They call it dark matter but I call it a mathematical error. That makes the whole situation make A LOT more sense than made-up physics of made up materials actually.
Maybe if you ever read slashdot, you'd know about the complaint years ago about someone finding out that their web hosting company, despite them renting an individual server, demanded that they keep an administrator password to access it whenever they wanted. Since it's THEIR server, that makes perfect sense. I wouldn't let someone lock me out of my own server. That's like a lessee changing the locks and locking a landlord out of their apartment. Basically all web hosting companies have a backdoor password and rarely do they bother to individualize it to each server. Thus making it a "master" backdoor password. So what's your issue with that?
Boy did they bury the lead. Here's the entire story. Allegedly someone broke into the Linode web hosting company, hacked specifically just 8 sites involved in bitcoins and THAT'S IT, no other sites, and stole a hell of a lot more than 3000 BTC. 3000BTC isn't significant but 43,554 BTC were stolen from another major exchange, Bitcoinica. That company is claiming they have the money to cover it and will reimburse everyone. That's almost a quarter of a million US dollars by the way.
Apparently the word on the street is this was targeted and definitely an inside job from an employee or multiple employees at Linode. The easiest way a simultaneous 8-site web control panel hack would be to simply log in with a secret back-door master password that basically all web hosts have. Either someone hacked Linode and found out that master password or it was an employee, the latter of which is obviously a lot simpler and more believable.
Everyone gets all scared when big piles of BTC are stolen because the price usually crashes afterwards. In case you were wondering about that, selling off 3000BTC all at once, right now this very second would drop it from $4.94 US to $4.83. See for yourself: Live graph of MTGox who does 80-90% of all exchange transactions
Oh the drama. As an actual bitcoin miner, let me fill you in on the real story instead of that media fluff that's purposely inflated to overdramatic proportions. Almost all bitcoin mining pool websites are configured to pay people every time 1 BTC is reached. That's around $5 US and takes a mediocre mining rig approximately 2 days to generate. So the most that the average person probably lost is $0.01 - $5.00. NOBODY keeps massive piles of BTC sitting around at the pool itself. The exchanges, yeah, but not the pools. They're known for lax security too. At the #1 biggest mining pool, your miners' login passwords are listed as plaintext on the page because what are people going to do, mine for you? And none of your money stay there for long so nobody really cares.
What really doesn't add up is the 3000 BTC estimate. Even Deepbit, the largest pool, doesn't have 6000 members, which would be the number required to, at any given point in time, have an average of 3000 BTC on-hand. So it likely was the site owner's profit pool that got robbed the most heavily.
I do think AT&T is basically Satan but in this case, I don't see it. They're absolutely guaranteed with this system to get paid for bandwidth that gets used. So if your app uses X amount of data and they know how much data will be used so you as a developer pay per megabyte for example, AT&T is assuring themselves that they'll have the money to upgrade their infrastructure if the need arises due to more data because the money is there to cover it. When it comes to just phones, you don't know if the customer will use 50MB or 5000MB. I think in general, if your customers are going to use X amount of data as a grand total-based average, build that much of an infrastructure and charge accordingly instead of convincing customers to use less data through stupid tactics.
If you think about it, Paypal doesn't and shouldn't care about every little thing payments they handle are going for. Do they police in-game MMORPG purchases to make sure it's not a gaming addict? Do they make sure the skin cream someone is buying REALLY is effective at relieveing dry skin and signs of aging? No. They're the payment handler! What do they care? So I have a theory....
Likewise, fantasy novels in which human characters transform into non-humans are affected if those characters have sex
Sounds like someone's just not a Twilight fan. That could be the basis of this whole thing lol.
Dance Dance Revolution on maximum difficulty burns 32-40 calories PER SONG, which are all around 1:40. That's around 1200 calories per hour (if you were to play it in nonstop mode). My longest DDR workout while making a custom rating guide for a mobile DJ was 4 hours and trust me, some kids play for 1+ hours all the time. Of course, if you had an accelerometer attached to your belt it would look like you're practically standing still that entire time. If you took off jogging, it would register a huge change in acceleration but your hips barely move playing DDR. It's all thigh and calf muscle activity with very little vertical change either.
What they're not telling you is that before coffee, they experimented with Red Bull. It turns out it gives you wings but despite being in a compressed air microgravity environment, the whole equal and opposite reaction thing messed up the flight too much.
