Do your workstations have access to power outlets? I bet they do! You can run Ethernet along the electrical wiring. You can use a buttload of those power line Ethernet adapters. You can replace all electrical wiring with Ethernet and then run your whole business off of Power Over Ethernet because let's face it - if you guys are for open floor plans and bright walls to the extent that you're having a fight with your only competent employee about not wanting to running Ethernet because of the aesthetics, you're not really doing anything worth while anyway.
That's not true. Just as HTTP runs as a layered protocol on TCP/IP (and TCP runs on IP) so too, layered protocols on top of the Bitcoin protocol are perfectly compatible with Bitcoin. In fact, much of future innovation in transactions and smart contracts will be layered on the Bitcoin protocol.
You lack a fundamental understanding of Bitcoin, then. It's not a stack, it's a chain. You can't add anything on to Bitcoin that alters rewards, wallet addresses, or transactions without forking because such changes would allow for double spending.
It depends on the optical disc. If you fork out the money for an archival media like gold CDs or DVDs, then you can probably expect something like 20 to 40 years. All in all, from what I've read, tape still is king in long term storage.
"Archival" optical discs are a scam. They fare no better than Office Depot brand shit.
However, you could shorten the blockchain by calculaing the balances and then dropping the old blocks.
A mines 50BTC (before the reduction) some time later A sends to B 10BTC. then B sends to C 4BTC. C sends to A 1BTC.
This could be simplified (when the transactions get a couple of years old) to A: 41BTC B: 6BTC C: 3BTC
Now when A, B or C sends coins, you can just check it against their balance and all transactions since then.
That breaks the fundamental point of the blockchain. All mined blocks are verifiable by anyone. All transactions are traceable (from wallet to wallet) and verifiable by anyone.
Zerocoin is an *extension* to Bitcoin - if it is accepted as part of Bitcoin then it will be part of Bitcoin. Because it has been developed as a library (and documented) altcoins can use it too. TLDR: it doesn't matter which coin comes out on top because they can all use it.
You can't make a fucking extension to Bitcoin while Bitcoin is still running. As soon as a new block is mined in either Bitcoin or your "extension", you've got a fork, and you've got 2 different networks and 2 different currencies.
How is it hands free if I have to launch Chrome and turn on the voice recognition bits?
Same goes for my Android phone. I have to launch Google Now by holding the Menu "button" before it'll listen to me. It doesn't work if the phone is:
1: Asleep and locked 2: Asleep and unlocked 3: Awake with another program in the foreground 4: Awake and at a home screen page 5: Awake and at the default home screen page 6: Awake and at the default home screen page with the Google search widget loaded
You HAVE hold the Menu "button" to get to Google Now to get it to listen to you. (Or tap the microphone icon on the Google search widget.) It's not hands free and it shouldn't be billed as such. Yet all the commercials show people with their phone on their desk while they give their mocha skinned girlfriend a sensual massage, and all it takes to get shit done is talking. Am I missing something? How can I get my phone (Galaxy Note 2) to behave in such a manner?
At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos
Wired reports that IceCube, the detection facility built just to detect such things, has seen just what it was looking for, even though the researchers involved didn't knot it at the time. High-energy neutrinos, the target that IceCube was seeking, weren't showing up as had been hoped, but it turns out that there were quite a few (nearly 30 already, with 2013's data still being recorded) in the three years that the detector has been operating — they just weren't obvious until the data was combed for it. "Most of the 28 high-energy neutrinos so far detected originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way, making it quite likely that they are arriving from a distant source. There are still too few neutrinos to make any specific conclusions about AGNs or gamma-ray bursts, but the IceCube team will continue gathering new data."
The high-energy neutrino detector IceCube ( http://icecube.wisc.edu/ ) has detected at least 28 high-energy neutrinos in the past 3 years. Until recently, this number was thought to be zero.
The quote from an unknown person is useless because it doesn't tell us what high-energy neutrinos are, why they didn't know about the 28 detections until now, or what AGNs are.
