There were at least two big bitcoin users with accounts there - if you actually RTFA, the biggest loss was 10,000 bitcoins (~45,000 USD) from Bitcoinica in addition to the 3,000 bitcoins from Palatinus.
If it was well-known, or could be easily discovered, that several bitcoin sites used the same hosting service, then that would be something worth breaking into, wouldn't it? Social attack, brute-force, some custom malware on a stick in the parking lot of the hosting site - it would be worth it to get your hands on big money.
Everyone should do their own research when choosing which hosting service to use (cost, uptime, features, history of security cock-ups), but it might also be worthwhile making sure no big players use the same host. If they do, then maybe avoid them and look at the next-best option.
Well, LinkedIn works for me. I'm a freelance developer (C++, Perl, Oracle, Linux,..). I'm in the UK, and most UK agents in this field have at least one person in their office that is on LinkedIn - I'm sure they pay extra for access outside their immediate network.
I got my current gig via LinkedIn, and it's working from home (UK) for a company in the far east. And every month I get at least one invitation to connect from an agent that is more or less a job description, because they're actively searching for people and found me via LinkedIn, but this is the only way to approach people you don't know.
I'm not on any of the job sites/cv databases (my choice), when I need a job, I browse openings and contact directly. Possibly, if I was, I'd get much more spam that I currently do.
Well, the reason the dates are all mixed up is that it in the real world, it adds to a six year-olds excitement when he's searching for todays door, which has *candy* behind it.
I use Opera, and it has a "block content" feature which is kinda manual - you go into block content mode and use the mouse to select sections of the page. Opera then blocks them when the page is viewed normally. For a site you visit regularly, it works well, but not so good for random surfing. But very good if you are surfing at work and the animated advert stand out like a sore thumb, even with CSS and images off for "stealth."
I'm tempted to go for a hacked hosts file that simply resolves most advert sites to 127.0.0.1 (see below). But I sometimes have a web server running locally (I used to have a really gaudy 404 page that would stand out like a sore thumb when these sections were requested.
Man, if you hadn't posted AC, I'd have modded you up! (Read my.sig)
(I'm beginning to think that ACs on/. should be banned. I can understand annonymity if you live in a dodgy regime, but not when posting the above. What are you worried about?)
When you go to a theme park, you can buy a "Fast Pass" which allows you to jump the queue. Everybody has paid for entry, but some can pay extra for special access, stroll up and jump on without waiting 40 minutes. Personally, I hate the things, as *I'VE*ALREADY*PAID* but it does make a good day out a great one, sometimes.
This is exactly the same, except that in the theme park, you *know* that the park is busy, and so can make the decision. But online, you can't see the length of the queues (or even how busy the car park is). As others have said, the provider can screw you by artifically limiting your bandwidth, in the hope that you will buy a "boost." In the theme park, it's apparent when you need to buy a pass. with mobile comms, it's not.
And, this is nothing to do with net neutrality, which is more like "I'm gonna delay your skype packets because you should be using our VOIP product or our residential telephone service." Unless, the boost API is only built into certain apps. I'm expecting a seperate phone-wide applet that says "gimme n minutes of boost for $x".
They just interviewed this guy, Richard Handl on BBC's Radio 4, the programme is called "PM" and will be available for "listen again" once the programme is finished - less than an hour from this post date. It's certainly available in *some* overseas areas - I am currently in Luxembourg, EU - and will be available for a week from today (04 Aug 2011). If you do listen to it, the interview starts about 25 minutes into the start of the programme - but the BBC often start these recordings a couple of minutes early - if you don't hear Big Ben chiming at 00:00, then make sure you timeshift appropriately.
The little I heard was incredible, the guy was arrested by cops with guns, he will appoint a lawyer if a trial will take place, and, while 'cooking' radioactive materials on his stove top, there was an explosion. He did wear rudimentary protective gear. Ho ordered radium from Germany via ebay, and it was delivered by post. I hope you'll get more by listening yourself, I barely paid attention until I realised who they were interviewing - my evening meal was far too tasty.
I live in semi-rural England (Bracknell Forest.) I can check out audio books (spoken word) from our library online using our council (municipal) website. This is just doing it with text/pdf/proprietary format files, which, to me, is no more impressive.
Hmm, the SF writer Heinlein had a story where some dude invented a cheap "battery" (called a shipstone, IIRC). They decided *not* to patent it as no-one else was likely to discover how it worked, even by dissection of a "shipstone", so instead of being limited to the lifetime of a patent, with all the explanation, etc., they just built the things, in secrecy, expecting that none would discover the secret of how they worked. Neat side-step of patent law, and better control of IP.
I'm not for a minute suggesting that these guys have really made a fundamental, non-obvious invention for cheap energy!
I have two bunches of keys. One is all I need for a day-to-day life (embarrassingly, just my front door and car key). The other bunch has everything else - all the other house door keys (4 in all!), cycle lock key, garage key, shed key, work bike shed key). No car key on that bunch.
