3 exchanges were ever hacked in history, 2 were MTGox lol. But this doesn't sound like the first hack. It sounds like it just knocked them offline. The first one actually stole stuff and they thoroughly fixed that problem and sold the site to a company with better resources and a large background in banking.
This is NOT a "reminder of how insecure all money is in the computer age". This is a reminder of what a crappy job BitCoin's developers have done. Did you somehow miss the part about the need to develop an alternative architecture before this can be reopened?
The bitcoin developers didn't design MTGox.com or pick the hosting company, genius. They made the protocol, which has thus far been perfect.
For all the rest of you that might believe that nonsense, I know the protocol inside and out and that's all bullshit and horribly inaccurate. He has no idea how the protocol actually works. It has nothing to do with reversing encrypted data since that will do nothing for you.
Amen to that. People don't realize the protocol is absolutely, 100% perfectly fraud-proof. It is designed to be impossible to forge a bad block or fake a transaction or gain ownership of coins you don't own. The only way to actually do it is to outprocess the entire rest of the network, which is impossible.
Somewhere? K K Tibanne Corp in Japan. And they already got hacked once so you'd think they'd have gotten their shit together. This may have been a DDOS or something stupid like that though since the price of BC is freaking $133! That's like 50% up from 2 weeks ago.
Look up "proof" in the dictionary. There has never been proof of dark matter existing at all. There's pretty pictures and self-serving, biased, one-sided studies, and sketchy math equations, and really specific experiments that don't consider other possibilities, but zero proof.
So dark matter touches itself and explodes into positrons and electrons. It's 4x more common mass-wise than regular matter, both have gravity, but only dark matter didn't manage to coalesce into planets and starts? Is there some sort of huge gravity differential or more spread out distribution are they just making things up again?
P.S. I still think dark matter is a fantasy created from bad math.
They're still making printers and laptops too and I think we all know they have no business doing that either after their record the last 10 years with them.
Maybe they should also increase the fee for health insurance more significantly if you're enormous. That would have to be more of a BMI thing but seriously, I should not be paying this much for insurance. I think the average increase for tobacco users is like 40% and it's even less for fat people. Well guess what! It should be 10x for tobacco users and 10x for fat people and then they can easily drop mine 4x. Talk about a motivator to lose weight and stop smoking! Flood insurance is calculated precisely by risk of actually flooding. Why not health insurance? In fact one trampoline or pool alone can double your homeowner's insurance because that's the mathematical increase in probability of having a claim. If you're 400 pounds or smoke a pack a day, I'd say your odds of needing healthcare actually exceed my own by 1000x.
So yeah, plane tickets, health insurance, buffets, hit them everywhere that it's realistic so they can get an idea of the actual impact on society and business costs because they're so damn fat.
I could have sworn they said 19 would have one-private, one-not as a feature so I had a ton of Windows open and ctrl-alt-p, NOPE! Closed, lol. So this will finally be nice!
For the first time in human history, Microsoft may break their "every other product sucks" cycle by releasing two crappy OSes in a row. So they're just in time for massive non-MS tablet and phone adoption where everyone and their grandma knows how to operate an android interface. Apple already doubled their market share during Vista time. Ubuntu is (debatably) getting more useable by the average Joe. Now Chromebooks come in a non-toy, actual business-use device that's cheap. Thin terminals are an incredible, unbelievably, immensely stupid solution but a monitor and terminal is like $200 so tada, call centers and places run by cheapos use them. So Chromebooks at $250, most people know how to operate one, and it runs useful apps? The tipping point is when 3rd party mega-suites start releasing alternate OS versions of their client software. Right now it's basically VPN/RDP or native Windows for CRMs and stuff. But Driven and Fishbowl and Quickbooks all have Android apps so, bye bye MS.
In reality, they have the money. They'll fire every other person in charge of UI design and planning and make something their customers actually want by Windows 10. I just hope, FOR ONCE, they learn their lesson permanently! Considering the every other cycle is since Windows 3.1, that's doubtful.
