That's a distributed, public blockchain. I didn't RTFA, but my guess is FedEx's blockchain will be private and controlled entirely by FedEx. (Actually, my guess is that they aren't going to do anything at all with blockchain beyond get their name in the news.)
A "blockchain" is a ledger of transactions. That's it. It scales however well you want it to.
If you talk to speculators and crytpo pump-and-dumpers, they'll tell you that BITCOIN specifically has a "scaling problem", but that's only because they want to push you to Ethereum because it's going to switch to proof of stake (i.e, the rich get richer with no effort), their shitty ICO (an outright scam), or some other scamcoin they have a premine on (again, an outright scam).
Further, Bitcoin only has a "scaling problem" if you want to use it for stupid shit like high frequency trading. Bitcoin is specifically designed to PREVENT that kind of bullshit. Transactions take time to sync on PURPOSE, so every user can fairly transact using a globally distributed and up-to-date copy of the entire block chain without any manipulation by a central authority.
Contrast that to the stock market, where the big boys have special access and are able to essentially siphon off of every profitable exchange.
Or contrast it to the networks of Visa/etc. (and the issuing banks) that handle however many millions of transactions per day, but serve as a central authority that takes a cut of every transaction, has the power to manipulate the "money" (debt) in their network, and takes a cut on the debt settlement end with ridiculous APRs.
Bitcoin isn't trying to supplant Visa/etc. Some service based on Bitcoin could try, but just as with Visa/etc., they'd be the central authority for the transactions they process and the debts they track on their own network. The Bitcoin network won't be bothered with the goings on of their bullshit until it came time for them to actually receive or send Bitcoin when someone wants to move funds out of their network.
And you don't know what an apostrophe is with your overpriced iOS device.
Jove640k makes a correct observation. Blockchain technology won't do bupkis for FedEx because FedEx's problems won't be solved by a ledger. A blockchain is simply a ledger.
Imagine every damn time you drive past a BugerKing or Wendy's having to suffer a damn commercial or have the car offer to stop because a Whopper is only $3 this week.
Google already does this in Android. There's several "features" that enable this bullshit. 2 or 3 are buried in the Google Maps settings, and the others are related to network settings (such as Bluetooth beacons).
If you've got an Android device in the default config and you walk around your typical shopping area you'll get popup ads ("toast notifications") for things that are near you. You'll also get notifications for suggested "moments" or whatever they call it in Google Maps (ads) asking you to check out photos for a place or add your own, rate a restaurant you're near, fill in missing details (like business hours), etc. Google Maps also conveniently shows you travel times to places it thinks you should go, both in the app and in popup ads ("toast notifications"), without you asking for such information, going to those places, etc.
Google Now, or "The Feed", or whatever they're calling it now is all about this shit too. Dozens of times throughout the day I would get notifications for sports and entertainment bullshit I didn't want. I gave up trying to tell it I wasn't interested in any of those topics at all, and simply disabled the entire app.
not just once, as someone pointed out that trying to avoid detection directly will make you stick out. Instead how about other devices that feed false information simultaneously and more regularly than reality. Say that at any given time you appear to be taking 3 trips to and from 3 different locations and with such frequency that it dwarfs reality significantly. Perhaps even randomize the number of simultaneous feeds to prevent basic process of elimination. But this would need to happen on a scale that at least 70% of the population did this, or, at least, had their data altered, in order to make the entire database of information substantially worthless.
The same people who asked for autoplay and demanded browser makers implement it on by default (something, thankfully, they're finally backtracking on)?
I want my Flash video back. It was better. Easier to control. One plug-in per operating system rather than per-browser (if you're going "Huh?" look up how W3C implemented DRM in HTML5.) I was OK with Flash. I didn't like it, but only the W3C could make something worse than Flash.
Uh, Flash, Adobe reader, Java, etc. require different plugins for different browsers.
SUM[i = -1, -inf] 9*(10^i) would be represented in decimal notation by 0.999... or similar. That infinite series has a LIMIT of 1. It will NEVER reach one. It is NOT EQUAL to 1. Understanding the difference is fundamental to understanding calculus.
1/3 has can be represented in decimal notation by 0.333... or similar. Multiplying that decimal result by 3 will result in 0.999... or similar. This is NOT EQUAL to 1. The representation 0.333... is indeterminate. Every single "proof" attempting to show that 0.999... is equal to 1 is abusing the fact that the infinite decimal representation is indeterminate.
