Nowhere near enough defence. Once your computer is compromised, that is not going to stop it, when it can just keylog you or hook into the memory of the running bitcoin client.
Your box getting owned is an end game scenario with or without Bitcoin. It's equivalent to your safe being cracked. If you feel your safe isn't secure enough, use multiple safes hidden around (multiple wallets in USB drives or on PCs not connected to the internet). If you feel that isn't secure enough, contract your security out to a bank or insurance company that provides secure storage of assets.
The single rule holds true - treat your wallet like cash.
I'm so glad that Bitcoin is such a simple solution to the complexity of cash!
There is exactly one rule to securing Bitcoin wallets - treat your wallet like cash.
Would you hand your cash over to some internet website to hold for you? Would you hand your cash over to some internet website to hold for you if they claim to be a "bank"? Would you hand your cash over to some internet website to hold for you if they actually are a regulated bank and deposits were FDIC insured?
Would you leave your change laying out in the open on your desk(top computer)? Would you leave a few dollars laying out in the open on your desk(top computer)? Would you leave hundreds or thousands of dollars laying out in the open on your desk(top computer)?
Would you put large amounts of cash in a safe(ly encrypted wallet)? Would you put very large amounts of cash in a safe(ly encrypted wallet) held by a regulated bank / insurance agency, and get contracts signed to cover your ass?
It's not hard, kids. Don't hand over you Bitcoins to anyone unless you have legal recourse if they fuck up. Encrypt your wallets.
Plus, physical consoles were pretty much always loss leaders... Sega, Sony, Nintendo would lose money on their hardware and make it up on selling titles - both their own and from third-party developers. Is Microsoft not including all of profits from licensing in their reports?
That's including all licensing fees, Live subscriptions, etc. The XBOX division as a whole is billions of dollars in the red.
The word you're looking for is bigoted. The Chinese are not a race.
Bigotry refers to rejecting another person's views with no consideration when they differ from your own simply because they differ from your own. Bigotry has nothing to do with hatred or animosity. It has to do with stubbornness, ego, zealotry, etc.
As an Anonymous Coward, I am very concerned that proper language be used only when it places me in a position of higher authority.
The word for "soldiers who fought on horseback" is cavalry.
The word for "a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified" is calvary.
The word for "ice cream that's really expensive and super fucking creamy" is "Carvel". The word for "fibrous green shit that children and guinea pigs eat" is "celery". The word for "the poison center of a Milk Dud" is "caramel". The word for "that shit you bruised when you gave your wife a raging tsunami" is "clavicle".
Dear Slashdot, I'm an idiot and I want to know how to circumvent my local taxes, tariffs, etc. There's no better place to ask this shit than on a site titled "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters", so here we are!
Slashdot continues to peddle their Advertisement as a Service platform in the form of book reviews about things actual nerds universally hate making it to the front page.
Remember kids *aaS stands for "* and a Surcharge".
Because small fringe groups tend to have extremely focused views, views that sometimes catch on to the mainstream for good or ill
For example: right now there is a small group of genderqueer video gamers screaming bloody murder about Ace Attorney 5, I fully expect that in a few days it will be all over video game sites, tumblr, twitter, forums etc as the latest form of gender stereotype/oppression blah blah blah
Right? Wrong? It doesn't matter, it's angry and loud and coming from a tight knit group of people who have their own set of morals (and in some cases logic) and that opinion will spread across social media like a rash, a company like CAPCOM isn't prepared to fight that PR nightmare, but it's already boiling over in dark corners their marketing department can't even imagine.
What in the hells could they have against AA5? I'm pretty sick of these groups intentionally trying to start shit over various slights they perceive in the video game industry (these ALWAYS turn out to be nothing, less than nothing, and outright made up).
Yes, that means added cost and weight. Deal with it.
Sure, if you don't mind producing a headset that no-one wants to buy because it's too expensive, no one wants to use because it's too heavy, and no one wants to supports because of the first two things. Or, in other words, if you want to be a complete and utter failure.
Except the people who are interested in these headsets (I am not among them) all excrete into their panties at the mere mention of the Oculus Rift. The only thing they complain about is the image quality. Fixing that should be their priority, even if it makes the units slightly heavier or slightly more expensive.
How about you use better lenses so you don't have distortions in the first place? Stop trying to fudge shit in software. It doesn't work with projectors with shitty lenses, telescopes with shitty lenses, or camera phones with shitty lenses. If you want a good image use good optics. Yes, that means added cost and weight. Deal with it.
This level of trading does not do the market any good, and puts individual investors at a severe disadvantage against firms like this.
It can be stopped. And it should be stopped. And the only reason it is not being stopped is because too many rich and powerful people make too much money on it.
