sillysaurus

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by sillysaurus 14y ago
No, a hack means that any malicious attacker (you, me, your mom, etc) could exploit ("hack") a flaw in their system security in order to gain access. This is not the case here.
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
No, the article is flat-out wrong. "Dropbox got hacked" means their system security is breachable by a malicious attacker. This is simply not true.
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Dropbox did not get hacked. One of their employees used the same password on multiple other sites, and one of those got hacked. This is awful journalism.
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Always favor architecture over performance, until performance becomes impossible to ignore.
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
The problem is, even with the salted hash, it’s still too easy for an attacker to run dictionary attacks if they are able to retrieve a single user’s salt and hash. When your attacker can do 1 billion SHA1 hashes/second with cheap hardware
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Here's a permanent fix: - Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings". - Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox." - Click Manage search engines - Scroll all the way down. You'll s
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Sorry, I haven't followed this discussion, so this may be offtopic, but... If your family or friends are using Windows, then Microsoft Security Essentials is free and absolutely fantastic. Speaking from personal experience, it's far better
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Put some info about yourself into your profile so that graphics nerd colleagues (me) can learn about your very interesting work experience!
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Would you really get arrested in that case? I'm genuinely curious -- I've made a "mirror_website" console command for myself, so I should probably be careful with that if this is true. =)
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
This is true, but irrelevant. The human visual system adapts to reconstruct what it believes a surface color is, based on the colors of the overall image. Classic example: http://content.screencast.com/users/shawnpresser/folders/Jin...
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Yeah, check out "Feynman Lectures on Computation": https://rapidshare.com/files/2100994846/Feynman_Lectures_on_... It's fantastic. Feynman dives all the way down to the very fundamentals of how a computer could be built. Much of the inf
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
Which monitors did you buy? How did you get them so cheaply?
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
I know I won't be able to easily convince anyone of this, but I thought I'd mention... Colin Percival's "scrypt" password hash is: 1) production-ready (and has been for a long time) 2) superior to bcrypt, as it is designed to be expensive i
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by sillysaurus 14y ago
What happened with France?
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Rethinking "Out of Africa" (Origins of humanity)(edge.org)
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