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India's E-voting Machines are Vulnerable to Fraud(indiaevm.org)
4 points by swolchok 16y ago|0 comments
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by swolchok 16y ago
There are citations for each of those abandonments in the paper: Ireland: announced April 2009 California: around 2007 Florida: also 2007ish the Netherlands: 2008 Germany: March 2009 So, it looks like the answer to your question is "in some
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by swolchok 17y ago
I have a few friends who watch it, and someone told me to watch it once upon a time. Reading a flashy, well-written 8-page article at my leisure seemed like a much quicker way to find out what all the fuss was about than actually watching a
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by swolchok 17y ago
I have never seen the show, but I think they tipped their hand, given 1) the existence of the continuity czar that began after the show started , 2) their commentary about figuring out the best way to run the show by watching the show , a
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by swolchok 17y ago
Slide:ology has some prominent negative reviews at Amazon complaining about the content being shallow, derivative, and ad-laden.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Nope, this has nothing to do with multicast, sadly. My current solution is to just get off EC2 and run the crawler locally. I have a DHT-layer ping utility, and observed that the failing node could not ping some peers that the successful no
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by swolchok 17y ago
"This event is no longer available because it has been cancelled." Wikipedia entry is also gone.
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Ask HN: EC2 network environment and UDP? (debugging a project)
6 points by swolchok 17y ago|2 comments
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by swolchok 17y ago
Re: way to submit bug reports, did you consider email?
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by swolchok 17y ago
(1994)
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by swolchok 17y ago
Two complaints with the linked "local root kernel exploit": 1) The linked page says that it's a local DoS bug. Being subject to denial-of-service from local users is hardly critical. 2) Even if it were, as the link text seems to imply, a lo
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by swolchok 17y ago
I think that the grandparent meant that you could sell it to end users.
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by swolchok 17y ago
The general consensus is that DRM cannot be made secure. Why? You are delivering content and the means of playing it to the user. If the user can play it, the user can copy it. Game over. However, if the recipient of the shared document is
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by swolchok 17y ago
This looks like it's on topic and might make some interesting points, but it's just plain tl;dr, and the formatting doesn't help. I read the first paragraph or two, clicked over to the description of the attack being referenced, and then co
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Potential Security Issues in the "Flow" Chromium OS Build(scott.wolchok.org)
4 points by swolchok 17y ago|0 comments
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by swolchok 17y ago
Posted 255 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717736 , 254 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719067 , and 232 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762631 . Paper describing security flaws in Vanish: http://
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by swolchok 17y ago
language's (or languages')
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by swolchok 17y ago
With such a cert, you can carry out a man in the middle attack without triggering SSL warnings (in the typical usage model for SSL), because you have a valid cert.
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by swolchok 17y ago
It is customary to tag articles that are year(s) out of date with their year.
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by swolchok 17y ago
(2000)
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by swolchok 17y ago
Perhaps we can group sophomores with freshmen. The sophomores are tasked with solving the problems and the freshmen are tasked with typing out the code. It also primes the seemingly naturally introverted programmers for group based activit
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by swolchok 17y ago
That backpack anecdote is a play straight out of Guy Kawasaki's The Macintosh Way ( http://www.amazon.com/MacIntosh-Way-Guy-Kawasaki/dp/00609733... ), which is on Joel's recommended reading list for managers ( http://www.joelonsoftware.co
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by swolchok 17y ago
I thought there were still serious problems with NaCl on x86-64. http://groups.google.com/group/native-client-discuss/browse_... gives a brief overview, and there's been no word since that post, which was just over a year ago. I believe t
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by swolchok 17y ago
The key flaw in the article is buried in a parenthetical: the author provides no compelling argument to support his contention that programming will become easier. Programming anything sophisticated by plugging pre-built components into eac
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by swolchok 17y ago
I posted a comment to this effect here about 3 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128322 I can confirm that the UDP stream is not always available and that I was behind a NAT during my testing.
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by swolchok 17y ago
(2004)
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by swolchok 17y ago
A few questions I'd like to see discussed: 1) Do you find the description convincing? 2) Are you put off from installing by the warning that the extension has "access to your private data across all websites"? This warning is mandatory for
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My Chrome Extension: Unencrypted Password Warning(chrome.google.com)
4 points by swolchok 17y ago|1 comments
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by swolchok 17y ago
Of the four conditions he mentioned (depression, autism, hypertension, obesity), I don't suppose there is evidence to suggest that, I don't know, regular exercise would cure at least two?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Your post is the weaker for its grammar and spelling errors. You would do well to fix them, because people notice.

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