That information has been getting through, via couriers, balloons, etc.
Thing is, because of the levels of internal policing, even if you got that information to every single citizen living in North Korea, the most likely outcome would still be no change at all, simply because everyone is (rightfully) so paranoid they would be afraid to speak about what they had learned with almost anybody else, for fear of being turned over to the police. And the consequences for that sort of behavior aren't slight, and don't even affect only the person who transgressed, but their entire families as well.
The entire purpose of blockchains (the tech behind bitcoin) is that is an immutable ledger, trustless. First off, accenture's tool is useless for Bitcoin (the main use case of blockchains today) because editing transactions within the blockchain will cause that block, and every block after it, to be unable to be validated. Making a new tech and calling it a blockchain while allowing for edits in previous blocks is basically using the term "blockchain" but creating a bastardization of the technology.
If after the fact edits do need to be made, and they're actually above board, then the simplest solution is to simply publish new transactions that reverse the transactions that were made in error, NOT to allow any transaction to be arbitrarily altered after the fact.
Offer consumers cheap photo storage at extremely low cost, find out that customers will actually take you at your word, discontinue service... Great going.
Amazon isn't unique. I signed up for Google Fi, but was reminded how Google can cancel services I like at the drop of a hat, the latest example in that case being their abandonment of Google Wallet, and decided to pass of Fi.
I'm behind the eight ball on this... Has Verizon made any mention of if they're still as eager to buy yahoo, since it could potentially expose them to this new liability that probably wasn't included for when they made their offer? Thinking of what happened to BoA when buying CountryWide Mortgage, for instance...
And at one point, we were inviting the group that would become the Taliban to the white house, only to later on bomb them out of existence. Or arming Saddam Hussein before blowing him up. Of course those changes occurred over longer time periods, but everything is subject to change, based on changing circumstances or perceptions of those circumstances. And, of course, the motto that has lead our country more than any other for the last century has been "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
As for Syria. It's a mess. And an absolute disaster. But without any clear direction to take to resolve it.
I'm thinking that Apple's (and my own) concept is that people who spent the premium on Pro hardware because of their ability to handle bigger workloads, those people probably upgraded at some point in the last 7 or 8 years. I'm sure a few people will chime in from the woodwork to say otherwise, but exceptions don't make the rule.
Yeah. I was out of state, and 2 days into my new billing cycle i got texts saying i was at my data limit. Called them freaking out, they said it was just an error and ignore it. Which I did. But still seemed like "WTF? Why can't they count how much data goes into or out of my device?", like, it should be the most basic part of their system.
Now, finally... I'm within a month of my contract ending. T-Mobile, here I come!
It's that we Liberals see Conservatives giving pass after pass to their own party, and when you then speak up and point out woes on the other side of the aisle, our first reaction is "Really? Like WTF man? If this stuff is as bad as you say, then why in the world did it not bother you when your guys were doing it?"
Clean house on your own side of the street before you point out anyone elses messes.
No ones excusing them Dems, but it's the height of hypocrisy that R's (old and newfound) cast such a scrutinizing gaze at the Dems while ignoring the HUGE PILES of rubbish on their own front yards. It's like they climbed the Mount Everest of lies and corruption so that they could survey the smaller mountains below them.
So no, two wrongs don't make a right. But if you want anyone to believe the seriousness with which you perceive a problem, your first step ought to be cleaning house, not looking at anyone elses house. Otherwise you're just a hypocrite, pouncing on a controversy to further your agenda and that's all. Don't even pretend its about morality or ethics or anything else.
> You pay for this in bank fees. Nothing to stop somebody starting a Bitcoin insurance, so your money will be as safe as in a bank. That way you get the security without all the extortionate transfer fees.
I can't imagine what the insurance rates could be for Bitcoin exchanges. Definitely a specialty insurance product, if it even exists.
First off, the underwriter would do their due diligence, and see a number of catastrophic losses at Bitcoin exchanges. An exchange gets hacked, it loses EVERYTHING. Compare that to a bank - a bank gets robbed, it loses whatever was in their tellers cash drawers, if that. Maybe thieves make it into the vault (but that's mostly a scenario that happens in Hollywood movies compared to real life). But they certainly don't get the banks balances that are at the Fed, nor do they take over ownership of the banks loan portfolio.
