sooo... You are predicting that bitcoin will disappear in August 2016? The reward simply halves and halves, and eventually it's the transaction fees which will cover the expense of mining.
No, but the mining incentive will go down by 50%. This will most likely bleed most miners out of the market altogether. The transaction fees are miniscule, and they won't support much mining in the long run.
At this point 1BTC is probably 50k +
How or by what mechanism do you propose 1 BTC approaches 10k+, let alone 50k+?
It is much more likely to approach $0, as it saturates the market of early adopters, but more conservative folks who stick with mainstream technologies aren't being won over.
has a bit over 55 petaFLOPS. The Bitcoin network, on the other hand, has around 980,000 petaFLOPS, accordgint to Bitcoin charts. So that's a pretty big "if".
It doesn't matter how many FLOPS the biggest supercomputer has.
If Amazon seriously decided to get into mining, it would be by manufacturing or buying from manufacturers
extremely large volumes of silicon containing specialized ASICs, ULAs, or structured ASICs; yes it would require more infrastructure and massive logistics to online the suitable infrastructure ---
I am sure the challenge is well within Amazon's capabilities, as long as the profits to be made suit the effort and expense required.
Will Google forget european results for US customers as well? If I use Tor from EU with exit node in US, and do a Google.com search, will they censor the results?
They MUST delete the results. The court doesn't say they can retain the data but just suppress display of it for Europeans,
they're required to actually delete all the copies of the data, which means they aren't allowed to present the results anywhere.
What happened to "having paid your debt to society" ? Stop listening to the prison industry.
No they haven't. They've only completed their official sentence, and they are getting a second
chance to live in society, BUT in most cases, felons have committed some irreparable harm.
If you're wrongly accused of a crime, you absolutely have every right to have that forgotten.
No... definitely not. People definitely have a right to remember.
They also have a right to believe you were guilty and share that fact with others in the community,
which adversly affects the reputation of alleged criminals, if their allegations are believed.
Oh, there are plenty of criminals, fraudsters, scammers, and dishonest folks who are never formally convicted of anything.
This does not mean they are not dangerous.
People have a right of free speech to air their complaints and not have them arbitrarily suppressed,
just because it is inconvenient for the subject of the complaints or poor reviews.
"Right to be forgotten" REALLY means "Right to suppress other people's free speech,
when they are talking about you"
For example; if you were a fraudster or a criminal.... this implies you can now remove search results
to hide this information, in order to be able to exploit more people and commit more crimes.
Latta was re-elected in 2012. He beat Democratic nominee, Angela Zimmann and Libertarian nominee, Eric Eberly.
He was endorsed by the United States Chamber of Commerce, the NFIB, the NRA and National Right to Life.
2012 U.S. House of Representatives Bob Latta Republican Votes: 201,514 (57.27% )
Littering is good because it creates incentive for companies to release products with reduced packaging.
How does that work?
Patent trolls are good because they create incentive for patent reform.
Yes, but only if the patent trolls are highly disruptive and cause shutdowns / outages for products that congressmen, judges, and the average joe rely on, in order to spark protest and government response against the general problem.
Bitcoin mining does a few interesting things... it creates a "shock" for datacenter and equipment operators, who currently
can't necessarily justify the expense of major innovations in developing more efficient facilities.
Unlike traditional workloads; miners tend to pull high energy usage.
Since mining can be conducted anywhere you can build a datacenter; it encourages the construction of facilities
in areas where power is very cheap --- resulting in absorpotion of the "excess" and increase of energy cost in those areas.
Consider basic economics: If energy usage goes down due to lack of demand or due to conservation,
then prices will go down, which will encourage waste --- such as people driving around in Hummers for no good reason.
The basic laws of supply and demand guarantee this will continue to happen until the surplus is consumed, and supply/demand return to a point of equilibrium; any reduction in usage or 'savings' by one portion of the population is going to be consumed by waste + then some.
Bitcoin, however, is only worth about 3600 BTC a day, a couple million a day, which means there is an upper limit on how much mining will be practical.
