, and those same communists were launching people into space
It was because of an American remark. At least, that was what my space technology teacher told. There was a conference about space travel, which was up to then purely theoretical, at which an American guy told his Russian colleague that they were working on a space program (which was not true at that moment). This remark started the space race.
If you're a locksmith, staging a break-in probably isn't the best way to get a bank's business.
Except that this "bank" explicitly says it will reward people who can bypass the lock. I think it is more like " If you're a locksmith, staging a break-in into the director's office probably isn't the best way to get a bank's business."
This sounds like a "let's sue the user before anyone sues us" tactic. Johannesburg has effectively been publishing sensitive data, which should violate privacy laws. If anyone should be brought to court, it is Johannesburg itself.
No. You taste them, but that's different. Candies contain so much sugar (compared to the food we would eat in nature) that our bodies do not trust their own correction mechanisms anymore. This is called insulin resistance. This suppresses your feeling of having eaten enough, so you stay hungry. This is why you can eat the bag of candies completely empty in one go, even if (no, because) it contains more energy than you will need the entire day.
When I go to a real shop and ask for anything special, the answer is usually "internet" (not even a whole sentence). I don't shop on-line unless I really have to (and even than rather not), Shop owners should realize that people come to shops not only to buy something, but also for advise, the chance to really see what you are buying, etc. I really find it strange that shop owners chase their customers out of the shops instead of trying to make a difference.
I suspect it helps that, while they depend on a novel mechanism for preventing duplication and double spending, BitCoins aren't really conceptually much different...
There's your difference. According to Basel III, banks may spend each coin 19 times. With traceable money, a customer could ask his bank to show which coins were his. The entire Ponzi Scheme that our currency system is today could crumble if banks could all of a sudden be monitored and held responsible.
Paper money and coins are just as anonymous, and we were working with them fairly well for a thousand years.
There, fixed that for you. It gets harder and harder by the day to use real and anonymous money. In the USA, not using a credit card is at least suspicious. In Europe, governments and large organisations make it harder and harder to pay with the real national currency. Want to park in Rotterdam? You have to pay, but real money is not accepted. There are already shops that do not accept real money. Off course, digital money does not have to exist, so banks will push as many companies as they can toward cashless systems.
No. Speculation has nothing to do with an economy. On the contrary. A "medium of exchange" is taken OUT of the economy with nothing economic (goods or services) to compensate for it. Speculation only suffocates an economy.
The "maintaining liquidity" is double nonsense. Not only takes speculation take money OUT of an economy, it is also not a goal on itself. There should be as much money as needed. Not as much as possible. Overflowing an economy with vast amounts of valueless money will grind it to a halt as well.
Not entirely. If that were the case, there would be only one 4xx code: 401 NO.
But in fact there are different codes for permissions, payment, structural changes, etc. It is not that strange that a new outside force gets a new code. Even then, this is an OSI layer 9 or layer 10 (Financial, often erroneously called "Economic") issue.
And what happens if, due to a malfunction, the thruster doesn't shut off when it's supposed to, and it burns for longer than 58 seconds?
It would just run out of fuel. It is so expensive to hurl any mass into space that you do not take anything extra with you. The main thing that could go wrong is that the direction of the thrust is wrong or that you blow the asteroid to pieces.
Do you want financial institutions such as banks and currency traders to be thoroughly regulated?
If "regulation" means the current level of "regulation", no, I want them to be forbidden. And speculation in Bitcoins should be equally forbidden.
(Most of Wall St. is simply your mom's retirement savings being put to use building stores and such to earn her enough to retire.)
Most of Wall St. is simply gambling with your mom's retirement "savings" (if the money really were saved, it should still be there). Didn't you follow the news? Lots of these "savings" have disappeared because of this gambling.
Wrong. Two very different levels of technology involved.
No, that is the point. Once you have built an ICBM, you already have built a spacecraft. It only takes a moderate apogee blast to prevent it from coming back to earth. As my space technology teacher used to say: "If Hitler wanted to put a German on the moon, he would have succeeded".
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What is the average airspeed of a swallow?
This security type was already broken in Monty Python's Holy Grail.
Why do you paint bricks and fake keyholes on your door when you leave the house?
There, fixed that for you. Obfuscation is more like dazzle painting. It works somewhat, but don't expect it to work well.
, and those same communists were launching people into space
It was because of an American remark. At least, that was what my space technology teacher told. There was a conference about space travel, which was up to then purely theoretical, at which an American guy told his Russian colleague that they were working on a space program (which was not true at that moment). This remark started the space race.
If you're a locksmith, staging a break-in probably isn't the best way to get a bank's business.
