I agree with you on the point about the recent problems with the financial services sector. Advocates of Bitcoin need to acknowledge that Bitcoin is not a panacea. I believe there are other fundamental flaws that have yet to be discovered.
The point is to compare the magnitude of the MTGOX debacle in terms people can understand. The malleability feature was one of the points that was exploited for this major theft. How many more security holes and flaws are in Bitcoin?
The frequencies 2305-2310 MHz provide bandwidths of 0.05-1MHz for full duplex analog or digital modes. Amateur operators appear to be secondary operators on that band however. Appears that most digital modes are low rate and low bandwidth. These would not provide bandwidth to approach data rates for EDGE let alone WCMA and LTE. The ARRL could have chosen to lobby Congress and the FCC years ago change rules to allow for more experimentation at higher bandwidths and frequencies.
You missed the point. If this were to happen in the financial services sector you could't just wave you hand at it to make it go away. Bitcoin foundation says on their website the software is new. There are no doubt holes in the protocol that have yet to be exploited.
The stakes are high and people will play any game to get a piece of this action.
The MT.GOX theft of 850,000 Bitcoins is 7% of the approximately 12,000,000 [1] in circulation.
To put the impact of this into perspective consider that the top-50 largest holding companies have assets totaling $15,681,169,806 in thousands of dollars. Seven percent of this total is $1,097,681,886 which equates to someone stealing all of the assets for Goldman Sachs Group and Capitol One Financial Corp [2].
If this were to happen in the 'traditional' currency market the entire system would be in dire straights. Members of the Bitcoin foundation are trying to minimize the damage and dismiss this as 'bad actor' with poor security. Could it be that this is the first of major faults that will shutter this emerging virtual currency?
The MT.GOX theft of 850,000 Bitcoins is 7% of the approximately 12,000,000 [1] in circulation.
To put the impact of this into perspective consider that the top-50 largest holding companies have assets totaling $15,681,169,806 in thousands of dollars. Seven percent of this total is $1,097,681,886 which equates to someone stealing all of the assets for Goldman Sachs Group and Capitol One Financial Corp.
If this were to happen in the 'traditional' currency market the entire system would be in dire straights. Members of the Bitcoin foundation are trying to minimize the damage and dismiss this as 'bad actor' with poor security. Could it be that this is the first of major faults that will shutter this emerging virtual currency?
[1] - https://blockchain.info/charts...
[2] - https://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubwe...
The phrase "same stuff different day" comes to mind when I think of the future of Bitcoin. In the last 10-15 years we have witnessed the Dot.com bubble, Energy bubble (remember ENRON), real-estate bubble (CDOs, Credit Default Swap, etc.) Bitcoin is the brave new world for the Wolf's of Wall Street.
Bitcoin advocates talk about a lot of positive aspects to the system. People naively assume that everyone will 'play by the rules' and do what is best for the long term stability of the currency. Wall Street will continue to invent creative and complicated ways to fleece others of their money. There is truly no honor among thieves. I for one will not be holding the bag when Bitcoin implodes due to dishonest games by white collar criminals.
[1] - Reference from Stephen King novel but a little more vulgar in the book
Yes. I have heard about reverse engineering on posts on the Internet. I also have read that many base band processors are implemented in ASICs (QUALCOMM) which are difficult to hack. The base band processors are done with ASICs because they are ultra-low power. A software based band processor will eat your battery very quickly.
So there are reasons, besides hacking prevention, to guide one to make hardware based units.
There has been a lot of hate against the U.S. and British governments because they have technical capabilities to "spy." Many people have argued that the fact that they can do something implies that they are doing things illegally. Could it be that they there is good that can come from having satellites that can take pictures from space? Several global powers have provided technical support, radar, and images from space to help with this search. Without information the global community would be out searching every square mile of the ocean with no hope in a million years to ever finding this plan. Consider.
Those who hold am amateur radio license would be able to build experiments to develop end-point radios with modulation techniques found in today's modern wireless communications systems. The trouble is that many of the folks in the amateur radio community are not 'pushing' the state of the art in communications technologies. Amateur radio operators have licenses to transmit but many lack the background in signal processing and software design to make it happen. The community as a whole needs amateur operators to embrace these areas and innovate.
There are good reasons why base band processors cannot be opened up for anyone to use. Opening up the base band would allow hackers to run wild disrupting operating of networks.
The freedom to express oneself how one wants despite people thinking that it "serves no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society" IS a benefit in and of itself.
That is like saying the freedom of speech allows me to walk into a movie theater and shot fire. In this case the person is exercising their right of free speech but it is not serving a purpose for the betterment of a society as a whole.
There are so many more ways for artists to exercise their gifts to demonstrate the benefit of this expression.
