oakwhiz

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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I thought it was fine-granule sugar mixed with boric acid.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>The directive is an instruction to completely destroy the archives of Department T, which monitors political parties, public organizations and journalists, as well as Department K, which is meant to fight corruption but in reality provi
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I'm surprised there has not been any mention of Gitian, the build system used by Bitcoin to perform exactly deterministic builds. The purpose of this is to enable multiple developers to prove that they are all signing the same binary.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I thought that this was more about the practice of hosting virtual machines inside other virtual machines in order to perform memory deduplication.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
You should not enable deduplication unless you have a lot of RAM to spare. Isn't the rule something like 6GB per 1TB of storage? The exact amount is not mentioned in the article.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
That depends on the situation. There are certainly some pieces of software for which I feel that it is more important that it merely functions well at some task, and closed-source software is acceptable for that purpose. There are other sit
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is better than having to read the docs every time I want to send a few coins...
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Well, let's see: The increase in latency and decrease in throughput of a TCP connection from a single (improbable) occurance of a corrupted packet on a modern LAN is negligible. Even if these audiophiles are streaming raw 192 kHz 32-bi
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
A listing of "apps that your friends are using" would be a start.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
What you are describing almost sounds like an opportunity to use a homomorphic cryptosystem.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Diversity is good because all these networks will be testing out different ideas. The best ideas will be self-evident, and they will propagate by means of popularity and inclusion in future networks.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I have the feeling that "intellectual property" and piracy are equally evil.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Luckily, there are filesystems like ZFS to [help] counter the myriad of bizarre failure modes in today's storage devices...
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
On one hand, this might actually improve the state of CentOS. But on the other hand, it's a bit of a conflict of interest for Red Hat to be maintaining the free (as in freedom) version. The real question is, how compatible is the freem
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I believe IBM produced a high resolution monitor which was a single panel, but acted as if it were 4 smaller displays, complete with 4 separate display input cables. Something similar could technically be done to re-use lower-res, but highe
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>All other pools in the past have purposefully gimped their hashrate in these situations. This has even occurred with altcoins (which are often widely believed to be pump-and-dump schemes) where a pool gets too close to 51% and voluntari
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I'm doing my part by moving my altcoin mining capacity over to Bitcoin pools. Not much, but every little bit reduces ghash.io's share.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Except that the decentralized bookkeeping that Bitcoin does is a lot more efficient than the bookkeeping done by financial institutions, and it is more difficult to falsify on top of that. So you could say that Bitcoin is more efficient in
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Someone else can register it on your behalf, but I'm fairly sure that's as close as you can really get to anonymous. Of course if you do bad things with that domain, people are going to go after that person first.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>People can understand concepts without having the words to express them, and if need be, can always find new ways to express them in words, coining new terms if necessary. You can find some very interesting examples of this from Chinese
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Agreed, the slides were unreadable. A simple text document would have sufficed...
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The game's actual page is here http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/comment-page-2/... and if you have the Unity browser plugin installed you can play it here: http://www.gamesbyangeli
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Now we just need a Fedoracoin paper wallet...
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The products where users seem to preferentially install native apps are services like Dropbox, or video games, where there is value added by not using the "website version." Something that would be very revealing is to investigate
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It's a fundamental problem with browser crypto. The attack surface of a crypto routine running in a webpage is really large. There are a lot of places where information could leak in or out, such as timing attacks. If an XSS attack on
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>The best way is to package everything into a separate (os-level) app. I agree with this on the premise of threats like XSS, however there is a human aspect of security which might be overlooked. The problem with apps is that everything
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The attacker could get physical access at the end of the hardware's life when the hardware is decommissioned and either thrown out, recycled, or sold.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>Reality indicates that most of their restrictions are about protecting users who don't know better.... you're not going to "accidentally" replace your CPU. You might not accidentally replace your CPU, but you might t
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>Unless the disk supports RZAT, the only way you can guarantee that the disk won't return old data in response to a read command is to write zeroes over that block. While this is true (the disk will never respond with old data once
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Would you rather comply with a cease-and-desist notice or preemptively countersue?

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