too_late

P2P-sharing would be a really great solution to this from the malware developer's point of view. I don't harbor any ill-will towards malware devs, especially not when they're going after windoze machines :^)

But yeah, the curl website could really come up with a lot of data, so it seems like a very immature solution to what is really a critical component of the app to just blindly reach out for some predefined url. It'd be way smarter to run a CC machine somewhere and start pairing some peers. curl is somewhat small, right?

I think they'll probably just keep renaming the file for now, and updating the URL. It'll just be cat and mouse, and newer versions ship with it, so there's really no point for the curl maintainers to be wasting too much time on it since it's a limited-time issue that will more than likely sort itself out later.

I'm sure you can mind my own business for me, maybe I should even let you write my next comment?

Would you like to see my papers?

You are the type of person I was hoping not to encounter!

The kool-aid drinkers.

I don't like Clojure or ClojureScript. They are both awful by virtue of the platform they exist on. I would like very much if Clojure had a core lisp KLambda, because I could abstract Clojure onto a platform that wasn't terrible.

Rich is a guy who (whether consciously or otherwise) hated writing Java and decided that functional programming worked, and that Lisp did too. Clojure is a strange abomination from the points of view of those in the pure-functional family, and those from the paren-dimension, but I find that Clojure code reads easily, and comes off far more expressive than that of Python or Ruby or other so-called expressive languages.

When someone who uses the JVM tells me that something I know to be true is 'fundamentally flawed' I become fearful for myself, that I might drown in irony.

Q: Is Clojure bootstrapped on something other than JS or JVM or CLR?

A: No, and don't waste your time on this talk if you already have watched any of Rich Hickey's talks, this is an ego-stroke at best that introduces no new solutions to any problems. It's an hour and a half of 'Hey look what clojure can do', and 'Gee, our documentation isn't great'.

Maybe someday Clojure will have something like the Shen project has with KLambda. A tight, core language implementable in any language, and a language library built on top of that core language, agnostic of the implementation it's derived on.

If Clojure had gone this route, we could basically have Clojure on any platform capable of parsing and modifying S-Expressions.

Maybe someday!

You think a quarter-trillion dollary company hasn't thought about letting users freelance on top of the Amzn distribution model? Don't make me laugh! They want to play 'good guy' here because they can get easier data collection if they don't have to verify customers for reviews, and it allows for customer conversion if someone sees that the product is in fact what they want from reading the reviews. They want the identities for that very reason of removing who could be faking it, but I think you're absolutely right that they don't feel threatened by the reviews themselves.

Fiverr is the threat here, and that's a good thing. Either way, I'm buying from Jet from now on.

Doubtful. I'm sure they'll ban whomever they are able to identify, but there are most definitely other reasons this suit will develop into a storm. Fiverr threatens Amazon's business model, and Amazon will do anything to keep turning a profit.

I'll be EXTREMELY shocked if Amazon drops more than just a couple of these suits, they're out to prove a point that THEY run the market, and not Fiverr.

Could something like this be contained in a box, so that each of the sides has these on it?

That way instead of just working laterally, and from the bottom, things could be done from multiple angles. For example, solving a rubiks cube via machine typically involves at least three axes and servos, but with a machine like this that operated on three axes, I imagine a more power efficient method could be developed.

This is really cool technology, I love how simple it is in design, yet it evokes all kinds of ideas in the mind.

If they have special-purpose hardware specially designed for cracking primes, maybe bigger isn't better, right?

What can end-users be doing about this?

Wouldn't this be easy to subvert, though?

I mean, say we put through a few patches and started generating primes more often. Then there big-ass special purpose prime machine becomes an order of magnitude less-effective, right?

I think the best way to defend against these one-to-many attacks is to spread out the cost of decrypting large quantities of data. If we all had our own keys, even if they weren't as strong as one single key that everyone used, that much more work has to be done to decrypt data for a group of users.

I know nothing about crypto, but a layman can hear about these implementation architectures and immediately realize what's wrong with it all.

no

So? He's talking embedding a small scripting language into a JVM project. Groovy fits the bill, Scala doesn't.

None so far, at least that I've seen.

I saw the slides and everything when they were first discussing this, but I havent seen any docs for actually using it yet.

Good things take time, though.

You might also try the irc, I'm away or I'd go ask 'em for ya.

I am so excited! I have been waiting to have an excuse to spend some time with BSD, Lua kernel scripting is definitely going to be something I mess with this weekend.

Awesome!

Hey don't forget Groovy. If you have ever liked Ruby but don't want the weight of JRuby, try out Groovy. It made big waves before Scala.