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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I was under the impression that even these are vulnerable, because both MD5 and SHA1 are computationally efficient, meaning you really should be iterating the hashing process many times over, or using something like blowfish. Also, I think
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
Did they have default 'privacy' settings? I just remember being able to view the profile of anybody who went to my university. I think the only reason I found it useful then was because I actually used it to meet new people in my dorm. Mysp
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
That suit is about a patent, and not about a trademark.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
No. The link you gives mentions that the decay rates of radioactive particles are changing, this saying the half life is changing. Atomic clocks are based on the frequency of light emitted from an electronic transition. Ie, an electron make
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
This seems like a bad way to compare the two devices. In particular, love it or hate it, the original iPhone had to fight a big uphill battle towards adoptions. When android was later released, smartphones had already been quite well accept
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
It's funny, but there are very few things in modern physics which aren't measured via electromagnetic radiation.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Of course, if the government somehow found out you had done such a thing and you had sworn to help them to your fullest or something, they would not hesitate to slap down a variety of other charges on you. Lying is a serious offense.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
You're thinking about this too pessimistically. In this situation canceling LISA was unfortunately the appropriate response. 1) James Webb is currently costing 12 times the expected construction costs. 2)The astronomy community unfortunatel
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Yes, this is true. But unfortunately, if LISA were allowed to be completed, LISA would be in the same situation soaking up all of the budget. LISA was expected to cost more than a billion dollars. As is true for any project of that size, th
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Yeah. I guess. And doing some more looking on the internet and possibly answering my own question, maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_swarm It's hard to find useful information on line about this. But I guess that the lack of
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
So, this brings the number of >6.5 mag earthquakes off the cost of japan in the past month up to like 12 I believe?* Surely there is a geologist in the midst who can explain whether this is normal/expected? * http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/q
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
And some people still question the value of pure math. These design tricks would anger some of my design friends, who still believe you can be left brain OR right brain.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
You're overthinking this. Yes, in principle we do known the fine structure constant to something like 9 orders of magnitude both experimentally and theoretically. However, when would you use the pi = 3 approximation? Certainly not when you'
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
The lab itself will stay there. Only one experiment is being shut down (D0 at the tevatron. Granted when people think Fermilab, they think tevatron, but there are other experiments located there). They have future plans for a new accelerato
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Why are mean comments posted? Answer: because they are massively upvoted. People like Karma, and Karma is a useful tool to teach newbies how to act, by giving them shining examples of excellent posters/posts voted on by the community. Why a
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
As a continuation on the idea that they were in a depression, but also remember that picture 13 is located in Oklahoma and a mere six years earlier they were probably experiencing the dust bowl.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
They mention that Warner Music is also Metallica's label, but in my opinion this would probably not factor into a business decision to purchase a record label. Warner is a huge label, and in many ways has not adapted to modern times. If Sea
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Or at least in a perfect world with unlimited budgets, that's how it would work.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
I see no reason to demand another 24hour news channel when the 30min nightly national news broadcasts do just fine, along with the internet and npr to spice things up.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
The article focuses on Libya and Iraq, but forgets about Pakistan, whose nuclear weapons have done little to prevent CIA drones from killing terrorists and the occaisional civillian within pakistan's borders.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
And of course, they skip over the only part I don't understand about that hack. The real meat and potatoes, the magic number.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
I was looking at the usgs data last night, so it is quite nice to see somebody else made a visualization of the data. I looked at usgs, and was quite surprised to see there were over 100 >5 magnitude earthquakes off the coast of japan i
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
I like how sometimes the most mundane details are sometimes the most interesting.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
What's the difference? I thought anybody could claim to be from Anonymous, and merely making this claim automatically makes this true.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Seattle is another area I would worry about as far as preparedness for a Major earthquake. Most of the new skyrises are probably safe, but the Alaskan Way Viaduct would most certainly collapse (it was nearly destroyed due to a moderate eath
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
This is unbelievably dangerous and should not be in the hands of people who think of it as a toy.
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
A valid point, but the article mentions that the employment decline is disproportionately concentrated amongst low skill workers. It doesn't seem likely to me that these types of workers would be living in a household where only one of the
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
If I'm understanding correctly this does double the amount of information sent in a chunk of time. Example: You send 1Mbit over a sec. Then you pause for 1 sec to receive 1Mbit. Effectively, you've only sent 1Mbit over 2 seconds. Now, due
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
Lots of blues, oranges, and green. I suppose there is either a bias for filmmakers to prefer these colors, or something in the algorithm 'prefers' these colors?
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by harshpotatoes 16y ago
So there is this recent talk about sound quality from computers, and it makes sense to me that dynamic range would be the biggest culprit against good sound quality. However, every now and then I still here people chime in that upgrading yo

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