This is so flagrantly sexist that it's absurd. But luckily for Google, it's the politically correct form of sexism. It's been decreed that programming being male dominated is bad, and thus taking sexist action to fix it is okay.
Google is a private, non-government run company. They are fully within their right to offer incentives for more girls to get into computer science. Or blacks. Or native americans. Or Jews. Or whites. Or whoever they think needs help.
Stop focusing on false flag, and rather on the government's croney capitalism that allows Google to dodge taxes and eliminate competition. "Don't be Evil" has truely become the most ironic slogan of all time.
I assume you're asking how the "mining" works, and that's actually pretty easy to explain.
Each bitcoin block is generated with a SHA256 hash of the block's header. Presumably, the header information is not guessable, otherwise it would be pointless.
The SHA256 hash becomes the "target." In order to successfully mine the block, you must produce a hash with a value lower than the target. The lower the target, the harder it is to mine the block.
The "target" is in fact the difficulty. Essentially a difficulty of 1 means an applicable proof-of-work block solution would be less than 2^256 >> 1 (I could be wrong on the max size, I'd have to look it up). A block "solution" is a sha-256 hash of (merkle root (which is generated by doing a merkle tree starting with the transaction IDs of all the transactions since the last block) + some other header stuff + a nonce). The header stuff is completely public and known. The "work" miners to is generate trillions upon trillions of those nonces (which is just a word for a random piece of data), calculate the sha-256, and see if the resulting sha is less than the target.
Successfully mining a block is essentially like winning the lottery because there is no known way to make educated guesses about what text might produce a hash below the target's value.
Once an acceptable hash has been generated by a miner, it is submitted to the network with a proof of work that permits the rest of the network to essentially check the solution. At that point, the block is considered completed, the transactions are processed, and the successful miner is awarded the transaction fees plus 20 new BTC.
It's fees + 25 BTC. But that will change eventually, as we approach the max of 22 million BTC in circulation.
I don't think the rainbow table comparison is apt because you're not attempting to produce hash collisions, only find hashes below a set value. Finding a collision is exponentially more difficult, by design.
A "rainbow table" in this case would have to have a number of entries greater than the size of particles in the known universe, I think. We're talking about stupidly large numbers here.
The linked official press release simply reiterates that bitcoins are getting more wide use including criminal use. That the bitcoins are not legal tender. That bitcoins are not backed by anything or anybody but speculative interest and that bitcoin holders are not afforded legal protection of their property rights in respect of their bitcoin investments. Is the word "banned" being misused here?
From the translation:
In accordance with Art. 27 of the Federal Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation", "the official currency (currency) of the Russian Federation is the ruble. Introduction on the territory of Russia and other monetary units issue money substitutes is prohibited. " Certain distribution received anonymous payment systems and kriptovalyuty, including the most famous of them - Bitcoin are money substitutes and can not be used by individuals and legal entities.
I'm pretty sure the ruskies would have a strict interpretation of "can not be used by individuals." Sounds like it's a ban.
I'll be interested to see if BTC can hold above $500 at the end of the day.
like so many other articles, this just seems like another reminder to never ever use godaddy
Perhaps this is more of an indictment of using ANY non-big-brother email provider for login information to ANY domain registrar. It seems to me the crux of this attack was to a) gain access to the victem's domain registrar account and then b) hijack the domain MX record so all email to that domain goes to the attacker's server. At that point, you can reset all the victem's passwords to all accounts and ALL password reset emails will go to the attacker.
Time to enable 2-factor on all my registrar accounts.
I read through that entire sentence-fragment of an article, and I still don't see what people are protesting. Are they just OWS hippsters and neo-anarchists who will protest anything that isn't run directly by the state? Perhaps they just don't like the fact that some people have money? Surely it's not because some people choose to carpool. I don't get it.
I agree, hate groups aren't right, but barring freedom for one to choose for themselves to be involved with a hate group is worse.
I know I'll get marked as a troll for this from the euro-centric crowd, but this is exactly why you embrace freedom-loving society and not authoritarian socialism like they have in Europe. As John Green has said, you cannot declare war on an idea or noun because nouns are so amazingly resilient.
With the high profile shutdown of Silk Road the number of things you can buy with Bitcoin would be considerably less.
Negative. The silk road was a tiny fraction of bitcoin volume. Do you realize you can buy gift cards with bitcoin, via the Gyft website? For example, CVS sells beer, Gyft sells CVS gift cards, therefore I can buy beer with bitcoins. Problem solved.
Or it's an attack on the system itself, maybe someone figure out a way to race the market and make money?
My guess is it's massive amounts of Chineese money flowing into bitcoin, as they slowly realize that the USD will soon be worth less than the paper it's printed on (or the electrons in bank computers that actually make them).
