If my friends wanted to know more about me, they could read my social networking pages or my websight. If they did so I would be extremely flattered (like the linkedin example in the story).
The issue is that if you google my name, you can with some work pull up lawsuits I've been a party to. Some of my friends have arrest records (printed weekly in our local paper and archived forever online). Of course it's not all negative stuff, but If I didn't tell the world about some volunteer project I did awhile back, then maybe it is not something I'm really interested in doing again. You don't need to know about it to be a better friend.
Anyway, if you come to tell me about the stuff you found out about me from my postings online: I will be delighted you cared enough to look, but if you start a conversation with, "Hey, remember when you got sued? Lets talk about that!" then I will not be happy; you are not being a good friend.
I never signed up for klout, but one time I facebook-statused about an app and a friend that I thought was going to buy it did not. My amazon reviews are usually rated less helpful that
So, now I'm starting to wonder...do I have negative klout? Maybe people pay us for negative reviews and give us free samples of their competitors products?
So, uh, what jobs are those robots going to do? Work in factories making stuff to sell to... oh, but 90% of humans live in squalor so they have no money
Sounds exactly like the current economy: All industries cutting jobs and lowering salaries to 90% of their employees, to more efficiently sell products to...oh but 90% of the consumers are laid off or cutting their spending.
Things don't have to make sense for the decisions of our cooperate management overlords. Unless they too get replaced by robots...hmm.
It's true, female programmers tend to be ugly and insecure. We had one in our class and she was shy as hell.
Whoops, it looks like the word female accidentally got into your sentence before your description programmers. You might want to fix that before everyone thinks you're being a total misogynist based on one anecdote that could be said to support half of your theory.
I'm serious it really helps; it is just a super-geeky pro vs con list. Like the OP, I'm usually not sure why, but you plot it out like this and I usually find one term is much larger than the others, so you expand and tweak it until both your rational thinking and your gut agree on the optimal decision.
I work in this space and have never understood the appeal...
We who know what is going on rarely grasp the appeal for things like this. I thought two seconds about most of my semi-computer able friends and realized this could easily take off:
Friend1: OMG, Friend2 your photos are insecure! Friend2: WTF? Friend1: Yeah, you didn't digitally protect them! Your just asking for internet baddies to steal all your images, stalkers to download them, and spammers to use you for their advertisements! Securing your photos is more important than anti-virus! Friend2: OMG! OMG! I'm going to get digital protection right now!
I sure hope this dies before friends 1 and 2 start trying to convince me to secure my photos. I already know what they'll say: "As someone who knows computers you should know better! Your setting a bad example for Friend2." and "Why didn't you warn me how vulnerable my photos were?!" respectively.
I've got one for you: and it is completely, 100% FREE!!! First answer these quick questions before you download to help us improve the quality of this service...
answer these questions' (plural) its 'answer this single question' (singular)
Well, I'm remembering how adds have been playing out: articles get spread out over several pages in order to show visitors more adds.
I'm picturing: "Before reading page 2 of 10 of this ten paragraph article, please answer the following question."
It makes good sense from the business side to implement this; users can't ignore it like they do with ads. Though, I'm sure after being annoyed with this system for a year, we'll click a radio button that appears before loading a webpage as automatically as we learned to scroll past the banners at the top of web pages. "Survey Blindness" they'll call it.
Personally I'd rather have State-level control like they do it in the European Union...if I don't like the state's policies I can pick-up and move to a better state.
As liberal, I normally don't like to say things like "love it or leave it," but sometimes, like now, it is ridiculously applicable: You can go enjoy your freedom of choice of 27 states in the European union right now! And why limit yourself to the west? There are like 200 countries* out there you could move to! Most aren't nearly, if at all, as standoffish to immigrants as the US and I've known many Americans that have done so.
It's all about "issues that can be difficult to resolve."
Holy water is just what he says, water that someone waived their hands over. What is the buyer going to complain about? The seller didn't bother to wave his hands over it?
On the other hand, most of the items listed in the article make some pretty hefty promises and for $50+ I would expect some results! Adding "by the power of Christ" to any of the items in the article is not going to make a failure to perform any easier to resolve and they aren't going to get special treatment.
You have to consider, my company computer has an encrypted hard drive, is usually stored in a building with security, and anyone who has access to has been vetted for trustworthiness, makes a good deal of money and has lower hanging fruit on the computers of sloppier coworkers.