I'd go as far as 10 seconds just to eliminate the possibility of assholes pulling shit with different rules for rounding, or horseshit like "our clock was slightly off", etc.
No, YOU'RE not getting it. The games are irrelevant to the discussion. The capabilities of the hardware and Nintendo's success in the market are the only pertinent variables in the discussion.
Nope, that's not what the discussion is about. Read the posts you're responding to, please. The discussion is about technically inferior products being successful. Nintendo's products are games. Its games are not technically inferior. The technical specifications of some of their consoles may be inferior. But "technically inferior" in this discussion refers to objective metrics about the product, not technical specifications of computer hardware. The product is games. Objective (as objective as you can get) metrics on these games lead to a pretty clear conclusion: Nintendo puts out some of the world's best games. They cannot be broadly classed as "inferior" as games, and thus Nintendo cannot be used as an example of inferior shit being successful.
"Technically inferior" doesn't have anything to do with the games, it has to do with the actual hardware specs. Nintendo is an excellent example of doing well in the marketplace despite inferior hardware.
Games being fun or not is largely independent of whether or not they're technically impressive.
EXACTLY. The post that you responded to wasn't talking about about how fun the games are, though. They were talking about the output capabilities of Nintendo's game hardware.
You're still not getting it. For Nintendo to make sense as an example, you'd have to show that their games are inferior. The chief measure of a games inferiority/superiority is how fun it is. There technical specifications of the hardware influences the game, but it's several steps removed from the core gameplay.
So, The USB Implementers Forum is a cartel intended to make sure only approved corporations can play the game then?
And, once again, corporations take over everything and the rest of us can eat cake. Color me totally un-surprised.
Hey now, that's not fair. You'll have to pay us for the rights to that cake before we let you buy the ingredients and prepare the recipe. Then there's the baking, slicing, and serving fees. You'll need a license per eater or per cake, whichever costs more. Any frosted cakes must conform to our new standard including, but not limited to, branding the cake with our obnoxious logo. You can buy a copy of the updated standard, but it won't be cheap.
Nintendo's products are not a good example of technically inferior stuff doing better in the market place. They're games consoles and what Nintendo does is produce games that play well and that people love. Technical whizz-bang only gets you so far; if the games suck the sales will be slower.
So they're not a good example of technically inferior stuff doing better in the market place because they're technically inferior on purpose?
You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means.
They're not a good example of technically inferior stuff doing better in the market because the market is primarily about the games, not the hardware they run on. Games being fun or not is largely independent of whether or not they're technically impressive.
It's not in the Driver, ATI video cards have required ATI DVI-HDMI adapters for YEARS if you wanted Audio along with the video signal (ever since they supported HD Audio). If you're just plugging into a monitor you can use any adapter you want, if you're plugging it into a TV, you've always needed to use ATI's adapter.
I never even knew you could get audio out of the fucking DVI port on their cards. How are they doing this?
What's software going to do? Rotate the sensor back the other way? Rotating the video will result in you having to tilt your head to watch the video. If it bothers you so much just rotate your monitor.
People record in portrait because it's easier to hold and operate a phone one handed in that orientation. You don't have to like it, but the "OMG FUCK PORTRAIT VIDEO" parade is really over blowing things.
I know this will probably get lost in the comments but, when my mom isn't home I like to go into her garden, cover myself in dirt, and pretend I'm a carrot.
With the SSL key, they can intercept messages and connections in transit (that is, "live").
I presumed Lavabit store only encrypted data and only the user had the key. Users download encrypted data and decrypt with their local key. Lavabit never sees the key or unencrypted data.
If any of those are not true, then Lavabit was useless from a security standpoint.
If someone stores or sees your data or keys, you're fucked. Perhaps Lavabit DID operate as I presumed, decrypted shit in the browser (using javascript but never sending the key anywhere), and the terrorists wanted to MITM everyone, push out different javascript, and capture the key and data.
And you seize BTC by also arresting the only person who had access to the wallet, and the backups.:0
Not a good idea. Seems you didn't read it either. Why do you think that there's only one person with access to the wallet or backups? Encrypt and disperse.
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Encrypt your wallets.
Nowhere near enough defence. Once your computer is compromised, that is not going to stop it, when it can just keylog you or hook into the memory of the running bitcoin client.
Your box getting owned is an end game scenario with or without Bitcoin.
It's equivalent to your safe being cracked. If you feel your safe isn't secure enough, use multiple safes hidden around (multiple wallets in USB drives or on PCs not connected to the internet). If you feel that isn't secure enough, contract your security out to a bank or insurance company that provides secure storage of assets.
The single rule holds true - treat your wallet like cash.