Didn't they already solve the "measuring it destroys it problem" by measuring quantum particles it in a certain way that didn't disrupt them and used that to make a working qubit and make a working 16-gate (or whatever) quantum CPU and do math on it and it worked? The answer is yet, by the way. And it was on slashdot:-P
How old is this story? There are already benchmarks out as of like 4 weeks ago. I even have favorited a laptop with a 730M for sale as of 3 weeks ago. The 730M is supposed to absolutely crush everything before it, even the 540M. It's so much better at video playback, it's not even funny. I know this because my company needed a laptop to play 20MBps videos and our A8 Llano laptop and NVS140 laptop weren't even close.
way ahead of you (weeks sadly) and no it cannot. Doesn't matter though, as a Radeon 5830 @ 240W can get about 315MH/s and the new ASICs can go 2W, 4,500MH/s. That's almost 2000x more efficient or something.
It's simple (not really, lol). It's not a true "before." This was thoroughly explained years ago in a slashdot story about the quantum funhouse mirror effect. They slowed down light to almost a dead stop and sent it down a path. They noticed that under some circumstances, the light appears to be coming back from the end towards the source at the same time that it was being sent. But, since it was traveling away from the ending, it could never be "received" because receiving it would instantly stop it from being transmitted by simultaneously blocking the source. However, they did determine that the data existed at the target instantly before the photon got there. It's at the same time the photon was generated but before it was received. So that's what they mean by "before." It's not really "before," it's actually an absolute "now," but it appears to be "before" because of the transmission time.
If your mind isn't blown enough, they could read certain data about the pretend photons at the target location using quantum...I dunno, magic or something, but hadn't developed a method to basically turn it into 0's and 1's. They did partially prove it was possible though.
Okay, smarty. One quantum particle occupies 2 places in space at the same time (aka quantum entangled). You move them a lightyear apart then spin one. What happens to the "other" particle and when?
There is no causality when it's actually the same particle. The cause and effect are both that it is the same particle.
I'm pretty sure exactly the opposite is true, lol. The faster it travels, the more "time" it experiences so to the outside world, it appears you're moving quite slowly. Remember, if you take off for 1 year a 99.9999% the speed of light, like 1000 years will have passed or something so it actually would appear that you're traveling the speed of light divided by 1000 to outside observers.
But let's see if someone with a brain is reading comments. One quantum particle occupies 2 places in space at the same time (aka quantum entangled). You move them a lightyear appart then spin one. What happens to the other?
Last time I started mentioning proven scientific fact, demonstrated in laboratories, and taught in universities, a bunch of dumbasses modded me down, saying that it's impossible. Well welcome to 2013. Guess what, it's not. Even if this is a joke, it i s true. There have been experiments where data from some sort of quantum photon path thing basically did a funhouse mirror trick where the light existed at the end just as it was leaving then . It was a story on Slashdot. You cannot possibly have missed it! It was even titled something like "light arrives at target before leaving."
Also, I'm still 99.99999999999999999% sure that there have been entire Discover Channel specials about quantum entanglement that state, word for word, that quantum entanglement will solve the overseas reporter audio delay issue. Modifications to one particle happen instantaneously to the other since the data doesn't have to "travel," as the two particles are actually the same particle. There is no mass or radiation that has to move from point to point. It's just basically one particle in two places in space at the same time. Via the laws of physics, modifications to one HAVE TO happen to the other in realtime. They even said that a Mars rover with a quantum chip would be able to be driven in realtime by a remote control because of the zero delay. The biggest problem lately, as stated in MANY slashdot stories, is how far they can get the particles away from each other before the entanglement collapses. Every time a new record for distance is set, it's a slashdot story. So stop spouting off outdated crap from your high school physics class 10 years ago and saying I'm wrong.
I think they could have gotten away with a random person like Linus simply walking around in a supervisor capacity. He could read every design plan and attend meetings and his only job is to say "WTF, REALLY?!" when someone thinks of a stupid idea like touch or metro or CD keys embedded in the BIOS or UEFI. That would really benefit MS the most.
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3 exchanges were ever hacked in history, 2 were MTGox lol. But this doesn't sound like the first hack. It sounds like it just knocked them offline. The first one actually stole stuff and they thoroughly fixed that problem and sold the site to a company with better resources and a large background in banking.
