Yes, absolutely! I should have made clear that I was attacking the logic behind the idea, not the idea itself. There is no reason why Bitcoin can't be used in addition to other currencies. My point was that saying "I don't use it because nobody else uses it" just perpetuates the fact that... Nobody uses it. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Why invest in a shakey implementation of an Internet-based currency when so many other attempts died before it? I'm not going to touch it unless I actually see mainstream usage.
This is exactly the same justification people use for voting bipartisan in the presidential elections. "Nobody else will, so it's a waste!"
It's only a waste as long as people continue to believe that it is. Your (in)action perpetuate the status quo.
I must disagree. Based on my own experience of working in primary and secondary education for over 8 years, I've seen one man have the fact he had a pupil's contact details in his mobile phone used as evidence of misconduct and grounds for dismissal.
Six months later he was totally exonerated, but that doesn't matter. He still lost a job he loved.
Automatic address book update from the Facebook app I can understand, but again there are (workplace) regulations for social networking. At least where I work (education) you don't have students on your social networking "friends".
Further, if it were all (to use your numbers) 20 kids in his swim class, i'd be less bothered, but it was only two of them. Why those two, and why not their parents / carers?
Phone number of parents is great, as they are responsible for their child (as they are still children by law). They will take the children to meets, pick them up etc. There is no need to have the child's phone number at all.
I am not saying, or even insinuating, that he did anything inappropriate, but working in education myself I can tell you that you don't hold the child's contact details. You have the contact details of the parent or carer. At best, it's a serious breach of protocol.
He's the swim coach. That's fairly common, for quick updates about practices and meets.
No, they go to the parents who transport their children to the meetings. So I'll ask again; Why did he have the phone numbers of 13 and 14 year olds on his phone?
Healing is sealing the wound with fibrous tissue (scar), whereas regeneration is where, instead of a permanent scar forming, the original tissue is rebuilt and full function is restored. It really is black and white; They have distinct definitions.
Per your example, I don't believe the brain "heals" as such; I'm no human biologist, but basic science states that after a certain age your brain is pretty much as is, and any damage is permanent. Your brain may re-train itself to process speech in a different way after a stroke, but I wouldn't call it healing. The area which was damaged is still damaged. It's certainly not regenerated, as that would require complete repair of any damage, which would make degenerative diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons a thing of the past.
Someone else may know more, but this is how I understand it.
But people are commenting on the headline, not the post. The two aren't even similar. I suppose technically Facebook did deny posting private messages in public, but only by way of saying "You're all morons. These are wall posts. Lern2red."
You do realise that history is the past, right? It's in his past. He has a past history of crime, including breaking in to protected computer systems and selling access for profit, and pump-and-dumping stock fraud.
Come back when you've prosecuted those guilty of breaking the law during this process, all the way up to your own staff. I'd also say that he should be compensated for losses, but it would be paid with tax payer money, and ultimately it's not the tax payers who threw him to the wolves.
FWIW, Kim Dotcom is a scheister with a history of extremely shady business dealings, but even criminals deserve justice.
If you think anything on Facebook is "private" (between you, your friend, and Facebook) you're sorely mistaken. Selling other companies the profile of you based upon the content of those messages is how Facebook makes their money.
I stand by my slightly-tongue-in-cheek-but-ultimately-correct statement.
The messages in question are old wall posts and their comments. These are already public (as much as your friends can read them, which is all that has happened). It's in the fucking stub.
Pushing sensationalist bullshit headlines to generate clicks, eh? Gotta keep Dice sweet... Make that $20m look like a good deal.
FYI quoting the Daily Mail makes you look like an ignorrant racist. It's widely ridiculed as a poorly researched right-wing propaganda machine in the UK.
I'm not saying they're lying about this particular story, but I'm willing to bet there are several less inflammatory ways to interpret their source's data.
If this is the definition of terrorism, I have terrorized myself at least four times in the last month, and finally settled on being terrified by Mint 13 64bit with MATE desktop.
Do you have any idea how long it would take or how much it would cost to retrieve the data from a zero-wiped magnetic storage platter? Scanning tunnelling microscopy of a current generation ultra-high density, high capacity, perpendicular recorded magnetic storage platters to pick up the difference between 1>0 and 0>0 is unfeasible. Yes, it makes a great techno-voodoo for CSI and the like, but as a reality it's just not a reasonable suggestion.
By the way, recovery of a data by this process has never even been attempted, let alone succeeded. There are images of HDD platter surfaces on the MFM Wikipedia page, but then again those aren't zero'd drives, and the current gen drives are approx 80x more densely packed.
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Yes, absolutely! I should have made clear that I was attacking the logic behind the idea, not the idea itself. There is no reason why Bitcoin can't be used in addition to other currencies. My point was that saying "I don't use it because nobody else uses it" just perpetuates the fact that... Nobody uses it. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Why invest in a shakey implementation of an Internet-based currency when so many other attempts died before it? I'm not going to touch it unless I actually see mainstream usage.
This is exactly the same justification people use for voting bipartisan in the presidential elections. "Nobody else will, so it's a waste!"
It's only a waste as long as people continue to believe that it is. Your (in)action perpetuate the status quo.