My smartphone, is quite vulnerable to theft, and is frequently borrowed by friends and friends/family of friends. The same with my personal computers which are also used by friends and roommates and sometimes sketchy friends of roommates while being stored in a place with security as good as the laziest roommate at the time is willing to implement.
Yeah, soon the TSA would require that all passengers strip naked before entering the terminal area.
Though, now that I think about it that would probably save a lot of money on machines and training, while speeding up the security search process; let's do this!
I think the author will need: Look at the menus on the upper left hand side of the screen and go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager Did a window popup? Good, Good; you can do this. You'll see a line called functioning-brain-cell. You see it? Good, now click on it and select "Mark for installation." Click Apply. It's okay! It's OK, we'll get you through this! Look for the big green check mark. It's like a chevron...you know a downward pointing arrow kind-of, it'll be the color of leaves....
I spend 40+ hours per week on a windows machine where I am not allowed to send out usage data if at all possible. I'm especially not allowed send error reports to anybody what so-ever no matter how much it could fix issues that really need to get fixed. I know this is pretty common in businesses for the same reason that Siri is banned in some places.
The little time I spend opening pinned games on my home computer is quite well reported though, because I like having a vote. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't report that all users seem to need is Steam and Chrome. That would make my work kinda tough though.
I have seen some tech shows lately. Those tech guy/gals mutter a few strings of long tech sounding words and type a bit on a keyboard. If that ritual is done at the right time (about 10minutes left in the show assuming not a cliff-hanger episode) then pictures flash by on the screen and they magically get the location of the bad guys. If you're a black hat on those shows, then to get away you have to either be on the lookout for someone "silently pinging your network facing encrypted cloud based interface over a virtual private unified modeling language bit-coin tor attached 10Gigabit side channel man in the middle attack" or go offline before the second to last commercial break.
I have no real idea how to identify a real honey pot, but I suspect hiding your personal info as best as possible from your clients is the best move no matter who you are selling credit card numbers to. You'd probably prefer that the FBI shows up and inform you that you need a layer than for some mafia guys, who didn't like the way the transaction went, to show up and be judge, jury and torturer-to-death.
I just want to apologize for all of your posts being modded "-1 Disagree"
You're posts are clearly on topic and raised great avenues for discussion. I know the Mods think so today because they they gave all the responses you generated +5 insightful instead of ignoring the conversation thread.
So thanks for taking one for the team to make./ interesting to read today:^)
if there happened to be patients died as a result, it's not your fault either, it's the fault of the hospital IT staff that let their server to be compromised
Seriously though? You're unable to ignore a packet stream without a counter offensive and yet the hospital is at fault for their poor security?
So I contacted the attacker independently (through my own proxies)
"Dear Sir, you can not trace me; you'll never find me; I'm tunneling my connection all over the globe! I'm the guy selling the motorbike at 187 Second Street and I'll have you know..."
let them know that they should get better at what they're doing
This is actually what I wanted to comment on; I don't think you should give those guys any info about how you found them, they just might improve their game and make it harder for someone to respond to them. Maybe some vigilante will try to take them down some day; I think you should leave them stupid and hope.
Currency definition issues: I took the definition from wikipedia, since that's were you sourced your ponzi scheme definition. I'm trying to figure out: you claim it not to be useful as a currency, but people are using it as a medium of exchange. What is it that you find lacking in comparing it to other currency like items such as coins?
Ponzi scheme definition: Well, there are numerous scams you could have compared it to, such as: a pyramid scheme, a pump and dump, or even an advance fee fraud, which I would have thought to be somewhat applicable and not made a fuss about, but you chose Ponzi scheme, which has a very specific set of circumstances that are quite familiar to most folks since the Bernie Madoff scandal that broke recently. I do notice that early adopters are making a ton of value off of late comers and find this an unfortunate fact of bitcoin.
But, you still never answered my question; what exactly makes it a scam? I see no deceit here; anyone bright enough to consider it as an investment should also be bright enough to see that all it is just some bits on their computer only having as much value as others give them. Totally not FDIC insured and could collapse over night as you predict (and has at least once, also covered on slashdot I believe?). I don't think giving slashdot readers a rosy picture of how bitcoin is playing out is comparable to completely lying to someone about where they are investing their money.
