Bitcoin itself is rather shady in nature. Essentially it is an obfuscated pyramid/ponzi scheme (here are some tokens in a database: they are redeemable for nothing
CITATION PLEASE?
Should we give you a few minutes to look up what a ponzi scheme is?
My elderly parents and semi-technically-literate friends, probably not. Hell my brother doesn't even have an Internet connection, but could still use this.
Think of it in terms of physical security. Think how flimsy your door lock is, how easily a battering ram could take it out. Think how easily your windows are broken, and so on. Should you secure all that? Should you live in an underground bunker, guarded by marines? No, because you've nothing worth that kind of effort to protect. You are sensible about what protection you need.
It is glaringly obvious that you sir have never lived in a ghetto. So, let me give you a bit of ghetto edu ma ka shun.
In, your life/housing, the potential thief sees a certain level of exertion vs reward. Too much exertion...
From the ghetto point of view, every house is worth something. Because at that the exertion is LOW.
I've seen every single bottom level window knocked out and every apartment "tried", this was in a very large area and went on for http://maps.google.com/maps?&gl=us&ll=34.218988,-77.932012&spn=0.012172,0.014248&t=h&z=16 quite a while, literally a brute force event, that like a generalized brute force across a large database of passwords will result in the same type of yield/reward ratio.
Doesn't really happen in crackerville.
But online, everyone is one windowpane away from your apartment.
I've personally witnessed all of the types of destructive http://www.windlegends.org/windnames.htm winds. Front row to over a dozen hurricanes, all the way up to 5. Seen a handful of twisters and waterspouts...
... and I've seen many haboobs and the winds that are associated with it. If you aren't planning on high speed straight-line winds, you're just too stupid to be in the business of planning.
"Peak wind gusts of up to 115 mph were measured at the Deer Valley Airport, and the storm caused over 160 million dollars of damage over several west valley cities, including Buckeye. The measured speed of 115 mph set the all time peak gust record record for Phoenix, as well as for the entire state of Arizona!
It should be noted that macroburst winds, unlike tornadic winds, are STRAIGHT-LINE winds - they do not contain strong rotation such as would be observed with the passing of a tornado. These strong winds descend from the lower levels of a thunderstorm, then hit the ground and spread outwards, moving in a straight line."
I have been going into RS ever since I worked there in 91.
For the first handful of years it was decently the same, you could at least find someone, at some shift, in each store that was able to answer a REAL question.
I just totally proclaimed the place dead and no longer a necessary place to "check" for stuff, when I went in for a sub-mini male to 3 VGA female out. And the guy was like huh? And I said, can I speak to the manager and he said, I am.
If you can't speak cable... you can't run a Radio Shack. If you don't have the cable I need and can't or won't get it for me, you're not a Radio Shack.
RS, you're dead to me. Glad I sold my stock a while back.
Anyone want to buy my Tandy Model 4P? I won't be needing it any more!
Early PC stuff was a joke too. Give it some time to get going.
How is that comment interesting???
Early PC stuff a joke? The early PC stuff I remember was some of the worst stuff out there! You usually found out you were infected when you had to take the HD out, put it in another machine and find out all of your files were gone.
While I dislike the notion of a PC of mine turning into a zombie... I sure dislike it LESS than the early boot sector infectors and file and hard drive erasers of the early years.
Stuff nowadays is less like a virus with intent on killing you and more of a parasite that requires it's host be alive.
There is ClamAntivus but it is just a scanner and does not offer a shield or active protection.
BitDefender for Linux...
will scan mounted Windows partitions as well.
very nice to have on a live CD. While you are disinfecting your (insert relationship here)'s computer you can also show them the benefits of using Linux.
I have a solution for you, and it doesn't involve groveling in front of your wife-master! First, wait till your wife-master is asleep, then open up her purse and find your balls. Next, re-attach your balls between your legs (or somewhere else if you're feeling adventurous). Now would be a good time to drink a beer, play the damn game, pat yourself on the back like a man, and try to remember that you're an individual and not a freaking slave to that ring on your finger.
