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by chalst 13y ago
Omission: there's a very nice on-the-fly compiler, which supports writing an embedded intepreter, for (an old dialect of) Lua in OCaml, written by Norman Ramsey [1]. It's part of the C-- distribution [2]. [1]: http://w
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by chalst 13y ago
I don't know about ANSI, but the IEEE is a US non-profit standards body, and you need to buy its standards to claim compliance with them. This, and fees for testing products, is generally how non-governmental standards institutes fund
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by chalst 13y ago
Like ANSI, DIN is not a branch of government, but a self-regulated non-profit institute (an e.V.) Their FAQ describes their relationship to the government: > What is the role of the government or the European Commission in standardiza
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by chalst 13y ago
I don't we can make exactly this generalisation, but certainly from the existence of superbugs responsible for one disease it follows 1. neither that those superbugs will come to dominate the bacteria responsible for that disease (supe
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by chalst 13y ago
This isn't quite right: you still keep the benefit that the server in no sense has a copy of your password, and it is publically visible what the program is that implements the client-side authentication. That said, I agree that there
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by chalst 13y ago
It solves the problem with offline password cracking, but it introduces the need to trust a third party. Since the client side of SRP can be implemented in Javascript [1,2,3], there's not really much in the way of compelling reasons no
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by chalst 13y ago
And the reason you can't know is that he says nothing concrete, in the sense that none of his criticisms are grounded in examples.
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by chalst 13y ago
I guess the point is that these auth failures were rare. I've seen 5 failed login attempts in the past 3 days, on an account that had none in its previous two years.
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by chalst 13y ago
The ease and flexibility of this kind of thing is reason to expect UEFI viruses will be more common than viruses targetting earlier firmware.
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by chalst 13y ago
I think that's probably by design. From the point of view of "project as CV items", most forked items have very little in the way of useful contribution to them - that doesn't defeat your point that some forks are very
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by chalst 13y ago
HuffPost: The proposed terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal are secret. The Obama administration, like many of its predecessors, has registered the trade platform as classified information, to the chagrin of lawmakers. - http:&#x2
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by chalst 13y ago
Yes, more or less, but they are generally not as generous as the US. E.g., the UK equivalent of fair use, "fair dealing", is limited to a definitive list of circumscribed purposes of the unauthorised use of copyright material, e.g
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by chalst 13y ago
I think capitalism also needs the existence of capital markets (e.g., bonds, shares, commodities, speculative financing, reinsurance) that are dominant in financing business.
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by chalst 13y ago
I agree with the diagnosis. The big problem is that it is not possible to be sure that some study accounts for all possible confounding factors, unless you have a correct theory that allows you to determine what factors might be confoundin
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by chalst 13y ago
I think your suspicion may well be correct in terms of how the proposal will develop. At present the referendum questions reads "Soll jeder Mensch in diesem Land die finanzielle Grundlage zum Leben bedingungslos erhalten?" (rough
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by chalst 13y ago
It was smart of Facebook to look for reused passwords. Troy wondered if there might be a security risk to announcing having found these matches (I suppose the reasoning is that if passwords are reused once, they are probably reused more tha
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by chalst 13y ago
I think the Apple Insider piece is a problematic summary of Paczowski's piece, and leads to a mistaken idea of what went wrong with the Google-Apple negotiations The original article is at http://appleinsider.com/artic
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by chalst 13y ago
Five pages is very little for a magazine with 40 pages of content - you could double that and still be firmly in the "very advertising light" category.
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by chalst 13y ago
How much advertising do you expect to run in each issue?
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by chalst 13y ago
I don't like the idea of privileging Wikipedia in this way. That said, the question Who should pay? Someone needs to pay. Who should? seems to miss the point of the proposal: the mobile operators freely choose to subsidise this serv
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by chalst 13y ago
The source of the recording has been exposed: it was a bartender, Scott Prouty, employed for that function. See http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/scott-prouty-47-...
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by chalst 13y ago
I don't believe that transparency reports are filed with the SEC. Wikipedia has a list of filing codes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_filing
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by chalst 13y ago
MacKenzie Bezos: Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies, and unfortunately that casts doubt over every episode in the book. Brad Stone: Mrs. Bezos also suggests that there are a handful of f
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by chalst 13y ago
Murray Sargent said a bit about the meetings with Knuth in several posts in his Math in Office blog, the most interesting of which is http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2006/11/15/lineser
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by chalst 13y ago
> It is worth pointing out the other gripes I have with (La)TeX at this point. I will probably regret this later (I have the impression TeXies can be quite fanatical) Probably. I applaud efforts to try to rethink typesetting, and this
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by chalst 13y ago
Alex Shinn's Chibi scheme, weighing in at 50kB (but with a dependency on the Boehm garbage collector, which weighs >1 Mb ...), might fit the bill. Some links 1. Andy Wingo (main Guile implemetor)'s "buyer's guide&quot
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by chalst 13y ago
The following is false, confusing the short-term financing available under QE3 with the cost of financing business investments: > Interest rates are basically at zero and have been for some time. When borrowers are paying close to zero i
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by chalst 13y ago
Good advice, one quibble: > Only the copyright holder has the right to take any action against a licensee violating the terms of their license This might not be true. If you can successfully argue that: 1. You bought the hardware beca
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by chalst 13y ago
If you allow it to be assisted by another letter (as we must in the case of Q), "few" rhymes with "you".
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by chalst 13y ago
Robin Hood's freedom and privacy-loving band were dressed in Lincoln green...

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