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by magila 10y ago
uTorrent has implemented BEP44 (storing data in the DHT) for years, as has libtorrent. Those two clients combined make up a large majority of the bittorrent DHT so BEP44 support is quite reliable now.
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by magila 10y ago
Not really surprising given the device's age, but still disappointing given the presumably rather large number of Nexus 5 still in use. The bigger story may be the inability to come up with a compelling reason for N5 users to upgrade,
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by magila 10y ago
One important aspect DJB ignores is power efficiency. ChaCha achieves its high speed by using the CPU's vector units, which consume huge amounts of power when running at peak load. Dedicated AES-GCM hardware can achieve the same perfor
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by magila 10y ago
Gorging on cheap credit works great until it doesn't, then you're screwed. Even debt on a 30 year timeline has to be repaid eventually. Pushing the limits of how much credit is available leaves a country with no margin left to wea
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by magila 10y ago
On the other hand, autoimmune diseases have been increasing in prevalence over the last century. While these diseases are rarely immediately fatal, in severe cases they can have a major impact on quality of life. Onset often occurs in early
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by magila 10y ago
As I understand it, this price list is similar to the list prices you see for large commercial aircraft. That is, these prices have only a vague relation to the actual prices customers end up paying. With deals as large and complex as these
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by magila 11y ago
The different versions of SSH and TLS came about because the protocols' semantics needed to be revised in non-backwards compatible ways to resolve security issues. This has nothing to do with the format of the protocol. I would remind
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by magila 11y ago
> That's a feature, not a bug. No, it's definitely a bug. You can have extensiblity without ambiguity, see the examples below... > Name a binary application level protocol that has achieved adoption as wide as HTTP TLS, SSH,
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by magila 11y ago
Apple surely disables JTAG ports on shipping devices, this has been standard practice on security critical hardware for years.
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by magila 11y ago
While the old binary protocol has its deficiencies, they could have been addressed with relatively minor changes. The plus side with the old protocol is that the message format itself is very simple to generate and parse. Now I have to drag
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by magila 11y ago
A state actor who can sniff traffic can just as easily serve a secret order to the email server operator to compel them to hand over the data. In fact this is already SOP for governments when dealing with communications which are encrypted
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by magila 11y ago
`rm -rf /` was never safe, even if reinstalling the system. If it worked for you then you were just lucky. In the context doing a reinstall you need to specify --one-file-system, but really you should just reformat the partition, it&#x
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by magila 11y ago
The majority of Norway's sovereign wealth is derived from oil exports, it does not scale with population.
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by magila 11y ago
Single-threaded performance hit a wall around 2011, especially if you take overclocking into account. The difference between an i7-2600K (2011) and an i7-6700K (2015), both at max overclock, is at most about 25% and often much less dependin
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by magila 11y ago
SATA doesn't give you direct access to the DMA engine, the host decides where the data from the drive goes. If anything USB is probably more exploitable.
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by magila 11y ago
Worked for 6 years writing embedded C++, can confirm. The industry is dominated by stodgy old devs who still think C++ means C with classes.
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by magila 11y ago
Key pinning is not a panacea either, it just makes browser/OS vendors another authority to be compromised and subverted. While a healthy dose of cynicism is appropriate with-respect-to government control of TLDs, in the western world t
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by magila 11y ago
> DNSSEC secures server-to-server DNS lookups, not the client-to-server lookups that your browser generates. That is just an implementation detail is it not? My understanding is that there is nothing stopping a user (or more likely, the
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by magila 11y ago
There were two different issues at play: 1. A system hang due an assertion in journald spamming kmsg. 2. The question of whether systemd should be logging to kmsg or doing anything based on the "debug" kernel command line argument
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by magila 11y ago
It's worth noting that this is a case of Linus flying off the handle based on incomplete information. It was latter revealed that the bug which caused this whole spat on LKML had already been fixed in systemd, Kay Sievers just failed t
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by magila 11y ago
Microsoft only needed to go through SCO to hide their involvement in the case. If they hadn't cared about a possible DoJ investigation MS could have simply bought SCO and brought the suit themselves. Also, SCO's main lawsuit was a
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by magila 11y ago
It appears they are relying on a combination of not documenting their ranking algorithm and updating it periodically to prevent spammers from flooding the system with bogus "attention" signals. I'll leave determining the like
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by magila 11y ago
None of what you said is wrong, but it also doesn't refute the central point: current WEC regulations are very much designed to make the LMP1 hybrid formula the premiere class. While there is a non-hybrid LMP1 formula, it is a distinct
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by magila 11y ago
All of the radiation figures in the article are in mSv per year, not per hour.
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by magila 11y ago
The thing you have to remember about LMGTE is that, like most modern GT series, it is heavily governed by Balance of Performance regulations. Cars are handicapped so that there is relative parity between all of the models competing. This me
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by magila 11y ago
Bittorrent over uTP already effectively uses a three way handshake because the connection initiator is required to send the BT handshake first. The uTP vulnerabilities in the paper were caused by bugs in uTorrent and libtorrent's imple
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by magila 11y ago
There's BEP 44 which enables use of the bittorrent DHT for non-bittorrent applications. http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html
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by magila 11y ago
That is the line of thinking which got Greece into this mess in the first place. Running a deficit on the expectation of ever increasing GDP works great until it doesn't, then you're fucked.
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by magila 11y ago
Are you a salesman by any chance?
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by magila 11y ago
Heads and media are like silicon chips in that no two units are "exactly" the same. Yield in terms of usable capacity varies from one unit to the next just like clock rate for CPUs. When you buy an HDD it has been validated to ope

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