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by stevejones 11y ago
C++ is a far more common skill than moc. I know C++, I can barely get my head around writing a Qt app.
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by stevejones 11y ago
No multi GB blockchain and capable of supporting more than a pitiful 650 transactions a minute. Basically works by randomly electing verifiers and assuming that the majority elected are going to be honest enough.
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by stevejones 11y ago
Given that if you turn on all notifications you'll have about a bajillion of them it's a pretty good smokescreen.
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by stevejones 11y ago
For a moment I thought it was going to be about them no-longer blocking Tor.
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by stevejones 11y ago
They already got their cut for the use of their IP.
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by stevejones 11y ago
> Sorry to say, but "does this feature make application developers happy" trumps "muh unix" when considering whether to add something to the kernel. Which application developers? A hell of a lot of developers are real
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by stevejones 11y ago
We've always known it's slow. It has a ton of other problems as well, not least of which is pointless duplication. But its speed has always been terrible.
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by stevejones 11y ago
I don't want you to know where I live. No matter how benevolent you claim to be.
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by stevejones 12y ago
Ironically this article is a fumblebrag for Silicon Valley itself.
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by stevejones 12y ago
This thread brought to you by the CloudFare PR Agency.
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by stevejones 12y ago
This is the exact opposite of my interactions with Akamai.
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by stevejones 12y ago
In some languages those accented characters would be different letters, sometimes appearing far away from each other in collation order. In other cases they are basically the same letter. Whereas in Hungarian 'dzs' is a letter.
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by stevejones 12y ago
What exactly is wrong with it aerodynamically?
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by stevejones 12y ago
No true blogger would wilfully misunderstand a buffer overrun vulnerability in order to score some cheap pageviews. To put it simply, his examples are the equivalent of doing this: unsigned char data[4096]; #define X (*(int *)(&am
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by stevejones 12y ago
I want to know why they're violating the end-to-end principle in their switches.
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by stevejones 12y ago
Most components of the system /are/ a daemon. Most of the terrible decisions in Linux infrastructure of the last 10 years have been making daemons where a protocol would would do the job more simply.
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by stevejones 12y ago
Here in the UK you can pretty much pinpoint where a person's from down to a 10 mile radius if you know the local accents, sometimes finer than that. It's fading a bit and accents are becoming more homogenised, but it's still
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by stevejones 12y ago
Yet another critique of REST by someone who doesn't understand REST. (product_id should be a hypertext reference to the product resource, not an id - you should be able to work out the rest (no pun intended))
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by stevejones 12y ago
So you complain about being ignorant about copyright laws then demonstrate complete ignorance of them. Copyright has nothing to do with it.
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by stevejones 12y ago
The difference would be that you cancel all the orders currently in progress, so a bunch of people who've clicked "buy" are now in the lurch.
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by stevejones 12y ago
There's an analogue in the entertainment industry: ticket touting.
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by stevejones 12y ago
It is supposed to be the case that you do not place orders on an exchange that you have no intention of executing. i.e. if you place an offer which you intend to withdraw then replace with a higher one the moment you detect interest in the
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by stevejones 12y ago
The difficulties in PKI are not that hard. Most of the problems are social, such as the belief that any implementation of PKI must be absolutely 100% bulletproof. Corporate deployments of PGP with no passphrase make the difficulty of execut
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by stevejones 12y ago
It's harder to intrude on desktop installs. Any anti-NSA strategy should be predicated on a cost basis.
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by stevejones 12y ago
Email addresses are an implementation detail.
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by stevejones 12y ago
Not true, depending somewhat on your attacker, but there are plenty of ways to read emissions from networks which give you no opportunity to modify the traffic. On the other hand, plenty of people who can modify the traffic exist. Starting
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by stevejones 12y ago
Bollocks. Users can be educated. Throwing our hands up and saying that users are too stupid to understand crypto so we have to implement it in ways that don't work is advocating wasting everyone's time. Imagine if the car industry
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by stevejones 12y ago
The NSA is routinely MITMing connections. How will browser side crypto help if they get to decide what code your browser runs?
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by stevejones 12y ago
Well coming up with the strategy (and actually implementing it, edge cases abound) is the hard part. However the mechanism by which it works isn't a bug.
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by stevejones 12y ago
What happens if you request something and get something different in response? The client has no idea about the buffering so it's just a case of whether it's smart enough to handle a misbehaving server.

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