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by aa0 13y ago
I'm pretty sure schizophrenia or Parkinson's would be more effective. The interrogators can just pull the hat off. What you want is brain "static"
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by aa0 13y ago
Well that took a turn... Do you also by chance drink poison every day to build immunity for when that vicious lad taps your drink?
33.
by aa0 13y ago
Is it conscious or subconscious? Because that makes a huge difference on speed and subtlety of the attack.
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by aa0 13y ago
Random blocks when waiting for entropy. Urandom is "unblocking random" and will return strictly predictable results when the pool becomes drained enough.
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by aa0 13y ago
Many companies do this, when they're about the bottom dollar. IE. her company is caustic and grimy, the status quo (sorry to say.)
36.
by aa0 13y ago
Would you mind citing the law?
37.
by aa0 13y ago
MSVC, barely supports C99 but has time to have devs make posts about the obvious nature of optimization. Sigh.
38.
by aa0 13y ago
It's not like that data can't be aired up with credit card RFID data, or the time of purchases. Have some imagination, it's slumbering out there!
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by aa0 13y ago
They do but backwards. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/ex-goldman-programmer...
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by aa0 13y ago
2014 Introducing the iWatchYou by your friendly neighborhood NSA
41.
by aa0 13y ago
Seems somewhat like hype. FPGAs and ASICs are the only fast enough solutions for direct parallel nets of inputs and outputs at the current moment. There is no way a processor is going to perform as well, especially if running instructions f
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by aa0 13y ago
He didn't, right. The story is a good example of how in depth some design decisions can get when desire for perfection kicks in - as programmers that focus on products, we have to realize that purity is always a stresser of we don&#x27
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by aa0 13y ago
The main point I believe he was making is that the lack of clockwork curiosity for innards is responsible for ignorance and general impatience in computing skills of the general populace.
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by aa0 13y ago
Seems like over engineering and a good reminder that stress can be avoided through simplicity
45.
by aa0 13y ago
GPLv2 says nothing about proceeds from commercial profits. All it requires is for requests for the source code to be honored.
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by aa0 13y ago
I guess this is a good time to plug XaoS a multiplatform real-time fractal viewer: http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php Recently it was ported to iOS which is pretty cool..so it really runs on about anything: htt
47.
by aa0 13y ago
What is anything but an "idea in our heads?" Even physical sensations are just ideas of tactility. It seems silly, as someone who isn't omniscient, to claim that our universe being a 'simulation' has no bearing upon
48.
by aa0 13y ago
Did you read my whole post? With the salt attribute, a level based system can be implemented -- effectively a different hash would be required for more critical user-actions. That is, you'd need to re-type your password in the website
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by aa0 13y ago
Given that the input password type auto filled by browsers offers no security, I propose a new standard input type called passwordhash. <input type='passwordhash' hash='sha256' salt='26:$:9' editable='f
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by aa0 13y ago
Completely meaningless because it wouldn't predict new phenomena? That sounds like a logical fallacy, mate. Or at least an extremely biased outlook on discussion
51.
by aa0 13y ago
Mathematics is just another flavor of language. English, French, Math...what's to doubt? Math just requires some extra context in the form of natural speech because it is a more narrow subset. It isn't limited, just less coherent
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by aa0 13y ago
Precisely. It's almost certain that we don't have free will. I would define free will as the mere appearance that thought processes are governed by self in a non-local time frame. I would gander that a simulated brain might have l
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by aa0 13y ago
Just a thought. If physical information is stored as bits in a computer. And the universe is essentially that memory plus a compute unit, Is consciousness the derivative of information with respect to the difference of information (ie. a cl
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by aa0 13y ago
Chatlin's constant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant ), linked by Digital physics, is also very interesting. It is the probability that a random program will halt. When we get into 'random
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by aa0 13y ago
I think you are misunderstanding what digital physics proposes. Yes the information is 0s and 1s but the actual program does not have to be. Physics is modeled by information and inherently seems to be connected to physical values. Seems lo
56.
by aa0 13y ago
Benchmarked? More like benchmucked.
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by aa0 13y ago
If you were a simulation, you might not have free will. To even propose that you'd have a decision beyond state-machine-dynamics is a world away.
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by aa0 13y ago
Thunderbum?
59.
by aa0 13y ago
A byte is not a byte if its value exceeds 255.
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by aa0 13y ago
Endian-ness changes when the base changes. For a clear explanation, actual hex is needed.

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