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by shrughes 17y ago
The rule is, "data in motion should be secured with TLS, data at rest should be secured with PGP". And even that attitude can be dangerous. A while back I was getting depressed at the usability of tarsnap so I began to think about how I w
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by shrughes 17y ago
Catching a ball off a deflection is pretty surprising, and you generally don't see players spontaneously considering things and deciding to run out the clock when the end zone's in front of him and defenders are behind him, especially not i
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by shrughes 17y ago
People in poor countries.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Uniformly distributed random data doesn't follow the law. Data whose logarithm is uniformly distributed does.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Wikibooks doesn't reward the authors at all. Wikibooks doesn't pay them money, it doesn't put their name on their work, and it doesn't let their contribution last forever -- others can go and muck it up with their editing. (If anything I'
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by shrughes 17y ago
Suppose you vary the unit of measure. If the unit of measure is picked in the Benford's law distribution, then the expected leading digit of any value you give me will follow Benford's law.
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by shrughes 17y ago
The price is not that important. In a wealthy western nation, $100 for a textbook is quite reasonable, if you're spending any amount of time reading it. Compare that to the price of a lecture. Ebooks mainly give incremental improvements.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Check out that toolbar! Sorry, but I couldn't concentrate on the article, there was popup advertising from the website telling me how awesome it was and it was too distracting.
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by shrughes 17y ago
They should be storing a salted hash, not the actual passwords, so the content of the password shouldn't matter. No, they should be using bcrypt. You didn't think you'd get away with this by posting after tptacek's bedtime, did you?
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by shrughes 17y ago
I don't think the lack-of-telling-people-to-not-bother-posting is about spam, it's about ordinary internet rats who would just reregister and continue making terrible posts. It also makes me wonder who the mysterious 'you've been banned' e
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by shrughes 17y ago
What are you talking about, this isn't a question of security .
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by shrughes 17y ago
The other control key is in a completely inaccessible position.
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by shrughes 17y ago
You're not going to type faster with the Dvorak layout. Maybe piano lessons would be a better use of time than Dvorak practice. The layout is better for programming, though, so I recommend learning it. Underscore and hyphen are in the per
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by shrughes 17y ago
Most people in the world don't have these things. They don't have a lot of things. Redistributing between some Americans and other Americans hardly does anything to reduce inequality, and it's naive to think otherwise.
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by shrughes 17y ago
No, it's not an overall net gain -- Virginians are only going to spend a fraction of their money on things coming from California, and even if they spent all their money, Californians would be working harder for the same amount of money.
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by shrughes 17y ago
I demonized your idea not because it's impractical, but because it's evil. It's evil because the idea is designed merely to make a more optimal society. It's evil because it's designed to enforce the law by preemptively making lawbreaking
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by shrughes 17y ago
> One year, Yale University economist Robert Shiller, who'd never gambled in his life, found himself at a casino there. He says that was because Wharton economist Jeremy Siegel realized that by using coupons offered to conventioneers,
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by shrughes 17y ago
How about we put a GPS-enabled governor around your neck, in case you ever think of stepping on private property.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Considering that Steve's speech doesn't really say anything original, we might as well have disallowed linking to it the first time, if old is bad.
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by shrughes 17y ago
If the movie ever mentions how long the Na'vi have been around as sentient creatures, I missed it entirely. It did mention that before Jake Sully, there were five Toruk Maktos since the beginning of known history, and the most recent one
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by shrughes 17y ago
The author mentioned in an update that scene was actually supposed to be a time-lapse.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Or, depending on your viewpoint, the US is far, far, far ahead of every other developed western nation. What makes it right for skilled people to get into a country more easily than unskilled?
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by shrughes 17y ago
Write a Greasemonkey script to do it.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Even if I were under 17, it still wouldn't have been illegal, since I was seeing it with them. Just to be pedantic, it wouldn't be illegal to see the movie alone, either.
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by shrughes 17y ago
What's wrong with using a salted hash? Because you've been assuming that the database will be breached and that no other kind of attack can happen.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Even more seriously: (k) use the service in any fashion for the transmission or dissemination of images containing child pornography or in a manner that is obscene, sexually explicit, cruel or racist in nature or which espouses, promotes o
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by shrughes 17y ago
Nope, it's not worth noting.
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by shrughes 17y ago
To some people, rejecting pledges is sane for the same reason that rejecting the right to sell oneself into lifelong slavery is sane.
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by shrughes 17y ago
...and the strictness operator for ensuring that a function is applied to a value correctly. ($) isn't any kind of strictness operator -- maybe you're thinking of ($!). ($) is a plain old function application operator.
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by shrughes 17y ago
The behavior of hGetContents is documented at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/S... . If you write do h <- openFile "foo.txt" ReadMode x <- hGetContents h putStr x you'll get differ

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