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by cantos 13y ago
Many people would have been displaced in 1918-19 (though I can't find a good number). I think mostly they would have been soldiers since it was largely fought outside of cities. In any case in 2013 there are more than 1 billion people [1] w
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by cantos 13y ago
Regarding the last question, if you have an encryption method that can encrypt 0 and 1 and has (efficient) algorithms for multiplying and adding the plaintexts corresponding to encrypted messages then you can efficiently compute any boolean
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by cantos 13y ago
I wonder if he was given sight and at the same given two paintings of a scene, one his and another by someone else if he would be able to tell the difference.
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by cantos 14y ago
Average student loan for an undergraduate degree is 27,000 [1] so on average it would be payed off by that time. I haven't lived in those cities but I would guess public transport is good enough that owning a car is not a requirement, its m
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by cantos 14y ago
$36 000/year Canadian for a single 29 year old person with no debt is far from poor. Especially considering he enjoys his job. If he uses the same entitled tone in interviews its no wonder he has an issue.
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by cantos 14y ago
To be fair immediately above the point you mention it says "... The Tesla battery is optimized for nightly charging: topping off frequently enhances the longevity of your battery." So though I agree that the author has a good argument he sh
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by cantos 14y ago
Yes that's true. I wonder about the case where the data is not present on the device. I've seen lots of people assert that the government would be powerless in that case. I think this assertion is often made on the basis that the alternativ
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by cantos 14y ago
If they can force you to login to your laptop could they not also force you to login to your Dropbox account?
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by cantos 14y ago
I guess the alternative would be to claim that your results are incomplete rather than wrong. This does happen from time to time. Vinay Deolalikar claimed a proof that P is not equal to NP which received intense scrutiny online two years ag
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by cantos 14y ago
It will not necessarily be a larger prime. But it will always be divisible by a larger prime. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclids_theorem (Though not necessarily the next largest prime). The problem with this approach is that the pro
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by cantos 14y ago
Yes you're right that ECC is vulnerable to Shor. I answered a different question then the one that was asked.
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by cantos 14y ago
[Edit: misread the question. This answer is about how close we might be to breaking these cryptosystems on classical, not quantum, computers] Publicly accessible progress on factoring and discrete log have essentially employed variations on
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by cantos 14y ago
Richard's proposition is basically that metrics should be created and used because its always better to have more data. This is only true if the data is good. The biggest problem I can see is that metrics are easy to fake. That's fine on s
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by cantos 14y ago
I agree that it would be a better system for phones. I'm not sure about full size keyboards. Muscle memory will allow you to learn the password with only simple characters more quickly but eventually both will be learned. Then the only fact
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by cantos 14y ago
Here are two real world issues that could arise http://vbuterin.blogspot.ca/2011/08/password-strength-rebutt... I think some cryptographers and security people have given rebuttals as well but I can't find them at the moment.
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by cantos 14y ago
I think we also learned that he has only ever had to work at convincing existing bb users that the new version is worth upgrading to. He knows nothing about the technical features which is fine because he only ever interacts with high level
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by cantos 14y ago
Yes. The purpose of using crypto is so that there is no less expensive and time consuming way to get the data then going after the server itself.
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by cantos 14y ago
Often the best first step to stop something evil is to remove the tools that make evil's job easier. In this case Facebook is facilitating persecution by making better and better tools to filter data on a large number of people simultaneous
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by cantos 14y ago
I've only reported a security issue once and wouldn't do it again. In this case a vendor and IT has agreed to allow several security settings to be disabled temporarily, making all user passwords easily available in the process, but then ha