Currencies with intrinsic value have their own problems. They are still subject to price manipulation by those of sufficient wealth (eg, the artificially high price of diamonds), and their value can also be heavily affected by changes in supply and demand for whatever their use is.
Bitcoin has many, many serious problems. That is not one of them. Volatility is, which is why right now the coins are only used as a means of transfering money rather than a long-term store of wealth.
Even as heaters they suck. The heat is generated at the top of the room, about the worst place to do so. No convention current to distribute it. Most of that heat is going to escape through the ceiling rather than be of any use the the room's occupents.
Fluoresent bulbs aren't just in series with the circuit, they have complex driver circuitry. The interactions with those switches will depend upon the design of that driver. Most likely, it just won't glow any more.
I've known about it for a long time, because many websites of a certain political inclination have been talking quite often about how Obama is going to take light bulbs away, and force everyone to replace them with liberal-bulbs that emit cancer-causing electromagnetic fields and are so toxic you need to call in the EPA if you break one.
Selective dumbassness. Just because someone is part of the world's elite in on field, doesn't mean they can't be ignorant upon a completly unrelated topic.
Depends on definitions. Speak to much of europe and you'll find a lot of people, a majority in some countries, who insist they are Christians very strongly - yet they don't go to church, don't factor the religion into any decision they make, have never done more than skim a few verses of the bible and can't state the most fundamental precepts of the faith if questioned. Do you call them Christian or not? Most surveys work based on self-identification. I don't know what the situation is like in other regions of the world, but I expect there is something of a similiar effect. Except perhaps for Islam - their frequent public rituals would make it rather hard to be a muslim without at least going through all the appropriate motions, especially in countries where failure to comply would result in conseqences ranging from social exclusion and loss of employment to execution.
Imagine? I'm all but certain of it. This was the same era when congress voted to add 'under god' to the pledge of allegence and change the national motto to 'in god we trust.' Both of which very much were ways to raise the national middle finger at the godless soviets.
Religion in the UK is usually a much more private matter than in the US. Most of our believers do not feel the need to proclaim it from the rooftops as is a common practice in the US.
Was, because it took a very through investigation to work out who was running it. If Silk Road had been accepting money through Paypal or cheques, it'd have been a lot easier to trace.
You misunderstood on the reporting requirements. I meant to say there there are no effective reporting requirements. You might be legally required to report things, but how is that going to be enforced? Banks haver certain laws to follow: If they see deposite of $10,000, or a series of deposits totaling $10,000, they have to report it to the government as suspicious activity demanding of an investigation. With bitcoin, you can be your own bank. Want to give someone a pile of money payment for illegal services or as a bribe? Done. Easily. No-one will notice. It's as easy as a briefcase full of cash, except that you don't have to worry about hideing it, and it doesn't take up a lot of space. Europe phased out their largest denominations precisely because the only people who wanted to deal in such huge quantities of cash were criminal enterprises.
Remember that bitcoin was created as a libertarian idealist project. It's supposed to subvert regulation. That's the idea.
I didn't say it was illegal. I said it would make officials uncomfortable. The main purpose of bitcoin has always been to subvert government control: It's resistant to regulation by design. Pseudo-anonymous, no validation of identity. No revokation of fraudulent transactions. No reporting requirements. The transactions are open records, but shuffling things around to hide things isn't difficult. No reporting requirements. Bitcoin isn't illegal, but it makes a lot of other illegal things a lot easier to hide. There's a reason the most famous bitcoin-using business was a site for drugs dealing.
Content-addressible networking could solve this, if more people would just start using it and more companies work on promoting the technology. Right now the only major user is the pirate community.
Quite true. Should see some of my early perl code - it worked, but there were a lot of basic perl common-sense methods I didn't know.
I only program things as a hobby though, I'm not a professional. Most complicated thing I've written in perl is an IRC bot for a roleplay channel that handles character descriptions, logging and dice rolling.
I imagine that was done in case he'd left a copy of the wallet with another contact, along with instructions: 'If I'm caught, take the money to pay for my defense.' Or possibly 'If I'm caught, take the money and use it to start a successor site.'
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Learn C. Almost everything else draws from it. Learn C, and you're half-way to learning anything else.
Shutting them down could be a bit trickier in this case - there's no one person or organisation to convict. Only thing they could do is find something to charge businesses that accept them with, and push it underground where it is comparatively ineffectual and not good for much more than a hobby.
We have cameras in the corridoors and exterior areas. There are none in classrooms. I've been told this is because the teachers' union forbids it. We do have protocols in place to ensure that no staff member is ever alone in a room with a student. This is partly to pervent abuse, but mostly to protect against false accusations of abuse.
We have a school ID. They don't wear it. Ever. If confronted they will reluctantly take it from their pocket and put it on - and then take it off as soon as they are out of sight. The only way to fix this would be to actually enforce the rule, but given that very nearly every single student is breaking it that isn't really practical - it'd mean either putting the entire student body in detention or going for the 'lottery enforcement' where a few are picked at random to scare the others into submission. Not a very fair approach. The only reason they even bring it in is because it's also the cashless payment ID for obtaining lunch.
Do bitcoins qualify as 'assets?' While economically things are worth whatever people will pay, politically even selling them for cash could be problematic.
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Currencies with intrinsic value have their own problems. They are still subject to price manipulation by those of sufficient wealth (eg, the artificially high price of diamonds), and their value can also be heavily affected by changes in supply and demand for whatever their use is.
Bitcoin has many, many serious problems. That is not one of them. Volatility is, which is why right now the coins are only used as a means of transfering money rather than a long-term store of wealth.