P.S. While we are nitpicking definitions, I went and read your earlier post and think this is actually "stuff you read about in the Cryptonomicon"; remember when Waterhouse worries about taking defunct Japanese bills? Exactly like bitcoin, valuable only because others think it is. However, I think it is even more comparable to the gold harvesting in Readme. The "proof of work" is just like the nonsense actions required for virtual gold mining in T'Rain.
I most certainly do understand. Consider the built in major advantage to early adopters of bitcoin (for one of many factors) and then look at the wikipedia entry for "ponzi scheme" and you'll see why I've put that label on it.
I did, and I expect the mods did not. It is a completely incorrect label to apply to bit-coin. Ponzi scheme's involve one individual or organization fraudulently reporting non-existent profits to participators. Also, I really hate that particular argument that appears here so often: "I'm right and I leave it to you to work out why." (Is there a fallacy of logic about that?) The mods however really seem to like it.
Bit coin is not a Ponzi scheme.
swapped computer parts are not a currency
From wikipedia, our mutual friend:
In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange.
As I would totally barter computer parts and many are using bitcoin for transactions, I would say that both are currencies under this definition.
If bit coin is a "scam" please explain why. Trying ill-fitted labels like Ponzi scheme on it does not make it a scam anymore than calling it a scam does.
Slashdot Mirror
Google, rumored to contain all the knowledge of mankind before the great cataclysm....
And then in a twist ending when they find it, it turns out to contain a bunch of "URL"s about other temples that they now need to go find.
Plenty of sequels anyway.
So why did you post it all over the internet?
Google finds the stuff you didn't post.
If my friends wanted to know more about me, they could read my social networking pages or my websight. If they did so I would be extremely flattered (like the linkedin example in the story).
The issue is that if you google my name, you can with some work pull up lawsuits I've been a party to. Some of my friends have arrest records (printed weekly in our local paper and archived forever online). Of course it's not all negative stuff, but If I didn't tell the world about some volunteer project I did awhile back, then maybe it is not something I'm really interested in doing again. You don't need to know about it to be a better friend.
Anyway, if you come to tell me about the stuff you found out about me from my postings online: I will be delighted you cared enough to look, but if you start a conversation with, "Hey, remember when you got sued? Lets talk about that!" then I will not be happy; you are not being a good friend.
Maybe if they ponied up some money we'd stop. Whats $500 to a big company like you Dice? huh? I bet it's worth you're reputation.
No? Well then Remainder of post was removed due to Dice content standards violations.
I never signed up for klout, but one time I facebook-statused about an app and a friend that I thought was going to buy it did not. My amazon reviews are usually rated less helpful that
So, now I'm starting to wonder...do I have negative klout? Maybe people pay us for negative reviews and give us free samples of their competitors products?
So, uh, what jobs are those robots going to do? Work in factories making stuff to sell to... oh, but 90% of humans live in squalor so they have no money
Sounds exactly like the current economy: All industries cutting jobs and lowering salaries to 90% of their employees, to more efficiently sell products to...oh but 90% of the consumers are laid off or cutting their spending.
Things don't have to make sense for the decisions of our cooperate management overlords. Unless they too get replaced by robots...hmm.
If they had big boobs they'd never have gone into programming.
Really? Because almost all of the programmers that I know have enormous, hairy boobs. Doesn't seem to have impeded those guys in the least.
It's true, female programmers tend to be ugly and insecure. We had one in our class and she was shy as hell.
Whoops, it looks like the word female accidentally got into your sentence before your description programmers. You might want to fix that before everyone thinks you're being a total misogynist based on one anecdote that could be said to support half of your theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
And cue wikipedia edit wars...
"Patent troll is a symphony octopus umbrella.[1]"
1 http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/randomword/randomwordplus.aspx
There is no exact formula that can help.
Maybe not in general; you have to adjust coefficients and sometimes add terms for your specific situation, but usually something like:
personal_love_of_novelty * expected_novelty + personal_love_of_money * extra_money + personal_love_of_time * time_saved_on_commute = happyness_with_change
Helps me decide these things.
I'm serious it really helps; it is just a super-geeky pro vs con list. Like the OP, I'm usually not sure why, but you plot it out like this and I usually find one term is much larger than the others, so you expand and tweak it until both your rational thinking and your gut agree on the optimal decision.
