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by randombit 16y ago
_Look at the success of phpBB and Wordpress_ Look at the number of horrific security holes in phpBB and Wordpress. Every other release or so fixes some new flaw.
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by randombit 16y ago
> If he gave information about locations of jews to the Nazis, would we say it was freedom of information? While we've got a time machine handy: If he gave information about the location and plans of Vichy officials to the French resist
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by randombit 16y ago
True, but there is a big difference - the 1040EZ is certainly easier to fill out, but the current convoluted tax laws mean that you could be leaving a substantial amount of money with the government unnecessarily. When I was first starting
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by randombit 16y ago
One difficulty here, if the idea is to identify policies that should be adopted country-wide, is confounding factors. Say you ban cash, and also introduce a 1984-style police state, and lastly pay for education and health care for all citiz
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by randombit 16y ago
No, the Washington Post is the sane DC newspaper. The Washington Times is owned by prophet/messiah Sun Myung Moon.
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by randombit 16y ago
Actually, he seems to have a firm position: "Innovation has been impeded in recent years by a patent system that too often grants low-quality patents with overly broad claims, which have been used by opportunists to extort royalty fees from
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by randombit 16y ago
From Usenix 2010. Abstract: Desktop computers are often compromised by the inter action of untrusted data and buggy software. To address this problem, we present Apiary, a system that transparently contains application faults while retainin
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Apiary: Fast and Simple Application Fault Containment for Linux [pdf](ncl.cs.columbia.edu)
2 points by randombit 16y ago|1 comments
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by randombit 16y ago
You can buy credit default swaps in T-bills, so if the US defaulted you could make a nice return - if you think you can find a counterparty in the form of a large insurance company or bank who would actually survive a US default, which seem
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by randombit 16y ago
Treasury rates are almost absurdly low right now, so we can clearly agree that there is very little perception of risk that the US will default. That's why it makes a great example of this phenomenon; people will look back and see all the (
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by randombit 16y ago
I'm confused by the 'likely to create an event in the next 30 years' part - either it's unlikely or it's likely. There are events that are quite likely, but with a low _perception_ of risk. Oil spills happen all the time, it's just been a w
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by randombit 16y ago
Probably obvious, but a lot of Aphex Twin and Orbital. I especially recommend Aphex's 'Surfing on Sine Waves' (done under the nym Polygon Window). There is a guy who goes by Lichens who does some beautiful stuff - here is one from him http
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by randombit 16y ago
All of the machine descriptions are written in Lisp. See gcc/config/i386.md for an example.
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by randombit 16y ago
> At first blush, I dismissed it for violating 3.3.1 Even if it it did violate the clause: Apple changed it once, they can change it again...
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by randombit 16y ago
> Also he is a public figure and a CEO you cannot expect the CEO to start ranting on random crap which could potentially poorly reflect on his company. Ie, don't say anything on Facebook, ever, that you wouldn't mind your bosses, client
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by randombit 16y ago
Certainly not restricted entirely to sciences - my Mom got her BS around 1969; when she applied to law school, the secretary actually threw out her application because "Honey, if you want to meet lawyers [ie, to marry], just hang out in the
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by randombit 16y ago
> When I say large, I mean about 6 gigs or so. Because your company's source tree is probably that large. GCC's SVN repo is north of 17 gigs (ref - http://gcc.gnu.org/rsync.html ) and yet neither svn nor git nor hg (when imported into
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The First Church of Grady Booch: "It is a superclass of the people"(bluesock.org)
2 points by randombit 16y ago|1 comments
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by randombit 16y ago
What I am finding really absurd about this whole thing is, the photocopier companies knew about this (obviously), and a number actually had services/software available to wipe the drives - but failed utterly in actually telling anyone who m
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by randombit 16y ago
Recently some cities and certain addresses have been actually moving, as well. There were a couple of months where it decided my house was actually about 5 miles from where it is, which made giving directions more complicated. (I had to spe
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LShift: What has happened to the segment registers?(lshift.net)
6 points by randombit 17y ago|0 comments
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by randombit 17y ago
"At the MIT Media Lab in April 2008..." Specifically, on April 1st.
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by randombit 17y ago
I don't use Buzz, so the problems mentioned in the article aren't an issue for me, but I was getting frustrated with Google Reader for plain usability reasons, and also have unrelated privacy concerns with it, in the sense that at some poin
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by randombit 17y ago
The term "open source intelligence" predates open source (software) as a name, or even as a concept.
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by randombit 17y ago
It's worth considering that industrial index he cites includes some things that most people might not consider manufacturing per-se, including construction, mining, and utilities. According to http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Cur
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by randombit 17y ago
It was pulled even before the FBI request. The original pull text said something along the lines of "This page has been removed in light of the events in Texas earlier today". Later it was changed to mention the FBI request and gave the lin
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by randombit 17y ago
This is why when asked I just tell people I'm a hobo. Usually shuts down any followup questions.
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Building a crypto system that will last for 100 years(testgrid.allmydata.org)
1 points by randombit 17y ago|0 comments
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by randombit 17y ago
So your objection here actually has nothing to do with HMAC at all, but with doing password hashing without iterations?
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by randombit 17y ago
PBKDF2 uses HMAC. What's the issue here? A PRF seems the right tool for this particular problem, and HMAC happens to be a PRF that has well understood properties.

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