It seems the strategy is as follows : DDoS the exchanges to drop the value, buy btc, then DDoS the mining pools to raise the value, sell btc.
Slush's pool has been under attack for two days now. The value is also going up again since today.
As has btcguild, and others have told me other pools as well.
This is just my opinion, but I think that worked once, and now it is just undermining the value, stability, and legitimacy of bitcoin. I'm not saying it is (or that it is even likely,) but I wouldn't be surprised if it were eventually found that the current DDoS'ing is state sponsored due to all the attention it was suddenly getting.
It would take more than just insanity for me to want to move to the US, which is quickly becoming a 3rd world country.
I know this is hyperbole, but anyone who says this has never been to a 3rd world country.
That being said, I am sure we will continue to lead the continent in net crazy exports for the foreseeable future, even only if it is a product of population difference (as a ratio of sane/crazy.) I would imagine you would be hard pressed to say you have less crazy per capita than the US-- in the plains provinces at a minimum.
Then again, psychiatrists' fees are covered by provincial health plans, so I would be very hard pressed to say you are wrong...
I love these statements. Are these "happen to know" sources you can quote? Are those sources from anywhere other than Fox News opinion shows? (Remember, "news" is only on from 9a to 4p.)
Being at a prestigious medical university hospital close to the boarder in the US, I know of a LOT of Canadians that have come here for elective or cosmetic surgery, but never anything life threatening or physically painful.
GSM has no network authentication (only user authenticates to the network, network doesnt authenticate to the user).
3G/UMTS has authentication both ways and is mitm secure (in theory = if your phone is not broken)
Just force phone to only talk 3G and you will be secure.
I can't tell you exactly how as I have only seen one in use, (they wouldn't let me take it apart, go figure...) but it does pass the authentication information through to the network. It relays everything to it while recording the traffic. This makes authentication easy on cdma type networks, and I have no idea how it works for time division networks like gsm, but it does authenticate.
Hmm... Would this throw off GPS location reported on the phone when indoors (triangulating off the towers instead of the satellites)? Especially on drones? If it was constantly updating its broadcasted coordinates, one could possibly have an app to detect that.
The equipment on the towers has to support location triangulation. They effectively just have it off, and your phone will not try to use it for location, although it will continue to use it for a call while triangulating from other towers.
Unless you live in one of the 23 states that do not make you register for a political party to vote in primary elections (the only real reason to register with a party.)
Goastery will block all those external probes from anyone you choose. Facebook's bullshit is exactly why I went and found that one. (It being the best of the ones I tried.)
The ACLU has a history of filing amicus on the side of the NRA in court cases where gun rights as protected by the 2nd amendment come into play. Remember the most recent court case over licenses to buy in DC that affirmed a right to buy firearms for the home for non-felons? No one ever says anything about the ACLU backing that case, even while it was happening. The useless right-left scale aside, those of use that believe in civil rights do not pick and choose which rights be believe in and support.
As for "conflicts with her belief system" she can just fuck right off with that. You don't get to be excused from policies, laws, regulations, etc. just because they "offend your belief system".
You put a note to the troll mods for the non-offense part and then say nothing on the most offensive part belittling anyone's beliefs your not in agreement with. I think you put the note in the wrong section of your post.
Everything aside, the zero tolerance policies that most school administrators (officially or unofficially) adopt is an injustice all its own.
No kidding. How about the other current story about the three year old deaf child that is being expelled for not changing his name because when he says his name in sign language "it looks like a gun," and that is a "threatening gesture."
Aside: I've yet to find a US/Canada border crossing that can read the chips.
They have them at the bridge crossings on the two northern bridges in Michigan. I have no idea why though, it's not like you just get to wave it and go through or anything. You still have to stop in the right place to get your car and plate photographed, and if you hold it up to the reading pad, you still have to give it to the customs official. (My guess would be to make sure it is really you because they encryption on them is about as good as they are for satellite tv systems, and obviously no one has spoofed them.)
Like you said though, they haven't changed the way you cross the boarder at all.
I'm going to guess as a person that sometimes writes some of your own open source contributions and your knowledge of tort law that you are lacking in the skills of capital and fundamental economics.
You have a new venture stealing code that just had in excess of $10 dollars added to their coffers. What do the people that need to sue have? Hopefully they are all phenomenal lawyers by day and writing code by night, because that is the only way they would have a chance without their own giant investment backing their suit.
AWS-3 is a 20mhz swath from 2155-2175 mhz. Compare that to 802.11. Each channel in 802.11 is alocated 22mhz.
I think either you don't realize what was really being sold off, or you are misleading.
Think about that-- less than one 802.11 wireless channel is what they would have gave up. Now that bandwidth does have a price if the FCC were to sell our bandwidth (yes our, it is the citizens spectrum) they estimate a sale at 2 billion. Do you think two billion is fair for a national broadband plan? How much do you think implementing a nationwide free wireless network should cost? How much commercial spectrum leasing can they do in that limited spectrum?
AT&T, Nokia, T-Mobile, Verizon and several other wireless industry heavyweights aren't only against this M2Z plan, they are also against the open auction of the 2155-2175mhz band. They don't want competition, it's as simple as that.
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I'm to lazy today to cite sources this morning, but there have been hash and certificate schemes that have worked on post-XP versions from day one.
It seems the strategy is as follows : DDoS the exchanges to drop the value, buy btc, then DDoS the mining pools to raise the value, sell btc. Slush's pool has been under attack for two days now. The value is also going up again since today.
As has btcguild, and others have told me other pools as well.
