andrewcooke

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by andrewcooke 13y ago
article mentions nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, so a topical reminder that the permutation for md2 (and rc2 apparently) is still unexplained (despite being "derived from pi") - http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questi
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
the only other comment by this acct was a weird attempt to impersonate someone else. it seems more like a troll than an anon informer.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
they do similar things, but have different funding models. since ghostery makes money from selling stats to advertisers you need to be a bit more careful when configuring it if you want complete privacy (disable reporting and enable automa
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
what's the 2? is this the same as disconnect? a fork? a new version?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
no, that's on the inside. it replaces the "knob". the keyhole/tumbler remains on the outside so that it can be opened with a key.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
technically, how can they make ground coffee in a pod comparable to freshly ground coffee? even if you use an inert gas in the pod, aren't you going to have chemical changes in the pod? and some loss (evaporation) of lighter chemical
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i find comments like this a bit odd. didn't it used to be the case that america was the good guy because they tolerated dissent? these days it seems to be that "america is probably no worse than anyone else". well, ok. [edit:
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
the r in rsa is ron rivest who was responsible for some very elegant ideas. his papers, that i've read, are generally very simple and clear. but he also wrote md2 [an old hash, n longer used] which contains some "magic numbers&q
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
there is an advantage to the traditional approach of fixed times - you are not giving everything they can get to your employer. and i think that is, simply because it is how things have always happened, considered fair. instead, what you
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
The NSA is not a law enforcement agency. I am not one either. But I still have to obey the law. Maybe that's not what's implied by that statement? But if not, what on earth is meant (more exactly, what was the author's in
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
yeah, there are lots of new things coming through. but also, these things often are much riskier (or the risks are simply unknown because they are so new and, with chronic illness, you may be taking the drug for years). i think just this
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
it's really hard being a doctor. i have recently been trying to work out what is the best treatment with two doctors. both are decent, smart people who understand the current literature and who care about me. yet they came to quite
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
this simply doesn't make sense. i live in a catholic country with extreme right-wing parties. they are to the right of this pope. they are worried by him. also, try learning how the word "more" modifies an adjective. 1e99
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
where i live abortion, in any form, is still illegal. this guy certainly does have power over many people. if you had a hugely successful campaigner in the usa that transformed the debate over abortion there, don't you think that would
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
he's significantly more liberal. that is the whole point, really. maybe you should read the article?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
presumably only catholics would claim that he does (the linked article certainly doesn't). there is no known "right answer" for questions of morality - you get to pick your own framework. if you feel that morality is based o
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
folks please don't downvote people when they're giving useful info. there is a button in the advanced section that makes blocking work by default on new data. that's useful to know - i've just enabled it, and you sho
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
oh, interesting - can you explain the details? is it simple or random? if i install disconnect and then ghostery wil ghostery help with anything disconnect misses or is it more complicated than that? thanks!
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
that's a good point - this is a more general issue than qm. ugh. slideshare is awful [oh; advice to expand to fullscreen makes all the difference. good slides; wish i understood more]
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i think you're missing the point? the original question was making the argument, i think, that if the universe is fundamentally non-local, why is almost all physics local? using an optical analogy: if fourier space is "the re
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
there's also opensuse's tumbleweed - http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
it has way more comments that votes, which triggers automatic downvoting. [and i see that you immediately assume - with no evidence or knowledge of how ranking here works - that it was excluded "actively and consciously" rather th
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
can obama code?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
assuming everything else were controlled for (and i have no idea how you do that) then you'd expect the "noise" in num-wallets-returned to be about sqrt(num-wallets-returned). in other words, in a city where the "real&q
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Out-of-the Box Computing(ootbcomp.com)
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
not sure how much you want to spend, but i recently built a tube (valve) amplifier from a kit from these people http://www.bottlehead.com/ - it was about as easy as making something can be (very good instructions) and very
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
so you're linking to a letter with TWELVE different cases of NSA employees spying on people for "romantic" reasons and that doesn't answer your question? are you playing some kind of semantic game where you narrowly sel
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nsa+employee+spying+on+ex
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i think the problem here is "hate" and "mildly unpleasant" sit oddly together...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i am unsure of details (a long time since i came here), but i think also chile. i am unsure because i do have a degree (a phd) and did provide it at some point. but i entered on a tourist visa, got a job offer and then applied for chang

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