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by mbq 14y ago
To some extent every protocol which does not transfer message and payload size on a fixed offset in header can be called "crazy" as being vulnerable to all the problems with live parsing, terminators and unpredictable memory requirements.
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by mbq 14y ago
I was rather thinking about an over-cautious (or over-curious) cloud provider that would more or less accidentally make a persistent copy of TPB machine's RAM. This is obviously quite an unlikely scenario, but still possible.
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by mbq 14y ago
Aren't the cloud providers capable of simply hibernating a VM on their machine to get VM's RAM contents and salvage all the config and keys/passwords/network topology info they want from this dump?
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by mbq 14y ago
As I wrote before, Poland didn't exist at the time -- it was occupied by Russians trying hard to wipe or nationality for good, also by attenuating Polish science and culture. Thus many Poles have fled for freedom of not being oppressed for
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by mbq 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Curie_Sk%C5%82odowsk...
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by mbq 14y ago
She studied on the underground university not because she was female but because Poland was under Russian occupation; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University
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by mbq 14y ago
Please note that we were mostly under Russian or German occupation during the last 200 years, so it is not our fault many bright units have been kicked or run abroad. Skłodowska was rejected by Russians, so blame them for intolerance.
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by mbq 14y ago
Maria Skłodowska-Curie, to be exact. She moved to France and married there, but never rejected her Polish origins. In fact she supported Polish independence, founded a scientific institute in Warsaw and named one of the elements she discove
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by mbq 14y ago
Looks like all the bad features of Java and JS combined.
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by mbq 14y ago
Well yeah, this is an exaggeration; things like brute force hash reversing can take kilobytes. Yet you must admit that such problems are in minority even in material science. Also note that some Linux distros in GUI mode can take like half
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by mbq 14y ago
You missed significant language here -- R ( http://www.r-project.org/ ). Its array model is way better than Matlab, has all functional goodies on board, excellent expressiveness, can flawlessly represent real data (there are built-in missin
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by mbq 14y ago
Sorry, but you can't do any serious computation with 1GB of RAM; do it 149$ but with 4GB minimum.
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by mbq 14y ago
Yeah; internal SMTP to SMTP traffic gives no guarantees at all. The only way is to use S-MIME or PGP.
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by mbq 14y ago
Pseudoskeuomorphism, easy.
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by mbq 14y ago
Not if you are doing dissipation, as in this case.
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by mbq 14y ago
What is wrong? Mainly the fact that those have nothing to do with skeuomorphism, it is only pointless bloat. Those designs have nothing to do with real world metaphors, they just shout "I can use cool textures too!" And it is not new; the f
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by mbq 14y ago
For those who don't like 3rd parties looking into mail and only have IMAP access to mail server, there is something called imapfilter. Basically, it acts as a headless e-mail client with Lua interface.
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by mbq 14y ago
I know it is educational and it does not matter in presence of dissipation, but it would be nice to mention that Euler method is not only an approximation but also terribly inaccurate one. It won't produce any stable oscillations or orbits
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by mbq 14y ago
I used to as well, but I discovered that VNC completely beats X forwarding in terms of responsiveness, reliability, speed, clipboard management and OpenGL usability. Modern apps simply draw so much so complex things that the recipe is heavi
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by mbq 14y ago
Think of a java applet in a browser catching all your keyboard input for instance; the general idea is that secure system must guarantee that user input goes where intended and only there.
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by mbq 14y ago
Agree; moreover Linux is only a kernel, so you'll always find a distribution with aims compatible to what you want.
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by mbq 14y ago
There are nice terminals for Windows and you can install gnuwin32 & win-bash to get almost complete UNIX command-line experience without Cygwin burden.
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by mbq 14y ago
One more option is Barada PAM module+Android app. http://barada.sourceforge.net/ It is basically a HOTP implementation, where the token is protected by PIN (with PIN being a missing part of the shared secret stored on the token) and the o
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by mbq 14y ago
As I understand, this particular point is about quantum-aware molecular dynamics of the whole organism; but I agree it is a mainly a buzzword collection.
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by mbq 14y ago
Precisely they used capacitive touch sensor (used on touchpads mostly at the time) instead of resistive standard used on PDAs; in practical terms this was a switch from notebook-like experience (which invites writing and checking small boxe
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by mbq 14y ago
I've seen this before... Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IvanAnywhere
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by mbq 14y ago
Remember that you can arbitrarily tweak contrast with monitor and ambient light -- I'm reading tons of science papers which are always black-on-white and few minutes spent on setup made reading a pleasure. IMO the real problem is that the d
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Barada - one-time passwords for PAM with Android app(barada.sourceforge.net)
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by mbq 14y ago
So you browse "private" bookmarks of your users on a daily basis...
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by mbq 14y ago
Note that the usually the OOP system heavily promotes short-lived memory allocations and the standard library is build around it.

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