The word you are looking for is API. An implementation is on the side of the thing that exposes the API. The OS uses the API, it does not implement the standard. Implement would mean providing the API. Not making use of an API doesn't mean you're not standards compliant. Eg. None of my OSs make use of (U)EFI (because coreboot is amazing). My OSs are following the boot standards, They just aren't using the API that was implemented for (U)EFI.
You "execute" TRIM through the API of its implementation. Calling it on delete is an optional part of the protocol. Not calling it on deletes is not deviation from the standard.
Holy shit no.
TRIM is a COMMAND, part of the ATA INTERFACE STANDARD. Hardware devices IMPLEMENT this STANDARD to function. Operating systems IMPLEMENT this STANDARD to support said hardware.
API stands for APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE. APIs allow for SOFTWARE to talk to SOFTWARE. APIs do not fucking apply here. TRIM is not part of an API. It is part of the fucking STANDARD. Whatever the drive does in its FIRMWARE doesn't make TRIM an API, nor does it mean the OS doesn't have to IMPLEMENT TRIM as part of the latest SPECIFICATION of the ATA STANDARD.
People like you are why manufacturers have to pay money and get certified to be able to slap a Windows or Mac sticker on their gear, and not the other way around.
Of source it doesn't implement the standard because it's a OS kernel, not a hard drive. The drives implement TRIM, Linux just doesn't take full advantage of its capabilities.
The drive does shit (shit that you don't get to know the details about) when issued a TRIM command. The OS is responsible for sending that TRIM command.
TRIM tells the drive when data is deleted, allowing the drive to do whatever it thinks is best when writing pages of data or erasing blocks of data. Without TRIM, the drives considers all previously written data to be valid because it doesn't know about deletions (they're done at the logical level within the file system).
TRIM enables your drive to have much more flexibility when writing (and overwriting) data, and when load balancing and garbage collecting. It also reduces the need for load balancing and garbage collecting.
All decent modern SSDs support TRIM for good reason. All decent modern OSs should as well. Now if I could just get Intel to enable TRIM on RAID 0 for my chipset (1 generation behind the cutoff), I'd be set.
Using PDF forms? Your IT procurement people are very, very naive and trusting... er, stupid.
You're a moron. A PDF form is simply a document with text fields people can fill in and print (and potentially save). They have nothing to do with procurement, they're simply a template users use.
Great. Another configuration change to manage on all our workstations.
Use the chrome GPO templates, thats sort of why theyre there.
Of course. But my list of shit to deal with just went from 2395720 items to 2395721 items. A drop in the ocean, sure, but FUCK each and everyone one of those unnecessary drops.
When your app runs like dog shit, demands unlimited access to all my data and my network connection, sends me incessant notifications, and keeps running in the background using hundreds of megs of RAM and choking my processor no matter how many times I kill it, I'm going to delete your app.
Android needs to fucking give control to the user. I should be able to tell an app to: 1 - NOT fucking run in the background 2 - NOT fucking start on its own for no reason 3 - NOT have access to certain things 4 - NOT send notifications
Google needs to tell OEMs that disable my ability to do the above to: 1 - FUCK OFF
Great. Another configuration change to manage on all our workstations. The Chrome PDF viewer is shit. So is the Firefox one. They're fine for viewing most basic PDFs, but anything more involved (forms, interactive PDFs, portfolios, etc.) and they both just shit the bed.
I have a 2003 Ford. Girlfriend has a 2010 Camry. No such fire blanket in either. Hood insulation is not a fire blanket. It s not designed to fall out and suppress a fire. It is merely designed to contain the fire within the engine compartment. You're the one making the ridiculous claim that it's a fire suppression system. It's not. It's containment.
I found references that insurances companies are beginning to cover the loss of data, but I didn't find any that would offer a secured storage. You can put them on USB and put that in a safe deposit box, but that's not securing a digital file, that's securing a physical item that contains data.
