That's exactly what I said. The credit for buying something only goes to him if you buy an eligible item within a certain amount of time after clicking the link and if you do not click any other affiliate link after clicking his.
That Amazon link (when unshortened) contains an affiliate tag (&tag=cdr-slashdot), meaning creimer gets a cut if you buy that product within a certain amount of time of clicking the link, or if you buy some other product.
Excellent. We have excellent chocolate, the best. Trust me, I know chocolate. We'll have the top chocolate people in our administration and we're going to make chocolate great again.
I'd jump at the chance. I'd get a decent paycheck for the period I stuck it out, and I'd get 15 minutes of fame when I bailed. I'd also get $$$ for writing a book, giving an exclusive interview, whatever.
What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly? Do you mean voting someone else in? It's gonna be a while before you even have the chance.
Thank you for being a friend Traveled down the road and back again Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party Invited everyone you knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
I'm pretty sure the designers of this thing thought of this and have a dynamic focusing system depending on distance to target.
But we still don't know is the maximum effective range and it's likely classified anyway.
A hypersonic cruise missile covers an awful lot of ground in two seconds, not to mention they're pretty good at managing structural heat* problems already.
*Air friction temps are pretty high at those speeds.
So this thing needs to acquire, track and fire before its target reaches its destination. Tough to do with a hypersonic target.
VERY tough to do when you have multiple incoming from all directions which is pretty much standard protocol when you're serious about sinking a ship.
I'm sure they did. But I'm also sure they designed it for extreme range as well. So a bad guy wanting to use it at extreme range can, or a moron using it incorrectly can.
As for hypersonic targets, wtf? We're firing at c and tracking and acquisition aren't problematic if the target is at an appreciable distance.
Bitcoin has a few simple fucking rules. Chief among them is to treat your wallet with Bitcoin in it like your regular wallet with cash in it. You keep it secure yourself and you encrypt it and you don't hand it over to anyone else.
That's fine for the money in my wallet, but I don't expect it's fine for the money in my bank account. If I trip and fall in a river and lose my wallet, I expect to still be able to access my bank account. If my house burns down, I expect to still be able to access my bank account.
Availability is a fundamental security requirement.
And you can have a bank store your wallet in a safety deposit box for you. You can have Dropbox or Google or a public FTP store a copy of your wallet for you. The concept is pretty much perfect. Treat it like cash and protect it like cash. The neat thing about it is that you're not beholden to anyone, even if they're protecting your wallet for you. Since you can duplicate your wallet, and the people holding your wallet can't access it (because you're encrypting it), then you're golden. All you need to secure is your password, and there are countless ways to do that. You can even have a bank store it in a safety deposit box for you! Or have a lawyer hold onto it. Whatever you want!
Yeah, the DAO fork. Even then it was controversial. From your own link:
Since the hard fork, an additional 153 blocks have been successfully mined. However, as suggested earlier, the move may not be without continued controversy.
The decision to hard fork was initially met with resistance by some members of the ethereum community who were concerned it might undermine the perception that the blockchain was immutable, and that contract agreements, once settled to the blockchain, would be final.
With major banks and startups alike now building with ethereum, this is a concern that will likely be followed closely.
And that was over a year ago. Look at the price and trade volume of Ethereum now compared to then. You don't fork due to theft and expect people to trust your currency or believe the bit about it being decentralized with no overriding authority. A fork means you either get on the winning team or you get fucked, and when the winning team is determined by a small handful of people (and corporations), what are you really gaining over fiat currency?
If a compromised client can destabalize the whole system, that's not a problem with the client: it's a problem with the server which trusts the client way too much.
This has to do with the wallets and how they're generated and set up for multiple people to access them.
In the Bitcoin world, a wallet is little more than a private key. The network stores a record of how much Bitcoin your wallet has in it. If you want to spend money, you send a transaction signed with your wallet's private key. A miner mines a block containing your transaction, and then nodes on the network verify it, and the fact that you spent.0002 BTC on a 20-minute subscription to HD-Taints.com is recognized and you get your sweet, nasty porn.
With Ethereum, you have a client created by some bozos that creates wallets in an absurd (and vulnerable) way, so you get FUKT.
