Ergomane | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown?
Windows 8 Pro comes with Bitlocker and is fairly cheap.
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Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Heartbleed vulnerability tester
It appears so. Many sites that were vulnerable earlier today haven't even inactivated sessions.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: How smoking weed is still legal for tourists in Amsterdam
That depends on what is downloaded. Downloading copyrighted software is illegal in NL, downloading movies, music and books is not.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Let banks fail: Iceland’s plan looks to be working
Iceland was not obliged to ensure payment of a minimum compensation to the depositors.
See the EFTA court ruling at http://www.eftacourt.int/uploads/tx_nvcases/16_11_Judgment_E...
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: UK Gov Security Assessment puts Ubuntu in First Place [pdf]
Ubuntu and Windows 8 have the same amount of "orange" and "green", but because the latter is grouped with Windows 7 it disappears from the table.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Skype blog hacked
It is only a simple feature if you don't care about DOS against the user account and do not have an adversary with a large botnet.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)
Transcription is the process where RNA is generated from a DNA template.
The observed error rate is about 10^-5 per nt. This is the error rate after nucleolytic proofreading.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: France’s Hollande Gets Court Approval for 75% Millionaire Tax
> It can easily be extended.
Indeed. Just like the Netherlands where 2013 saw the introduction of the "one time crisis tax" (eenmalige crisisheffing) which constitutes a 16% tax on wages, including bonus, over EUR 150K.
Now, for 2014, the "one time crisis tax" regulation has been prolonged. One time, promise! ("Eenmalige crisisheffing eenmalig verlengd")
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: High Quality PHP
Is _a_ commercial company behind the development. The most important, for sure, but not the only one.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Poll: Which platforms do you develop for?
That would be Windows Store vs Windows, right?
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
> Bacteria both evolve resistance quickly, they also lose it just as quick.
Alas, experiments have shown that it is possible for resistant strains to strongly reduce the cost of resistance maintenance. If there are no naive invaders, this can lead to an evolutionary stable situation where the maintenance of resistance is less costly than losing it.
See Lenski's (old) review "Bacterial evolution and the cost of antibiotic resistance"
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
Even purified phages are not without possible side-effects.
Several phages even encode for bacterial virulence factors such as exotoxins (stx, diphteria toxin).
Fortunately, we are much better equipped in the molecular biology department to do research.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Millions in Asia still on Windows XP
Why do so many commenters on tech sites believe "mum" or "grandpa" only run a browser?
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Misconceptions about evolution
The center of gravity of the entire solar system (the solar barycenter) wanders around and is currently located inside the star. It will be outside of the sun in 2017.
Jupiter, Neptune (edit: and Uranus) serve to create a giant spirograph.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: UN caused deadly cholera in Haiti, covered it up, lawsuit says
The suit alleges that "false statements and misleading information" increased the risk to the population.
I'm not sure that is plausible. At the start of the epidemic investigation on Oct 19, dissemination into communities on the Artibonite delta had already happened.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
The Debian OpenSSL snafu showed that even rather blatant changes get missed.
Anything in the leaked docs on that particular incident?
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: "Forensics for Prosecutors" mentions backdoor in TrueCrypt (page 15) [pdf]
> The container format itself is really just a giant mathematical mess -- there really isn't anything to backdoor there.
The container itself can actually be 'backdoored' by a malicious client by eg saving a duplicate of the master key, or generating a master key using a deliberately weak RNG.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air
It's also silly because many blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), including those in rice paddies, already fix nitrogen in their heterocysts.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic
An entity controlling traffic at your internet connection can force node selection during circuit building by failing requests to uncontrolled nodes. The path bias warning is informational only AFAIK (was added in 2012?) and is not perfect.
Ergomane | 12 years ago | on: Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users
Samsung hires lots of small companies, usually on a per-project basis.
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