This is NOT a "reminder of how insecure all money is in the computer age". This is a reminder of what a crappy job BitCoin's developers have done. Did you somehow miss the part about the need to develop an alternative architecture before this can be reopened?
The bitcoin developers didn't design MTGox.com or pick the hosting company, genius. They made the protocol, which has thus far been perfect.
For all the rest of you that might believe that nonsense, I know the protocol inside and out and that's all bullshit and horribly inaccurate. He has no idea how the protocol actually works. It has nothing to do with reversing encrypted data since that will do nothing for you.
Amen to that. People don't realize the protocol is absolutely, 100% perfectly fraud-proof. It is designed to be impossible to forge a bad block or fake a transaction or gain ownership of coins you don't own. The only way to actually do it is to outprocess the entire rest of the network, which is impossible.
The bought the domain name, dumbass. It's now K K Tibanne running it. That's like making fun on pets.com because of 15 years ago or whatever.
Somewhere? K K Tibanne Corp in Japan. And they already got hacked once so you'd think they'd have gotten their shit together. This may have been a DDOS or something stupid like that though since the price of BC is freaking $133! That's like 50% up from 2 weeks ago.
Look up "proof" in the dictionary. There has never been proof of dark matter existing at all. There's pretty pictures and self-serving, biased, one-sided studies, and sketchy math equations, and really specific experiments that don't consider other possibilities, but zero proof.
So dark matter touches itself and explodes into positrons and electrons. It's 4x more common mass-wise than regular matter, both have gravity, but only dark matter didn't manage to coalesce into planets and starts? Is there some sort of huge gravity differential or more spread out distribution are they just making things up again?
P.S. I still think dark matter is a fantasy created from bad math.
They're still making printers and laptops too and I think we all know they have no business doing that either after their record the last 10 years with them.
Maybe they should also increase the fee for health insurance more significantly if you're enormous. That would have to be more of a BMI thing but seriously, I should not be paying this much for insurance. I think the average increase for tobacco users is like 40% and it's even less for fat people. Well guess what! It should be 10x for tobacco users and 10x for fat people and then they can easily drop mine 4x. Talk about a motivator to lose weight and stop smoking! Flood insurance is calculated precisely by risk of actually flooding. Why not health insurance? In fact one trampoline or pool alone can double your homeowner's insurance because that's the mathematical increase in probability of having a claim. If you're 400 pounds or smoke a pack a day, I'd say your odds of needing healthcare actually exceed my own by 1000x.
So yeah, plane tickets, health insurance, buffets, hit them everywhere that it's realistic so they can get an idea of the actual impact on society and business costs because they're so damn fat.
from King of the Hill: "That guy's done more in a quarter mile than I've done in my entire life."
If I released a new version of my software once a month for really no apparent reason, it'd do the same.
I could have sworn they said 19 would have one-private, one-not as a feature so I had a ton of Windows open and ctrl-alt-p, NOPE! Closed, lol. So this will finally be nice!
For the first time in human history, Microsoft may break their "every other product sucks" cycle by releasing two crappy OSes in a row. So they're just in time for massive non-MS tablet and phone adoption where everyone and their grandma knows how to operate an android interface. Apple already doubled their market share during Vista time. Ubuntu is (debatably) getting more useable by the average Joe. Now Chromebooks come in a non-toy, actual business-use device that's cheap. Thin terminals are an incredible, unbelievably, immensely stupid solution but a monitor and terminal is like $200 so tada, call centers and places run by cheapos use them. So Chromebooks at $250, most people know how to operate one, and it runs useful apps? The tipping point is when 3rd party mega-suites start releasing alternate OS versions of their client software. Right now it's basically VPN/RDP or native Windows for CRMs and stuff. But Driven and Fishbowl and Quickbooks all have Android apps so, bye bye MS.
In reality, they have the money. They'll fire every other person in charge of UI design and planning and make something their customers actually want by Windows 10. I just hope, FOR ONCE, they learn their lesson permanently! Considering the every other cycle is since Windows 3.1, that's doubtful.
