wladimir

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by wladimir 15y ago
Indeed. I like the OP as a SF writer, but I have to disagree with him in this case. All you can say for sure is "With our current knowledge of science and level of technological development we will never leave the solar system". If you woul
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes. Easiest way would be to just have a script (for example, Firefox addon or greasemonkey script) that drives a browser. Or if you don't want the overhead of a browser, a somewhat more tricky way is to do it once yourself and record the t
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by wladimir 15y ago
That depends on the motive. Some attackers might want to snoop your mail for a long time without being detected, instead of making it unusable (and instantly detectable) for you. Arguably, those are the creepyest.
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by wladimir 15y ago
You should really automate that... at least then you'll be faster than the intruder (at least if he/she hasn't already changed the password :p)
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by wladimir 15y ago
But would an attacker read a message marked as unread? A careful attacker would know that this alerts the owner of the mailbox, as he can't remember opening the message. His canary is a mail that has already been opened, so the attacker ass
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's the private key itself. I was somewhat unclear in my wording. We (I and the grandparent poster) were wondering if the private key was encrypted with a passphrase.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm not sure either. If it is encrypted, it would at least buy some time to replace all the certificates signed by this private key. Depending on the strength of the encryption key, obviously.
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by wladimir 15y ago
A paper-thin wrapper around OpenGL is what the game-devs want. They don't want to be straight-jacketed into one game or rendering engine. Also, OpenGL isn't that low-level anymore. It is the API that the GPU speaks, and with recent developm
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by wladimir 15y ago
Now the real trial by fire for bitcoin begins... One thing is for sure, this is going to be interesting. /me gets popcorn
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by wladimir 15y ago
Nope. I just click "remember password" in my browser after the first time. At least for most sites. For banks and really important stuff I usually do memorize the password myself or copy it from the encrypted file.
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by wladimir 15y ago
that wasn't much different with OpenGL in a Java applet, though... but yes you'd hope this would be better
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by wladimir 15y ago
True, 5MB limits you to pretty simple games :) There are probably some other practical issues left to be resolved as well before the browser is a mature cross-platform 3D gaming platform. But I can certainly see things going that way.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Gaming. A large part of people is using the web for (casual MMO) gaming. 3D gaming is very popular and attracts users. Currently this involves hacks using clunky applets (such as java3d). With WebGL, this will be a thing of the past. 3D in
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think this should be regarded as "recreational computer science". It's intriguing to see how much is possible with some bit twiddling. It also gives insight into how things are handled internally. But it's not for use in actual code, unle
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by wladimir 15y ago
Nice comparison. Maybe anyone here knows: I'm looking for one chart type specifically: a zoomable and pannable chart that supports a huge dataset server-side by using multiple levels of detail (daily, monthly, hourly, up to second precision
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by wladimir 15y ago
Because they're trying to make a point. I love this about Google. Also, even though it is trivial to do, it is effort unasked for, just to satisfy some politician's power craze. (also I'm pretty sure that later on they will roll back in the
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by wladimir 15y ago
He wants a language which can (preferably) run on everything from 8 bit to 64 bit CPUs and also run on various embedded OSes. C# only covers a very small subset. Somewhat more if you include Mono, but I guess that puts it in the same league
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by wladimir 15y ago
What about optical technology? Would that be affected? (yes, I know currently there is always at some electronical parts, but I mean in theory)
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by wladimir 15y ago
It looks like the kind of optimization that a compiler could do pretty trivially, and you shouldn't have to be concerned about as a human, as it makes the code less readable. Then again, Javascript is a strange animal here as the code is pr
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by wladimir 15y ago
This is not necessarily true: javascript passed arguments by reference, and thus g and s are actually "given back" to the caller Pass by reference doesn't work that way in JS; function a(b) { b = 10; } var foo; a(foo); alert
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by wladimir 15y ago
So that's another platform that doesn't support Flash. Flash feels like a dead end more and more.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I suppose these are JS performance tricks? - Define g and s as parameter even though they're only given a value inside the function - Pass document into the function instead of using it from global scope - Insert a script tag in front of th
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by wladimir 15y ago
Great :) This is exactly the kind of tool I've been looking for for a while.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Does anyone know of a list what is Gen2/Gen3/Gen4 in terms of chips? Does this include the i950, for example?
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by wladimir 15y ago
There's many ways of getting attention of people within a company than piling your resume on the stack; - talking at tech conferences / local user group (as the OP noted) - contributing to open source projects - keeping an interesting blog
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by wladimir 15y ago
rsyslog also supports structured RFC5424 messages. Others will support it in time. I agree it's not the most perfect format, but it's usable, and already much better than freeform text messages if you intend to do programmatic processing. A
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by wladimir 15y ago
Ouch. That indeed sounds terribly insecure. It saddens me that any organization handling money (or any kind of user authentication) does it this way. It relies 100% on "client-side" security. Even 15 years ago these kinds of things were exp
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by wladimir 15y ago
Because it is easy to forge a response from CCAvenue saying that the payment has been made The IP from which this response comes should be an indication? Not 100% secure, but a useful heuristic.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Well, if your reputation is good enough you tend to get job offers. In many cases this means it's just rubber-stamped paperwork for HR.
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by wladimir 15y ago
It doesn't mean 'nothing'. Hard work is sometimes needed. But I do agree with you that it's usually more important to work smart than to work hard. Pick your battles carefully and such... Mindlessly working hard without a good idea doesn't

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