Still, turning up a big datacenter with heavy mining capacity is going to also "shock" the local energy markets, and exploit
any overly low energy markets, so the fuel prices tend to go up.
Short-term "shocks", or large increases in local energy prices are good --- as they provide a selling point to shorter term
more efficient products, such as LED lightbulbs, which have a cost barrier to overcome.
The more 'shocks' in a shorter span, the earlier, the better.
We also know.... mining reward tapers in August 2016, it goes down by 50%, so there is a definite expiration schedule
to mining, at which point, there will be empty highly-efficient datacenter facilities, ready to put computers in.
Complicated totally unfamiliar representation of date and time for the "information age"?
I think i'll take flawwed, but understood and good enough over that any time.
Chugging along 24/7 puzzling away, is the stupidest excuse imaginable for damaging the environment.
No... humans damage the environment already. Anything that increases energy demand ultimately helps the environment by raising energy prices and creating incentives for the development of more efficient ways of supplying power.
Bitcoin mining actually is doing useful work -- it is also a small-scale activity helps create an economic incentive for people to look for new, more ample sources of energy, such as molten salt reactor tech, and to look for new ways of cooling ---- advancements in energy efficiency developed by Bitcoin miners required for their profitability, can be re-used in other large scale industries, such as datacenters.
Because there are only 3600 bitcoins per day no matter how many PCs you throw at it.
You mean there's a target of 3600 bitcoins per day, with adjustment of difficulty every 2016 blocks.
If Amazon started using all their power to mine them, and switched it on right after a difficulty adjustment,
50400 bitcoins might be mined in fewer than 2 weeks, for example, they might mine 8000 bitcoins a day, for 7 days.
Also, if their mining power exceeded 50%, of the Bitcoin network: they might be able to cheat.
They could start "pre-mining" blocks, and furthermore, they could start tampering with the difficulty.
I presume that you won't mind getting a copy of Meyer's Twilight instead of Stoker's Dracula. I mean, they're both vampire novels, so they're completely fungible, right?
I'm sure you won't mind getting the Dell ultrabook, instead of the Macbook air you asked for.
I mean, they're both computers, so completely fungible, right?
Kaspersky AV installs it's extensions in Chrome, and frankly I a) don't want to depend on the Chrome Store for them since I can only trust them if they come directly from Kaspersky
That's nice. But it's what Google trusts that matters.
Google only trusts the Kaspersky plugin of highly questionable value that may actually be exposing you to multiple additional severe security risks without offering much additional protection -- enough to be enabled in Chrome now, if the app came directly from the app store.
If the app came directly from Kaspersky... well, sorry, that's just not trustworthy enough.
How do you think you know the original came from Kaspersky anyways, and wasn't actually modified using MITM techniques?:)
b) don't want them disabled since I installed Kaspersky specifically for this purpose.
Well. It's happening; unless you deployed the extension using the Enterprise policy method, or to a dev version of
the browser.
Kaspersky doesn't get a gold pass exempting them from all the rules ---- they apparently didn't pay much attention
to the effective date of Google's warning that developers must use the Chrome web store for extensions:
if they were still distributing files directly.
Use the left arrow key to move the cursor left one unit, then press DEL, instead of backspace.
[*]I am not a big fan of backspace being abused as a navigational command, either. It is not the intended use of the key,
and sometimes causes accidental loss of partially drafted text.
b) Bullshit toolbars and crapware that are installed by "sponsorware" crapware
Seems like a minor tweak to bundle in with the crapware: Chromium or an altered chrome binary and altered versions of all major browsers;
change user's default browser to the 'crapware' one,
and disable updates ---- or rather, make them auto-update from the crapware vendor with new crapware.
No, somewhere, Facebook is consulting attorneys on how to avoid a Fatwa so he won't end up like Salman Rushdie, or worse, Theo van Gogh
Sigh... What's the world coming to. now attorneys are needed, even to pass a good bribe?
More seriously... Zuckberg wasn't a muslim like Rushdie who was branded a traitor,
and he hasn't personally been the responsible for something so enraging or challenging to the Muslims such as Theo Van Gogh's Submission.