If I see another story about some schlub who "plans on" making clean, cheap power; or one that "reveals" a breakthrough that "could" revolutionize power generation, I'm going to lose it. We can harness the power of the atom to provide almost limitless clean energy, but no one cares because Japan gets flooded sometimes. *yawn*
Many, but not all workers have to deal with "at will" work contracts. To be able to be fired at any time, without notice, for no reason, is a very big fear of mine. OTOH, it does mean I can leave at any time, too.
Business apps designed specifically for IE6 might not work with IE11? I'm shocked! That's terrible! What is this world coming to? Or should I say, to what is this world coming?(don't answer that)
I think this world needs to find a quiet room in which to do long division. That is all.
And the media continues to spread disinformation to advance its own pet causes. The United States has continued nation building, and has even started NEW wars (and proxy wars) since twitter came of age. It wasn't twitter that had to go to the floor of the house and demand that the President of the USA declare he doesn't have the right to kill us in our sleep! I agree it's an interesting tool for the spreading of links and content, and with more information it seems that people/should/ be more informed, it's just the reality of today doesn't seem to reflect that at all.
To quote the cliche: The Revolution will not be televised (or tweeted, probably).
In the end, Hill and his fellow lawyers at his small Atlanta firm, Hill, Kertscher and Wharton, didn’t have a lot of fight in them. Two weeks after he filed the third-party complaint, Project Paperless dropped its lawsuit. No settlement, no deal—they just went away. (As a result, the scanner makers never actually came to court.)
That can't be where it ends. Where's the countersuit for legal fees? Compensation for the money required to do the prior-art search? There's protection (albeit not enough) from frivolous and vindictive (perhaps even defamatory, in this case) lawsuits.
Damn these mega corps. I can't believe that they would make a 6% profit on a product that people want to buy. Why doesn't the government step in and finally tell them how much money they are allowed to make and give to their minions (also known as employees).
It's not all lattes and coding in pajamas, though. If there's a glitch in a program's codes, Mr. Hilkert might be up past midnight searching for solutions.
Oh, the Humanity! Up past midnight looking for a bug in a program!
I'm an engineer and I'm OK... I work all night, and I sleep all day.
The US federal government does NOT have a moratorium on building refineries. New refineries are currently being built in Arizona (Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma, LLC) and South Dakota (Hyperion). Additionally existing refineries are being upgraded in place, like the Motiva Houston refinery that doubled capacity.
You are correct! We've had two, count 'em TWO new refineries in the last 36 years. The ONLY TWO IN MY LIFETIME! And where are these two gleaming beacons of the US's responsible energy policy?
Arizona: http://www.arizonacleanfuels.com/, "Next major milestone, expected within the next few months, will be the announcement of the EPC contractor." No press updates since 2009.
South Dakota: http://www.hyperionec.com/, got it's "air quality permit" in sep 2011. Still not in production since the project began in 2007.
Wow. That's really cutting through the government red tape. There may not be an official moratorium (like there is for domestic oil drilling), but all the prohibitive regulations make it far from economically profitable. But they're evil energy companies anyway, so they can just write a check, right?
Gas prices are already approaching € 2 / liter in Western Europe. What are you guys complaining about ? Get a life !
Trust me, with our current socialist trends, we're on our way to meet you.
You have no refineries. The US fed refuses to allow any new refineries. Three in the northeast US have shut down in the last few months with now clear plans when they will come back online.
You pay an ungodly percentage in gas taxes to fund your subsidised mass transit systems. I'd LOVE a fast train to take me from Albany to Schenectady so I can go bar hopping in the city and not have to take a $60 cab home, but I DON'T want the "central committee" to manage it. However, Obama's energy secretary really wants the job.
You think 200 miles is a long distance. I commute almost 100 miles to work every day, and I'm only slightly above average.
I love WindowMaker. Monitors are square, therefore my persistent icons and helper apps should be square also. It's the best way to manage desktop real estate. And it's lightening fast. I'm very gracious that the project continues on.
wmtop, wmblob, wmcalclock, wmjazz, wmbinclock, wmchess, wmcube, wmtetris, wmgrav, I can't get enough!
Now, if only I could find a version of `wmfire` that actually works, I'd be 100x more productive!
After hearing the claims, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced plans to introduce legislation that would require the presence of "passenger advocates" at airports to deal with complaints like these.
Typical Chuck U. response: the cure for problems in a power-drunk federal bureaucracy is... MORE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY!
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This is so flagrantly sexist that it's absurd. But luckily for Google, it's the politically correct form of sexism. It's been decreed that programming being male dominated is bad, and thus taking sexist action to fix it is okay.
Google is a private, non-government run company. They are fully within their right to offer incentives for more girls to get into computer science. Or blacks. Or native americans. Or Jews. Or whites. Or whoever they think needs help.