If you don't provide a link to a service that provides the service you claim exists, I'll have to assume you are lying because you really like arguing, and the truth is irrelevant to a good argument.
Fuck right on off you shitless moron. Contact a bank, law firm, or insurance company. Tell them you have digital files you wish to secure and you have money you wish to pay them in exchange for them doing so. All you would need to do is have the insurer create their own wallet and secure it, then transfer your funds to it through the Bitcoin network. DONE. They can store it physically or digitally, it doesn't fucking matter. Draw up a contract. Get it done. It's not fucking hard. Just because it's not on the fucking menu at Geico.com doesn't mean it's not an option. You can insure your fucking stuffed guinea pig collection from acid attacks if you ask through Lloyd's of London. Nothing is off menu unless you're s brainless plebe who doesn't know how the world works.
Modern cars have an insulation layer under the hood. It's not there to protect the hood, but to help smother the fire. The mounts melt under fire temperatures, dropping the fire blanket on the engine. No idea if it works, but it's there and designed to work that way.
What? No such thing exists. Your post is 100% bullshit.
The single rule holds true - treat your wallet like cash.
Well, quite. But there are safer ways to store regular cash than having it as cash in your home. For bitcoin, not so much.
You can get a bank or insurance firm to securely store just about anything, including digital files, and you can get insurance to cover it. You can secure your Bitcoins as well as you can secure cash.
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Do your workstations have access to power outlets? I bet they do!
You can run Ethernet along the electrical wiring.
You can use a buttload of those power line Ethernet adapters.
You can replace all electrical wiring with Ethernet and then run your whole business off of Power Over Ethernet because let's face it - if you guys are for open floor plans and bright walls to the extent that you're having a fight with your only competent employee about not wanting to running Ethernet because of the aesthetics, you're not really doing anything worth while anyway.
That's not true. Just as HTTP runs as a layered protocol on TCP/IP (and TCP runs on IP) so too, layered protocols on top of the Bitcoin protocol are perfectly compatible with Bitcoin. In fact, much of future innovation in transactions and smart contracts will be layered on the Bitcoin protocol.
You lack a fundamental understanding of Bitcoin, then. It's not a stack, it's a chain.
You can't add anything on to Bitcoin that alters rewards, wallet addresses, or transactions without forking because such changes would allow for double spending.
It depends on the optical disc. If you fork out the money for an archival media like gold CDs or DVDs, then you can probably expect something like 20 to 40 years. All in all, from what I've read, tape still is king in long term storage.
"Archival" optical discs are a scam. They fare no better than Office Depot brand shit.
A thermometer ALWAYS measures it's own temperature.
Not true. My dick measured your mom's temperature last night. Result? She's hot, hot, HOT!
However, you could shorten the blockchain by calculaing the balances and then dropping the old blocks.
A mines 50BTC (before the reduction)
some time later A sends to B 10BTC.
then B sends to C 4BTC.
C sends to A 1BTC.
This could be simplified (when the transactions get a couple of years old) to
A: 41BTC
B: 6BTC
C: 3BTC
Now when A, B or C sends coins, you can just check it against their balance and all transactions since then.
That breaks the fundamental point of the blockchain.
All mined blocks are verifiable by anyone.
All transactions are traceable (from wallet to wallet) and verifiable by anyone.
Zerocoin is an *extension* to Bitcoin - if it is accepted as part of Bitcoin then it will be part of Bitcoin. Because it has been developed as a library (and documented) altcoins can use it too. TLDR: it doesn't matter which coin comes out on top because they can all use it.
You can't make a fucking extension to Bitcoin while Bitcoin is still running.
As soon as a new block is mined in either Bitcoin or your "extension", you've got a fork, and you've got 2 different networks and 2 different currencies.
How is it hands free if I have to launch Chrome and turn on the voice recognition bits?