Ethereum is a scam coin. The entire concept is absurd. But even if you want to buy into the hype, don't mind the IPO bullshit, and you think "proof of stake" and "smart contracts" are somehow magical things, why would you EVER use a "multi-sig wallet"?
Bitcoin has a few simple fucking rules. Chief among them is to treat your wallet with Bitcoin in it like your regular wallet with cash in it. You keep it secure yourself and you encrypt it and you don't hand it over to anyone else.
A multi-sig wallet is a wallet with access set up for X people, where transfers out of the wallet require Y people's (among the X) approval. 1 < Y <= X
You may as well hand cash to Bernie Madoff and tell him to only spend it when you both agree.
Ethereum persists because of 2 reasons:
1 - People are fucking retarded and think the convoluted bullshit layered on top of a block chain somehow makes Ethereum more useful than Bitcoin (it doesn't), or more trustworthy (it doesn't).
2 - People want to make a profit using consumer GPUs and can't with Bitcoin, so they're grinding away on Ethereum. Once someone slaps together an ASIC with a bunch of memory to mine Ethereum, Ethereum will tank (even more so than it has recently) as all the small-time miners leave. All the big-time miners (those paying for ASICs and running on free power / the giant farms in China) will stay with Bitcoin.
From Parity's web page:
Tested from Day One
Making the most reliable and resilient software able to perform with excellence throughout deployments as diverse as teraflop financial servers and door handles is no task for the faint hearted. Our software is unit-tested from, quite literally, day one. From RLP and the Trie to the network subsystem, we aim for our unit tests to cover 100% of critical logic. In Consensus
We pride ourselves on passing all 1,000+ consensus tests in the client consensus suite. Written according to the Yellow Paper specification and designed with the foreknowledge of the exact protocol we will need to implement, Parity achieves full consensus without pulling any punches on code design and clarity, enabling us to maintain an agile, fast-paced development cycle. 100% Reviewed
Every single line in our codebase is fully reviewed by at least one expert developer (and routinely two or more) before being placed in the main repository. We strive for excellence; static code checking is used on every compile to cut out bad idioms. Style is enforced before any alteration may be made to the main repository. Continuous integration guarantees our codebase always compiles and tests always pass.
HO HO HO!
I wonder if Ethereum will fork to revert the stolen Ether. If so, it ruins any glimmer of hope it had at becoming a legitimate decentralized currency. If not, a lot of people will be exiting the game.
Bitcoin has an upcoming potential fork coming soon, too. It's mildly contentious, fairly interesting, but ultimately it will have little to no impact on the viability or trust of Bitcoin.
You assume mostly incorrectly and technically correctly. Laser beams are designed to not diverge and thus not suffer loss with distance that other things do.
Get a shitty $5 laser pointer and point it at the wall from 1 inch away, 2 inches away, and 20 feet away. Compare the size of the dot on the wall. Do the same with a flashlight.
At distances of many miles, a halfway coherent laser beam will suffer most of its loss due to the atmosphere, not divergence.
However, we're probably safe from instantaneous, space-based, pinpoint-precision death lasers both due to atmospheric losses and divergence. At least for now.
What if you miss? A laser beam is very coherent and will keep traveling until it hits something. What if you hit your target but it has a highly reflective surface? What if another nation has these weapons and decides to use them against us? The beams are invisible and effectively instantaneous, with the potential for extreme range. Air travel would be a no-go if certain nations had these things.
And at a buck per kill, even North Korea can afford to cause some actual trouble if they manage to get their hands on one.
The charges are absolutely made up and the codified system is a joke that no one understands or checks for accuracy (and when it changes all hell breaks loose).
Why do you think there are entire departments and "career colleges" dedicated to the "medical billing" industry?
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That's exactly what I said.
The credit for buying something only goes to him if you buy an eligible item within a certain amount of time after clicking the link and if you do not click any other affiliate link after clicking his.
It's called wincest.
That Amazon link (when unshortened) contains an affiliate tag (&tag=cdr-slashdot), meaning creimer gets a cut if you buy that product within a certain amount of time of clicking the link, or if you buy some other product.
No thanks, creimer.