In short... he's not likely to have a fatwa issued against him declaring him an 'enemy of God,'
because he Zuckerberg just hasn't done anything notable, worthy, or extraordinary enough.
You can't restrict the URL, just the host name.
Unless you want to forego HTTPS...
It depends.... HTTPS security is abysmal. We all know (or should know) very well by now, approximately how massive the number of subtle flaws there are likely to be in the SSL protocol, not to mention the known weaknesses.
End to end IPsec would be a better idea than HTTPS (Not that I am recommending end-to-end ipsec).
Ideally the POS would transmit an encrypted HTTP payload.
With a random symmetric key sent encrypted with the processors' public key.
And then the payload digitally signed with the POS terminal's secret key.
And inside that HTTPs packet; the actual payment details would have been already pre-encrypted
by the card reader into a fixed-length binary blob, and neither the POS workstation nor the server have the ability to decrypt.
In this case, non-HTTPS may very well be preferrable, so the proxy can further verify that what is being sent is conformant --- possibly, even validating the digital signature, before allowing the message..
it's inevitable that corporations and governments are going to use them to invade people's privacy
"Vehicle owner: Please take me to Xyz airport."
"Vehicle: OKAY"
(Silently... Vehicle... I noticed [Vehicle owner] is on the no-fly list, please transmit instructions.
Government computer: Acknowledged. Ultraviolet clearance revoked. Please divert to the nearest self-incrimination station; seal all doors and windows -- upon stopping, lower security grilles over windows switch to imprisonment mode; do not allow any passenger to exit the vehicle.
Sure they can. Via dedicated proxy server sandwiched between two firewalls that allows HTTP, but to only the payment processor's URL. As discussed in my other post.
POS's that require Net access because part of the services link into API's for UPS, FexEx, and USPS for realtime transactions.
You don't actually need full Net access for that.
The recommendation here is that you have a proxy server; that the applications required to use these services are configured with.
The proxy server should only allow the required URLs.
In some cases, the individual applications can be configured with a unique client-side SSL certificate, username, and password with which to access the proxy server.
The firewall that the POS terminals are behind will then only allow an outbound connection to the proxy server in the middle.
The separate outer firewall that the outside interface of the proxy server is behind, will only allow an outbound connection from the proxy server's outside IP address.
That still counts as "on-the-internet" (unless you somehow have a dedicate line going from the POS to the server), so you're plenty vulnerable to spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
You can use a dedicated Layer 3 switch for your POS network. Setup a Private VLAN (PVLAN) to carry your POS network.
Setup a private promiscuous VLAN for your switch to perform L3 routing on.
Setup a private Isolated VLAN (PVLAN Isolated) for your POS terminals, and enable local Proxy-Arp on your isolated PVLANs.
Place your server on a Server VLAN.
Enable 802.1x wired port security for your POS ports.
Configure routing between your POS Subnet and your POS server's dedicated Subnet.
Set it up with Route-maps or ACLs such that; every POS can talk to the server, and the server can talk to any POS terminal,
but no two POS can speak to each other, and no other IP address can speak to a POS or the server.
No default route in the routing table of this Layer 3 switch.
Windows POSReady 2009 is actually Windows XP though, just stripped down and a lot of bug-ridden exploitable and memory hogging code removed. Almost the same system files exist in the same versions and thus they have many exploits in common and frequently can be patched with the same code.
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sooo... You are predicting that bitcoin will disappear in August 2016? The reward simply halves and halves, and eventually it's the transaction fees which will cover the expense of mining.
No, but the mining incentive will go down by 50%. This will most likely bleed most miners out of the market altogether. The transaction fees are miniscule, and they won't support much mining in the long run.
At this point 1BTC is probably 50k +
How or by what mechanism do you propose 1 BTC approaches 10k+, let alone 50k+?
It is much more likely to approach $0, as it saturates the market of early adopters, but more conservative folks who stick with mainstream technologies aren't being won over.
has a bit over 55 petaFLOPS. The Bitcoin network, on the other hand, has around 980,000 petaFLOPS, accordgint to Bitcoin charts. So that's a pretty big "if".
