There is one fundamental "flaw" most people complain about. But it's not a flaw. It's an explicit part of the design and it's a big reason Bitcoin remains the top crypto currency.
Everyone complains that Bitcoin transactions take too and that transaction fees are too high. This is a single problem because transaction fees (which are optional) directly affect how long it takes for a transaction to go through. Bitcoin isn't meant to process millions of transactions per second. We don't want high frequency trading on the Bitcoin network. We don't want the blockchain to be filled with more shit every time someone buys a pack of gum. The blockchain being distributed is a fundamental aspect of any crypto currency users can put any faith in. In order for the blockchain to be distributed, you have to allow time for all nodes to sync all transactions. This is why Bitcoin has a self-adjusting time between blocks measured in minutes, not seconds or milliseconds. The distributed nature of the blockchain and its verifiability are critical to its operation.
The other issues people complain about include stupid shit like Bitcoin being deflationary and running out of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is fixed at 21,000,000 BTC. But it can be divided up into very small fractions. And we can extend it to divide it into even smaller fractions in the future if we need to. We're not going to run into a situation where people can't divvy up Bitcoin into small enough chunks to use them. Nor are we going to run into a situation where people are using Bitcoin and we somehow run out. Bitcoin is slightly deflationary in the sense that if someone loses their wallet (or the key to it), those BTC are gone forever (or until someone brute forces them). But so what? Slight deflation is much, much better than inflation or manipulation by banks, governments, etc.
The only legitimate complaint I've seen about Bitcoin is about the storage necessary to keep a copy of the full blockchain. There are already wallet applications that solve this, however. You simply create an audit point at time X or block Y and store the state of all addresses at that point, and continue from there. You only need the full blockchain if you want to trace and verify old transactions. Not every node needs to do that, and not every user needs to be a node. (We do still need a healthy number of full nodes, however.) Online wallet applications are also popular. But this is fucking stupid as you're letting a 3rd party control all the BTC in that online wallet.
The complaint at the top of TFS is also retarded.
97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses,
So what? Addresses are free to generate. As one user who played with Bitcoin a bit for about 2 years, I had over a dozen addresses. Only 1 of them ever served to store my BTC. The rest were temporary addresses I used for transactions with each recipient. (Transaction fees being what they are now, maybe I wouldn't do this today.) But there are a ton of empty or nearly empty addresses out there that are dormant. It's not a problem. You may as well say that X% of all cash resides in 0.0001% of all wallets ever produced. Yeah, most wallets have been thrown away and had their contents transferred to new wallets.
You're an idiot. A brake job involves cutting in front of someone and slamming on the brakes, then showing up to court with a neckbrace and a lawyer. You're not following someone before it happens.
If you rear-end somebody, it is your fault 100% of the time.
Wrong. No one falls for that bullshit line anymore. That line of thinking was so prevalent years ago that it birthed a common scam called the "brake job".
Not so. The states have a right to collect taxes on things you buy if you buy them in the state. Where you receive them is where you "buy" them. What is up for debate here is whether or not they collect the taxes from the merchant or the purchaser.
They have no such right or power.
What's happening here is someone is buying something from in another state, and thus not paying sales tax. States cannot collect sales tax in this matter. States don't get to dip into interstate commerce. That's a big fucking no-no. yes, some awful states force it anyway, illegally.
States can ask its citizens to pay a use tax on things used in the state by the person that were not already tapped for sales tax. States just set the use tax to be identical to sales tax. But states abuse this shit. New Yorkers often get screwed and pay sales tax twice, or paying taxes on things billed to New York but delivered (and used) elsewhere.
States just want more tax dollars. Squeezing online sales illegally for out of state sales tax in lieu of enforcing their use tax is bullshit. If you want the money and people aren't reporting it, audit some people and collect it. States don't have the authority to do anything else. The constitution expressly forbids it.
Ever since the BIOS patch and MS patch (both applied at nearly the same time so I can't isolate the cause between them), my system has been fucking slow. Scrolling a result set from SSMS? Forget about it! YouTube? Hah! Looking through a a large folder ("label") in Gmail? Be prepared to wait. Even something as simple as dimming the display to show the UAC prompt takes a lot longer. And I get random hitching where my mouse (and everything else) will just freeze up for a couple of seconds.
