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by dfranke 15y ago
It's not obvious that they're actually "shutting down" any research, though. They seem just to be moving it under the aegis of other departments.
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by dfranke 15y ago
I graduated from UF in 2007 and have in no way since kept up with departmental politics, but as of then, CISE was a bit of a Frankenstein creature. As an undergraduate, if you were looking for a computing-related degree, you had five possib
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by dfranke 15y ago
http://archiv.infsec.ethz.ch/education/fs08/secsem/Bleichenb...
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by dfranke 15y ago
Oh dear, I just realized I dropped a sentence while I was composing this comment and now it's too late to edit. The beginning of it should read, "Yes you can. Cut out a long rectangular strip of paper. Run a sharpie..."
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by dfranke 15y ago
You can't uniquely identify each point on its surface using only two dimensions Yes you can. Run a sharpie along the bottom edge of the paper so that it bleeds onto both sides of the paper. Now tape the ends of the strip together with a h
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by dfranke 15y ago
Relevant: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/
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by dfranke 15y ago
from what I read that's still an exponential problem for Quantum computers Shor's algorithm is cubic, not exponential, in the log (i.e. the number of bits) of the number being factored.
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by dfranke 15y ago
DJB has done quite a bit of research on what crypto could look like if large quantum computers ever become a reality. http://pqcrypto.org/
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by dfranke 15y ago
I think the accepted definition of a domain squatter is someone who registers domains with the intent of flipping them for a profit. This is more broad than "specifically and reasonably belongs to someone else" since you could merely be spe
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by dfranke 15y ago
I think what he means is "systematic_error = 1/log(log(equipment_cost))"
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by dfranke 15y ago
Did you create an HN account and submit this so that you could measure the HN effect? :-)
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by dfranke 15y ago
Isn't the speed at which photons travel, by definition, the speed of light? Photons speed up and slow down routinely, depending on what medium they're traveling through. c , as it is used in the equations of relativity, is currently beli
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by dfranke 15y ago
Oh, I certainly agree. But I only agree because my threat model includes adversaries other than malicious coworkers; particularly, it includes innocent coworkers with malware-infected workstations. By the way, ten minutes I wrote the grandp
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by dfranke 15y ago
Unless you have an exceptionally paranoid workplace, a much easier way to compromise your boss's computer is just to walk over to it and pop in a livecd after he's gone home for the day.
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by dfranke 15y ago
Windows suffers some famous dain bramage wrt to DLL loading paths: http://unhandledexpression.com/2010/08/23/fixing-the-dll-loa... Basically, even when "safe" DLL loading is turned on, the search path still includes the current directory
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by dfranke 15y ago
For example, if you lie to your employer on your time and attendance records and, unbeknownst to you, he submits your records, along with those of other employees, to the federal government pursuant to some regulatory duty, you could be cr
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by dfranke 15y ago
dfranke@ancalagon:~$ ls ~/.vimrc ls: cannot access /home/dfranke/.vimrc: No such file or directory
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by dfranke 15y ago
manhunt for a slender guy with a backpack riding a bike on MIT’s campus Well that must've narrowed it right down.
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by dfranke 15y ago
Not for me :-(. I see Einstein no matter what I do. I've never in my life been able to resolve stereograms, either.
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by dfranke 15y ago
Android phones are usable without a Google account. You need one in order to log in to Android Market, and obviously the GMail app and contacts sync won't work, but the OS can still be used. Cyanogen, for IP reasons, even goes so far as to
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by dfranke 15y ago
Ah ha! This comment explains where my 7 points of mystery karma came from :-).
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by dfranke 15y ago
Here's how it works: Revenue = everything your customers pay you. Cost of revenue = expenses that scale up directly with revenue. For a manufacturing company, this would typically consist mainly of what they pay to their suppliers. In Goo
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by dfranke 15y ago
Take that number and compare it to the numbers you see on their statement of operations. That $3B doesn't keep the lights on for very long if demand for their product evaporates.
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by dfranke 15y ago
The "significant whitespace" here is a space between command-line arguments. For that to qualify, you'd also have to include C as such a language. long jmp(); longjmp();
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by dfranke 15y ago
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." --Carl Sagan
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by dfranke 15y ago
The canonical linkbait headline would clearly have been, "IIS is dead. Netcraft confirms it."
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by dfranke 15y ago
All this is true, but has no bearing on the common use of language. When a trader refers to Acme corporation as an $N company, he is indicating that $N is its annual revenue, not its market capitalization.
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by dfranke 15y ago
That's excessive. As the article mentions, a neutron star can't exceed a few solar masses. You're much less than a light year from the sun without any ill effects from its gravity.
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by dfranke 15y ago
As a consumer, the way deal with this stuff is to cross out the objectionable provisions, sign, and hand it back without a word. Walk out if they put up a fuss, but they usually won't.
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by dfranke 15y ago
Apparently I can quickly produce extremely high-scoring gibberish using Emacs M-x dissociated-press.

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