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by swolchok 17y ago
Purchasing and using a bump key ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_bumping ) is not particularly sophisticated.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Local, state, federal, and whatever other applicable laws permitting, you should definitely learn to open easy locks with paper clips (optionally a pair of pliers and a screwdriver as well). We did it on the last day of the graduate-level s
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by swolchok 17y ago
I guess you're not a Linux user? See under "Permissions" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditi... .
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's not about someone else buying it for 30% less a week later, it's about me buying it for 30% less a week later.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Does it work with iPod touch + home WiFi?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Oh, and let's not forget that this is the poker implementation where splitting a pot three ways will generate .33 chips for each person.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Presumably this could be solved by writing a hand logger. I play the Zynga Shootout regularly and would be happy to run one, though I'm not sure how one would be able to architect it simply enough that I'd be able to audit it. Perhaps if so
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by swolchok 17y ago
A few points: 1) Real tables go a lot slower than online poker. 2) Relying on pre-flop premium hands is bad deep-stack no limit strategy. No one is going to pay you off big when you've just got top pair. 3) What would be the point of riggin
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by swolchok 17y ago
If anyone knew, they would be crazy to tell you. Besides, the bigger players could easily afford to risk a few hundred grand finding out whether they can plug the existing system into the small market profitably.
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by swolchok 17y ago
No way. The members page is currently broken, but http://web.archive.org/web/20080805024322/http://poker.cs.ua... says they have four profs, two consultants, an adjunct researcher, 5 graduate students, and 3 programmer analysts. I can onl
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by swolchok 17y ago
Fast boot + no client-side state => you can turn the damn thing completely off without worrying about losing your setup => longer wall-clock battery life.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I can't believe they're using mandatory access control. It's the most eye-glazing security mechanism ever IMHO.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I don't understand how the QuickMatch/profile rating mechanic can be the ratings cited in the article. IIRC, The QuickMatch/profile ratings are from 1 to 5 stars. The cited ratings are from 0 to 5.
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by swolchok 17y ago
To expound, men may have to retreat (when they're "retreating") to OKC because of below-average looks. Woman may have to retreat because of below-average personalities.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Um, don't you lose durability (or at least transactional semantics) if you do that? Are we just assuming that replication is sufficient and not all the in-memory copies of the data will die at once?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Black Hat talks are not necessarily "new". Black Hat is not an academic security conference. The exploit was released months before BH09.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Still subject to attacks on the management system, which is written with existing architecture. True Harvard architecture instead of Von Neumann may help, as it discriminates between code and data.
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by swolchok 17y ago
If you get lucky, your target won't bother with all these new-fangled protections and run on WinXP (no ASLR) and the only thing you'll have to contend with is non-executable stack. Our original exploit for Green Dam used a heap spray only t
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by swolchok 17y ago
The flags for disabling executable stack are: "-Wl,-z execstack" "-Wa,--execstack" I also added -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE in the Makefile for the exploit project that the security course I'm TAing is currently working on. Not sure if that was e
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by swolchok 17y ago
I had a friend who was worried about the overhead of interfaces (are methods called by hash lookup on name or by something like a vtbl?), so I compiled a simple example program to test how dynamic dispatch works: http://scott.wolchok.org/v
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by swolchok 17y ago
You're a programmer, right? So you type 70-100 WPM, right? That's 5-8 chars per second, so we're asking you for 0.4 to 0.25 seconds per imported module, or maybe 5-10 seconds per program. I do see the reason to design a language efficiently
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by swolchok 17y ago
Apparently, Go style is to use tabs (see go-mode.el). This is not Pythonic.
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by swolchok 17y ago
That surprises me. Doesn't LuaJIT simply spit out subroutine-threaded code?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Have you heard of Debian stable, testing, unstable, and experimental?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Not true if you use objects as namespaces -- it is capable of reducing a.b.c.d to one access, particularly with inlining, and this construct has a runtime cost in JS.
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by swolchok 17y ago
There's no goddamn reason for any non-system software to be frozen ever What about, I don't know, developers who release early and often without good test coverage? If you're putting your seal of approval on a bunch of software, y
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by swolchok 17y ago
I believe you mean "laid off in April". "I was laid in April, still looking" is very different.
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by swolchok 17y ago
You're right, I meant "minifier".
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by swolchok 17y ago
This is huge. I've been wanting Closure as OSS ever since I interned at Google. The compiler is optimizing -- it is not a simple obfuscator like YUI Compressor.
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Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox (Closure) to all(arstechnica.com)
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