mSparks

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by mSparks 10y ago
tls is "state of the art" for a public server to talk to unknown users. but basically totally broken by design. http://www.interworx.com/community/is-ssl-tls-broken/ further tls:sender,recipient and serv
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by mSparks 10y ago
considering the video uses only a match. definately nothing to do with the wax. you get an electrical arc inside the flame then it spits out balls of plasma. if you time it just right so it doesnt hit the sides the plasma can last for quite
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by mSparks 10y ago
Im surprised this theory took them so long. making ball lightening in the kitchen is one of my childhood memories. light a candle and stick it in the microwave for a few seconds. the tip of the burning candle will spit out ball lightening t
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by mSparks 10y ago
Both distributed databases based on erlang (most of which I guess run on erjang anyway) not distributed systems such as boinc. The OP is talking about the system part i.e. Not merely using a distributed system such as erlang, couch/mon
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by mSparks 10y ago
system. not database. something like boinc for example. i.e. something doing decent math rather than just reading and writing chunks of data. since erlang is up to 100 times slower than java for calculation tasks. thats 100 times more expen
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by mSparks 10y ago
care to point me to a robust in production distributed system written in one of those other languages?
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by mSparks 10y ago
frequency analysis on a simple substitution type cypher should never fail. it was close. but the trick is the frequencies on short messages only give you probabilities that a certain mapping is true. but those probabilities are enough to sh
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by mSparks 10y ago
These treatments are truly awesome. The pharmaceutical companies now making them.... not so sure. It makes me generally very angry that nearly all the research has been conducted using charitable donations and a large volume of open source
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by mSparks 10y ago
pretty much the route i went. review when asked. promote sci hub at every opportunity. in fact sci hub is reaching the point of reliability now that university libraries could loose journal access and no one would notice or complain. since
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by mSparks 10y ago
the deeper and deeper ive gotten into breaking crypto. the more and more ive come to the conclusion that saying is positively poisen. "dont try and do it all on your own but trust no one else to do it for you" probably better. An
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by mSparks 10y ago
openSSL dates from a time when security was mostly of low importance. (not that things have really changed that much. iot I'm looking at you). shock horror it shows. i find it really quite painful that no one seems to be taking this as
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by mSparks 10y ago
Dont see what's wrong with "keep on course". The point is you dont need to waste fuel changing the orientation when the engines can only power/accelerate you "forward". Im struck by two things. Firstly the gyro
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by mSparks 10y ago
also not without its problems. but yes. something like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold outside of the US. seems plausible.
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by mSparks 10y ago
am i the only one to walk away from this story thinking there must be a better way to handle large transactions than banks and cryptocurrencies.
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by mSparks 10y ago
Because using google is much too complicated? random sample: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/07/france-funding... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/arming-syrian-rebels
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by mSparks 10y ago
No doubt. But all by a tiny group of people that do not actually employ anyone in any significant numbers. Even ARM - one of the biggest tech companies in the UK only employs about 4000 people. And yes. Hell hole. Not a complete cess pit. B
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by mSparks 10y ago
And the worst bit of that, that is pretty much the direction (finance) I nearly went when I reassessed my options.... "Funny cause' it's true" springs to mind.
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by mSparks 10y ago
ever declining. As someone who stopped his electronic engineering education in no small part because all the engineering jobs ran away to places like south korea in the 80s and 90s. Now the guarantee that the uk will join ttip since uk elit
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by mSparks 10y ago
meh, I tend to skip thinking about the rational numbers when I move onto this hardcore theory stuff :p There are two ways of constructing a number line from -inf to +inf The first, is that "nothing exists" to the left of -inf or t
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by mSparks 10y ago
because to get 0.5 for the sum of 1-1+1-1+.... requires real numbers. I never restricted it to integers. The point of the construct is it applies to a circle of arbitrary/unknown length 14,12.2, 500,000 million billion point 6 light ye
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by mSparks 10y ago
Nonesense. Since when did 1.2 modulo 2 equal -0.8
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by mSparks 10y ago
the definitions are identical to a number line + is a move to the right - is a move to the left The point is, in "the universe" most of "infinity" are actually finite circles that you can travel along "infinitely&qu
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by mSparks 10y ago
id say thats a fail. if i have a circle of circumference 5 the sum of 1+2 is equal to both 3 and -2.
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by mSparks 10y ago
not checked this myself. but. my assumption is that this also applies when defining the numberline as a finite circle. for example on a circle of circumferance 15, 14 is also equal to -1, 13 is equal to -2 etc. which says the sum of 1+2+3..
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by mSparks 10y ago
thatz a much better way of hitting the home run on If you have nothing to lose you have nothing to hide If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. my moto from the pre snowden/opm hack days. quite nice that it doesnt get me
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by mSparks 10y ago
its great that we are getting access to so many tiny sweet tiny boards. just in case - pi zero: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/ i was thinking more feature set than threat model. Namely Secure at res
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by mSparks 10y ago
just thinking out loud. definately not disagreeing with your hardware choice. a good idea for a pi zero?
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by mSparks 10y ago
No more sensible than starting with Japansese format and force the Americans to adapt to their locale when reading them.... That'll make the world a better place wouldn't it?.....
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by mSparks 10y ago
->The roads traveled least are the nation's deadliest roads Two factors for that tho. Firstly is bad road markings. Which computers will be infinately better at handling. But more importantly is the response time of emergency servic
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by mSparks 10y ago
Will Guccifer be citing this case in his defense for hacking Hillary's emails on her home server?

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