At first I thought that the CPU was thermal throttling or getting locked into the low power state, but running CPU-Z and a stress test such as Prime95 shows that isn't happening. It clocks up and down just fine, and temps are fine. (The actual performance in Prime95 is slow as shit, but I don't have a baseline to compare it to.)
Even a fresh boot is shit. I can open task manager and bring up the performance tab and it looks like the EKG of 4 hogs having an extended orgasm.
And I'm not the only one - a newer NUC in the office next to me was patched yesterday and received its first BSOD today. Friends with gaming boxes that have gotten updates are bitching about the performance drop as well.
Something's fucked, and Intel/MS did it. My money is on Intel (or both).
Yeah, because that's really an option for someone when Uber has a mandatory arbitration clause in their contracts disallowing you from taking your case to court.
If someone rapes or tries to rape you, no forced arbitration clause is going to prevent shit. (Unless the someone raping you is the government.)
You don't know how deductions work, do you? Further, how many more writeoffs does Uber need to zero out its profit? Oh wait, they're burning cash like mad already?
And no, you don't get to declare "any value you can document", you only get to declare the actual cost, often up to specific maximums.
"Cheap" clients, plus monitors, keyboards, mice, conference room camera and mic setups, all networking gear and cabling, every flash drive found on the premises, every surge protector, every copier, fax machine and printer, etc.
Plus haul in a few employees and hold em as long as possible, threaten them with charges like obstruction of justice, destroying evidence, etc. Not sure what applies in Canada, but I"m sure there's plenty they could do if they wanted to.
On this machine (i5-5250U in an NUC5i5RYK) performance is fucking AWFUL after the Windows 7 patch and BIOS update. Webpages like YouTube peg a CPU core somehow. So does SSMS.
My main machine is fine, because it's so old (2600k) that there is no BIOS update available for my motherboard. Allegedly you can download the microcode patch and shove it in yourself if your odn't get an official BIOS release. But fuck it. I'll be upgrading to the next Ryzen revision in a couple of months, hopefully. But FUCK current RAM prices.
I'd like to get a home assistant from every company that offers them, put them close to each other so they can hear one another, and see if I can get them into an infinite loop of talking to each other.
You can't fix stupid. People will walk away without locking their machines, and they will bitch when you force their machines to lock after 10 minutes of inactivity.
If you want a car analogy, walking away from your PC and leaving it unlocked is like leaving your car running, with the door open, while you go to get a cup of coffee in the gas station mini mart. And when your car gets stolen and the thief uses it in the commission of another crime you'll be held responsible to some degree.
So when you need to execute a command with root privileges, what do you do?
A) Not execute the command. B) Use something functionally equivalent to sudo, making your comment absolutely pointless. C) Login as root, like a moron.
A cert is nothing like a password in a file. You should learn what RSA is.
I know about RSA.
A properly signed cert represents a secret, the private key. Nothing more. You don't know how that private key was obtained. Was it trivial to crack / reused from a decade old cert? Was it leaked/stolen? When you have a CA in the mix you add all the possibilities for the CA to be fucking useless, be subverted by the government, etc.
A password is a secret. A private key is a secret. There's no fundamental difference between the two. Just as there's no fundamental difference between a password and a "2 factor authentication" time-based key generating program. That program is just a hash function with a clock and a seed. The seed is just another secret (often stored with and verified by a third party).
The classic security paradigm is "something you know, something you have, and something you are". On the internet, all we have is "something you know". Even biometrics are just a secret passed along by a trusted bit of hardware. They've been trying for decades to get rid of the password, but it remains the core fundamental aspect of digital security because it's the only workable one in the digital realm.
I dare you to explain how a cert is fundamentally different from a password. Detail the difference between / impacts of knowing a password and knowing a private key. Detail the difference between / impacts of not knowing a password and not knowing a private key.
A cert represents a secret. A password is a secret.
