Just wanted to post and say that you're completely and utterly incorrect. If something could travel faster than the speed of light all of causality would be broken.
CoinTerra won't have the bitcoins on hand to pay up, so lawyers will then bitch and fight over how to value those bitcoins in USD
Since they can be obtained on the open market; the court can order CoinTerra to buy the coins, and deliver the coins, and give them a 2 week deadline for doing so.
And the defense will say that those bitcoins aren't the same as the bitcoins he would have mined. Valuation is determined at the time of the loss, not at the time of the suit. The prosecution will say that this loss is ongoing, while the defense will say the plaintiff had a duty to minimize losses as he became aware of them. That is, as soon as you had this thing in your hands and it ran at X hashrate for Y power draw, you knew not to count the coins you hadn't mined yet, and your losses were thus limited to actual over drawn power (versus the advertised draw) and actual difference in bitcoins mined from the point of promised delivery to the point of "Hey, WTF this thing isn't what I paid for!". The prosecution would then argue that CoinTerra is responsible for those actual losses as well as losses from the point of "Hey, WTF this thing isn't what I paid for!" up until the plaintiff would have been able to get a comparable miner from somewhere else. Since these things are always backordered, rarely actually ship, and the few that do end up in the hands of end users all run at different hashrates and power draws, it'll be a bitch to figure that out. Court could go for a easy 30 day period past the point of "WTF", or the court could cut if off at the point of "WTF", or the court could just limit it to the cost of the unit and say "Durr, bitcoins internet idunno too bad".
It is speculation because the price of bitcoins jumps around massively. Gold is nowhere near as volatile as bitcoins.
It is not speculation. You can look up the difficulty and show what the man would have been able to mine had he gotten the device on time and as advertised. The price of bitcoins doesn't matter - you order CoinTerra to pay those lost bitcoins. CoinTerra won't have the bitcoins on hand to pay up, so lawyers will then bitch and fight over how to value those bitcoins in USD based on market rates at various times between the promised delivery date and now. It doesn't matter though - they won't have the cash to pay up either.
A BMC is a baseboard management controller - it's essentially an always-on processor / chipset that can do basic shit like turn the machine on and off, let you get into BIOS over serial (and thus serial over LAN if your motherboard supports it), etc. As long as the box has power and the BMC has a connection (typically sharing one of the NICs), you can boot your machine and do shit with IPMI commands remotely, reconfigure the BIOS, whatever.
OEMs build on this by slapping on another layer of shit that lets you do graphical redirection (instead of text), connect over the web, pipe in files and have them emulated as a bootable floppy, disc, or USB image, etc. This lets you do remote BIOS/UEFI/firmware updates for example, a remote OS installation, etc. DELL calls this shit DRAC or iDRAC, HP has iLO, etc.
Nearly all servers come with a some sort of BMC that supports IPMI. You do not have to pay for the advanced shit that you'll really only ever use once.
When issuing IPMI commands you can require a username and password. You can also enable encryption so that these are not sent in plaintext. It sounds like TFS is saying that Supermicro had a file containing a list of IPMI passwords in a publicly-accessible space. Note that if this file just had passwords and not the corresponding encryption keys (RCMP+), they would still be useful. Most implementations make RMCP+ encryption optional - it's on the client to specify the key and keytype used, and its only real purpose is to prevent a MITM from sniffing the username and password.
Stop disinfecting and over-cleaning everything. Remove the Purell crap. Let kids eat dirt.
The proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has NOTHING to do with the things you mention.
The use of antibiotics relative to livestock IS a real problem. The over-prescribing of antibiotics IS a real problem. The very poor techniques and standards in US hospitals relative to sterile procedures ARE real problems. Your notion that disinfecting everything and over-protecting children are to blame reveals a profound ignorance on your part.
Of course I could be wrong, because I am only an epidemiologist who works for the CDC in Atlanta. But chances are pretty good I know what I am talking about, and you don't.
Why don't we use smaller architecture in larger dies, so that we have higher densities, and higher speeds? Also that wouldn't that allow room for more cores and cache.
Because that doesn't lower costs and increase margins. With this last shrink we saw pretty much no gain (and in some cases losses) in cost efficiency, so with further shrinks they may have to wake the fuck up and start working on upping clock speeds, giving us a larger die with an entire butt of cores and cache, etc.
