Because, of course, every last man, woman, and child in Ecuador has a PC or other digital currency device, right?
Ignoring the red herring of "digital", this is a bankrupt country trying to build a fiat currency that nobody is going to trust.
If they attempt to emphasize the 'currency' part, with all the success of a country that dollarized because its existing currency was having serious issues, the whole effort will likely either drown without a ripple or somehow end up making a hedge fund with a taste for high risk investments and exotic international litigation quite rich; but it's actually less implausible if they go light on the 'currency' bit and work on the 'digital'.
Attempting to float a 'currency' that isn't so larded with export controls that it might as well be 'frequent flier miles' or 'loyalty points' or so dysfunctional that it's just a hobby for noise traders takes some doing; but 'digital currency' that pegs to some other currency and mostly aims at reducing transaction costs(and passing the savings on to the issuer) is wildly popular. In the US, the main issuers are Visa and Mastercard, and they are still using an effectively unauthenticated plaintext tokens because trying harder requires effort.
If they plan to make 'ecuadorcoin' the next cypher-goldbug craze they might as well give up now; but managing a tame electronic transfer system(ideally; but not necessarily with some sort of architectural elegance) with at least domestic popularity in areas with better infrastructure is a markedly more attainable outcome.
It's probably worth noting that Panama has been...graciously hosting...the Panama Canal for a very similar amount of time(US took over the effort in 1904, finished 10 years later) and that 'Panama' fortuitously fought a (very briefly and and largely without incident; because the US Navy helpfully cut off Columbian troop movements in the area) struggle for freedom right when it looked like Columbia might not ratify the treaty necessary to allow US adoption of the project...
Should I be ashamed of my ignorance, or am I not alone in knowing that Ecuador uses the US dollar as it's primary currency?
Probably not too much cause for shame. The dollarization was back in early 2000, and followed a variety of currency chaos(likely why they went with USD. Given the choice a state usually prefers a currency that it has central bank influence over, and rights to mint; but if your indigenous currency is sufficiently unstable your choice is between a currency over which you exert only theoretical control and a currency over which you exert no control that doesn't behave as erratically).
My actual position is more along the line of agreement, in principle. Nothing requires that A Course Shall Be Of Semester Length. My own experience with quarters was positive and I'd imagine that other lengths could suit different topics.
The puff about 'like an itunes playlist! Who reads things where you have to turn pages?' was just so insufferable, though, that I couldn't help but unhinge my mandibles and spit acidic bile at it. Such a painful analogy.
In the specific example given there's arguably a complaint to be made because someone wanted a CS focus and got an exciting month on 'clicking buttons in Office 2007', which is at least as narrowly vocational, likely more, and not the right vocation.
Schools can, and do, have courses and course requirements that just aren't very good at delivering what they are supposed to. I suspect that dithering about whether they want to be trade schools or not can help cause this; but complaining about it isn't really exclusive to wanting a vocational education or wanting a liberal arts one.
Given that you usually take your choice of courses(subject to certain constraints depending on the degree you want to go for) a 'course' is a 'module', just not a terribly granular one.
And there is room to tinker with granularity, some schools already run on quarters rather than semesters without apparent incident(at least in my experience quarters are nice for 'niche' things that you want to take a look at, because you get three per academic year rather than two and the proximity of midterms and finals did focus one's attentions a bit; but what you did in three sequential courses for, say, 'a year of calculus' was pretty much identical to what you would take in two sequential courses at a semester school); but the idea that online attention spans prove that knowledge is fundamentally fine-grained...not as much.
It is a good thing that calculus, much like a playlist on itunes, can be learned on 'shuffle' because none of it involves using results you arrived at earlier...
I suppose I should have made the sarcasm more clear... The assorted three letter agencies certainly operate as though the public were a hostile power; but actually saying so would be tasteless, so you see this deceptive little dance back and forth between using the terms designed for agents of some other nation state; but then having only the vaguest and least convincing accounts of who they could possibly be working for; because their being actors in the interests of an American ideal that isn't in line with the TLAs simply isn't on the table.