When someone downloads your cert they can verify that it was signed with a secret key. When you use a password in most systems, they're doing the same check in a slightly different way. They take the password you sent and verify that it's the correct secret by pushing it through a hashing algorithm and verifying the result matches the established, good value.
With a third party certificate authority, that initial establishment of the good value is skipped because you're trusting the CA who issued the cert to have done some validation on who the fuck you are. (Hint: They never, ever do. Even EV certs are a joke.)
Just because the terms "password" and "cert" are used doesn't mean they're fundamentally different. They're both built upon a single core concept, a secret.
The point is to prevent dense urban centers from hijacking all influence. It exists for the exact same reasons as the bicameral legislature and the electoral college.
It is absolutely about balancing the representational weight of the populace vs that of each county (be they divvied up by roads, cities boundaries, rivers, railroads, or whatever).
Hawking hasn't contributed much of anything beyond Big Bang Theory cameos lately.
And I find his recent shit to be petty wankery geared toward letting him say "Aha, but if it's like this, then I was right!". Of course I'm no cosmologist or astrophysicist, and I regard much of what goes on in those fields today to be untestable wankery.
Regardless of my opinion, he's still working and collecting checks. And he's got enough bank to sit on when he decides to stop.
Perhaps the other AC literally meant that once you can't/won't work, you should die off. From a purely practical stance, that's the correct approach. And as someone who's toiling away, there are plenty of old fucks who I think should just die already. But I don't agree that such a thing should apply to all people once they retire. You gotta give people a chance to spend that money, otherwise what will they work toward?
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Is it recording at all times and spewing compressed audio back to the mothership?
Of course it is. Why would anyone believe anything else?
He wishes he had cable. He's got shitty DSL, shitty satellite, shitty 4G and some unknown WiFi (which is probably shitty).
DSL, satellite, and 4G are shitty by definition.
Which lawsuit was lost? Try again.
California is run by morons.
Bitcoin has fewer flaws than any crypto currency.
There is one fundamental "flaw" most people complain about. But it's not a flaw. It's an explicit part of the design and it's a big reason Bitcoin remains the top crypto currency.
Everyone complains that Bitcoin transactions take too and that transaction fees are too high. This is a single problem because transaction fees (which are optional) directly affect how long it takes for a transaction to go through. Bitcoin isn't meant to process millions of transactions per second. We don't want high frequency trading on the Bitcoin network. We don't want the blockchain to be filled with more shit every time someone buys a pack of gum. The blockchain being distributed is a fundamental aspect of any crypto currency users can put any faith in. In order for the blockchain to be distributed, you have to allow time for all nodes to sync all transactions. This is why Bitcoin has a self-adjusting time between blocks measured in minutes, not seconds or milliseconds. The distributed nature of the blockchain and its verifiability are critical to its operation.
The other issues people complain about include stupid shit like Bitcoin being deflationary and running out of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is fixed at 21,000,000 BTC. But it can be divided up into very small fractions. And we can extend it to divide it into even smaller fractions in the future if we need to. We're not going to run into a situation where people can't divvy up Bitcoin into small enough chunks to use them. Nor are we going to run into a situation where people are using Bitcoin and we somehow run out. Bitcoin is slightly deflationary in the sense that if someone loses their wallet (or the key to it), those BTC are gone forever (or until someone brute forces them). But so what? Slight deflation is much, much better than inflation or manipulation by banks, governments, etc.
The only legitimate complaint I've seen about Bitcoin is about the storage necessary to keep a copy of the full blockchain. There are already wallet applications that solve this, however. You simply create an audit point at time X or block Y and store the state of all addresses at that point, and continue from there. You only need the full blockchain if you want to trace and verify old transactions. Not every node needs to do that, and not every user needs to be a node. (We do still need a healthy number of full nodes, however.) Online wallet applications are also popular. But this is fucking stupid as you're letting a 3rd party control all the BTC in that online wallet.
The complaint at the top of TFS is also retarded.
