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Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:44PM (#4096499)
I was actually expecting that somebody did some machine learning / matching over a large set of pictures and found all those images / coordinates.
Re:Skype IP Lookup on Friday April 27, 2012 @01:21PM (#3900105)
Here [1] is an interesting paper regarding P2P networks and privacy --- "Exploiting P2P Communications to Invade Users’ Privacy"

[1] http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/skypeIMC2011.pdf

Re:#1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:38PM (#3778220)
Looks that Google detects the type of logout and doesn't ask for two-factor authentication in this case.
Re:Sorting in C++: 3 times faster than C on Saturday March 17, 2012 @10:12AM (#3717099)
I split the code in two binaries: "code" (qsort) and "code2" (std::sort()) and then I ran both under a profiler (based on intel's performance counters).

It seams that qsort simply executes an order of magnitude more instructions for the same result than std::sort. On the other hand std::sort() code, even if it's faster, it has more branch miss-predictions.

Here [1] are the results if you want to have a look.

[1] https://gist.github.com/b97a6395c9a20c3d4cea

Re:Google responds to the Mocality blog post on Friday January 13, 2012 @05:16PM (#3462635)
I don't think that Google Cache acts as a HTTP proxy.