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by kedean 12y ago
This is huge for linux adoption. The major hurdle holding many people, including myself, back from using linux as an HTPC operating system is netflix support. This will be especially great if plugin developers can get it running through XBM
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by kedean 12y ago
My experience was that organized groups will use email, but only really the leadership. I would also use email to communicate with professors in college, and now with clients (but not coworkers). Basically, email is now only for communicati
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by kedean 12y ago
A huge part of it is the practice of overselling. The basic idea is that you have n customers who all want k gigabytes of space, but on average they each use only j gigabytes of the space. If that holds, then rather than having n k gigabyte
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by kedean 12y ago
To be fair, this was a bug in the standard library, not the compiler. You should also trust your stdlib too, though, unless its a demonstrable problem like the article.
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by kedean 12y ago
I think the difference this time is that if Google controls the browser AND the biggest websites, then they'll be more confident introducing features that lock you into that browser (See the offline storage bit mentioned in the article
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by kedean 12y ago
If you could use NLP to verify the comment, then what would the point of the comment be? Comments are for those aspects of a program that are invisible to the compiler and IDE, the intent.
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by kedean 12y ago
The idea seems to be that you open it when you go in. The app has settings to vibrate during the times when you are safe to leave, so you aren't taking your phone out to check, it's a push notification to you that you can go.
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by kedean 12y ago
Another interesting, more recent paper (I couldn't find a link to the actual pdf, but I'm sure people are resourceful): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2516712 This one describes an attack to not only steal brow
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by kedean 12y ago
He's not upset because they want to know if they're right, he's upset because they just grab some options, throw them together, and check with him. There's no thought going into it and I'm sure if you ask the kids w
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by kedean 13y ago
This is from wired.co.uk, it's expected that readers know pounds better than dollars.
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by kedean 13y ago
No. That is a capability provided by an extension called CertPatrol, at least in the Firefox ecosystem.
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by kedean 13y ago
I find your comment particularly funny, because in the information security course I took for my masters degree, we had to perform remote buffer overflow exploits using an older version of this exact software.
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by kedean 13y ago
As a whole I think graduate school is a good thing, but moment to moment it's pretty negative, by my experience and the experience of all of my classmates. I just ended my first year of masters study, and I couldn't name one perso
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by kedean 13y ago
They mention that they first do enough shuffling to cover all possibilities of the deck, then apply the seeded shuffling.
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by kedean 13y ago
While his reasoning is sound, the link title here is really misleading. It has not been confirmed that Mochizuki created Bitcoin, it has been hypothesized.
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by kedean 14y ago
Well, ideally you wouldn't be using tiny numbers. If you're using huge numbers, then what you're describing is the equivalent of a rainbow table technique. It's going to take an extraordinary amount of time, computations, and comparisons to
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by kedean 14y ago
My problem with that is that nobody has yet MADE a solid alternative to traditional movie distribution. His options are basically traditional or give it away for free/donations. Television has gained the fun alternative of getting published
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by kedean 14y ago
>HTML5 is not standard, certainly not open What, because some vendors take liberty with codec choices? HTML5, while not officially ratified as an RFC, has an agreed-upon standard version, and the implementations of it are far more stand
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by kedean 14y ago
That does not make it inherently uncensorable. China can still look at your traffic, go 'this is nightweb traffic' (or even just bittorrent traffic, I doubt they care about that), and block the communication. Bam, censored.
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by kedean 14y ago
It would be a better excercise if multiple ciphertexts from the same key were posted, as well as some ciphertexts from different keys. That would simulate real world interaction with the output of an encryption scheme.
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by kedean 14y ago
Banks are notoriously bad about updating their technology practices. They didn't really stop using DES in their ATM's until it was required by law that they update to 3DES in 2002 (DES encryption has been theoretically broken since the 80's
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by kedean 14y ago
Pythons generators are similar to that idea, although it's not their official use. Using 'yield' instead of 'return' in python lets you return to that function at the same point of execution later on (using .next()), at which time you could
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by kedean 14y ago
I feel like the title of this article was a little misleading, it makes it sound like he's chiding the industry for relying on use of linux and open-source software to make them look good (android is linux-based? yay it must be the best!),
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by kedean 14y ago
I'm not sure how GIMPS does it, but if you're interested in how it CAN be done you could look into the GMP library for C.
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by kedean 14y ago
Something the author didn't mention is that a lot of science-related python code relies on third party libraries to support devices they use. SR Research's Eyelink device, for instance, is accessable through API's provided by SR themselves,
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by kedean 14y ago
As someone currently pursuing a CS masters degree, I've decided I'm a little burnt out on theory and implementation, so I'm getting back into my other love: history. With 6 or 7 new books about ancient history, hopefully I can get my brain
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by kedean 14y ago
That's an interesting issue I've never considered, living in an area where most roads are maintained, and if they are not they can still be driven on. Are there any digital map services that do take that into account when providing possible
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by kedean 14y ago
It's also noteworthy that neither FB or Google were ever what could be termed a startup. FB was a college website first, then expanded gradually, it didn't try to instantly be huge, and I'm pretty sure zuckerberg knew that it wouldn't make
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by kedean 14y ago
I'm not convinced this is that great. I'm happy for it, but it's something that's really only news for those who already use linux as their primary OS. If this was a native solution (a REAL native solution, not a patched, custom-compiled ve
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by kedean 14y ago
Multiple desktops is indeed on by default in Mountain Lion, but you aren't given any instruction on how to use them. Putting an application into fullscreen (the new button on the top right of a window) will put it into a new desktop, and fo

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