It would be a great deal harder to administer and easier for whoever is in charge to abuse.
It's regulated, but very hard to enforce those regulations. That's the idea behind bitcoin.
Less anonymous, but also easier to move, especially internationally.
Even as heaters they suck. The heat is generated at the top of the room, about the worst place to do so. No convention current to distribute it. Most of that heat is going to escape through the ceiling rather than be of any use the the room's occupents.
And in others, energy wasted in the summer is multiplied by the air conditioning running for longer.
Fluoresent bulbs aren't just in series with the circuit, they have complex driver circuitry. The interactions with those switches will depend upon the design of that driver. Most likely, it just won't glow any more.
I've known about it for a long time, because many websites of a certain political inclination have been talking quite often about how Obama is going to take light bulbs away, and force everyone to replace them with liberal-bulbs that emit cancer-causing electromagnetic fields and are so toxic you need to call in the EPA if you break one.
Selective dumbassness. Just because someone is part of the world's elite in on field, doesn't mean they can't be ignorant upon a completly unrelated topic.
Depends on definitions. Speak to much of europe and you'll find a lot of people, a majority in some countries, who insist they are Christians very strongly - yet they don't go to church, don't factor the religion into any decision they make, have never done more than skim a few verses of the bible and can't state the most fundamental precepts of the faith if questioned. Do you call them Christian or not? Most surveys work based on self-identification. I don't know what the situation is like in other regions of the world, but I expect there is something of a similiar effect. Except perhaps for Islam - their frequent public rituals would make it rather hard to be a muslim without at least going through all the appropriate motions, especially in countries where failure to comply would result in conseqences ranging from social exclusion and loss of employment to execution.
Imagine? I'm all but certain of it. This was the same era when congress voted to add 'under god' to the pledge of allegence and change the national motto to 'in god we trust.' Both of which very much were ways to raise the national middle finger at the godless soviets.
Religion in the UK is usually a much more private matter than in the US. Most of our believers do not feel the need to proclaim it from the rooftops as is a common practice in the US.
Was, because it took a very through investigation to work out who was running it. If Silk Road had been accepting money through Paypal or cheques, it'd have been a lot easier to trace.
You misunderstood on the reporting requirements. I meant to say there there are no effective reporting requirements. You might be legally required to report things, but how is that going to be enforced? Banks haver certain laws to follow: If they see deposite of $10,000, or a series of deposits totaling $10,000, they have to report it to the government as suspicious activity demanding of an investigation. With bitcoin, you can be your own bank. Want to give someone a pile of money payment for illegal services or as a bribe? Done. Easily. No-one will notice. It's as easy as a briefcase full of cash, except that you don't have to worry about hideing it, and it doesn't take up a lot of space. Europe phased out their largest denominations precisely because the only people who wanted to deal in such huge quantities of cash were criminal enterprises.
Remember that bitcoin was created as a libertarian idealist project. It's supposed to subvert regulation. That's the idea.
I didn't say it was illegal. I said it would make officials uncomfortable. The main purpose of bitcoin has always been to subvert government control: It's resistant to regulation by design. Pseudo-anonymous, no validation of identity. No revokation of fraudulent transactions. No reporting requirements. The transactions are open records, but shuffling things around to hide things isn't difficult. No reporting requirements. Bitcoin isn't illegal, but it makes a lot of other illegal things a lot easier to hide. There's a reason the most famous bitcoin-using business was a site for drugs dealing.
Content-addressible networking could solve this, if more people would just start using it and more companies work on promoting the technology. Right now the only major user is the pirate community.
USB was 'good enough' for all but the most demanding applications, and a lot cheaper.
Me.
External 4xSATA drive enclosure, with an eSATA connection. Mac pros have no eSATA port. So I used a PCI-e eSATA adaptor.
The solution on the new macs would be to use a thunderbolt enclosure. Which works, but is also hugely more expensive. By an order of magnitude.
Quite true. Should see some of my early perl code - it worked, but there were a lot of basic perl common-sense methods I didn't know.
I only program things as a hobby though, I'm not a professional. Most complicated thing I've written in perl is an IRC bot for a roleplay channel that handles character descriptions, logging and dice rolling.
I imagine that was done in case he'd left a copy of the wallet with another contact, along with instructions: 'If I'm caught, take the money to pay for my defense.' Or possibly 'If I'm caught, take the money and use it to start a successor site.'
Learn C. Almost everything else draws from it. Learn C, and you're half-way to learning anything else.
Shutting them down could be a bit trickier in this case - there's no one person or organisation to convict. Only thing they could do is find something to charge businesses that accept them with, and push it underground where it is comparatively ineffectual and not good for much more than a hobby.
We have cameras in the corridoors and exterior areas. There are none in classrooms. I've been told this is because the teachers' union forbids it. We do have protocols in place to ensure that no staff member is ever alone in a room with a student. This is partly to pervent abuse, but mostly to protect against false accusations of abuse.
We have a school ID. They don't wear it. Ever. If confronted they will reluctantly take it from their pocket and put it on - and then take it off as soon as they are out of sight. The only way to fix this would be to actually enforce the rule, but given that very nearly every single student is breaking it that isn't really practical - it'd mean either putting the entire student body in detention or going for the 'lottery enforcement' where a few are picked at random to scare the others into submission. Not a very fair approach. The only reason they even bring it in is because it's also the cashless payment ID for obtaining lunch.
Do bitcoins qualify as 'assets?' While economically things are worth whatever people will pay, politically even selling them for cash could be problematic.