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by shenberg 11y ago
Don't set a constant poison, the attacker will just overwrite the poison with A5s. Generate a random byte on start-up.
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by shenberg 11y ago
What's common to Symbian, QNX, car-infotainment and in-flight entertainment (system's I've interacted with)? In all those cases (QNX->blackberry) they're systems with awful input lag from my personal experience. I als
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by shenberg 11y ago
I've asked people who work in these fields those same questions. Answers were along the lines of "someone else will do it if I don't" or "it's less violent than the actual violence the government would use othe
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by shenberg 12y ago
Logic is very much flawed in the sense that you can't necessarily model reality using logic, and good paradoxes point out examples (for example look at the torturous "solutions" to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by shenberg 12y ago
Your math is all wrong: if at a given moment in time 30% of inmates are serving life sentences, it really doesn't mean 30% of prison sentences are life sentences! Look at the population of inmates in a year ago and now, and the subset
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by shenberg 13y ago
'course it does - valium doesn't feel like being drunk.
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by shenberg 13y ago
Alcohol actually doesn't bind to the same site as benzodiazepines, which is why valium doesn't make you feel drunk. Something that mimics alcohol's binding behavior is in fact new.
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by shenberg 13y ago
They're probably referring to latency, which is very low (30ns). It still is disingenuous, but that's marketing.
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by shenberg 13y ago
TCP really isn't a virtual circuit protocol in the same sense that X.25 PLP is a virtual circuit protocol: In VC protocols you say something like "network, I want to talk to address X," establish a channel (getting a channel
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by shenberg 13y ago
Small nit to pick: IMSI + IMEI aren't enough to clone your phone - the SIM card stores a shared secret used for challenge-response authentication with the network, and the device (theoretically) can't read the secret, only send th
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by shenberg 13y ago
How is leaking info about the US hacking Chinese mobile operators related to US citizens? http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266821/us-hacks-chin...
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by shenberg 13y ago
Carmack was talking from experience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume#Depth_fail
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by shenberg 14y ago
This equally true for a bunch of YC companies, like AirBnB and Dropbox, where the technical challenge is in dealing with scaling, but the actual innovation is in the product.
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Pi and the Mandelbrot Set(home.comcast.net)
3 points by shenberg 14y ago|0 comments
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by shenberg 14y ago
The reason this is done is mostly to avoid attaching social stigma to the dead person's family, and for the country to give the parents something, because, you know, their son is dead. There was a story about a soldier who had deserted, and
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by shenberg 14y ago
My understanding is he obtained unclassified information that he shouldn't have been able to obtain (probably privacy concerns). The prosecution is because the government doesn't like to be challenged (see how the US government is suing ill
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by shenberg 14y ago
You need to get an active channel with the network, which means to tell a cell that you want to talk to it, have it allocate resources for you, get the SMS and send an ACK. It's true that if you already have a data channel active (e.g. you'
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by shenberg 14y ago
The most expensive resource for a cellular provider is RF spectrum. You use that up when you receive a call or text too, so it might actually make more sense to charge for both, but consumers are so used to only paying for outgoing calls th
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Real-time x86 windows game emulated on ARM Android tablet(blog.winulator.com)
6 points by shenberg 14y ago|0 comments
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by shenberg 14y ago
Triple-DES is actually reasonably secure, but it's not well-suited for software implementations.
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by shenberg 14y ago
The problem zero userbase - it was supposed to be launched with an ASUS media-center PC with some other cool tech as the WAVI Xtion (WAVI is an existing product they make that does uncompressed 1080p streaming). Unfortunately, that just did
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by shenberg 14y ago
As an interesting aside, blood type is actually considered to be a predictor of a person's personality, temperament, etc in Japan - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
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by shenberg 14y ago
I'll bite on the Symbian claim. Saying that the iPhone is not leaps and bounds better than anything else in the market at the time is disingenuous - if you used both the N95's browser (with the crummy joystick-controlled mouse) and the iPho
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by shenberg 14y ago
decimal fractions can't necessarily be represented by a finite amount of bits (just like the fraction 1/3 is 0.333333...). Computers work with finite amounts of bits, so you're losing some accuracy. Other representation methods could be use
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Monitor mode for 802.11 on Android devices(bcmon.blogspot.co.il)
8 points by shenberg 14y ago|1 comments
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by shenberg 14y ago
The data wouldn't get much bigger - a 2048-bit RSA key requires the output to be at least a 256-byte block, roughly 3 times as much data as the current watermark has, not some insane amount of data. The watermark is repeated many many times
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by shenberg 14y ago
The continuous/analog question is interesting enough that there was a physics essay contest on the matter - the winners are at http://fqxi.org/community/essay/winners/2011.1 and they were great reads even for a layman such as myself.
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by shenberg 14y ago
In http://cls.ucla.edu/doc/Enclothed_cognition.pdf one of the experiments shows that people performed better in a Stroop task _wearing lab coats_ compared to their own clothes.
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by shenberg 14y ago
Most web-sites don't have ContentID - there are companies that scrape the web to find potentially infringing content and file DMCA complaints on content-owners' behalf. It's much cheaper to just hit Google and a big few like Youtube rather
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by shenberg 14y ago
Funny that you did it this way - I just wrote a single byte using 'o' directly from the prompt, which was enough to ruin the checksum and cause the bios to reset to defaults.

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