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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
My experience being on the reviewer side of the process is very limited. As a frequent reader of papers in CS I'm of the opinion that peer review is accomplishing very little outside of checking theoretical results with proofs that can be v
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Using a password manager is a great idea in theory. In practice, I have the same problems with the concept as many other people do. It's great if you have, say, a MacBook, a Windows system, and an iPad that you want to keep synced. When you
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
I don't think it's just about hashing. When I see restrictions on passwords or other fields, I always assume the worst. If < is not allowed, that's because your password will show up unencoded in HTML somewhere. If $ is not allowed, tha
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
In order to solve this problem for myself I looked into SuperGenPass as well, and reimplemented it in Racket so I could understand what it's doing. Here are a few notes on that: • It's based on MD5. • It repeats the hash 10 times. Typical k
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
You left out the bit where it was his company that he claimed added the alleged backdoors. If he's as untrustworthy as you've hinted at, I expect that those with authoritative knowledge will speak to that soon enough, but it seems like it w
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
I'm disinclined to trust Gnosis' word for it, but they say they don't have access anymore: http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-gawker-hacker-gnosi... If the servers are still compromised, I don't think they'd have stopped with a dump
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
I can't see how it's unethical, unless even looking at the data is unethical, and you'll have to convince me of that. I'd be more concerned about the ramifications than the ethics. The least bad thing that could happen here is winding up on
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
There's no need to assume when authoritative information is but a few keystrokes away. And yes, it is under the GPL v2 + Classpath exception, except for Java ME which is under straight GPL v2.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
You can't write a good JIT overnight. You can't adapt an existing JIT for a JVM-like VM to Dalvik either. I don't think working around patents had much to do with it, especially since they got sued anyway.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Nope, it's definitely the EDGE icon: http://picasaweb.google.com/sergenthalo/Gentouch78#549871101...
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
They're shipping the Market on the device, but it doesn't meet the conditions for access to the Market. While the Android device compatibility requirements for 2.1 allow devices without cellular connectivity, they still require a 2.0MP came
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by bmastenbrook 17y ago
I think my point was a lot more nuanced than you give it credit for.