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by saulrh 15y ago
It's not going to be any one thing that's going to kill flash. Instead, it's going to be a range of dedicated tools that each do one thing better than the Frankensteinian mess that is Flash. Flash video is already being replaced by HTML5 vi
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by saulrh 15y ago
Entirely possible; I'm writing these before bed after getting home from work. I just have a feeling that if someone tried to convert 2% of the world's USD to rubles in a few seconds without an equivalent transfer in the opposite direction e
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by saulrh 15y ago
Of course MtGox isn't much bigger than $500k per ten minutes. Given how many bitcoins there are and how much each is worth, that kind of volume would be like every cent in the United States changing hands every couple of hours.
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by saulrh 15y ago
If I'm doing my math right, $500k is something like 2% of the bitcoin economy. Imagine what would happen to wall street if someone cashed out a few trillion dollars' worth of stock at once.
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by saulrh 15y ago
You probably can't figure out which books he has on his shelf, especially if he realizes this approach and consciously conceals them and suppresses the information.
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by saulrh 15y ago
For me, the most interesting paragraph was at the very end: Not many, if any, of the people I know from back then made it big in tech. The ones that stayed in security disappeared, working for people I’m too scared to ask about.
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by saulrh 15y ago
An article on Wired gets read and forgotten. An article about passwords in the NYT gets dismissed as "newfangled kids". Ten million credit cards stolen - one of which is yours - gets remembered. Having your FB account manually and malicio
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by saulrh 15y ago
The difference is that LulzSec managed to get their word on every tech blog in the world. They also managed to get their basic message - nothing is safe, and here's proof - onto nearly every single major news site in existence, and they mad
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by saulrh 15y ago
People have been trying for years to get the point across that we need to have better security. None of them have managed it . If anything, security is getting worse because cracking tools are becoming more sophisticated. Someone had to ge
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by saulrh 15y ago
They can voice it perfectly well. The problem is that they can't be heard in the mass media without some large event to draw attention. The last month has been their big event, and now they have the attention they needed. They had a good pl
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by saulrh 15y ago
Might want to change the title to something like "LulzSec actually had a point after all." They do, too, an even better one than I expected. Not only are they making a point about how terrible security is ("Do you think every hacker announc
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by saulrh 15y ago
Normal radioactive decay. Check out RTGs, which generate electricity without any criticality whatsoever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
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by saulrh 15y ago
Vaguely. Their press releases are funnier, though, and everybody's reactions are hilarious. "Our security flaws wouldn't matter if you didn't go around pointing them out!"
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by saulrh 15y ago
Their data-dump attacks have been by SQLi, I think; they generally publish the URL of the vulnerable input in their release. They're using other means to root machines, though. My guess is that anybody that took the right classes in college
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by saulrh 15y ago
Zero, because bitcoins are processed in six-minute or ten-minute blocks.
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by saulrh 15y ago
So you never take them out yourself. Use bitcoins to sell something to a friend or someone on the internet, use bitcoins to buy something.
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by saulrh 15y ago
The Anon on the blog said it best: "Erm. This is what scripting languages like Python are for. Until we have reasonable natural language parsers, things aren't going to get much simpler."
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by saulrh 15y ago
Honestly, my guess is that LulzSec is a bunch of crackers that have decided to do something about the public perception of information security. It's kind of a stretch (understatement), but it lines up. They attack indiscriminately, and in
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by saulrh 15y ago
we grabbed all their source code I'm not going to pull down that torrent, but if someone does, can you tell me exactly what they mean by this? Did they just pirate and release the source for a bunch of major video games? Did they gr
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by saulrh 15y ago
This is an extension on another paper from a few years ago where they described the split architecture; this paper describes some optimizations for the hardware and the compiler they use with it. The new optimizations increase performance b
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by saulrh 15y ago
The rotors are fixed. My guess with this is that each fan has a blade running forward and backward underneath it that can be rotated by a computer (thrust vectoring: [1]). You can exert a torque on the vehicle by pushing some of the thrust
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by saulrh 15y ago
Here's my opinion: * This is almost certainly not the first time these porn sites have been cracked. I would not be surprised if a duplicate of this list can be had for under thirty dollars on the appropriate IRC channel. * These are porn s
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by saulrh 15y ago
Explicitly encouraging people to use the passwords is kind of a dick move, but... using your military email to sign up for a porn site? I don't know what the rules are about using your official email to sign up for random internet services,
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by saulrh 15y ago
I know exactly how you feel; that's how I've learned most of the really cool stuff so far. I just load the formalities into headspace, go do something else, and have a random epiphany anywhere between two minutes and two days later.
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by saulrh 15y ago
True, but this is also several orders of magnitude simpler than a modern combat aircraft. It has vastly simpler dynamics, it doesn't have to deal with control surfaces, it doesn't have to be stable with irregular patches of supersonic flow
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by saulrh 15y ago
Also from the ground effect page: Wingtip vortices are a major cause of induced drag, which refers to any drag created as a side effect of generating lift. Less drag -> more efficiency -> less power required to maintain a
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by saulrh 15y ago
I don't think that ducted fans get a lot of wing in ground effect, given that ducts already prevent the formation of wingtip vortices.
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by saulrh 15y ago
And, since this is already being steered by a computer-controlled vectored thrust system, giving it more fans won't make it any more stable in the first place. This system is plenty actuated.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Most high-performance combat aircraft these days are rather aerodynamically unstable and only stay in the air because their computers are constantly correcting, and they do it all with thirty-year-old technology. Plus, remember those quadro
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by saulrh 15y ago
On the one hand, do want. On the other hand, if I remember correctly the only people that survived the Endor speeder bike chase were Jedi. On the other other hand, maybe this would finally fix the "drunk driving" problem, one way or another

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