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by dtech 13y ago
Due to (mostly ideological) licensing incompatibilities some package maintainers and/or distributions link software with GnuTLS instead op OpenSSL. GnuTLS provides a basic compatibility layer with OpenSSL. So Chromium may in fact be pr
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by dtech 13y ago
> Heck, there have been automatically-generated conference papers that have been accepted and went through peer review Those papers were used to prove that those conferences weren t actually peer reviewed.
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by dtech 13y ago
Define "better". Probably it wouldn't be more secure because both would be scrutinized and production-tested about the same. It would protect us against some common C errors but might make us vulnerable to "common"
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by dtech 13y ago
Well, that is with good reason. A rogue or insecure root CA which is trusted by major browsers/OS'ses would basically invalidate the whole CA system (see the DigiNotar affair from 2011).
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by dtech 13y ago
With startcom you cannot request a cert for the same (sub)domain until the current certificate expires in 2 weeks or less
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by dtech 13y ago
It's not unreasonable to charge a little bit for a revocation. They require more work than a cert itself (updating and hosting the revokes list etc.) and a fee prevents unneccesary revokations from taking place.
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by dtech 13y ago
Furthermore, you aren't bounded to any domain. So Startcom gives unlimited SSL/SMIME/Code signing certificates for almost a year after paying $60. Non-wildcard certificates are free (altough your name isn't on the cert).
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by dtech 13y ago
Haskell problably has/would have the same kind of problems, but finding examples will be a lot harder in the absence of large well-used web platform à la RoR
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by dtech 13y ago
I don't see any advantages in this over Scala.
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by dtech 13y ago
Well they just released source from 1980 and IE1 is from 1995, so wait another 15 years.
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by dtech 13y ago
You need the concept of perfect market (or other models) to reason about things. "In a perfect market, x happens. y is not in line with the perfect market, so eliminating y (c)/(sh)ould bring us closer to x". Replace x with &
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by dtech 13y ago
This is from 2012 and missing the (2012) part in the title...
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by dtech 13y ago
It has been known from day 1 that Whatsapp "encryption" uses this standard key. This isn't even news.
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by dtech 13y ago
Code size is in almost no way an indicator of performance or bloat. Ik can write a program that will use 100% CPU in about 10 LOC, while there can be very well-optimized pieces of software can be thousands to millions LOC. e.g. the Quake 3
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by dtech 13y ago
Apparently not, nytimes still has pagerank 9 (out of 10)
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by dtech 13y ago
To cross the paywall google the title ( http://google.com/search?q=A+Relentless+Widening+of+Disparit... ) Its amazing that Google doesn't nuke sites that do this into oblivion.
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by dtech 13y ago
2.x is EOL and only remains for legacy programs. A backwards-incompatible change won't even be considered for this branch.
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by dtech 13y ago
For some skin types the effect is so small that you can just not take it into account. Especially people with red hair are known to have these skin types (hair and skin color are both dependent on malanin)
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Researchers Create Legal Botnet Abusing Free Cloud Service Offers(darkreading.com)
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by dtech 13y ago
Can you link the RFC's/Threads? When you're not familiar with the PHP dev ecosystem it can be hard to find the meaningful stuff.
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by dtech 13y ago
The goal for PHP6 is basically to provide good unicode support (strings internally as unicode etc.) However due to problems and internal conflicts the effort was stopped a few years ago and there has been no progress since. If this goal had