Tell that to people in Zimbabwe where that newspaper and coffee will run you an entire wheelbarrow full of money. Or at least it did a year or so ago. The US media kind of lost interest in it a while ago, so I don't know what's going on now.
The funny thing is that it is always exchanges getting "hacked", never retailers. And why is that? Because the first thing anyone does when they get a bitcoin is try to convert it to a fiat currency... Says a lot about the viability of this "currency", doesn't it?
Not really, because for this conversion to happen, there has to be another person willing to take the bitcoins in exchange for fiat currency. This of the essence of currency. If you keep them forever once you get them, then they're a collectable, not a currency.
It's better that the stupid bitcoin experiment dies now than when average people with something to lose are duped into the scam.
If it's not well regulated, open and the result of mutually beneficial agreement then expect someone smarter than you to take it from you: this rule applies to money, commerce and war.
By that argument, we should probably also ban hedge funds, ponzi schemes, derivatives trading, that entire 31 multi-level marketing thing, PayPal, Secured Debt Obligations, Beanie Babies, Exchange Traded Funds, house-flipping, Thomas Kinkade paintings, and investment in what China calls a stock market. Wait. What?
but motivation and discipline are a bit hard to come by,
For starters, If you get an interview, leave this part out.
Honestly, it seems like you're going to have to settle for what you have now, change your expectations a bit, or get motivated to work on your own. Everything you wrote will scream "Undependable and Hard to Work With!" to an employer. We hire people who are disabled at my job, and make accomodations. But typically, the accomodations are more in line with giving them what they need (a first floor work space near conference rooms, specialized equipment, etc) to succeed, because these things typically don't cost all that much compared to recruiting / hiring cost, plus it's the law. Employers will often do what's necessary to elevate you to be able to perform on par with employees of a typical ability. But they're far less likely to lower their standards.
Obscurity can be a layer in layered security plan. As long as the other layers aren't compromised by it in any way, it can't do any harm, and could do some good. But the other layers need to be trusted on their own. A good safe can withstand an attack for a rated amount of time even if the theives have the blueprints of the safe. But that doesn't mean you don't guard the blueprints to the safe.
I wouldn't hold your breath for a response. Let's use a car analogy. Last year, my car got stolen. I filed a report with the police department. They put it in a database. Eventually, my car turned up in a parking lot missing a few parts with a high value to removal effort ratio. And they called me because the apartment manager called them. But they didn't look for the car. And they didn't look for whomever took it after it was recovered. Because they don't give a shit. Because they don't even have time to properly investigate rapes, robberies and non-fatal shootings. Same with your network attacks.
But, in the most important sense, it is the same. It costs more than $5, and you have to fucking drive to Wal-Mart or wait for UPS to deliver it in order to play it. This, to quote the crappy "article" above, "Is Nintendo's greatest problem". The new 3DS is a great machine for a market that's disappearing.
so if there is a natural disaster i'm not supposed to worry about finding food, medical help and anything else to survive but immediately start surfing the internet?
No, if there's a natural disaster, you are supposed to worry about finding those things. Part of the theory behind these things is that a mesh network could help the people trying to provide them tell the people trying to find them where they are. Think about New Orleans, or even 9/11. The cell phone towers were not effective. But a mesh network might have been.
Kim didn't want the world to see her videos, either. But it worked out in the end. Now she's a gazillionaire. Just goes to show ya, ya never know how life's gonna turn out.
Your WiFi router has a legally-mandated limit on signal strength. Hopefully the FCC will be a little less zealous once the first zombies appear.
This reminds me of a guy I knew around Y2k. Moved all of his stuff off into a cabin in the woods (he wouldn't tell us where) in October of 1999. The thing I thought was hilarious is that he also got a Ham radio license around that time, so that he could use the radios after civilization fell. I know that your car will still start for people who don't have a driver's license; I assume ham radios work the same way...
Ohhh excuses excuses excuses, you leftists and your lying double standards make me want to throw up.
I'm sorry you feel that way about us. Here, you can borrow my "NPR Donor" tote-bag to catch the vomit. Then just wash it with an environmentally friendly phosphate free soap, and return it to me when you can.
On the one hand, they may well have implemented 3 factor security. That's pretty cool. But on the other hand, you have to put your money in a fucking Vietnamese bank to get it. From Reuters in May of this year:
Last November, State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Binh said eight small banks were "unhealthy" while in January he said 10 percent of the country's nearly 50 banks were "ailing."
Apparently they have a deposit insurance program, but it's limited to about $3,000.
So you have no problem with the laws of the US but a problem with the state of Arizona actually enforcing these laws? Fan-friggin-tastic.