Even if it were a raving American pro-life-at-least-until-birth enthusiast, it'd be a fairly atypical one. Reprogramming of mature cells is usually hailed as the superior alternative to fetal cells by those opposed to their use. It's likely that some very, very, strict ones have noticed that research on mature cell modification typically needs some real stem cells to work with, in order to better understand what they are trying to do; but it's commonly either ignored or treated as a lesser evil that will (real soon now, always real soon now) eliminate even the pragmatic arguments for fetal cell use.
It would be like animal rights enthusiasts assassinating someone working on in vitro or computational models for toxicology. Such research would necessarily involve animals; but it's either hope that that works or convince everyone to just surrender the benefits entirely.
This is quite true; but I suspect that trying to get.6 bitcoins out of somebody for some files that they can re-download is going to be harder than doing the same for the smallish business customers who are presumably the target for their $1000-and-up devices.
Network attached storage is all kinds of convenient; but if you are the attacker, and building a vendor-specific ransom package, it needs to be a vendor who sells enough devices that store important files, particularly ones that aren't just backups of somebody's PC, to get people to pay the ransom.
Arguably, 'should have used FreeNAS' is close to the BSD equivalent of 'should have used debian'. Probably good advice, unless you prefer the nas4free fork; but not closely related to the OS used.
(That said, I'm always a bit surprised at how many awful embedded firmwares are elderly-linux-with-dubious-GPL-compliance rather than BSD. It's not as though putting a dangerously awful proprietary web interface and lighthttpd on one is all that different from doing so on the other. I can only assume that the ones hacking together the BSPs for today's cheap embedded boards support linux better.)
They may be drawing on the distinction between dubiously legal accounting practices and dubiously legal accounting practices that amount to fraud against HP.
Since this lawsuit is brought by HP, alleging that it has been defrauded, demonstrating that HP knew what they were buying when they bought it would seem to be a sound defense(if not necessarily a plausible one or one that they will succeed in demonstrating).
If it were the state coming after Autonomy for violations of accounting regulations this argument would be of absolutely no defensive value; but that isn't this case (and the penalties for just breaking the law are probably way lower than for defrauding shareholders large enough to sue you...)
It's worth noting that it was the DEA who gave 'parallel construction' its notoriety (check out the delightful lesson plan!). I would not want to be the guy whose continued freedom depends on finding a court willing to poke the issue, much less for The Notorious Silk Road Internet Drugs Kingpin; but it certainly seems like a case where the matter would be very likely to come up.
It must be neat to be eligible for the section of the justice system where merely fulfilling your past obligations and agreeing to try harder next time is enough to get an official press release praising your integrity, never mind the absence of any actual penalty...
Quite the opposite. Being satisfied with the built in bittorrent clients, or FTP in general, suggests somewhat casual activity; but if you are buying your piracy gear based on its support for lots of iSCSI LUNs, 10GbE, and availability of rackmount expansion enclosures with redundant power supplies I would say that you are pretty serious about it...
I don't know how successful they've been in terms of market share; but their pitch for most of the 'rackstation' line suggests that they are hoping for relatively demanding applications by the standards that 'NAS' has historically evoked.
They may have some unhappy customers right now; but 'NAS', in Synology's product lineup, includes a variety of devices that are aimed either at reasonably serious users or very serious pirates.
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The European Currency Unit sees what you did there...
Because, of course, every last man, woman, and child in Ecuador has a PC or other digital currency device, right?
Ignoring the red herring of "digital", this is a bankrupt country trying to build a fiat currency that nobody is going to trust.
If they attempt to emphasize the 'currency' part, with all the success of a country that dollarized because its existing currency was having serious issues, the whole effort will likely either drown without a ripple or somehow end up making a hedge fund with a taste for high risk investments and exotic international litigation quite rich; but it's actually less implausible if they go light on the 'currency' bit and work on the 'digital'.