So, looking at Bitcoin exchanges and realizing that when they do get robbed, they lose it all. How do you price that risk? 5% of assets annually? 10%? 20%? And those are fees that exchanges would have to recoup from customers to pay for. Maybe venture capital would pay for it for some time, but eventually that's a cost that will have to be passed on.
Even more alarmingly from an insurance perspective, there is absolutely no guarantee that the private key securing an exchanges funds actually secure. All they can do is infer that it might be secure, since funds haven't been moved in an unauthorized manner. But that doesn't mean that a hacker hasn't found their way into the exchanges computer system and is just waiting for when the time is right. Heck, there could even be a key collision. The math is against that actually happening, but flaws occur.
Point is, if you tally the maximum amount of coins stored at the top exchanges at any given point over the last 5 years, and the amount of coins stolen from exchanges over that time period, it's likely a horrifyingly high proportion. What insurer is going to risk their (and their investors) money on that?
I'm actually worried about what will happen to Yahoo Finance and their free API - I imagine a LOT of sites draw from it in some way (I'm working on one as I write this for instance).
Several years ago (4 or 5, I think), I bought a Motorolla Atria and its laptop dock, because the idea seemed so appealing to me. After a couple weeks of the novelty, all the "laptop" part became was a luggable battery for recharging the phone when I didn't have access to an outlet.
I don't expect much different now. Well, maybe because the Android app ecosystem is bigger with apps that can take advantage of the extra screen realestate, ChromeOS is a thing, etc, but really, I don't think many people are going to want to lug around a laptop shell just so they can turn their phone into essentially a chromebook, when for the same extra weight, they could bring with them a full laptop with the programs on it that they actually use.
could we say that microsoft followed apple, on account of Apples forays with the Newton, then?
face it, microsoft stuck its toe in the water and failed. Doubtful they would have returned in earnest if not for Apple and (later) Android. Or else they would have in their "me too" way, and we'd all be walking around with spare stylus' in our pockets...
Did you actually see Microsofts smart phone? Not terrible impressive given than they basically wedged their existing Windows UI into a smaller form factor and called in Windows CE (WinCE!).
Not like it matters. Microsoft had a go at it, failed miserably, and then Apple revisited it many years later (jf you want to call it that) with a new take and was met with huge success. You could pretty much say the same thing for Windows XP Tablet Edition. Sure, Microsoft made a pen based UI for XP and convinced people to sell laptops without keyboards, but that's not really what Apple was aiming for or drawing from with the iPad.
I use bing, but only because they pay me to with Bing Rewards.
That's how it should be. If google offered something similar, so that we're not just their captive "product" whose eyes are to be sold, I'd gladly switch my default engines back to them.
Well, I didn't read that anywhere... Where can one read about that, the formation of matter and antimatter? And how is hydrogen the byproduct of that? I thought hydrogen was matter, not the leftovers of matter/antimatter?
What seems more interesting? When the stars that were the precursors to the blackholes were formed, or when the event actually happened? I would have much preferred seeing an emphasis on the fact that the event happened 1.7 billion years ago, rather than than the stars that originated the chain of events were formed 12 billion years ago...
Kickstarter isn't in the business of directing investment itself, just giving others a platform to do that. And really, outside of a continuous marketing budget and platform upgrades to accommodate expected growth, if they're taking in much more money than what those two require (along with regular operating expenses, reserving funds for emergency, etc), then they very well might have met the goal they set for themselves, and feel comfortable making distributions.
Kickstarter isn't an eBay type site, where the sky is almost the limit insofar as how much infrastructure they need. Nor is it a VC firm itself, so it does't need to keep funds available for the next opportunity. It's a beautiful, simple platform. I'd say "why muck it up" but clearly, the people operating it understand that as well and would prefer to stay focused on their original intent rather than say "heyyyyy look! We have all this money, what else can we do with it?"
Maybe they just don't foresee a need for the capital, and would rather let their shareholders decide where to invest it rather than have to act as a steward of unneeded funds?
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That information has been getting through, via couriers, balloons, etc.
Thing is, because of the levels of internal policing, even if you got that information to every single citizen living in North Korea, the most likely outcome would still be no change at all, simply because everyone is (rightfully) so paranoid they would be afraid to speak about what they had learned with almost anybody else, for fear of being turned over to the police. And the consequences for that sort of behavior aren't slight, and don't even affect only the person who transgressed, but their entire families as well.
