And nobody is a "minor player" with something so complex as Xen
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of "minor players". Just look at something like http://lowendbox.com/ or WebHostingTalk. Most of them use OpenVZ because it has less overhead, but Xen is still pretty common as it has fewer limitations (like you can load whichever module you want).
That's horrible use case. It really should not matter if the hacker can get your used one time token after you have entered it. Of course, it's bigger deal if they are not actually one time tokens like in Wildstar (you can use the token until it expires), but that should be fixed by making them one time tokens.
Oh yeah, and their reasoning was that it would protect users against drive-by Javascript keylogger (on desktop client).
Salts do provide protection against that. Salts are secret if you want them to be (you can protect the plain text salt same way as you do protect your plain text keys for encryption), you only need to share them when other party has to be able to hash their original data.
So, how about you tell me what that last number combination is? I can give you a hint that it matches regex/^[1-9]{3}$/ (so there are only 729 possibilities). The salt is 60 character string. If you cannot do it, then OPs post was correct.
What? The only thing you would learn is that one license & medallion number (as in, you know which hash means that combination). You wouldn't know the actual salt (unless the hash algorithm was complete shit/your salt is too short for bruteforce).
Many slashdot readers are well versed in CS and we do not trust these systems. How then can we expect the public to have any faith in these systems?
Like that matters. We don't trust most of the things, but public is perfectly happy with them (until shit hits the fan). Convenience tends to triumph security.
If someone calls that there's a hostage situation a long way from the address of payphone (like few states away), one patrol should be enough to assess the situation on-site.
80MBytes/sec = 640Mbps. That's about 600x higher than what Netflix uses for 1080p. 4K has only 4x as many pixels as 1080p. 1080p BR has 40Mbps maximum video bitrate.
The image isn't really true. Lots of people are regularly sitting in places in which the temperature are even over 100C and not many are dieing because of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna
How do you start applications? Go to desktop and click the icon? Press the Windows menu and find the application from there? Start from Pinned application or whatever it's called (which is okay as long as you don't have tons of applications you are using)? Personally, I find it much easier to just press Windows key, type the few first letters from program name and press enter.
Also, I like to use it to check the time as I have autohide on (and that's one of the largest reasons I dislike the Windows 8 Start view).
No, it hasn't even been a year since Debian switched to 3. Kernel 3 (specifically 3.2 which was released 2012-01-04) only came to Debian at the newest release (wheezy) which was released 2013-05-04. The previous version (squeeze) used 2.6.32 (released 2009-12-03) and was released 2011-02-06.
doesn't matter - you can divide the input number by 3 and if its exactly zero, then print fizz out.
What it? Result? It's only 0 if the input number was 0. You are probably thinking of remainder and in that case you would need to use modulo. There are various ways to get around of not using modulo, but that's not one.
You don't need to use mod for fizzbuzz. It's likely the most effective (besides precomputed tables), but there are several alternatives. To name some:
1. Create your own mod function (you can most likely leave out dealing with negatives and overflows as long as you just point that out). Given dividend X and divisor Y, while X>=Y: X=X-Y and finally return X.
2. Take human approach and convert the number to string. Skip 0/print it depending on definition. If last number is 0 or 5, it's dividable by 5. For dividable by 3, you loop thru the string and sum the numbers. Repeat until the length of string is 1. Now compare it to 3, 6 and 9 (you can convert it back to number or just compare the string of those). If it's true, it's dividable by 3.
Surely you could create at least one of those in some language you know?
You shouldn't judge operating system's versioning based on their kernel version (and from begin within, the kernel version can be very arbitrary, Linux's jump from last 2.4 to 2.6 was way bigger than it's jump from last 2.6 to 3.0). Otherwise you are saying that there's only one major version difference between Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.x) and Debian 7.0 (kernel 3.x) since the kernel has only been pumped up by one version.
Publicly they have told they use Linux. As far as I know, no details have been released about on which distro it's based on (if any).
They most likely use some other servers as well on some projects (I would imagine they want to ensure compatibility at least), but they are also likely very rare.
(Do you really intend to type all of: runas/profile/env/user:mymachine\administrator "mmc %windir%\system32\services.msc" ???)
No. Almost every program that needs admin permissions will ask for it automatically these days (mmc will ask it when it starts, some will ask it as needed). If it doesn't (like notepad and cmd), I will simply start the program with shift+ctrl+enter and that will make program to run as admin (it doesn't work from run prompt, but it does work from the searchpromptthing).
Kutsuplus's price is 3.50 € ($4.73) + 0.45 €/km ($0.98/mile). For cabs, base price is 5.90€ ($7.97) € or 9€ ($12.16) depending on the time and the price per km is 1.52 € - 2.13€ depending on number of passengers ($3.31 - $4.63 per mile). The price for single mass transit ticket (inside Helsinki) is 2.80€ ($3.78) when bought from the driver and it's good for 60 minutes (or 80 minutes when bought from certain busses).
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And nobody is a "minor player" with something so complex as Xen
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of "minor players". Just look at something like http://lowendbox.com/ or WebHostingTalk. Most of them use OpenVZ because it has less overhead, but Xen is still pretty common as it has fewer limitations (like you can load whichever module you want).
That's horrible use case. It really should not matter if the hacker can get your used one time token after you have entered it. Of course, it's bigger deal if they are not actually one time tokens like in Wildstar (you can use the token until it expires), but that should be fixed by making them one time tokens.
