mSparks

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by mSparks 10y ago
->This is a good idea, but it is obvious it needs quantum cryptography to succeed not a million miles from ->I think you'd still only have a solution which is workable against a very limited set of adversaries - namely, the ones
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by mSparks 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge
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by mSparks 10y ago
while this isnt in any way a scientific observation, it does feel that the quality of elsevier publications has been falling recently. it seems it was 2013 the last time they were shouting about rising impact factors. losing all of germany
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by mSparks 10y ago
pcmark and passmark measure a vast range of cpu performance use cases. currently, amd does terribly in pretty much every measure. absolute performance, performance per $, throughput. absolutely anything that matters. There are some promoted
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by mSparks 10y ago
but thats the strawman. "This is too limited because it doesnt help people taking the camera" when the whole problem has nothing to do with taking the camera and everything to do with what happens afterwards. the equivelent to &qu
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by mSparks 10y ago
but you seem to be talking about situations where concealed camera equipment is more suitable, or even just your run of the mill phone. bit strawman? what they are asking for isn't technically difficult or even that expensive to develo
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by mSparks 10y ago
did you rtfa? the problem these guys are facing is not the encounter. its that the images and video can incriminate and cause repercussions for people not at the scene but stored on the camera. such as those guys with you ak47s you are comp
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by mSparks 10y ago
yeah, the great and the good of film and photography giving you their backing means nothing these days. at least that is probably what trump has been telling himself at night since everyone turned him down to perform at his inauguration sp
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by mSparks 10y ago
thats why it should be a technical impossibility to recover them in the field. i think it would even do to have it done "offline" - i.e. any image/audio/video older than a few minutes gets encrypted and can only be decry
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by mSparks 10y ago
you've seriously never heard of pcmark or passmark? noob alert :p
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by mSparks 10y ago
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html top of the range $200 amd fx 9590 less performance than a $133 intel e5 2650 and neither are worth buying today.
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by mSparks 10y ago
hmmm. I used to only buy AMD. Im not exactly sure where they are up to now (probably about 8 years if not more since I touched them) but i definately remember the bulldozer hype and subsequent flop. lies about the number of cores and other
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by mSparks 10y ago
yes and no. Ive noticed the economist has a habit of playing policy games. In that case they publish nonsense to further certain policy aims. But often its well researched unbiased material. not that easy to tell the difference. but infinat
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by mSparks 10y ago
back in the day, using a bbs was grounds for a wiretap. (The fact bbs were full of phreakers had absolutely nothing to do with it im sure....) so they sit, they listen, then do what exactly? Someone has to read through the material, deciphe
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by mSparks 10y ago
popcorn time software is something completely different. this sounds more like an attempt to taint the popcorn time name rather than real malware.
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by mSparks 10y ago
its easy to see both the upside and downside of this though. its also only really a problem for americans. since the us government is paying to ensure other countries governments cant interfer with free communication. its a matter of opinio
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by mSparks 10y ago
The benefit of 15k SAS drives is 250MBs per drive actual throughput, even more because they are RAID arrays - for 3c a GB, they are HIGHER performance than most SSD drives on the market. Sticking "enterprise" on the box will not m
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by mSparks 10y ago
It seems "a bit pissy and inexperienced" that I would want to see actual performance figures before making an enterprise purchasing decision? 42c per gig is VERY expensive, more than 10 times the price of 15k SAS at volume. SSDs -
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by mSparks 10y ago
in gerneral enterprise is not using ssds. so you kinda missed the point. and when the hardware they plug into is a sas interface, they arent going to be buying them either. seriously, getting a bit tired of the immaturity and shilly nonsens
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by mSparks 10y ago
I was commenting less "consumer v enterprise" and more "consumer vs consumer that pretends they are enterprise". Enterprise servers are mostly sas interfaces. These are sata, which is mostly home and soho plus a few star
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by mSparks 10y ago
Not sure i buy into that. Sounds a lot like sales talk. Be interesting to see how they compare with these guys: http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experim... and, afaik, for enterprise, sas hdd s
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by mSparks 10y ago
I should have been more specific. Radio signals below 50 kHz are capable of penetrating ocean depths to approximately 200 metres, the longer the wavelength, the deeper. The British, German, Indian, Russian, Swedish, United States [3] and po
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by mSparks 10y ago
Yeah, we still have a few critical components that serialise to xml rather than json, although they have mostly been replaced. What's new this time is the pricing model. It used to be we could run what we wanted on our own hardware on
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by mSparks 10y ago
All those attacks are "theoretical". As opposed to actually having been usefull in the wild - FUD (heartbleed otoh.....). padding -> irrelevent to an RSA public key, everyone has to know the exact modulus and product, even the
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by mSparks 10y ago
only one encryption scheme works against "willful targeted attacks" - the one time pad (and even that has potential for going wrong) All the others are about making the effort required greater than the will to get there in favor o
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by mSparks 10y ago
padding attacks are only really related to encrypting data not sharing the product of two very large primes. You clearly havent got the faintest idea what you are talking about. Rather than putting the rest of us at risk by putting zero val
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by mSparks 10y ago
dia creates xml almost identical in nature to this json spec. and if you need json, plenty of xml to json convertors knocking around.
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by mSparks 10y ago
since im not in the market for downvoting. ill just say. eh. RSA is a simple formula. takes a bit of fiddling and skill to get BigIntegers working. but anyone who passed highschool algebra could roll their own. in fact many high schools eve
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by mSparks 10y ago
18 years late. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_(software)
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by mSparks 10y ago
i have a project dating back around maybe ten or 15 years that could read the text format (xml iirc) of dia drawings and execute them. the main problems included being actually very hard to understand visually, very ugly, and subject to all

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