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Re:Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach on Friday October 06, 2017 @07:49PM (#15421312)
SHA-1 has been known to be vulnerable since 2005, and even in 2012 SHA-2 and SHA-3 were recommended.

Nonetheless, you have a point!

Re:Literate SQL on Sunday June 25, 2017 @02:13PM (#14631328)
Of course, not all operations return a relation, such as count, update_all, delete, etc, even if they have a sql equivalent.
Re:The Wheels Come Off Uber on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:19PM (#14613765)
The alternative is not supporting a company who doesn't provide a living wage for their workers after they go into debt. They talk about making drivers entrepreneurs? That's just code for "we convinced some suckers to invest in a falling wage". Who do you know who invested in a black car and paid it off driving uber? There are similar stories with medallions, but that's a separate issue with separate solutions.

Lyft may have similar issues, but in cities without real taxi companies (e.g. Sf) there's no real alternative to being a part of this terrible "entrepeneurship". Tipping will put uber back on my phone.

Re:The Wheels Come Off Uber on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:10PM (#14613690)
Waymo has already indicated they will partner with Lyft.
Re:The Wheels Come Off Uber on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:06PM (#14613664)
Just don't tip. It's a bug if they can rate your tip.

Meanwhile I like not being a dick to drivers. What's the big deal?

Re:When Does Amazon Become a Monopoly? on Saturday June 17, 2017 @04:55AM (#14574954)
Corporations are certainly not well placed for research. What about research without promise of profit?
Re:When Does Amazon Become a Monopoly? on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:55PM (#14574037)
I was under the impression that using your dominance in one market to secure dominance in another is considered monopolistic behavior—for instance, shipping IE with windows.
You either have to strip the potential for character to influence resumes or accept that bias and nepotism will exist.
Re:ARM Pointer Authentication on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:00PM (#14479696)
How does using the "unused" bits of a 64-bit pointer differ, functionally, from address space randomization with 64 bits? The search space is the same. Misses are still trivially detectable.

By my reading, this allows not a whitelist of pages, but a whitelist of arbitrary addresses. Different granularities entirely. Can anyone else bring a light to bear on this?

Mostly I just associate them with having terrible drivers. I have already been nearly run over at crosswalks by gig drivers twice in two weeks.
Re:Rewrite Linux Kernel in Rust? on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:48PM (#14479658)
Why would you expect assignment order to be similar? Nothing else about c syntax is shared.

If anything, at&t follows English: move literal 5 into register eax.

Re:Rewrite Linux Kernel in Rust? on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:45PM (#14479651)
Do you get anything with him? I was under the impression dereference safety wasn't a priority.
Re:A world without retirement? on Sunday April 02, 2017 @08:46PM (#14019904)
Well a) SS is barely livable and b) unemployment insurance would actually be a much better proposition if people paid into it.
Re:Going native on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:11AM (#13947034)
Does an electron app make any difference?
Re:Going native on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:10AM (#13947032)
Does a go app use the native toolkit?

QT isn't native either.

Re:Going native on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:09AM (#13947028)
The technical sense meaning it's not interpreting some random scripting language and rendering with HTML/dom?

Because that's the meaningful sense.

Re:Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:35AM (#13946889)
Meditation apps. People are clearly getting rich selling "mindfulness" to people who think they need it.

Of course, what they really need to do is put their phone away and actually focus on, you know, nothing.