Please explain, as I have no idea what I just read.
I can use a credit card or paypal to "buy" coins at $0.20/ea. (Dec/12th price)
I can also download a program that gives me a free coin every three weeks if I let it run constantly on my computer.
There are sites out there I can trade bitcoins in for cash or prepaid credit cards.
How does this work then? Why does it give money for processor time? What's it doing that merits payment, and who is paying it? And wont the first botnet operator who signs up end up the richest, simply because of the massive amount of stolen cpu cycles? Doesnt that in turn make the whole system worthless?
As someone sells stuff online (like etsy/ebay) why would I benefit from this? Sure, I save 4% by skipping paypal, but how do I get actual cold hard cash I can buy liquor with? This whole thing involves too much trust into a system that appears real easy to game. It also relies on people I can't trust, and who have no incentive to keep their side of the deal. When I get a paypal payment, I know I have money I can spend. But with this bit stuff, I just dont understand how one gets from worthless digi-bits online, to something I can buy groceries with.
You have to find all the reasons that make gutting NASA good for Obama. Along the lines of:
> No more whities in space!
> We'll take money from NASA in order to come take your guns away. Only way we can afford it.
> By gutting NASA, we'll take all the high paying jobs in the south and eliminate them.
> Rockets? In Utah? As if!
> The Overlords told me to.
The crazier the better. Then you get the Teabaggers/Republinuts to demand more NASA funding. Because now giving NASA money would be bad for Obama.
If you ever used one of the free trackers you'd find out that a lot of the fake/spam/malware files posing as movies or tv shows have thousands of fake peers. This is to trick people like you that think there is strength or knowledge in numbers.
So just because a file says it has 17543 peers, it really doesnt.
That's a measurement of a torrents health, the seed/leech ratio, not quality. So while the 1000peer file might be done faster than the 10peer file, its a moot point if you're downloading static or malware.
With a large public tracker like PirateBay there are mods and members who weed out and delete the malware, spam, and bad torrents that are on the tracker. Wouldn't a distributed system like this actually make it easier for "bad" content to get uploaded? Its like Limewire all over again.
The idea here seems to be that "you cant stop the signal". But I am not sure how they get around the fact that you don't have to kill the signal, just garble it.
When you understand the unique chemicals and items we can synthesize out of this ancient black goop, you realize how stupid we are for simply burning it.
The positions that control contracts like this are all controlled by tenured bureaucrats, regardless of what "face" the rest of the government is wearing this election period.
Did he even take a glance though? A lot of university folk (esp the PhDs) are so full of themselves they dismiss anything that doesn't match their worldview. I know the kind of people you're talking about, and while many truly are insane, there are a few with good ideas. Heck, Marconi, Tesla, Bell, Wright; at some point they were all considered "insane" by their peers, yet look at us today,
That wont happen while the public doesnt understand what you do.
Steamfitters and pipefitters can point to the pipes in the ceiling and say "I did that. To do it safely and correctly every time in every job, I am part of the union and their work rules." Its something tangible that people "get".
As a programmer you write non-tangible stuff, that the general public doesn't "get". "Its all just numbers and stuff, you just sit in front of the computer, why do you need a union to just sit around?" Until that opinion has been dispelled, unionization will fail.
I come up with a lot of ideas, but I don't have the knowledge or skills to implement them. I know what needs to be done and how to do it, but lack the skills to do so. For instance I know that X thing can be done with a customized Y script, but have no clue how to set Y script up. Or I know that by adding a servo or two I can make a tool work better for me, but have no clue how to program the functions for it.
*million dollar idea*
It would be nice if there was a website where newbs, (not noobs), and regular folk, could for a reasonable price "hire" a programmer (or 4) to make a page/script/app/whatever. Kinda like an ebay/craigslist mix, where people can post jobs (WTB), and programmers can post offers (WTS).
As far as I know nothing like that exists. But, I'm probably wrong.
Everyone is to blame at part. But the fact is still that its their problem, they caused it. They put the economy above all else, and now they are paying the price for it.
In the USA and Europe we are also paying for it. We let it happen and now its back to hurt us. From shoddy products that kill people, to the loss of jobs and skills, and in the reduced air quality that gets blown our way.
Ok, I am not a CS major, so please explain why that is? A packet is a packet, and all packets are the same size, no? If anything, transferring one 1MiB would take less packets because of the need for less routing overhead. The network "knows" that these X packets are all going to the same place. As opposed to sending 1024 1KiB packets, each of which needs routing appropriately.
Because they can, and we let them. They are in it for the money, and this is a way to maximize it. While one flat rate set based on actual network costs + profit would be the most logical, thats never going to happen. The marketroids do not understand logic.
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"Mind your own business you hypocrites. You complain about us stifling speech and dissension, yet here you are doing it yourself.