I agree that many modern games promote violence in general. I bought the Left4Dead games but stopped playing them. As a parent why should my kids not play games that have violence if I am not willing to not play them. I stick to sports games.
If we are to claim that games are an art form akin to books, movies, poetry, music, and painting, then we have to accept that art often is designed to make us uncomfortable. Often, an artist calls attention to an issue by exploring it.
What issue are the 'artists' of Grand Theft Auto exactly exploring and hoping to change?
I liken these games to an 'artist' in a major city once stripped off his cloths, sat in his own excrement, and did disgusting sex acts to himself in the presence of others.
In my mind both of these 'artists' are disgusting and are serving no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society.
But then, the ladies in question weren't overly-sensitive professional victims, either.
I have not played "Leisure Suit Larry" but wonder what would happen if you started quoting lines from certain games in the work place? My guess is you would be visited by a member of HR informing you that someone filled a sexual harassment complaint against you.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."
--Martin Niemöller
Live is good as long as your are not one of the groups being maligned. Once you become one of "them" you will start to worry and not be 'tired of this crap'.
I wonder do male gamers with daughters think differently about games that promote violence against women then single male gamers with no children?
As a father of girls I cannot in a clear coconscious buy games that have sexists concepts and promote violence against women.
I personally find games that promote sexist themes and violence against women disgusting and I do not buy them. I mostly play sports games and have found mature well balanced people on online gaming session. I have also found a fair share of egotistical disgusting sociopaths who frankly need mental health counseling. Even if companies stopped making these games for consoles they will just seek out another outlet to live out their fantasy of committing violent acts against women.
The program in question on this thread targeted foreign governments, terrorists, etc. The Supreme Court has ruled that the 4th amendment protects US citizens home and abroad BUT only foreign nationals inside of the United States (http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2819&context=flr) The government has strong legal grounds for the program and procedures of due process and oversight.
Does the government need to obtain a warrant to obtain this information?
My impression in reading news articles is that they must get warrants.
If they must get warrants does this change the situation?
You have hit the nail on the head.
This program was approved by the Executive, Legislative, and Legal branches of the government.
I understand folks do not agree but it is the law.
Just because you disagree with the law does that mean you can release information to enemies of the United States?
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I agree with you on the point about the recent problems with the financial services sector. Advocates of Bitcoin need to acknowledge that Bitcoin is not a panacea. I believe there are other fundamental flaws that have yet to be discovered.
Good point. That looks right.
The point is to compare the magnitude of the MTGOX debacle in terms people can understand. The malleability feature was one of the points that was exploited for this major theft. How many more security holes and flaws are in Bitcoin?
The frequencies 2305-2310 MHz provide bandwidths of 0.05-1MHz for full duplex analog or digital modes. Amateur operators appear to be secondary operators on that band however. Appears that most digital modes are low rate and low bandwidth. These would not provide bandwidth to approach data rates for EDGE let alone WCMA and LTE. The ARRL could have chosen to lobby Congress and the FCC years ago change rules to allow for more experimentation at higher bandwidths and frequencies.
I agree. What is the better way to wright it? Also, do you agree or disagree with my point?
You missed the point. If this were to happen in the financial services sector you could't just wave you hand at it to make it go away. Bitcoin foundation says on their website the software is new. There are no doubt holes in the protocol that have yet to be exploited.
The stakes are high and people will play any game to get a piece of this action.
The MT.GOX theft of 850,000 Bitcoins is 7% of the approximately 12,000,000 [1] in circulation. To put the impact of this into perspective consider that the top-50 largest holding companies have assets totaling $15,681,169,806 in thousands of dollars. Seven percent of this total is $1,097,681,886 which equates to someone stealing all of the assets for Goldman Sachs Group and Capitol One Financial Corp [2].
If this were to happen in the 'traditional' currency market the entire system would be in dire straights. Members of the Bitcoin foundation are trying to minimize the damage and dismiss this as 'bad actor' with poor security. Could it be that this is the first of major faults that will shutter this emerging virtual currency?
[1] - https://blockchain.info/charts...
[2] - https://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubwe...
The MT.GOX theft of 850,000 Bitcoins is 7% of the approximately 12,000,000 [1] in circulation.
To put the impact of this into perspective consider that the top-50 largest holding companies have assets totaling $15,681,169,806 in thousands of dollars. Seven percent of this total is $1,097,681,886 which equates to someone stealing all of the assets for Goldman Sachs Group and Capitol One Financial Corp.
If this were to happen in the 'traditional' currency market the entire system would be in dire straights. Members of the Bitcoin foundation are trying to minimize the damage and dismiss this as 'bad actor' with poor security. Could it be that this is the first of major faults that will shutter this emerging virtual currency? [1] - https://blockchain.info/charts... [2] - https://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubwe...