To just send our not-so-important, older bulk data like before and after photos, old autocad files, and reports to "the cloud" on our $270 internet connection would take over 90 hours so...that's what I think of that.
Here's the asterisk that's missing from the end:
* not if it's on an AT&T data connection though, then it won't find a signal in any respectable amount of time:-P
I see where you're going except that antimatter reactions simply give off immense energy. That's not enough to exceed the speed of light. So yeah, you could fire some pretty epic lasers with the energy or any other directed energy weapon or fire the antimatter itself but if you're in space, you can probably travel faster than light. If you open a wormhole (like jumpgate/warpgate sci fi) or bend space in front of and back of your space ship (like star trek, sort of), both of those would utterly destroy another ship without any way to defend it. I mean if you open a wormhole directed through the middle of their ship or with the opening residing within their ship depending how a 3d to 3d interface zone really acts, that probably wouldn't go real well for them. If you bend the space around them by creating a "warp field" like in Star Trek, the matter would get all bent out of shape with it so there goes their hull.
I think both are a lot more realistic than any space-based show. At least Halo 2 showed what happens when a spaceship hovering above a city jumps to "hyperdrive" or whatever. It blew a freakin chunk out of all the matter around it:-D
I saw a special on Discovery of 20/20 or 60 minutes or something several years ago (like 4+) that said if all the left over parts like feathers, skin, and organs from just chicken processing plants in just the US adopted a new hydrocarbon processing system they invented to turn it into biofuel, it would power all the cars in the entire US. It was a simplistic process but the end result was very similar to crude oil so it'd have to go to a refinery but it's not like we don't have giant gasoline refineries right now. I'd prefer this option to destroying trees. Plus, right now I believe the leftovers are either processed into animal food, burned, or eventually decompose which releases the mega-greenhouse gas, methane. So yeah, I'd drive a chicken-gas car. The question is, why did this technology apparently go nowhere?
I'm taking bets right now. We're paying 10:1 odds that it wasn't a Via chip. In other words, I bet it was a Via chip lol. They probably pulled an ECS/Foxconn and said, "weeeeeeeell, for $2 cheaper, we can skip the Realtek chips and put on Via ones. Yeah, let's do that." That's right, I'm implying that the sound card and ethernet controller chips crashed it, lol. You try to turn on the subwoofer channel on that rover to let the martians know you're coming (and you're totally riced out too) and then BOOM, sorry, that's not supported by this version of the driver - CRASH! Yeah, that's what really happened and they're just covering it up.
"The banks stand to make $40 million from their deals with Facebook"
Um, how? Whose ass did they get those numbers from, Mark Zuckerberg's? They had their first negative membership month already, a gigantic competitor just popped up, just about 100% of their customers hate them, and their stocks are overvalued on top of all of that. How is anyone going to make a penny on this bullshit? Correct answer: people who show up to the bankruptcy server auction. I would suggest investing heavily in U-Haul reservations and plane tickets.
Well, IE is IE but the reason I'm really not surprised is all my repair customers who have Firefox give me an extra headache. You can uninstall Firefox completely then reinstall it from scratch with nothing preserved and you'll still have the MyWebSearch toolbar and basically any other malware that was on it before. You have to actually delete the plugins folder out in Program Files to actually clear it. The add/remove plugins menu is confusing and non-exhaustive compared to IE8 and 9. It's really, really annoying and bad from a security standpoint. Plus, you have to go into the options menu to permanently disable password-remembering which is just about the least secure thing you can do in a browser. They sure have gone downhill lately. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla hires the old Netflix CEO because they've been about that smart lately. So I guess chrome wins.
It takes a certain amount of energy to move a certain amount of mass a certain distance and gravity determines that pretty significantly. I don't think 4.5x Earth's mass would result in gravity levels that are compatible with life just based on how much energy it would have to consume to move. But who knows, maybe they're magical fusion-powered space unicorns.
Here's why I choose local over online: if it weighs over 10 pounds. UPS, Fedex, and the USPS will pepper spray you and kick you in the nuts in pricing shipping for an item like that. So they could simply carry only items that weigh a lot.
"companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make, when they are bought. Is that wrong? if so please tell me how"
Because whenever I buy any other product on the freaking planet, I can do whatever the hell I want with it and resell it to anyone. Autodesk (the autocad people) and gucci (the fancy purse and whatever else people) already lost lawsuits trying to control secondary sales of their products. Get ready for a lawsuit, greedy assholes!
While I think it's somewhat of a good idea, he sort of has the same energy and excitement level as if they instead just placed a marshmallow in front of the cameras. There would be very little difference actually. Aren't talk show hosts supposed to be outgoing and energetic and all that?
I got to thinking about why other places preserve their culture in person and online despite being online and it's pretty obvious. It's not the internet's fault that everyone in Canada is too far away from each other to maintain sufficient interaction to preserve their culture. Speaking two main languages across the country probably doesn't help either.
It might actually be the ghost of Kim Jong Il sending signals from the afterlife. I heard on a very respectable North Korean news network that he can do that.
If my drive breaks, I'm certainly not sending it and all its data to some random...who the hell knows where actually. So I don't care if it has a warranty past about 3 days. BUT, if I'm building a computer, I'd go with a drive that has a 5 year warranty over one with a 1 year because my thought process is they'd be losing their asses in warranty claims if these drives failed in large numbers during that 5 years. So now that they're tied, who knows? I still think Seagate is the best but if they're cheapening their drives to the point that it causes failures and is slashing their warranties to match, I'll just buy whatever is the fastest, quietest, and cheapest.
I guess someone just denied him using his new toy on their work network so he got all huffy and puffy and wrote an article about what. What a child! Here's what I seriously just posted as a comment back on that site:
Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about and are just mad that someone didn't let you use your new little toy. It's standard IT law that nobody can just bring in whatever they feel like and it's IT's responsibility to throw it on the network with no research, testing, or thinking about the consequences.
No, you're not putting an internet capable mini-fridge in your cubicle on the network after bringing it in without warning or asking ahead of time and yes, I'm going to call it a toy. And who knows if your fancy new android phone contains viruses because you thought it was a great idea to download anything with the word "free" in it from some rogue third party app store. And I'm not throwing your new tablet on the network just because you promise it's malware-free and not going to use immense amounts of data.
Seriously, what planet are you on right now? Because back on Earth, IT departments don't just throw things into their enterprise systems because some employee asks them to. Why would you even recommend they all do that?!
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They call it dark matter but I call it a mathematical error. That makes the whole situation make A LOT more sense than made-up physics of made up materials actually.
Maybe if you ever read slashdot, you'd know about the complaint years ago about someone finding out that their web hosting company, despite them renting an individual server, demanded that they keep an administrator password to access it whenever they wanted. Since it's THEIR server, that makes perfect sense. I wouldn't let someone lock me out of my own server. That's like a lessee changing the locks and locking a landlord out of their apartment. Basically all web hosting companies have a backdoor password and rarely do they bother to individualize it to each server. Thus making it a "master" backdoor password. So what's your issue with that?
Boy did they bury the lead. Here's the entire story. Allegedly someone broke into the Linode web hosting company, hacked specifically just 8 sites involved in bitcoins and THAT'S IT, no other sites, and stole a hell of a lot more than 3000 BTC. 3000BTC isn't significant but 43,554 BTC were stolen from another major exchange, Bitcoinica. That company is claiming they have the money to cover it and will reimburse everyone. That's almost a quarter of a million US dollars by the way.
Apparently the word on the street is this was targeted and definitely an inside job from an employee or multiple employees at Linode. The easiest way a simultaneous 8-site web control panel hack would be to simply log in with a secret back-door master password that basically all web hosts have. Either someone hacked Linode and found out that master password or it was an employee, the latter of which is obviously a lot simpler and more believable.
Everyone gets all scared when big piles of BTC are stolen because the price usually crashes afterwards. In case you were wondering about that, selling off 3000BTC all at once, right now this very second would drop it from $4.94 US to $4.83. See for yourself:
Live graph of MTGox who does 80-90% of all exchange transactions
Oh the drama. As an actual bitcoin miner, let me fill you in on the real story instead of that media fluff that's purposely inflated to overdramatic proportions. Almost all bitcoin mining pool websites are configured to pay people every time 1 BTC is reached. That's around $5 US and takes a mediocre mining rig approximately 2 days to generate. So the most that the average person probably lost is $0.01 - $5.00. NOBODY keeps massive piles of BTC sitting around at the pool itself. The exchanges, yeah, but not the pools. They're known for lax security too. At the #1 biggest mining pool, your miners' login passwords are listed as plaintext on the page because what are people going to do, mine for you? And none of your money stay there for long so nobody really cares.