The entire purpose of blockchains (the tech behind bitcoin) is that is an immutable ledger, trustless. First off, accenture's tool is useless for Bitcoin (the main use case of blockchains today) because editing transactions within the blockchain will cause that block, and every block after it, to be unable to be validated. Making a new tech and calling it a blockchain while allowing for edits in previous blocks is basically using the term "blockchain" but creating a bastardization of the technology.
If after the fact edits do need to be made, and they're actually above board, then the simplest solution is to simply publish new transactions that reverse the transactions that were made in error, NOT to allow any transaction to be arbitrarily altered after the fact.
And this is why I'm ditching Verizon as soon as my plan expires next month. Hello, T-Mobile!
Offer consumers cheap photo storage at extremely low cost, find out that customers will actually take you at your word, discontinue service... Great going.
Amazon isn't unique. I signed up for Google Fi, but was reminded how Google can cancel services I like at the drop of a hat, the latest example in that case being their abandonment of Google Wallet, and decided to pass of Fi.
I'm behind the eight ball on this... Has Verizon made any mention of if they're still as eager to buy yahoo, since it could potentially expose them to this new liability that probably wasn't included for when they made their offer? Thinking of what happened to BoA when buying CountryWide Mortgage, for instance...
And at one point, we were inviting the group that would become the Taliban to the white house, only to later on bomb them out of existence. Or arming Saddam Hussein before blowing him up. Of course those changes occurred over longer time periods, but everything is subject to change, based on changing circumstances or perceptions of those circumstances. And, of course, the motto that has lead our country more than any other for the last century has been "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
As for Syria. It's a mess. And an absolute disaster. But without any clear direction to take to resolve it.
I'm thinking that Apple's (and my own) concept is that people who spent the premium on Pro hardware because of their ability to handle bigger workloads, those people probably upgraded at some point in the last 7 or 8 years. I'm sure a few people will chime in from the woodwork to say otherwise, but exceptions don't make the rule.
Try running windows 10 on a 2010 vintage computer, ok? Let us know how that goes.
Yeah. I was out of state, and 2 days into my new billing cycle i got texts saying i was at my data limit. Called them freaking out, they said it was just an error and ignore it. Which I did. But still seemed like "WTF? Why can't they count how much data goes into or out of my device?", like, it should be the most basic part of their system.
Now, finally... I'm within a month of my contract ending. T-Mobile, here I come!
No.
It's that we Liberals see Conservatives giving pass after pass to their own party, and when you then speak up and point out woes on the other side of the aisle, our first reaction is "Really? Like WTF man? If this stuff is as bad as you say, then why in the world did it not bother you when your guys were doing it?"
Clean house on your own side of the street before you point out anyone elses messes.
No ones excusing them Dems, but it's the height of hypocrisy that R's (old and newfound) cast such a scrutinizing gaze at the Dems while ignoring the HUGE PILES of rubbish on their own front yards. It's like they climbed the Mount Everest of lies and corruption so that they could survey the smaller mountains below them.
So no, two wrongs don't make a right. But if you want anyone to believe the seriousness with which you perceive a problem, your first step ought to be cleaning house, not looking at anyone elses house. Otherwise you're just a hypocrite, pouncing on a controversy to further your agenda and that's all. Don't even pretend its about morality or ethics or anything else.
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> You pay for this in bank fees. Nothing to stop somebody starting a Bitcoin insurance, so your money will be as safe as in a bank. That way you get the security without all the extortionate transfer fees.
I can't imagine what the insurance rates could be for Bitcoin exchanges. Definitely a specialty insurance product, if it even exists.
First off, the underwriter would do their due diligence, and see a number of catastrophic losses at Bitcoin exchanges. An exchange gets hacked, it loses EVERYTHING. Compare that to a bank - a bank gets robbed, it loses whatever was in their tellers cash drawers, if that. Maybe thieves make it into the vault (but that's mostly a scenario that happens in Hollywood movies compared to real life). But they certainly don't get the banks balances that are at the Fed, nor do they take over ownership of the banks loan portfolio.
