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by jazzyb 14y ago
Use PGP to encrypt your emails[1]. I've never used it with any server I didn't control (like Gmail), but I'm sure it's possible to set up. [1] http://lifehacker.com/180878/how-to-encrypt-your-email
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by jazzyb 14y ago
I ran this against MRI on my MacBook Pro (ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]) and got: real 0m0.429s user 0m0.215s sys 0m0.145s As a comparison, for Java (java version "1.6.0_43") I got: real 0m18.856s user 0m20.5
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by jazzyb 14y ago
Everything I can find on them indicates that they are simply an open source company who takes privacy and data security very seriously [1] -- which would explain why they are running tor exit nodes. What information do you have that they ar
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by jazzyb 14y ago
For encrypting the email with the exploit details. This is quite a common practice in the security industry.
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by jazzyb 14y ago
> Ihave no idea if UT Austin is a good comp sci program or if you're being sarcastic. This is the first I've heard of it. UT Austin actually does have a wonderful CS program.* The reason you likely haven't heard about it is that it is
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Underground Lake Found in Mars Crater(blogs.aljazeera.com)
1 points by jazzyb 14y ago|0 comments
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by jazzyb 15y ago
To be fair, I trust TrueCrypt because it's "libre" and "open", but I've never looked at the source code myself. I trust that other people more knowledgable than me have taken a look at it, but if there is indeed a backdoor in it, then it w
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by jazzyb 15y ago
The user neelk states that one of the bad things about the language is "Null. In 2011." Can someone clarify for me why having null in a language is bad (other than how dereferencing/calling-a-method on null in most languages results in yo
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by jazzyb 15y ago
Qi is a lisp-like language with Haskell-style type-checking which can be turned on and off at will: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(programming_language)#Type_...
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by jazzyb 16y ago
I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I always had a hard time remembering where the "hinge" was on the slashes. Let me explain: Assume that the slash begins like a pipe |. If the slash has a hinge at the bottom (like most people intuitiv
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by jazzyb 16y ago
I've always heard it called that myself, but it's usually shortened to just "tick" where I work now.
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by jazzyb 16y ago
When I first started programming, I didn't know which of the two symbols / or \ was "forward slash" or "back slash", so I got into the habit of calling them "uphill" and "downhill", respectively. I still tend to use those terms when I'm wo
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by jazzyb 16y ago
You can embed javascript if you want: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#embedded
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by jazzyb 16y ago
"Politics" plays a role in pretty much every social interaction. Even though I'm just an introverted programmer, I find myself in dozens of situations every month where following the basic observations he makes have helped me succeed.
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by jazzyb 16y ago
That quote is derived from one that originally appeared in "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier: "There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography t
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by jazzyb 16y ago
Probably not much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strlcpy#Criticism
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by jazzyb 16y ago
Most people use sizeof when they are copying between static buffers on the stack. Strlen would be just as bad of an idea in this example because they're using the src buffer as the limit on the copy rather than the dst buffer which is st
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by jazzyb 16y ago
The only thing more dangerous than strcpy is strlcpy or strncpy. I can't tell you how many times I've seen: strncpy(dst, src, sizeof(src)); And the developer thinks that the code is safer because he's using the "safer" function.
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by jazzyb 16y ago
What is the ultimate goal of your research? If you are simply doing research for the fun of it, then you can only continue it without funding for as long as you have runway capital. I ask this question because I've thought about doing the
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by jazzyb 16y ago
After having watched the first half of game one: Another interesting category that Watson seemed to have a lot of trouble with was a category where all the answers were decades (1910s, 1920s, etc.). The top answers that Watson came up wit
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by jazzyb 16y ago
Speak for yourself. My girl-friend is sufficiently geeky that she suggested we watch it together on Valentine's.
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by jazzyb 16y ago
> It does rather depends where you are Indeed. If you make decent high school grades in the states, then it's possible to attend a state university on scholarship and owe less (perhaps much less) than $20K in school loans after graduat
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by jazzyb 16y ago
The title is a bit confusing because the first letter should be lower case. At first I was wondering what Apple had against Cisco employees.
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Intel CTO says new technology will stop zero-day attacks(computerworld.com)
1 points by jazzyb 16y ago|0 comments
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by jazzyb 16y ago
I believe what the saying means is this: If a theory X is accepted as true, then that implies that some amount of reasonable evidence exists in support of X. If we are to prove ~X, then we must show not only evidence in favor of ~X but al
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Dissecting the Architecture of Suburbia [TED 2004](ted.com)
3 points by jazzyb 16y ago|1 comments
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by jazzyb 16y ago
The author of this article gave one of my favorite Ted Talks on the same topic: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
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by jazzyb 16y ago
In addition to tcpdump, I'd like to add the command 'tshark'. Tshark usually comes bundled with wireshark and allows you to use the same search capabilities as wireshark from the command line. I find it much easier to use than tcpdump esp
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by jazzyb 16y ago
+1 Dune is very intellectually stimulating.
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by jazzyb 16y ago
However, ForceTLS will only work if the server supports HTTPS. IMO, a better solution is that of a SOCKS proxy as outlined in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828631 Using ssh as a SOCKS server has the added benefit of t

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