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amper5and

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About amper5and

https://github.com/amper5and

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    Comment #19997782

    My mechanic gets his motor oil in an oil drum to which he attaches a hand pump to dispense it.

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    Comment #19699157

    Most MR units these days use liquid helium not liquid nitrogen. And there is at least one cryogen free unit on the market right now, though it’s definitely not the kind (open, 0.5T…

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    Comment #5195696

    I created http://passguardian.com for this sort of situation. You can use it to split a password into a certain number cryptographic shares, setting a threshold on the number of sh…

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    Comment #5132323

    As I linked further down, this is probably based on Adi Shamir's (of R S A) threshold sharing scheme [1] [2]. Essentially, this approach splits any "secret" into n parts, requiring…

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    Comment #5132244

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing by Adi Shamir, the "S" in RSA

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    Comment #5092281

    JavaScript security is really the best way to go for this type of service. At some point there needs to be a trade-off between the application goals and maximum theoretical securit…

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    Comment #4034382

    There's no caveat. It says "Redactor распространяется бесплатно по лицензии MIT или GPL, на ваш выбор." which literally means "Redactor is distributed freely under the MIT or GPL l…

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    Comment #3813307

    +1 for GV. What's cool is that there are libraries in many languages to allow you to use it in creative ways: * java: http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-java/ * C++: https://git…

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    Comment #3795259

    Another critical aspect is to target the tech-savvy younger generation of students and residents, which Agile is doing with their recent offer of free lifetime access for participa…