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by __alexs 13y ago
Crack is unusually addictive but many people maintain casual cocaine habits for years on end. Both of these drugs have the same classification, and the same penalties in most of the world. Crack is also particularly bad for your health outs
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by __alexs 13y ago
"Bahnhof falsely claims that the server being auctioned was 'WikiLeaks primary web server'. It was not." - @wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/374608602796785664
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by __alexs 13y ago
"Friendly reminder that "people with JS disabled" includes those on high-latency networks, bad firewalls, and browsers you don't support." - @jcoglan https://twitter.com/jcoglan/status/3701
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by __alexs 13y ago
> It also provides a verified crpyto library implementation. Verified by who?
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by __alexs 13y ago
I suspect it is more likely to be from terrestrial military hardware or a something like an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM
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by __alexs 13y ago
> Are things like "a materialized view (1996!), a continuous query, the result cache" available in any free DBs nowadays? Getting there... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/rules-materiali
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by __alexs 13y ago
Sounds a bit like SET ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE?
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by __alexs 13y ago
No idea but I'm sure PayPal are going to do their best with the $12m in new account balances they just got though.
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by __alexs 13y ago
but also, maybe? http://liliputing.com/2013/07/intel-atom-z3770-bay-trail-chi... There's some evidence that the new Bay Trail Atom's should be pretty competitive against current ARM stuff.
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by __alexs 13y ago
How is it abuse exactly? Live consenting naked people in exchange for money is not illegal in much of the world.
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by __alexs 13y ago
The anonymously published whole Internet survey scanned 100 ports on every address as well as a few other things. It took something like 30,000 devices and months of work though so I guess this is pretty impressive. http://intern
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by __alexs 13y ago
Most teams that work on GitHub have none of their own workflow or infrastructure for sharing code when GH goes down. You can probably blame those teams for that more than GitHub but people do seem to have bought into the idea that we can ju
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by __alexs 13y ago
/dev/urandom and /dev/random follow the same bit generation routine except that /dev/random blocks when the estimated entropy in the input pool falls too low. The SoCs on phones often have HWRNG support, they j
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by __alexs 13y ago
There's an input pool and 2 output pools but it's not like Fortuna. This is the most up to date analysis of the Linux entropy system I'm aware of http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/251.pdf
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by __alexs 13y ago
> "compressing in general" is a good idea Unless there is any opportunity for the attacker to control part of the plaintext?
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by __alexs 13y ago
GCC supports external dynamically loaded plugins since 4.5.0 (3 years ago) http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Plugins.html The wiki has links to some plugins too http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plug
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by __alexs 13y ago
> Even if GCC had very clean separation between the steps, the FSF's interpretation is that you couldn't use the GCC parser for something like highlighting/suggestions the way Apple does in XCode without making all of XCod
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by __alexs 13y ago
> Technological tools then become our only option. Your only option for what? Privacy? If that's all you are trying to achieve then maybe it's sufficient. Many people perceive this as part of a much larger threat to civil liber
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by __alexs 13y ago
This sounds totally useless as a 3rd party service due to how obvious a target it would be but a simple encrypting proxy or MTA config would be pretty useful for self hosted setups.
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by __alexs 13y ago
It has implications for certificate pinning (like that used in Chrome) if you can only pin to CAs that operate in a single regulatory domain.
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by __alexs 13y ago
> I'm in the process of moving any Saas offerings I use off USA-affiliated companies, but it's actually more difficult than I first thought. You should try finding a SSL cert retailer that's outside of the US. The only one
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by __alexs 13y ago
> Even if they reached $32M it would be the equivalent of a pre-order for a few tens of thousands of phones. That's not enough to launch a viable handset business. I don't think they are looking to launch a viable handset busin
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by __alexs 13y ago
[8] doesn't seem to be quite the smoking gun they are making out. I did some digging into other hosts near that one and it looks like pretty standard business ISP stuff to me. Outlook Web Access, phone systems, a few company websites.
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by __alexs 13y ago
Given what we already know about the extent of DPI monitoring on the US internet, and the US govs data sharing programs, why do you think this a more practical choice than actual democratic representation in the long term?
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by __alexs 13y ago
The article says it's only TalkTalk's traffic that is monitored by Huawei, not all the traffic in the UK. Cameron just thinks it's awesome and would be happy if it was all of the traffic. Which actually is probably even wor
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by __alexs 13y ago
This is an utterly ridiculous idea and I'm amazed it works at all, well done :) If the CPython API is so easy to get going on emscripten I wonder if anyone has tried using emscripten to compile Nuitka ( http://nuitka.net&#x2F
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by __alexs 13y ago
The SoC datasheet has this to say about the RNG http://pastehtml.com/view/crkxyohmp.rtxt Which is not particularly helpful. How it works is basically undocumented although I hear the RPi engineers believe it uses some
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by __alexs 13y ago
In C you can write you run-time in any language that C can link to. Which is rather a lot of languages, and isn't tied to any particular compiler.
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by __alexs 13y ago
Even if RdRand is a plot by the NSA it seems quite illogical to think that this is the first time they've collaborated with Intel so why are these people still using Intel chips at all? It kind of sucks that RdRand is hard to verify as
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by __alexs 13y ago
I believe you can add 'nordrand' to your boot flags to turn off the kernel's usage of it.

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