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151.
by yuubi 11y ago
Even in an IPv4-only world, that regexp admits strings like 123.456.7890.12345.
152.
by yuubi 11y ago
In bc, write scale=1000 (or however many digits you want) first, and you'll get better results.
153.
by yuubi 11y ago
If it makes you feel any better, you can read some of his other stuff and see that he's arguing that such a class is on its way to bring created if not already here, and that he's against it.
154.
by yuubi 11y ago
Are you sure it was the xc3000 that was documented and not the xc6200 series (e.g. xc6264)? I remember the xc3000 being documented the usual amount for their parts (pinout, architectural description, call for info about licensing the softwa
155.
by yuubi 12y ago
> "you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded movie theatre" It actually means "I want to justify a law abridging freedom of speech". As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_cro
156.
by yuubi 12y ago
A position is valid iff there is a squence of legal moves that leads to it. In go, a legal turn consists of putting a stone on nearly any vacant point (some rule sets prohibit suicide moves, and all prohibit exactly repeating the position a
157.
by yuubi 12y ago
Store a copy of the original version of the modified part of the firmware and use it for the hash calculation instead of the actual version?
158.
by yuubi 12y ago
> You want to impose a tax on people when they create something? The proposal seems to suggest the tax applies to those who want the government to help them exclude others from using their creations, which isn't quite the same thing
159.
by yuubi 12y ago
> rm -rf $VAR/ > / facepaw.jpg Without the trailing slash, null or undefined $VAR would cause an error instead of a request to delete all the things .
160.
by yuubi 12y ago
> "we need to be able to have backdoors", not "ban encryption" They can't reliably have backdoors without banning crypto that lacks it.
161.
by yuubi 12y ago
> no longer possible More difficult, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming is a thing.
162.
by yuubi 12y ago
A zero-width space works fine for this. :3 appears as a whole cat in skype; :3 (which includes such a space) appears as a colon and a three as it darn well ought.
163.
by yuubi 12y ago
> Copying the data segment and immediately overwriting it was inefficient, so several new flavors of "exec" were developed to get around that. The several different flavors of exec are just convenience functions that lead to an
164.
by yuubi 12y ago
Git stores diffs between revisions too: see https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pack-ob... Packs happen automatically sometimes per https://www.kernel.org/pub/s
165.
by yuubi 12y ago
The device shown isn't quite a brute-force attack; it exploits a side channel. Back in the 1980s there was a device called the ITL-1000 that took a couple of days to dial combinations in sequence, with the only feedback it received be
166.
by yuubi 12y ago
The intent was to show that (at least one implementation of) C does stop a completely nonsensical cast from float to pointer, not to demonstrate anything semi-sensible like getting the bits of a float.
167.
by yuubi 12y ago
int f(float x) { return *(int *)x; }
168.
by yuubi 12y ago
Don't we have some examples of such court orders, basically "Acme Telecom is ORDERED to reveal ALL THE THINGS"?
169.
by yuubi 12y ago
The effect described in the pdf linked at https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Grid_Manipulation suggests that eve does something more complicated than that.
170.
by yuubi 12y ago
Encryption is at the option of the network. Source: connected some cdma2000 mobiles gotten at retail to test equipment without any keys required; connected a DO mobile that probably didn't have any special config, also no keys required
171.
by yuubi 12y ago
Based on reading his blog Pharyngula a few years ago, I suspect that was a response to the "Biology is stupid because it says God didn't create us as his special children" sort of thing he's probably heard too much of wh
172.
by yuubi 12y ago
Nitpick: in RSA implementations using the speed optimization of a small public exponent (sometimes even always the same small number, like 3 or 65537), the private exponent has to be derived from the public one. This derivation uses some s
173.
by yuubi 12y ago
Link should probably be http://www.geekwire.com/2014/hey-denver-police-harrass-ridin...
174.
by yuubi 12y ago
The modest proposal was to extend this approach with all its complications to western alphabetic scripts where possible. Of course nobody wants to do that for obvious reasons, which also apply to the various languages that use Han-derived c
175.
by yuubi 12y ago
Oddly, the following more modest proposal hasn't gotten much traction: characters that share history but have divergent graphical representations in the various dialects of alphabetic script shall share codepoints, and a mechanism beyo
176.
by yuubi 12y ago
One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal syntax. -- http://tools.ietf.org/html&#x2
177.
by yuubi 12y ago
According to the paper[1], "[the research] was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users agree prior to creating an account on Facebook, constituting informed consent for this research." The Onion AV Club bit
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by yuubi 12y ago
> does that mean if one is to use a locally administered address a device is free to take whatever they please? I think those have traditionally been set by network admins, not randomly chosen by devices, but pretty much: nobody apart fr
179.
by yuubi 12y ago
We learned during the prosecution of Swartz that MAC addresses are the analog of VIN number numbers, and that tampering with them is a sign of ill intent. I await the federal case against Apple or an Apple customer with bated breath.
180.
by yuubi 12y ago
Globally administered MAC address ranges are assigned to manufacturers. The slide said "random, "locally* administered" addresses, which aren't assigned that way. There's a bit in the first octet to distinguish th

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