97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses,
So what? Addresses are free to generate. As one user who played with Bitcoin a bit for about 2 years, I had over a dozen addresses. Only 1 of them ever served to store my BTC. The rest were temporary addresses I used for transactions with each recipient. (Transaction fees being what they are now, maybe I wouldn't do this today.) But there are a ton of empty or nearly empty addresses out there that are dormant. It's not a problem. You may as well say that X% of all cash resides in 0.0001% of all wallets ever produced. Yeah, most wallets have been thrown away and had their contents transferred to new wallets.
You're an idiot.
A brake job involves cutting in front of someone and slamming on the brakes, then showing up to court with a neckbrace and a lawyer. You're not following someone before it happens.
If you rear-end somebody, it is your fault 100% of the time.
Wrong. No one falls for that bullshit line anymore.
That line of thinking was so prevalent years ago that it birthed a common scam called the "brake job".
That's not how math works.
Bullshit. If you buy something for delivery elsewhere you pay tax for the place you bought it, not the place it's going.
Not so. The states have a right to collect taxes on things you buy if you buy them in the state. Where you receive them is where you "buy" them. What is up for debate here is whether or not they collect the taxes from the merchant or the purchaser.
They have no such right or power.
What's happening here is someone is buying something from in another state, and thus not paying sales tax.
States cannot collect sales tax in this matter. States don't get to dip into interstate commerce. That's a big fucking no-no. yes, some awful states force it anyway, illegally.
States can ask its citizens to pay a use tax on things used in the state by the person that were not already tapped for sales tax. States just set the use tax to be identical to sales tax. But states abuse this shit. New Yorkers often get screwed and pay sales tax twice, or paying taxes on things billed to New York but delivered (and used) elsewhere.
States just want more tax dollars. Squeezing online sales illegally for out of state sales tax in lieu of enforcing their use tax is bullshit. If you want the money and people aren't reporting it, audit some people and collect it. States don't have the authority to do anything else. The constitution expressly forbids it.
Small changes, especially at such a low level, can have huge effects.
Nope. Intel broke something.
Ever since the BIOS patch and MS patch (both applied at nearly the same time so I can't isolate the cause between them), my system has been fucking slow. Scrolling a result set from SSMS? Forget about it! YouTube? Hah! Looking through a a large folder ("label") in Gmail? Be prepared to wait. Even something as simple as dimming the display to show the UAC prompt takes a lot longer. And I get random hitching where my mouse (and everything else) will just freeze up for a couple of seconds.
At first I thought that the CPU was thermal throttling or getting locked into the low power state, but running CPU-Z and a stress test such as Prime95 shows that isn't happening. It clocks up and down just fine, and temps are fine. (The actual performance in Prime95 is slow as shit, but I don't have a baseline to compare it to.)
Even a fresh boot is shit. I can open task manager and bring up the performance tab and it looks like the EKG of 4 hogs having an extended orgasm.
And I'm not the only one - a newer NUC in the office next to me was patched yesterday and received its first BSOD today. Friends with gaming boxes that have gotten updates are bitching about the performance drop as well.
Something's fucked, and Intel/MS did it. My money is on Intel (or both).
Yeah, because that's really an option for someone when Uber has a mandatory arbitration clause in their contracts disallowing you from taking your case to court.
If someone rapes or tries to rape you, no forced arbitration clause is going to prevent shit. (Unless the someone raping you is the government.)
You don't know how deductions work, do you? Further, how many more writeoffs does Uber need to zero out its profit? Oh wait, they're burning cash like mad already?
And no, you don't get to declare "any value you can document", you only get to declare the actual cost, often up to specific maximums.
"Cheap" clients, plus monitors, keyboards, mice, conference room camera and mic setups, all networking gear and cabling, every flash drive found on the premises, every surge protector, every copier, fax machine and printer, etc.
Plus haul in a few employees and hold em as long as possible, threaten them with charges like obstruction of justice, destroying evidence, etc. Not sure what applies in Canada, but I"m sure there's plenty they could do if they wanted to.
On this machine (i5-5250U in an NUC5i5RYK) performance is fucking AWFUL after the Windows 7 patch and BIOS update. Webpages like YouTube peg a CPU core somehow. So does SSMS.
