alephnil

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by alephnil 13y ago
For American ISPs yes. For ISPs in some allied countries, probably. For all ISPs in every country in the world? Unlikely. And furthermore, that would require a nationwide (or worldwide) scheme where NSA gathered or issued keypairs for every
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by alephnil 13y ago
It is an improvement compared to HTTP/1.1, in that it allows for opportunistic encryption, and it is those connections that can be cached (or if you so prefer, snooped). This will still make it harder for NSA and similar agencies to do
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by alephnil 13y ago
As already mentioned, it only took six hours. To make it run on a cluster or supercomnputer, you must parallelize the algorithm, which will take considerably longer time, even if it is easy. Then they likely have to apply for access, which
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by alephnil 13y ago
Promoting a political or ideological cause is the corner stone of exercising democratic rights if it is not done by violent means. If that is a reason for detention, then you are no longer in a democracy.
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by alephnil 13y ago
It is of cause possible to write a faster Python, as PyPy proves, but some of the design choices in Python does make it hard to optimize. This is not inherently a problem with dynamic languages as the development of Julia proves. In Julia i
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by alephnil 13y ago
True statelessness? Even if you disregard POST as "not true REST", the PUT and DELETE methods involve changing state. REST is an acronym for "representational STATE transfer", and is all about dealing with state in an si
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by alephnil 13y ago
Moores law is not a physical law. In fact the laws of physics dictates that it can't possibly be going on forever, as there is theoretical limits for how small and fast you can go. Then you can go some more years playing the "chea
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by alephnil 13y ago
Because most people have not even thought of the possibility that password can be stored in anything but plaintext, and take it as granted that all websites do. Thus the websites can't possibly be blamed, and the hackers must be the ba
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by alephnil 13y ago
The fungi can't break down radiation, no known method can do that(1), and probably not even collect it. The amount of radioactivity is unchanged regardless of the presence of these fungi. They only use the radiation that is there as an
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by alephnil 13y ago
In many cases that will do, but there will be problem with continuously changing objects, such as ads, escalators and clocks that will be blurred, at least unless a quite sophisticated algorithm is used.
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by alephnil 13y ago
What you mean about polygraphs is not the important thing here. It is the idea that if you have read or written something the government does not like, you end up on a blacklist that bans you from many jobs. This is totalitarian ideology re
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by alephnil 13y ago
They are extremely important because you can use it to construct an attack that let you narrow down the number of guesses you have to do to recover the original key, so that it becomes feasible to crack the code. In general, leaking informa
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by alephnil 13y ago
This is a classic stream cipher. A stream of bits is generated and xored with the plaintext. In code size RC4 is of very similar size, but work on bytes rather than 32 bit words. RC4 has been used in a wide number of areas, like SSL/TL
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by alephnil 13y ago
When the service guy in a former job quit, the databases at the customers' production servers started to be corrupted. It appeared that he had manually logged into the database at every single customer regularly and fixed the problem o
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by alephnil 13y ago
One of the main reasons is that ordinary cars are heavily taxed, while electric cars are not taxed at all. This makes a Model S cheaper than most BMW or Mercedeses for example. Add to this that electricity is cheap, while fuel is expensive.
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by alephnil 13y ago
I have some of the same experience. If you outsource to a consultancy company, things are less likely to go well. In my current job we have an office in the area, and some of those programmers are excellent. It is harder to find good people
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by alephnil 13y ago
If you are going to be pedantic, genetically we are not just descended from apes, we are apes. If you look at the evolutionary tree of the apes and monkeys, it makes no sense to consider humans outside the ape group. Chimpanzees and humans
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by alephnil 13y ago
If this is used as input to a randomness pool and filtered through a hash function, ideally together with mouse, keyboard and network event timing as in the linux random device, this should be very hard to break, even with some biases. I wo
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by alephnil 13y ago
He is not an atheist or agnostic, but a christian. He stated multiple times in his manifest that one of his main motive for the terrorist attack was defending christian values.
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by alephnil 13y ago
I know you intended to be sarcastic, but anyway. Governments want innovation, originality and critical thinking for its ability to foster wealth and a rich culture. At the same time they are afraid of the disruptive changes that is results
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by alephnil 13y ago
Distributed power may work in sparsely populated areas, but urban areas have a too high population density for that to work. That is even the case for whole countries, like Germany, where all the available renewable energy resources amounts
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by alephnil 13y ago
They are different but also related. Programmers that don't know basics about network are very often poor programmers as well. Most programmers must be able to set up build servers, test environments etc that they need. Of cause the sy
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by alephnil 13y ago
> You're skipping about 1000 years of history there to make your point. This varied by area. Some nation states developed early (England, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland), while other areas was dominated by cit
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by alephnil 13y ago
It is the right questions to ask except he should have used "NSA" or "US government" rather than "the NSA Scandale". That sounds like it was Edward Snowden that did the damage to US companies, while in reallity
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by alephnil 13y ago
Except that they only checked HTTPS URLs, and most malicious URLs are on HTTP, which they apparently not checked.
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by alephnil 13y ago
Some of the most important information for intelligence agencies is the metadata, i.e. who is calling who. That is often considered more important than the content. As far as I can see this does not address that.
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by alephnil 13y ago
So do I, but those who build basic tools very often also make stuff for end users too, but there is a lot of programmers that only do end user software based on existing tools. They think basic tools is something someone else does, and if t
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by alephnil 13y ago
A phone call can be compressed to 10 kbits/sec or less given a good speech codec and still be understandable, if not of very good quality. That means that if you are on the phone 20 minutes every day, it will be around a half a GB per
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by alephnil 13y ago
Most oppressive regimes will make sure that dissidents also get criminal charges (fabricated or not), so then you could just as well remove the concept of asylum entirely. Hardly any country has political charges after all. The concept of m
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by alephnil 13y ago
I disagree. There are plenty of foreign workers in most Norwegian tech companies I know about, but the problem still exists. Norwegian employers could be more actively recruiting abroad, and can freely do that inside the EU. I doubt that wi

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