Actually... he can get his balls when he goes for the beer, cause they are in the bin in the freezer.
All jokin aside, if you see my other post... she ACTUALLY mentioned my playing games at night in the divorce. She didn't mention that, at the same time I was watching that brand new puppy SHE HAD TO HAVE... and kept it quiet while she could sleep.
Would have been cool if she mentioned that I got up to first place for a brief 24hr period in one online shooter... then it could have been entered into the court docs. lol
It's going to have to be one hell of a game to pick up fans who got tired of waiting after almost FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS, or who have never heard of the original in the first place.
Good post sir, wish I had mod points.
Heck I've been married and divorced twice since DN OG.
Fortunately I'm in-between b-n-c so I'll gladly play this FPS when and how I want and for as long as I want.
because most of those 10,000 pages deal with things like "companies employing less than 100 people and which are located in a depressed neighborhood and which have names ending in a vowel get to deduct the cost of the president's jet."
Please cite examples.
Examples? It's called the tax code... read it.
I'm a tax preparer... while his comment is way obtuse... I'm fairly certain I can find examples that come damn close.
There is an actual section in there detailing the tax deductions of a business, when the business is illegal drug activity.
Sec. 280E. Expenditures in connection with the illegal sale of
drugs
No deduction or credit shall be allowed for any amount paid or
incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or
business if such trade or business (or the activities which
comprise such trade or business) consists of trafficking in
controlled substances (within the meaning of schedule I and II of
the Controlled Substances Act) which is prohibited by Federal law
or the law of any State in which such trade or business is
conducted.
I took a break the past year, so the book has fortunately gotten fuzzy in my head but I used to read it at lunch just for a kick. There is some weird shit in there...
You just build the ship in the shape of a giant cylinder, a few hundred meters in diameter, and make it slowly turn as it travels. Anyone who's watched 2001 should know this.
The cylinder you are describing is the planet-ship RAMA.
Did you perhaps mean torus in keeping with 2001 A Space Odyssey?
Evolution means: the unfit ones get removed (die early to lack of fitness) or have a lower likely hood of reproduction.
Um... no that is entirely NOT what evolution means. What you described is the tenet of "Survival of the Fittest", which only has an outlier relationship to evolution.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? Exactly who backs it up? As in, for real exactly, not some 'cloud' construct.
Really? Who the fuck backs up your american greenback?
Jesus christ people have their heads firmly up their
ass nowadays.
Do you even know what fiat currency is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Do you realize "backing" is not the same as accepting?
http://kwaves.com/fiat.htm
The very first paragraph describes BitCoin,
ie, it is JUST like those worthless pieces
of paper that (some of you) have in your
wallets.
THIS, is REAL money... in it's time:
http://www.fastcoin.com/images/1922-Gold-Certificate-Gold-Coin-Note-xf-31606.jpg
and this
http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/Images/Gold_Certificates/1905_20.00_Technicolor_Gold_Certificate.jpg
and this
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/1DollarSilverCertificate.jpg
But sure as hell, not THIS
http://www.millionface.com/l/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/currency_notes/Banjamin_Franklin_on_dollar_100_note.jpg
-AI
Bitcoin itself is rather shady in nature. Essentially it is an obfuscated pyramid/ponzi scheme (here are some tokens in a database: they are redeemable for nothing
CITATION PLEASE?
Should we give you a few minutes to look up what a ponzi scheme is?
-AI
Yes, yes I could.
My elderly parents and semi-technically-literate friends, probably not. Hell my brother doesn't even have an Internet connection, but could still use this.
Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...
[ Family Guy oblig, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPYX0UX7SpY ]
wait... what? no internet connection?
is he in jail? exile on a desert island?
did he choose to not have internet or is it a
money or distance thing?
You know the United Nations has declared
internet a human right.
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/92654.html
-AI
Think of it in terms of physical security. Think how flimsy your door lock is, how easily a battering ram could take it out. Think how easily your windows are broken, and so on. Should you secure all that? Should you live in an underground bunker, guarded by marines? No, because you've nothing worth that kind of effort to protect. You are sensible about what protection you need.
