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by ecma 10y ago
Could use (2001) in the title. This is a pretty interesting email chain and a fairly good case study for those of us who aim for zealous adherence to standards and rules vs. providing a practical and useful output for users. I know I tend t
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by ecma 10y ago
I use mbasic.facebook as my main was of interacting with Facebook. I acknowledge that my choice to disable JavaScript is unusual and will jump through some hoops because of that, but it's not excusable for a website to display /no
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by ecma 10y ago
From the Wikipedia article on memory refresh [0] for DRAM describing distributed refresh techniques: "For example, the current generation of chips (DDR SDRAM) has a refresh time of 64 ms and 8,192 rows, so the refresh cycle interval is
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by ecma 10y ago
Are you potentially confusing a page fault which results in the page being pulled into main memory with a cache miss which pulls a line from memory into on-CPU memory? My understanding is that the cache miss is managed by the MMU without mu
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by ecma 10y ago
Confidence levels in the hypothesis based on results and rigour of the methodology producing those results (implicitly reproducibility) are two different things. I suspect that's why the downvotes.
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by ecma 10y ago
Not in the kernel, you can't :)
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by ecma 10y ago
There are some mixed opinions in the maintainers' replies. Steve Rostadt is NACKing all of his patches (amusingly also spamming everyone in the process) since he likes the octal and others are making the same argument. Other again are
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by ecma 10y ago
This is not a novel tool. It is literally just running msfvenom with shikata, and setting up a listener. I'd recommend reading some tutorials on using msfvenom/msfconsole rather than relying on a tool to do what should be triviall
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by ecma 10y ago
Plasmons are an aggregate oscillation of charge density in a material. In the case of the charged graphene sheet, we get surface plasmons from the oscillations of the charged added to the sheet as mentioned in the article. Plasmons are kind
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by ecma 10y ago
I was genuinely hoping for screenshots from films starring Kevin Hart, Ice Cube and The Rock. The IDE is okay too I guess...
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by ecma 10y ago
It'll be a while yet. OpenSSL is still the standard platform for trading research implementations and AFAIK the problem isn't characterised with enough depth to suggest it as a recommended hard problem to base post-quantum cryptog
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by ecma 10y ago
I recently had the privilege of listening to Brian LaMacchia speak on this and other developments in the post-quantum cryptography space at Microsoft research. What they're doing is remarkable and their commitment to the space is impre
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by ecma 10y ago
Spending millions on support for an operating system which is well out of life is indicative of poor IT procurement and lifespan management. Business interruption was a valid excuse about 5 years ago, to continue to argue that is a farce.
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by ecma 10y ago
As a exemplary symptom of the toxic IT culture in many aspects of government and defence, the US Navy paid $9M for continued support of Windows XP last year [0]. They definitely aren't the only government agency which is doing this and
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by ecma 10y ago
That doesn't preclude government contracting this kind of work out to professional infosec consultancies. Budgets are usually more complex than a single bucket and the heightened requirement for accountability in government practically
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by ecma 10y ago
Accurate. Technically the Microsoft compatibility later could have been entirely done at the library level by replicating POSIX and adding an ELF linker/loader. There would have been some edge cases around Linux specific source but the
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by ecma 11y ago
Good catch. I did mean that mixing in the source would apply to the established table if it's constructed in the same way but doesn't do so already (which would surprise me now that I think about it properly). I don't think t
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by ecma 11y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that increasing the size of LHTABLE solves anything. True, it may remove some collisions in the hash table but note that 63925 % 64 = 53. Given that the two slow ports listed seem to be arbitrary and assigned
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by ecma 11y ago
MathWorld has a really good article [0] with density numbers from R2 through R8 if you're interested. [0] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperspherePacking.html
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by ecma 11y ago
The paper [0] was linked, the article gave context to the problem and outlined the approach. What more do you want? [0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04246
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by ecma 11y ago
"They range in difficulty from simple to knotty and fiendish. We will let you know the answers next week." It's not a recruitment operation. They're just some fun puzzles which are accessible to laypeople. It shows the f
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by ecma 11y ago
You realize that /dev/ is for devices, not developers, right? The title of the OP is fairly misleading because of that. Otherwise, an interesting project. I'd be interested to know why you chose Python and if/how you pro
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by ecma 11y ago
I didn't think I'd come back but I liked your comment and wanted to rebut. There is a middle ground and where it lies is directly related to the assessed risk. To support a mechanism is a binary choice but its design is not. In th
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by ecma 11y ago
If the San Bernardino case proves anything, it's that encryption is not the whole picture.
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by ecma 11y ago
This is incredibly naive bordering on puerile. To suggest that POTUS' view on this is without nuance is to miss his point. POTUS went on to cite existing warrant mechanisms and their underlying principle: "And we agree on that, be
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Android bank app users targeted in sophisticated cybercrime attack(abc.net.au)
1 points by ecma 11y ago|0 comments
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by ecma 11y ago
Official site: > http://freedom251.com Previous thread on the phone before the release event: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11123135
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Is India’s Freedom 251, a $4 Smartphone, Too Good to Be True?(wsj.com)
2 points by ecma 11y ago|1 comments
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by ecma 11y ago
The parent is more similar to doing `sudo find . | grep -- "*-foo.bar" | xargs rm` which I can definitely say I've never done because it's absurd. The consequences of redirecting to a file are usually nil, unlike running
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by ecma 11y ago
Why would anyone ever invoke something like this and expect maybe to somehow steal those pipe characters? It's almost meaningless and displays just enough know how that the author should know how a shell works.

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