Same goes for my Android phone. I have to launch Google Now by holding the Menu "button" before it'll listen to me. It doesn't work if the phone is:
1: Asleep and locked
2: Asleep and unlocked
3: Awake with another program in the foreground
4: Awake and at a home screen page
5: Awake and at the default home screen page
6: Awake and at the default home screen page with the Google search widget loaded
You HAVE hold the Menu "button" to get to Google Now to get it to listen to you. (Or tap the microphone icon on the Google search widget.)
It's not hands free and it shouldn't be billed as such. Yet all the commercials show people with their phone on their desk while they give their mocha skinned girlfriend a sensual massage, and all it takes to get shit done is talking. Am I missing something? How can I get my phone (Galaxy Note 2) to behave in such a manner?
I think most of Yahoo's problems stem from the fact that the hire programmers that use Outlook?
Outlook is terrible.
It's still leaps and bounds better than any other option for a workplace.
Is Slashdot powered by Mechanical Turk?
BAD:
At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos
Wired reports that IceCube, the detection facility built just to detect such things, has seen just what it was looking for, even though the researchers involved didn't knot it at the time. High-energy neutrinos, the target that IceCube was seeking, weren't showing up as had been hoped, but it turns out that there were quite a few (nearly 30 already, with 2013's data still being recorded) in the three years that the detector has been operating — they just weren't obvious until the data was combed for it. "Most of the 28 high-energy neutrinos so far detected originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way, making it quite likely that they are arriving from a distant source. There are still too few neutrinos to make any specific conclusions about AGNs or gamma-ray bursts, but the IceCube team will continue gathering new data."
Good:
At Least 28 High-Energy Neutrinos Detected by IceCube
From Wired ( http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/icecube-neutrinos-detected/ )
The high-energy neutrino detector IceCube ( http://icecube.wisc.edu/ ) has detected at least 28 high-energy neutrinos in the past 3 years. Until recently, this number was thought to be zero.
The quote from an unknown person is useless because it doesn't tell us what high-energy neutrinos are, why they didn't know about the 28 detections until now, or what AGNs are.
The word you are looking for is API. An implementation is on the side of the thing that exposes the API. The OS uses the API, it does not implement the standard. Implement would mean providing the API. Not making use of an API doesn't mean you're not standards compliant. Eg. None of my OSs make use of (U)EFI (because coreboot is amazing). My OSs are following the boot standards, They just aren't using the API that was implemented for (U)EFI.
You "execute" TRIM through the API of its implementation. Calling it on delete is an optional part of the protocol. Not calling it on deletes is not deviation from the standard.
Holy shit no.
TRIM is a COMMAND, part of the ATA INTERFACE STANDARD.
Hardware devices IMPLEMENT this STANDARD to function. Operating systems IMPLEMENT this STANDARD to support said hardware.
API stands for APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE. APIs allow for SOFTWARE to talk to SOFTWARE. APIs do not fucking apply here. TRIM is not part of an API. It is part of the fucking STANDARD. Whatever the drive does in its FIRMWARE doesn't make TRIM an API, nor does it mean the OS doesn't have to IMPLEMENT TRIM as part of the latest SPECIFICATION of the ATA STANDARD.
People like you are why manufacturers have to pay money and get certified to be able to slap a Windows or Mac sticker on their gear, and not the other way around.
Of source it doesn't implement the standard because it's a OS kernel, not a hard drive.
The drives implement TRIM, Linux just doesn't take full advantage of its capabilities.
The drive does shit (shit that you don't get to know the details about) when issued a TRIM command.
The OS is responsible for sending that TRIM command.
TRIM tells the drive when data is deleted, allowing the drive to do whatever it thinks is best when writing pages of data or erasing blocks of data.
Without TRIM, the drives considers all previously written data to be valid because it doesn't know about deletions (they're done at the logical level within the file system).
TRIM enables your drive to have much more flexibility when writing (and overwriting) data, and when load balancing and garbage collecting. It also reduces the need for load balancing and garbage collecting.
All decent modern SSDs support TRIM for good reason. All decent modern OSs should as well.
Now if I could just get Intel to enable TRIM on RAID 0 for my chipset (1 generation behind the cutoff), I'd be set.
