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  1. pay for use on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    Is there a cloud service provider that allows complete usage-based payment? Where you don't select how much storage/computing/bandwith you need when you select your plan but at the end of the month you have to pay for whatever you used.

    Maybe my website only needs a few Mb/s of data transfer, but if a video suddenly goes viral, the cloud provider can automatically increase the bandwith to my website. And at the end of the month I only have to pay for whatever data upload/download I used. (and similar for cpu cycles, data storage and memory use)

  2. spam gives you points on Javascript Game of Tron In 226 Bytes · · Score: 1

    if you keep spamming i,j,k and l, your score keeps going up.

    also, why doesn't it work in firefox??

  3. Re:They are horrible on Belgian Rightsholders Group Wants To Charge Libraries For Reading Books To Kids · · Score: 1

    Not sure about local bands playing their own songs, but I can confirm everything else unfortunately.

  4. Finally. on Facebook Makes Privacy Settings More Obvious · · Score: 1

    "Another change Facebook is introducing is allowing users to modify the audience of a post after it's published, which they couldn't do before."

    Finally. Why did this have to take so long to implement? I was considering deleting all posts I made that were viewable by everyone to clean up my profile for future job interviews. Luckily now I don't have to.

  5. Re:Wall Street on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    So what do you recommend people finishing college look for in a job? What did you do?

  6. Re:Really, no salt? on Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI · · Score: 2

    Your math is correct if you want to know how many entries it would take to cover the entire hash space.
    However more advanced tables don't store all entries. (rainbow tables)

    In short: they repeatedly hash a word and turn the hash into another word. After many of these iterations they store the word they started with and the word they end up with. If you want to look up a hash, repeatedly turn it into a word and hash it until you find a word that's in the table. They you can start off at the starting word of that chain and continue until you end up at the password you were looking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table#Precomputed_hash_chains

    It saves you a ton of storage space.

  7. unencrypted again on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 1

    I was hoping Sony would have increased the security of their system. With everyone being forced to enter a new password they could at least encrypt it this time around.

    It serves them right to still be this unconcerned with security to get hacked again.

  8. Re:Old rules on The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing · · Score: 1

    Mine is "Never be IPS-ing". Once I get used to an IPS panel, I'll have to keep buying expensive IPS panels instead of cheap TN panels.

  9. Re:Oh no! on Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want · · Score: 1

    Yes you might not care about a single promo video anymore but think of all the information that will disappear from the internet, never to be seen again, if nobody uploads it anywhere else. If you no longer have the originals, you'll never be able to watch that video again.

  10. Re:Maybe 3-SAT isn't NP-complete on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    I believe it was based on the NP-completeness of the general SAT.

    1) 3SAT is a special case of SAT so it's also NP.
    2) A SAT problem can be reduced to 3SAT (add some variables to it: x||y becomes x||y||z && x||y||NOTz (similar for clauses with 1, 4, 5, 6... numbers of literals)
    3) the reduction is clearly done in polynomial time

  11. Re:I'll be first to say WTF on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    And in base 3:
    0.0222... is 0.1

  12. Re:And how many people actually protect their phon on Smartphone As Your Most Dangerous Possession · · Score: 1

    Yes the iPhone 4 has full device encryption but Android phones don't. A thief can root a phone and read all unencrypted data from it when connecting it to a computer. example: http://www.androidcentral.com/android-passwords-rooted-clear-text
    There are a number of open issues about it on the google android site; ex. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809

  13. Re:Pretty simple. on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 1

    Sure I'm already paying levies on blank media (€9 for a TB HD and €0.59 per DVD (yes that's 60% of the retail price)) here in Belgium.

    However, it's still illegal to download or upload a song or movie.
    The levy is just used to "compensate" for making copies of copyrightable material. Yes, for personal copies/backups of the data.

  14. Re:Talk about censorship on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the article of the original slashdotted article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090907747.html)

    "Shaffer's book was reviewed and cleared in writing by the Army Reserve earlier this year."

    They did clear it. Afterwards they realized they forgot something and are paying for the damages of the first run.

  15. Re:Talk about censorship on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They were always willing to cooperate but they already made the first run. It's just the DoD paying for the damages of forgetting to censor something in the book beforehand.

