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  A Chinese Programmer Accused of Circumventing Great Firewall Faces Confiscation of RMB 1.05 Million

Recently, a programmer posted an article on Weibo claiming that he was working for an overseas company while accessing the international internet. He was subsequently accused by the Shuangqiao Public Security Sub-bureau in Chengde, Hebei of "illegally establishing and using non-official channels for international networking" and received an administrative penalty of a fine of RMB 200 and the confiscation of "illegal gains" totaling RMB 1.05 million. This is the most severe punishment reported s...

   GITHUB,CHINESE     2023-09-25 07:57:58

  The Problem with Random Numbers

Today, let's talk about how to generate true random numbers. This is an extremely difficult problem, but it involves some very interesting content. First of all, the random numbers provided by programming languages are pseudo-random numbers.  The V8 engine’s official website has an article that particularly reminds everyone of this point. The built-in random numbers are not true random numbers but pseudo-random numbers. Math.random() returns a Number value with po...

   RANDOM NUMBER,TRUE RANDOM,PSEUDO RANDOM,HISTORY     2024-06-21 21:09:14

  The significance of coding competition to actual work

Some friends asked this question: In secondary schools we participate in the NOI, in university we participate in ACM/ICPC, TopCoder.What's the significance of coding competition to actual work? I participated in the NOI from 1994 to 1996, ACM/ICPC from 1999 to 2000 and TopCoder in 2002 for six months. Later I paid little attention to coding competition, so I may not understand the changes in recent years and race mode . The capabilities we can get by participating the competition can be summari...

   ACM,Programming,Facebook,TopCoder     2013-02-28 20:38:23

  Applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to Solve Cybersecurity Questions

In this document, we will introduce some test, experiment and analysis conclusion about applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve cybersecurity questions. Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in education and research for tasks such as analyzing program code error logs, help summarize papers and improving reports. In this project, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness of LLMs in solving cybersecurity-related questions, such as Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges, ...

       2024-09-08 04:05:07

  eLearning Can Improve How Educators Approach Learning

eLearning has varied benefits for learners, as has been amply documented across numerous articles on the web. It allows learners to gain access to quality education from the comforts of their homes, according to their convenience. It allows them to focus on their other interests and education at the same time.  When it comes to educators, there’s a dearth of documentation of the positive impacts of eLearning on their work. eLearning has revolutionized the entire learning process, and ...

   ELEARNING     2022-01-29 04:01:23

  Difference Engine: Luddite legacy

AN APOCRYPHAL tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Without skipping a beat, Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?”Whether the exchange was true or not is irrelevant. The point was that any increase in productivity required...

   Artificial intelligence,Engine,Difference,Human,Computer     2011-11-07 08:33:16

  Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?

What you do when compiling can ruin your life. And not just when compiling, but when waiting for any short computer operation to finish. That time is ridiculously tiny compared to the rest of your workday, yet it can have a huge impact on your productivity and well-being overall. Yes, that’s a big fat claim. And by the way, this article is not just about coders or programmers. It’s about any smart people working with computers. And there will be pictures! Let’s rock and ro...

   Programming.Net,ASP.NET,Platform     2012-02-23 07:14:11

  Mutli-inheritance bug between python 2.7 and 3.7

When we have run a py3.7 code under py2.x or a py2.x code under 3.x ,if a class do mutli-inheritance from 2 parent and the 2 parents also got inheritance from same parent, the different way to handle inheritance chain between python 2 and 3 will cause some running time bug: Assume we got this sample program inheritTest.py : # Purpose: Test mutli-inheritance different between python2 and 3 # Author: Yuancheng Liu # Created: 2019/05/16 class A: def getVal(self): print("cal...

   PYTHON,PYTHON 3,INHERITANCE     2019-05-16 08:33:52

  Can we believe our eyes?

Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks  the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way. A common  method used to hijack a website and redirect it to a site of the attacker’s choice is to add an entry in the Windows hosts f...

   Window,Software,Eye,Weired     2011-08-22 12:12:16

  How Computers Boot Up

The previous post described motherboards and the memory map in Intel computers to set the scene for the initial phases of boot. Booting is an involved, hacky, multi-stage affair – fun stuff. Here’s an outline of the process: An outline of the boot sequence Things start rolling when you press the power button on the computer (no! do tell!). Once the motherboard is powered up it initializes its own firmware – the chipset and other tidbits – and tries to ...

   Computer,Boot-up,Rationale     2012-04-11 13:43:02

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