justquest | 11 years ago | on: Can a simple algebra test predict programming aptitude?
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justquest | 11 years ago | on: Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords
Languages are not countries. A pet peeve I have is websites that toggle languages with a flag.
In this case, I would be curious to know if the PRC would have an issue with a traditional character option.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords
The firewall isn't about being impenetrable.
It's about modifying the aggregate opinion of a population - not a specific individual. Politics is about statistics in the sense that you only need x percent of something to accomplish y goal. In other words, only x percentage of people need to think in a certain way to accomplish y goal. This is why, for example, VPNs aren't strictly enforced. Those who need them, get them. But it's such a pain in the ass for a regular person to subscribe to and deploy, that it doesn't matter on the aggregate level for 5% of people to break through.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: The Internet is Shit (2003)
guilty. manual html tags, no css, a couple center and table tags here and there. the page loads fast.
my powerpoints have (d)evolved to become just as bare now, too.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest
I like your name. I imagine, you would have signed up as legitquestion, but legitquestion was too long, correct?
-justquest :)
justquest | 11 years ago | on: Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest
I actually haven't been to a Beijing Starbucks, but in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo, Starbucks products are markedly more expensive. I imagine that for Beijing the same would be true. I suppose I shouldn't speak for China as a whole, as I haven't been to Starbucks all over the country.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest
This a good explanation, but I have to point out that for this particular example (being able to buy Frappucinos in China because they're cheaper), the opposite is true.
Fun fact: Starbucks is significantly more expensive in China than in America, even if you use the currencies at their current exchange rates.
Not fun fact: I live in China, and I like Starbucks.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
Comcast is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CMCSA & CMCSK), which makes it liable to a host of external pressures, legal and otherwise, that SpaceX as a currently privately-owned company is not.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: A Shark on the Network
Thanks, I'd been wondering this in the back of my head for a while, last time I searched for some reason I couldn't find much.
edit: Now that I see the wiki, I remember correctly that the version of Linux I was using didn't work with this feature in the GUI. Maybe I'll look for the CLI version again soon.
justquest | 11 years ago | on: A Shark on the Network
This is pretty standard wireshark stuff; showing data that was on an unencrypted network.
What I've been wondering about for a while now is, can wireshark show data on an encrypted network, assuming it has the key? Can wireshark take a known WEP/WPA2 key and use it to decrypt the packets on an encrypted network on the fly? I haven't found any CLI's or GUI's that have been able to do this out of the box. But surely someone has made this somewhere.
Wireshark is straightforward for revealing data on unencrypted wireless, but I haven't discovered how it could be used to monitor network users when someone has deciphered the key unbeknownst to the users who assume they are operating on an encrypted network such as WEP/WPA2.
Does the nature of the encrypted handshake make this impossible?
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It's just one intro CS201 course. There might be another Scheme elective, though.