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So reading the data, applying crypto on the data, and then writing it back, is faster than just writing random data to the same cells to erase the data? How?

Edit - Adding my response here for later reading when the ridiculous hellbanning that filtered me and another user from the discussion is lifted...:

There's a problem with your theory here, in how you (and others responding to DanBlake's question) have misunderstood how a flash memory device works. How can the user or operating system, on software level, select a definite block of data for "zeroing out" when the storage medium is an SSD where wear-levelling is always present and ultimately what controls, on lowest possible level, what memory cell data is going to be written to? To my knowledge - and do correct me if I'm wrong - this is not doable on an SSD, and you thusly have to overwrite the entire SSD to be certain that the memory cell holding the key is erased. This is how flash memory controllers work - they always write data to the next free block, remap the old block and then marks it as unoccupied in the BAM.

If the case is a mobile unit that may have a small portion of separate PRAM or similar where you can store crypto keys, the principle is the same there as that's also a flash type memory, even if a much smaller one that is faster to erase. However, that solution isn't usually available in a "normal computer", nor available to a "normal OS", which are the two targets of SSD drives.
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I already said "except Flash and PDF reader".

People are using an open source browser + Flash Player + PDF Reader.

If you don't trust Google's Flash player and PDF reader, feel free to take them out. In fact, you don't have to, because using Chromium would be equivalent to doing this.
maybe there are other hackers interested in cooking and some stuff. I know, my agency created the website, but it is not supposed to be advertising.
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By legal rights I mean for your sex not to be classed as rape. I really don't know how to correctly explain this topic. Sorry. I didn't really study these topics in English.

Islam took over Persia and put an end to Mazdakian belief. This is a credit to Abrahamic religion. The society you were born in could have been very different had Mazdak's ideas won. The concept of family would not exist and the gene pool would have very few trees. The idea of monogamous relationships are a given in our society and this is built on the success of Abrahamic religion removing competing systems almost entirely out of the conscience of human thought.

In history one could find other competing systems and the Mazdakian is just one example.

One must remember the bible was written before it's ideas were successful. To re-interpret it's ideas are after it's success may lead one to the wrong conclusions about what it actually was trying to convey. It may appear to be a lot more sexist than what it actually meant.
Are you aware of any such editor that does store the data in Markdown or something similar?
I spend quite a lot of time working with Qt so it's nice to have the curtains pulled back, and new components explained in some depth. You occasionally miss the comprehension when it's just listed as 'This release has <x> feature'.
Oh come on seriously? Brainfuck?

If you really have to post up esoteric languages from the distant past, do INTERCAL which at least is too much of a pain in the ass to have been implemented by everyone.
Can you explain why adding a encryption routine is faster than just blind overwriting the data with 0's?

Genuinely curious as it seems that would not make sense, if you overwrote it with zeros in a comparable, logical manner.
Aloha is more than a meg of JS as it stands and the documentation is pitiful.
You can pry my "<milli|micro>seconds since the epoch" timestamps from my cold dead hands.
ok thanks for replying I see your point. We are currently developing a project that hopefully will reach web scale (that is the goal anyway) and we started out with mongoose (without really thinking about it though) because it brings you a lot of nice things such as hooks, validators, setters and getters. Of course from an experimentation point of view, what you said makes a lot of sense given my experience with mongoose.
This is a stock reply from the privileged group against policies that try to be inclusive. "You're not really anti-sexism, because you're making references to sex!! I'm a real anti-sexist because I didn't mention it".

Sometimes members of the privileged group think that only individual words are the only thing that can make things sexist, and if you don't have those words, you're a-ok! However there can also be a culture, memes and practices in a group that can result in less people of the oppressed group from taking part. That's what anti-sexist things are designed to approach.

(Likewise with race/ability/etc.)
Mark's wife (yes, i think this expression is much better) is still not "his woman". no woman belong to no man, and vice versa. Priscilla is her own person, just as Mark is.
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As if running a startup isn't hard enough... these guys stole over $5k of our bootstrapping funds, (Personal money). Be warned.
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I'm sure we can hack it in there once they're released!
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As if running a startup isn't hard enough... these guys stole over $5k of our bootstrapping funds, (Personal money). Be warned.
I just wasted 5 minutes trying to find a link to post here. It was an article where two hackers decided to actually try out all the various hard disk destruction methods people postulate, with a view to making a remote self-destruct mechanism. They posted lots of photos of different things they tried, and an amusing write up of their escapades: they burned them with fire, attacked them with acid, masonry drills, other chemicals, almost maiming themselves and annihilating their garage a couple of times. If anyone could dregde up the URL for me I'd be most appreciative.
Wheezy already has 3.2

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/linux-image
Patents are also required not to be discoveries. I claim the orbit existed long before the Boeing company was funded.
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Nope it's completely my fault. SpahQL is so named because it was primarily developed for Spah, another project I'm working on.

