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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It also occurs on specific laptop models that are not sold in the US (where the FCC is not the wireless authority)
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Putting extra lead in the environment increases the risk of people coming into contact with larger amounts of lead. Lead has been shown to cause health problems and birth defects.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Highlights of this article: >In fact, a complete history of Dual_EC_DRBG would begin with the ANSI X9.82 DRBG standardization process, which kicked off in the early 2000s. >You'll also find Dual_EC_DRBG in the international stand
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
How so?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
HP has also been doing this with wireless cards.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It's possible that Apple could whitelist the CPU in the BIOS so that the system does not boot if you replace the CPU with one that isn't "approved."
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This works on things like Christmas ornaments as well...
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The third party's motive could also change over time. You might agree to let them take over your device at one point in time, but in the future, you may want to go back, but find that you cannot.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Sometimes the license is more important than the product.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Re: the last link >In the Kademlia adaption for Bittorrent a peer's address (NodeID) is to be generated randomly, or more appropriate: arbitrarily. Because randomness isn't verifiable, an implementation can advertise itself wit
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
So they have a patch to fix it, but can't apply it because that would void the FIPS certification status, and they won't apply it because they are disabling the use of Dual_EC_DRBG anyway.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It seems to me that some domain-specific computations are better modeled with the ability to return multiple values. For example, digital signal processing - a handy abstraction in DSP is the idea of having "blocks" and simply con
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Their contest had very restrictive parameters if I recall correctly.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Even more hilarious is the fact that SHA-256 doesn't involve floating point operations at all in the first place.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
How is Dogecoin a good if its only feature is the mode by which it is exchanged? Disclaimer: I possess Dogecoins
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The /dev/null of academia?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It seems like there is a 'No-Free-Lunch' tradeoff between bandwidth efficiency and traffic analysis resistance.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Some motherboards have programmable/adjustable VRMs. I wonder if the settings can be changed to mitigate the threat.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is besides the point, but I would just like to point out that Linux does have a kernel argument called "memmap" which can sometimes allow a system to operate normally by excluding a range of bad RAM addresses from being used.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Couldn't you also hash the root of the hash tree for the new appended data with the root of the hash tree for the old torrent? It would be like a hash chain of hash trees, but pointing backward in time.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
To see one method that is used to work around this sort of thing: The folks over at http://www.tlmc.eu/ have been expanding the same 1.2TB collection of files for a while, just by stopping the old torrent, running a Python
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It's better to have slightly ugly if statements than to have silently broken if statements.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I stand corrected
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
HTTPS is fine, it's just all the x509 surrounding it that people are upset about
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Why not upgrade the compiler to detect the algebraic implementation and optimize it to the buffer implementation?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Well, if you think about it, pretty much every modern programming language has been shaped by people who also happen to eat meat. Therefore there will be systemic bias in nearly every programming language toward the "meat-eating"
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Alternatively, perhaps it is demonstrating and concentrating the raw bookkeeping costs of capitalism itself.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Quite ironic.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
You're saying that people should not be allowed to purchase clothing with money from social assistance programs. I'm fairly certain that clothing is a basic human necessity, especially during the winter. The problem is when people
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
So... only approved corporations can operate approved drones? Sounds like a great way to completely monopolize the concept of having flying robots perform useful work.

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