If you think 0.999... is equal to 1, what do you think 999... is? Infinity? 1000... ? The ellipsis or bar notation represents a repeating series (of digits or terms). For digits, that series may represent a rational number (such as 1/3), but you cannot know that from the ellipsis or bar representation alone.
The basis is that someone pointed out to you that it wasn't a treaty, and you followed up with "Reality doesn't give a flying fuck about political masturbation.".
But I think you know that. And you've known it for the past 4.5 days that it took you to come back with your response (which is to merely to quote my post and turn it on me). Anyone and everyone can read the chain of comments showing your stupidity.
Iâ(TM)ve got a 2017 âoeKaby Lakeâ MacBook Pro, just closing in on a year and have zero issues so far. With my luck, it will probably start acting up a day after the warranty expires!
Well, zero issues if you don't count not knowing how to type a fucking apostrophe.
That's kind of a fundamental point of it. It's spirituality without any of the baggage of religion, such as judgment, a concrete origin story, etc. Yet today you have people worshiping it's key figure as a near-deity, despite the fact that doing so complete foes against the teachings of Buddhism!
The difference is the teachings of Christianity don't support those things. Pick up The Holy Bible and read it. Once that Jesus guy turns up, things change.
There's nothing wrong with an <embed> tag. A web browser should be for navigating and displaying content. Decoding video is a complex task and it makes no sense for a browser to do it. Let the browser call on the OS or some plugin to do it. Plugins are dangerous? They're less dangerous than having that code baked into the browser. At least I can choose to remove a plugin and never have that code resident on my system. With a modern browser I get, at BEST, a flag to tell it not to render embedded video. The code path and all related libraries are still there.
I am perfectly capable of meeting that bar, and you know it. I choose not to because
LOOOOOOOOOOOL!
Why even come back with that shit? I had already forgotten about you and your stupidity, yet you keep showing up and replying to remind me of how dumb you are! You can't even follow a simple sentence to understand that you made a claim and can't back it up.
This is a real attack vector that exists in the real world. Slashdot has covered this multiple times.
Someone creates a device that looks like a flash drive. Internally, it is a keyboard, or a keyboard AND flash drive. When plugged in, even a "secured" system that blocks removable storage devices will typically allow other USB devices (such as keyboards). The OS will happily accept input from the thing as if it were a keyboard with keys pressed by a human, even though the key presses are all prerecorded payloads stored on the device.
As such, the keyboard can go to town and so shit like:
Windows Key cmd CTRL+SHIFT+Enter Left Enter del/f/s/q/*.* Enter
Or just spit out and run any malware payload: Windows Key cmd CTRL+SHIFT+Enter Left Enter ECHO MalwarePayload > GetFukt.exe Enter GetFukt.exe Enter exit Enter
Fuck you Eurotrash revisionists and you faux science cucks from elsewhere who enable them (I'm looking at you, Tyson).
The "Pluto is not a planet" crusade was absurd, anti-science bullshit. It was Astronomical SJWism, complete with vindictive attacks against anyone who dared to question the result or the ambiguous and arbitrary criteria. You damned morons just wanted to stir a pot that didn't need stirring, and you didn't care how you did it. If someone didn't agree, or dared to ask why your absurd redefinition was the way it was, they were labeled ignorant and anti-science.
It's absolutely okay for "planet" to be loosely defined, and you can all argue about what to include and what not to include on your pointless little lists. Really, it makes no fucking difference. A rose / hunk of shit in space by any other name. What you can't fucking do is wantonly change the rules to exclude or include specific things decades later. Go sort out asteroid vs. meteoroid if you want to muck around with shit. At least that's not something most people are already engaged with.
You anti-Pluto clowns are just jealous because Pluto is the best planet. You can all fuck off.
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Venice.
That's a distributed, public blockchain.
I didn't RTFA, but my guess is FedEx's blockchain will be private and controlled entirely by FedEx. (Actually, my guess is that they aren't going to do anything at all with blockchain beyond get their name in the news.)
A "blockchain" is a ledger of transactions. That's it. It scales however well you want it to.
If you talk to speculators and crytpo pump-and-dumpers, they'll tell you that BITCOIN specifically has a "scaling problem", but that's only because they want to push you to Ethereum because it's going to switch to proof of stake (i.e, the rich get richer with no effort), their shitty ICO (an outright scam), or some other scamcoin they have a premine on (again, an outright scam).