Attempting to float a 'currency' that isn't so larded with export controls that it might as well be 'frequent flier miles' or 'loyalty points' or so dysfunctional that it's just a hobby for noise traders takes some doing; but 'digital currency' that pegs to some other currency and mostly aims at reducing transaction costs(and passing the savings on to the issuer) is wildly popular. In the US, the main issuers are Visa and Mastercard, and they are still using an effectively unauthenticated plaintext tokens because trying harder requires effort.
If they plan to make 'ecuadorcoin' the next cypher-goldbug craze they might as well give up now; but managing a tame electronic transfer system(ideally; but not necessarily with some sort of architectural elegance) with at least domestic popularity in areas with better infrastructure is a markedly more attainable outcome.
It's probably worth noting that Panama has been...graciously hosting...the Panama Canal for a very similar amount of time(US took over the effort in 1904, finished 10 years later) and that 'Panama' fortuitously fought a (very briefly and and largely without incident; because the US Navy helpfully cut off Columbian troop movements in the area) struggle for freedom right when it looked like Columbia might not ratify the treaty necessary to allow US adoption of the project...
Should I be ashamed of my ignorance, or am I not alone in knowing that Ecuador uses the US dollar as it's primary currency?
Probably not too much cause for shame. The dollarization was back in early 2000, and followed a variety of currency chaos(likely why they went with USD. Given the choice a state usually prefers a currency that it has central bank influence over, and rights to mint; but if your indigenous currency is sufficiently unstable your choice is between a currency over which you exert only theoretical control and a currency over which you exert no control that doesn't behave as erratically).
Yes, but Facebook. Somewhere between working for the SS and Big Tobacco.
So snappy uniforms and very, very, deep pockets?
Why is the organizational separation between the kernel and the userland going to affect the quality of the TCP/IP stack?
My actual position is more along the line of agreement, in principle. Nothing requires that A Course Shall Be Of Semester Length. My own experience with quarters was positive and I'd imagine that other lengths could suit different topics.
The puff about 'like an itunes playlist! Who reads things where you have to turn pages?' was just so insufferable, though, that I couldn't help but unhinge my mandibles and spit acidic bile at it. Such a painful analogy.
In the specific example given there's arguably a complaint to be made because someone wanted a CS focus and got an exciting month on 'clicking buttons in Office 2007', which is at least as narrowly vocational, likely more, and not the right vocation.
Schools can, and do, have courses and course requirements that just aren't very good at delivering what they are supposed to. I suspect that dithering about whether they want to be trade schools or not can help cause this; but complaining about it isn't really exclusive to wanting a vocational education or wanting a liberal arts one.
Given that you usually take your choice of courses(subject to certain constraints depending on the degree you want to go for) a 'course' is a 'module', just not a terribly granular one.
And there is room to tinker with granularity, some schools already run on quarters rather than semesters without apparent incident(at least in my experience quarters are nice for 'niche' things that you want to take a look at, because you get three per academic year rather than two and the proximity of midterms and finals did focus one's attentions a bit; but what you did in three sequential courses for, say, 'a year of calculus' was pretty much identical to what you would take in two sequential courses at a semester school); but the idea that online attention spans prove that knowledge is fundamentally fine-grained...not as much.
It is a good thing that calculus, much like a playlist on itunes, can be learned on 'shuffle' because none of it involves using results you arrived at earlier...
I suppose I should have made the sarcasm more clear... The assorted three letter agencies certainly operate as though the public were a hostile power; but actually saying so would be tasteless, so you see this deceptive little dance back and forth between using the terms designed for agents of some other nation state; but then having only the vaguest and least convincing accounts of who they could possibly be working for; because their being actors in the interests of an American ideal that isn't in line with the TLAs simply isn't on the table.