Didn't they already solve the "measuring it destroys it problem" by measuring quantum particles it in a certain way that didn't disrupt them and used that to make a working qubit and make a working 16-gate (or whatever) quantum CPU and do math on it and it worked? The answer is yet, by the way. And it was on slashdot :-P
Isn't Xyzzy one of the Beholder bosses from Dungeons and Dragons Online?
How old is this story? There are already benchmarks out as of like 4 weeks ago. I even have favorited a laptop with a 730M for sale as of 3 weeks ago. The 730M is supposed to absolutely crush everything before it, even the 540M. It's so much better at video playback, it's not even funny. I know this because my company needed a laptop to play 20MBps videos and our A8 Llano laptop and NVS140 laptop weren't even close.
way ahead of you (weeks sadly) and no it cannot. Doesn't matter though, as a Radeon 5830 @ 240W can get about 315MH/s and the new ASICs can go 2W, 4,500MH/s. That's almost 2000x more efficient or something.
You do know people have free will, right? We can make choices and stuff.
It's simple (not really, lol). It's not a true "before." This was thoroughly explained years ago in a slashdot story about the quantum funhouse mirror effect. They slowed down light to almost a dead stop and sent it down a path. They noticed that under some circumstances, the light appears to be coming back from the end towards the source at the same time that it was being sent. But, since it was traveling away from the ending, it could never be "received" because receiving it would instantly stop it from being transmitted by simultaneously blocking the source. However, they did determine that the data existed at the target instantly before the photon got there. It's at the same time the photon was generated but before it was received. So that's what they mean by "before." It's not really "before," it's actually an absolute "now," but it appears to be "before" because of the transmission time.
If your mind isn't blown enough, they could read certain data about the pretend photons at the target location using quantum...I dunno, magic or something, but hadn't developed a method to basically turn it into 0's and 1's. They did partially prove it was possible though.
Okay, smarty. One quantum particle occupies 2 places in space at the same time (aka quantum entangled). You move them a lightyear apart then spin one. What happens to the "other" particle and when?
There is no causality when it's actually the same particle. The cause and effect are both that it is the same particle.
I'm pretty sure exactly the opposite is true, lol. The faster it travels, the more "time" it experiences so to the outside world, it appears you're moving quite slowly. Remember, if you take off for 1 year a 99.9999% the speed of light, like 1000 years will have passed or something so it actually would appear that you're traveling the speed of light divided by 1000 to outside observers.
But let's see if someone with a brain is reading comments. One quantum particle occupies 2 places in space at the same time (aka quantum entangled). You move them a lightyear appart then spin one. What happens to the other?
Answer: it spins instantly. Everyone (except slashdot commenters apparently) knows that.
Last time I started mentioning proven scientific fact, demonstrated in laboratories, and taught in universities, a bunch of dumbasses modded me down, saying that it's impossible. Well welcome to 2013. Guess what, it's not. Even if this is a joke, it i s true. There have been experiments where data from some sort of quantum photon path thing basically did a funhouse mirror trick where the light existed at the end just as it was leaving then . It was a story on Slashdot. You cannot possibly have missed it! It was even titled something like "light arrives at target before leaving."
Also, I'm still 99.99999999999999999% sure that there have been entire Discover Channel specials about quantum entanglement that state, word for word, that quantum entanglement will solve the overseas reporter audio delay issue. Modifications to one particle happen instantaneously to the other since the data doesn't have to "travel," as the two particles are actually the same particle. There is no mass or radiation that has to move from point to point. It's just basically one particle in two places in space at the same time. Via the laws of physics, modifications to one HAVE TO happen to the other in realtime. They even said that a Mars rover with a quantum chip would be able to be driven in realtime by a remote control because of the zero delay. The biggest problem lately, as stated in MANY slashdot stories, is how far they can get the particles away from each other before the entanglement collapses. Every time a new record for distance is set, it's a slashdot story. So stop spouting off outdated crap from your high school physics class 10 years ago and saying I'm wrong.
I think they could have gotten away with a random person like Linus simply walking around in a supervisor capacity. He could read every design plan and attend meetings and his only job is to say "WTF, REALLY?!" when someone thinks of a stupid idea like touch or metro or CD keys embedded in the BIOS or UEFI. That would really benefit MS the most.
Then you just proved you know absolutely nothing about how BTC works or the history of it.