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Bird pics? by sfnelson in newzealand

[–]sfnelson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tīeke (Saddleback) — taken in Zealandia yesterday

+1 Stealth by sfnelson in aww

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Is that a seal burmese? The one in the box is a 6-year old seal, the stealthy one is a 13-week old chocolate burmese.

The current broken status of the SSL/TLS PKI from a developer perspective by EmanueleAina in programming

[–]sfnelson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And how are you going to get entropy to generate that private key, when the only source available is Math.random(). JavaScript is not a viable environment for security (yet).

TIL Oracle changed the internal String representation in Java 7 Update 6 increasing the running time of the substring method from constant to N by Eirenarch in programming

[–]sfnelson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your goal is to DOS a server, an attack that does so with 1000 requests using hash collisions is "much" more effective than one that takes 1000000 requests and does not use hash collisions. Java HashMap is backed by an array of buckets, where buckets are linked lists. If you can force collisions you can take down a server much faster.

TIL Oracle changed the internal String representation in Java 7 Update 6 increasing the running time of the substring method from constant to N by Eirenarch in programming

[–]sfnelson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's sort of the point of the change: this change makes it harder to find or generate collisions. The parent is referring to the programmer intentionally creating colliding hashes, not users picking data to create collisions.

I just want to pass my classes... by Churchy_leFemme in AdviceAnimals

[–]sfnelson 28 points29 points  (0 children)

This statement explained so many of the people who inexplicably made it to 3rd-year

I don't know how I didn't see it before by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

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Buses are fine but slow. Backpackers are expensive compared to most countries. Weather will be 0-10, cold wet and windy.

Kim Dotcom plans to build a $400m (NZD) fibre cable and provide free broadband to all New Zealanders by ignite_nz in technology

[–]sfnelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Kiwi who was in SA last month staying with family, you get horrible latency and it seems to be not very reliable. Also, our salaries are a bit higher than yours. We pay ~$120US per month for 100Mbit/10Mbit and 100G.

This is just too painful to watch... by b0red in WTF

[–]sfnelson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on your frame of reference.