vesinisa

88 ms·

961.
by vesinisa 13y ago
I live in EU, and it seems our systems are better protected against fraud. I have MasterCard dual debit/credit card with electronic chip (EMV), but no NFC (radio payment). At the POS, I can select between the debit/credit function
962.
by vesinisa 13y ago
How does this differ from HTTPS? Since we're dealing with World Wide Web, it can't be that you would have to install the public key of every site that you visit to get signed versions of the code – it would make browsing infeasi
963.
by vesinisa 13y ago
I guess because, as the article describes, IBM was all for protecting its workstation business as well as the lucrative mainframe business. A workstation back then was defined as an expensive high-end computer that was designed to be used b
964.
by vesinisa 13y ago
My point exactly. That's a human resources and engineering level tradeoff. It's not a tradeoff on the level of pure computer science.
965.
by vesinisa 13y ago
I don't understand this. Not everything is always a trade-off. Take array sorting, a classical example. There are many stupid solutions that have both unnecessary memory/time requirement and unnecessarily large code size and met
966.
by vesinisa 13y ago
Valid point, but your starting mass also increases. Then there's also that if the measurement changes, the results can become pretty bizarre. Say, you are on a diet for one month. At the start of the month, the kilo prototype weights 1
967.
by vesinisa 13y ago
> "Project Bullrun deals with NSA's abilities to defeat the encryption used in specific network communication technologies. Bullrun involves multiple sources, all of which are extremely sensitive." The document reveals tha