Using PDF forms? Your IT procurement people are very, very naive and trusting... er, stupid.
You're a moron. A PDF form is simply a document with text fields people can fill in and print (and potentially save). They have nothing to do with procurement, they're simply a template users use.
Thanks, but our users do use those things.
The only thing we want them to use is forms (simple fill in, not submit, email, monitor, etc.).
Great. Another configuration change to manage on all our workstations.
Use the chrome GPO templates, thats sort of why theyre there.
Of course. But my list of shit to deal with just went from 2395720 items to 2395721 items. A drop in the ocean, sure, but FUCK each and everyone one of those unnecessary drops.
When your app runs like dog shit, demands unlimited access to all my data and my network connection, sends me incessant notifications, and keeps running in the background using hundreds of megs of RAM and choking my processor no matter how many times I kill it, I'm going to delete your app.
Android needs to fucking give control to the user. I should be able to tell an app to:
1 - NOT fucking run in the background
2 - NOT fucking start on its own for no reason
3 - NOT have access to certain things
4 - NOT send notifications
Google needs to tell OEMs that disable my ability to do the above to:
1 - FUCK OFF
Great. Another configuration change to manage on all our workstations.
The Chrome PDF viewer is shit. So is the Firefox one. They're fine for viewing most basic PDFs, but anything more involved (forms, interactive PDFs, portfolios, etc.) and they both just shit the bed.
If you reguarly drive 10-15 over the limit, you ARE a risk.
That would possibly have some truth to it if the speed limits were set with safety in mind.
Fuck 'em. Disband that shit ASAP.
I have a 2003 Ford. Girlfriend has a 2010 Camry. No such fire blanket in either.
Hood insulation is not a fire blanket. It s not designed to fall out and suppress a fire. It is merely designed to contain the fire within the engine compartment. You're the one making the ridiculous claim that it's a fire suppression system. It's not. It's containment.
Yup. Own a plug-in car? Hope you don't live between Arizona and Michigan. Lightning's a bitch.
No, there isn't, nor in any car I've ever seen. Another poster already called you out.
You're also trolling me about insuring Bitcoins. Fuck off.
Insurance companies did not, and many still do not, consider the information contained on your computer as "tangible property." http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/why-digital-insurance-is-important.aspx
I found references that insurances companies are beginning to cover the loss of data, but I didn't find any that would offer a secured storage. You can put them on USB and put that in a safe deposit box, but that's not securing a digital file, that's securing a physical item that contains data.
If you don't provide a link to a service that provides the service you claim exists, I'll have to assume you are lying because you really like arguing, and the truth is irrelevant to a good argument.
Fuck right on off you shitless moron.
Contact a bank, law firm, or insurance company. Tell them you have digital files you wish to secure and you have money you wish to pay them in exchange for them doing so.
All you would need to do is have the insurer create their own wallet and secure it, then transfer your funds to it through the Bitcoin network. DONE. They can store it physically or digitally, it doesn't fucking matter. Draw up a contract. Get it done. It's not fucking hard.
Just because it's not on the fucking menu at Geico.com doesn't mean it's not an option.
You can insure your fucking stuffed guinea pig collection from acid attacks if you ask through Lloyd's of London. Nothing is off menu unless you're s brainless plebe who doesn't know how the world works.
Modern cars have an insulation layer under the hood. It's not there to protect the hood, but to help smother the fire. The mounts melt under fire temperatures, dropping the fire blanket on the engine. No idea if it works, but it's there and designed to work that way.
What? No such thing exists. Your post is 100% bullshit.
Incorrect. echo "from common import sense" | python -i
Incorrect. Python is shit.
The single rule holds true - treat your wallet like cash.
Well, quite. But there are safer ways to store regular cash than having it as cash in your home. For bitcoin, not so much.
You can get a bank or insurance firm to securely store just about anything, including digital files, and you can get insurance to cover it.
You can secure your Bitcoins as well as you can secure cash.