It doesn't matter how many FLOPS the biggest supercomputer has. If Amazon seriously decided to get into mining, it would be by manufacturing or buying from manufacturers extremely large volumes of silicon containing specialized ASICs, ULAs, or structured ASICs; yes it would require more infrastructure and massive logistics to online the suitable infrastructure --- I am sure the challenge is well within Amazon's capabilities, as long as the profits to be made suit the effort and expense required.
Will Google forget european results for US customers as well? If I use Tor from EU with exit node in US, and do a Google.com search, will they censor the results?
They MUST delete the results. The court doesn't say they can retain the data but just suppress display of it for Europeans, they're required to actually delete all the copies of the data, which means they aren't allowed to present the results anywhere.
What happened to "having paid your debt to society" ? Stop listening to the prison industry.
No they haven't. They've only completed their official sentence, and they are getting a second chance to live in society, BUT in most cases, felons have committed some irreparable harm.
If you're wrongly accused of a crime, you absolutely have every right to have that forgotten.
No... definitely not. People definitely have a right to remember. They also have a right to believe you were guilty and share that fact with others in the community, which adversly affects the reputation of alleged criminals, if their allegations are believed.
Oh, there are plenty of criminals, fraudsters, scammers, and dishonest folks who are never formally convicted of anything. This does not mean they are not dangerous.
People have a right of free speech to air their complaints and not have them arbitrarily suppressed, just because it is inconvenient for the subject of the complaints or poor reviews.
"Right to be forgotten" REALLY means "Right to suppress other people's free speech, when they are talking about you"
For example; if you were a fraudster or a criminal.... this implies you can now remove search results to hide this information, in order to be able to exploit more people and commit more crimes.
this guy is presumably up for re-election.
It would seem so:
2012 U.S. House of Representatives Bob Latta Republican Votes: 201,514 (57.27% )
Angela Zimmann Democratic Votes: 137,806 39.16%
Eric Eberly Libertarian Votes: 12,558 3.57%
Ballotpedia: 2014 candidates: Ohio's 5th Congressional district:
Incumbent: Bob Latta, Democratic: Robert Fry, Libertarian: Eric Eberly
'designator' just means things like UTC (which you should be familiar with).
People don't even use UTC. When converted into seconds; UTC is useful for an internal storage representation, that is it, nothing more.
Nobody says they'll meet me at such and such tomorrow at 18:46 UTC.
Littering is good because it creates incentive for companies to release products with reduced packaging.
How does that work?
Patent trolls are good because they create incentive for patent reform.
Yes, but only if the patent trolls are highly disruptive and cause shutdowns / outages for products that congressmen, judges, and the average joe rely on, in order to spark protest and government response against the general problem.
Bitcoin mining does a few interesting things... it creates a "shock" for datacenter and equipment operators, who currently can't necessarily justify the expense of major innovations in developing more efficient facilities. Unlike traditional workloads; miners tend to pull high energy usage.
Since mining can be conducted anywhere you can build a datacenter; it encourages the construction of facilities in areas where power is very cheap --- resulting in absorpotion of the "excess" and increase of energy cost in those areas.
Consider basic economics: If energy usage goes down due to lack of demand or due to conservation, then prices will go down, which will encourage waste --- such as people driving around in Hummers for no good reason. The basic laws of supply and demand guarantee this will continue to happen until the surplus is consumed, and supply/demand return to a point of equilibrium; any reduction in usage or 'savings' by one portion of the population is going to be consumed by waste + then some.
Bitcoin, however, is only worth about 3600 BTC a day, a couple million a day, which means there is an upper limit on how much mining will be practical.
Still, turning up a big datacenter with heavy mining capacity is going to also "shock" the local energy markets, and exploit any overly low energy markets, so the fuel prices tend to go up.
Short-term "shocks", or large increases in local energy prices are good --- as they provide a selling point to shorter term more efficient products, such as LED lightbulbs, which have a cost barrier to overcome.
