runningdogx

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by runningdogx 15y ago
It's not just about steady state memory footprint. It's about the whole stack, how apache and mod_php and mysql (if you use it) interact. Excessive traffic means a spike in simultaneously served connections, which means a spike in apache t
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by runningdogx 15y ago
site:twitter.com steve wozniak Not all famous people will have a twitter account, but if they do, it'll probably be in the top few results. Those people who want to use pseudonyms, and have less visibility, can do that too. I do not
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The article starts off on the wrong foot. "Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography." Wrong. The way child porn is defined, I do not necessarily abhor it. One 17-year-old in a legal relationship [in case anyone out there think
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The MS X6 lets you move the numpad to the other side of the keyboard (or possibly leave it detached, but for mouse access those are equivalent options). I don't have one, and it's reviewed less favorably than the X4 which doesn't have the
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by runningdogx 15y ago
"It's not unusual in school to hear this religion of science put another way, science is the beautiful application of reason and logic that slowly and inexorably moves from ignorance to truth. "Bullshit." At this point, I stopped taking y
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by runningdogx 15y ago
There are two objectives for captchas: 1. Prevent prefab'd spam bots from being able to spam your site. Almost anything, including trivial questions and Sony's "captcha", works for this. Some bots will randomly try values for unknown fiel
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Did you ask the router provider to cite the law requiring them to keep logs?
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by runningdogx 15y ago
This is the most technically competent charging document I've ever read. I guess there must have been some hackers on the grand jury. Paragraph 35 & 36: which "protected computer" on MIT's network did he access? Certainly they're not
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by runningdogx 15y ago
What about shifting to a teaching model where students review material and watch lectures (MIT OCW, Kahn, or even the professor's own recorded lectures) out of class, and do actual assignments (problem sets, essays) in class -- in an atmosp
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Indeed. Quaker chewy granola is identified (by price -- $0.15) as a good food, which may be true if you're out hiking, but as part of an urban lifestyle, granola bars are a glycemic disaster. By contrast, someone who eats an otherwise mode
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by runningdogx 15y ago
I object to the site's notion that there is a "best" intro book in many areas, but I'd like to see listed on the site: Griffiths' _Introduction to Quantum Mechanics_ is quite commonly used, even though it's a bit calculation-heavy. Beyond
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by runningdogx 15y ago
What if your passphrase to your truecrypt container (let's say it contains, for the purpose of this thought experiment, child pornography) is the true statement: "I am [for this thought experiment] a child pornography collector." Wouldn't i
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The truth you can tell is only a fraction of a larger truth encompassing the entire universe of facts for a case the government may be investigating. Even if your portion of that truth is completely free of any wrongdoing, when combined
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The legal apparatus you identify is based on the 5th amendment, interpreted through the lens of mythological, historical ideas of how "thought" is different from information recorded external to the brain. If you think things are confusing
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The article is wrong about t-mobile. Quoting directly from their site (shop->plans->mobile broadband) (and note how all of them are described as "overage free") "No overages! (After 10 GB, data speeds are slowed until the next bill
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by runningdogx 15y ago
I believe you got snookered by the aide. The crime is conditioned on $2500 of income to the infringer, _or_ $2500 loss to the copyright holder, _or_ a $5000 or more licensing fee for said content. It is not clear, if those damage requireme
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by runningdogx 15y ago
More churn in Congress would decrease the value of any one congressperson to private industry, and would also reduce the tendency of members of Congress to amass large numbers of markers that they call in later. It would also change the ent
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The new Chrome hack forces embeddable content hosting sites (e.g. imageshack) to choose between supporting https, or giving up the analytics data they gain from being embedded on so many pages. It also forces sites with embedded content to
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Is it more of an ugly hack than forcing arbitrary sites to https based on a list that's partially hard-coded, partially user-specified, and partially added through an HSTS header in which case the entry also has a limited lifespan? Ugly hac
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by runningdogx 15y ago
In an https page, why not rewrite http resources to https by default? Then it could omit the content if there is a cert error or if there is no ssl server there at all. I'm thinking of a use case of a typical not-ssl-mandatory online forum
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Sadly, other financial services companies do not seem to understand, either. Etrade's password system requires 6 to 32 characters with at least one number according to the password change instructions. They don't mention punctuation, but i
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Using molecule structure to store bits is a lot harder than it might seem. For instance, I distinctly recall, in the early 90's, reading about some organic molecule that changed structure when hit with particular wavelengths of light. It w
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by runningdogx 15y ago
What about trusted hardware? Without that, your somewhat trusted compiler cannot be trusted, even if it's something like tcc whose code you might realistically be able to formally verify by yourself. There are at least two approaches, but
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The alarms would start going off again when empty boxes reached the precision scales. Behold, an $8mil broken-fan detector.
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by runningdogx 15y ago
So non-obvious (by the PTO's standards, or even by some wise person's standards) mathematics should be patentable?
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by runningdogx 15y ago
If you're implying that Newegg or any public-facing authentication system could be implemented with a non-exposed password vault, then I don't see how. If user passwords are encrypted with symmetric encryption, either the application must h
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Passwords that can be decrypted reliably are isomorphic to passwords stored in plaintext. That is very undesirable. Even assuming they are encrypted with a strong key, anyone with access to the decryption key and the database can triviall
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by runningdogx 15y ago
commit 442b9635, increasing the initial tcp window (initcwnd) to 10(segments), first landed somewhere around 2.6.39-rc2. I consider that a significant thing for servers. The initial receive window was increased first, several months ago.
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by runningdogx 15y ago
That would prevent de-duplication in the non-shared case, which as I understand it is important to Dropbox for increasing storage efficiency. I suspect that is the primary reason why they don't have an option to "store encryption key local
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Minification still offers a substantial savings. The following file size stats are from jquery 1.6.0 just now pulled from google's urls: Uncompressed (normal:minified) 232651:90518 Gzip -6 (normal:minified) 66778:31610 Gzip -1 (normal:mini

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