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by korethr 13y ago
You may find that the non-staggered key layout will reveal some bad typing habits, mainly reaching for keys with the wrong finger. But after taking a few weeks to get used to it, you will probably start to find it much more comfortable. Whi
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by korethr 13y ago
I've not followed any of the goings on in the Ubuntu community for a while. Reading this, I get the feeling that I missed something. Did Mark Shuttleworth chew out someone in a way that makes Linus look gentle and nice, or something?
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by korethr 13y ago
Wow, is it April already? Do you suppose after they successfully implement /dev/random as a service, they might implement /dev/zero or /dev/full next? Or /dev/console might be especially useful.
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by korethr 13y ago
Interesting. What this shows to me is that md5 needs to die. Perhaps it was a good in times past, but now it is too easy to crack with commodity computer hardware. The rig shown in the article costs <$2000 USD when priced out on newegg.c
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by korethr 13y ago
His answer doesn't surprise me terribly. It likely would be easier to stop criminals and protect innocent people from them if there were no 4th. To me, the more important question is "Do the potential benefits of repealing the 4
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MinimaLT: Minimal-latency Networking Through Better Security(cr.yp.to)
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by korethr 13y ago
I'm sorry, sir. I'm not Tony Stark.
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by korethr 13y ago
More like all users would complain. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like like a good solution, but you would be amazed at the recalcitrance of users asked to do something new or different. Plus, your infrastructure and user workflows hav
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by korethr 13y ago
While that is a nice ideal, reality tends to start creeping in eventually, and a hack or two become necessary so work can get done.
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by korethr 13y ago
Waist sizes for pants in the US are deceptive. When I started working with a personal trainer, I was wearing pants with a '34 inch' waist. However, when it came time to take measurements, and I finally relaxed my gut instead of su
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by korethr 13y ago
I have. I don't recall where I first saw it, but I do recall thinking to myself, "What's wrong with this thing? It must be broken -- it is making clicking sounds instead of a proper beep." Shortly after ward, the purpose
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by korethr 13y ago
In that case, you are seeing the size of the symmetric key being used. The bigger numbers mentioned above (1024, 2048, etc) are referring to the size of the public/asymmetric keys. The public keys are only used to set up the initial ex
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by korethr 13y ago
It's not something you can just pick up at your local retail store or order from Amazon, but if you're willing to use a soldering iron and a few other tools to assemble a kit, the Ergodox[1] might fit your needs. The Ergodox is a
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by korethr 13y ago
Indeed. Obligatory xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/915/
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by korethr 13y ago
Indeed, bootstrapping is a tricky problem, and in more fields than just computers and tech. But bootstrapping is not an impossible problem to solve. Machinists and toolmakers first build crude tools, which in turn allow them to build better
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by korethr 13y ago
It's PsyOps. In leaving such an obvious signal, they're trying to remind people that as a state level actor, they can get into Tor or anywhere else they please if they really want to. Big Brother is watching.
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by korethr 13y ago
I just clicked it. It doesn't do anyt NO CARRIER
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by korethr 13y ago
This is very cool. I have a pile of dead and old hard drives. I should see if my local hackerspace has something that can connect to JTAG, and if so, see what secrets the old drives contain.
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by korethr 13y ago
I'm confident that that was hyperbole, but the overall idea is not wrong. It takes much less time to install a pre-compiled binary from a .deb or .rpm file than it does to configure and compile source code, even if you have an especial
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by korethr 13y ago
This statement piques my curiosity. Why not?
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by korethr 13y ago
If your system can be configured to have a Compose key, that is an alternative to Alt/AltGr for letters such as `ąśćółężź` No, I didn't copy and paste, I actually did use the Compose key on my keyboard to type them.
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by korethr 13y ago
There is. The word is 'quadrillion'.
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by korethr 13y ago
So what's the threshold for being online-born or offline-born? I was born in the early 80s, but didn't become aware of the existence of a thing called an "Internet" until the mid-late 90s. So I can recall a time when the
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by korethr 13y ago
It is a nice idea, but until such time as the actual text of the bill is available to be read, I'm skeptical. I can hope, however.
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by korethr 13y ago
In every airport I've been through, passengers and carry on baggage are checked before the you get past the checkpoint. Yes, the screening areas are usually roped off, but that's it. It's not terribly difficult for a TSA agen
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by korethr 13y ago
You'd be surprised where those critters can get and the kind of damage they can cause in their search for some place warm to sleep. A single rabbit making its way into a building's transformer can short the transformer, causing a
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by korethr 13y ago
We can only hope that Samsung isn't doing something similar.
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by korethr 13y ago
- Tab groups suck. They're useless and there's no way to disable them once you activate it by mistake. You have to mess up with about:config (see above). Talk about a great UI. I disagree. I find tab groups to be very useful. I
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by korethr 13y ago
I hope you're kidding too. However, the cynic in me suspects that most of the signatories to the petition might already have been identified by the likes of PRISM as potential subversives and put on a secret watch list. This petition i
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by korethr 13y ago
All the inherent goodness or badness of the design or implementation of $OS or $APP is ultimately trumped by the user when it comes to security. It is entirely possible to run Windows without any anti-virus/malware protection or firewall, a

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