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by SCHiM 11y ago
I like the fact that a security issue is being tackled. What I absolutely hate is the fact that there are no ways to turn this option off. Just like HSTS I can't turn this off and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Were originally I co
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by SCHiM 11y ago
The idea is to use constant time hashing functions, and then compare the hashes instead of comparing the strings themselves. AFAIK there is no implementation of the C stdlib that makes sure no timing attacks can be performed.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I did not miss his point, I even agree with his final paragraph. But all but the last paragraph of the article is based on flawed comparisons.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
This article is flawed. It seems to revolve around the fact that 'people commuting to work are more dangerous than 1 car stopping on the freeway'. The article then proceeds to explain why this is so: > 'No human is a perfe
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Looks like it's closely related to homomorphic encryption.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I've programmed bloomfilters for my job. A certain product of ours keeps track of certain urls visited. We're talking millions of (unique) urls. We use bloomfilters to quickly check if a url was visited or not. If the bloomfilter
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Do you not think that actually knowing, really knowing, is a worthy cause in and of itself? To have proof that we are not alone? Even if we can't get there I think that certainty would be a very nice thing to have.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I'd consider that a violent act, but it is very different form the kind of violence displayed on your tv screen, which is the original point.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
This reminds me of a difference between cats and dogs (and foxes). I've got a cat, she's over 13 years old now. She's from a line of thoroughly domesticated house cats, and yet in the summer she's sometimes gone for week
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I got quite frustrated when I read this article. That's because this article, and the many others like this, confuse the real issue. This article, and those like it, all state that the problem with multi-threading and synchronization i
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Hmm. Although I don't agree with all that is said in the article. I find that it makes a nuanced and well structured point. Depending on what the security industry wants to achieve, they can either ridicule (punish) or ignore (reward)
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but no with your account name. I don't think you deserve to be downvoted.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Interesting, but it feels like the music is forever stuck in an into of some kind. I never quite get the feeling that it's building towards something.
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by SCHiM 11y ago
If these things are any indication [0]. Then no. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
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by SCHiM 11y ago
This is good. I've had problems that were somewhat related to what the author talks about. When I was learning C# and was already quite fluent in C/C++. I had a big problem with the C# type system/management. I'd been re
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Does it bother anyone else when a company that does not need a kick starter uses it? That's not really what it was meant for you know :s
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by SCHiM 11y ago
<s> Of course the investigation into the Belgacom hack was just 'rhetoric'. No real action was taken, the CEO of the company that lead the investigation did not explicitly attribute the hack, just rhetoric. </s>
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Yeah do be very careful with this, many anti-cheat programs are very trigger-happy. Some time ago I had an application crash on a development machine while I was playing a game. On my dev machine crashes go straight to ollydbg. Next thing I
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by SCHiM 11y ago
What a gem! I guess this shows how much facets the human condition has. To think that a man calling himself emperor would be tolerated, much less celebrated, in the US is almost as insane as the fact that someone would proclaim himself empe
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach[1] has shaped the way I think in many ways and really warped my perspective on allot of things. There's also the Imperial Radch series which is a very, very good sci fi series which is unlike any other sf I've
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by SCHiM 11y ago
However from the top of my head I can give you one example that is likely used in very security-critical applications that also uses goto: The linux kernel. The kernel coding conventions actually state that this is because over-zealous nest
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I know my words are probably going to sound quite harsh, and I realize that there will be people who will take offense, still this is my opinion on the matter, and this being the Internet you're obliged to read and then ignore it ;p To
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I think that perhaps our views of the world are slight off-kilter/incompatible. I agree with you that even godlike-AI must have an upper bound on what they can extract from a 'puddle of atoms'. It's obvious that given a
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by SCHiM 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_i... http://phys.org/news/2014-09-entropy-black-holes.html http://phys.org/news/2014-09-black-hole-thermodynamics.ht
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I'm quite sure I've read somewhere that information cannot be lost in the absolute sense, lost to us: yes, lost irrevocably and irrefutably: no. In that sense, 'a sufficiently advanced AI' is not magic, because when peop
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Depending on your outlook on life, if the backup is you, don't you already know the answer?
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by SCHiM 11y ago
As a small-time reverser I can tell you, even without having heard of this program before now, that it is insecure. The rule of thumb: If it runs on the client's device or if the client can read it then it can be cracked, inspected, se
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by SCHiM 11y ago
The article does not match the title given, you will find no condensed account of the battle of waterloo here, only vague hints and advertisements to make you buy the books referenced. A more suiting title would be "Books about the bat
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by SCHiM 11y ago
Well it _is_ Rand Paul on the floor, how else would you like to phrase it? I've got no political interest in this either way, since I'm not American. So consider it an outsiders view when I say that I think it's not unreasona
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by SCHiM 11y ago
I sometimes use C++ as a scripting language in MVC++. I'll gladly take the compilation time if it means I get to use the debugger when stepping through my code.

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