Hey, we told the IT guy to change the permissions on that folder to keep himself out. He must have been some kind of super-hacker to get past us...
He's releasing documents to the public. That makes him an agent of a hostile power, no?
He was originally going to use stem cells to regenerate his lost honor; but then realized that the method didn't actually work.
Even if it were a raving American pro-life-at-least-until-birth enthusiast, it'd be a fairly atypical one. Reprogramming of mature cells is usually hailed as the superior alternative to fetal cells by those opposed to their use. It's likely that some very, very, strict ones have noticed that research on mature cell modification typically needs some real stem cells to work with, in order to better understand what they are trying to do; but it's commonly either ignored or treated as a lesser evil that will (real soon now, always real soon now) eliminate even the pragmatic arguments for fetal cell use.
It would be like animal rights enthusiasts assassinating someone working on in vitro or computational models for toxicology. Such research would necessarily involve animals; but it's either hope that that works or convince everyone to just surrender the benefits entirely.
No worries, its not like PayPal is a bank or had access to your bank or anything.
Paypal is the company so evil that I think of my bank as a trusted friend and protector who stands between me and them. And I usually loath my bank.
This is quite true; but I suspect that trying to get .6 bitcoins out of somebody for some files that they can re-download is going to be harder than doing the same for the smallish business customers who are presumably the target for their $1000-and-up devices.
Network attached storage is all kinds of convenient; but if you are the attacker, and building a vendor-specific ransom package, it needs to be a vendor who sells enough devices that store important files, particularly ones that aren't just backups of somebody's PC, to get people to pay the ransom.
Arguably, 'should have used FreeNAS' is close to the BSD equivalent of 'should have used debian'. Probably good advice, unless you prefer the nas4free fork; but not closely related to the OS used.
(That said, I'm always a bit surprised at how many awful embedded firmwares are elderly-linux-with-dubious-GPL-compliance rather than BSD. It's not as though putting a dangerously awful proprietary web interface and lighthttpd on one is all that different from doing so on the other. I can only assume that the ones hacking together the BSPs for today's cheap embedded boards support linux better.)
Don't you have to remain in the 'More Magic' quadrant if you don't want the system to crash?
They may be drawing on the distinction between dubiously legal accounting practices and dubiously legal accounting practices that amount to fraud against HP.
Since this lawsuit is brought by HP, alleging that it has been defrauded, demonstrating that HP knew what they were buying when they bought it would seem to be a sound defense(if not necessarily a plausible one or one that they will succeed in demonstrating).
If it were the state coming after Autonomy for violations of accounting regulations this argument would be of absolutely no defensive value; but that isn't this case (and the penalties for just breaking the law are probably way lower than for defrauding shareholders large enough to sue you...)
It's worth noting that it was the DEA who gave 'parallel construction' its notoriety (check out the delightful lesson plan!). I would not want to be the guy whose continued freedom depends on finding a court willing to poke the issue, much less for The Notorious Silk Road Internet Drugs Kingpin; but it certainly seems like a case where the matter would be very likely to come up.
It must be neat to be eligible for the section of the justice system where merely fulfilling your past obligations and agreeing to try harder next time is enough to get an official press release praising your integrity, never mind the absence of any actual penalty...
It's been on the bottom of the ocean for 8 months, of course it'll be darker and grittier. Probably slimy too.
Quite the opposite. Being satisfied with the built in bittorrent clients, or FTP in general, suggests somewhat casual activity; but if you are buying your piracy gear based on its support for lots of iSCSI LUNs, 10GbE, and availability of rackmount expansion enclosures with redundant power supplies I would say that you are pretty serious about it...
I don't know how successful they've been in terms of market share; but their pitch for most of the 'rackstation' line suggests that they are hoping for relatively demanding applications by the standards that 'NAS' has historically evoked.
They may have some unhappy customers right now; but 'NAS', in Synology's product lineup, includes a variety of devices that are aimed either at reasonably serious users or very serious pirates.