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   by gtsc 14y ago

   HSBC asks for a primary password as well as 3 random characters of a secondary password. They could hash your original password + each of the characters in your secondary password, which would mean an attacker would have to crack your prima
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   by gtsc 14y ago

   Uh, how exactly? The whole point of the private key is that it's only known to MS...
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   by gtsc 14y ago

   Random fan on Newegg has ~2W power draw, so not much. But many processors are limited by heat dissipation, so better heat transfer could mean faster clock speeds (think water cooling, but much more convenient). Also means the fans could run
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   by gtsc 14y ago

   Heading of link is wrong: original source article says its 30 TIMES more efficient, not 30%. This would be a seriously big deal if it's actually commercialized: based on the Sandia video I have no doubt they have a working prototype.
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   by gtsc 14y ago

   Here's an even simpler way to think about it: it's the left point of the standard 95% confidence interval from the Central Limit Theorem plus a hack for small sample sizes. The Wikipedia page says the hack is almost equivalent to estimating