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by jamoes 10y ago
A file with the following text would activate the rule: <?php ='base'.(16*4).'_de'.'code' (str_replace( .substr(md5(strrev( gzinflate _COOKIE _COOKIE isset isset isset (add
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by jamoes 10y ago
At first I thought, "Oh, these sound effects are kinda cool, to give the video a flair for the dramatic." There's not going to be any noise inside of the vacuum, but the initial sound effects were probably the noises that the
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by jamoes 10y ago
"The Jungle" is a work of fiction, in case you weren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
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by jamoes 10y ago
The cheating device in this article also required a marked deck. So as long as the house isn't in on it, this cheating method wouldn't work in casinos. The article did mention that some anonymous sources claim to be using these de
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by jamoes 10y ago
What I'd like to see is some good open source software that can compete with Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa. It looks like there are some promising projects, but nothing turn-key yet. I'd like to be able to simply apt-get a pac
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by jamoes 10y ago
He could still have access to his PGP private key, which would be a strong data point. It could be possible that someone stole this key though, so this alone wouldn't completely prove his identity. If he had the foresight to know he mi
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by jamoes 10y ago
With bitcoin, the election cycle is always happening. Every single block miners decide which rules they want to enforce, and which proposals they want to signal support for. You want to support 2 MB blocks? Run Bitcoin Classic, or point you
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by jamoes 11y ago
> but the private currency speculators would usually have a pretty good guess as to the solvency of the issuers With bitcoin and other Nakamoto-consensus based crypto-currencies, the "solvency of the issuer" is irrelevant, beca
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by jamoes 11y ago
Net neutrality, as it's currently being implemented, grants the FCC significant amounts of regulatory power over private companies. This regulatory power has the potential to be abused. So, Rand Paul being against it is consistent with
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by jamoes 11y ago
> I truly don't understand why nothing is done about that. Why doesn't anyone lose their job over this, let alone go to jail? My suspicion is that the FBI and various three-letter-agencies have dirt on most of the elected repre
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by jamoes 11y ago
In terms of sustainability, I agree with Rob Rhinehart [1] that single-cell protein (e.g. from algae) is the best path forward. It doesn't have the gross factor that insects have, and once the process is perfected, it should be one of
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by jamoes 11y ago
Not to my knowledge. That's why I use the CanvasBlocker extension [1], which prevents websites from abusing canvas tags to fingerprint me. I'd like to see a comprehensive effort to prevent fingerprinting without having to resort t
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by jamoes 11y ago
> EDIT: Sorry, I know it's off-topic, but there's no other place to post it (that I know of). Yeah, as annoying as it is to see hostile comments, it's also kind of annoying to see meta comments. I understand that meta comm
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by jamoes 11y ago
The #1 story was removed by the moderators. It was an article by Mike Hearn about why he's moving forward with the Bitcoin XT hard fork. [1] The justification for the removal is that Bitcoin XT is an altcoin, and altcoin discussion is
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by jamoes 11y ago
He was charged with murder-for-hire in a separate jurisdiction, and he hasn't faced trial for those charges yet. Today he was sentenced to life in prison for a number of victimless crimes.
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by jamoes 11y ago
And Google Wallet was just a re-launch of Google Checkout. I guess it's worth the risk of continual failure, because if they eventually do get a foot in the door it's incredibly lucrative. Taking a percentage of every payment some
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by jamoes 12y ago
Do you think people would really accept the banning of certain pieces of code as legitimate? The US government already lost the battle on "export grade" encryption, and I believe they'd lose any attempts to ban other code as
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by jamoes 12y ago
> The "decision" made at 10AM was to adopt the rules that have been under public comment for months. If you haven't seen them yet, it's your own fault. From what I've read, the 322 page document wasn't relea
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by jamoes 12y ago
> waiting in the cold for possible 5-10 whole minute Isn't this largely solved by the GPS mapping of your ride from within the Uber app? You can easily see exactly where the driver is, and step outside right as the driver is pulling
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by jamoes 12y ago
> Can someone piece this together? I think he means this: If you're talking to someone [from another company] from corp dev, [they want to acquire you], whether you realize it yet or not.
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by jamoes 12y ago
Thanks for the info! I was hoping it was more secure than a simple USB flash drive. This seems like a really good way to improve key security.
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by jamoes 12y ago
It looks like he's found a way to avoid using the broken symlinks hack. The blog has been updated and now advises how to make changes to the sshd_config file to disable old authentication methods.
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by jamoes 12y ago
Does using the Yubikey in this manner protect your keys even if your machine has malware on it? I read through this tutorial [1], and they say you need read/write access to the device, so it seems to me like malware could access your k
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by jamoes 12y ago
This is exactly what Flattr is all about (they're still around). Flattr has to deal with credit card fraud though, and all the issues surrounding it. This means they need to spend a non-insignificant portion of their operational budget
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by jamoes 12y ago
> It would also be the absolute end of Bitcoin and derivatives, at least as far as I know. Not really, because bitcoin only relies on the signature aspect of PKC. So, bitcoin could move over to Lamport signatures, which are not affected
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by jamoes 12y ago
Lattice-based public key schemes are designed to be quantum resistant. So this is a troubling development, because it might indicate that other lattice-based public key schemes are vulnerable to similar attacks. It might be very difficult o
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by jamoes 12y ago
Based on the fact that it has a "Bitcoind RPC port" option, I think it is safe to say that it just relies on a running Bitcoin Core node. That means it does not support deterministic keys. Users will need to be careful to back up
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by jamoes 12y ago
> Cool, let's just bank on the generosity of companies. Or, how about you think about this when finding a job, and weigh the pros and cons of various employers' benefits and policies. We don't always need top-down guidance
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by jamoes 12y ago
Proof-of-stake isn't being adopted because it simply doesn't solve the Byzayntine General's problem [1]. [1] http://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
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by jamoes 12y ago
Yeah, Tor as a whole, and Hidden Services specifically are very vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks. I'd love to see a project with a real focus on anonymous publishing of content. Tor's original goal was anonymous retrieval of

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