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by orborde 13y ago
The security audit linked in the article [1] mentions that the researchers submitted several documents via StrongBox, but never got a response. [1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CS.
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by orborde 13y ago
Link?
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You Are Boring(yourmonkeycalled.com)
6 points by orborde 14y ago|1 comments
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by orborde 14y ago
Hat tip to simulate, who brought this up in a comment thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429021
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The Flaw of Averages(stanford.edu)
1 points by orborde 14y ago|1 comments
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by orborde 14y ago
I don't quite understand the purpose here. Is the idea that you can keep rolling your credit card debt forward interest-free indefinitely?
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by orborde 15y ago
> What I would like is to walk the class through implementing a naïve Brainfuck interpreter, optimizing it, then implementing a Brainfuck-to-C compiler and optimize that. Nowadays, I would find that an awesome assignment, but your high
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by orborde 15y ago
This is intensely interesting but completely off topic.
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by orborde 15y ago
SOPA/PIPA tried to do that.
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by orborde 15y ago
Seems like there could be a mobile app that tells drivers the gas prices at stations in their vicinity There is: http://gasbuddy.com/
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by orborde 15y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477968
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by orborde 15y ago
What is the word splitting task mentioned here?
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by orborde 15y ago
I'm on my phone, and the mobile site only has the pictures. I have no idea what this is supposed to be about.
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by orborde 15y ago
That was very good. I couldn't deduce what was going on until the last moment, which is (I assume) exactly the experience of pilots in this situation.
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by orborde 15y ago
> create a separate google voice number for the business and put that on the website, then forward it to the existing biz line Good idea; just make sure to check that Google Voice allows that kind of commercial use before hanging a busi
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by orborde 15y ago
What does NDF stand for?
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by orborde 15y ago
In this particular case, you can think what you want of the people plugging in strange USB sticks, but no amount of calling them idiots will ever solve the problem.
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by orborde 15y ago
> just recently, someone from Johnson Space Center spoke up on a Reddit thread about the space shuttle, when a Redditor asked why the shuttle wasn't left there for additional storage or as an escape vehicle. Of the various reasons that
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by orborde 15y ago
> The corporate culture of exploiting engineers will soon come to an end. That seems exceedingly unlikely. Care to elaborate?
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by orborde 15y ago
The biggest howler I saw was "The SSI unites trained software developers with scientists to help them add new lines to existing codes , allowing them to tackle extra tasks without the programs turning into monsters."
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by orborde 15y ago
NFC? Near-field communication?
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by orborde 15y ago
Ask the grandparent, not the parent. Parent is simply trying to explain what the grandparent was saying.
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by orborde 15y ago
That is disturbingly brilliant.
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by orborde 15y ago
What's the goal of the contest? "Build the most awesome app on our platform"? It's not clear to me reading the post.
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by orborde 15y ago
I can see it in mine.
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by orborde 15y ago
Yes, actually. Thanks for explaining!
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by orborde 15y ago
I went ahead and upvoted the link anyway. I'm hoping that someone who knows what it is will see it on HN and inform the rest of us poor souls.
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by orborde 15y ago
Posting pictures on the internet is a great way to get a lynch mob going. Those people assuming this man stole the laptop can cause real harm as a result, and I'm not convinced that a smug "I never actually said that this man stole my lapto
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by orborde 15y ago
You're right. To me, it's not their use of (effectively) plaintext that is worrisome. It's that the developer characterizes base64 as "encryption", which tells me that they don't even understand the security implications. As an example of a
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by orborde 15y ago
Why is there so much CPU time being spent in system? And why is the rest divided between User and Nice in a single-threaded process?

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