Except that this "bank" explicitly says it will reward people who can bypass the lock. I think it is more like " If you're a locksmith, staging a break-in into the director's office probably isn't the best way to get a bank's business."
This sounds like a "let's sue the user before anyone sues us" tactic. Johannesburg has effectively been publishing sensitive data, which should violate privacy laws. If anyone should be brought to court, it is Johannesburg itself.
We do know how to wreck things, even when we do not understand the things that we wreck. So the bottom line is we DO know enough to wreck our climate.
It is "near certain" caused by human activity, so slow down.
Well, maybe you should follow the links you cite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food clearly points to http://www.potatopro.com/newsletters/20100310.htm when it says there are currently no GMO potatoes marked for human consumption, but the linked page shows this information is outdated.
No. You taste them, but that's different. Candies contain so much sugar (compared to the food we would eat in nature) that our bodies do not trust their own correction mechanisms anymore. This is called insulin resistance. This suppresses your feeling of having eaten enough, so you stay hungry. This is why you can eat the bag of candies completely empty in one go, even if (no, because) it contains more energy than you will need the entire day.
How much is a kiloshitload?
When I go to a real shop and ask for anything special, the answer is usually "internet" (not even a whole sentence). I don't shop on-line unless I really have to (and even than rather not), Shop owners should realize that people come to shops not only to buy something, but also for advise, the chance to really see what you are buying, etc. I really find it strange that shop owners chase their customers out of the shops instead of trying to make a difference.
Would you settle for PHP "type hints" (see http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php ) ? They add legible safeguards to function calls without introducing needless clutter to the language.
GIL stands for Global Interpreter Lock, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock
I suspect it helps that, while they depend on a novel mechanism for preventing duplication and double spending, BitCoins aren't really conceptually much different...
There's your difference. According to Basel III, banks may spend each coin 19 times. With traceable money, a customer could ask his bank to show which coins were his. The entire Ponzi Scheme that our currency system is today could crumble if banks could all of a sudden be monitored and held responsible.
Paper money and coins are just as anonymous, and we were working with them fairly well for a thousand years.
There, fixed that for you. It gets harder and harder by the day to use real and anonymous money. In the USA, not using a credit card is at least suspicious. In Europe, governments and large organisations make it harder and harder to pay with the real national currency. Want to park in Rotterdam? You have to pay, but real money is not accepted. There are already shops that do not accept real money. Off course, digital money does not have to exist, so banks will push as many companies as they can toward cashless systems.
Well, one of the dark sides is that our agrochemical food causes many of these cancers in the first place.
So? I forgot the numbers. Is it worse than downloading a song or not?
No. Speculation has nothing to do with an economy. On the contrary. A "medium of exchange" is taken OUT of the economy with nothing economic (goods or services) to compensate for it. Speculation only suffocates an economy.
The "maintaining liquidity" is double nonsense. Not only takes speculation take money OUT of an economy, it is also not a goal on itself. There should be as much money as needed. Not as much as possible. Overflowing an economy with vast amounts of valueless money will grind it to a halt as well.
Not entirely. If that were the case, there would be only one 4xx code: 401 NO.
But in fact there are different codes for permissions, payment, structural changes, etc. It is not that strange that a new outside force gets a new code. Even then, this is an OSI layer 9 or layer 10 (Financial, often erroneously called "Economic") issue.
And what happens if, due to a malfunction, the thruster doesn't shut off when it's supposed to, and it burns for longer than 58 seconds?
It would just run out of fuel. It is so expensive to hurl any mass into space that you do not take anything extra with you. The main thing that could go wrong is that the direction of the thrust is wrong or that you blow the asteroid to pieces.
I think Horse '95 would have put the company out of business. A horse that crashes each day will not mature enough to be sold.
Do you want financial institutions such as banks and currency traders to be thoroughly regulated?
If "regulation" means the current level of "regulation", no, I want them to be forbidden. And speculation in Bitcoins should be equally forbidden.
(Most of Wall St. is simply your mom's retirement savings being put to use building stores and such to earn her enough to retire.)
Most of Wall St. is simply gambling with your mom's retirement "savings" (if the money really were saved, it should still be there). Didn't you follow the news? Lots of these "savings" have disappeared because of this gambling.
Just build some foam LARP missiles and play it again, preferably in some remote desert.
Wrong. Two very different levels of technology involved.
No, that is the point. Once you have built an ICBM, you already have built a spacecraft. It only takes a moderate apogee blast to prevent it from coming back to earth. As my space technology teacher used to say: "If Hitler wanted to put a German on the moon, he would have succeeded".
No, that's a bug. But luckily, you can fix that bug.