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by verandaguy 13y ago
That seems like a misleadingly-broad term, but sure. IMO, public-key cryptography (or just asymmetric crypto) is already an improvement over "the Diffie-Hellman key exchange," which is what's generally implied when talking ab
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by verandaguy 13y ago
No, but it's known for being commonly used in PGP. I could be wrong, but that's what I understand when someone says, "PGP-style encryption."
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by verandaguy 13y ago
PGP gathers entropy for keys using user interactions with the computer (mouse movements, keyboard input, normal usage) as well as disk and memory activity, making for more true random number generation than the PRNG that uses the pool in ma
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by verandaguy 13y ago
>People aren't mathematical entities. On average, you're a fool, because most people are fools. But if I start out treating you that way, you're right to be upset. That's true, but the two cases can't really be c
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by verandaguy 13y ago
>unguided I wouldn't say so. Most species (read: groups, not individuals) adapt when nature throws an exception they can't handle. Mutations capable of handling these exceptions become predominant in a group, while obsolete gen
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by verandaguy 13y ago
The distressing part about all this is that there is, in fact, very little to be done about this. For now, the best thing anyone can do is to keep the issue from dying. Raise awareness. Find reliable data to back up claims against PRISM and
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by verandaguy 13y ago
Rule #1 of life: never ever get in a windowless van with 4chan, regardless of who else is in the van.
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ITU once again tries to gain control of the Internet(zdnet.com)
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by verandaguy 13y ago
>Windows text rendering has been getting a new backend that we can hook up soon, greatly boosting the quality of webfont rendering there. Finally. The web font I use on some portions of my site (Roboto Thin) is almost completely illegib
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by verandaguy 13y ago
The only thing Chris Hadfield can't do is not be awesome. Even clipping his nails in space ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xICkLB3vAeU ) is interesting.
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by verandaguy 13y ago
This honestly made my day. There's really no beating "1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists. 1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964."
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by verandaguy 13y ago
SANITIZE ALL THE SERVER CONTENTS!
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by verandaguy 13y ago
Very nice, minimalist, design. Just throwing this out there, but having you considered adding syntax highlight modes, like emacs? This could be a great, non-threatening text editor for new programmers.
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by verandaguy 14y ago
Getting HTTP Status 200. They should be back online.
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by verandaguy 14y ago
As a relatively new (5 or so years experience) programmer, 1985 sounds like hell.
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by verandaguy 14y ago
The VLC logo is a traffic cone. That visualization sort of looks like a cone. Coincidence?
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by verandaguy 14y ago
Wait, so the W3C is actually letting this happen? How the mighty have fallen.