The more 'shocks' in a shorter span, the earlier, the better. We also know.... mining reward tapers in August 2016, it goes down by 50%, so there is a definite expiration schedule to mining, at which point, there will be empty highly-efficient datacenter facilities, ready to put computers in.
You do realize... this means there are now /multiple/ ways to represent the same date?
I'll agree it's not decimal time, but it's still a repeat of the same crazed idea of a time representation without support for the local timezones.
Computers can process it, but the average human is n't going to accept "datemod, designator."
Not to mention; Y.M.D ... is itself is irregular... most people expect and insist on the standardized date notation:
MM/DD/YY.
Complicated totally unfamiliar representation of date and time for the "information age"? I think i'll take flawwed, but understood and good enough over that any time.
rfc 1925 2.11 is reaffirmed
(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
Chugging along 24/7 puzzling away, is the stupidest excuse imaginable for damaging the environment.
No... humans damage the environment already. Anything that increases energy demand ultimately helps the environment by raising energy prices and creating incentives for the development of more efficient ways of supplying power.
Bitcoin mining actually is doing useful work -- it is also a small-scale activity helps create an economic incentive for people to look for new, more ample sources of energy, such as molten salt reactor tech, and to look for new ways of cooling ---- advancements in energy efficiency developed by Bitcoin miners required for their profitability, can be re-used in other large scale industries, such as datacenters.
Because there are only 3600 bitcoins per day no matter how many PCs you throw at it.
You mean there's a target of 3600 bitcoins per day, with adjustment of difficulty every 2016 blocks.
If Amazon started using all their power to mine them, and switched it on right after a difficulty adjustment, 50400 bitcoins might be mined in fewer than 2 weeks, for example, they might mine 8000 bitcoins a day, for 7 days.
Also, if their mining power exceeded 50%, of the Bitcoin network: they might be able to cheat. They could start "pre-mining" blocks, and furthermore, they could start tampering with the difficulty.
Of all ways to attack Republicans, you're ranting about "Monopoly Money"??? Back to Twitter with ye!
Don't worry.... there's another way. I bet someone already has the flaw in all the crypto to let them spend the balance of any one address.
They're just (1) Wanting to keep low key, so they don't undermine the value of their knowledge, AND
(2) Waiting for a single wallet/address to accumulate enough value in it to be worth stealing the balance.
I presume that you won't mind getting a copy of Meyer's Twilight instead of Stoker's Dracula. I mean, they're both vampire novels, so they're completely fungible, right?
I'm sure you won't mind getting the Dell ultrabook, instead of the Macbook air you asked for. I mean, they're both computers, so completely fungible, right?
Kaspersky AV installs it's extensions in Chrome, and frankly I a) don't want to depend on the Chrome Store for them since I can only trust them if they come directly from Kaspersky
That's nice. But it's what Google trusts that matters. Google only trusts the Kaspersky plugin of highly questionable value that may actually be exposing you to multiple additional severe security risks without offering much additional protection -- enough to be enabled in Chrome now, if the app came directly from the app store.
If the app came directly from Kaspersky... well, sorry, that's just not trustworthy enough. How do you think you know the original came from Kaspersky anyways, and wasn't actually modified using MITM techniques? :)
b) don't want them disabled since I installed Kaspersky specifically for this purpose.
Well. It's happening; unless you deployed the extension using the Enterprise policy method, or to a dev version of the browser.
Kaspersky doesn't get a gold pass exempting them from all the rules ---- they apparently didn't pay much attention to the effective date of Google's warning that developers must use the Chrome web store for extensions: if they were still distributing files directly.
Use the left arrow key to move the cursor left one unit, then press DEL, instead of backspace.
[*]I am not a big fan of backspace being abused as a navigational command, either. It is not the intended use of the key, and sometimes causes accidental loss of partially drafted text.
It might not be as big a defense, as you think
b) Bullshit toolbars and crapware that are installed by "sponsorware" crapware
Seems like a minor tweak to bundle in with the crapware: Chromium or an altered chrome binary and altered versions of all major browsers; change user's default browser to the 'crapware' one, and disable updates ---- or rather, make them auto-update from the crapware vendor with new crapware.
