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by cvwright 10y ago
Portland resident here. Ballots are due today for our local elections. Almost every single candidate for local office is making vague promises that sound a lot like the San Francisco approach. It will be interesting to see how it all pla
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by cvwright 10y ago
The author of Cyclone seems to suggest that Rust is the current path forward: http://trevorjim.com/unfrozen-cyclone/ > Cyclone was an early attempt to create a programming language at the level of C, combining manua
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by cvwright 10y ago
There's an old quote from Arthur C. Clarke that I think is relevant here: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he
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by cvwright 10y ago
Couldn't they just create a hardlink in a private, hidden directory that they control, and then symlink to that? Then, it's OK if the original file gets renamed or moved, as long as it stays on the same FS. You still have your ha
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by cvwright 10y ago
Phrases like this could be inflating the original author's numbers from Reddit. Kind of like how people used to grep the Linux kernel for cuss words. Many of the matches came from drivers for Matsushita CD-ROMs, etc.
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by cvwright 10y ago
I took public transit to work for three years. It had its ups and downs. Then, within the span of about a week, (a) somebody peed in their seat about 12 feet from me, and then (b) somebody threw up all over the floor about 3 feet from me.
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by cvwright 10y ago
Oh good grief. They're not really that dumb, are they? "Hey, we have some questions to ask you about this war you're apparently waging in the Middle East..."
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by cvwright 10y ago
That's the most frustrating part for me. Sending people through pre-check looked like a nice way for the TSA to save face, and minimize the hassle for the rest of us, without having to admit that most of their scanning procedures ar
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A public health campaign to stop C/C++(trevorjim.com)
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by cvwright 10y ago
Oh, well that's good! Maybe people are talking about his idea for replacing init (shell) scripts with C programs?
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by cvwright 10y ago
Left-wingers ranting about the "gun lobby" are like right-wingers ranting about the "LGBT lobby". Everybody loves to pretend that the opposing political party is driven by some strange, inhuman machine, not by a bunch o
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by cvwright 10y ago
Unfortunately that's not too far from what they've been trying to do with the Wassenaar Arrangement lately, with export restrictions on "intrusion software". http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016&#
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by cvwright 10y ago
Now I know there's tons of drama around systemd, and I'm really not trying to re-start any of those flamewars. (please!) But I never followed the topic that closely, so I'm honestly curious. Looking back on this, he makes a
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by cvwright 10y ago
Leave it to HN to find the cloud in every silver lining. :) That said, perhaps you have a point...
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by cvwright 10y ago
Sigh.. I was kind of hoping we were past all that. Notice that, in the House, more Republicans than Democrats voted for this.
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by cvwright 10y ago
So this passed unanimously in the House, and is supported by more than 25% of Senators. But it might not pass the senate because Grassley doesn't want to discuss it "during an election year"? WTF?!? Where's the controv
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by cvwright 10y ago
Maybe American Scientist should have Bill Cook write a follow-up article for them to explain the current state of the art.
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by cvwright 10y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that NP-complete problems have at least some cases that cannot be solved efficiently. That's not to say that the average case is hard -- in fact, most instances that you're likely to run acr
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by cvwright 10y ago
Oh, OK cool. As long as you're using a good KDF to seed the CSPRNG that sounds great. Thanks for the response.
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by cvwright 10y ago
Looks interesting. But I think I must be missing something. Are the symmetric keys that are used to encrypt the private keys derived from a password, or not? > This protocol overcomes this weakness by wrapping all key packets, encrypted
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by cvwright 11y ago
This is fascinating. We live in the cyberpunk future that William Gibson and others wrote about in the 1980's. The former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer .
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by cvwright 11y ago
> So, we'll be watching it in six second chunks? If it's HLS or DASH, then pretty much, yeah. :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by cvwright 11y ago
Wow, a real-life chaos monkey! https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
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by cvwright 11y ago
In recent years, I created a homework assignment for a security class where the student's job is to crack a set of password files. First easy, un-salted hashes, then salted hashes, ... etc. To illustrate the badness of using dictionar
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by cvwright 11y ago
> It might help if one of them gets their personal information leaked because they used unencrypted technology in their private lives This has already happened. An attacker going by the name Guccifer spent several years going around pun
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by cvwright 11y ago
Also -- I was too sloppy in my earlier analysis, and as a result, my numbers could be way off. The attacker might learn much less than I initially thought. It depends on how many users are subscribed to the service. After the client dow
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by cvwright 11y ago
> I'm assuming the objective is to minimise the service's unnecessary knowledge of non-service-user contacts. Right, so an honest-but-curious adversary model sounds like it's a good fit for the server. Then all these atta
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by cvwright 11y ago
I think it's a bit worse than that. Suppose the server wants to learn whether you have a certain number in your contacts. Then they simply put that number into your lower-level Bloom filters for L0, L1, L2, ... even if that number is
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by cvwright 11y ago
Your idea looks promising. Thank you for posting this.
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by cvwright 11y ago
The other problem with this strategy is that, at least according to Consumer Reports, the reliability of a new VW is way below that of a similar Toyota or Honda. Why pay more for a car that won't last as long?

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