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by anaphor 13y ago
For an example of a compiler other than GCC that does whole-program optimization see the Stalin Scheme compiler: https://github.com/barak/stalin
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by anaphor 13y ago
Yes, Japan has a long history of mutual xenophobia with China and other countries around southeast asia. I'm not sure if you were referring to that or xenophobia of westerners though, which I've also heard about. Despite that howe
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by anaphor 13y ago
I used to read a lot more fiction before I got into computer science. I still have a fairly large library of fantasy novels and other fiction. I would like to get back into reading that sort of thing, but it seems like I never have the mass
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Nanosecond Scale Remote Timing Attacks On PHP Applications(blog.astrumfutura.com)
2 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 13y ago
Well OpenSSL didn't implement their own malloc exactly, they used some weird indirection to try and speed it up on some platforms, which may have bypassed protections that some versions of malloc have enabled (guard pages).
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by anaphor 13y ago
Nobody said that it would help find it in testing. You're attacking a strawman. Edit: although that is also false if you are using a quickcheck-like testing framework. Edit2: the article may have been claiming that, but Ted did not cla
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by anaphor 13y ago
Probably because he's pissed a lot of people off with his trolling in the past, so they figure he might not be safe for one reason or another? I mean he's pretty much a white supremacist. Edit: downvoter want to explain themself?
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by anaphor 13y ago
No, they're not. OpenSSL just shares the same naming convention with OpenBSD and OpenSSH (which IS developed by the same people that do OpenBSD).
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by anaphor 13y ago
the IETF stands for Internet Engineering Task Force. They are the people who design protocols that run the internet. Note however that you don't necessarily have to listen to them, it's more like a defacto standard. Also they have
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by anaphor 13y ago
It appears that you might be right, from the RFC: "However, a HeartbeatRequest message SHOULD NOT be sent during handshakes. If a handshake is initiated while a HeartbeatRequest is still in flight, the sending peer MUST stop the DTLS
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Heartbleed Vulnerability – What to Do and How(namecheap.com)
1 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 13y ago
Isn't this basically the whole point of QuickCheck-like testing frameworks? They're basically a specification that is attempted to be falsified in some way by a fuzzer. I don't see why most C projects couldn't be doing t
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by anaphor 13y ago
I think that was part of his point, but yeah I don't see why you couldn't do the pure parts in a safer language. FFIs to C are fairly easy to do I think, probably partly because of how simple the calling convention is.
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by anaphor 13y ago
If one were using ASLR would this have mostly mitigated this? (I just rebuilt without the heartbeat extension but I'm curious). Also how exploitable is this?
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Royal Society of Canada says Wi-Fi appears safe(arstechnica.com)
1 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 13y ago
You're mistaken I think. Computers essentially process numbers, and even though they are okay for building abstractions, they invariably end up leaking. The complexity in programming is not in the language used to describe it, it'
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by anaphor 13y ago
On the other hand, wasn't Lars the driving force between the terrible mastering of their more recent albums? I remember reading something where he said basically that because he didn't personally hear any clipping and it sounded g
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by anaphor 13y ago
He also voted for warrantless wiretapping, just sayin
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by anaphor 13y ago
Neither does using Firefox. You can easily disable google search, which is their only source of revenue other than donations.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Or in other words "You can't just extrapolate random variables into the future, unless it's clearly discrimination"
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by anaphor 13y ago
Googling tells me that they have been working on porting it and apparently it is more or less done but not yet the default.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Yeah I'm considering switching to FreeBSD or even OpenBSD (if it would be possible to play some of my games on it). I don't want to switch really, but if systemd is going to be the default init system from here on and it continues
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by anaphor 13y ago
If you're just talking about generic Lisp then it doesn't really hold a candle to Erlang in terms of concurrency primitives. However Racket supports a lot of the same things Erlang does like asynchronous channels, mailboxes, light
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by anaphor 13y ago
Great, now GPL the entire windows kernel :)
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by anaphor 13y ago
Okay fair enough. If your point is that it can be used to argue for more character flaws or whatever then yes, I agree, it can.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Strongly and statically typed languages are way more discriminatory though. The whole idea is to reject a certain class of programs as being illogical, just because of the way they use expressions. Edit: e.g., http://blog.ezyang.
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by anaphor 13y ago
How do you know that he donated to these candidates primarily because of their anti-gay rights views anyway? Correlation != causation you know?
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by anaphor 13y ago
Code, especially of the FLOSS kind, is not really 'evil'. I mean I guess you could write a free system for censoring or something, but it's not like a closed version wouldn't pop up in its place and be just as hard to ci
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by anaphor 13y ago
Of course the NSA can just issue a NSL to the certificate authority and then all the encryption in the world won't help. Of course you can sign your own keys but then exchanging them becomes difficult.
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by anaphor 13y ago
While it may not technically be a violation of laws protecting freedom of speech, consider for example... - Organizing a group of bookstores to stop selling a certain book because you find it offensive for any reason - Using your privileged

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