I work in this space and have never understood the appeal...
We who know what is going on rarely grasp the appeal for things like this. I thought two seconds about most of my semi-computer able friends and realized this could easily take off:
Friend1: OMG, Friend2 your photos are insecure!
Friend2: WTF?
Friend1: Yeah, you didn't digitally protect them! Your just asking for internet baddies to steal all your images, stalkers to download them, and spammers to use you for their advertisements! Securing your photos is more important than anti-virus!
Friend2: OMG! OMG! I'm going to get digital protection right now!
I sure hope this dies before friends 1 and 2 start trying to convince me to secure my photos. I already know what they'll say: "As someone who knows computers you should know better! Your setting a bad example for Friend2." and "Why didn't you warn me how vulnerable my photos were?!" respectively.
Auto magical survey bypassing extension?
I've got one for you: and it is completely, 100% FREE!!! First answer these quick questions before you download to help us improve the quality of this service...
answer these questions' (plural) its 'answer this single question' (singular)
Well, I'm remembering how adds have been playing out: articles get spread out over several pages in order to show visitors more adds.
I'm picturing: "Before reading page 2 of 10 of this ten paragraph article, please answer the following question."
It makes good sense from the business side to implement this; users can't ignore it like they do with ads. Though, I'm sure after being annoyed with this system for a year, we'll click a radio button that appears before loading a webpage as automatically as we learned to scroll past the banners at the top of web pages. "Survey Blindness" they'll call it.
Personally I'd rather have State-level control like they do it in the European Union...if I don't like the state's policies I can pick-up and move to a better state.
As liberal, I normally don't like to say things like "love it or leave it," but sometimes, like now, it is ridiculously applicable: You can go enjoy your freedom of choice of 27 states in the European union right now! And why limit yourself to the west? There are like 200 countries* out there you could move to! Most aren't nearly, if at all, as standoffish to immigrants as the US and I've known many Americans that have done so.
*195 if you love America.
It's all about "issues that can be difficult to resolve."
Holy water is just what he says, water that someone waived their hands over. What is the buyer going to complain about? The seller didn't bother to wave his hands over it?
On the other hand, most of the items listed in the article make some pretty hefty promises and for $50+ I would expect some results! Adding "by the power of Christ" to any of the items in the article is not going to make a failure to perform any easier to resolve and they aren't going to get special treatment.
You have to consider, my company computer has an encrypted hard drive, is usually stored in a building with security, and anyone who has access to has been vetted for trustworthiness, makes a good deal of money and has lower hanging fruit on the computers of sloppier coworkers.
My smartphone, is quite vulnerable to theft, and is frequently borrowed by friends and friends/family of friends. The same with my personal computers which are also used by friends and roommates and sometimes sketchy friends of roommates while being stored in a place with security as good as the laziest roommate at the time is willing to implement.
maybe actual change would take place.
Yeah, soon the TSA would require that all passengers strip naked before entering the terminal area.
Though, now that I think about it that would probably save a lot of money on machines and training, while speeding up the security search process; let's do this!
I think the author will need:
Look at the menus on the upper left hand side of the screen and go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager
Did a window popup? Good, Good; you can do this.
You'll see a line called functioning-brain-cell. You see it? Good, now click on it and select "Mark for installation."
Click Apply. It's okay! It's OK, we'll get you through this! Look for the big green check mark. It's like a chevron...you know a downward pointing arrow kind-of, it'll be the color of leaves....
I spend 40+ hours per week on a windows machine where I am not allowed to send out usage data if at all possible. I'm especially not allowed send error reports to anybody what so-ever no matter how much it could fix issues that really need to get fixed. I know this is pretty common in businesses for the same reason that Siri is banned in some places.
The little time I spend opening pinned games on my home computer is quite well reported though, because I like having a vote. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't report that all users seem to need is Steam and Chrome. That would make my work kinda tough though.
I have seen some tech shows lately. Those tech guy/gals mutter a few strings of long tech sounding words and type a bit on a keyboard. If that ritual is done at the right time (about 10minutes left in the show assuming not a cliff-hanger episode) then pictures flash by on the screen and they magically get the location of the bad guys. If you're a black hat on those shows, then to get away you have to either be on the lookout for someone "silently pinging your network facing encrypted cloud based interface over a virtual private unified modeling language bit-coin tor attached 10Gigabit side channel man in the middle attack" or go offline before the second to last commercial break.
