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by olympus 11y ago
> don't use weak moduli. By this do you mean don't use 1024 bit keys? Would using 2048 bit (or larger) mean that the NSA wouldn't be able to buy a computer that could do the computation within a year? Why don't we al
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by olympus 11y ago
This recent publication illustrates a problem that we have trying to keep our communications secure. If we all use a single "strong" prime number with our crypto then the NSA has a huge incentive to pre-compute results from that
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by olympus 11y ago
A science writer starts off his article about science writing. He describes them being "surprised" about a meta-analysis attempting to reproduce scientific results in a "fuzzy" scientific field (my definition of fuzzy s
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by olympus 11y ago
I've gotta chime in and express my support for aabajian. It really is this simple. Everyone else that says it isn't and that we aren't accounting for the burn rate of different calories (carb vs fat vs protien) are just mak
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by olympus 11y ago
The song is by Ronald Jenkees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2aH4XLbto If you like that song, you should definitely check out his other songs. He's pretty good.
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by olympus 11y ago
For a lot cheaper you can use an esp8266 and a ws2812 LED strip. The esp8266 is <$5 and includes wifi and a microcontroller that can be programmed in JavaScript, Lua, or C. Various ws2812 forms (strips, rings, matrices) are available f
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by olympus 11y ago
While I agree with the opinion, what makes pg the person to quote here? There should be a little filter before we all just latch on to what pg says. He has great experience with technology and startups but how does that make it something
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by olympus 11y ago
On a slightly related note, here's a story from back when the EEPROMs for cars were on DIP chips and slightly more hackable: The old OBD I GM cars had a feature called "highway mode" which would lean out your fuel mixture whe
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by olympus 11y ago
Trolling can be as simple as rick rolling someone or telling people that "Alt+F4" will make your game run faster. This is so far past trolling that there should be a better descriptor for it. Inciting terrorist activities is cri
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by olympus 11y ago
Not that you asked, but here are some ways I think you could go about releasing this to the public and make some money off of it (only one method uses Kickstarter): 1. You could do a Kickstarter where you sold a kit that you sourced with h
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by olympus 11y ago
This is common in the pentesting world. If you can get physical access to a USB port for just a few seconds you can enter the keystrokes to open up a port (or reverse SSH) to the outside world. With only three different procedures (one fo
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by olympus 11y ago
But according to Betteridge's law we should answer "no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by olympus 11y ago
Tobii bundles some (Windows only) integration software with their EyeX. It allows you to click on whatever you are looking at with the press of an action button (left ctrl key for me), along with a few other features (eye tracking the alt-
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by olympus 11y ago
I don't think this is stupid, but probably won't happen any time soon. A project to correlate what humans look at to objects in the real world is probably possible, but would be a significant effort to get it to work reliably and
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by olympus 11y ago
I have a Tobii EyeX and it has the option to track a single eye. You would basically need to set it to track just your right eye, which is a piece of cake in the config (on Windows at least).
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by olympus 11y ago
I saw this and immediately thought of an old story where General Motors tried to sell the Chevy Nova in South America. It hardly sold at all in South America even though it was a hugely popular car in North America. The reason turned out
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by olympus 11y ago
Agreed. It looks a little like a squatter Echo. Cylindrical, ring of light at the top. But I suppose Amazon will avoid any legal action since it's pretty tough to win a court case with the argument "they copied my cylinder.&quo
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by olympus 11y ago
They maybe could, but that probably wouldn't stop the NSA from gaining access through other means. More importantly, they probably wouldn't. All those companies you previously listed have been identified in documents leaked by Ed
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by olympus 11y ago
Is this really a surprise to anyone? We've known that the N.S.A. has gotten (or coerced) support from communications companies in the past, and AT&T in particular (the article mentions it going back as far as 2003 https:/&#x
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by olympus 11y ago
Arc is on the list, but considering its creator (PG) and the founder of YCombinator and HN (also PG) then maybe not so surprising. What's the criteria for a language being "obscure?" I consider Erlang an obscure language but
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by olympus 11y ago
To answer your question, some of the higher level skills may translate, but it isn't like a direct mapping of skills (i.e., a person who is good at TIG welding will almost definitely be good at soldering with little effort - it's
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by olympus 11y ago
I don't think this is quite what was meant by the "everything is known" comment. I may not know what Carlsen is going to do for his next move, but I could certainly come up with a list of every possible move. The rules of c
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by olympus 11y ago
Really bummed that the team came to this conclusion. I am a backer and found them at CES 2015 since they said they would be there with a demo. They had screencasting working and controlled it with an app on their phone. It was a little b
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by olympus 11y ago
While the signed vs unsigned int question doesn't concern me much[1], I really appreciate this post because I discovered the One Page CPU. The author nerd-sniped me three paragraphs in. Now I want to try to implement this on an FPGA.
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by olympus 11y ago
Excellent point. The FSF can't really recommend anything but strictly free distros and laptops. If they did they'd be compromising their principles as an organization. But the recommendations leave a person wanting. Only one b
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by olympus 11y ago
Excellent point. I believe that the ADC samples at 28.8 Msps and then decimates to the rate requested by the computer (max ~3.2 Msps). So theoretically it could be doing ~3 bits better, if everything was implemented properly and those ext
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by olympus 11y ago
No, the cheap rtl dongles are receive only because they are re-purposed TV receivers, and there is no companion transmitter. If you want to transmit, I HIGHLY suggest you look into ham radio. It's cheap to get a license, under $50 to
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by olympus 11y ago
> Now I understand the price range for these cheap sticks is just in the order of a few tenths at maximum, but maybe there is a chance anyone has investigated a bit more on the available choices? Thanks to the popularity of this family o
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by olympus 11y ago
The author mentions that he used "A 2 metre bit of wire jammed in the screwhole at the base of the tiny antenna" to try and get better reception. While the signal he is receiving is in the 2-meter band, a monopole antenna works b
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by olympus 11y ago
With the popularity of the RasPi, everyone is using the name. This product has specifically called out a pin-compatible header with the RasPi, so I think putting Pi in the name is okay. They are drawing attention to the fact that it can u

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