If they exchange BTC for USD, all they're doing is stating it's an object that currently has value and can be sold. Nothing to do with its status as a currency. A bucket of grain is not currency, Facebook Credits are not currency, a half-used Applebee's gift card is not currency, but all three can easily be traded for money.
This falls under "stuff that matters." And if I was going to read or participate in a discussion on this sort of thing, I'd rather be surrounded by Slashdot types.
Your signature perfectly sums up the issue. Threads aren't enclosed. You can't tell where one ends and the next begins. Visually hugging the left margin is not enough to demarcate a new thread.
Do you know anything about what you're talking about? Facebook is not pyramid-shaped. The one group at the top makes all the money - no promises of money for anyone else. Yes, the everyday user of Facebook is not the customer - they are the product. But that's only a small change to advertiser-supported content going back to the golden age of television.
Akamai is hired to help distribute data. If you feel "invaded" by being directed to Akamai for faster content on Facebook, then your blame should fall on Facebook for hiring them. Akamai doesn't access your machine - your machine submits a request to their machine, which is fulfilled. It's doing what you're asking it to (in proxy for Facebook).
That might be true - if they can get a binary onto your system that uses CUDA, that doesn't show up as 100% CPU usage at all. But you might as well use 100% of the CPU as well. Put it at the lowest priority but eat every remaining cycle. Look for taskmgr.exe and decrease production when that task is running.
Doesn't this have the same amount of moving parts as any speaker? The only movement is the vibrations that are created as sound. Am I missing something?
- A lack of pre-K education for a lot of kids means that many start about 2-3 years behind. For example, I was one of two students who walked into first grade able to read at all, count, and add. Head Start and similar programs could help with that, but they've never come close to having the funding they'd really need to solve that problem, and parents are often completely unaware that that sort of thing even exists.
I learned all of that in Kindergarten. Did you skip that, too?
It's not customary at all here (though maybe things are different on an island in the Pacific). Either they are saying Gb to be misleading or they were misquoted.
Will you get over the wifi thing already? It recorded a string of packets to attempt to capture the MAC address of the Access Point. They probably didn't need to store the data, but they did - because it didn't matter.
a couple of water bottles like you'd take to the gym, worth of water
Which is 1-liter. I don't know why they felt we couldn't handle that measurement and instead rounded it to pints and then added a metric-by-proxy measurement.
Running automatically inside the browser is better than manually downloading and choosing to run it? Unsandboxed is not such a big threat when you're deliberately choosing to run the file and unsandboxed is still restricted to the local user account.
I'm not sure i know of a java applet where context comes into it at all. And as for updates, plenty of native software has to deal with updates.
I'm sure that's great software - but does it really need to run inside a browser? The first link you gave involves downloadable apps and/or Java Web Start - not an embedded JVM. The latter link I'm not sure about.
It's worse than Flash - the sandbox has access to your printer and a whole lot more. It can still be a nuisance even if it's not escalating access.
I actually use my left finger for all shifting. I just use "incorrect" fingers when typing far-left keys. I keep my keyboard slightly to the left, so that makes it easy to use left-shift for everything and makes right-shift awkward to use at all. This is on an MS Natural Keyboard, though, so I'm sure it's different than standard keyboards. I keep a great typing speed this way, and I never have to look down.
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If they exchange BTC for USD, all they're doing is stating it's an object that currently has value and can be sold. Nothing to do with its status as a currency. A bucket of grain is not currency, Facebook Credits are not currency, a half-used Applebee's gift card is not currency, but all three can easily be traded for money.
Probably shouldn't have bought your tin foil from a government contractor. Would have saved a little money.
This falls under "stuff that matters." And if I was going to read or participate in a discussion on this sort of thing, I'd rather be surrounded by Slashdot types.
Your signature perfectly sums up the issue. Threads aren't enclosed. You can't tell where one ends and the next begins. Visually hugging the left margin is not enough to demarcate a new thread.
Yes - and you probably would never get infected in the first place. We're not talking about people quite as smart.
I think this chain of jokes has jumped the shark.
Do you know anything about what you're talking about? Facebook is not pyramid-shaped. The one group at the top makes all the money - no promises of money for anyone else. Yes, the everyday user of Facebook is not the customer - they are the product. But that's only a small change to advertiser-supported content going back to the golden age of television.
Akamai is hired to help distribute data. If you feel "invaded" by being directed to Akamai for faster content on Facebook, then your blame should fall on Facebook for hiring them. Akamai doesn't access your machine - your machine submits a request to their machine, which is fulfilled. It's doing what you're asking it to (in proxy for Facebook).
That might be true - if they can get a binary onto your system that uses CUDA, that doesn't show up as 100% CPU usage at all. But you might as well use 100% of the CPU as well. Put it at the lowest priority but eat every remaining cycle. Look for taskmgr.exe and decrease production when that task is running.
Doesn't this have the same amount of moving parts as any speaker? The only movement is the vibrations that are created as sound. Am I missing something?
Isn't that just going to delay the production of more oil? We need bodies in the ground to get the process started.
but not without it's hickups.
Freudian slip? Pun? Don't leave us hanging on the details.
- A lack of pre-K education for a lot of kids means that many start about 2-3 years behind. For example, I was one of two students who walked into first grade able to read at all, count, and add. Head Start and similar programs could help with that, but they've never come close to having the funding they'd really need to solve that problem, and parents are often completely unaware that that sort of thing even exists.
I learned all of that in Kindergarten. Did you skip that, too?
Nobody else is buying them. Why should they?
The Internet is too big for a whitelist. Not even being able to teach kids how to Google?
It's not customary at all here (though maybe things are different on an island in the Pacific). Either they are saying Gb to be misleading or they were misquoted.
Will you get over the wifi thing already? It recorded a string of packets to attempt to capture the MAC address of the Access Point. They probably didn't need to store the data, but they did - because it didn't matter.
1 GigaBIT of bandwidth is not all that much. Sure, it's free and all, but it's less than 150MB.
Well they did say:
a couple of water bottles like you'd take to the gym, worth of water
Which is 1-liter. I don't know why they felt we couldn't handle that measurement and instead rounded it to pints and then added a metric-by-proxy measurement.
Running automatically inside the browser is better than manually downloading and choosing to run it? Unsandboxed is not such a big threat when you're deliberately choosing to run the file and unsandboxed is still restricted to the local user account.
I'm not sure i know of a java applet where context comes into it at all. And as for updates, plenty of native software has to deal with updates.
Wait - you're talking about a different security change. One that essentially prevents XSS - a legitimate concern.
If it's internal, why can't you add your signing CA to the java trust store across your organization?
I'm sure that's great software - but does it really need to run inside a browser? The first link you gave involves downloadable apps and/or Java Web Start - not an embedded JVM. The latter link I'm not sure about.
It's worse than Flash - the sandbox has access to your printer and a whole lot more. It can still be a nuisance even if it's not escalating access.
"Write once, run anywhere" just doesn't hold much appeal if a security update breaks functionality.
Except he's talking about using CTRL+ALT+DEL to enable login in Windows, not to reboot.
I actually use my left finger for all shifting. I just use "incorrect" fingers when typing far-left keys. I keep my keyboard slightly to the left, so that makes it easy to use left-shift for everything and makes right-shift awkward to use at all. This is on an MS Natural Keyboard, though, so I'm sure it's different than standard keyboards. I keep a great typing speed this way, and I never have to look down.