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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Didn't Bruce Schneier publish a provably secure scheme in which multiple encryption algorithms could be combined such that a weakness in any single one of them was not sufficient to reduce the security of the message?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
If you're a US citizen with an invention, and the US government wants to take your invention for their own exclusive purposes, they are explicitly allowed to do so. Even though the patent is still yours, you cannot reveal any details s
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
/b/ was almost entirely ponies at one point - an odd example of too much signal and not enough noise. To solve this, moot set up /mlp/, a containment board designed to redirect the rapid influx of pony images that was sp
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
That's too bad, because those little Wifi SD cards are actually pretty awesome for microcontroller projects, since you can talk to them over a standard SPI bus, and they're fairly inexpensive for what they do. Hopefully Transcend
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
There are some social groups in which everyone uses BBM as the de facto messaging service. Some carriers offer plans with unlimited BBM messaging but limited (or expensive) data and/or SMS. Additionally, peer pressure and indifference
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I was under the impression that "fake courage" was in fact stupidity in disguise.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I wonder if by "the shape of the laser" they actually mean the transverse mode of the laser.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I've heard that you can get PulseAudio to connect to JACK, which in turn connects to ALSA. The idea here is that latency-sensitive applications that use routing will connect to JACK, while applications that connect to PulseAudio (like
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Have you tried this? sudo amdconfig --set-pcs-val=MCIL,DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan,0
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The circuit in question could also be enabled or disabled by using a high-energy laser pulse to blow out a tiny fuse on the ICs as they sit on the wafer, before sending the wafer out to be cut into individual ICs which are then subsequently
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Another problem with PulseAudio is with latency and routing, which is why a lot of professional audio programs on Linux use JACK instead of PulseAudio. It's sometimes very hard to get JACK to play nice with PulseAudio, and this is exac
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Excellent and very detailed explanation of the exploit. I wish more exploits were documented like this.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
A 64 bit CPU is possibly faster in terms of integer manipulation. Given a 32 bit CPU and equivalent 64 bit version of the same CPU, with the same pipeline lengths, a 64 bit math operation takes up fewer pipeline stages on the 64 bit CPU (si
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Due to the deflation, wouldn't the poor get richer in the exact same proportion?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Are you saying that my post was sarcastic? That's strange, because I wasn't being sarcastic - my post was entirely based in fact. Tinfoil, or aluminum foil, is a cheap, commonly available, easily malleable conductor that is actual
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Not all antistatic bags seem to block RF. You might want to double check yours, or consider upgrading to tinfoil.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Not that I agree with insider trading, but preventing it through legislative means strikes me as a "band-aid" solution.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
That's strange, I find Java to be more unreadable than Scala.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Airplane mode more or less disables the phone's transmitters, but not necessarily the receivers. Even if the baseband processor is told to shut down the radio, it can still be listening for a remote backdoor message, and subsequently e
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It's too bad that Google decided that he didn't deserve compensation for reporting this security vulnerability.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I think the idea here is to guard against crashes and security violations, not whether software is able to accomplish some goal or not.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with input validation. The real problem here is twofold: Validation rules that make no sense, and what action is being taken by the system when input fails validation. Instead of just rejecting the form
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The nice thing about HTML5/JS games is that if someone hears about your game on a website or through word-of-mouth, they can immediately start playing it just by clicking a link. Not much additional thinking is required other than &quo
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I don't understand why this would be the case: 3. It recently came to my attention that this microcode update might forbid unsupported (by Intel) overclocking on 4th gen Core "K" processors installed on motherboards t
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
s/out/out of/ :-)
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It is entirely possible that you might not want your account details associated with the fact that you are interested in knowing about Facebook's transparency.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It's really useful when you have to paste many things repeatedly in a way that has some spatial ordering. But most of the time I dislike middle-click paste (and highlight-to-copy) because I will occasionally copy and paste things accid
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I do not believe that this is what he is trying to say. He does not mean "use plaintext" when he says "don't salt hashes." He means "use a key derivation function."
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I believe that this is what projects like Bitmessage are trying to solve. There are a few ways to go about this. One is to give everyone your message. To me, this seems inefficient, since not everyone wants your message. Another option is t
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The advantage of this method of programming is that complex parallel processing tasks can be reduced to a directed acyclic graph from information sources, through filters, and into information sinks. You can then take this graph and either

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