Excellent. We have excellent chocolate, the best. Trust me, I know chocolate. We'll have the top chocolate people in our administration and we're going to make chocolate great again.
I'd jump at the chance. I'd get a decent paycheck for the period I stuck it out, and I'd get 15 minutes of fame when I bailed. I'd also get $$$ for writing a book, giving an exclusive interview, whatever.
What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly?
Do you mean voting someone else in? It's gonna be a while before you even have the chance.
Political political political political political?
I will seed this for all of time.
"X Box One X" is indeed an awful name. But they did it because:
X
Box
One
X
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
Or you could let people have drugs and sex.
ThIs WoUlD eNaBlE uSeRs AnD wEbSiTeS tO pLaY mP3 FiLeS iN cHrOmIuM bRoWsEr.
Wine just announced it fixed the last compatiblity issues and Notepad is now a Platinum-certified app.
Notepad was rated as "Platinum" as of Wine 1.1.36. https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...
Wine 1.1.36 released on January 8th of 2010. https://source.winehq.org/git/...
The fastest and most efficient mode of transportation is falling.
I knew what this was before I clicked.
I'm pretty sure the designers of this thing thought of this and have a dynamic focusing system depending on distance to target.
But we still don't know is the maximum effective range and it's likely classified anyway.
A hypersonic cruise missile covers an awful lot of ground in two seconds, not to mention they're pretty good at managing structural heat* problems already.
*Air friction temps are pretty high at those speeds.
So this thing needs to acquire, track and fire before its target reaches its destination. Tough to do with a hypersonic target.
VERY tough to do when you have multiple incoming from all directions which is pretty much standard protocol when you're serious about sinking a ship.
I'm sure they did. But I'm also sure they designed it for extreme range as well. So a bad guy wanting to use it at extreme range can, or a moron using it incorrectly can.
As for hypersonic targets, wtf? We're firing at c and tracking and acquisition aren't problematic if the target is at an appreciable distance.
Bitcoin has a few simple fucking rules. Chief among them is to treat your wallet with Bitcoin in it like your regular wallet with cash in it.
You keep it secure yourself and you encrypt it and you don't hand it over to anyone else.
That's fine for the money in my wallet, but I don't expect it's fine for the money in my bank account. If I trip and fall in a river and lose my wallet, I expect to still be able to access my bank account. If my house burns down, I expect to still be able to access my bank account.
Availability is a fundamental security requirement.
And you can have a bank store your wallet in a safety deposit box for you. You can have Dropbox or Google or a public FTP store a copy of your wallet for you.
The concept is pretty much perfect. Treat it like cash and protect it like cash. The neat thing about it is that you're not beholden to anyone, even if they're protecting your wallet for you. Since you can duplicate your wallet, and the people holding your wallet can't access it (because you're encrypting it), then you're golden. All you need to secure is your password, and there are countless ways to do that. You can even have a bank store it in a safety deposit box for you! Or have a lawyer hold onto it. Whatever you want!
Yeah, the DAO fork. Even then it was controversial. From your own link:
Since the hard fork, an additional 153 blocks have been successfully mined. However, as suggested earlier, the move may not be without continued controversy.
The decision to hard fork was initially met with resistance by some members of the ethereum community who were concerned it might undermine the perception that the blockchain was immutable, and that contract agreements, once settled to the blockchain, would be final.
With major banks and startups alike now building with ethereum, this is a concern that will likely be followed closely.
And that was over a year ago. Look at the price and trade volume of Ethereum now compared to then.
You don't fork due to theft and expect people to trust your currency or believe the bit about it being decentralized with no overriding authority. A fork means you either get on the winning team or you get fucked, and when the winning team is determined by a small handful of people (and corporations), what are you really gaining over fiat currency?
You're an idiot. Blockchains are good. Ethereum, "smart contracts", and the people running that whole shit show are not.
If a compromised client can destabalize the whole system, that's not a problem with the client: it's a problem with the server which trusts the client way too much.
This has to do with the wallets and how they're generated and set up for multiple people to access them.