Further, Bitcoin only has a "scaling problem" if you want to use it for stupid shit like high frequency trading. Bitcoin is specifically designed to PREVENT that kind of bullshit. Transactions take time to sync on PURPOSE, so every user can fairly transact using a globally distributed and up-to-date copy of the entire block chain without any manipulation by a central authority.
Contrast that to the stock market, where the big boys have special access and are able to essentially siphon off of every profitable exchange.
Or contrast it to the networks of Visa/etc. (and the issuing banks) that handle however many millions of transactions per day, but serve as a central authority that takes a cut of every transaction, has the power to manipulate the "money" (debt) in their network, and takes a cut on the debt settlement end with ridiculous APRs.
Bitcoin isn't trying to supplant Visa/etc. Some service based on Bitcoin could try, but just as with Visa/etc., they'd be the central authority for the transactions they process and the debts they track on their own network. The Bitcoin network won't be bothered with the goings on of their bullshit until it came time for them to actually receive or send Bitcoin when someone wants to move funds out of their network.
And you don't know what an apostrophe is with your overpriced iOS device.
Jove640k makes a correct observation. Blockchain technology won't do bupkis for FedEx because FedEx's problems won't be solved by a ledger. A blockchain is simply a ledger.
But that doesn't fit the Apple narrative.
Imagine every damn time you drive past a BugerKing or Wendy's having to suffer a damn commercial or have the car offer to stop because a Whopper is only $3 this week.
Google already does this in Android. There's several "features" that enable this bullshit.
2 or 3 are buried in the Google Maps settings, and the others are related to network settings (such as Bluetooth beacons).
If you've got an Android device in the default config and you walk around your typical shopping area you'll get popup ads ("toast notifications") for things that are near you. You'll also get notifications for suggested "moments" or whatever they call it in Google Maps (ads) asking you to check out photos for a place or add your own, rate a restaurant you're near, fill in missing details (like business hours), etc. Google Maps also conveniently shows you travel times to places it thinks you should go, both in the app and in popup ads ("toast notifications"), without you asking for such information, going to those places, etc.
Google Now, or "The Feed", or whatever they're calling it now is all about this shit too. Dozens of times throughout the day I would get notifications for sports and entertainment bullshit I didn't want. I gave up trying to tell it I wasn't interested in any of those topics at all, and simply disabled the entire app.
not just once, as someone pointed out that trying to avoid detection directly will make you stick out. Instead how about other devices that feed false information simultaneously and more regularly than reality. Say that at any given time you appear to be taking 3 trips to and from 3 different locations and with such frequency that it dwarfs reality significantly. Perhaps even randomize the number of simultaneous feeds to prevent basic process of elimination. But this would need to happen on a scale that at least 70% of the population did this, or, at least, had their data altered, in order to make the entire database of information substantially worthless.
But that will get you banned from Pokemon GO.
Yeah well I found MULTIPLE people named Cooper, Pooper S. years back when I picked up a phone book to move it from my doorstep to my recycling bin.
The same people who asked for autoplay and demanded browser makers implement it on by default (something, thankfully, they're finally backtracking on)?
I want my Flash video back. It was better. Easier to control. One plug-in per operating system rather than per-browser (if you're going "Huh?" look up how W3C implemented DRM in HTML5.) I was OK with Flash. I didn't like it, but only the W3C could make something worse than Flash.
Uh, Flash, Adobe reader, Java, etc. require different plugins for different browsers.
It does not.
SUM[i = -1, -inf] 9*(10^i) would be represented in decimal notation by 0.999... or similar.
That infinite series has a LIMIT of 1. It will NEVER reach one. It is NOT EQUAL to 1. Understanding the difference is fundamental to understanding calculus.
1/3 has can be represented in decimal notation by 0.333... or similar. Multiplying that decimal result by 3 will result in 0.999... or similar.
This is NOT EQUAL to 1. The representation 0.333... is indeterminate. Every single "proof" attempting to show that 0.999... is equal to 1 is abusing the fact that the infinite decimal representation is indeterminate.
If you think 0.999... is equal to 1, what do you think 999... is? Infinity? 1000... ?
The ellipsis or bar notation represents a repeating series (of digits or terms). For digits, that series may represent a rational number (such as 1/3), but you cannot know that from the ellipsis or bar representation alone.