  16. Re:Put in the time on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    I'm counting a good part of my college education into those 10,000 hours. (comp sci & engineering)

  17. some comments on Belgian ISP Claims One Customer Downloads 2.7TB · · Score: 1

    I'll post the same thing here that I posted on Digg yesterday. This was the first month Telenet was offering an Unlimited (fair use) subscription (the previous download cap was 100GB). I'm sure many people tried to download as much as possible just to see if there was a hidden download maximum and if they would get capped at a lower speed. The real mass downloaders are on different ISPs that have offered unlimited for many years now. And FTA: Telenet has not posted this information as a complaint of what they have to deal with, but to give us "a better picture of what exactly is possible with this new way of surfing." FYI Turbonet costs 61 per month for 30 Mbps download & 1,25 Mbps upload speed. Fibernet is a bit more expensive for 50Mbps

  18. Re:Only 98% lies. on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    I get up to 675KB/s download speed on my 6Mb/s connection (that's the maximum; when I'm downloading big files from a good server)

    675 * 1.1 (ATM overhead) = 742KB/s = 5.94 Mb/s

    Unfortunately when I upgraded to a 12Mb/s connection I remained capped at the previous speed because "I'm too far away from the central".

  19. Re:Proof by example? on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    Replying to my own comment.

    The minesweeper consistency problem is actually NP-complete. That problem consists of trying to find a mine-solution to the numbers on a grid.
    http://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/

  20. Re:Proof by example? on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    NP-complete (= NP hard + in NP) means: As hard or even harder than any other NP problem. (so they're the most difficult of any NP problem) if P=NP, then they're actually pretty easy to solve since it's in NP thus also in P. if P!=NP then they're the most difficult to solve of any NP problems, so there's no polynomial time solution. (or else every NP problem would have a P solution and thus P=NP) the unsolvablity of minesweeper has nothing to do with its complexity.

  21. Re:Starcraft 2 lack of LAN was to control pro game on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, Korean law states that (in non legal terms): You may do what you want with what you bought.

    Kespa (korean e-sports association) ran SC:BW tournaments for many years on LAN and Blizzard couldn't do anything about that. Now that they would have to connect to the blizzard servers to play, Kespa would need to have authorization to host tournaments (which they won't get because Blizzard has already chosen GomTV to organize the tournaments)

  22. Re:Einstein once said... on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 1

    SVD-decomposition : my try (shouldn't it be SV-decomposition anyway?)

    A matrix is a rectangle filled with numbers. An SVD, changes the matrix in 3 other matrices. The middle one has a hole bunch of zeros. The first and last one have the same numbers in different order. We can use those 3 matrices to do stuff easier than with the original one.

    Let me know if he understands it.

  23. Re:Slight of hand? on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    But your permutations aren't equally likely!

    Prob[boy,girl] = Prob[boy,boy] = 1/3

    Prob[boy,girl] = Prob[Named Boy, girl]
    but Prob[boy,boy] != Prob[Named Boy, boy]

    It's the "you're wrong or you're right => 1/2" all over again.

  24. Re:The universe would suffer thermal death on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    It's been a while since I read the full article (and IANAPhysicist), but it was about a 1 kg laptop with a 1 liter volume. (don't think about a laptop, thing about a cube of energy that can calculate stuff really fast) Sure you could make a thousand of them and put them in a 1 m cube. And a billion of those to make a km cube, but that's only increasing the computations by 10^12 = 2^40, which would barely come close to breaking 1 AES-256 enrypted file in a a few days.

    However, this is the absolute limit to computation. The computer already has an internal energy of E=mc^2 = 8.9*10^16J (for 1 kg) at 10^9 Kelvin.

  25. Re:The universe would suffer thermal death on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you can predict limits to the (currently accepted) laws of physics.

    Ultimate Physical limits to computation, Seth Lloyd - Nature, vol 406, 31 august 2000 (hopefully not too outdated)

    a quote from the article: "The ultimate laptop performs 5.4258 * 10^50 logical operations per second." (that's about 2^170)
    You can definitely predict limits to computation. Even the most powerful machine would need a long time to go though all combinations of AES-256.