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13y ago
> I'm not sure where all the Gnome 3 negativity came from Gnome 3.0 "stable" was like an alpha product and it's hard to have the (ex) users forget a negative experience. Disclosure: I'm sympathetic with today
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13y ago
Is there a gconf/dconf switch?
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13y ago
TechEmpower run some really interesting benchmarks www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ JVM frameworks are indeed performing really well
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13y ago
Where are the sources? I can't find a link to them
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13y ago
And yet this thread is about the Python open source version, missing in the list
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13y ago
That's why I quoted "configuration hassle"
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13y ago
Many developers (most? I suppose there are more developers on Linux than OSX) would find that "configuration hassle" a feature.
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13y ago
What do you use then as "official" reference for Javascript?
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13y ago
Yes, with firefox 23 I pass from 6 MIPS to 90 (which I suppose means that there is some bug without asm.js, since it shouldn't improve that much). This work is giving a new mean to "impressive"
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riquito
13y ago
You meant Windows Millenium (ME)
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13y ago
The complexity is 2^n/2, but we don't know (afaik) if the quantum computer is also way faster for a single computation than standard computers. In that case, the more the better
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13y ago
A blind assertion? He told you which file to read in the sources. I suppose that if you say that randomization in Linux is broken reading a single .c file should'nt be a problem, and it would give all the evidence you will ever need.
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13y ago
They could release a new binary that does register encryption keys, and you would never know it. They could even lie (not that I mean they do it, but if you need security, it can't be from a closed source application).
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13y ago
You can also fake the "from" address in an e-mail, and send it from somewhere in the world via vpn
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13y ago
Nobody that I know buys 5-liter tins of oil (I'm italian) and I wouldn't even know where to buy them. The most common format is 1 liter, followed by 0.75
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13y ago
I'm italian and when you buy extra-vergin olive oil (btw I think I never buyed in my lifetime non extra-vergin olive oil) you can read where the olives come from (either 100% italian, mixed with european olives, extraeuropean). It'
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13y ago
ESR 17.0.7 dated 25 June 2013. How exploiting an old bug on an old version became a "0 day" is beyond me
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riquito
13y ago
c'mon, "designers threw it in there"? don't you think it was a hard thought choice by skilled engineers?
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13y ago
I suppose he meant that he can't trust a product of someone who can't event run his website, since the software may be unstable. Security is not involved. For a new product the website should give to the visitors the feel that you
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13y ago
http://xkcd.com/833/
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13y ago
Attacking the person instead of his opinion is worse.
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13y ago
Both MD5 and the algorithm are weak. When you can crunch 180 billions of MD5 hashes per second [1] a long password will not save you [1] http://www.zdnet.com/25-gpus-devour-password-hashes-at-up-to...
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13y ago
Dictionary attacks against salted passwords hashed with something like bcrypt take way more time, weak password or not (and yet a weak password is by definition weak)
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13y ago
It's certainly an option, but you must use a client like Thunderbird to do it, loosing the ubiquity of the web interface. Maybe when window.crypto will be standardized and with a good browser extension we will have security and easy of
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13y ago
You completely skipped the answer about Native Messaging API, is worrysome. And RyanZAG nailed it, the chromium blog is full of references to Google-only apis
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13y ago
It amazes me every time that I use it. You did a fantastic job. Thank you
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13y ago
Maybe I misinterpreted. 1) you connect to server A 2) you want to encrypt sensitive informations. You send them to (localhost) B 3) you receive encrypted data 4) you use them through server A Aren't you sending sensitive informations t
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13y ago
You can't do cryptography in Javascript (yet). There is no point in encrypting client side if 1) the server provided the cryptographic libraries (so they may be compromised) 2) every kind of javascript code external to the crypto libra
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13y ago
All the computers in the world wouldn't be able to brute force the strongest crypto algorithms in far more than billions of years. Are you implying that the NSA has access to other planets?
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13y ago
It's common practice to use a chat system inside a company, and instead of people shouting or constantly walking to their peers everyone write from their pc instead of visit the others (for most of the little requests).
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