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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, I sincerely hope they are for real and not just posturing, and that this will start a new space race.
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by wladimir 15y ago
+1 technology has advanced much since then, but nothing spectacular enough to change SF. What we have is basically faster and smaller computers, and network effects due to global connectivity. There's nothing really new in travel methods (n
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by wladimir 15y ago
Right. Most people that have really improved the world have not done so by telling other people what to do, but by doing something themselves. But I think you're wrong in that everyone that tries to change the world only has personal issues
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by wladimir 15y ago
So you think Excel was an "innovative piece of software" in the first place? It wasn't. Many spreadsheets existed before that. A much more practical angle: there is no MS Office or equivalent for operating systems such as Linux and BSD, so
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes. It's still by far the most popular SSH client for Windows.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think that would be a good move, as "bitcoin" isn't really a good name. 1) it's not about coins at all and 2) I wouldn't be sad for getting rid of the nerdy "bit". Yes, it's a cryptocurrency, but that's just the underlying system. IMO the
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by wladimir 15y ago
Let's hope they will invest at least some of their newly-gotten money into improving their security.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Whether the extra money is worth it depends on the kind of business that you're running. Also, for the same price you can (at least here in the netherlands) have a second, mobile internet connection. Which both provides the needed redundanc
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, network solutions is also terrible. I still have a domain with them, and it takes five clicks just to get to the DNS management interface. Every step in the way they try to make as unclear as possible by flashing banners and shiny butt
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by wladimir 15y ago
I should have added "to the end-user" using happy/sad iconography. Nothing in the world can make you trustworthy, I don't want to get into that discussion, which is also why I put it in scare quotes.
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by wladimir 15y ago
They do have a big overlap. Both SSL and code signing use signatures to confer 'trustworthyness' of a certain source.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Right, there is no proof yet that they ever send back the information to their servers. But IMO that doesn't excuse them from collecting the information in the first place.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Even though it may be hard in some cases, having some self-control here will only help you. Bug reports (or helpdesks, for that matter) are not the place to express frustration.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Good. When filing bug reports you should try to work with the team and be as helpful as possible in solving the issue. Being a dick does not help anyone.
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by wladimir 15y ago
From what I understand from the article, it seems that he has another problem (information overload from too many people trying to contact him), not so much a problem with e-mail as a medium.
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by wladimir 15y ago
All binary file formats should be randomly distributed along the spectrum if their file size is large enough Why would that be the case? - Executables: some opcodes are more common than other, and usually contain text/messages - Zip files
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by wladimir 15y ago
Replace "trolling" with anything you want, how you call it doesn't figure into my argument at all.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Start? People have been thinking (and working) on that even before the hype began (see for example the Android client now on the frontpage, or the new client UI being developed, wallet encryption being tested now, and various web payment se
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes... for example, it shows how easy it is to recognize encrypted (or random) data, as it is too uniformly distributed to be anything else.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Well, to stay with the example of file handles, one might forget to explicitly close the file. The finalizer would then act as a safety net and close the file as soon as the object is garbage collected. But indeed, it is a very bad idea to
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by wladimir 15y ago
You'd be surprised how many applications and web sites still rely solely on client-side validation, even these days. Either don't think at all about threat scenarios ,or they trust their "Do not reverse engineer" EULA to protect them :-)
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by wladimir 15y ago
To all of those you could reply "not yet, but we've come a long way". I think we're still in the early stages of the "virtualisation" of the world, and those predictions will work out eventually.
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by wladimir 15y ago
This is much larger than the US only. Even when USD-nominated mobile payment would finally be introduced in the US, it will be a long time before it is accepted in other countries, especially emerging economies. Also, merchants don't have t
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's appropriate, because hashing for hash tables has entirely different requirements than cryptographic hashing. For a hash table you want a function that evaluates really fast, is short, but produces as little collisions as possible giv
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by wladimir 15y ago
What protocol is it that routes around censorship, exactly? The "global" part. There is always some country in which a certain thing is not censored. The servers can be placed there, the traffic can be routed through there. This does not
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by wladimir 15y ago
Is there any truly parallel language (that is not simply "multiple sequential threads")?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Right. How many shared webhosts support OpenVPN? Yeah, of course you can use a VPS, but then you could have used FTPS-only mode in your own FTP server in the first place... So I guess our conclusion is that most shared webhosts' security is
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by wladimir 15y ago
So, what's your alternative? I guess most shared webhosts don't support ssh either.
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by wladimir 15y ago
due to the secondary data connection port. Yes, the secondary data connection port is a weakness/annoyance of the FTP protocol, I agree. The other points don't have anything to do with the protocol itself, just with how it is implemented
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by wladimir 15y ago
Unix timestamps are indeed easy and good enough for most cases (isn't the mantra "keep it simple"?), except for calendars/recurring events, as some people have pointed out.

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