Kinda reminds me of this: http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson825.html
I can use a credit card or paypal to "buy" coins at $0.20/ea. (Dec/12th price)
I can also download a program that gives me a free coin every three weeks if I let it run constantly on my computer.
There are sites out there I can trade bitcoins in for cash or prepaid credit cards.
How does this work then? Why does it give money for processor time? What's it doing that merits payment, and who is paying it? And wont the first botnet operator who signs up end up the richest, simply because of the massive amount of stolen cpu cycles? Doesnt that in turn make the whole system worthless?
As someone sells stuff online (like etsy/ebay) why would I benefit from this? Sure, I save 4% by skipping paypal, but how do I get actual cold hard cash I can buy liquor with? This whole thing involves too much trust into a system that appears real easy to game. It also relies on people I can't trust, and who have no incentive to keep their side of the deal. When I get a paypal payment, I know I have money I can spend. But with this bit stuff, I just dont understand how one gets from worthless digi-bits online, to something I can buy groceries with.
Bush lied, people died.
You have to find all the reasons that make gutting NASA good for Obama. Along the lines of:
> No more whities in space!
> We'll take money from NASA in order to come take your guns away. Only way we can afford it.
> By gutting NASA, we'll take all the high paying jobs in the south and eliminate them.
> Rockets? In Utah? As if!
> The Overlords told me to.
The crazier the better. Then you get the Teabaggers/Republinuts to demand more NASA funding. Because now giving NASA money would be bad for Obama.
Yes, I am serious.
So just because a file says it has 17543 peers, it really doesnt.
That's a measurement of a torrents health, the seed/leech ratio, not quality. So while the 1000peer file might be done faster than the 10peer file, its a moot point if you're downloading static or malware.
With a large public tracker like PirateBay there are mods and members who weed out and delete the malware, spam, and bad torrents that are on the tracker. Wouldn't a distributed system like this actually make it easier for "bad" content to get uploaded? Its like Limewire all over again.
The idea here seems to be that "you cant stop the signal". But I am not sure how they get around the fact that you don't have to kill the signal, just garble it.
When you quit, set them all to Dvorak.
When you understand the unique chemicals and items we can synthesize out of this ancient black goop, you realize how stupid we are for simply burning it.
That's a lot of potential plastic...
The positions that control contracts like this are all controlled by tenured bureaucrats, regardless of what "face" the rest of the government is wearing this election period.
Someone never flew with Aeroflot...
Whatever happened to just putting up a claymore and a sign?
Wasn't this on /. a few years ago?
Now we just need a printer than can play Fur Elise.
lol, thanks for that. I know just the person I can get to use it.
Did he even take a glance though? A lot of university folk (esp the PhDs) are so full of themselves they dismiss anything that doesn't match their worldview. I know the kind of people you're talking about, and while many truly are insane, there are a few with good ideas. Heck, Marconi, Tesla, Bell, Wright; at some point they were all considered "insane" by their peers, yet look at us today,
Steamfitters and pipefitters can point to the pipes in the ceiling and say "I did that. To do it safely and correctly every time in every job, I am part of the union and their work rules." Its something tangible that people "get".
As a programmer you write non-tangible stuff, that the general public doesn't "get". "Its all just numbers and stuff, you just sit in front of the computer, why do you need a union to just sit around?"
Until that opinion has been dispelled, unionization will fail.
The billionaires are the ones who imagine stuff nobody else has, and then do it...
*million dollar idea*
It would be nice if there was a website where newbs, (not noobs), and regular folk, could for a reasonable price "hire" a programmer (or 4) to make a page/script/app/whatever. Kinda like an ebay/craigslist mix, where people can post jobs (WTB), and programmers can post offers (WTS).
As far as I know nothing like that exists. But, I'm probably wrong.
Who profits the most from banning these? Follow the money, then defenestrate them with a safety spork.
Everyone is to blame at part. But the fact is still that its their problem, they caused it. They put the economy above all else, and now they are paying the price for it.
In the USA and Europe we are also paying for it. We let it happen and now its back to hurt us. From shoddy products that kill people, to the loss of jobs and skills, and in the reduced air quality that gets blown our way.
What's the issue here? China makes cheap crap, we use it and send it back. Let the toxins go back to where they were created.
Yeah yeah, I r noob. I read that wrong and though he was saying that 1Mb is more stress than 1024 1Kb.
Ok, I am not a CS major, so please explain why that is? A packet is a packet, and all packets are the same size, no? If anything, transferring one 1MiB would take less packets because of the need for less routing overhead. The network "knows" that these X packets are all going to the same place. As opposed to sending 1024 1KiB packets, each of which needs routing appropriately.
Because they can, and we let them. They are in it for the money, and this is a way to maximize it. While one flat rate set based on actual network costs + profit would be the most logical, thats never going to happen. The marketroids do not understand logic.