About not being backed by anything. Money is never backed on anything, it is based on only on two things: scarcity and its demand. Period.
When the dollar was backed to gold, gold itself was backed on what?
The current dollar is backed on promises and debts, which is like building houses on a floating log on a lake, and yet it still holds value because the clueless people give them value.
All the currency system has always been a house of cards, and those who were truly aware of it (bankers) always manipulated it for their benefit ("money multipliers" should ring a bell if you passed economy 101).
The bitcoin brought something truly innovative that the history of human kind never ever experienced before, it is getting rid of the bullshit and truly giving the power back to the people.
You are wrong by saying that it is not backed on anything, it is backed on math and in trusted cryptography.
By the way, don't use the word Ponzi if you don't understand what a ponzi scheme is all about, it is not a synonym for con or fraud, it is a very specific type of fraud.
I heard from a reliable source that Aliens' basic measurement unit are toes. That is their universal constant, their spaceships speeds are measured by toes per nanoseconds, and a million toes are called a stampede.
That doesn't make sense. Homocidal vs. xenocidal might make sense in a pure rhetorical debate. But we are not talking about logic: psychologically speaking, it is absurd.
That, plus other variables that I've left out, makes me feel very confident of my conclusions.
We should be aware of being too anthropocentric. I have a personal theory that tries to prove that advanced civilizations can not be hostile (or to be more prudent, it is very improbable), I might finish the essay one day but my arguments are quite strong. But the thing is, I wonder what could I do with it once I finish it.
That reasoning is retrograde. You can't extrapolate inhumanity to extraterrestrials. Not because we are immature and uncivilized it means that every single species in the universe are as self-centered assholes as we are.
Not mundane, it would make sense under the light of Convergent Evolution. Like it is said in K-PAX: Why all bubbles have the same shape? Maybe it is because it is the most efficient shape, under the current physical laws.
Precisely the reason I put the emphasis on ANY.
But the Passware forensic tool is focused on Truecrypt and Bitlocker Whole Disk Encryption... and it is so trivial that even a trained monkey could do it (aka. IT guy)
Don't start with it, please. As long as you apply scientific method, it is science. They are not academics, no, they are not. They use science, yes. "Staged entertainment", what do you even mean with that. They are not like Top Gear faking results for "entertainment".
If you can see the future, there is no reason to obfuscate
It may not be obfuscation, just incomprehension: A primitive mind might be incapable to interpreting what he sees in the future.
Lets imagine someone from the past, lets say middle ages or even before, actually having some kind of supernatural gifts that allows him to really see what is going on in our present: cars, motorcycles, fridges, nuclear power, raise of feminism, a black president, humanoids robots, augmented reality, Internet, virtual reality, space travel, people sitting 10 hours in front of a bright box, surveillance techniques, hacking, Segways... etc...
First of all, that person would believe he had been eating the wrong mushrooms. Secondly, he would try to describe it the best way he can, limited by his cultural and historical context.
Imagine someone today someone seeing our future 5000 years ahead. We might have achieved technologies that we can't even dream of. Maybe we will be able to switch matter and energy trivially, maybe we will be able to be "alive" in a coherently pure energy state. Maybe we are replaced by machines. Maybe we end up living in a matrix-like world. Or maybe it is even way more exotic than that. Maybe we end up mastering time and space.
IF we consider for a minute that this is the type of world we have ahead, if someone is actually seeing our future we would think he is a junkie or a new-age idiot.
I am tired of moms contaminating walls asking if they did their homework or to watch the language.
-"Mom, stop treating me like a kid."
-"You will always be my kid"
-"Mooom, I am 30 years old..."
-"Hush, are you eating well? You look skinny". .
Parental participation should be illegal. It was hard enough to move out from the basement, Facebook is the nightmare for overprotected kids: it is the digital basement. Forever... and ever... and ever... (curled up in fetal position)
Slashdot Mirror
fuck philantrophy, I am too busy building my iron man suit
Obligatory reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7J7UjsRqg
I am alive [citation needed]
All the currency system has always been a house of cards, and those who were truly aware of it (bankers) always manipulated it for their benefit ("money multipliers" should ring a bell if you passed economy 101).
The bitcoin brought something truly innovative that the history of human kind never ever experienced before, it is getting rid of the bullshit and truly giving the power back to the people.
