opejn

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by opejn 8y ago
Thank you for sharing your story. I hope you don't mind if I turn it into a thought experiment, because I find it a good example of how tricky finding and fixing a problem can be. I know nothing about water quality standards, so they
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by opejn 8y ago
Yes! In C its full spelling is "!a != !b".
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by opejn 10y ago
> Not to mention the fact that Homebrew itself uses the system git to install itself. To me, this is the biggest problem, and it's not just Homebrew. Any source package manager that uses Git will potentially have this problem. Wit
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by opejn 11y ago
A breaking example might be trying to find lines containing an "=" in a file: grep = my_file Also a problem is the syntax for running a program with environment assignments that apply only to the program: env1=foo e
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by opejn 11y ago
The problem with this is the limits of human attention. It's hard enough to maintain focus on long drives as it is; if the "enhanced cruise control" takes over the job entirely, the driver will have nothing to do and is like
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by opejn 11y ago
I think the question was whether we can easily mass-download the papers from Scihub.
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by opejn 11y ago
> is there a disadvantage to using a higher blocksize? Maybe, depending on the details. Imagine reading 4 GB from one disk then writing it all to another, all at 1 MB/sec. If your block size is 4 GB, It'll take 4000 seconds t
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by opejn 11y ago
This reminds me of assertions we used to take for granted about DRAM. We used to assume that the contents are lost when you cut the power, but then someone turned a can of cold air on a DIMM. We usually assume that bits are completely ind
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by opejn 11y ago
I think you're overstating how bad things are. Dreamhost, for example, no longer requires a dedicated IP for SSL, though they do still recommend it for e-commerce. They are charging $15/year for a CA-signed certificate. Granted,
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by opejn 11y ago
The main reason I would think it's a good choice is because if you decide to get a CA certificate later, you just drop it in and you're done; no additional configuration required. If you don't have a CA certificate, you'
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by opejn 12y ago
You can tunnel through HTTPS too, given a client/server pair that supports HTTP CONNECT. Conversely it's possible to disable the SSH port forwarding function. From the firewall's point of view, they ought to be equally risky
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by opejn 12y ago
Even if you did do this, any server implementing SYN cookies would ignore the payload and require you to retransmit anyway.
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by opejn 12y ago
Yes, it makes the passphrases a lot more memorable. But when there's guaranteed to be at least one taboo word in a passphrase (and it looks like 2+ is likely even with only four words), I think it's reducing the search space too
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by opejn 12y ago
I think Schneier was assuming here that the user chooses the words himself rather than using a random generator. It's a fair assumption, given that most people won't actively seek out tools to help them make up passwords.