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by swolchok 17y ago
Surely, no real person is going to produce the exact same sound twice. Check the database of previous samples for matches or very close matches.
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by swolchok 17y ago
It might be nicer if you made them say "yes" so that replays could be detected. Pressing 1 makes the same tone every time, so malware on smartphones can easily bypass this authentication method.
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by swolchok 17y ago
No, we have made something to the effect of "interference with any digital protection scheme that can be construed as controlling access to a copyrighted work" a crime or a tort, and we did it 11 years ago.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Agree. I wasn't even upset, and now I get "all future premium software features" for free. I will be downright happy to part with the remaining 90% of the purchase price.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Not exactly timely; the competition started in September 2009. There are well-known algorithms for mining association rules; see, e.g., http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~klefevre/eecs584/Papers/agrawal_1... .
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'm not a lawyer. Is it the case that because the contract specifies a (financially nebulous) penalty for its breach, there can be no other legal repercussions for breaking it? Actually adhering to the first clause seems difficult. As I'm s
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by swolchok 17y ago
While it could compromise privacy, I didn't see anything outright evil on that list.
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by swolchok 17y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=zii+egg+review
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by swolchok 17y ago
Speaking of the iPhone/iTouch app, I would love to see a caching HN app. I read NYT on my iPod Touch (without wireless) most days when I walk to/from work, but I would switch to a substitute news source rather than pay.
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by swolchok 17y ago
This seems best answered by server logs.
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by swolchok 17y ago
You'd better hope that these automated scanners can detect quotes.
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by swolchok 17y ago
HDFS and MapReduce have nothing to do with building and maintaining datacenters.
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by swolchok 17y ago
During my typical day, 0 people attempt to contact me by phone, and I spend almost all the time bathed in wireless connectivity. I am out of touch for a total of 40 minutes when I am walking to or from work, and perhaps another half hour wh
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by swolchok 17y ago
I bailed out of the cellphone market after my last contract expired. I'm on Skype Out ($3/mo) + Google Voice (incoming calls go to voicemail and I call them back) + iPod Touch until a compelling reason to enter the market again shows up. Id
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by swolchok 17y ago
Another interesting one: gears.google.com does not redirect to google.com/gears, which is a 404. Contrast with voice and talk. Discoverable URLs clearly aren't a priority.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Counterexample: google.com/dumbass is a 404. Searching for google.com/dumbass returns results. "Did you mean: Google It You Dumbass" is not kosher.
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by swolchok 17y ago
If it's not too late, adding "(like del.icio.us)" to the title would make it obvious that this is not a post about DNS security.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Packing is already fairly effective. http://polypack.eecs.umich.edu/
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'd say it's a safe bet that stealing Google's source code wouldn't help much with replicating their datacenter infrastructure.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Seems like a survey of the issues that has very little new to say. It's an OK read if you're new to SSL issues.
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by swolchok 17y ago
You're right, I misread SSH as SSL.
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by swolchok 17y ago
TLS = SSL. HTTPS = HTTP over SSL.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Patently false. If users submit to the login URL through a link that was sent in the clear, a MITM can just run sslstrip ( http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/ ) and presto, you're visiting the HTTP version of the page instead of
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by swolchok 17y ago
Actually, "Hey You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds" ( http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/papers/cloudsec.pdf ) documents "the tendency for EC2 to assign fresh instances to the same small set
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by swolchok 17y ago
"The candidate has a myopic focus on documentation and best practices, as demonstrated by his failure to apply a simple solution to a simple problem. No hire."
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by swolchok 17y ago
It doesn't seem to have occurred to the author that bot authors may not want to be identified. This is an adversarial setting and needs to be tackled as such.
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by swolchok 17y ago
And here is the latter link already on the front page: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china...
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by swolchok 17y ago
Well, it doesn't sound bad, until you rephrase it to how it will actually be implemented: How about allowing the contents of the hash column in the database as the password? It only takes one incompetent engineer to sometimes store the raw
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by swolchok 17y ago
Impossible? Danes write dates as dd-mm-yy according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date , so your birthday can have at most one leading zero and thus is >= 10100. 9973 is the largest 4-digit prime number, and 9973 + 2 is 1) n
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by swolchok 17y ago
Most of the things described in this article are AI-complete.

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