Stop focusing on false flag, and rather on the government's croney capitalism that allows Google to dodge taxes and eliminate competition. "Don't be Evil" has truely become the most ironic slogan of all time.
Close, but not quite.
I assume you're asking how the "mining" works, and that's actually pretty easy to explain.
Each bitcoin block is generated with a SHA256 hash of the block's header. Presumably, the header information is not guessable, otherwise it would be pointless.
The SHA256 hash becomes the "target." In order to successfully mine the block, you must produce a hash with a value lower than the target. The lower the target, the harder it is to mine the block.
The "target" is in fact the difficulty. Essentially a difficulty of 1 means an applicable proof-of-work block solution would be less than 2^256 >> 1 (I could be wrong on the max size, I'd have to look it up). A block "solution" is a sha-256 hash of (merkle root (which is generated by doing a merkle tree starting with the transaction IDs of all the transactions since the last block) + some other header stuff + a nonce). The header stuff is completely public and known. The "work" miners to is generate trillions upon trillions of those nonces (which is just a word for a random piece of data), calculate the sha-256, and see if the resulting sha is less than the target.
Successfully mining a block is essentially like winning the lottery because there is no known way to make educated guesses about what text might produce a hash below the target's value.
Once an acceptable hash has been generated by a miner, it is submitted to the network with a proof of work that permits the rest of the network to essentially check the solution. At that point, the block is considered completed, the transactions are processed, and the successful miner is awarded the transaction fees plus 20 new BTC.
It's fees + 25 BTC. But that will change eventually, as we approach the max of 22 million BTC in circulation.
I don't think the rainbow table comparison is apt because you're not attempting to produce hash collisions, only find hashes below a set value. Finding a collision is exponentially more difficult, by design.
A "rainbow table" in this case would have to have a number of entries greater than the size of particles in the known universe, I think. We're talking about stupidly large numbers here.
The linked official press release simply reiterates that bitcoins are getting more wide use including criminal use. That the bitcoins are not legal tender. That bitcoins are not backed by anything or anybody but speculative interest and that bitcoin holders are not afforded legal protection of their property rights in respect of their bitcoin investments. Is the word "banned" being misused here?
From the translation:
In accordance with Art. 27 of the Federal Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation", "the official currency (currency) of the Russian Federation is the ruble. Introduction on the territory of Russia and other monetary units issue money substitutes is prohibited. " Certain distribution received anonymous payment systems and kriptovalyuty, including the most famous of them - Bitcoin are money substitutes and can not be used by individuals and legal entities.
I'm pretty sure the ruskies would have a strict interpretation of "can not be used by individuals." Sounds like it's a ban.
I'll be interested to see if BTC can hold above $500 at the end of the day.
gain access to the victem's domain registrar account
Sometimes I hate not being able to spell :(
like so many other articles, this just seems like another reminder to never ever use godaddy
Perhaps this is more of an indictment of using ANY non-big-brother email provider for login information to ANY domain registrar. It seems to me the crux of this attack was to a) gain access to the victem's domain registrar account and then b) hijack the domain MX record so all email to that domain goes to the attacker's server. At that point, you can reset all the victem's passwords to all accounts and ALL password reset emails will go to the attacker.
Time to enable 2-factor on all my registrar accounts.
I read through that entire sentence-fragment of an article, and I still don't see what people are protesting. Are they just OWS hippsters and neo-anarchists who will protest anything that isn't run directly by the state? Perhaps they just don't like the fact that some people have money? Surely it's not because some people choose to carpool. I don't get it.
I agree, hate groups aren't right, but barring freedom for one to choose for themselves to be involved with a hate group is worse.
I know I'll get marked as a troll for this from the euro-centric crowd, but this is exactly why you embrace freedom-loving society and not authoritarian socialism like they have in Europe. As John Green has said, you cannot declare war on an idea or noun because nouns are so amazingly resilient.
> Maybe you should stop taking economics lessons from someone whose predictions are always wrong.
Good advice. Can you recommend an economist whose predictions are always right?
Who's Ron Paul?
With the high profile shutdown of Silk Road the number of things you can buy with Bitcoin would be considerably less.
Negative. The silk road was a tiny fraction of bitcoin volume. Do you realize you can buy gift cards with bitcoin, via the Gyft website? For example, CVS sells beer, Gyft sells CVS gift cards, therefore I can buy beer with bitcoins. Problem solved.
Or it's an attack on the system itself, maybe someone figure out a way to race the market and make money?
My guess is it's massive amounts of Chineese money flowing into bitcoin, as they slowly realize that the USD will soon be worth less than the paper it's printed on (or the electrons in bank computers that actually make them).
