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Comment · 12 years ago
How can you actually make sensitive operations take constant time? This sounds impossibly hard. For example, your operating system could be context switching thousands of times per second. Your password comparison function could cause a page fault because the trailing end of the password spans onto another page of virtual memory. These are all factors that would throw any calculation for constant time out of the window.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
He did spell organisation correctly, just used British rather than of American English.
Comment · 12 years ago
A small webpage I put together using JavaScript and Chart.js to help show the difference in utilization that can be achieved between slotted and unslotted ALOHAnet.
Comment · 12 years ago
Can you not have end to end encryption of the frames that go over the wire? I guess it's immensely expensive when you're transmitting at 100Gb/s.
Comment · 12 years ago
Oh wow. These were installed on all the computers at school. We would often have hours where we didn't have any lessons scheduled, but couldn't play games, watch YouTube or go on Facebook as we would get our accounts suspended. This was the only game we could play as we could argue that it was technically "learning". The other one was a website where you had to name and locate all states in the USA. We are a British school.
Comment · 12 years ago
British Airways does offer quite a competitive service. Now that Willie Walsh has stopped IAG bleeding cash from the acquisition of Iberia (an airline desperately in debt) they're turning a healthy profit for an airline - a complete parallel universe to what is happening at AA.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Nope. I'm actually looking at second hand ThinkPads, T series.

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