I hope I don't cause too much confusion!
I have no personal experience, my first things were POKEing machine registers and after some GOTOs writing assembler.
If you encrypt the data, you only have to zero out the key (nanoseconds? maybe microseconds) instead of zeroing all the data. Assuming there is no backup of the key, the data is just as gone as if you'd zeroed it.
2 other quotes:

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"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."
That's a pretty interesting idea, and I see no reason why it shouldn't work.
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The "random garbage" isn't "random garbage" if your key slips out of your hands. If there's a key, there's a looming problem.
Very interesting and informative!

The eternal drunken night question "Deaf or blind?" I would still answer I would rather be the first than the latter.

Edit:

Just remembered this hilarious comic which I read years ago. "Dorm of the Deaf":

http://www.dustinland.com/archives/archives319.html
The drive is always encrypted. In an emergency you only have to destroy a little bit of the drive; the part that stores the key.
As far as I can tell, it's referring to the sandboxed iframe.
I seriously hope that Qt guys aren't relying that an unicode character (whatever that means) fits in 16 bits.
Being a Chinese solution I sort of wished they just attached some fireworks. :(
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If they ripped you off, (a) why do you not give details? (b) why do you instead link to their site, helping their search engine rankings?
A lot of members of privileged groups sometimes retort that "You can't say anything anymore!" or "Politicial Correctness has gone too far!" to any attempted

You're talking about straw men that don't exist. Please be more honest in your debate. There is currently much much much more sexism going on against women than crazy rules that stop people from saying anything. (e.g. Speeches at Dell Denmark telling everyone that it's great there's so few women and they need to keep the women out). (The same can be said about other forms of opression (race/sexuality/gender expression/abelism/etc.))
What JonnieCache and DanBC say: keep the data encrypted at all times, then you can just overwrite the few bytes of the encryption key to render the data unreadable. This has the additional advantage that you only need to really securely erase a very small amount of storage (plus the controller's memory.)

(Editing my original post to make this more clear. Sorry.)
The data is stored encrypted by default, then once the key is discarded you no longer have data, just encrypted gibberish; all without writing to any of the disk where the data was. Much, much faster than having to zero out the whole disk
On Techmeme, one of the first articles linked to is that of Robert Scoble.
I know MS is an easy target, but I really feel taking such potshots at your former employer, especially when you pride yourself on being a tech dilettante and should clearly know better, is unwarranted.
Of course, my personal opinion is that this is an interesting project and will hopefully lead to something.
Safari still does not parse partial dates, i.e. new Date("2012-05-04") gives 'Invalid Date'. Very annoying.
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Signed. There are few taxpayer-related issues that I feel as strongly about. I actually have pretty good luck getting a copy of taxpayer-funded research papers directly from researchers by sending a politely-worded request to the PI asking for a copy. But I shouldn't have to do that -- all this research should be available to the public.

Ultimately, I hope that open access journals such as those as PLoS continue to gain prestige and become top tier journals (some of them are almost there). But meanwhile, taxpayer-funded research should be made available to the public.
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My point is that it's worse than nonsense, it's actually arguing the opposite of the truth. The "copying", rather than speeding up Android development to Google's benefit, actually slowed Android development in an attempt to help OpenJDK/Oracle.

That this is the only direct copyright infringement they could find is highly ironic, but I guess either the lawyers didn't understand the subtleties here, or thought the jury wouldn't as this argument wasn't made (except obliquely in Bloch's statements).
Starting from Python 3.2 there is a builtin decorator:
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I always find Net Applications' market share numbers misleading and inaccurate. Whatever method they are using for measuring market share, I'm sure it's flawed.
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That's pretty much what I meant. Node is relatively flat, you won't have to learn a framework, most modules are sets of functions. And once you're comfortable with the platform, you find their interfaces very similar, even obvious. Languages like Python and PHP have a lot more variety among libraries that do the same thing. And you will often be faced with heavy objects with specific initialization schemes.
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Wasn't this one supposed to have some Android kernel integration, too? Or maybe the next one.
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I'm using the Twitter Bootstrap styled version of this in a current project. It looks stunning: http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/
There's many parallels between Gutenberg and most of the tech industry for the entire span of human industry.

It's not about getting there first, it's about doing it well. For many the same reasons everyone assumes Edison invented lightbulbs many assume Gutenberg invented printed books. Neither invented the core concept, they just refined it down into what it needed to be to be marketable. Gutenberg disrupted an entire industry not by printing the books but, as others have mentioned, by designing a system that was relatively cheap and more reliable compared to the previous systems.

Although if you want to talk about truly contentious tech. history and marketable success you'd have to head to photography.
well... I didn't know about it. Am I supposed to know everything?
just thought I should share.
It's licensed under AGPLv3. I prefer MIT as well, but surely you don't need to buy a licence to use this?

https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/blob/dev/LICENSE...
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That was the second natural step after BASIC in 8-bit times. Looking back I think it was quite a sensible learning path.

Nowadays we waste a massive amount of time discussing philosophy and nuances instead of getting sh*t done.
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What does HN think? Anything to do with IPO?
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Oh, I thought you mean "as you push it" encryption.

When I was in the military, Encrypting data was not acceptable for disposal though. They make you physically destroy it, which is why I imagine they do things in this manner.
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I know your problem from 1. but after some time on Chrome (Chromium) I realised that it's faster to kill one FF process instead of killing x chrome processes looking for the right one that is broken and still running after I "closed" the browser.
I don't know what it was that crashed my chrome that often. It must have been java or flash because it broke down on pages that are loaded with these.