I tend to always have one set or a another, but 90% of the time if I'm dressed for work I'll have my "simple" keychain, which is not too bulky, and 20 or 30% of the time at home I'll have the more bulky one.
If I've cycled to work I will put my keys in my cycle shoes so that I don't leave without changing back into them (I can't unlock my bike without them..) If I buy some perishable foods, then to remind me to take them, I'll put my keys in the fridge with the food.
I couldn't stand being like my wife and not knowing where my keys are. Mine are *always* in my front pocket, unless I've cycled to work, in which case they're in my shoes. Or in the fridge.
Don't mention lockers/exercise where keys are impractical/etc, but I have a system for them too.
When you speak of "The government" you mean the U.S.A., yeah?
This article (Q You did read TFA, didn't you? A No, you didn't even read the summary, did you? Sigh!) was published in the BRITISH medical journal. We Brits don't add much (if anything except water to bulk it up) to our foods here. Not even fluoride in the water (where I live, at least).
Because the pigs farmers do not have lots of land they have too much manure. This is the main cause of ground water pollution in Belgium.
I can vouch for this. In the Netherlands (aka Holland), a neighbour of Belgium, they have "pig shit inspectors" (no shit!) whose job it is to detect land that's had too much pig shit dumped on it. As far as I can tell, their main method of detection is to drive around with their window open until they smell something amiss.
I worked at IBM in Warwick, UK in 1988, and one guy, an MVS systems programmer type, was emigrating, and clearing out years of detrius from his cupboard. He picked up a stack of punched cards (they were old technology by this time, you young whippersnappers) and he was wondeing what they were. The cards had no legible documentation on them. Just holes.
Then it occurred to him: "It's the snoopy calendar!"
I wish I'd taken a copy of them - although it was probably PL/1, the image data would have been valid (I'm assuming it was not compressed).
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if you actually RTFA the biggest loss was 10,000 bitcoins (~45,000 USD) from Bitcoinica
And from the comments, I learned that Bitcoinica lost 43,554 bitcoins.
Sheesh!
I reckon this was a targeted attack.
There were at least two big bitcoin users with accounts there - if you actually RTFA, the biggest loss was 10,000 bitcoins (~45,000 USD) from Bitcoinica in addition to the 3,000 bitcoins from Palatinus.
If it was well-known, or could be easily discovered, that several bitcoin sites used the same hosting service, then that would be something worth breaking into, wouldn't it? Social attack, brute-force, some custom malware on a stick in the parking lot of the hosting site - it would be worth it to get your hands on big money.
Everyone should do their own research when choosing which hosting service to use (cost, uptime, features, history of security cock-ups), but it might also be worthwhile making sure no big players use the same host. If they do, then maybe avoid them and look at the next-best option.
Well, LinkedIn works for me. I'm a freelance developer (C++, Perl, Oracle, Linux,..). I'm in the UK, and most UK agents in this field have at least one person in their office that is on LinkedIn - I'm sure they pay extra for access outside their immediate network.
I got my current gig via LinkedIn, and it's working from home (UK) for a company in the far east. And every month I get at least one invitation to connect from an agent that is more or less a job description, because they're actively searching for people and found me via LinkedIn, but this is the only way to approach people you don't know.
I'm not on any of the job sites/cv databases (my choice), when I need a job, I browse openings and contact directly. Possibly, if I was, I'd get much more spam that I currently do.
3D Monster Maze was a totally amazing piece of programming, to fit that into 1K or RAM, and that 1K included system use, leaving you with less - gulp!
Watch it here
Or the offline-wikipedia project ? ? ?
Well, the reason the dates are all mixed up is that it in the real world, it adds to a six year-olds excitement when he's searching for todays door, which has *candy* behind it.
I use Opera, and it has a "block content" feature which is kinda manual - you go into block content mode and use the mouse to select sections of the page. Opera then blocks them when the page is viewed normally. For a site you visit regularly, it works well, but not so good for random surfing. But very good if you are surfing at work and the animated advert stand out like a sore thumb, even with CSS and images off for "stealth."
I'm tempted to go for a hacked hosts file that simply resolves most advert sites to 127.0.0.1 (see below). But I sometimes have a web server running locally (I used to have a really gaudy 404 page that would stand out like a sore thumb when these sections were requested.
Man, if you hadn't posted AC, I'd have modded you up! (Read my .sig)
(I'm beginning to think that ACs on /. should be banned. I can understand annonymity if you live in a dodgy regime, but not when posting the above. What are you worried about?)
Ignore it.
They claim to have indexed 104.22TB in 100,800 torrents.
Most slashdotters have got that much just on optical media, let alone on spindle.
This is a drop in the ocean, it's no suprise your local starbucks isn't listed.
You are looking for something like this?
When you go to a theme park, you can buy a "Fast Pass" which allows you to jump the queue. Everybody has paid for entry, but some can pay extra for special access, stroll up and jump on without waiting 40 minutes. Personally, I hate the things, as *I'VE*ALREADY*PAID* but it does make a good day out a great one, sometimes.