Oh yeah, and their reasoning was that it would protect users against drive-by Javascript keylogger (on desktop client).
Salts do provide protection against that. Salts are secret if you want them to be (you can protect the plain text salt same way as you do protect your plain text keys for encryption), you only need to share them when other party has to be able to hash their original data.
Here are some sha1 hashes:
So, how about you tell me what that last number combination is? I can give you a hint that it matches regex /^[1-9]{3}$/ (so there are only 729 possibilities). The salt is 60 character string. If you cannot do it, then OPs post was correct.
What? The only thing you would learn is that one license & medallion number (as in, you know which hash means that combination). You wouldn't know the actual salt (unless the hash algorithm was complete shit/your salt is too short for bruteforce).
Doesn't sound a very good idea to do in C... Sure, you can always #define +, but don't wonder why all of your coworkers will hate you for it.
Like that matters. We don't trust most of the things, but public is perfectly happy with them (until shit hits the fan). Convenience tends to triumph security.
If someone calls that there's a hostage situation a long way from the address of payphone (like few states away), one patrol should be enough to assess the situation on-site.
80MBytes/sec = 640Mbps. That's about 600x higher than what Netflix uses for 1080p. 4K has only 4x as many pixels as 1080p. 1080p BR has 40Mbps maximum video bitrate.
Centralized login to what? To Windows there's also at least Novell OES + eDirectory + Novell Client. To Linux you can use PAM with RADIUS for example.
Why? 1.3 is supposed to be coming Q2 2014. It wouldn't hurt to wait a bit, would it (and the likely already have all the required details anyway)?
Youtube?
The image isn't really true. Lots of people are regularly sitting in places in which the temperature are even over 100C and not many are dieing because of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna
How do you start applications? Go to desktop and click the icon? Press the Windows menu and find the application from there? Start from Pinned application or whatever it's called (which is okay as long as you don't have tons of applications you are using)? Personally, I find it much easier to just press Windows key, type the few first letters from program name and press enter.
Also, I like to use it to check the time as I have autohide on (and that's one of the largest reasons I dislike the Windows 8 Start view).
I'm still waiting for tootbrush that looks a bit like mouthguard which I could just bite for a bit and let it handle the brushing almost instantly.
No, it hasn't even been a year since Debian switched to 3. Kernel 3 (specifically 3.2 which was released 2012-01-04) only came to Debian at the newest release (wheezy) which was released 2013-05-04. The previous version (squeeze) used 2.6.32 (released 2009-12-03) and was released 2011-02-06.
doesn't matter - you can divide the input number by 3 and if its exactly zero, then print fizz out.
What it? Result? It's only 0 if the input number was 0. You are probably thinking of remainder and in that case you would need to use modulo. There are various ways to get around of not using modulo, but that's not one.
You don't need to use mod for fizzbuzz. It's likely the most effective (besides precomputed tables), but there are several alternatives. To name some:
1. Create your own mod function (you can most likely leave out dealing with negatives and overflows as long as you just point that out). Given dividend X and divisor Y, while X>=Y: X=X-Y and finally return X.
2. Take human approach and convert the number to string. Skip 0/print it depending on definition. If last number is 0 or 5, it's dividable by 5. For dividable by 3, you loop thru the string and sum the numbers. Repeat until the length of string is 1. Now compare it to 3, 6 and 9 (you can convert it back to number or just compare the string of those). If it's true, it's dividable by 3.
Surely you could create at least one of those in some language you know?
And Windows 8 is not Windows version 5.2, it's Windows 8. The kernel's is version 5.2.
You shouldn't judge operating system's versioning based on their kernel version (and from begin within, the kernel version can be very arbitrary, Linux's jump from last 2.4 to 2.6 was way bigger than it's jump from last 2.6 to 3.0). Otherwise you are saying that there's only one major version difference between Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.x) and Debian 7.0 (kernel 3.x) since the kernel has only been pumped up by one version.
At least some sports (like pro wrestling) actually wan to avoid getting defined as sports in legal sense as it can bring bunch of problems (like Title IX). There are some legal thoughts available athttp://dpgatlaw.com/2013/07/23/inviting-regulation-the-sportsification-of-video-games/.
Publicly they have told they use Linux. As far as I know, no details have been released about on which distro it's based on (if any).
They most likely use some other servers as well on some projects (I would imagine they want to ensure compatibility at least), but they are also likely very rare.
Surely they allow DNS? http://dnstunnel.de/
Or maybe even ping. http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/
This small time player called Amazon doesn't ask for them.
(Do you really intend to type all of: runas /profile /env /user:mymachine\administrator "mmc %windir%\system32\services.msc" ???)
No. Almost every program that needs admin permissions will ask for it automatically these days (mmc will ask it when it starts, some will ask it as needed). If it doesn't (like notepad and cmd), I will simply start the program with shift+ctrl+enter and that will make program to run as admin (it doesn't work from run prompt, but it does work from the searchpromptthing).
Kutsuplus's price is 3.50 € ($4.73) + 0.45 €/km ($0.98/mile). For cabs, base price is 5.90€ ($7.97) € or 9€ ($12.16) depending on the time and the price per km is 1.52 € - 2.13€ depending on number of passengers ($3.31 - $4.63 per mile). The price for single mass transit ticket (inside Helsinki) is 2.80€ ($3.78) when bought from the driver and it's good for 60 minutes (or 80 minutes when bought from certain busses).