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by cvwright 9y ago
That's not necessarily the only option. Long-term care insurance claims to address this problem. (Whether it actually does or not, I'm not qualified to answer.)
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by cvwright 9y ago
Yes Braeburns are mealy. Cortlands are what you are looking for -- very crisp, with just the right mix of tart and sweet.
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by cvwright 9y ago
You need to try a Cortland. If only we could get them here on the West Coast...
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by cvwright 9y ago
And Gibson is still churning out books with the same ideas -- even sometimes essentially the same characters with different names. Crazy rich guy driving everything from behind the scenes? Check. Voodoo beliefs transplanted into modern&#x2
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by cvwright 9y ago
True. Unfortunately Amazon does the very same thing.
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by cvwright 9y ago
Do they really? That's horrible! It would also explain so much bad/strange behavior where Amazon gets caught selling fraudulent merchandise. For a good example of this, look up reviews on CR2032 coin cell batteries sometime. In
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by cvwright 9y ago
Microsoft has this service called PhotoDNA [1] that uses a perceptual hash to match bad content in photos, even when the image has been modified. It sounds pretty cool. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA&#x2F
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by cvwright 9y ago
> Surely it didn't bring up the standard of living worldwide, because we'd have noticed it by now. But the worldwide standard of living has massively increased over the past 50 years.
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by cvwright 10y ago
> Now, one approach is to make a struct buffer {char ptr; size_t len;}. A "fat" pointer. That's essentially what the Cello project does [1]. The author has pulled together some crazy hacks to make this approach accessibl
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by cvwright 10y ago
I don't disagree. > If you actually care about memory safety ... then why not use an actual memory-safe language? Many teams are stuck with established codebases that they can't afford to re-write entirely from scratch. I think
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The Safe C Library (2009)(drdobbs.com)
94 points by cvwright 10y ago|108 comments
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Ivory: embedded domain-specific language for safer systems programming(ivorylang.org)
5 points by cvwright 10y ago|0 comments
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by cvwright 10y ago
Another recent one is Ivory. http://ivorylang.org
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by cvwright 10y ago
Why not use borg/attic to create an encrypted/HMAC'd backup on the USB drive?
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by cvwright 10y ago
Specifically, Bellovin & Merritt's Encrypted Key Exchange (EKE). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_key_exchange The patent is expired now though.
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by cvwright 10y ago
It was surprising to me how few unique implementations there are of JPEG at all. Dig deep enough into most open source image libraries for almost any language, and eventually you'll find IJG libjpeg or one of its descendants.
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by cvwright 10y ago
Ah, so it's not that you inject your shellcode directly onto an exectuable page, but instead you get the JIT to create it there for you. That makes sense. Thanks!
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by cvwright 10y ago
It looks like that scene from The Matrix: "What good is a phone call ... if you are unable to speak?"
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by cvwright 10y ago
I'd argue that these are lagging indicators. The code that's deployed and being exploited now was written years ago, using languages and tools developed decades ago. If you read to the end of the article, it discusses recent DARP
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by cvwright 10y ago
The idea is that the JITed code is executed much more often than it's (re)written, right? So each time the JIT (re)compiles the code, it can call mprotect on the target page to allow writes and disable execution. Then after it's
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by cvwright 10y ago
Funny you should mention this in a thread about Dan Boneh's crypto class. David Brumley and Dan Boneh, "Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical." In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2003. https://crypto.stanford.edu&#
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by cvwright 10y ago
It's like they replaced our educational programming lineup with the one from Idiocracy or Wall-E, just to see if we'd notice. "Really Big Things" "Animals That Could Eat You" "Stuff That Blows Up" &qu
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by cvwright 10y ago
For the "edgy, morally-compromised anti-hero" genre, sure HBO/FX/AMC/Netflix have been nailing it for years. However, in other areas it's PBS that's leaving them in the dust. For example: I watch a lot o
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by cvwright 10y ago
I appreciate Masterpiece Mystery and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood as much as anyone. But unfortunately I have to agree with some of this. I watched the election night coverage on PBS. As more states started turning red, the host looke
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by cvwright 10y ago
Good points. I was about to say something about how libsodium will take care of most of that for you. For example, I thought they provided some facility for avoiding nonce reuse vulnerabilities by automatically generating pseudorandom nonc
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by cvwright 10y ago
I'm surprised to see so few recommendations for libsodium. https://download.libsodium.org/doc/ For pretty much any crypto task that a "run-of-the-mill programmer" is likely to run into, they've got
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by cvwright 10y ago
This is where I always chime in with a link to the List of Dirty, Nasty, or Otherwise Obscene Words on github. https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... I originally found this list during a few f
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by cvwright 10y ago
Adams has recently come out as a Trump supporter. Maybe that's it? He's still a strange choice of target, since he's not (as far as I know) one of the crazies screaming about "cucks" or Benghazi or whatever. Perso
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by cvwright 10y ago
> (See Portland, Seattle, Denver for examples) Intel relocated a lot of their engineering to Portland (well, Hillsboro) a few decades ago. The strategy seems to have worked for the most part. Housing only got really expensive here in t
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by cvwright 10y ago
> Conservatives hate liberals far more than we dislike them. You know, I've seen conservatives making the opposite claim a lot lately too. Maybe (hopefully) neither side really hates the other nearly as much as you both like to ima

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