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by alcari 13y ago
Here's the NIST document from their own site, in case you'd like to skip the article: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/itlbul2013_09_supp...
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by alcari 13y ago
Well, you can't create an account for the sole purpose of being the borrower without buying at least 1 game on Steam, because you can't add a friend without making a purchase.
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by alcari 13y ago
You probably want Dejavu Sans Mono. Check out [1] to see the Unicode characters it supports. [1] http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/samples/DejaVuSansMono.pdf
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by alcari 13y ago
In most parts of the US, it's cable we want an alternative to. We generally only have 2 options for internet service: cable, or DSL via the phone company (if you live in a large city and you're lucky, the phone company is Verizon
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by alcari 13y ago
I haven't dealt much with PyCUDA recently, but Continuum's wrapper is interesting in that it compiles python code (or at least a subset thereof) to run natively on the GPU, via LLVM if I'm not mistaken. As far as I'm awa
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by alcari 13y ago
How many of those 117 million people will HSR be transporting from LA to SF?
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by alcari 13y ago
Without Javascript, MEGA's website is a blank white page. Without knowing exactly what MEGA is, why should a sufficiently paranoid user allow js from it to run?
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by alcari 13y ago
This article does a few things that make it seem poorly written. First, there's the sentence "But, analysing a particular colossal number and trying to determine whether it possesses prime factors is colossally difficult." No
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by alcari 13y ago
He's thinking a few steps further: she loses her job due to advancing automation (along with a large segment of the population), _and_ guaranteed basic income becomes a reality.
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by alcari 13y ago
If you require proof of work equal to, say, 3 "average modern CPU core seconds", they're still not going to send you spam because they could've sent spam to a few hundred other people in the meantime. It may not be costi
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by alcari 13y ago
Javascript. It just displays a red or blue stylus.
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by alcari 13y ago
More importantly, it's got a PS/2 adapter, and that supports N-key rollover.
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by alcari 13y ago
It also matters to anyone who formerly had an account. We're reasonably sure Facebook doesn't delete peoples' content when they request their account be deleted, so such people both have data in Facebook's system and lac
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by alcari 13y ago
DNS caching.
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by alcari 13y ago
It's probably a great explanation, but that site is absolutely horrible: unusable without Javascript, and it wants me to sign up to view content.
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by alcari 13y ago
That presupposes they have sufficient sapience to make the decision.
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by alcari 13y ago
See [1] for an explanation of why pkgng isn't useful, especially the April 30th update: "...Port managers are currently working on introducing new-style (as known as "pkgng") binary packages in the coming months, please
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by alcari 13y ago
What do you mean "apply judgment rather than zero-tolerance"? They dismissed his initial report, then applied their zero-tolerance policy with regards to paying rewards for bugs that have been tested on other users.
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by alcari 13y ago
You mean Chernobyl and nuclear, or Three Mile Island and nuclear? Both of those had already soundly killed the prospect for large-scale nuclear power in the US long before the earthquake in Japan.
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by alcari 13y ago
We have a crowd-scale community checking patent applications now: http://patents.stackexchange.com/ The problem is the sheer number of bad patents that have been granted already, and the cost of successfully challenging the
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by alcari 13y ago
That journal entry is an April fools joke.
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by alcari 13y ago
Here's the referenced article. It's quite interesting: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/increasing-compiler-speed-by-over...
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by alcari 13y ago
> Make aliases for most Linux commands. I have to disagree here: knowing the actual commands and their arguments is far more valuable than the small amount of typing saved. Read the man page every time you use the command if you have to,
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by alcari 13y ago
I'm also not a physicist, but as I understand it entangled particles can affect each other instantaneously regardless of distance, but cannot transfer information due to random instabilities.
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by alcari 13y ago
What really scares me is that there's no mention of security on their site aside from the usual "we use HTTPS" line.
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by alcari 13y ago
I don't like this article because it lacks a source for the revenue figure, has a tenuous grasp of the English language, and doesn't really add anything to the discussion of the business model (it reads like the author's neve
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by alcari 14y ago
Here's the thing though: they DID use AWS (one of their EU servers is 46.137.165.11). They have no excuse besides poor architecture design for not simply doubling server capacity.