This is exactly the same, except that in the theme park, you *know* that the park is busy, and so can make the decision. But online, you can't see the length of the queues (or even how busy the car park is). As others have said, the provider can screw you by artifically limiting your bandwidth, in the hope that you will buy a "boost." In the theme park, it's apparent when you need to buy a pass. with mobile comms, it's not.
And, this is nothing to do with net neutrality, which is more like "I'm gonna delay your skype packets because you should be using our VOIP product or our residential telephone service." Unless, the boost API is only built into certain apps. I'm expecting a seperate phone-wide applet that says "gimme n minutes of boost for $x".
I am rich with mod points, but almost every comment is bang on the nose - I can't seperate them. Consider yourself +1 insightful, if you posted.
(I used to struggle a bit with this myself, 20 years ago, but these days I hardly ever dial a number. The PC layout is what I like now. )
Oops, this (link to PM section of BBC web site) might be useful if you want to actually listen.
They just interviewed this guy, Richard Handl on BBC's Radio 4, the programme is called "PM" and will be available for "listen again" once the programme is finished - less than an hour from this post date. It's certainly available in *some* overseas areas - I am currently in Luxembourg, EU - and will be available for a week from today (04 Aug 2011). If you do listen to it, the interview starts about 25 minutes into the start of the programme - but the BBC often start these recordings a couple of minutes early - if you don't hear Big Ben chiming at 00:00, then make sure you timeshift appropriately.
The little I heard was incredible, the guy was arrested by cops with guns, he will appoint a lawyer if a trial will take place, and, while 'cooking' radioactive materials on his stove top, there was an explosion. He did wear rudimentary protective gear. Ho ordered radium from Germany via ebay, and it was delivered by post. I hope you'll get more by listening yourself, I barely paid attention until I realised who they were interviewing - my evening meal was far too tasty.
Maybe I should post this anonymously, but it's only karma, yeah?
Relevant Sluggy comic (read parent comment subject)
Well, obviously, I install the hurd then reboot - mankind's work is done.
http://xkcd.com/713/
So what?
I live in semi-rural England (Bracknell Forest.) I can check out audio books (spoken word) from our library online using our council (municipal) website. This is just doing it with text/pdf/proprietary format files, which, to me, is no more impressive.
Lot of fuss about nothing. Go on, mod me down!
Hmm, the SF writer Heinlein had a story where some dude invented a cheap "battery" (called a shipstone, IIRC). They decided *not* to patent it as no-one else was likely to discover how it worked, even by dissection of a "shipstone", so instead of being limited to the lifetime of a patent, with all the explanation, etc., they just built the things, in secrecy, expecting that none would discover the secret of how they worked. Neat side-step of patent law, and better control of IP.
I'm not for a minute suggesting that these guys have really made a fundamental, non-obvious invention for cheap energy!
One exception to this is Emacs, where lucid emacs forked and then became XEmacs, but the original GNU Emacs continues to prosper.
Is there a Spock quotation ready to happen ? ??
I have two bunches of keys. One is all I need for a day-to-day life (embarrassingly, just my front door and car key). The other bunch has everything else - all the other house door keys (4 in all!), cycle lock key, garage key, shed key, work bike shed key). No car key on that bunch.
I tend to always have one set or a another, but 90% of the time if I'm dressed for work I'll have my "simple" keychain, which is not too bulky, and 20 or 30% of the time at home I'll have the more bulky one.
If I've cycled to work I will put my keys in my cycle shoes so that I don't leave without changing back into them (I can't unlock my bike without them..) If I buy some perishable foods, then to remind me to take them, I'll put my keys in the fridge with the food.
I couldn't stand being like my wife and not knowing where my keys are. Mine are *always* in my front pocket, unless I've cycled to work, in which case they're in my shoes. Or in the fridge.
Don't mention lockers/exercise where keys are impractical/etc, but I have a system for them too.
When you speak of "The government" you mean the U.S.A., yeah?
This article (Q You did read TFA, didn't you? A No, you didn't even read the summary, did you? Sigh!) was published in the BRITISH medical journal. We Brits don't add much (if anything except water to bulk it up) to our foods here. Not even fluoride in the water (where I live, at least).
But we do get free soma every day!
Well, I guess that despite the cost of these repairs, they will be saving money off their electricity bill.
Because the pigs farmers do not have lots of land they have too much manure. This is the main cause of ground water pollution in Belgium.
I can vouch for this. In the Netherlands (aka Holland), a neighbour of Belgium, they have "pig shit inspectors" (no shit!) whose job it is to detect land that's had too much pig shit dumped on it. As far as I can tell, their main method of detection is to drive around with their window open until they smell something amiss.
I worked at IBM in Warwick, UK in 1988, and one guy, an MVS systems programmer type, was emigrating, and clearing out years of detrius from his cupboard. He picked up a stack of punched cards (they were old technology by this time, you young whippersnappers) and he was wondeing what they were. The cards had no legible documentation on them. Just holes.
Then it occurred to him: "It's the snoopy calendar!"
I wish I'd taken a copy of them - although it was probably PL/1, the image data would have been valid (I'm assuming it was not compressed).