You are wrong by saying that it is not backed on anything, it is backed on math and in trusted cryptography. By the way, don't use the word Ponzi if you don't understand what a ponzi scheme is all about, it is not a synonym for con or fraud, it is a very specific type of fraud.
For the end user and for practicality purposes: yes, it is the same.
For the engineers, it is one thing less to worry: yes, it matters.
Cloud is stupid: The more comfortable for you, the more comfortable for the attacker. If you want your data with you all the times, get a flash drive.
...and reposted RickRolls in YouTube
because I...
I don't know if it should be better and faster than a real leg, the last time I tried them, the leg just ran away from me.
I heard from a reliable source that Aliens' basic measurement unit are toes.
That is their universal constant, their spaceships speeds are measured by toes per nanoseconds, and a million toes are called a stampede.
I could think of all kinds of interesting things to try to get 3D images of with this software, why are all the examples only of someone's face?
Precisely, who in his right mind would scan a face?
The first picture a normal sane male would take is his penis.
Sugar, salt, vitamins, calcium, iron, water, etc... anything is toxic/harmful if abused. Calling sugar toxic is idiotic.
That, plus other variables that I've left out, makes me feel very confident of my conclusions.
We should be aware of being too anthropocentric.
I have a personal theory that tries to prove that advanced civilizations can not be hostile (or to be more prudent, it is very improbable), I might finish the essay one day but my arguments are quite strong. But the thing is, I wonder what could I do with it once I finish it.
That reasoning is retrograde. You can't extrapolate inhumanity to extraterrestrials. Not because we are immature and uncivilized it means that every single species in the universe are as self-centered assholes as we are.
Not mundane, it would make sense under the light of Convergent Evolution.
Like it is said in K-PAX: Why all bubbles have the same shape? Maybe it is because it is the most efficient shape, under the current physical laws.
Precisely the reason I put the emphasis on ANY.
But the Passware forensic tool is focused on Truecrypt and Bitlocker Whole Disk Encryption... and it is so trivial that even a trained monkey could do it (aka. IT guy)
Don't start with it, please. As long as you apply scientific method, it is science. They are not academics, no, they are not. They use science, yes. "Staged entertainment", what do you even mean with that. They are not like Top Gear faking results for "entertainment".
Whole disk encryption has a side-channel cracking, which is very trivial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/03/30/4700389.htm
ANY WHOLE HARD DRIVE ENCRYPTION IS PRONE TO A SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACK.
Where do I sign up for the "yes sex" experimental group?
If you can see the future, there is no reason to obfuscate
It may not be obfuscation, just incomprehension: A primitive mind might be incapable to interpreting what he sees in the future.
Lets imagine someone from the past, lets say middle ages or even before, actually having some kind of supernatural gifts that allows him to really see what is going on in our present: cars, motorcycles, fridges, nuclear power, raise of feminism, a black president, humanoids robots, augmented reality, Internet, virtual reality, space travel, people sitting 10 hours in front of a bright box, surveillance techniques, hacking, Segways... etc...
First of all, that person would believe he had been eating the wrong mushrooms. Secondly, he would try to describe it the best way he can, limited by his cultural and historical context.
Imagine someone today someone seeing our future 5000 years ahead. We might have achieved technologies that we can't even dream of. Maybe we will be able to switch matter and energy trivially, maybe we will be able to be "alive" in a coherently pure energy state. Maybe we are replaced by machines. Maybe we end up living in a matrix-like world. Or maybe it is even way more exotic than that. Maybe we end up mastering time and space. IF we consider for a minute that this is the type of world we have ahead, if someone is actually seeing our future we would think he is a junkie or a new-age idiot.
"pff... my toilet paper costs $16.5 million" -Bill Gates
Who's gonna save us from overpopulation? We need to kill people to avoid the Malthusian catastrophe, that's why cars were invented.
-"Mom, stop treating me like a kid."
-"You will always be my kid"
-"Mooom, I am 30 years old..."
-"Hush, are you eating well? You look skinny".
Parental participation should be illegal.
It was hard enough to move out from the basement, Facebook is the nightmare for overprotected kids: it is the digital basement. Forever... and ever... and ever... (curled up in fetal position)
If that it, it would be really a sad method of detecting age. In my profile I was born in 1900, but I just kept the day and month correct.