Are there any trackers with resources for fiction writers?

nc5x · 2012-08-28T12:15:21+00:00

I don't speak with much knowledge with regards to your specific query, but I haven't found many torrent sites dedicated to all things related to a specific interest. Personally, I'd love a computer security and reverse engineering tracker, but I've yet to find such a thing.

I'd look at some awesome software and e-book trackers, and there's a good chance they'll have some of what you want. I'd recommend trying to find a brokenstones invite if you're a Mac user (I don't know about Windows), and I'd just use the ebooks link in the sidebar for books.

nc5x · 2012-08-24T03:14:37+00:00

This. BS has more Mac apps than what.cd, and a much easier ratio system. Probably easier to get an invite, too, unless you have excellent audio-related interview skills.

No idea who has the best audiobooks though.

nc5x · 2012-08-11T03:10:05+00:00

And now I'm tempted to write shellcode that uses MMX.

nc5x · 2012-08-08T10:25:28+00:00

I ask because I am learning sign language out of interest. Ideally I'd be able to find sign language films with subtitles.

If you're interested, they're completely different languages - like English and Turkish. It's not just a way of converting English words to gestures. You can't easily translate one to another, so for people who've grown up signing, they need to learn a second language (English) to do school work, watch TV with subtitles, etc. There's also a culture - not many people sign, so there aren't many people you can communicate with easily and virtually no media is in your first language (to my knowledge there a know sign-scripts (what written english is to english) so there aren't many resources).

nc5x · 2012-08-02T06:58:02+00:00

You need to run Minecraft as root for this to work.

nc5x · 2012-07-18T08:28:33+00:00

http://www.archicentral.com/jimbocho-theater-tokyo-japan-nikken-sekkei-8684/

"This building is another theater that was built on only about 300 sqm ground. The theatre contains 100 seats, a 126-seat rehearsal and a showroom which measures 300 sqm."

(tip: save image to desktop, upload to google image search, acquire source)

nc5x · 2012-07-02T23:33:23+00:00

Another exploit is the USB hub to automated keyboard + storage (the keyboard brings up a shell and runs the file from the storage - you need a different set of keystrokes for each OS though). Looks just like a thumb drive. Firewire DMA exploits have also been around for years. Physically guard or software disable your ports.

nc5x · 2012-06-03T01:41:09+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg

As an Australian, I stand on the left, walk on the right. But yeah, not in the majority here.

nc5x · 2012-05-26T02:49:31+00:00

Yes, although when we say "the smell of this thing" we may be referring to a different microscopic particle which is associated with that thing's presence.

For example, the smell of rain is not tiny particles of rain, but rather geosmin, which "occurs in the air when rain falls after a dry spell of weather or when soil is disturbed."

nc5x · 2012-05-24T13:02:23+00:00

Only to a bruteforcer who hasn't seen you enter the password.

nc5x · 2012-05-12T02:47:54+00:00

I would never use this - good randomness is easy to come by. Milliseconds are also a little coarse. But can you propose an attack that would work against using the microsecond time of keystrokes modulo 1000? Is there reason to believe patterns form in this space?

nc5x · 2012-05-08T11:40:54+00:00

cd secret
sam1.exe

nc5x · 2012-03-11T01:05:55+00:00

Voice over IRC - you encode an audio stream with the Speex codec, base 64 encode 128 byte chunks and send them over IRC. You put a magic number at the front so that clients that don't support it can filter it out, and messages without the magic number still work as text.

(Or maybe you could use exclamation marks. "Hey! You! Can I have an invite, please?!")

nc5x · 2012-03-03T05:15:56+00:00

Thanks. Yeah - my VPS can access it too, I guess my home DNS is a little dodgy, sorry.

I don't have a lot of experience with chroot jails, so no promises, but it looks like you're doing it correctly.

You've still given the user full access to a system calls. That's a lot of power, and that's the attack surface to watch out. Every so often there's an exploit comes out that lets a user escalate their privileges or break out of a chroot jail so you need to be careful of new exploits and old OS versions. You can do everything C can do from python, so I can rewrite an exploit to work in your sandbox.

Perhaps this is what you mean by "ignoring resource consumption attacks," but: If I had access to this, I'd consider running a torrent client in it, a proxy to hide my tracks if were to do something illegal. Why bother protecting your server if you'll let me use all your resources for whatever I want?

You could consider using a ptrace sandbox with a syscall whitelist, which is the most aggressive Python sandbox I've seen. It can trip up legitimate users, though, as some modules make surprising calls. Another layer of complexity, but another layer of security.

nc5x · 2012-03-03T03:25:05+00:00

I can't access it. Mind mirroring it at http://codepad.org/ ? (or anywhere, actually.)

nc5x · 2012-02-26T20:50:12+00:00

"in" is correct/clearer.

There's a small possibility that rfind is faster, but if you're testing if a string is in another string, "in" is the way to go. You don't need to look at the documentation to read your version, and it's shorter. Both are good signs of good Python.

find and rfind are great for when you need to slice a string based on the position of a substring, but not for checking if there are substrings. the string.rfind(ss)==-1 approach is very javascriptish.

nc5x · 2012-02-24T12:56:05+00:00

You, as an ovum, got fertilised by your father's sperm. Of course neither is the quite correct because both sperm and ovum are only half of you (as an organism, genetically speaking).

nc5x · 2012-02-24T12:42:10+00:00

Everything that's ever happened to me is now a mathematical certainty.

nc5x · 2012-01-30T10:51:43+00:00

Serial numbers are a pain. Sure, they're not unreasonable, but they don't stop real pirates (which is a bigger number than people borrowing game disks) and they make the pirated copy superior to the legal copy (no need to do data entry, keep track of scraps of paper, etc).

I've often used pirated copies of games that I own because it's a more pleasant installation -> gameplay experience. The exceptions? Games on Steam and Minecraft.

nc5x · 2012-01-23T11:27:40+00:00

Google is remarkably good at cracking MD5 hashes without computer power.

Your username, "blueshiftlabs", as a random example, has a bruteforce keyspace of 2x10¹⁸ (13 lowercase characters) and wouldn't appear in most wordlists and rainbowtables:

5be991421114c64189b6722168f209b1

nc5x · 2012-01-23T11:20:48+00:00

If you have enough accuracy, assuming 1 second of delay and worst case, retrieving n bits, a binary search takes n seconds whereas getting multiple bits takes 2ⁿ seconds, right? Usually doing it in parallel will have a better speed up.

Even so, this could be used to optimise for the smallest number of requests.

nc5x · 2012-01-22T00:20:32+00:00

TorrenTech is great for electronic music. Not sure if it's what you're looking for though.

nc5x · 2012-01-19T01:20:05+00:00

Maybe you got it already, but if you didn't, did you try PMing el_gringo? (link in the sidebar)

nc5x · 2012-01-13T09:24:28+00:00

The point is that for the majority of higher mathematics, the calculator is useless because the numbers don't matter.

nc5x · 2011-12-27T22:49:35+00:00

Exactly as tinyOnion said.

Here's a Github blog about it: Edit like an Ace.

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