There is a universal clock. It's the speed of light.
The basis is that someone pointed out to you that it wasn't a treaty, and you followed up with "Reality doesn't give a flying fuck about political masturbation.".
But I think you know that. And you've known it for the past 4.5 days that it took you to come back with your response (which is to merely to quote my post and turn it on me). Anyone and everyone can read the chain of comments showing your stupidity.
Can you provide 3 quotes from Jesus that espouse the violence prescribed in the Koran?
Please provide 3 quotes from Jesus where he advocates for those things.
Iâ(TM)ve got a 2017 âoeKaby Lakeâ MacBook Pro, just closing in on a year and have zero issues so far. With my luck, it will probably start acting up a day after the warranty expires!
Well, zero issues if you don't count not knowing how to type a fucking apostrophe.
Bullshit. No Apple user would know what a pay phone is, let alone stoop to touching one.
Buddhism is not a religion.
That's kind of a fundamental point of it. It's spirituality without any of the baggage of religion, such as judgment, a concrete origin story, etc.
Yet today you have people worshiping it's key figure as a near-deity, despite the fact that doing so complete foes against the teachings of Buddhism!
It's madness!
The difference is the teachings of Christianity don't support those things.
Pick up The Holy Bible and read it. Once that Jesus guy turns up, things change.
There's nothing wrong with an <embed> tag. A web browser should be for navigating and displaying content. Decoding video is a complex task and it makes no sense for a browser to do it. Let the browser call on the OS or some plugin to do it. Plugins are dangerous? They're less dangerous than having that code baked into the browser. At least I can choose to remove a plugin and never have that code resident on my system. With a modern browser I get, at BEST, a flag to tell it not to render embedded video. The code path and all related libraries are still there.
I am perfectly capable of meeting that bar, and you know it. I choose not to because
LOOOOOOOOOOOL!
Why even come back with that shit? I had already forgotten about you and your stupidity, yet you keep showing up and replying to remind me of how dumb you are!
You can't even follow a simple sentence to understand that you made a claim and can't back it up.
The science is se
The original science wasn't shoddy, Mullally says. It's just that, since then, researchers have learned more about the telescope's imperfections
What was that about carpenters and their tools?
Yes, but this is what HornWumpus was referring to, and Joe_Dragon and Baton Rogue didn't understand it at all, so I had to explain it. Twice.
This is a real attack vector that exists in the real world. Slashdot has covered this multiple times.
Someone creates a device that looks like a flash drive.
Internally, it is a keyboard, or a keyboard AND flash drive.
When plugged in, even a "secured" system that blocks removable storage devices will typically allow other USB devices (such as keyboards).
The OS will happily accept input from the thing as if it were a keyboard with keys pressed by a human, even though the key presses are all prerecorded payloads stored on the device.
As such, the keyboard can go to town and so shit like:
Windows Key /f /s /q /*.*
cmd
CTRL+SHIFT+Enter
Left
Enter
del
Enter
Or just spit out and run any malware payload:
Windows Key
cmd
CTRL+SHIFT+Enter
Left
Enter
ECHO MalwarePayload > GetFukt.exe
Enter
GetFukt.exe
Enter
exit
Enter
Of course Pluto is a fucking planet.
Fuck you Eurotrash revisionists and you faux science cucks from elsewhere who enable them (I'm looking at you, Tyson).
The "Pluto is not a planet" crusade was absurd, anti-science bullshit. It was Astronomical SJWism, complete with vindictive attacks against anyone who dared to question the result or the ambiguous and arbitrary criteria. You damned morons just wanted to stir a pot that didn't need stirring, and you didn't care how you did it. If someone didn't agree, or dared to ask why your absurd redefinition was the way it was, they were labeled ignorant and anti-science.
It's absolutely okay for "planet" to be loosely defined, and you can all argue about what to include and what not to include on your pointless little lists. Really, it makes no fucking difference. A rose / hunk of shit in space by any other name. What you can't fucking do is wantonly change the rules to exclude or include specific things decades later. Go sort out asteroid vs. meteoroid if you want to muck around with shit. At least that's not something most people are already engaged with.
You anti-Pluto clowns are just jealous because Pluto is the best planet. You can all fuck off.
That's not how any of this works.
The hole here is that someone plugs in a "flash drive" that is actually a keyboard or flash drive + keyboard so people don't get suspicious.