It is glaringly obvious that you sir have never lived
in a ghetto. So, let me give you a bit of ghetto
edu ma ka shun.
In, your life/housing, the potential thief sees a
certain level of exertion vs reward.
Too much exertion...
From the ghetto point of view, every house is
worth something. Because at that the exertion
is LOW.
I've seen every single bottom level window
knocked out and every apartment "tried", this
was in a very large area and went on for
http://maps.google.com/maps?&gl=us&ll=34.218988,-77.932012&spn=0.012172,0.014248&t=h&z=16
quite a while, literally a brute force event,
that like a generalized brute force across a
large database of passwords will result in
the same type of yield/reward ratio.
Doesn't really happen in crackerville.
But online, everyone is one windowpane
away from your apartment.
-AI
And slightly OT, but is there any actual GP-GPU software out there that isn't for black hats?
Newest Photoshop and Folding at home GPU client, CUDA optimized.
Two that come to mind quickly.
-AI
And in this corner! We have a new contender
on the scene... fighting for the title of Earth
Destroyer 2012!
We have Antimatter Containment!
Anti-matter Con-tain-ment!
Let's get ready to...
(yeah, I don't want to get a letter).
-AI
I've personally witnessed all of the types of destructive
http://www.windlegends.org/windnames.htm
winds. Front row to over a dozen hurricanes, all the way
up to 5. Seen a handful of twisters and waterspouts...
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/psr/general/history/
... and I've seen many haboobs and the winds that
are associated with it. If you aren't planning on high
speed straight-line winds, you're just too stupid to be
in the business of planning.
"Peak wind gusts of up to 115 mph were measured at the Deer Valley Airport, and the storm caused over 160 million dollars of damage over several west valley cities, including Buckeye. The measured speed of 115 mph set the all time peak gust record record for Phoenix, as well as for the entire state of Arizona!
It should be noted that macroburst winds, unlike tornadic winds, are STRAIGHT-LINE winds - they do not contain strong rotation such as would be observed with the passing of a tornado. These strong winds descend from the lower levels of a thunderstorm, then hit the ground and spread outwards, moving in a straight line."
-AI
Not your personal army...
Never claimed it was... but instead of JUST being
outraged that a corporation is going after 1 individual.
Or narrow-minded churches, et al.
I'm saying that placing some anger on an entire country
trying to hack our citizens seems like a good outlet
for their 'creative energy'.
-AI
Phishing is not a 'data breach'.
Mmm, yes, because EVERYONE collects passwords
like beanie babies right?
Oh wait...
-AI
I'm just sayin, maybe turn the LOIC on China for a bit?
I think Sony may have learned at least a partial lesson now.
-AI
Not sure about the OP - my sarcasm detector might need recalibration, I grant you that.
Yeah, when he said banking? That sent off my sarc detector.
So, to the immediate reply to his post, I say... whoosh!
-AI
I have been going into RS ever since I worked there in 91.
For the first handful of years it was decently the same,
you could at least find someone, at some shift, in each
store that was able to answer a REAL question.
I just totally proclaimed the place dead and no longer
a necessary place to "check" for stuff, when I went in
for a sub-mini male to 3 VGA female out. And the guy
was like huh? And I said, can I speak to the manager
and he said, I am.
If you can't speak cable... you can't run a Radio Shack.
If you don't have the cable I need and can't or won't get
it for me, you're not a Radio Shack.
RS, you're dead to me. Glad I sold my stock a while back.
Anyone want to buy my Tandy Model 4P? I won't be needing
it any more!
-AI
Fighting? Sigh... bruised egos? What?
-AI
You sir have my +1 Insightful mod point that I unfortunately don't have access to today.
-AI
Early PC stuff was a joke too. Give it some time to get going.
How is that comment interesting???
Early PC stuff a joke? The early PC stuff I remember was
some of the worst stuff out there! You usually found out
you were infected when you had to take the HD out, put
it in another machine and find out all of your files were gone.