Show me this "social contract". I think a big part of the problem here is delusional reasoning based on imaginary things that don't actually exist. I grant that there is cooperation in a society, it is an inherent and necessary component. But to claim that is a "contract", requires that the thing be voluntary and agreed to. That generally is not the case.
I find that most of the people who use the term, "social contract" want me to do things for them, but can't be bothered to come up with reasons aside from vacuous, moralistic bullshit for doing them. My view is that these "social contracts", such as they are, are driving societies into the ground by creating all sorts of hefty obligations without providing the empowering means for satisfying those obligations..
Yup. The "social contract" is the rallying cry of the young liberal who wants some illogical, inequitable bullshit. It's their version of "There oughta be a law!".
The point of "punitive damages" is to punish the company...duh. But, how do you do that?
Just taking their money isn't enough, especially in the case of these companies. You can take astronomical amounts and it would be a drop in the bucket to them. What is $400 million to a company with billions in cash?
What you need to do is hurt them bad enough to affect their stock price. Then everyone takes notice. Board members have their positions threatened, when that happens, executives are fired, etc. THAT'S punishment.
Round up everyone in the company involved in the decision, freeze their assets, throw them in jail pending their criminal case, hold a trial, and imprison them further upon their inevitable conviction, then liquidate their assets and distribute to the affected parties. Oh wait, that would be justice.
All the judge did, was ask whether historical fines to other companies are an appropriate precedent for Apple, Google, and the rest. This isn't "questioning the amount and logic" but regular old due diligence.
So the judge ASKED about the fine, and that's not QUESTIONING the fine? Apparently you can't read.
People gave him software bits that isn't stealing somebody's property. More over for all the crowing about how fantastic an unregulated and untraceable currency is there seems to a lot of idiots regretting the choice to store that data with some random corporation under no legal obligations to keep it safe or secure it against regulated assets.
You wanted unregulated and untraceable well now you see that has its pitfalls too, it's not all unicorns and rainbows.
The money in your bank account is nothing more than "software bits". If I took them and moved them to my account, would you be fine with that? No, you wouldn't, you fucking dipshit.
Man who quite obviously ran an elaborate scam and legally (as far as I'm concerned) stole money from a bunch of morons and suckers is a narcissist and sociopath. Are we supposed to be surprised? This guy is like people who rob little old ladies and see nothing wrong with it.
the best way to use a word processor or a spreadsheet is still the good old flat desktop with no bells and whistles
Unless you want to quickly view more documents than your desk has monitors. This could let you have 180 degrees of documents surrounding you. A securities day trader would climax over this.
CTRL+TAB is faster than turning and focusing on a different monitor. Next challenger, please.
The margins for dealer sold cars are HUGE, thousands and thousands of dollars in commission for the better sales guys per car. Now imagine if Tesla ruined that market made cars cheaper for everybody.. of course these guys are scared of Tesla, if they are a success doing this nobody will want to use a dealer and the price of all cars will go down so they lose out on that margin.
Uh, Tesla wouldn't be making anything cheaper for consumers. They'd Apple it up and charge comparatively more, while keeping all the profits to themselves.
The Note 3 has a 1920x1080 screen (ruined by fucking pentile though), has a stylus, has a larger screen (obviously), runs real Android and comes with Google's apps and the Play store, has much better battery life, supports micro SD cards, supports all carriers and bands, and will have been on the market for 10 months (almost an eon in the mobile world) before Amazon's phone is in anyone's hands. For the Fire Phone to be similar (yet obviously inferior) to a phone that's nearly a year older isn't a good thing.
I'm going to completely disagree on 1280x720 being enough. The jump from the Nexus 4 (1280x768) to the Nexus 5 (1920x1080) is strikingly obvious, despite the small increase in screen size (4.7 inches to 5 inches).
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Just wanted to post and say that you're completely and utterly incorrect.
If something could travel faster than the speed of light all of causality would be broken.
The moment you can put a piece of paper into the gap between the device and the ground, its regulated by the FAA.
Thankfully, my dick is safe.
CoinTerra won't have the bitcoins on hand to pay up, so lawyers will then bitch and fight over how to value those bitcoins in USD
Since they can be obtained on the open market; the court can order CoinTerra to buy the coins, and deliver the coins, and give them a 2 week deadline for doing so.
And the defense will say that those bitcoins aren't the same as the bitcoins he would have mined.
Valuation is determined at the time of the loss, not at the time of the suit.
