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by kelnage 8y ago
Textbook RSA is not secure, as there’s no element of randomness in the encryption, rendering it susceptible to chosen ciphertext attacks. RSA+OAEP includes randomness and also protects again vulnerability such as certain plaintexts always h
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by kelnage 8y ago
Active mental participation? Surely you should be getting paid for that!
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by kelnage 8y ago
My understanding of the code from the article is that if method #4 stopped working, it would just carry on down the list. The static variable just means where to skip to in the case list.
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by kelnage 8y ago
This is a recent change on Facebook's behalf - apps are no longer permitted to post automatically on your behalf [1]. I can understand why they've done it (searching for that reference involved going through 3 pages of "how d
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by kelnage 8y ago
Nice - this trick also works for Strava (for which I originally signed up using Google)!
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by kelnage 8y ago
But you are assuming the users browse the website in full screen mode/maximised. Whilst true for most mobile devices, this is certainly not given on desktops.
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by kelnage 8y ago
Urgh, I was nodding away until I reached guide 16. Although the idea it expresses is fine, their example of parsing CSV files yourself is a terrible one, especially since they link to a previous article where they anticipate some issues tha
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by kelnage 8y ago
You suggest Telegram over Signal? Now we know you're spreading FUD.
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by kelnage 8y ago
Perhaps if you only work for small organisations. Medium to large organisations tend to handle these issues relatively smoothly, with company computers and devices usually having their root CA pre-loaded into the trust store - or requiring
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by kelnage 8y ago
Great! And you can already choose to do so. But it seems pretty likely that Firefox will be making that decision on behalf of all its users (except those with the wherewithal to know how to opt out), without effectively communicating the ri
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by kelnage 8y ago
In my experience of using git integration features in IntelliJ, they are nice for simple tasks like quickly checking the status of a file or committing all the changes, but as soon as I need to do more complex tasks in git, I find the UIs e
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by kelnage 8y ago
I’d say it’s true of most knowledge, regardless of domain. AI seems like a great candidate in computer science, for example.
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by kelnage 8y ago
Based on previous recorded homicide rates in the U.K. [1], 49 women over three years equates to about 10% of homicides committed against women. As a proportion, that does not seem such a small number to me. 1. https://www.ons.gov
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by kelnage 8y ago
This is kind of true, but only from a certain angle. For one, autonomous vehicles (the ones most people care about anyway - Waymo et al) are not widely using connectivity between vehicles - who wants an autonomous vehicle that will only sto
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by kelnage 8y ago
Because Governments can make laws but ICANN can’t? (GDPR explicitly exempts personal data that is legally required to be disclosed from protection) Edit: actually after a bit more thought, it’s more nuanced than my somewhat glib response le
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by kelnage 8y ago
Wrong model choice - they were just a little too heavy for my partner to use effectively.
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by kelnage 8y ago
That is incredibly sad. I bought several pairs of their shears for my partner, and they are absolutely brilliant. The company was also great to buy from - they were able to give personalised advice about which ones I should get and when one
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by kelnage 8y ago
Isn't the same true of HTTPS (first developed in 1994, but has only seen wide usage recently, outside of specific use-cases), or even programming languages like Python 3? At the end of the day, it seems to me that incumbent internet te
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by kelnage 8y ago
But software is starting from the same base. To claim it isn't would be to claim that the computers programmed themselves completely (which is simply not true).
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by kelnage 8y ago
1 large egg contains approximately 1.6g of saturated fat. Recommended saturated fat intakes vary by who is making the recommendation, but the NHS in the U.K. says it should be at most 30g/20g for men/women, whilst the American Hea
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by kelnage 8y ago
Of course it is - unless we’re going by the relevant RFC, in which case we can simply define it as traffic with the evil bit set ;) But net neutrality is, in its essence, a subjective term. At the end of the day, it would be down to the cou
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by kelnage 8y ago
I hope most net neutrality proponents would not say that it implies that all providers must allow all traffic through their network, regardless of whether it is malicious or not. If they do believe that then it turns out I’m against net n
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by kelnage 9y ago
I love it when people do take the time to do good information visualisation, especially when it helps everyone understand a complex idea. However, I do think that those who believe that all academic papers should take this form fundamentall
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by kelnage 9y ago
Obviously they wouldn’t have to spend that much. Right now the majority of their customers get these updates via WiFi - so it would just be a matter of finding out which vehicles were sufficiently out of date and only sending them the data.
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by kelnage 9y ago
I agree there is definitely a bias towards such results - but I fear that completely free-for-all open access reviewing will make the effect even greater.
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by kelnage 9y ago
The initial examples the author uses really do reflect the magnitude of the third problem. All of them were big breakthrough results in their fields - and hence people cared enough to do proper reviews - especially in the latter two cases.
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by kelnage 9y ago
True, but irrelevant. For all values of n > 1, that function will return 1, which is clearly not what the author intended.
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by kelnage 9y ago
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to say that the only people who use PayPal fall into those categories - in fact, I don’t, but use PayPal semi-regularly for some purchases - just that there are some PayPal users who can’t use common alternatives.
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by kelnage 9y ago
In my experience, all the PayPal horror stories I have seen have been from merchants rather than users. PayPal tends to do a good job of protecting users, often to the detriment of merchants’ trust. Also, PayPal services a niche of users wh
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by kelnage 9y ago
I can’t find any evidence of whether they controlled for obesity (which is certainly believed to be a factor is several of the diseases that a correlation was found for). But other than that, I’d say that it is a very interesting study.

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