You're missing the point. The fact that Arizona has a cultural image problem with a big hunk of the population is likely to make it more difficult to recruit talent, which is essential to the success or failure of any company, and start-ups in particular. It's hard enough already to lure the top people to your company. Why make it harder? Easier to just locate someplace else. If they like the bed they've made, good for them. The Supreme Court validated the single biggest part of their legislation. But that doesn't mean I, or a lot of the people I hire, suddenly feel like it's a good idea to go live there.
We were all very eager for a path forward that offered fixes and completion for Lion's half-realized and sometimes infuriating design / implementation choices.:-)
Ah, yes. Going forward, I propose that we call this the "Windows Vista Hangover effect."
Remember that Windows 7 was Microsoft's most successful OS ever, in terms of adoption speed. Part of it had to do with the new features that 7 introduced, but part of it also had to do with how incredibly craptacular Vista was. Not saying that's neccesarily the case here; just saying you have to think a bit past the marketing hype.
happily playing Diablo 3 after I told them how much of a bitch the DRM is to the market place
That's the problem in a nutshell. If they're happy, either we aren't doing a good job making our point, or it really doesn't matter to them. Only one of two things will happen to make them change their minds. We have to make a case that they will be happier without DRM (in a way that is compelling enough that they will choose to be less happy in the short term to achieve it--By not playing Diablo, etc), or they have to get burned bad enough that the product itself makes them unhappy.
The problem, as I see it, is that most people just don't care, as long as it works. Most people aren't game historians, who worry about whether the authentication servers will still be there in 10 years. And for the small percentage of the people who actively fight against corporate interests, things like DRM take a backseat (and probably rightfully so) behind getting fucked by the banks, fucked by your health care provider, poisoned by local industries, etc.
If there is a technical issue that's on the public's front burner, it's Net Neutrality. And I'm ok with that. I can walk away from Ubisoft. But it's much harder to just say I'll do without the Internet.
if there's a real issue, the judges will ignore the EULAs which have been deemed legally unenforceable anyway.
I think it is swinging more and more towards upholding the contract whenever possible, though. The Supreme Court recently upheld contract clauses forcing binding arbitration (removing your right to sue), and prohibiting class actions. (That's my understanding, anyway. IANAL).
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Tell that to people in Zimbabwe where that newspaper and coffee will run you an entire wheelbarrow full of money. Or at least it did a year or so ago. The US media kind of lost interest in it a while ago, so I don't know what's going on now.
The funny thing is that it is always exchanges getting "hacked", never retailers. And why is that? Because the first thing anyone does when they get a bitcoin is try to convert it to a fiat currency... Says a lot about the viability of this "currency", doesn't it?
Not really, because for this conversion to happen, there has to be another person willing to take the bitcoins in exchange for fiat currency. This of the essence of currency. If you keep them forever once you get them, then they're a collectable, not a currency.
It's better that the stupid bitcoin experiment dies now than when average people with something to lose are duped into the scam.
If it's not well regulated, open and the result of mutually beneficial agreement then expect someone smarter than you to take it from you: this rule applies to money, commerce and war.
By that argument, we should probably also ban hedge funds, ponzi schemes, derivatives trading, that entire 31 multi-level marketing thing, PayPal, Secured Debt Obligations, Beanie Babies, Exchange Traded Funds, house-flipping, Thomas Kinkade paintings, and investment in what China calls a stock market. Wait. What?
People in places that Americans frequently view as backward and primative have had this figured out for a long time
Obviously, there's lots of ways things could go wrong, but I'd give them my money before I'd put it in a bitcoin exchange...
but motivation and discipline are a bit hard to come by,
For starters, If you get an interview, leave this part out.
Honestly, it seems like you're going to have to settle for what you have now, change your expectations a bit, or get motivated to work on your own. Everything you wrote will scream "Undependable and Hard to Work With!" to an employer. We hire people who are disabled at my job, and make accomodations. But typically, the accomodations are more in line with giving them what they need (a first floor work space near conference rooms, specialized equipment, etc) to succeed, because these things typically don't cost all that much compared to recruiting / hiring cost, plus it's the law. Employers will often do what's necessary to elevate you to be able to perform on par with employees of a typical ability. But they're far less likely to lower their standards.
Obscurity can be a layer in layered security plan. As long as the other layers aren't compromised by it in any way, it can't do any harm, and could do some good. But the other layers need to be trusted on their own. A good safe can withstand an attack for a rated amount of time even if the theives have the blueprints of the safe. But that doesn't mean you don't guard the blueprints to the safe.
http://www.dhs.gov/how-do-i/report-cyber-incidents
I wouldn't hold your breath for a response. Let's use a car analogy. Last year, my car got stolen. I filed a report with the police department. They put it in a database. Eventually, my car turned up in a parking lot missing a few parts with a high value to removal effort ratio. And they called me because the apartment manager called them. But they didn't look for the car. And they didn't look for whomever took it after it was recovered. Because they don't give a shit. Because they don't even have time to properly investigate rapes, robberies and non-fatal shootings. Same with your network attacks.
