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by manarth 10y ago
Have they stopped? ;-)
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by manarth 10y ago
And not just small ISPs, but major ISPs, such as BT (with 32% of the broadband market-share in the UK).
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by manarth 10y ago
Rainbow tables are attacks against secure algorithms. MD5 is recognised as an insecure algorithm: given a known hash, there are multiple possible passwords that would resolve to the same hash, therefore appearing to be the correct passwor
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by manarth 10y ago
Not necessarily, because of collisions. The password "foo" may encrypt to the hash "12345". If an attacker were to discover that the hash is "12345", they would look for a password that hashes to "12345&qu
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by manarth 10y ago
You can only rehash if you have the plaintext password There are techniques to rehash, even without the plain-text password, and without the user having to login to trigger a rehash. Drupal 7 used such a technique for upgrades from
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by manarth 10y ago
> "if you can understand it, you should act like you do" For an unanticipated event, it's often less "if you can understand it" , than "if you believe you can correctly guess the intention of an am
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by manarth 10y ago
The .zip spec is flawed, but… I've never had an issue with extracting or using a .zip file I'd suggest this is thanks to most software following (to some extent) the robustness principal: be conservative in what you do,
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by manarth 10y ago
The iPhone was released in June 2007. At that point, the iPod models were Classic (click-wheel), Mini (click-wheel), Nano (click-wheel), and Shuffle (screenless). The first iPod Touch wasn't until September 2007, 3 months after the fir
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by manarth 10y ago
> the info needed to transfer money to an account is the exact > same info needed to silently transfer money from an account If I wanted to transfer money to an account, would I need the username/password/credent
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by manarth 10y ago
This sounds like perfect is the enemy of good.
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by manarth 10y ago
We've tried this before: - "Fukushima robot stranded after stalling inside reactor" [1] - "the robot could remain ambulatory in the radiation field for only 50 minutes, and in fact the robot's lower portion was no l
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by manarth 10y ago
> Nuclear power is only cheap as the nation states serve as insurers EDF, who are preparing to construct Hinkley Point's planned nuclear power station, have been guaranteed a minimum strike price of £92.50/MWh. The mean
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by manarth 10y ago
Without knowledge of the finer points of copyright law (IANAL), is this (the final effect) even copyrightable?
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by manarth 10y ago
> If the goal of the parent is "get child to grandmas" > while the child's goal is "I want to continue to watch cartoons" > who's goals are more important? At what point/age is it OK t
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by manarth 10y ago
> the boyfriend is well within his rights to unilaterally break off the relationship. > But if he broached the issue with his girlfriend by saying > "Would you rather be just friends or simply not see each other any m
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by manarth 10y ago
So much of this sounds like "control". > "it's BF Skinner's Operant Conditioning" > "Choice increases the likelihood of compliance" > "There are a whole bunch of things that happ
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by manarth 10y ago
> even in the UK averaging 110 mph is quite common The UK provides open-data reports about traffic flow for different road types [1]. The UK speed limit for motorways is 70mph. 46% of traffic exceed that (in free-flow traffic con
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by manarth 10y ago
In the UK, taxi rates are regionally regulated, with local councils dictating the maximum fare (per mile, per minute waiting in traffic, etc). I thought this was fairly common (in first-world countries). As a tourist flying into Sweden, it
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by manarth 10y ago
But that's like submitting a link to Adobe's most recent Photoshop update and then tell people "you can download Photoshop for free by starting your Bittorent client". I would offer a different analogy: "Her
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by manarth 10y ago
Is it 10%? 90%? Would be good to know. It would be good to know, and it would be very good to know whilst the effect is still reversible . It would be a great shame to discover that our fears about man-made climate change were cor
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by manarth 10y ago
> If one partner earns more and pays a disproportionate amount of the downpayment and mortgage on a house that both partners live in, is the house really only 1/2 theirs legally? Ethically? That's a thoughtful question,
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by manarth 10y ago
> now he has to pay child-support and alimony and 1/2 their house As a Brit, I'm not all that familiar with the term "alimony", but the dictionary definition I've read says "a husband's or wife
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by manarth 10y ago
that I will be middle-aged, penniless Is there any reason to believe a divorce settlement would not divide your assets reasonably equally/fairly?
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by manarth 10y ago
Thank you, and that's a really interesting question. There are really two concepts in there: the idea of "sea level", and the idea of "altitude", which we generally understand to be height above or below sea-level,
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by manarth 10y ago
There are two known ways of calculating altitude on Mars: firstly by atmospheric pressure, with an arbitrary value of 6.105mb chosen (based on readings from Voyager). In 2001, a new definition was chosen, based around an ellipsoid (the Areo
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by manarth 10y ago
And the intended landing site is at an altitude of -250m referenced to the Martian datum.
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by manarth 10y ago
Even a negative altitude isn't necessarily incorrect, if the "altitude" is based on a mean ground level. This has been niggling at me, so I had to check :-) As Mars lacks water, the idea of a "zero datum"
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by manarth 10y ago
Their system design accepted data from a number of sensors, and allowed for the possibility of sensor error. In a hypothetical scenario, if one of those altitude sensors used barometric pressure, then a piece of grit or ice could have block
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by manarth 10y ago
It's one of the many peculiarities of XML: the "less-than" bracket is not allowed in text (because it could indicate the opening of a new XML tag), but the "greater-than" bracket does not need encoding when it'
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by manarth 10y ago
Increase the terror further by adding Jsonx to the mix: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9H2Y_7.5.0/com....

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