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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is more of a problem with the simplistic trust model that is typically used with X.509 and TLS, rather than a problem with StartSSL. The type of security that you are suggesting is similar to opportunistic encryption or decentralized t
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The issue here is not about boycotting StartSSL because of their 'vulture-like' business model, it is about whether StartSSL can be trusted by browsers to actually secure connections. It can be argued that StartSSL is not actually
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Personally, I think it's more like this: Alice's Lemonade Stand charges $0.25 for a cup of lemonade, gives out free refills, and will give you a new cup each time. Bob's Lemonade Stand gives out free lemonade w
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This test tool doesn't seem to work properly on servers using self-signed certificates.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>US does not have anywhere near that many air to air missiles That is true, however the US also possesses a large number of anti-aircraft guns, with plenty of bullets. :-)
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>He had the jacks removed from his skull at Kingston General Hospital in 2010 as they were infecting badly, due to being made of titanium. I was under the impression that titanium was one of the few materials considered to be safe for hu
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is kind of a bad idea because if the source address of the connection is being spoofed, your machine becomes a TCP port 22 proxy to any other host. Not to mention the fact that you expose yourself to denial-of-service attacks.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
If you contact Skype's support, they can actually delete your account directly, but before they do that, they ask you to replace your profile information with gibberish.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The only way to exclude FPGAs from mining a cryptocurrency is to create a problem that requires the average FPGA to completely (not partially) self-reconfigure faster than the average FPGA's configuration time in order to be competitiv
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
IIRC, the delta between two slightly different copies of the same TC container is not the same size as the entire container. I'm actually not sure that TC is designed to be used this way, since it gives away information about what is b
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
With the right equipment it may be feasible for an eavesdropper to try to listen to information from one of the satellite antenna's sidelobes.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I wonder what the false negative rate for this coin will be in vending machines. When the coins are subjected to real-world conditions, will this reduce the coin's ability to authenticate with the vending machine? If the coins are bein
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
However because this new coin is being touted as very secure and not falsifiable, people may not catch on to the fact that you are counterfeiting the coins, because they might just assume that they cannot be counterfeited. So perhaps counte
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I am fairly certain that one of the factors is whether or not you are signed into a Google account.
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I recommend putting your app's API keys into environment variables instead of configuration files for this reason.
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When you choose the side that everyone else ends up choosing as well, you end up profiting from the block reward and also collecting the transaction fees. If you mined the side that ended up being shorter, then your block rewards are part o
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chaitin.com: a service that solves the halting problem
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The method that some manufacturers are using to obtain NKRO is to have the USB keyboard enumerate as several HID keyboard devices at once, and map physical keys to virtual keyboards.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
What you are describing is a form of hypercomputation. It is not yet known whether hypercomputation is even really a "thing." A hypercomputer, if it existed, would be able to solve the halting problem. http://en.wikiped
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
By reading the unit tests and code comments, and comparing them against bits of the actual codebase, you can gain a better understanding of what the previous programmer was thinking and what he was trying to accomplish.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that SSIDs have a maximum length of 32 characters. If your SSID is already 32 characters long, then you can't append "_nomap" to the end of your SSID, since that would be too long.
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What we need are hardware switches which physically disconnect power and data from the camera and microphone.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
"Blue sky" is a weather condition in which there are no clouds in the sky. /sarcasm
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
So now we have meta-exchanges? I wonder if buying up MtGox BTC would work as a strategy to claim damages in a lawsuit. Kind of like buying up low-value debt and then collecting on it.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The image that they show reminds me of the way that the 2D discrete cosine transform works. http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/imgs/512/312/2680596/2680596_pone.0... It looks similar to this: https://up
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is similar to the practice of "hellbanning" but I think it is a more friendly solution. Valve's VAC system is similar because VAC-banned players are still able to play on non-VAC servers (with other cheaters and pirates.
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>buy from a manufacturer that does for Linux what a HP would do for Windows I should hope not - I have still had issues with broken drivers on HP hardware with the included Windows operating system. In fact, Linux seems to have better dr
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Some of these courses are not really that great - sometimes you learn more from the help files and manuals...
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Just wait until they use the fact that you turned off the filter against you.
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That was cringeworthy. You just know that it's going to be "Spring14" next...

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