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by yan 17y ago
An FYI, if you guys care about more passive attacks that let you deduce the source of NAT'ed packets and other tricks, check out "Silence on the Wire" by Zaelwski. Awesome read.
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The Security Implications Of Google Native Client(chargen.matasano.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Congrats! Does this mean we'll get to see the source? edit: Any details on the financials?
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Consumer Credit Plunges By Record $21.6 Billion(zerohedge.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Slightly off-topic, but why isn't every major purchase not rentable? Like zipcar for everything from vacuum cleaners, video projectors, to lawn mowers and everything else you use very rarely. I don't like owning stuff; I find it to be a bur
936.
by yan 17y ago
Thank you for sharing that; I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
937.
by yan 17y ago
That protocol is cracked.com's livelihood.
938.
by yan 17y ago
"You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization laye
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by yan 17y ago
Zalewski's "Silence On The Wire" (which is totally fantastic in its own right) graphs a few PRNGs and discusses their issues. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593270461
940.
by yan 17y ago
Feel like I should mention: For people running a UNIX os with objdump, take a program written in C or C++, compile it with gdb's -g flag, then do: objdump -S your_program This will disassemble it and interleave your disassembly with
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Court Allows Woman to Sue Bank for Lax Security After $26,000 Stolen by Hackers(wired.com)
6 points by yan 17y ago|2 comments
942.
by yan 17y ago
Re: 1) If one of your ingredients name is really long, and the word of the ingredient that starts on the next page says "Some Dish: 1 cup of poison, etc.." that's how a buffer overflow works.
943.
by yan 17y ago
Ge is quite the impressive founder. I've been following other stuff he's done, and it's all been fantastic.
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Derek Sivers: My Heroes(sivers.org)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
945.
by yan 17y ago
I do low-level things mostly, so I start with: "The computer can only do extremely basic things that are pretty much limited to math operations, moving small amounts of data within itself and sending simple signals to devices, all really fa
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by yan 17y ago
my homedir is organized as follows: bin/ - binaries that aren't installed; appended to $PATH docs/ - docs for what i'm working on is here src/ - code dl/ - that i downloaded */ - that i wrote misc/ - self explanatory no
947.
by yan 17y ago
This makes me miss NY. One side-effect of moving to practically suburbia is acquiring the car shackles: I pretty much can't do anything without having to drive there. Some destinations are accessible by bike, but not many.
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Amazon Offers $30 Credits To Orwell Kindle Swindle Victims(consumerist.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|1 comments
949.
by yan 17y ago
Hm are you happy with your DX? I've been seriously considering getting one.
950.
by yan 17y ago
I have posted this before, but if you care at all about memory and how it applies to writing efficient code, you owe it to yourself to check out this fantastic paper: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
951.
How to Reduce Your Spending Without Making Your Life Miserable(thesimpledollar.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
952.
Ubuntu running on a Kindle 2(gadgets.boingboing.net)
32 points by yan 17y ago|11 comments
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MP3 sound quality: Good enough(newyorker.com)
11 points by yan 17y ago|25 comments
954.
by yan 17y ago
I was thinking they're using something like video encoders, where differential changes are stored and every N frames (updates? characters?) it stores a copy of the file again for faster tracking and updating.
955.
by yan 17y ago
That's hilarious! Now, to jive with the rest of Apple's marketing, it'd have to conclude with "The heist was pulled off 2.8X faster!"
956.
by yan 17y ago
Not to mention bzip or gzip compresses text like its cotton candy.
957.
by yan 17y ago
I don't actually know what's going on, but it sounds awfully a lot like you like this person and are being taken advantage of.
958.
by yan 17y ago
Can anyone speculate on at least the class of algorithms they are using?
959.
by yan 17y ago
Zzz. Atwood rewrote the blog post posted here earlier[1] without really adding anything. At least he referenced it. Coding Horror has been feeling exceptionally desperate for new content. Lately it's been providing very little value and has
960.
by yan 17y ago
I think in C. Python is a fairly straight-forward mental translation and functional languages I tend to need to spend more energy thinking about unless the problem is embarrassingly recursive.

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