My main machine is fine, because it's so old (2600k) that there is no BIOS update available for my motherboard. Allegedly you can download the microcode patch and shove it in yourself if your odn't get an official BIOS release. But fuck it. I'll be upgrading to the next Ryzen revision in a couple of months, hopefully. But FUCK current RAM prices.
I'd like to get a home assistant from every company that offers them, put them close to each other so they can hear one another, and see if I can get them into an infinite loop of talking to each other.
South Park did it.
Meh, Windows puts UAC a mere click away.
You can't fix stupid. People will walk away without locking their machines, and they will bitch when you force their machines to lock after 10 minutes of inactivity.
If you want a car analogy, walking away from your PC and leaving it unlocked is like leaving your car running, with the door open, while you go to get a cup of coffee in the gas station mini mart. And when your car gets stolen and the thief uses it in the commission of another crime you'll be held responsible to some degree.
So when you need to execute a command with root privileges, what do you do?
A) Not execute the command.
B) Use something functionally equivalent to sudo, making your comment absolutely pointless.
C) Login as root, like a moron.
A cert is nothing like a password in a file. You should learn what RSA is.
I know about RSA.
A properly signed cert represents a secret, the private key. Nothing more. You don't know how that private key was obtained. Was it trivial to crack / reused from a decade old cert? Was it leaked/stolen? When you have a CA in the mix you add all the possibilities for the CA to be fucking useless, be subverted by the government, etc.
A password is a secret. A private key is a secret. There's no fundamental difference between the two. Just as there's no fundamental difference between a password and a "2 factor authentication" time-based key generating program. That program is just a hash function with a clock and a seed. The seed is just another secret (often stored with and verified by a third party).
The classic security paradigm is "something you know, something you have, and something you are". On the internet, all we have is "something you know". Even biometrics are just a secret passed along by a trusted bit of hardware. They've been trying for decades to get rid of the password, but it remains the core fundamental aspect of digital security because it's the only workable one in the digital realm.
I dare you to explain how a cert is fundamentally different from a password.
Detail the difference between / impacts of knowing a password and knowing a private key.
Detail the difference between / impacts of not knowing a password and not knowing a private key.
Nope, I actually understand it quite well. Certs represent nothing more than a secret. A "valid" cert is simply one that is signed with a secret.
You don't have to transmit that secret to verify it, but you don't have to do that for passwords, either. raymorris covered it quite well.
A cert represents a secret.
A password is a secret.
When someone downloads your cert they can verify that it was signed with a secret key.
When you use a password in most systems, they're doing the same check in a slightly different way. They take the password you sent and verify that it's the correct secret by pushing it through a hashing algorithm and verifying the result matches the established, good value.
With a third party certificate authority, that initial establishment of the good value is skipped because you're trusting the CA who issued the cert to have done some validation on who the fuck you are. (Hint: They never, ever do. Even EV certs are a joke.)
Just because the terms "password" and "cert" are used doesn't mean they're fundamentally different. They're both built upon a single core concept, a secret.
The point is to prevent dense urban centers from hijacking all influence. It exists for the exact same reasons as the bicameral legislature and the electoral college.
It is absolutely about balancing the representational weight of the populace vs that of each county (be they divvied up by roads, cities boundaries, rivers, railroads, or whatever).
Check and mate.
Hawking hasn't contributed much of anything beyond Big Bang Theory cameos lately.
And I find his recent shit to be petty wankery geared toward letting him say "Aha, but if it's like this, then I was right!". Of course I'm no cosmologist or astrophysicist, and I regard much of what goes on in those fields today to be untestable wankery.
Regardless of my opinion, he's still working and collecting checks. And he's got enough bank to sit on when he decides to stop.
Perhaps the other AC literally meant that once you can't/won't work, you should die off. From a purely practical stance, that's the correct approach. And as someone who's toiling away, there are plenty of old fucks who I think should just die already. But I don't agree that such a thing should apply to all people once they retire. You gotta give people a chance to spend that money, otherwise what will they work toward?