No, somewhere, Facebook is consulting attorneys on how to avoid a Fatwa so he won't end up like Salman Rushdie, or worse, Theo van Gogh
Sigh... What's the world coming to. now attorneys are needed, even to pass a good bribe?
More seriously... Zuckberg wasn't a muslim like Rushdie who was branded a traitor, and he hasn't personally been the responsible for something so enraging or challenging to the Muslims such as Theo Van Gogh's Submission.
In short... he's not likely to have a fatwa issued against him declaring him an 'enemy of God,' because he Zuckerberg just hasn't done anything notable, worthy, or extraordinary enough.
You can't restrict the URL, just the host name. Unless you want to forego HTTPS...
It depends.... HTTPS security is abysmal. We all know (or should know) very well by now, approximately how massive the number of subtle flaws there are likely to be in the SSL protocol, not to mention the known weaknesses.
End to end IPsec would be a better idea than HTTPS (Not that I am recommending end-to-end ipsec).
Ideally the POS would transmit an encrypted HTTP payload. With a random symmetric key sent encrypted with the processors' public key.
And then the payload digitally signed with the POS terminal's secret key.
And inside that HTTPs packet; the actual payment details would have been already pre-encrypted by the card reader into a fixed-length binary blob, and neither the POS workstation nor the server have the ability to decrypt.
In this case, non-HTTPS may very well be preferrable, so the proxy can further verify that what is being sent is conformant --- possibly, even validating the digital signature, before allowing the message..
it's inevitable that corporations and governments are going to use them to invade people's privacy
"Vehicle owner: Please take me to Xyz airport."
"Vehicle: OKAY"
(Silently... Vehicle... I noticed [Vehicle owner] is on the no-fly list, please transmit instructions.
Government computer: Acknowledged. Ultraviolet clearance revoked. Please divert to the nearest self-incrimination station; seal all doors and windows -- upon stopping, lower security grilles over windows switch to imprisonment mode; do not allow any passenger to exit the vehicle.
No electronic payments can be processed.
Sure they can. Via dedicated proxy server sandwiched between two firewalls that allows HTTP, but to only the payment processor's URL. As discussed in my other post.
POS's that require Net access because part of the services link into API's for UPS, FexEx, and USPS for realtime transactions.
You don't actually need full Net access for that.
The recommendation here is that you have a proxy server; that the applications required to use these services are configured with. The proxy server should only allow the required URLs.
In some cases, the individual applications can be configured with a unique client-side SSL certificate, username, and password with which to access the proxy server.
The firewall that the POS terminals are behind will then only allow an outbound connection to the proxy server in the middle.
The separate outer firewall that the outside interface of the proxy server is behind, will only allow an outbound connection from the proxy server's outside IP address.
That still counts as "on-the-internet" (unless you somehow have a dedicate line going from the POS to the server), so you're plenty vulnerable to spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
There's this thing called a VLAN.
You can use a dedicated Layer 3 switch for your POS network. Setup a Private VLAN (PVLAN) to carry your POS network.
Setup a private promiscuous VLAN for your switch to perform L3 routing on.
Setup a private Isolated VLAN (PVLAN Isolated) for your POS terminals, and enable local Proxy-Arp on your isolated PVLANs.
Place your server on a Server VLAN.
Enable 802.1x wired port security for your POS ports.
Configure routing between your POS Subnet and your POS server's dedicated Subnet. Set it up with Route-maps or ACLs such that; every POS can talk to the server, and the server can talk to any POS terminal, but no two POS can speak to each other, and no other IP address can speak to a POS or the server.
No default route in the routing table of this Layer 3 switch.
No internet connectivity necessary.
Windows POSReady 2009 is actually Windows XP though, just stripped down and a lot of bug-ridden exploitable and memory hogging code removed. Almost the same system files exist in the same versions and thus they have many exploits in common and frequently can be patched with the same code.
There, fixed it for you.
Let's hope the rest of the earth's species don't adopt this plan to control the invasive naked apes.
They're not in communication with each other, and a minor human effort will knock out any 'cells' of species members who attempt that plan