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by jbri 15y ago
First of all the "seed" is bupkis because it's not actually used in the encryption - it's just used to xor the ciphertext, and then sent along with it. You can trivially reverse that step and then get on attacking the rest of it. After that
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by jbri 15y ago
What's illegal is discriminating against a candidate based on protected information. Knowing that information isn't illegal, but it opens you up to a discrimination lawsuit, because it's very difficult to prove that your decision wasn't m
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by jbri 15y ago
The giant impact theory predicts that Earth did , at one point, have a proto-ring of debris from the collision. That proto-ring slowly accreted into the moon. I'm not sure what evidence we would expect to observe on the moon to indicate wh
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by jbri 15y ago
If the giant impact theory is correct, Theia must have been about the same size as Mars - roughly a tenth of the mass of the earth. Hence it would have a much larger impact on the makeup of the moon than it would on the makeup of the earth
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by jbri 15y ago
The lottery HQ has records of all tickets for a particular lottery, which gets checked against when you claim a prize. I'm not sure whether the has-this-ticket-won-anything machines phone home to check it against those records, or whether t
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by jbri 15y ago
Foursquare cut off the app's API access. The app literally didn't work when it was removed.
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by jbri 15y ago
And got it fixed. Security vulnerabilities aren't the sort of things that go away just because you don't know they're there.
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by jbri 15y ago
The "takedown" technique presented works by exploiting the botnet's functionality to have all the machines remove themselves from the botnet - actually carrying out the removal requires you to hack into at least one third-party server, and
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by jbri 15y ago
Are you talking about the self-awareness and introspection you perceive yourself as having? Does it help if you view your consciousness as both being produced by the brain, and used as an input - i.e. a key part of a feedback system?
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by jbri 15y ago
This doesn't really apply when you are trying to verify whether the client actually performed some action. In a CSRF scenario, the client itself can presumably be "trusted" - A client behaving maliciously can only hurt itself, not any one e
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by jbri 15y ago
Why would they do that? Precheck flyers have to go through a metal detector, which is actually harder to smuggle stuff through.
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by jbri 15y ago
Often you're serving big chunks of static content with a little bit of dynamic content sprinkled in. You can effectively concatenate stuff by just writing both to the same channel - which means you can get the zero-copy performance benefits
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by jbri 15y ago
I think you've misinterpreted the article somewhat. The best way to rid yourself of "I have this hammer..." syndrome is to get rid of the hammer temporarily, and force yourself to use the alternatives for a while. That way you get to know
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by jbri 15y ago
> In the end, I guess maybe the problem for me is that the whole "How to Hire a Programmer" idea itself strikes me as somewhat misguided. A guide to "hiring a <fill_in_the_blank>" is only ever going to filter for cookie-cutter r
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by jbri 15y ago
Because a mutation turned off our precursor's ability to do so, and (due to the abundance of vitamin C in their diet), wasn't immediately deleterous but instead managed to spread throughout the entire population.
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by jbri 15y ago
What's interesting is that the human body still does most of the synthesis - it's only the enzymes for the last step that have been disabled.
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by jbri 15y ago
All this means is that CAs have to be a bit more careful who they give reseller certificates to - essentially, only signing reseller certificates for sellers they think are trustworthy. Because that's what signing a * certificate says - "I
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by jbri 15y ago
Where are you getting this "allowed in general" thing from? I can't see anything in there at all that would imply that.
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by jbri 15y ago
It's also possible to mathematically prove that certain grids are not 4-colorable.
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by jbri 15y ago
Also, in many cases the title of a page is longer than the area it's supposed to fit in - in which case, appending the alert to the page title results in it not being visible.
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by jbri 15y ago
A more interesting question is HTML5 penetration in your target market - rather than general usage, it would be interesting to look at the analytics from an established Flash Gaming site.
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by jbri 15y ago
What would be the advantage of doing this in Flash instead of HTML5?
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by jbri 15y ago
Interestingly, you don't need to add a "full set" of bytecodes for unsigned arithmetic support - just four (udiv, ludiv, urem, lurem). All the other arithmetic operations are bit-identical with the existing signed versions. It's also worth
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by jbri 15y ago
I can't see anything in the linked article suggesting that other 50x responses will result in poorer search engine performance - I would expect that any of the transient-fault 50x responses would have the exact same search engine impact. Th
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by jbri 15y ago
Set up a trie containing each phrase in the vocabulary. Repeatedly match phrases starting at the current word against the trie, stopping at the longest matching phrase. Link that and reset from the first non-matching word. The end result is
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by jbri 15y ago
Sort of, depending on the model. For most models, if you take your "probability of dying in year X", and sum that over all the years from 0 to infinity, you'll get a 100% probability of dying at some point. The interesting thing is that the
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by jbri 15y ago
You still have a precondition encoded in the parameter type. It's just a precondition for the programmer to see and understand, rather than one for the machine to rigorously enforce.
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by jbri 15y ago
Looking at Visa's current terms, they don't seem to run afoul of those regulations - but Verizon is still violating them. Visa says you're allowed to offer a discount to non-credit-card payments, but it has to be presented to the customer
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by jbri 15y ago
I was under the impression that credit card providers basically say "you can't charge extra for paying by credit card". What would happen if Visa or Mastercard said "you're in violation of our terms, we're cancelling your merchant account"?
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by jbri 15y ago
It is due to CPU cache issues, but not because the cache is full. CPU caches are indexed on the low bits of the address. If you have two addresses with the same low-order bits, then those addresses will collide in the cache, even though t

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