What really doesn't add up is the 3000 BTC estimate. Even Deepbit, the largest pool, doesn't have 6000 members, which would be the number required to, at any given point in time, have an average of 3000 BTC on-hand. So it likely was the site owner's profit pool that got robbed the most heavily.
I do think AT&T is basically Satan but in this case, I don't see it. They're absolutely guaranteed with this system to get paid for bandwidth that gets used. So if your app uses X amount of data and they know how much data will be used so you as a developer pay per megabyte for example, AT&T is assuring themselves that they'll have the money to upgrade their infrastructure if the need arises due to more data because the money is there to cover it. When it comes to just phones, you don't know if the customer will use 50MB or 5000MB.
I think in general, if your customers are going to use X amount of data as a grand total-based average, build that much of an infrastructure and charge accordingly instead of convincing customers to use less data through stupid tactics.
Sounds like someone's just not a Twilight fan. That could be the basis of this whole thing lol.
Dance Dance Revolution on maximum difficulty burns 32-40 calories PER SONG, which are all around 1:40. That's around 1200 calories per hour (if you were to play it in nonstop mode). My longest DDR workout while making a custom rating guide for a mobile DJ was 4 hours and trust me, some kids play for 1+ hours all the time. Of course, if you had an accelerometer attached to your belt it would look like you're practically standing still that entire time. If you took off jogging, it would register a huge change in acceleration but your hips barely move playing DDR. It's all thigh and calf muscle activity with very little vertical change either.
What they're not telling you is that before coffee, they experimented with Red Bull. It turns out it gives you wings but despite being in a compressed air microgravity environment, the whole equal and opposite reaction thing messed up the flight too much.
To just send our not-so-important, older bulk data like before and after photos, old autocad files, and reports to "the cloud" on our $270 internet connection would take over 90 hours so...that's what I think of that.
Here's the asterisk that's missing from the end: :-P
* not if it's on an AT&T data connection though, then it won't find a signal in any respectable amount of time
I see where you're going except that antimatter reactions simply give off immense energy. That's not enough to exceed the speed of light. So yeah, you could fire some pretty epic lasers with the energy or any other directed energy weapon or fire the antimatter itself but if you're in space, you can probably travel faster than light. If you open a wormhole (like jumpgate/warpgate sci fi) or bend space in front of and back of your space ship (like star trek, sort of), both of those would utterly destroy another ship without any way to defend it. I mean if you open a wormhole directed through the middle of their ship or with the opening residing within their ship depending how a 3d to 3d interface zone really acts, that probably wouldn't go real well for them. If you bend the space around them by creating a "warp field" like in Star Trek, the matter would get all bent out of shape with it so there goes their hull. I think both are a lot more realistic than any space-based show. At least Halo 2 showed what happens when a spaceship hovering above a city jumps to "hyperdrive" or whatever. It blew a freakin chunk out of all the matter around it :-D
I saw a special on Discovery of 20/20 or 60 minutes or something several years ago (like 4+) that said if all the left over parts like feathers, skin, and organs from just chicken processing plants in just the US adopted a new hydrocarbon processing system they invented to turn it into biofuel, it would power all the cars in the entire US. It was a simplistic process but the end result was very similar to crude oil so it'd have to go to a refinery but it's not like we don't have giant gasoline refineries right now. I'd prefer this option to destroying trees. Plus, right now I believe the leftovers are either processed into animal food, burned, or eventually decompose which releases the mega-greenhouse gas, methane. So yeah, I'd drive a chicken-gas car. The question is, why did this technology apparently go nowhere?
I'm taking bets right now. We're paying 10:1 odds that it wasn't a Via chip. In other words, I bet it was a Via chip lol. They probably pulled an ECS/Foxconn and said, "weeeeeeeell, for $2 cheaper, we can skip the Realtek chips and put on Via ones. Yeah, let's do that." That's right, I'm implying that the sound card and ethernet controller chips crashed it, lol. You try to turn on the subwoofer channel on that rover to let the martians know you're coming (and you're totally riced out too) and then BOOM, sorry, that's not supported by this version of the driver - CRASH! Yeah, that's what really happened and they're just covering it up.
