ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 11y ago
According to this poster: https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/3ebzzj/i_may_get_ston... there is not a requirement to be in a relationship to use the site. And now he might die, because of the leak.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I've never heard this conspiracy theory before. Have you got some written evidence to hand?
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
This isn't what "the problem" is. There are lots of problems, but one of the big ones this combats is systematic deliberate fraud. Companies were cherry-picking the trials that got results (and if you run enough trials, some
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
To add to what throwaway2048 said, as well as having high performance requirements, they're small and don't change much. You wouldn't want to write your typical CRUD app in Rust or C++ because developer speed is more importan
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> No one would (should!) ever consider writing a webservice in C++ I can think of one area where that is done (and where Rust might fit quite nicely): Bittorrent trackers!
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
2 factor authentication has nothing to do with this, though, and would do absolutely nothing to protect against this occurrence or similar ones. 2 factor authentication is great in certain situations... but only when your code is operating
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
That doesn't change the facts. Flash has had more zero days than Java. Your browser, regardless of which one you are using, has had more zero days than Java.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> Java exploit after Java exploit One zero day in 2 years. Not quite the disaster area it's made out to be on HN.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> Our IP is more important then your security concerns, no we don't care if you are a core bank But that isn't what it says, at all. It even explicitly says that if you do find a security flaw this way they will still fix it. B
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
This. I previously loved Spotlight but it's getting strange in its old age. For example, if I type "i" or "it" or "ite" or "iter", Spotlight predicts "iTerm". But if I actually type &qu
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> non-exclusive and irrevocable Perhaps you should read the Facebook terms and conditions before making arguments based on them ;)
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Quantum: Check Crystals: Check Using established scientific terminology mashed together in a way that sounds rigorous on the surface but is really gibberish: Check!
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> you signed over the right to control the stuff you put on Facebook as soon as you wrote it. You still retain copyright on it, though.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
He has total control. Its his website, he has made the choice to work with scummy advertisers for a larger cut. Make no mistake: He could choose to run adverts that are not immoral and are not pushing malware, and in return he would earn sl
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Just to clarify... were the vulnerabilities in Firefox itself? Or were they in the extension?
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Clicking through to the relevant "Rationale and tutorial" article on that site is well worth it, those tutorials are very useful for newbies. I also found Mozilla's documentation for TLS very helpful: https://wiki.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> humor is _meant_ to be offensive Humour can be offensive. Some great humour is. Not all humour is offensive. Some great humour isn't. And when humour is offensive, it's pretty widely agreed that it should "punch up"
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> If you're saving a token in the database to delete, you're doing it wrong anyways. I think the strength of your statement here is not warranted – in the context of security, there's no flaw from doing that. Likewise, say
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> signature checking is well understood and rarely goes wrong I would argue otherwise, plenty of signature schemes give you enough rope to hang yourself. The Playstation 3 example springs to mind!
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I sat down with a reporter and literally watched him type out my words, and corrected his article as he wrote it, and made damn sure exactly what I said was written on his screen... and the final article still managed to wildly misquote m
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
This article says nothing. It waffles vaguely about a number of unrelated topics, adding nothing of value to anything that's been said previously, and critically adding nothing of value to the paper it links to. I suspect it is on the
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> The correlation between gluten intolerance and the rise of late-crop RoundUp raises some big questions. Does it? Does it really ? Half the point of the article is that genuine gluten intolerance is not that common, for starters, so th
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I've looked into this issue specifically for piping, as it happens. From my perspective one of the issues with 'solving' this is basically: https://xkcd.com/927/ At the place I worked we had 3 different
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
This isn't a first-person PC game, and until quite recently 30fps was considered a playable framerate. It's only in the last couple of years that "60 has become the new 30". Yes, of course a frame lock sucks, but it&#x27
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I would have assumed Ada would be a popular choice in this domain, due to its improved safety over C. I know it's popular for aerospace.
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Infecting BIOSes Is a LOT Easier Than You May Have Realised [pdf](conference.hitb.org)
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I wouldn't say Rust is an alternative to Python. But if you want to learn Rust, and you already know Python, that's the demographic this article serves.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Thanks to your guide, I didn't have to change a single thing when this news broke. Excellent work!
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
> you'd have to engineer the system such that different emitters can be clearly distinguished from each other It mentions in the article that the light is modulated to permit multiple transmitters, so this seems pretty robust.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Actually yes. For security, even PHP is a better choice than C (for certain versions of the idea of "security"). There's entire classes of security problems that are literally impossible in PHP.

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