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by xfs 13y ago
Matching surveillance camera images is always possible no matter how bad the image quality is. The only matter is how many false positives show up. Facial recognition algorithms always give their best matching candidates, with thresholds to
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by xfs 14y ago
Interesting conclusion from the paper: [...] for ordering prenominal modifiers, [...] a simple n-gram model outperforms position-specific models This seems to imply that adjective order can be better described with common phrases rather t
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by xfs 14y ago
One particular parameter of the kernel, bandwidth, can result in highly misleading visualization given arbitrarily chosen values. Here is an example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_1D_bandwidth... The smoothing give unsavv
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by xfs 14y ago
But then you would have to choose a certain kernel and assume the data conforms to that distribution which isn't always true.
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by xfs 14y ago
You can invent all the protocols you want, but the more difficult and obscure the protocol is, the less usability and availability it will achieve, then less users, less traction, and less anonymity. So the question isn't solely theoretical
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by xfs 14y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
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by xfs 14y ago
The central point of that comment is that cyber espionage may not be strategically organized by the central government. China is a large country with complex power structures, while Chinese cyberspace is also underregulated and chaotic. Evi
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by xfs 14y ago
I would like to quote a past comment http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/m0i93/_/c2x87tb - the volume of attack coming from Chinese IP addresses but are essentially non-Chinese in origin is substantial. The windows xp piracy rate ends
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by xfs 14y ago
And this only lasted for a few hours. Users connecting to github saw perfect tlsv1 session without github sending its real cert. This means github was routed to a reverse proxy for the mitm test.
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by xfs 14y ago
I guess it was a planned public test or technical verification of certain larger project about live traffic decryption on national level. There really isn't a plausible political reason of github being targeted. Maybe targeting github can g
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by xfs 14y ago
The GFW doesn't really have filtering devices with IP addresses. For filtering in literal sense, i.e. address based packet null routing, all you can find is general carrier routers with their routing tables being dynamically manipulated by
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by xfs 14y ago
Pidgin has good writeup of the rationale for locally stored passwords being plain-text. https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
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by xfs 14y ago
They don't mean to grab particular information about every individual. They want to ensure completeness of their data mining results.
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by xfs 14y ago
Organic-seeming movements can be modeled with a sum of a set of sines and cosines. Are you talking about Fourier series?
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by xfs 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law Movement time = Start/stop time + Speed * log (1 + Distance / Width of target)
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by xfs 14y ago
Fascinating. I have tried to find methods to recover text from digitally blurred images but ended up doing research and survey on similar topics while not finding any available tool for the task. I still have several questions: - How well d
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by xfs 14y ago
When you have enough vertical space, Google will screw your results with botched site crowding. See http://www.seroundtable.com/google-same-result-same-page-152... I've had worse, because I wanted to have 100 results in a page.
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by xfs 14y ago
"effectively unmaintained"? It has 21 updates till now in this year, probably just one release behind chromium stable channel. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/chromium-b... Of course you need sid, because of too many bug
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by xfs 14y ago
I don't think I was disagreeing with you. It's purely relevant information on the other side of the story.
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by xfs 14y ago
The difference is that this is not plagiarism; this is just piracy. The Chinese studio does not claim authorship for this. They have even stated their upstream, making them look like an authorized distributor. They claim to be selling a loc
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by xfs 14y ago
This is just changing the palette of fbcon. Kernel parameters vt.default_{red,grn,blu}= do the same thing. I used to add this tango color scheme in grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vt.default_red=0,204,78,196,52,117,6,170,85,239,138,252,114,
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by xfs 14y ago
the system shell doesn't handle terminal IO Does this help? http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#Job_Control the RHEL initrd You haven't seen how this epic engineering artifact of wheel reinvention is exploding in y
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by xfs 14y ago
The fix needs backporting large patchset, yet the next leap second isn't announced. So no need to rush... just wait for a while and do QA. Typical mentality.
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by xfs 14y ago
Ex-NSA worker Bill Binney claimed that intercepted domestic communications were privacy controlled and anonymized with encryption to comply with the law until a warrant was issued, but later the anonymization protection was removed. http:/
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by xfs 14y ago
For an actual NULL pointer dereference resulting in arbitrary code execution: CVE-2009-0385.
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by xfs 15y ago
Here is the joke: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
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by xfs 15y ago
The final solution could often need only minimal effort to carry out, but to debug and find out the problem, it takes much more time. And the fix should come in through the right channel, like the package README or ChangeLog. Not sure if th
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by xfs 15y ago
The market is indeed small. From the leaked database of Mt Gox, there are 40k registered mailbox.
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by xfs 15y ago
There are duplicate hashes. Taking out the dups, there are 1610 md5 hashes. And 34% of these are crackable with a rainbow table. This means they are unsalted.
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by xfs 15y ago
About 1600 passwords in this database are hashed with plain md5 without salt. I found quite a lot hits (34% success rate) using a rainbow table cracker.

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