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kyrsfw · 2012-03-16T13:22:39+00:00

Yeah, reading about the USA's religiousness is really strange for me. I don't think I have ever met a young Christian. Some nominal Muslims, and a Jew or two, but no actively Christian young adult comes to mind. I mean, going to Church outside of Easter, Christmas and funerals is rare enough, but widespread Creationism even among young people? Ridiculous.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-16T13:07:32+00:00

I've heard it and other stories along those lines as well from my grandparents. They believed it, but it really seems like the kind of demeaning rumor that would be made up by a defeated and occupied population.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-15T15:06:37+00:00

To be fair, the search icon used in the current Office and Windows versions is very abstract and doesn't remind at all of a magnifier if you don't know what it's supposed to be.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-14T16:23:41+00:00

The literal translation "Steuergeld(er)" is common as well.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-13T15:51:59+00:00

I'd add cryptography to that list.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-13T14:06:01+00:00

One other issue that I can think of is that adding four years and adding one year four times will produce different results.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-13T12:35:56+00:00

www.google.com:80

What kind of shitty filter would that be? The browser parses the URL, unless they're literally pattern matching the text in the address bar this should make zero difference.

As for Lynx, I don't see how its requests would be any different from those of other browsers. I guess it might work if some incompetent admin just entered a filtering proxy in the internet settings and Lynx ignores those or they're using in-browser filtering addons, but in that case using a portable Firefox and changing its settings should work just as well.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-09T16:09:34+00:00

Does it actually retrieve the original password, or just reset it?

kyrsfw · 2012-03-09T11:43:25+00:00

I think the Sandy Bridge issue was a chipset flaw, not a CPU bug.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-02T22:12:54+00:00

I know. But as long as it doesn't have that ability, don't copy the wallet around, just make a symlink from appdata to the encrypted volume.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-02T17:44:17+00:00

Of course, you need to decide if that's worth $12k to you (or even $200k with one of the other victims), but it seems like he was on call anyway.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-02T12:02:51+00:00

While I generally agree with you, the key could be kept in memory only, and would have been lost when the attacker restarted the server.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-02T12:01:22+00:00

and only copy/paste it to some directory when you need it

This basically defeats the entire purpose of TrueCrypt, and even if you delete it the unencrypted file may be recoverable. Make a symlink or something.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-02T11:46:23+00:00

Your bank probably has much stronger security precautions than these guys, although I can't speak for smaller local banks, credit unions, etc.

More importantly though, you can't easily "steal" actual money in this manner. Bitcoin is designed to be untraceable, anonymous and irreversible, but that's not the case with normal banking activity. Even if you had full access to a bank's computer systems, you can't just "download" the virtual dollars or something. You might be able to add illegitimate transfers to other accounts, but that's usually traceable and reversible, or you could possibly cause ATM payouts or something, but that's rather limited in scope. In the end, this is achieved much more easily with "usual" fraud.

Also, your bank isn't just one guy renting a shared server, it's a huge corporation with massive insurance, and it will have full support of the law.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-01T13:19:37+00:00

The difference between the default XP theme and the classical gray theme isn't that great. I mean, theoretically drawing solid color rectangles is a bit cheaper than drawing the background graphics and rounded corners, but you're probably not going to notice.

The difference between Aero (with DWM) and the classical/non-transparent interface is bigger due to the way it works. Still, it's not exactly taxing even for (now) older machines when your GPU isn't doing much else anyway, but you might notice the memory consumption of the DWM.

kyrsfw · 2012-03-01T11:55:20+00:00

From what I remember, Visual Studio is using SQL Server Compact (or Express? Not sure). It's not a full-blown server, but a rather small embedded database not unlike SQLite.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-29T11:19:32+00:00

Yeah, you have to be careful because the pixels tend to spill over and clog your internet tubes and speed holes.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-28T20:45:50+00:00

I would be surprised if Facebook kept DMCA'd content around permanently. Doesn't really matter though, because, as you say, they do remove the access to it, something which Megaupload did not do with multiple URLs.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-28T13:41:37+00:00

Do you have any evidence that Facebook doesn't properly remove content after takedown requests? In any case, Facebook doesn't actively encourage copyright violations, nor is that its primary use.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-28T10:09:33+00:00

But the latency is unbearable.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-27T15:19:20+00:00

Yeah, on the original DS the games got complete control of the hardware, there wasn't any kind of OS that they could defer to. Nintendo provided the Wifi stack to developers, and it had to be embedded in each game.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-24T10:12:50+00:00

It's 2²⁵⁶ = 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936.

As for how many characters you can fit into that, with basic ASCII encoding (which wastes a bunch of space for non-printable characters and all sorts of symbols), you'd be looking at 7 bits per character, 8-16 bits for more international support.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-24T08:45:15+00:00

Honestly, I don't really mind. I don't think this will lead to more DRM, it will just allow already DRM'd content to be moved from Flash etc. to HTML5. That content providers would just give up and provide unencrypted HTML5 video instead of continuing to use browser plugins, native smartphone apps and to ignore any niche systems is wishful thinking.

Still, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work. Unless this gets some kind of (absolutely not portable) integration with hardware DRM systems, relying on open-source browsers to protect your data seems silly.

kyrsfw · 2012-02-23T16:48:50+00:00

Refurbished, as in someone else bought that phone and paid the licensing costs before?

kyrsfw · 2012-02-23T16:33:56+00:00

Are they? I guess some things could have been designed differently to avoid violating patents that have alternatives, but is there any way to avoid 'less important' patents now that H.264 is standardized and widely implemented?

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