If I see another story about some schlub who "plans on" making clean, cheap power; or one that "reveals" a breakthrough that "could" revolutionize power generation, I'm going to lose it. We can harness the power of the atom to provide almost limitless clean energy, but no one cares because Japan gets flooded sometimes. *yawn*
Many, but not all workers have to deal with "at will" work contracts. To be able to be fired at any time, without notice, for no reason, is a very big fear of mine. OTOH, it does mean I can leave at any time, too.
Business apps designed specifically for IE6 might not work with IE11? I'm shocked! That's terrible! What is this world coming to? Or should I say, to what is this world coming?(don't answer that)
I think this world needs to find a quiet room in which to do long division. That is all.
Oh, and follow me at @ddombrowsky :)
And the media continues to spread disinformation to advance its own pet causes. The United States has continued nation building, and has even started NEW wars (and proxy wars) since twitter came of age. It wasn't twitter that had to go to the floor of the house and demand that the President of the USA declare he doesn't have the right to kill us in our sleep! I agree it's an interesting tool for the spreading of links and content, and with more information it seems that people /should/ be more informed, it's just the reality of today doesn't seem to reflect that at all.
To quote the cliche: The Revolution will not be televised (or tweeted, probably).
FTA:
In the end, Hill and his fellow lawyers at his small Atlanta firm, Hill, Kertscher and Wharton, didn’t have a lot of fight in them. Two weeks after he filed the third-party complaint, Project Paperless dropped its lawsuit. No settlement, no deal—they just went away. (As a result, the scanner makers never actually came to court.)
That can't be where it ends. Where's the countersuit for legal fees? Compensation for the money required to do the prior-art search? There's protection (albeit not enough) from frivolous and vindictive (perhaps even defamatory, in this case) lawsuits.
This strategy makes it clear that the individual privacy, civil rights and civil liberties of United States persons must be — and will be — protected.
Why don't I believe you? Oh, that's right, because you've expanded the power of the police state just as much as any executive before you.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
http://xkcd.com/1012/
Damn these mega corps. I can't believe that they would make a 6% profit on a product that people want to buy. Why doesn't the government step in and finally tell them how much money they are allowed to make and give to their minions (also known as employees).
Seriously. What if: global climate change /is/ natural? Wouldn't this be "winning" the debate?
It's not all lattes and coding in pajamas, though. If there's a glitch in a program's codes, Mr. Hilkert might be up past midnight searching for solutions.
Oh, the Humanity! Up past midnight looking for a bug in a program!
I'm an engineer and I'm OK...
I work all night, and I sleep all day.
The US fed refuses to allow any new refineries.
The US federal government does NOT have a moratorium on building refineries. New refineries are currently being built in Arizona (Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma, LLC) and South Dakota (Hyperion). Additionally existing refineries are being upgraded in place, like the Motiva Houston refinery that doubled capacity.
You are correct! We've had two, count 'em TWO new refineries in the last 36 years. The ONLY TWO IN MY LIFETIME! And where are these two gleaming beacons of the US's responsible energy policy?
Arizona: http://www.arizonacleanfuels.com/, "Next major milestone, expected within the next few months, will be the announcement of the EPC contractor." No press updates since 2009.
South Dakota: http://www.hyperionec.com/, got it's "air quality permit" in sep 2011. Still not in production since the project began in 2007.
Wow. That's really cutting through the government red tape. There may not be an official moratorium (like there is for domestic oil drilling), but all the prohibitive regulations make it far from economically profitable. But they're evil energy companies anyway, so they can just write a check, right?
Gas prices are already approaching € 2 / liter in Western Europe. What are you guys complaining about ? Get a life !
Trust me, with our current socialist trends, we're on our way to meet you.
I love WindowMaker. Monitors are square, therefore my persistent icons and helper apps should be square also. It's the best way to manage desktop real estate. And it's lightening fast. I'm very gracious that the project continues on.
wmtop, wmblob, wmcalclock, wmjazz, wmbinclock, wmchess, wmcube, wmtetris, wmgrav, I can't get enough!
Now, if only I could find a version of `wmfire` that actually works, I'd be 100x more productive!
After hearing the claims, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced plans to introduce legislation that would require the presence of "passenger advocates" at airports to deal with complaints like these.
Typical Chuck U. response: the cure for problems in a power-drunk federal bureaucracy is... MORE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY!
Sometimes I'm really ashamed to be a New Yorker.
OP is correct. Going into an experiment with a preconceived bias isn't science, it's politics:
as the temperature of the Earth goes up, energy is added to the system, so the mass must go up.
But from TFA:
So taking into account the gains and the losses, Dr Smith reckons the Earth is getting about 50,000 tonnes lighter a year.
So AGW isn't happening, then?