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shawabawa

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    Comment #4078185

    Not really. It's only sending the hash of your password, not your password in plaintext. Although the hashes don't seem to be salted...

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    Comment #4073277

    But if someone were to design a bicycle for a horse I'm sure it could beat us

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    Comment #4073273

    Sports are absurd because we can't compete with animals? For a start, it's clearly false. No matter how good dogs are at catching frisbees they couldn't compete against humans in b…

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    Comment #4052883

    Feels a little bit cheap but I got it in 6 blocks Imgur's down so: while: true do: move forward turn left move forward turn right

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    Comment #3971296

    Note that it said on the site it purposefully didn't include linux downloads as it's mostly delivered through package managers.

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    Comment #3923480

    I guess the original password is stored as a hash in the DB normally, then when someone logs it it hashes what they entered, what they entered with the first char lowercased, and w…

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    Comment #3879234

    The first word I enter didn't work, my fingerprint changed, but the second time it did work.

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    Comment #3826687

    If anything it would irresponsible not to tell them.

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    Comment #3826678

    MD5 is bad because it suffers from collision attacks, however it doesn't suffer from preimage attacks, so it's actually fairly secure for passwords (although I still wouldn't use i…

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    Comment #3797601

    The second one isn't artistically good, but I think as an ad it is quite good. It's funny, and it makes me want to see what the game's like. I haven't clicked an ad (intentionally)…

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    Comment #3797557

    My guess is that + is a search operator.

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    Comment #3707668

    > Asking if the tests are correct is really asking if the requirements are correct. Not really. Tests can have obscure bugs just like any other piece of software. If a test fails i…

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    Comment #3620730

    the League of Legends client uses it. It's also one of the buggiest game clients I've ever used...

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    Comment #3571970

    Still much bigger than any other free online storage.

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    Comment #3551179

    but what's he doing about the government mind rays? I have 14 different hats. I mainly use aluminium foil, but when entering passwords or other sensitive information I like to swit…