In the Bitcoin world, a wallet is little more than a private key. The network stores a record of how much Bitcoin your wallet has in it. If you want to spend money, you send a transaction signed with your wallet's private key. A miner mines a block containing your transaction, and then nodes on the network verify it, and the fact that you spent .0002 BTC on a 20-minute subscription to HD-Taints.com is recognized and you get your sweet, nasty porn.
With Ethereum, you have a client created by some bozos that creates wallets in an absurd (and vulnerable) way, so you get FUKT.
Ethereum is a scam coin. The entire concept is absurd. But even if you want to buy into the hype, don't mind the IPO bullshit, and you think "proof of stake" and "smart contracts" are somehow magical things, why would you EVER use a "multi-sig wallet"?
Bitcoin has a few simple fucking rules. Chief among them is to treat your wallet with Bitcoin in it like your regular wallet with cash in it.
You keep it secure yourself and you encrypt it and you don't hand it over to anyone else.
A multi-sig wallet is a wallet with access set up for X people, where transfers out of the wallet require Y people's (among the X) approval.
1 < Y <= X
You may as well hand cash to Bernie Madoff and tell him to only spend it when you both agree.
Ethereum persists because of 2 reasons:
1 - People are fucking retarded and think the convoluted bullshit layered on top of a block chain somehow makes Ethereum more useful than Bitcoin (it doesn't), or more trustworthy (it doesn't).
2 - People want to make a profit using consumer GPUs and can't with Bitcoin, so they're grinding away on Ethereum. Once someone slaps together an ASIC with a bunch of memory to mine Ethereum, Ethereum will tank (even more so than it has recently) as all the small-time miners leave. All the big-time miners (those paying for ASICs and running on free power / the giant farms in China) will stay with Bitcoin.
From Parity's web page:
Tested from Day One
Making the most reliable and resilient software able to perform with excellence throughout deployments as diverse as teraflop financial servers and door handles is no task for the faint hearted. Our software is unit-tested from, quite literally, day one. From RLP and the Trie to the network subsystem, we aim for our unit tests to cover 100% of critical logic.
In Consensus
We pride ourselves on passing all 1,000+ consensus tests in the client consensus suite. Written according to the Yellow Paper specification and designed with the foreknowledge of the exact protocol we will need to implement, Parity achieves full consensus without pulling any punches on code design and clarity, enabling us to maintain an agile, fast-paced development cycle.
100% Reviewed
Every single line in our codebase is fully reviewed by at least one expert developer (and routinely two or more) before being placed in the main repository. We strive for excellence; static code checking is used on every compile to cut out bad idioms. Style is enforced before any alteration may be made to the main repository. Continuous integration guarantees our codebase always compiles and tests always pass.
HO HO HO!
I wonder if Ethereum will fork to revert the stolen Ether. If so, it ruins any glimmer of hope it had at becoming a legitimate decentralized currency. If not, a lot of people will be exiting the game.
Bitcoin has an upcoming potential fork coming soon, too. It's mildly contentious, fairly interesting, but ultimately it will have little to no impact on the viability or trust of Bitcoin.
You assume mostly incorrectly and technically correctly.
Laser beams are designed to not diverge and thus not suffer loss with distance that other things do.
Get a shitty $5 laser pointer and point it at the wall from 1 inch away, 2 inches away, and 20 feet away. Compare the size of the dot on the wall.
Do the same with a flashlight.
At distances of many miles, a halfway coherent laser beam will suffer most of its loss due to the atmosphere, not divergence.
However, we're probably safe from instantaneous, space-based, pinpoint-precision death lasers both due to atmospheric losses and divergence. At least for now.
OP's mom offers a "dollar a shot" plan. Oooooh, sick burn.
What if you miss? A laser beam is very coherent and will keep traveling until it hits something.
What if you hit your target but it has a highly reflective surface?
What if another nation has these weapons and decides to use them against us?
The beams are invisible and effectively instantaneous, with the potential for extreme range. Air travel would be a no-go if certain nations had these things.
And at a buck per kill, even North Korea can afford to cause some actual trouble if they manage to get their hands on one.
The charges are absolutely made up and the codified system is a joke that no one understands or checks for accuracy (and when it changes all hell breaks loose).
Why do you think there are entire departments and "career colleges" dedicated to the "medical billing" industry?