I'm so glad that Bitcoin is such a simple solution to the complexity of cash!
There is exactly one rule to securing Bitcoin wallets - treat your wallet like cash.
Would you hand your cash over to some internet website to hold for you?
Would you hand your cash over to some internet website to hold for you if they claim to be a "bank"?
Would you hand your cash over to some internet website to hold for you if they actually are a regulated bank and deposits were FDIC insured?
Would you leave your change laying out in the open on your desk(top computer)?
Would you leave a few dollars laying out in the open on your desk(top computer)?
Would you leave hundreds or thousands of dollars laying out in the open on your desk(top computer)?
Would you put large amounts of cash in a safe(ly encrypted wallet)?
Would you put very large amounts of cash in a safe(ly encrypted wallet) held by a regulated bank / insurance agency, and get contracts signed to cover your ass?
It's not hard, kids. Don't hand over you Bitcoins to anyone unless you have legal recourse if they fuck up. Encrypt your wallets.
Plus, physical consoles were pretty much always loss leaders... Sega, Sony, Nintendo would lose money on their hardware and make it up on selling titles - both their own and from third-party developers. Is Microsoft not including all of profits from licensing in their reports?
That's including all licensing fees, Live subscriptions, etc. The XBOX division as a whole is billions of dollars in the red.
If you have http GET requests going (effectively) straight into your database, that's YOUR problem, not Google's.
Uh, if you serve up any sort of data-backed page that uses shit from the URL to do something, that's "going (effectively) straight into your database".
http://stocksite.com/charts.lol?symbol=GOOG&range=30
Not parameterizing your inputs is "YOUR problem", sure, but having an (effectively) openly-accessible database is not some fucking taboo.
i only ask because homes in the USA have them
Yeah unlike those dumb Chinese huh? You're racist
The word you're looking for is bigoted. The Chinese are not a race.
Bigotry refers to rejecting another person's views with no consideration when they differ from your own simply because they differ from your own.
Bigotry has nothing to do with hatred or animosity. It has to do with stubbornness, ego, zealotry, etc.
As an Anonymous Coward, I am very concerned that proper language be used only when it places me in a position of higher authority.
The word for "soldiers who fought on horseback" is cavalry.
The word for "a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified" is calvary.
The word for "ice cream that's really expensive and super fucking creamy" is "Carvel".
The word for "fibrous green shit that children and guinea pigs eat" is "celery".
The word for "the poison center of a Milk Dud" is "caramel".
The word for "that shit you bruised when you gave your wife a raging tsunami" is "clavicle".
there's no reason why multiple teams can't work on different parts of the system
You've never worked on anything with multiple teams working on different parts, have you?
It never fucking works. You need knowledgeable oversight.
Dear Slashdot, I'm an idiot and I want to know how to circumvent my local taxes, tariffs, etc.
There's no better place to ask this shit than on a site titled "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters", so here we are!
Slashdot continues to peddle their Advertisement as a Service platform in the form of book reviews about things actual nerds universally hate making it to the front page.
Remember kids *aaS stands for "* and a Surcharge".
Why is this news?
All the sites I work on rewrite any http url request to https because there's absolutely no reason not to.
Because small fringe groups tend to have extremely focused views, views that sometimes catch on to the mainstream for good or ill
For example: right now there is a small group of genderqueer video gamers screaming bloody murder about Ace Attorney 5, I fully expect that in a few days it will be all over video game sites, tumblr, twitter, forums etc as the latest form of gender stereotype/oppression blah blah blah
Right? Wrong? It doesn't matter, it's angry and loud and coming from a tight knit group of people who have their own set of morals (and in some cases logic) and that opinion will spread across social media like a rash, a company like CAPCOM isn't prepared to fight that PR nightmare, but it's already boiling over in dark corners their marketing department can't even imagine.
What in the hells could they have against AA5?
I'm pretty sick of these groups intentionally trying to start shit over various slights they perceive in the video game industry (these ALWAYS turn out to be nothing, less than nothing, and outright made up).
Yes, that means added cost and weight. Deal with it.
Sure, if you don't mind producing a headset that no-one wants to buy because it's too expensive, no one wants to use because it's too heavy, and no one wants to supports because of the first two things. Or, in other words, if you want to be a complete and utter failure.
Except the people who are interested in these headsets (I am not among them) all excrete into their panties at the mere mention of the Oculus Rift. The only thing they complain about is the image quality. Fixing that should be their priority, even if it makes the units slightly heavier or slightly more expensive.
How about you use better lenses so you don't have distortions in the first place?
Stop trying to fudge shit in software. It doesn't work with projectors with shitty lenses, telescopes with shitty lenses, or camera phones with shitty lenses.
