dylanfw

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by dylanfw 10y ago
> Its average case is O(n log(n)). Its worst case is O(n^2). Which do you call its big-O? I know this is irrelevant to the larger point of your post, and I'm sure that you know this already, but the worst case is the big-O. This
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by dylanfw 10y ago
> No, the companies involved have clout to lobby to change it. > This used to be how the US operated, how both majorities (women) and minorities got the right to vote, and more. You might be giving a bit too much credit to company
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by dylanfw 10y ago
> They use it to surf the web and check their email. It makes no sense. There's a scene where we can see Elliot running CentOS on his personal laptop. Not that lends any realism (CentOS is more common on servers, not PCs) but it doe
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by dylanfw 10y ago
In what way are you connecting recent password dumps to hackers attacking Certificate Authorities? If someone controlled the CA, they would also need to control the target website and/or the victim's home network in order to MITM
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by dylanfw 10y ago
I misread the title to say "Agar.io" and was incredibly confused.
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by dylanfw 10y ago
> without attribution Fair enough. I'm not sure why I assumed the NSA would announce exactly what software they were poking around inside of in the first place.
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by dylanfw 10y ago
As someone suggested on Reddit, download Automate the Boring Things and learn to automate the rest of the downloads.
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by dylanfw 10y ago
In case its not clear by the title, this article is from 2014. The author explains that the NSA has a "disciplined, rigorous and high-level decision-making process" to determine if they should disclose a vulnerability or quietly e
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by dylanfw 10y ago
I would imagine such a system would be mostly equivalent to no comment system at all. I'm not going to bother commenting if nobody can even see it, and 3 days later when they can I won't even remember that I commented.
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by dylanfw 10y ago
The number is spelled "googol."