The phrase "same stuff different day" comes to mind when I think of the future of Bitcoin. In the last 10-15 years we have witnessed the Dot.com bubble, Energy bubble (remember ENRON), real-estate bubble (CDOs, Credit Default Swap, etc.) Bitcoin is the brave new world for the Wolf's of Wall Street.
Bitcoin advocates talk about a lot of positive aspects to the system. People naively assume that everyone will 'play by the rules' and do what is best for the long term stability of the currency. Wall Street will continue to invent creative and complicated ways to fleece others of their money. There is truly no honor among thieves. I for one will not be holding the bag when Bitcoin implodes due to dishonest games by white collar criminals.
[1] - Reference from Stephen King novel but a little more vulgar in the book
Yes. I have heard about reverse engineering on posts on the Internet. I also have read that many base band processors are implemented in ASICs (QUALCOMM) which are difficult to hack. The base band processors are done with ASICs because they are ultra-low power. A software based band processor will eat your battery very quickly.
So there are reasons, besides hacking prevention, to guide one to make hardware based units.
I heard that certain batteries, Lithium-Ion, have been banned for overseas shipment for certain carriers. Any truth to this?
There has been a lot of hate against the U.S. and British governments because they have technical capabilities to "spy." Many people have argued that the fact that they can do something implies that they are doing things illegally. Could it be that they there is good that can come from having satellites that can take pictures from space?
Several global powers have provided technical support, radar, and images from space to help with this search. Without information the global community would be out searching every square mile of the ocean with no hope in a million years to ever finding this plan. Consider.
Those who hold am amateur radio license would be able to build experiments to develop end-point radios with modulation techniques found in today's modern wireless communications systems. The trouble is that many of the folks in the amateur radio community are not 'pushing' the state of the art in communications technologies. Amateur radio operators have licenses to transmit but many lack the background in signal processing and software design to make it happen. The community as a whole needs amateur operators to embrace these areas and innovate.
There are good reasons why base band processors cannot be opened up for anyone to use. Opening up the base band would allow hackers to run wild disrupting operating of networks.
The freedom to express oneself how one wants despite people thinking that it "serves no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society" IS a benefit in and of itself.
That is like saying the freedom of speech allows me to walk into a movie theater and shot fire. In this case the person is exercising their right of free speech but it is not serving a purpose for the betterment of a society as a whole. There are so many more ways for artists to exercise their gifts to demonstrate the benefit of this expression.
I agree that many modern games promote violence in general. I bought the Left4Dead games but stopped playing them. As a parent why should my kids not play games that have violence if I am not willing to not play them. I stick to sports games.
If we are to claim that games are an art form akin to books, movies, poetry, music, and painting, then we have to accept that art often is designed to make us uncomfortable. Often, an artist calls attention to an issue by exploring it.
What issue are the 'artists' of Grand Theft Auto exactly exploring and hoping to change?
I liken these games to an 'artist' in a major city once stripped off his cloths, sat in his own excrement, and did disgusting sex acts to himself in the presence of others.
In my mind both of these 'artists' are disgusting and are serving no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society.
But then, the ladies in question weren't overly-sensitive professional victims, either.
I have not played "Leisure Suit Larry" but wonder what would happen if you started quoting lines from certain games in the work place?
My guess is you would be visited by a member of HR informing you that someone filled a sexual harassment complaint against you.
You make a good point about the need to have diversity in games.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."
--Martin Niemöller
Live is good as long as your are not one of the groups being maligned. Once you become one of "them" you will start to worry and not be 'tired of this crap'.
I wonder do male gamers with daughters think differently about games that promote violence against women then single male gamers with no children? As a father of girls I cannot in a clear coconscious buy games that have sexists concepts and promote violence against women.
I personally find games that promote sexist themes and violence against women disgusting and I do not buy them. I mostly play sports games and have found mature well balanced people on online gaming session. I have also found a fair share of egotistical disgusting sociopaths who frankly need mental health counseling. Even if companies stopped making these games for consoles they will just seek out another outlet to live out their fantasy of committing violent acts against women.
The program in question on this thread targeted foreign governments, terrorists, etc. The Supreme Court has ruled that the 4th amendment protects US citizens home and abroad BUT only foreign nationals inside of the United States (http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2819&context=flr) The government has strong legal grounds for the program and procedures of due process and oversight.
Does the government need to obtain a warrant to obtain this information? My impression in reading news articles is that they must get warrants. If they must get warrants does this change the situation?
You have hit the nail on the head. This program was approved by the Executive, Legislative, and Legal branches of the government. I understand folks do not agree but it is the law. Just because you disagree with the law does that mean you can release information to enemies of the United States?