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by frisco 16y ago
It's a big allegation. This email didn't strike me as an overly emotional response. It was a very firm refutation from a respected member of the community about a hefty accusation.
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by frisco 16y ago
This is real science. It took three years to be sure; and for an announcement like this, the investigators want to be sure before they put their reputations behind it.
543.
by frisco 16y ago
Hold on, hold on a second. Let's put this in perspective. This brand new ATI flagship card has a whopping 24 cores clocked at 880 MHz and a memory bus capable of 5.5 GB/sec. There's no general purpose API here; everything is shaders.
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by frisco 16y ago
Why? As a professional security researcher, what makes you believe this is unlikely? I'm not saying I disagree with you, but it seems like you have additional context for an a priori belief that this isn't what happened.
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by frisco 16y ago
I was more talking about bcrypt being consensus with that post. Salting slows down cracking attempts by a factor of N where N is the length of the hash; md5 and sha1 are so fast that you shouldn't be banking on salting to protect you in 20
546.
by frisco 16y ago
Yes, this is consensus. "Salting" isn't actually a real security practice. See: http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the...
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by frisco 16y ago
Braintree: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/ Libraries out of the box for Ruby, Python, PHP, .NET, and Java: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/gateway
548.
by frisco 16y ago
I bet we're going to see a bunch of "Heroku for X" now that they've set a precedent. I'm not sure that's a bad thing; it's a great idea.
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by frisco 16y ago
This is much more clear than that. The entire community is rallying around CUDA & NVIDIA. Never once have I been talking to someone about GPU computing (and I work with it) and has someone mentioned AMD chips. NVIDIA holds the GPU Te
550.
by frisco 16y ago
Ebay is a private marketplace. I don't need a reason to kick you out of my house.
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by frisco 16y ago
There are actually some very interesting efforts around building languages that compile to PTX ("Parallel Thread Execution"). NVIDIA treated it as a trade secret in the beginning and so only now is that really beginning to take off. The i
552.
by frisco 16y ago
OpenCL is the most verbose, awkward monster I have ever seen . No exaggeration. The "Hello World" of GPGPU in OpenCL is over 100 lines long. Use CUDA directly. Get access to new features as the chips ship and a much nicer interface. NV
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by frisco 16y ago
I don't think gang members do it for the money, but rather for the social status. By definition you don't have that here; as soon as someone proclaims herself a "leader" they get raided just as hard as any of Anon's targets. Moot has a lo
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Boy hides in commercial flight wheel well; rides from NC to CT before falling(nytimes.com)
16 points by frisco 16y ago|7 comments
555.
by frisco 16y ago
I think it was mostly oss (maybe with local changes, re: why not download a fresh copy?), but there was some proprietary code in there (which may or may not have been intentional), which is what tripped him up.
556.
by frisco 16y ago
This exploit wasn't at the expense of the taxypayer; it's net-zero for the Mint. It's at the expense of the airlines who have to back the miles generated from nothing. Edit: Ok I admit defeat here. I don't think the costs are anywhere nea
557.
by frisco 16y ago
This was figured out by FlyerTalk last year and worked for about 3 months before the Mint caught on and changed the terms of credit purchase to be a cash advance, which doesn't qualify for rewards and carries additional interest terms. Tha
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NMA strange, hilarious propaganda video on Wikileaks(youtube.com)
2 points by frisco 16y ago|1 comments
559.
by frisco 16y ago
This is false.
560.
by frisco 16y ago
CapitalOne account center is down for me; I was trying to log in to access a Visa card. Coincidence? I have no idea why they'd be synchronously connected, but odd timing.
561.
by frisco 16y ago
Matt_Cutts is technically a web spam expert, but he is also a generally high profile public facing Googler who knows such things. Maybe he doesn't follow android, or maybe it would be inappropriate to answer this; but it doesn't seem crazy
562.
by frisco 16y ago
Any Googlers here (Matt_Cutts?) in a position to comment on how long we'll be waiting to hear about this? Because being accepted as a tester would absolutely make my December.
563.
by frisco 16y ago
s/haunting/hunting
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by frisco 16y ago
> "We see cloud databases as a massive market opportunity that will power the shift to real-time enterprise applications that are natively cloud, mobile and social." Wow; that's an impressively high corporate-buzz-word-speak ratio. I
565.
by frisco 16y ago
It's against federal law. To invest in private securities you need to be an "accredited investor" in the eyes of the SEC, or an insider.
566.
by frisco 16y ago
God, not another EEG-based BCI article (especially of Emotiv, whose core competency as a company is mostly being a hype machine). This stuff is trash from a neural interfacing perspective; your keyboard is much higher throughput and better
567.
by frisco 16y ago
You can create a C Corp with legalzoom. That said, at my last company we incorporated in delaware with the Company Corporation and had to spend about $10k when we raised our series a on restructuring all that and documenting things.
568.
by frisco 16y ago
Comments like this reflect more on their author than the startups and management teams they're about. Have you ever been inside a startup, and seen how one one-thousandth of the relevant information ends up in the press, and even then it's
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by frisco 16y ago
Groupon isn't a personalization play; it's an anti-personalization one. Literally the deals only happen if many people want them. While interesting and valuable, incredibly detailed targeting is kind of tangential.
570.
by frisco 16y ago
Nonsense. We have no idea we're reconstructing -- the governing dynamics of cortical, much less subcortical, interactions are still nearly totally unknown to us -- and memristors do nothing to shed light on that. Further, neural codes are

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