The prosecution will say that this loss is ongoing, while the defense will say the plaintiff had a duty to minimize losses as he became aware of them.
That is, as soon as you had this thing in your hands and it ran at X hashrate for Y power draw, you knew not to count the coins you hadn't mined yet, and your losses were thus limited to actual over drawn power (versus the advertised draw) and actual difference in bitcoins mined from the point of promised delivery to the point of "Hey, WTF this thing isn't what I paid for!".
The prosecution would then argue that CoinTerra is responsible for those actual losses as well as losses from the point of "Hey, WTF this thing isn't what I paid for!" up until the plaintiff would have been able to get a comparable miner from somewhere else. Since these things are always backordered, rarely actually ship, and the few that do end up in the hands of end users all run at different hashrates and power draws, it'll be a bitch to figure that out. Court could go for a easy 30 day period past the point of "WTF", or the court could cut if off at the point of "WTF", or the court could just limit it to the cost of the unit and say "Durr, bitcoins internet idunno too bad".
It is speculation because the price of bitcoins jumps around massively. Gold is nowhere near as volatile as bitcoins.
It is not speculation. You can look up the difficulty and show what the man would have been able to mine had he gotten the device on time and as advertised.
The price of bitcoins doesn't matter - you order CoinTerra to pay those lost bitcoins.
CoinTerra won't have the bitcoins on hand to pay up, so lawyers will then bitch and fight over how to value those bitcoins in USD based on market rates at various times between the promised delivery date and now. It doesn't matter though - they won't have the cash to pay up either.
String them up in front of the courthouse.
A BMC is a baseboard management controller - it's essentially an always-on processor / chipset that can do basic shit like turn the machine on and off, let you get into BIOS over serial (and thus serial over LAN if your motherboard supports it), etc.
As long as the box has power and the BMC has a connection (typically sharing one of the NICs), you can boot your machine and do shit with IPMI commands remotely, reconfigure the BIOS, whatever.
OEMs build on this by slapping on another layer of shit that lets you do graphical redirection (instead of text), connect over the web, pipe in files and have them emulated as a bootable floppy, disc, or USB image, etc. This lets you do remote BIOS/UEFI/firmware updates for example, a remote OS installation, etc.
DELL calls this shit DRAC or iDRAC, HP has iLO, etc.
Nearly all servers come with a some sort of BMC that supports IPMI. You do not have to pay for the advanced shit that you'll really only ever use once.
When issuing IPMI commands you can require a username and password. You can also enable encryption so that these are not sent in plaintext.
It sounds like TFS is saying that Supermicro had a file containing a list of IPMI passwords in a publicly-accessible space.
Note that if this file just had passwords and not the corresponding encryption keys (RCMP+), they would still be useful. Most implementations make RMCP+ encryption optional - it's on the client to specify the key and keytype used, and its only real purpose is to prevent a MITM from sniffing the username and password.
McDonalds had pizza. http://money.ca.msn.com/saving...
Dies are tiny.
Fuck power and heat. I have a desktop.
Que?
Stop disinfecting and over-cleaning everything. Remove the Purell crap. Let kids eat dirt.
The proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has NOTHING to do with
the things you mention.
The use of antibiotics relative to livestock IS a real problem. The over-prescribing
of antibiotics IS a real problem. The very poor techniques and standards in US
hospitals relative to sterile procedures ARE real problems. Your notion that disinfecting
everything and over-protecting children are to blame reveals a profound ignorance on
your part.
Of course I could be wrong, because I am only an epidemiologist who works
for the CDC in Atlanta. But chances are pretty good I know what I am talking about, and you
don't.
Sure buddy. What was the last disease you cured?
Why don't we use smaller architecture in larger dies, so that we have higher densities, and higher speeds? Also that wouldn't that allow room for more cores and cache.
Because that doesn't lower costs and increase margins.
With this last shrink we saw pretty much no gain (and in some cases losses) in cost efficiency, so with further shrinks they may have to wake the fuck up and start working on upping clock speeds, giving us a larger die with an entire butt of cores and cache, etc.
according to our social contract
Show me this "social contract". I think a big part of the problem here is delusional reasoning based on imaginary things that don't actually exist. I grant that there is cooperation in a society, it is an inherent and necessary component. But to claim that is a "contract", requires that the thing be voluntary and agreed to. That generally is not the case.
