wolfgke

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by wolfgke 8y ago
From my very German perspective, the serious problem seems to be that the principle of "in dubio pro reo" > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_dubio_pro_reo&... is not obeyed in the trial. T
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Cryptography is a branch of mathematics, and cryptographic systems can be formally proved to have certain properties, such as being unable to derive the private key from the content of the encrypted message. A small correction: All tho
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Cryptography isn't perfect; someone could always guess your private key. For the accepted standards, even the smartest people working in this area have not yet found a method to find the private key sufficiently fast (at least suc
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm a bit tired of this reasoning here on HN: If it isn't perfect it is worthless. This argument (that "If it isn't perfect it is worthless" does not hold) is suitable for many topics in life, but in my opinion
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> To be more specific about "more inconvenient": I believe part of the intended effect of ASLR is to make ROP exploit attempts typicaly crash the process instead of successfully gaining control. Keep in mind that before ASLR ca
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Do you know any details on the reason why Cisco switched from QNX to Linux?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It appears (to me, at least) that the current state of the literature on ASLR is that it is treated as a succession of theoretical arms races, which new defence militates against which new attack, and almost no attention is paid to the
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by wolfgke 8y ago
For those who want to play around with it: > http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html > https://winworldpc.com/product/qnx/144mb-demo
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Having code that behaves differently if it's loaded at different addresses seems like a bug. Why? This only sounds like a bug to me if it is intended to be position-independent code (PIC). A reason why in safety-critical code ASLR
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> > A bookstore relies on having enough copies available at every store > The bookstore syndicate could collaborate with a third-party, like alibris. This is exactly my line of argument and the reason why I wrote "Why doesn&#x
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Just a shower thought: Why doesn't the bookstore syndicate simply offer an option for self-publishing, too, instead of complaining around? I am not a particular fan of Amazon, but I believe that the best way to set bounds to Amazon is
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Attacking people is not. Lots of SJWs attack people.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Of course, but it's a start and a symbolic gesture. In Germany, they say: "'Gut' ist das Gegenteil von 'gut gemeint'" ("'Good' is the opposite of 'well-intentioned'"; I a
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Has the LHC Accidentally Thrown Away the Evidence for New Physics?(forbes.com)
4 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Apparently that just didn't occur to Chris Mason, Olof Johansson, Dan Williams, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Steven Rostedt, and Linus Torvalds. But to Rafael Avila de Espindola (LLVM): > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It just means not letting things turn heated or hateful, and treating people well. Different people have very different beliefs what is to be considered "heated", "hateful" and "treating well" or not.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In the past, when the depth of talent was small, people put up with epic levels of ego and bullshit. [...] Today, we have a greater density of talent I do not believe that the density of challenged. What has changed is that modern prog
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It just doesn't work very well when they aren't teenage hackers anymore, but have gone mainstream What has gone mainstream is in my opinion something very different than what the original hacker ethos was about. See for examp
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> People can be ruthless without being abusive. Everybody has a different conviction about what is abusive and what is not.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Maybe this will finally end the myth that "you can be rude and insulting as long as you're right" that people seem to attribute to Linus's outbursts It is not the trueness or falseness of that myth that has changed,
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Vizio to send class notices through the TVs that spied on viewers(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Is there something similar available if you are no student?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
My recommendations: - Give lots of young people the opportunity to learn the necessary mainframe skills (ideally by themselves). Lots of today's great programmers learned their programming skills on their own. This is very hard to do f
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Do you have anything to back this up with. I have a _very_ hard time believing that american youth is so different from the youth in the rest of the world. I believe that you are right in your intuition, but not in the consequences. Th
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Germany has "Urheberrecht" and "Verwertungsrecht", neither of which is exactly copyright, even though that's the most practical translation of either. German law may not have fair use, but it does have §51 UrHG
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm really curious what the german government will do. As far as I know they (CDU and SPD) have a paragraph about being against upload filters in their coalition agreement. It will happen what always happens: they tell you that th
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> They do, and free speech and fair use are important issues to them. The German law that is related to what US citizens call "copyright law" (Urheberrechtsgesetz) (note that I use this careful formulation, since Urheberrecht a
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's like military academy (or fraternity) hazing. You've been abused, therefore you want to pass the load of that abuse on. I really cannot imagine why people have this behavior. I was often treated unfairly in life, so I tr
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by wolfgke 8y ago
With this headline, I immediately thought of Zero's termite speech in Virtue's Last Reward (spoiler if you want to play this visual novel/game): > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY (EDIT: Video w
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I loved programming naturally when I got an old pocket computer with built-in BASIC (Sharp-PC series) and some books for it from my father who did not need it anymore.

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