If you want a good image use good optics. Yes, that means added cost and weight. Deal with it.
This level of trading does not do the market any good, and puts individual investors at a severe disadvantage against firms like this.
It can be stopped. And it should be stopped. And the only reason it is not being stopped is because too many rich and powerful people make too much money on it.
I'd go as far as 10 seconds just to eliminate the possibility of assholes pulling shit with different rules for rounding, or horseshit like "our clock was slightly off", etc.
No, YOU'RE not getting it. The games are irrelevant to the discussion. The capabilities of the hardware and Nintendo's success in the market are the only pertinent variables in the discussion.
Nope, that's not what the discussion is about. Read the posts you're responding to, please.
The discussion is about technically inferior products being successful. Nintendo's products are games. Its games are not technically inferior. The technical specifications of some of their consoles may be inferior. But "technically inferior" in this discussion refers to objective metrics about the product, not technical specifications of computer hardware. The product is games. Objective (as objective as you can get) metrics on these games lead to a pretty clear conclusion: Nintendo puts out some of the world's best games. They cannot be broadly classed as "inferior" as games, and thus Nintendo cannot be used as an example of inferior shit being successful.
"Technically inferior" doesn't have anything to do with the games, it has to do with the actual hardware specs. Nintendo is an excellent example of doing well in the marketplace despite inferior hardware.
Games being fun or not is largely independent of whether or not they're technically impressive.
EXACTLY. The post that you responded to wasn't talking about about how fun the games are, though. They were talking about the output capabilities of Nintendo's game hardware.
You're still not getting it. For Nintendo to make sense as an example, you'd have to show that their games are inferior. The chief measure of a games inferiority/superiority is how fun it is. There technical specifications of the hardware influences the game, but it's several steps removed from the core gameplay.
So, The USB Implementers Forum is a cartel intended to make sure only approved corporations can play the game then?
And, once again, corporations take over everything and the rest of us can eat cake. Color me totally un-surprised.
Hey now, that's not fair.
You'll have to pay us for the rights to that cake before we let you buy the ingredients and prepare the recipe. Then there's the baking, slicing, and serving fees. You'll need a license per eater or per cake, whichever costs more. Any frosted cakes must conform to our new standard including, but not limited to, branding the cake with our obnoxious logo. You can buy a copy of the updated standard, but it won't be cheap.
Nintendo's products are not a good example of technically inferior stuff doing better in the market place. They're games consoles and what Nintendo does is produce games that play well and that people love. Technical whizz-bang only gets you so far; if the games suck the sales will be slower.
So they're not a good example of technically inferior stuff doing better in the market place because they're technically inferior on purpose?
You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means.
They're not a good example of technically inferior stuff doing better in the market because the market is primarily about the games, not the hardware they run on. Games being fun or not is largely independent of whether or not they're technically impressive.
It's not in the Driver, ATI video cards have required ATI DVI-HDMI adapters for YEARS if you wanted Audio along with the video signal (ever since they supported HD Audio). If you're just plugging into a monitor you can use any adapter you want, if you're plugging it into a TV, you've always needed to use ATI's adapter.
I never even knew you could get audio out of the fucking DVI port on their cards. How are they doing this?
What's software going to do? Rotate the sensor back the other way?
Rotating the video will result in you having to tilt your head to watch the video.
If it bothers you so much just rotate your monitor.
People record in portrait because it's easier to hold and operate a phone one handed in that orientation.
You don't have to like it, but the "OMG FUCK PORTRAIT VIDEO" parade is really over blowing things.
I know this will probably get lost in the comments but, when my mom isn't home I like to go into her garden, cover myself in dirt, and pretend I'm a carrot.
Funny, that's how you were conceived.
With the SSL key, they can intercept messages and connections in transit (that is, "live").
I presumed Lavabit store only encrypted data and only the user had the key.
Users download encrypted data and decrypt with their local key.
Lavabit never sees the key or unencrypted data.
If any of those are not true, then Lavabit was useless from a security standpoint.
If someone stores or sees your data or keys, you're fucked.
Perhaps Lavabit DID operate as I presumed, decrypted shit in the browser (using javascript but never sending the key anywhere), and the terrorists wanted to MITM everyone, push out different javascript, and capture the key and data.
Maybe read the complaint. Good idea, eh?
And you seize BTC by also arresting the only person who had access to the wallet, and the backups. :0
Not a good idea. Seems you didn't read it either.
Why do you think that there's only one person with access to the wallet or backups? Encrypt and disperse.
The feds can't do that without decrypting his wallet first.
The Xbox One has a superior 2012 PC design, and the PS4 has a stunning late 2014 PC design
More like 2010 and 2011.