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by dlitz 14y ago
With Emacs, you get a single not very good editor to rule them all! :P
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by dlitz 14y ago
You don't even need to read :help right away. All you need to do is: 1. Start the graphical version, i.e. gvim, MacVim, or any version with drop-down menus. 2. Press 'i' to enter "Insert mode". Now just use it like any other text editor.
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by dlitz 14y ago
It would annoy me, too, if we were in an enclosed room together.
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by dlitz 14y ago
I've been a user of projects where the maintainer basically merged everything. A lot of stuff was broken. The only good thing was that it was easy to get my fixed merged. :)
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by dlitz 14y ago
Wow. Kaspersky's alarmist PR has reached a new low.
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by dlitz 14y ago
> Wow, Cory's article is totally over the top... What makes you think it's over the top? We have a public-interest organization pushing DRM, a technology that is decidedly against the public interest. I'm surprised that this is upvoted
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by dlitz 14y ago
> Particularly given the trades that show up just after the report was released, but before a person could conceivably process them and initiate the relevant strategy. Couldn't they be trading based on some natural language processing a
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by dlitz 14y ago
If you read 128 bits of data from /dev/urandom, and then map the result to a space of 2 128 possible passwords, then it doesn't actually matter what the possible passwords are, as long as it's a one-to-one mapping.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Yes, but also, it's the banks who employ the financial experts who convince people that they can afford these loans that they can't really afford.
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by dlitz 14y ago
My prediction is that Bitcoin will neither be illegal, nor will it replace the U.S. Dollar, like some of its proponents hope. Most likely, it will continue to be a useful vehicle for transferring money online. I see it competing more with
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by dlitz 14y ago
November 5, 1999: Burn All GIFs Day. http://web.archive.org/web/19991127200821/http://www.interne... Anyone else remember this?
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by dlitz 14y ago
> The IRS eventually denied our application for status. It's not uncommon, especially in the open-source space.. Could you elaborate on that?
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by dlitz 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by dlitz 14y ago
I wonder if we could build machines to educate these people, too.
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Practical collision attacks against real systems employing MD5 have been successfully carried out in places where people thought a lack of collision-resistance wasn't a problem. Cryptography software is hard enough to implement already; Le
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by dlitz 14y ago
As someone else mentioned, MD5 has been known to be broken since 1996, but I'll assume you meant something like SHA-256 or SHA3-256. I haven't looked closely at the code, but the author of the article speculates that the code was implemente
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by dlitz 14y ago
I'm not surprised. These are the same guys who thoroughly ripped apart the PS3 security system and presented it for a more-or-less general developer audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIlbmn-4A4
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by dlitz 14y ago
TL;DR - Mega designed their own cryptosystem. Not surprisingly, it's broken: They used CBC-MAC as a one-way hash function, but CBC-MAC is not a one-way hash function.
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by dlitz 14y ago
You spoke for me well enough. If you reduce the number of computer criminals by 90%, it won't perceptibly change the amount of work that anyone has to put into writing secure programs, because the 10% of remaining criminals will still expl
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by dlitz 14y ago
To paraphrase: "I'm taking SSRIs right now, and they work for me." That's the medical equivalent of saying, "it works on my machine." That doesn't mean it works for everyone. It doesn't mean that it works for most people, or that there is
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by dlitz 14y ago
Hmm. I see a completely round O in "TOYOTA", but not in "THE NORTH FACE". Is it just me?
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by dlitz 14y ago
Computer security, at least while attached to the Internet, doesn't work that way. When all it takes is one attacker anywhere in the world to write a worm that compromises everyone, everyone needs to secure their systems. Some problems rea
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by dlitz 14y ago
Deliberate openness is irresponsible now?
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by dlitz 14y ago
It might help if we stopped pretending that technology and programming are scary and too difficult for most people to even begin to grasp.
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by dlitz 14y ago
NTSC Amigas could play PAL games, but the bottom of the screen was overscanned/truncated off the bottom of the screen, and the gameplay and music was usually 20% faster.
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Hackers as a High-Risk Population(youtube.com)
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by dlitz 14y ago
> eg. the probability of 10 scooters with a 50% each probability of failure failing at the same time is less than 0.01% And then you do billions of trials per second...
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by dlitz 14y ago
> even if MS doesn't pick it up -- or implement it well -- someone else might. Unless there are potential patent problems.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Yeah, but that's not what actually happened. "Free software" and "open source" are terms whose etymologies are fairly well documented, and many of us remember when and why they were coined. The term, "open source" in particular (as applie
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Or RFID. If you actually want to build secure RFID devices, you need really low-power crypto.

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