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901.
by RachelF 10y ago
>two identical encrypted files. Good practice for file encryption is to pad some random bytes to the start of a file. This makes known cyphertext attacks much harder. So encrypting identical files should result in different files and als
902.
by RachelF 10y ago
No. Google Drive data is encrypted when being transferred, but not at rest. My guess is that Google does not like encryption as it prevents de-duplication between users. For end-to-end Google Drive encryption you'll an app like BoxCryp
903.
by RachelF 10y ago
Here's a great video on Colossus. The interesting fact is that Tommy Flowers had to build it with his own money, as the government wouldn't pay for it initially. https://youtu.be/TPvqy9tldoo
904.
by RachelF 10y ago
"Fooled by Randomness" by N.N. Taleb. It showed how big a role chance plays in our lives, and how to make the most of it.
905.
by RachelF 10y ago
In the late 1800's knot theory was quite popular with physicists. Now there is the much bigger string theory: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210170411.h... On a lighter note I could use
906.
by RachelF 10y ago
I have the same problem. A few emails a week get classified as spam by gmail, when they should not. I guess many users don't complain about it as they never look in their gmail spam folders and see emails that they should have received
907.
by RachelF 10y ago
Having seen the source for a non-Bazaar OS (Windows), I can say that they are not built like cathedrals: Most of the original developers have long since moved on, there are design problems, various teams and managers rebuild or duplicate wo
908.
New research shows that even severe stress can have an upside(economist.com)
1 points by RachelF 10y ago|0 comments
909.
by RachelF 10y ago
The Australian lyrebird is perhaps the best bird mimic: https://youtu.be/KOFy8QkNWWs
910.
by RachelF 10y ago
I read thru this list and became sadder and sadder. I was expecting a rant, buy I agree with 90% of his points.
911.
The Supreme Court tells politicians how to take bribes without going to jail(economist.com)
9 points by RachelF 10y ago|0 comments
912.
by RachelF 10y ago
Interesting project. No mention of what can be used as the backhaul, though. How do these boxes connect to the rest of the Internet or public phone network?
913.
by RachelF 10y ago
Not the death of optimism, just the winning of the NASA bureaucracy in keeping the organization size by pushing the "cheaper" space shuttle. With the benefit of hindsight, flying into space with the X-15's successors would ha
914.
by RachelF 10y ago
I don't think that they have much to do with the OP. The OP's post is easy to understand, Symantec's seems to be corporate double-speak. The more important question is what should Symantec/Norton users do to prevent bein
915.
by RachelF 10y ago
You could run it under Wine
916.
by RachelF 10y ago
Total Commander is an essential Windows tool. TC ultima prime is a package with lots of useful Windows apps like Notepad++ included http://tcup.eu
917.
by RachelF 10y ago
I wonder. It is a bit worrying that DropBox accepts PayPal.
918.
by RachelF 10y ago
Indeed, they are now so expensive that they'll have to be really good. Is one F-35 better than five Su-27 which cost about the same. To quote Stalin, “Quantity has a Quality All Its Own"
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F-35 Delays Mean US Marines Are Pulling Old F-18s Out of Desert Storage(warisboring.com)
32 points by RachelF 10y ago|61 comments
920.
by RachelF 10y ago
Windows update via svchost.exe has been the problem on the machines I support. I randomly eats 100% of the CPU for minutes at a time. http://www.wintips.org/how-to-fix-svchost-exe-netsvcs-memory...
921.
by RachelF 10y ago
It's very hard. In the mid 1980s there was a CPU called a "Transputer" [1] made some of the people who moved to ARM. These CPUs could be connected together in huge networks and directly talk to each other. The network of CPU&
922.
by RachelF 10y ago
Apologies for that, I was trying to summarize the linked article in the title, not to mislead.
923.
New phenomenon breaks inbound TCP policing(forums.whirlpool.net.au)
130 points by RachelF 10y ago|53 comments
924.
by RachelF 10y ago
Looks good.
925.
by RachelF 10y ago
Perhaps a silly question, but if address space layout randomization (ASLR) is enabled, should it no protect against buffer overflows?
926.
by RachelF 10y ago
No mention of RF specs, especially noise figures.
927.
by RachelF 11y ago
Ironically the Core2 descends from the P3M, not the P4.
928.
Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think(theatlantic.com)
7 points by RachelF 11y ago|1 comments
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Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered Linux Laptop That Fits in Your Pocket(makezine.com)
17 points by RachelF 11y ago|2 comments
930.
by RachelF 11y ago
Exactly, in order to have a long career in science, one needs to toe the line, and keep in the mainstream.

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