I find that most of the people who use the term, "social contract" want me to do things for them, but can't be bothered to come up with reasons aside from vacuous, moralistic bullshit for doing them. My view is that these "social contracts", such as they are, are driving societies into the ground by creating all sorts of hefty obligations without providing the empowering means for satisfying those obligations..
Yup. The "social contract" is the rallying cry of the young liberal who wants some illogical, inequitable bullshit. It's their version of "There oughta be a law!".
$324.5 million / 64000 workers = $507.03
These tech workers are getting fuck either way.
I think you need to multiply that number by 10.
Then divide it by 10 again since the lawyers will take 90% of it.
The point of "punitive damages" is to punish the company...duh. But, how do you do that?
Just taking their money isn't enough, especially in the case of these companies. You can take astronomical amounts and it would be a drop in the bucket to them. What is $400 million to a company with billions in cash?
What you need to do is hurt them bad enough to affect their stock price. Then everyone takes notice. Board members have their positions threatened, when that happens, executives are fired, etc. THAT'S punishment.
Round up everyone in the company involved in the decision, freeze their assets, throw them in jail pending their criminal case, hold a trial, and imprison them further upon their inevitable conviction, then liquidate their assets and distribute to the affected parties. Oh wait, that would be justice.
All the judge did, was ask whether historical fines to other companies are an appropriate precedent for Apple, Google, and the rest. This isn't "questioning the amount and logic" but regular old due diligence.
So the judge ASKED about the fine, and that's not QUESTIONING the fine?
Apparently you can't read.
How was it legal? He stole people's property.
So, bitcoins are now property that you can steal?
Please show me a law that shows bitcoins are any more real or worth any more than virtual gold in World of Warcraft.
How about you show me a law that says bits are NOT property?
Start with the balance of your checking account.
How was it legal? He stole people's property.
People gave him software bits that isn't stealing somebody's property. More over for all the crowing about how fantastic an unregulated and untraceable currency is there seems to a lot of idiots regretting the choice to store that data with some random corporation under no legal obligations to keep it safe or secure it against regulated assets.
You wanted unregulated and untraceable well now you see that has its pitfalls too, it's not all unicorns and rainbows.
The money in your bank account is nothing more than "software bits". If I took them and moved them to my account, would you be fine with that?
No, you wouldn't, you fucking dipshit.
Man who quite obviously ran an elaborate scam and legally (as far as I'm concerned) stole money from a bunch of morons and suckers is a narcissist and sociopath. Are we supposed to be surprised?
This guy is like people who rob little old ladies and see nothing wrong with it.
How was it legal? He stole people's property.
Why exactly are we reinventing the wheel here? This is old hat stuff.
Because self-important nerdulons think they're special or that things being done on computers or online somehow constitutes a separate reality.
Peripheral vision for document reading? LOL!
Spatial relationship processing? LOL! LOL!
I pooed my pants again.
the best way to use a word processor or a spreadsheet is still the good old flat desktop with no bells and whistles
Unless you want to quickly view more documents than your desk has monitors. This could let you have 180 degrees of documents surrounding you. A securities day trader would climax over this.
CTRL+TAB is faster than turning and focusing on a different monitor.
Next challenger, please.
The margins for dealer sold cars are HUGE, thousands and thousands of dollars in commission for the better sales guys per car. Now imagine if Tesla ruined that market made cars cheaper for everybody.. of course these guys are scared of Tesla, if they are a success doing this nobody will want to use a dealer and the price of all cars will go down so they lose out on that margin.
Uh, Tesla wouldn't be making anything cheaper for consumers. They'd Apple it up and charge comparatively more, while keeping all the profits to themselves.
Really?
Also... AAA? define.
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The Note 3 has a 1920x1080 screen (ruined by fucking pentile though), has a stylus, has a larger screen (obviously), runs real Android and comes with Google's apps and the Play store, has much better battery life, supports micro SD cards, supports all carriers and bands, and will have been on the market for 10 months (almost an eon in the mobile world) before Amazon's phone is in anyone's hands.
For the Fire Phone to be similar (yet obviously inferior) to a phone that's nearly a year older isn't a good thing.
I'm going to completely disagree on 1280x720 being enough. The jump from the Nexus 4 (1280x768) to the Nexus 5 (1920x1080) is strikingly obvious, despite the small increase in screen size (4.7 inches to 5 inches).