mSparks

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   by mSparks 10y ago

   Not sure i agree. You may be more likely to have an "accident" elsewhere. But im reasonably sure that you are much more likely to die at highway speeds. This is one of the great things about tesla logging everything tho. The data
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   1 encrypted 512bit block is always more secure than 12 512bit encrypted blocks (average compression ratio). Larger size is always a bad thing. Problem with compress is the protocol headers give you a known part at the start of every message
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   well. My first comment would be. If your encryption algorithm produces output that can be compressed. Your encryption algorithm is broken. As for compress. My understanding is that the inscurity has nothing much to do with timing, and every
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   I wonder if they manage to track my cell phone more accurately than my cell phone manages to track itself. My phone rarely seems to be sure what country it is in, let alone which town. Simply lost count of the number of times I've been
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   Then how did eve install malware on it to control the system fans?
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   and by "rf" I mean this stuff: https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   Just done it from the office. I'm definitely "not" in the ocean. http://i64.tinypic.com/28ujms7.png
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   seems to be something of a waste of time. even if you could transmit anything usefull at 900 bits per hour. you still cant install it on the machine in the first place. and even if you can get equipment close enough to listen. its not going
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   by mSparks 10y ago

   this puts me in one of about 6 locations in the world each with an accuracy of several thousand kilometers. probably because i suffer from quite unpleasant packet loss. but not convinced it works.
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    And for the ignorant among you that think I'm joking: http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    If you think that just because all their editors are on CIA payroll, I think you have to much faith in CIA security.
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    So aside from calling finalize how are we supposed to destroy them? Because the number of cases where finalize doesn't destroy them or calling finalize on a closed prepared statement (supposed to be a harmless noop) crashing it complet
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    I use it very successfully. In combination with sqlcipher and an application layer that ensures everything happens "just so" All I said is the databases are temperamental. If you do anything "unexpected" it breaks. Numer
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Fine. But in practice. By time malloc returns null. It's blown up anything on the system that doesn't recover gracefully. possibly the file system. Which is possibly how the database becomes corrupt. And I see plenty of reported e
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Yeah. There's that. But there are also numerous memory leaks that have to be carefully managed. Opening and closing the database regularly is usually enough. And if you do manage to let it run long enough to use all the system ram, tha
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    I didn't say "excessive" I said "prescriptive". i.e. of the nature (pseudocode): testCommand1(); testCommand2(); testCommand3(); testCommand4(); testCommand5(); testCommand6(); rather than: for 1 to 1000 testComman
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Meh, like I said, big fan of SQLite. But any use of it in a "serious" application will undoubtably run into: Error: database disk image is malformed On a fairly regular basis. Google gives:About 57,400 results So I'm definite
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Big fan of sqlite. But have to say I'm surprised to see how much testing it gets. While it's great when it works sqlite databases are definitely temperamental. In fact those test suites being so large is possibly part of the probl
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Having had no idea what made thiel hate gawker so much, suddenly it all becomes clear. Holding the rich to account. How very non politically correct and unjournalistic of them.
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Sometimes I click on those purchased keywords by mistake. Then get presented with the inevitable "could not connect to server" message because they use tracking servers which are blocked at the router level. Main problem with adv
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    AFGHANISTAN: Annual Opium Poppy Survey 2001 [pdf](unodc.org)

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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Although it's funny watching you guys fight. Isn't the basic problem how much money the US government has spent improving the supply of heroin from Afghanistan after the taliban completely destroyed it during their 2001 rise to po
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    I read this as "when PE buys your computer" made more sense the second time I read it.
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    IMHO. Scientific output (and credibility of the paper) comes from the number of authors citing the work..
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    I do something similar with the stuff for http://lifecode.co Couple of terrabytes processing easy but yeah limited to only a few queries per day. A lot of the effort goes into caching so disk reads and swap file use is minimised
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    While I don't really agree with the OP, I totally understand the sentiment. It's really an acute issue between legal copyright and the new reality of modern computing. It used to be that copyright sustained our industries. Pottery
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    It's a simple posit. The security agencies (generally) don't breach systems to protect you from physical harm. They breach systems to steal the intellectual property of anyone and everyone for use by the elites that provide their
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    no, its not like breaking into anything. Its more like walking past your neighbors house and finding the person who is supposed to be looking after it has left all the windows and doors open and a shopping list of things to steal pinned to
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Im using it in the sense of "Relatively small userbase.", whereby a "less obscure platform" is any potential gaming platform with a larger userbase.
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    by mSparks 10y ago

    Yeah, I'm seeing that too. Google doesn't seem able to find anything any more. Just seems to pick from a few bigger sites with word hits, then order those results by the other words. Used to be you could put a + in front of the wo