So, looking at Bitcoin exchanges and realizing that when they do get robbed, they lose it all. How do you price that risk? 5% of assets annually? 10%? 20%? And those are fees that exchanges would have to recoup from customers to pay for. Maybe venture capital would pay for it for some time, but eventually that's a cost that will have to be passed on.
Even more alarmingly from an insurance perspective, there is absolutely no guarantee that the private key securing an exchanges funds actually secure. All they can do is infer that it might be secure, since funds haven't been moved in an unauthorized manner. But that doesn't mean that a hacker hasn't found their way into the exchanges computer system and is just waiting for when the time is right. Heck, there could even be a key collision. The math is against that actually happening, but flaws occur.
Point is, if you tally the maximum amount of coins stored at the top exchanges at any given point over the last 5 years, and the amount of coins stolen from exchanges over that time period, it's likely a horrifyingly high proportion. What insurer is going to risk their (and their investors) money on that?
I'm actually worried about what will happen to Yahoo Finance and their free API - I imagine a LOT of sites draw from it in some way (I'm working on one as I write this for instance).
So, there definitely is some value in there.
Several years ago (4 or 5, I think), I bought a Motorolla Atria and its laptop dock, because the idea seemed so appealing to me. After a couple weeks of the novelty, all the "laptop" part became was a luggable battery for recharging the phone when I didn't have access to an outlet.
I don't expect much different now. Well, maybe because the Android app ecosystem is bigger with apps that can take advantage of the extra screen realestate, ChromeOS is a thing, etc, but really, I don't think many people are going to want to lug around a laptop shell just so they can turn their phone into essentially a chromebook, when for the same extra weight, they could bring with them a full laptop with the programs on it that they actually use.
I just started using their free VPN app on my phone, now I have real second thoughts about that...
and his first server.
could we say that microsoft followed apple, on account of Apples forays with the Newton, then?
face it, microsoft stuck its toe in the water and failed. Doubtful they would have returned in earnest if not for Apple and (later) Android. Or else they would have in their "me too" way, and we'd all be walking around with spare stylus' in our pockets...
At least Apple can do Product Placement right.
Look what happened when Microsoft tried to do the same:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://macdailynews.com/2016/0...
Did you actually see Microsofts smart phone? Not terrible impressive given than they basically wedged their existing Windows UI into a smaller form factor and called in Windows CE (WinCE!).
Not like it matters. Microsoft had a go at it, failed miserably, and then Apple revisited it many years later (jf you want to call it that) with a new take and was met with huge success. You could pretty much say the same thing for Windows XP Tablet Edition. Sure, Microsoft made a pen based UI for XP and convinced people to sell laptops without keyboards, but that's not really what Apple was aiming for or drawing from with the iPad.
I use bing, but only because they pay me to with Bing Rewards.
That's how it should be. If google offered something similar, so that we're not just their captive "product" whose eyes are to be sold, I'd gladly switch my default engines back to them.
Well, I didn't read that anywhere... Where can one read about that, the formation of matter and antimatter? And how is hydrogen the byproduct of that? I thought hydrogen was matter, not the leftovers of matter/antimatter?
So let me guess, when you're done eating, you just throw the box (and electronics inside it) away?
At least it's already in india, rather than needing to be shipped back there from here.
What seems more interesting? When the stars that were the precursors to the blackholes were formed, or when the event actually happened? I would have much preferred seeing an emphasis on the fact that the event happened 1.7 billion years ago, rather than than the stars that originated the chain of events were formed 12 billion years ago...
Absolutely.
Kickstarter isn't in the business of directing investment itself, just giving others a platform to do that. And really, outside of a continuous marketing budget and platform upgrades to accommodate expected growth, if they're taking in much more money than what those two require (along with regular operating expenses, reserving funds for emergency, etc), then they very well might have met the goal they set for themselves, and feel comfortable making distributions.
Kickstarter isn't an eBay type site, where the sky is almost the limit insofar as how much infrastructure they need. Nor is it a VC firm itself, so it does't need to keep funds available for the next opportunity. It's a beautiful, simple platform. I'd say "why muck it up" but clearly, the people operating it understand that as well and would prefer to stay focused on their original intent rather than say "heyyyyy look! We have all this money, what else can we do with it?"
Maybe they just don't foresee a need for the capital, and would rather let their shareholders decide where to invest it rather than have to act as a steward of unneeded funds?