>Gold, whiskey, shiny rocks or shells... the value is set by those who will honor it. The more that do, the more useful it is.
I'm pretty sure if I send Drew a bottle of Maker's Mark, he'll give me a couple of months of TrueFark in return.
Bitcoins? Not so much
Well, I guess that depends on if Drew can exchange those Bitcoins for the same amount of Maker's Mark.
And lo, a currency is born. Next step; Tax payable in Bitcoins.
I must disagree. Based on my own experience of working in primary and secondary education for over 8 years, I've seen one man have the fact he had a pupil's contact details in his mobile phone used as evidence of misconduct and grounds for dismissal.
Six months later he was totally exonerated, but that doesn't matter. He still lost a job he loved.
More information is always welcome. Thanks for replying :)
Automatic address book update from the Facebook app I can understand, but again there are (workplace) regulations for social networking. At least where I work (education) you don't have students on your social networking "friends".
Further, if it were all (to use your numbers) 20 kids in his swim class, i'd be less bothered, but it was only two of them. Why those two, and why not their parents / carers?
Phone number of parents is great, as they are responsible for their child (as they are still children by law). They will take the children to meets, pick them up etc. There is no need to have the child's phone number at all.
I am not saying, or even insinuating, that he did anything inappropriate, but working in education myself I can tell you that you don't hold the child's contact details. You have the contact details of the parent or carer. At best, it's a serious breach of protocol.
He's the swim coach. That's fairly common, for quick updates about practices and meets.
No, they go to the parents who transport their children to the meetings. So I'll ask again; Why did he have the phone numbers of 13 and 14 year olds on his phone?
Why did he have the phone numbers of 13 and 14 year old students on his mobile phone?
Healing is sealing the wound with fibrous tissue (scar), whereas regeneration is where, instead of a permanent scar forming, the original tissue is rebuilt and full function is restored. It really is black and white; They have distinct definitions.
Per your example, I don't believe the brain "heals" as such; I'm no human biologist, but basic science states that after a certain age your brain is pretty much as is, and any damage is permanent. Your brain may re-train itself to process speech in a different way after a stroke, but I wouldn't call it healing. The area which was damaged is still damaged. It's certainly not regenerated, as that would require complete repair of any damage, which would make degenerative diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons a thing of the past.
Someone else may know more, but this is how I understand it.
Yes. I felt I needed to be explicit, though, as some people don't seem to understand that "history" is longer than a couple of months ago.
Is it the official name of the Haswell packages?
Un-fucking-believable.
But people are commenting on the headline, not the post. The two aren't even similar. I suppose technically Facebook did deny posting private messages in public, but only by way of saying "You're all morons. These are wall posts. Lern2red."
You do realise that history is the past, right? It's in his past. He has a past history of crime, including breaking in to protected computer systems and selling access for profit, and pump-and-dumping stock fraud.
Kim Dotcom is a scheister with a history of extremely shady business dealings
Citation needed.
Kim Schmitz' criminal history with all of the citations you need.
Come back when you've prosecuted those guilty of breaking the law during this process, all the way up to your own staff. I'd also say that he should be compensated for losses, but it would be paid with tax payer money, and ultimately it's not the tax payers who threw him to the wolves.
FWIW, Kim Dotcom is a scheister with a history of extremely shady business dealings, but even criminals deserve justice.
If you think anything on Facebook is "private" (between you, your friend, and Facebook) you're sorely mistaken. Selling other companies the profile of you based upon the content of those messages is how Facebook makes their money.
I stand by my slightly-tongue-in-cheek-but-ultimately-correct statement.
The messages in question are old wall posts and their comments. These are already public (as much as your friends can read them, which is all that has happened). It's in the fucking stub.
Pushing sensationalist bullshit headlines to generate clicks, eh? Gotta keep Dice sweet... Make that $20m look like a good deal.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
I hate to paraphrase a comic book, but that ends up with the US as the strongest nation on the cinder.
"Peace through superior firepower" only work as long as slavery is preferential to death.
The US doesn't recognise the authority of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, so the best you could do is bring a civil suit against them.
Not that they'd care.
FYI quoting the Daily Mail makes you look like an ignorrant racist. It's widely ridiculed as a poorly researched right-wing propaganda machine in the UK.
I'm not saying they're lying about this particular story, but I'm willing to bet there are several less inflammatory ways to interpret their source's data.
If this is the definition of terrorism, I have terrorized myself at least four times in the last month, and finally settled on being terrified by Mint 13 64bit with MATE desktop.
Of course there are no new drivers!
Why would you buy their new and improved "Ready for Windows 8!" kit if your old-but-perfectly-functional kit worked just as well?!
Do you have any idea how long it would take or how much it would cost to retrieve the data from a zero-wiped magnetic storage platter? Scanning tunnelling microscopy of a current generation ultra-high density, high capacity, perpendicular recorded magnetic storage platters to pick up the difference between 1>0 and 0>0 is unfeasible. Yes, it makes a great techno-voodoo for CSI and the like, but as a reality it's just not a reasonable suggestion.
By the way, recovery of a data by this process has never even been attempted, let alone succeeded. There are images of HDD platter surfaces on the MFM Wikipedia page, but then again those aren't zero'd drives, and the current gen drives are approx 80x more densely packed.