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by reaperhulk 14y ago
It's not particularly random. Apple supported the iPad 1, iPhone, and iPhone 3G with 2 major software updates + all minors within those major releases. That pattern is now breaking because Apple has continued to sell the iPad 2 and iPhone 3
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
There's only one way to test the efficacy of these proposed solutions: SimCity.
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The (Potential) Danger of Trivial Code Examples(langui.sh)
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Ruby Elliptic Curve Certificates(langui.sh)
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
It's always interesting seeing authors weigh in on this topic. My favorite take is from Stross, who frequently runs "near/medium/far future" thought experiments on his blog. Here's what he had to say about the singularity back in 2011: htt
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
Java update process on my 10.8 Mac: 1) Open Java Control Panel, see it says I have an update. Click "OK". 2) Reopen Java Control Panel because OK closes the window. This time click "Update Now" 3) After downloading 50MB another installer op
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
I'm unsure of the value of benchmarks of hash function performance when you aren't defining what you need the hash function for. Python's built-in hash function is not designed to do the same things that the SHA family is.
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
It is unquestionably difficult, but the idea here is to improve the experience for that smaller percentage while not hindering the majority. Depending on your site, you can do this using CSS media queries so the browser can determine what a
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
Double click the cert, then click the disclosure triangle next to trust. You can then select never trust for a variety of different purposes. Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/c8Tx
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
This is not technically true. X509 contains a provision called name constraints which provides this exact feature, but since no client has ever implemented it in practice you are correct. (There are probably a few clients out there implemen
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
Oxygen bottles are not nearly the problem they used to be due to programs in the late 90s and on where companies paid Sherpas (and other climbers) for bringing empties back off the mountain. There's also been a concerted effort to pick up t
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
Absolutely. r509 (which this tutorial uses) is fundamentally a wrapper around the OpenSSL bindings of Ruby. It doesn't do anything that you can't do without it; it just tries to present certificate generation/revocation/management in a simp
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
It's nice that they've enabled this on their servers, but it comes with some caveats at the moment. First, not all browsers support it. For example, no version of Firefox supports it at this time (see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug
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by reaperhulk 14y ago
Ctrl-shift-eject (not the most intuitive combo, but here you go)