ZoFreX

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811.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Awesome! I think some light gun games used this method too :)
812.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Yes - I didn't mean to imply passphrases are not good, I just meant that sufficient entropy is required no matter what you do. By the way, it's a bit easier to discuss bits of entropy rather than number of possibilities. Assuming each possi
813.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I absolutely agree, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise with my post. > it makes no odds to me - I'm getting neither of them in a reasonable timeframe There's nothing wrong with a passphrase as long as it can't be gotten in a reasonabl
814.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
It is! And once created, you can push and pull to and from gists just like any git repository :)
815.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I love this idea for Github and think it would be a really exciting move for them! One thought though - could the Git protocol† for editing, correcting, guest posts etc not also work well as a more general protocol for hacker bloggers? Some
816.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
> A photodiode picks up the raster on a CRT based monitor and with appropriate timing logic uses this to decide where to draw pixels Incidentally this is how "light guns" worked, and also why they sadly do not work on LCD or plasma scre
817.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that length is not important, only entropy is important. If you create a really long phrase by forming a sentence from very common English words, the entropy is actually really low, and if everyone started doing this
818.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Why would you downgrade to such an old version? My phone broke mid-contract (but out of warranty) and while there are a lot of very affordable Android phones, none of them are running anything resembling a recent version of Android. I
819.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
As an Android user it's disheartening to see that the best mobile GMail app is available for iOS only. As an Android user that recently downgraded from 4.0 to 2.3, it is frankly infuriating: you can only get the latest GMail app for Android
820.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
You can also use this to produce PDF slides that have multimedia embedded in the PDF itself - something guaranteed to impress as you seamlessly play a video without having to alt+tab, buffer, or go find an IT guy to work out why the wireles
821.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
If you look at his source for that, it is purely based on the clock speed and not, (which you might assume from the context), "the speed at which <some given software> runs". The assertion that we hit the limit in 2004 and CPUs have
822.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I have run computers without TIM, for extended periods of time, and it is perfectly possible. In fact, most people put far, far too much TIM on which gives you far worse thermal transfer than no TIM at all! All the TIM is meant to do is fil
823.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
> CPUs still have a forest of fragile pins on the bottom that can easily be bent or broken Not really - the pins have been on the socket for some time now (for Intel at least - I haven't built anything AMD for some time I'm afraid) and
824.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Have you ever tried to get your money back after getting scammed as a buyer?
825.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
> A true "amateur to amateur" auction type sales website is an area begging for competition... Really? Because this is the area eBay started in, and they pivoted to more "online retail" than "online yard sale" because (surprise!) there
826.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
And what happens once the phone's battery dies?
827.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Why is it far too dangerous?
828.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
And why is it generated by the marketing department's crappy software and not the engineering department? Because no-one in the engineering department wants to program like it's 1999!
829.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
RTFA.
830.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
(price includes costs of ensuring OS works flawlessly with hardware and delivering updates in the future to keep it that way)
831.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Frankly I find it rude to speculate. It's none of my business what someone has in their pants, or what they used to have in their pants.
832.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Honestly apart from a couple of times where the police were being extra aggressive, we found it fun. We just got used to it and it became a bit of a game - "this time, let's pretend none of us speak any language except German!"
833.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I can tell you now there are countries where it isn't optional. It probably depends on when you're there and where in the country you are, as well as what you look like. I was driving through Russia in a right-hand-drive vehicle which has r
834.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
> But if I rip a CD track to MP3 and you rip a CD track to MP3 are we going to get files that have matching hashes? (Even if we use the same settings, and the same meta information.) Not unless you are both using a very complex ripping
835.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I'm not really sure what relation the article's headline has to its content - apart from the obvious problem that current 3D printing technology is nowhere near accurate enough for the tolerances involved in a jet engine, I don't think it w
836.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
My bank insists on checking personal details when they ring me. My protocol is to answer incorrectly the first time, and if the caller doesn't realise my details are incorrect, they didn't know them in the first place!
837.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
If they can subpoena ISPs for the data, they don't even need to seize your server to get your emails, and you'll be none the wiser.
838.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I think there's quite a wide gulf between "direct DOM manipulation" and "use GWT". I've been using Backbone's views to make my JS more manageable, for example, and there are some nice MVVM frameworks out there that really help you build com
839.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
When I worked in procurement at <large engineering corp> I was really happy that we ran QA and H&S checks on all suppliers, but environmental standards literally weren't a factor in deciding whose bid to go with. Wasn't encourag
840.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I think you might be kidding yourself if you think that gives you any meaningful protection against government agencies. As the article said, one of the dangers of taking some protections is being lulled into a false sense of security.

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