and I may be wrong of course) that one person selecting a fairly secure pass phrase once would be much more sec
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Cryptography in it's own principals are based on probability. If ignoring physical access attacks, social engineering attacks, etc are acceptable to you then yes, you can keep a "good" password for a long time. You also have to accept tha
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With the talent Microsoft hires vs their products the ratio always came out so low I just shook my head. I always pictured a day of work at Microsoft as someone holding a chair over a grad students head making them refactor sol.exe
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And Farmville needs to know that same information? Or is it Farmville Dr.?
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Owning and operating a business does as well. If you don't recruit the best you can for your company then indeed the risk is quite high.
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You should probably know that before you start dealing with a prospective employee. If you are hiring quality people then it is definitely worth it. If you don't know for sure then you should not be hiring anyone.