This is just my opinion, but I think that worked once, and now it is just undermining the value, stability, and legitimacy of bitcoin. I'm not saying it is (or that it is even likely,) but I wouldn't be surprised if it were eventually found that the current DDoS'ing is state sponsored due to all the attention it was suddenly getting.
It would take more than just insanity for me to want to move to the US, which is quickly becoming a 3rd world country.
I know this is hyperbole, but anyone who says this has never been to a 3rd world country.
That being said, I am sure we will continue to lead the continent in net crazy exports for the foreseeable future, even only if it is a product of population difference (as a ratio of sane/crazy.) I would imagine you would be hard pressed to say you have less crazy per capita than the US-- in the plains provinces at a minimum.
Then again, psychiatrists' fees are covered by provincial health plans, so I would be very hard pressed to say you are wrong...
I love these statements. Are these "happen to know" sources you can quote? Are those sources from anywhere other than Fox News opinion shows? (Remember, "news" is only on from 9a to 4p.)
Being at a prestigious medical university hospital close to the boarder in the US, I know of a LOT of Canadians that have come here for elective or cosmetic surgery, but never anything life threatening or physically painful.
Well-- now I'm sad I spend all my mod points this morning. A personal +1 to you my friend.
Smart ones don't drown themselves in alcohol....
Indeed. We all smoke pot.
GSM has no network authentication (only user authenticates to the network, network doesnt authenticate to the user). 3G/UMTS has authentication both ways and is mitm secure (in theory = if your phone is not broken)
Just force phone to only talk 3G and you will be secure.
I can't tell you exactly how as I have only seen one in use, (they wouldn't let me take it apart, go figure...) but it does pass the authentication information through to the network. It relays everything to it while recording the traffic. This makes authentication easy on cdma type networks, and I have no idea how it works for time division networks like gsm, but it does authenticate.
Hmm... Would this throw off GPS location reported on the phone when indoors (triangulating off the towers instead of the satellites)? Especially on drones? If it was constantly updating its broadcasted coordinates, one could possibly have an app to detect that.
The equipment on the towers has to support location triangulation. They effectively just have it off, and your phone will not try to use it for location, although it will continue to use it for a call while triangulating from other towers.
Unless you live in one of the 23 states that do not make you register for a political party to vote in primary elections (the only real reason to register with a party.)
I would say there is interest, I would certainly like a random Google searcher to add noise to recording.
Goastery will block all those external probes from anyone you choose. Facebook's bullshit is exactly why I went and found that one. (It being the best of the ones I tried.)
I wish I had saved some mod's for this one, but since I did not, how about an 'amen.'
Amen to that!
The ACLU has a history of filing amicus on the side of the NRA in court cases where gun rights as protected by the 2nd amendment come into play. Remember the most recent court case over licenses to buy in DC that affirmed a right to buy firearms for the home for non-felons? No one ever says anything about the ACLU backing that case, even while it was happening. The useless right-left scale aside, those of use that believe in civil rights do not pick and choose which rights be believe in and support.
Link is to Time magazine article on the two most recent cases I am referring to that both went to the Supreme Court of the US. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2001003,00.html
She was both Chinese and female. Genetics tell me they could just carry her out of the store.
As for "conflicts with her belief system" she can just fuck right off with that. You don't get to be excused from policies, laws, regulations, etc. just because they "offend your belief system".
You put a note to the troll mods for the non-offense part and then say nothing on the most offensive part belittling anyone's beliefs your not in agreement with. I think you put the note in the wrong section of your post.
Everything aside, the zero tolerance policies that most school administrators (officially or unofficially) adopt is an injustice all its own.
No kidding. How about the other current story about the three year old deaf child that is being expelled for not changing his name because when he says his name in sign language "it looks like a gun," and that is a "threatening gesture."
One of the many news links on that story. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/331745
Aside: I've yet to find a US/Canada border crossing that can read the chips.
They have them at the bridge crossings on the two northern bridges in Michigan. I have no idea why though, it's not like you just get to wave it and go through or anything. You still have to stop in the right place to get your car and plate photographed, and if you hold it up to the reading pad, you still have to give it to the customs official. (My guess would be to make sure it is really you because they encryption on them is about as good as they are for satellite tv systems, and obviously no one has spoofed them.) Like you said though, they haven't changed the way you cross the boarder at all.
Road's are primarily funded by fuel taxes...
Which those of us on bikes are actually not paying.
For instance, the most common source:
Highway_Trust_Fund
I'm going to guess as a person that sometimes writes some of your own open source contributions and your knowledge of tort law that you are lacking in the skills of capital and fundamental economics. You have a new venture stealing code that just had in excess of $10 dollars added to their coffers. What do the people that need to sue have? Hopefully they are all phenomenal lawyers by day and writing code by night, because that is the only way they would have a chance without their own giant investment backing their suit.
Sorry I got a late start this morning. I swear it would have been in the first three comments if I had got to work on time. :)
I think some people need to learn about sarcasm. The people that modded it insightful instead of funny though...
AWS-3 is a 20mhz swath from 2155-2175 mhz. Compare that to 802.11. Each channel in 802.11 is alocated 22mhz.
I think either you don't realize what was really being sold off, or you are misleading.
Think about that-- less than one 802.11 wireless channel is what they would have gave up. Now that bandwidth does have a price if the FCC were to sell our bandwidth (yes our, it is the citizens spectrum) they estimate a sale at 2 billion. Do you think two billion is fair for a national broadband plan? How much do you think implementing a nationwide free wireless network should cost? How much commercial spectrum leasing can they do in that limited spectrum?
AT&T, Nokia, T-Mobile, Verizon and several other wireless industry heavyweights aren't only against this M2Z plan, they are also against the open auction of the 2155-2175mhz band. They don't want competition, it's as simple as that.