tompko

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by tompko 14y ago
Shouldn't that be "The Cleverest Socks"
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by tompko 14y ago
Blank keys now cost £50,000 each, so you might as well just buy a BMW to start with.
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by tompko 14y ago
The instructions are very clear and easy to follow, depending on your specs it takes a few days to compile everything. Certainly a week would be enough time.
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by tompko 14y ago
Science doesn't require you to take anything on faith, for every theory and result it states it gives you the tools and methods to go away and verify it for yourself. It might be a stretch to expect someone to build another LHC, but if they
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by tompko 14y ago
I'm not sure I see the link between simplifying something so that a layman can understand it and appealing to magic or God to explain something away, or why having something simplified for you makes your acceptance of that fact an irrationa
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by tompko 14y ago
A rainbow table would still work if you're using one clear text per server, I just have to build the table per server. The reason salts remove rainbow tables as a way of attack is that they're different per password, so I'd have to build an
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by tompko 14y ago
"But the real problem for companies lies in the practice of using out-of-the-box programs to protect data." No, no, no, no, no. The real problem lies in either rolling your own, or using out of date out-of-the-box programs. When it comes to
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by tompko 14y ago
LinkedIn, that's not how to hash passwords. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ , or for the more advanced http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html .
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by tompko 15y ago
Python is multi-paradigm, you can certainly write functional code with it.
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by tompko 15y ago
If python was treating it as a text value then int("009") is 9 as you would expect. Even if it wasn't you could do lstrip("0") to remove leading zeroes before converting to an integer. From reading the post it sounds like the faults lies mo
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by tompko 15y ago
Learning is the process of failing repeatedly in the pursuit of achieving something until you finally succeed. That sounds fine as a definition, but that doesn't imply learning can't be fun. The "proof" provided seems to rely on "like" bein
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by tompko 15y ago
The maps are toroidal, i.e. the left and right sides are connected as are the top and bottom. So it is possible to reach the enemy in maze_2.