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by forgotusername 16y ago
Given Stuxnet's purported sophistication, I'd be shocked if it didn't employ obfuscations that rendered decompilation ineffective, at least prior to annotation within IDA first, which doesn't appear to have been done here. Decompiler output
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Title insults the intelligence of HN readers, that's obviously nothing more than minimally annotated Hex Rays decompiler output. There is nothing new to see here. A quick Google search for "stuxnet.zip" reveals other samples, undamaged by s
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by forgotusername 16y ago
I'm not sure how you arrived at that. This guy's advice is generally good (division can be slow, even on modern desktop CPUs - particularly if a constant divisor is not available to the compiler), it's just his reasoning that's a bit flawed
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Recently (and I suspect, at all times in the past) I've had trouble focusing with even one epileptic app throbbing in the background, or even redrawing some pointless animation or status update. For me one of the criteria for a desktop prog
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Not only does it not seem unreasonable, but for a company like Google, I find it incredibly hard to believe that at some point they wouldn't have tried it themselves, at least as an experiment.
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by forgotusername 16y ago
In the hypothetical situation above, it has almost nothing to do with the search engine - it is both the user providing the query and selecting the result: this is the data of value, not which intermediary provided the list of results to se
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Even Matt's allegation is softened by "I believe" here: there appears to be nothing that conclusively indicates Bing is solely targeting Google. For example, the observed behaviour could be a side-effect of a generic algorithm to extract an
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Only in Ireland: bank sues Oracle following request for software built on DB2(irishtimes.com)
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by forgotusername 16y ago
It's possible to register non-profile extensions in the registry, specifically so software installed on the system can be shared across user accounts, and be installed/uninstalled orthogonally to Firefox. The downside, of course, is that Fi
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Another simple approach seen in many places (e.g. Nucleus OS) is using ASCII characters. That way, you get a unique identifier and as you get quicker at recognising them, you also get to immediately ASCII character values in hex, which is g
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by forgotusername 16y ago
> 1 billion actions per month What a bamboozlingly humongous number! So I tried to figure out what it might mean in concrete terms. Assuming an "action" is some tuple of (32bit timestamp, 32bit customer_id, 32bit user_id, 32bit action_t
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by forgotusername 16y ago
"completely decentralized" is a strong claim when depending on a network that relies on a canonical directory of relays (at least during client bootstrap?), unless I'm missing something.
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Nice, that's only 18Tb of storage (I think) required to record 225Mb/sec literally all day.
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by forgotusername 16y ago
I'd love to hear your foolproof means for determining if some used product is stolen, or if some reseller is not about to sell you some stolen product.
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Crappy revisionist article, XMLHttpRequest was in Mozilla since at least 2000 (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 ).. the notion that nobody used it until Gmail in 2004 is just dumb. Perhaps Gmail was the first polishe
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by forgotusername 16y ago
It's as if they want to give the illusion that Groups is in any way maintained by tacking on a half-arsed clone of Reader, and it sucks. Ignoring the impedance mismatch between the borrowed UI and the data it projects, try clicking on a gro
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by forgotusername 16y ago
I'm honestly not sure. Perhaps this topic would be more appropriate for a linguistics forum?
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by forgotusername 16y ago
I'm sorry, next time I'll uses "forumses". Damn ecomony got all these morans backs up!
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by forgotusername 16y ago
It appears to have died, or migrated to more appropriate fora. Thankfully.
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by forgotusername 16y ago
AFAIK, this "petty argument" started with Facebook blocking Google Friend Connect, ironically, for permanently caching data from the Facebook API (effectively what Facebook were doing in return with Gmail's address book).
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by forgotusername 16y ago
Conversely, HEAD sometimes doesn't accurately reflect the headers for a resource available via GET. For example this is the case with App Engine's broken webapp framework (and every app that consumes it): $ curl -sD- http://appengine-co
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by forgotusername 16y ago
From the maintenances mailing list: The maintenance work has been completed. The datastore was in a read-only period between 12:02-12:45 for a total of 43 minutes. Some users reported two periods of 500 errors unrelated to datastore writes,
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by forgotusername 16y ago
This is a sensitive subject, and quite possibly she has been the victim of a crime, however it is impossible to ignore that a further sin in many ways as bad as the original has been committed, and that is to deny fair trial to a man, which
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by forgotusername 16y ago
4 very rare things just happened: 1) An application announcement on HN that genuinely appealed to me. 2) A single guy beat Google at UX in one of their best web applications (exposing the original site design for the feed is a fantastic ide
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by forgotusername 16y ago
I can't help but wonder how much library/server side legwork would be required to get a functional version of mutt running in a browser.
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by forgotusername 17y ago
TwitDiff guy here, the service delay graph is permanently broken. I hoover late accounts about once a day, usually only a few fall out of the system. It's actively maintained and generally fuss-free, except during Twitter API farts (includi