Agreed. Compared to buying Palm, buying a Yacht is a really good idea. I assume the yacht still has some residual value....
Super Mario 2 was totally different.
But, in the most important sense, it is the same. It costs more than $5, and you have to fucking drive to Wal-Mart or wait for UPS to deliver it in order to play it. This, to quote the crappy "article" above, "Is Nintendo's greatest problem". The new 3DS is a great machine for a market that's disappearing.
So it's like cornish hens then? People like them for the way they look, not the actual amount of nourishment they provide?
so if there is a natural disaster i'm not supposed to worry about finding food, medical help and anything else to survive but immediately start surfing the internet?
No, if there's a natural disaster, you are supposed to worry about finding those things. Part of the theory behind these things is that a mesh network could help the people trying to provide them tell the people trying to find them where they are. Think about New Orleans, or even 9/11. The cell phone towers were not effective. But a mesh network might have been.
Kim didn't want the world to see her videos, either. But it worked out in the end. Now she's a gazillionaire. Just goes to show ya, ya never know how life's gonna turn out.
Your WiFi router has a legally-mandated limit on signal strength. Hopefully the FCC will be a little less zealous once the first zombies appear.
This reminds me of a guy I knew around Y2k. Moved all of his stuff off into a cabin in the woods (he wouldn't tell us where) in October of 1999. The thing I thought was hilarious is that he also got a Ham radio license around that time, so that he could use the radios after civilization fell. I know that your car will still start for people who don't have a driver's license; I assume ham radios work the same way...
Doesn't a directional antenna kind of defeat the idea of a mesh network? Or are we off topic now?
Ohhh excuses excuses excuses, you leftists and your lying double standards make me want to throw up.
I'm sorry you feel that way about us. Here, you can borrow my "NPR Donor" tote-bag to catch the vomit. Then just wash it with an environmentally friendly phosphate free soap, and return it to me when you can.
Yes, I think they said he had "Optical PlotDeviceocis".
Last November, State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Binh said eight small banks were "unhealthy" while in January he said 10 percent of the country's nearly 50 banks were "ailing."
Apparently they have a deposit insurance program, but it's limited to about $3,000.
Yeah. But the guy he calls "Dad" doesn't know anything about it.
Wow! Jesus is way cool. I bet he can turn water into wine...
I've never been fond of wine. So I typically turn my water into coffee.
So you have no problem with the laws of the US but a problem with the state of Arizona actually enforcing these laws? Fan-friggin-tastic.
You're missing the point. The fact that Arizona has a cultural image problem with a big hunk of the population is likely to make it more difficult to recruit talent, which is essential to the success or failure of any company, and start-ups in particular. It's hard enough already to lure the top people to your company. Why make it harder? Easier to just locate someplace else. If they like the bed they've made, good for them. The Supreme Court validated the single biggest part of their legislation. But that doesn't mean I, or a lot of the people I hire, suddenly feel like it's a good idea to go live there.
They don't really know. But whatever it is, they're pretty confident it will be FANTASTIC!
We were all very eager for a path forward that offered fixes and completion for Lion's half-realized and sometimes infuriating design / implementation choices. :-)
Ah, yes. Going forward, I propose that we call this the "Windows Vista Hangover effect."
Remember that Windows 7 was Microsoft's most successful OS ever, in terms of adoption speed. Part of it had to do with the new features that 7 introduced, but part of it also had to do with how incredibly craptacular Vista was. Not saying that's neccesarily the case here; just saying you have to think a bit past the marketing hype.
happily playing Diablo 3 after I told them how much of a bitch the DRM is to the market place
That's the problem in a nutshell. If they're happy, either we aren't doing a good job making our point, or it really doesn't matter to them. Only one of two things will happen to make them change their minds. We have to make a case that they will be happier without DRM (in a way that is compelling enough that they will choose to be less happy in the short term to achieve it--By not playing Diablo, etc), or they have to get burned bad enough that the product itself makes them unhappy.
The problem, as I see it, is that most people just don't care, as long as it works. Most people aren't game historians, who worry about whether the authentication servers will still be there in 10 years. And for the small percentage of the people who actively fight against corporate interests, things like DRM take a backseat (and probably rightfully so) behind getting fucked by the banks, fucked by your health care provider, poisoned by local industries, etc.
If there is a technical issue that's on the public's front burner, it's Net Neutrality. And I'm ok with that. I can walk away from Ubisoft. But it's much harder to just say I'll do without the Internet.
if there's a real issue, the judges will ignore the EULAs which have been deemed legally unenforceable anyway.
I think it is swinging more and more towards upholding the contract whenever possible, though. The Supreme Court recently upheld contract clauses forcing binding arbitration (removing your right to sue), and prohibiting class actions. (That's my understanding, anyway. IANAL).