"The banks stand to make $40 million from their deals with Facebook"
Um, how? Whose ass did they get those numbers from, Mark Zuckerberg's? They had their first negative membership month already, a gigantic competitor just popped up, just about 100% of their customers hate them, and their stocks are overvalued on top of all of that. How is anyone going to make a penny on this bullshit? Correct answer: people who show up to the bankruptcy server auction. I would suggest investing heavily in U-Haul reservations and plane tickets.
Well, IE is IE but the reason I'm really not surprised is all my repair customers who have Firefox give me an extra headache. You can uninstall Firefox completely then reinstall it from scratch with nothing preserved and you'll still have the MyWebSearch toolbar and basically any other malware that was on it before. You have to actually delete the plugins folder out in Program Files to actually clear it. The add/remove plugins menu is confusing and non-exhaustive compared to IE8 and 9. It's really, really annoying and bad from a security standpoint. Plus, you have to go into the options menu to permanently disable password-remembering which is just about the least secure thing you can do in a browser. They sure have gone downhill lately. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla hires the old Netflix CEO because they've been about that smart lately. So I guess chrome wins.
It takes a certain amount of energy to move a certain amount of mass a certain distance and gravity determines that pretty significantly. I don't think 4.5x Earth's mass would result in gravity levels that are compatible with life just based on how much energy it would have to consume to move. But who knows, maybe they're magical fusion-powered space unicorns.
Here's why I choose local over online: if it weighs over 10 pounds. UPS, Fedex, and the USPS will pepper spray you and kick you in the nuts in pricing shipping for an item like that. So they could simply carry only items that weigh a lot.
"companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make, when they are bought. Is that wrong? if so please tell me how"
Because whenever I buy any other product on the freaking planet, I can do whatever the hell I want with it and resell it to anyone. Autodesk (the autocad people) and gucci (the fancy purse and whatever else people) already lost lawsuits trying to control secondary sales of their products. Get ready for a lawsuit, greedy assholes!
While I think it's somewhat of a good idea, he sort of has the same energy and excitement level as if they instead just placed a marshmallow in front of the cameras. There would be very little difference actually. Aren't talk show hosts supposed to be outgoing and energetic and all that?
I got to thinking about why other places preserve their culture in person and online despite being online and it's pretty obvious. It's not the internet's fault that everyone in Canada is too far away from each other to maintain sufficient interaction to preserve their culture. Speaking two main languages across the country probably doesn't help either.
It might actually be the ghost of Kim Jong Il sending signals from the afterlife. I heard on a very respectable North Korean news network that he can do that.
...or alien satellites orbiting Earth! BOOM, blew your mind right there.
If my drive breaks, I'm certainly not sending it and all its data to some random...who the hell knows where actually. So I don't care if it has a warranty past about 3 days. BUT, if I'm building a computer, I'd go with a drive that has a 5 year warranty over one with a 1 year because my thought process is they'd be losing their asses in warranty claims if these drives failed in large numbers during that 5 years. So now that they're tied, who knows? I still think Seagate is the best but if they're cheapening their drives to the point that it causes failures and is slashing their warranties to match, I'll just buy whatever is the fastest, quietest, and cheapest.
I guess someone just denied him using his new toy on their work network so he got all huffy and puffy and wrote an article about what. What a child! Here's what I seriously just posted as a comment back on that site:
Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about and are just mad that someone didn't let you use your new little toy. It's standard IT law that nobody can just bring in whatever they feel like and it's IT's responsibility to throw it on the network with no research, testing, or thinking about the consequences.
No, you're not putting an internet capable mini-fridge in your cubicle on the network after bringing it in without warning or asking ahead of time and yes, I'm going to call it a toy. And who knows if your fancy new android phone contains viruses because you thought it was a great idea to download anything with the word "free" in it from some rogue third party app store. And I'm not throwing your new tablet on the network just because you promise it's malware-free and not going to use immense amounts of data.
Seriously, what planet are you on right now? Because back on Earth, IT departments don't just throw things into their enterprise systems because some employee asks them to. Why would you even recommend they all do that?!