In the end I came back to ff. All my good addons are there, they all work and if it breaks down it's way faster to kill then chrome.

Initially I tried chrome because I thought it may eat up less memory but the difference was not really big on all the chrome processes compared to the ff one.
Works fine for me. Maybe thats just their error 500 page.
It's like this in diving, there are basically two schools of thought, which I will refer to as PADI and BSAC (I am qualified in and have dived with both).

The PADI way gets you into the sea ASAP. It's only really safe to do this in benign conditions (e.g. warm, clear, non-tidal water in the Red Sea). But it quickly gets people hooked on what diving has to offer, and you can add in skills for hostile waters (cold, murky, strong currents, deeper, penetrating wrecks and caves, etc) later if and when you need to.

The BSAC way involves spending 6 months to a year in a training pool. You have to really, really want to dive to stick with it. They've stopped it now, but they used to test people by having them e.g. tread water for 3 minutes holding a weight belt above their heads (the A-test) which you will never ever have to actually do as a diver. It's meant to produce divers who can handle fairly hostile conditions on their very first sea dive (tho' IMHO it doesn't).
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2. And the product visionary (or maybe one of the founders) rests in peace surfing the web)?

8. BYOD should be rolled out as a policy or an option. It should be communicated upfront and not taken as granted, while funds are diverted for personal gratification as in this case.
Probably good to add PHP ; although it's cursing here on HN, a lot of people use that language and will not use this if not supported.
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If you look at the website this article is on (http://tempus-js.com/) it is a JavaScript library for replacing the Date object with something that offers more functionality and is browser compatible down to IE6 & co.
Yeah Opera had a bad patch then. I think it was because they started to integrate with the native OS desktops.

I remember trying to sign up to ebay - I had to move through three different browsers - then swap Operating system and move over to Internet Explorer - because of some weird bugs!

That's not poking a hole at any of the other browsers, but it's to say that quirks can be found in all of them (even if that's through fault of the page author.) Under those circumstances it's just easier to move over to another browser.
This is a great recommendation but if you're trying to be interoperable with other languages it's just not possible.

If you're in control of the output format though, I would fully agree.
Not really what you're after, I guess, but a link anyway: http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/wiki/PageDown "PageDown is the JavaScript Markdown previewer used on Stack Overflow and the rest of the Stack Exchange network. It includes a Markdown-to-HTML converter and an in-page Markdown editor with live preview."
I have never seen a rich editor that handles tables well. In fact I've never seen a rich editor that does much of anything well. I almost always have switch to HTML view to get anything done.
Sorry, my comment really should have been a reply to the SQL-Like post.
Thoughts on SRWare's Iron Chromium implementation?

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
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Classic scene groups are not interested in having their releases spreading on torrent sites, so including any signatures would be helping with what they don't want to happen in the first place.

That said, a third party could add a signature. But in practice a cryptographically secure signature isn't even needed. It boils down to a reputation system, so that you can associate a torrent file with quality and this has already existed since forever on sites like the piratebay in the form of uploader usernames. A lot of torrents are uploaded by the same users, users who have a history of quality torrents. In contrast, a hollywood uploader would never have any actual quality torrents in the account history. So in conclusion, this problem was already solved ages ago.
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10; His eyes where glazing over when I was talking about abstract concepts. He really liked Scratch because it was immediately available; very audio-visual.

Once I got one complete adventure written he was excited to do the second with me. Now hopefully he'll take one from cradle to grave with only oversight from me.
I have a deaf friend who can type a long paragraph with proper capitalization & subordinate clauses, in the time it takes me to hunt and peck a lowercase tweet. But she may not be representative - she comes from an academic/scientist type family and she got a university degree. The average deaf kid may not identify with schooling that much.

Anyway, when we hang out she types these long paragraphs on her Sidekick & I reply with more Hemingwayesque prose on my iPhone. But it doesn't approach the speed of oral or signed speech.

(Related: try reading out the contents of an hour long chat you have with someone over IM; you'll find the whole thing takes just a few minutes.)
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Not sure why I got a down vote for this. Probably as it's anecdotal? What I should have said: from my experience Chrome feels snappier with Javascript performance at least while playing typeracer. And I read into that, that JS games perform better under Chrome.
The only small issue I can see with that is identifying where the path to the resource ends and where the query to applied to the JSON representation of the resource starts.

Perhaps something like:

www.example.com/data.json?query=/user
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Should have tried BBC Basic, despite being 30 years old it's actually very modern.
I don't know about that. I get the same issues even with Aurora (as do many of my colleagues).
Yes, physically destroying drives prevents problems ("oh that wasn't encrypted?", "turns out it still had parts of unencrypted data on it from the previous server it was installed in", "what do you mean 'encrypted according to 1995 standards' (DES) is no longer secure?"). It's a good policy; but if you offer both "destroy" and "erase", "my" crypto implementation of "erase" has a lot to recommend it. (And there's no reason you can't follow it with a good zero-everything.)
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