I have no real idea how to identify a real honey pot, but I suspect hiding your personal info as best as possible from your clients is the best move no matter who you are selling credit card numbers to. You'd probably prefer that the FBI shows up and inform you that you need a layer than for some mafia guys, who didn't like the way the transaction went, to show up and be judge, jury and torturer-to-death.
I kinda agree with you, probably kinda sensationalist, but a scary trend, however look what I didn't find on google:
No results found for "dead burglar sues".
Something to keep in mind.
I just want to apologize for all of your posts being modded "-1 Disagree"
You're posts are clearly on topic and raised great avenues for discussion. I know the Mods think so today because they they gave all the responses you generated +5 insightful instead of ignoring the conversation thread.
So thanks for taking one for the team to make ./ interesting to read today :^)
if there happened to be patients died as a result, it's not your fault either, it's the fault of the hospital IT staff that let their server to be compromised
Seriously though? You're unable to ignore a packet stream without a counter offensive and yet the hospital is at fault for their poor security?
So I contacted the attacker independently (through my own proxies)
"Dear Sir, you can not trace me; you'll never find me; I'm tunneling my connection all over the globe! I'm the guy selling the motorbike at 187 Second Street and I'll have you know..."
let them know that they should get better at what they're doing
This is actually what I wanted to comment on; I don't think you should give those guys any info about how you found them, they just might improve their game and make it harder for someone to respond to them. Maybe some vigilante will try to take them down some day; I think you should leave them stupid and hope.
What is the point of this kind of trolling in article summaries, really?
Stories of the week get ranked by the number of comments.
So: "Giant unifying theory of everything fixes everything forever proved right" would be at the bottom with one comment: "Ok, thats nice."
But same story and also: "I like Mac-Books over PCs." And the ensuing flame war will catapult your story to the top!
Currency definition issues:
I took the definition from wikipedia, since that's were you sourced your ponzi scheme definition. I'm trying to figure out: you claim it not to be useful as a currency, but people are using it as a medium of exchange. What is it that you find lacking in comparing it to other currency like items such as coins?
Ponzi scheme definition:
Well, there are numerous scams you could have compared it to, such as: a pyramid scheme, a pump and dump, or even an advance fee fraud, which I would have thought to be somewhat applicable and not made a fuss about, but you chose Ponzi scheme, which has a very specific set of circumstances that are quite familiar to most folks since the Bernie Madoff scandal that broke recently. I do notice that early adopters are making a ton of value off of late comers and find this an unfortunate fact of bitcoin.
But, you still never answered my question; what exactly makes it a scam? I see no deceit here; anyone bright enough to consider it as an investment should also be bright enough to see that all it is just some bits on their computer only having as much value as others give them. Totally not FDIC insured and could collapse over night as you predict (and has at least once, also covered on slashdot I believe?). I don't think giving slashdot readers a rosy picture of how bitcoin is playing out is comparable to completely lying to someone about where they are investing their money.
P.S. While we are nitpicking definitions, I went and read your earlier post and think this is actually "stuff you read about in the Cryptonomicon"; remember when Waterhouse worries about taking defunct Japanese bills? Exactly like bitcoin, valuable only because others think it is. However, I think it is even more comparable to the gold harvesting in Readme. The "proof of work" is just like the nonsense actions required for virtual gold mining in T'Rain.
I most certainly do understand. Consider the built in major advantage to early adopters of bitcoin (for one of many factors) and then look at the wikipedia entry for "ponzi scheme" and you'll see why I've put that label on it.
I did, and I expect the mods did not. It is a completely incorrect label to apply to bit-coin. Ponzi scheme's involve one individual or organization fraudulently reporting non-existent profits to participators. Also, I really hate that particular argument that appears here so often: "I'm right and I leave it to you to work out why." (Is there a fallacy of logic about that?) The mods however really seem to like it.
Bit coin is not a Ponzi scheme.
swapped computer parts are not a currency
From wikipedia, our mutual friend:
In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange.
As I would totally barter computer parts and many are using bitcoin for transactions, I would say that both are currencies under this definition.
If bit coin is a "scam" please explain why. Trying ill-fitted labels like Ponzi scheme on it does not make it a scam anymore than calling it a scam does.