While I dislike the notion of a PC of mine turning into a
zombie... I sure dislike it LESS than the early boot sector
infectors and file and hard drive erasers of the early years.
Stuff nowadays is less like a virus with intent on killing
you and more of a parasite that requires it's host be alive.
-AI
I figured I would finally get my mom a computer that even *she* couldn't get infected, so guess what I got her for Mother's Day?
Bloody hell.
Or you could have given her a nice, older
machine and just put a Live CD of Ubuntu
on there.
There, now was that so hard?
-AI
There is ClamAntivus but it is just a scanner and does not offer a shield or active protection.
BitDefender for Linux...
will scan mounted Windows partitions as well.
very nice to have on a live CD. While you are
disinfecting your (insert relationship here)'s
computer you can also show them the benefits
of using Linux.
-AI
Pfft. Duke Nukem Forever just went gold. If you think it's cold wherever you are, you should see hell right now.
Whoosh?
-AI
I have a solution for you, and it doesn't involve groveling in front of your wife-master! First, wait till your wife-master is asleep, then open up her purse and find your balls. Next, re-attach your balls between your legs (or somewhere else if you're feeling adventurous). Now would be a good time to drink a beer, play the damn game, pat yourself on the back like a man, and try to remember that you're an individual and not a freaking slave to that ring on your finger.
Actually... he can get his balls when he goes for the
beer, cause they are in the bin in the freezer.
All jokin aside, if you see my other post... she ACTUALLY
mentioned my playing games at night in the divorce. She
didn't mention that, at the same time I was watching that
brand new puppy SHE HAD TO HAVE... and kept it quiet
while she could sleep.
Would have been cool if she mentioned that I got up to
first place for a brief 24hr period in one online shooter...
then it could have been entered into the court docs. lol
So... laugh til u cry...
-AI
It's going to have to be one hell of a game to pick up fans who got tired of waiting after almost FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS, or who have never heard of the original in the first place.
Good post sir, wish I had mod points.
Heck I've been married and divorced twice since DN OG.
Fortunately I'm in-between b-n-c so I'll gladly play this
FPS when and how I want and for as long as I want.
Haha all you married suckers!
-AI
Yeah, I run a home office and I would rather provide a pc than have some virus infected vector on my network.
-AI
Having anyone simply sitting on huge piles of cash benefits no-one.
Really? Tell that to the recession that has been hanging around.
If more people would have had more huge piles of cash, maybe
they wouldn't have sought out loans that were being hawked by
predatory lenders.
Just sayin...
-AI
because most of those 10,000 pages deal with things like "companies employing less than 100 people and which are located in a depressed neighborhood and which have names ending in a vowel get to deduct the cost of the president's jet."
Please cite examples.
Examples? It's called the tax code... read it.
I'm a tax preparer... while his comment is way
obtuse... I'm fairly certain I can find examples
that come damn close.
There is an actual section in there detailing the
tax deductions of a business, when the business
is illegal drug activity.
Sec. 280E. Expenditures in connection with the illegal sale of
drugs
No deduction or credit shall be allowed for any amount paid or
incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or
business if such trade or business (or the activities which
comprise such trade or business) consists of trafficking in
controlled substances (within the meaning of schedule I and II of
the Controlled Substances Act) which is prohibited by Federal law
or the law of any State in which such trade or business is
conducted.
I took a break the past year, so the book has fortunately
gotten fuzzy in my head but I used to read it at lunch just
for a kick. There is some weird shit in there...
-AI
You just build the ship in the shape of a giant cylinder, a few hundred meters in diameter, and make it slowly turn as it travels. Anyone who's watched 2001 should know this.
The cylinder you are describing is the planet-ship RAMA.
Did you perhaps mean torus in keeping with 2001 A Space Odyssey?
-AI
Evolution means: the unfit ones get removed (die early to lack of fitness) or have a lower likely hood of reproduction.
Um... no that is entirely NOT what evolution means.
What you described is the tenet of "Survival of the Fittest",
which only has an outlier relationship to evolution.
-AI