nathanaldensr

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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
This has been my life's torment over the past several weeks. There really didn't seem to be a reasonably-priced option that "just worked" except the MacBook Pro. Combined with Apple Care, it means I won't have to go
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
I recommend strongly against buying a Dell, specifically the M4800. I ordered two for my business recently. I chose the Intel AC 7260 network adapter, which turns out to have all kinds of problems connecting reliably to 802.11n networks (th
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
I think Los Angeles--and much of southern California--need to worry about preserving their water supply--especially the deep aquifers that take millenia to recharge--before worrying about anything else. They need to fix this problem now, be
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
It seems to me that if you're running a vulnerable high-value server, the only option for you as an IT admin is to completely wipe the host hard drive and install everything from scratch--and even that may not be enough. Remote kernel
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
You may be describing what the board /should/ be, or what it set out to be, but judging by the threads actually being upvoted by users, you are incorrect. We've seen everything from tech pieces to startup culture threads to g
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
Isn't some cynicism necessary to balance out herd-like behavior? Doesn't cynicism help to temper what may otherwise become a rah-rah echo chamber? To me, this policy seems like a way to squash otherwise-potentially-valid criticism
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
Excellent explanation. I'll further this by adding that, in my use of the excellent PBKDF2.NET library, I generate a salt with the same number of bits that the hashing algorithm generates (e.g., 256-bit salt for SHA256). I can't r
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
That's true, but once you discover the salt pattern used, then you can crack a specific password and look for the resultant hash in the database. The idea is to use a random salt per password to close this attack vector. That way, even
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
I think this is why one is supposed to use random salts per password. That way, you can't use the successfully-guessed password's hash to assume other passwords with the same hash represent the same clear-text password.
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
Are we now at a point with headline writing where the word "This" is going to be inserted into a headline, regardless of whether it sounds silly or not, just because that's what everyone else is doing?
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
Apparently, time.com reinvited browser scrolling, too. Automatic tab-close for me.
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
This article would be much more useful if the author discussed alternatives. As it stands, he's not really telling us anything most serious API developers don't already know. We choose technologies like Amazon SQS because it provi
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
What does this have to do with the topic of this thread?
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
They will just keep trying and trying and trying until finally they get what they want. Different language, different bills, different Congresses...it doesn't seem to matter.
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
I wonder how Beijing compares to 18th and 19th century England or the United States. Seems almost like they are going through their own capitalist industrial revolution, judging by these pictures and accounts.
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
A very good observation, and one that I've been making to my friends and family. Where else to put the money sloshing around in the system except technology and automation? It almost doesn't matter what the idea is, only that it &
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
"Keep your head out of the past?" What a rediculous rebuttal. Parent poster is well within his or her rights to feel that way. All the evidence we've been presented with in the past few years should lead everyone to the same
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
This isn't necessarily true. Like so many things, perception is reality. People oftentimes do things out of fear--in this case, fear that their old workflow isn't the same--rather than rational conclusion.
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
Headline is definitely a bit click-baity. "Hmm, how can we write a story about how bright lights mess up your body clock, but not make it as boring or mundane? I know, we'll say e-books are the culprit!"
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by nathanaldensr 12y ago
In this case, I think it's wise to sacrifice compatibility with a 13-year-old operating system in order to improve transport security. Still, it would be nice to have some kind of a negotiated fallback option where a site can offer an