Are you ready for a riddle for the ages? If Linux is open source and Ubuntu is open source then why can't a volunteer coder just remove that stupid crapware feature? (scroll down for answer)
Because it's not open source anymore. It's corporate garbage.
That's all fluff and deflecting the real problem. They hired idiot contractors who suck at their job and were just there to make everything overpriced and make a fortune for the company owner. THAT is the real problem.
I run a computer repair shop and this is not an exaggeration. Anyone stupid enough to accidentally install and then use Chrome is evidently also stupid enough to install 50 different advertising and crapware plugins as well. Every copy of Chrome I see is infected with DefaultTab and MP3Rocket and Babylon, etc. This now makes perfect sense because they can advertising themselves as the clean and safe browser.
WWWHHHHYYY?! Why would they do that to them? They might as well donate a brick to their window too. All their IT systems will come to a screeching halt! The power bill will go through the roof since nobody can find the damn shutdown button. This is the worst thing that could ever happen to any charity organization! Plus, it doesn't boot without EUFI! Do you think they have the budget for UEFI-capable computers? Fuck no, they're mostly P4's.
I did further research on this, since it sounded really familiar, and it's exactly what I thought. Not only does the exploit not work in reality but we've known about it for 3 years and nobody has exploited it, mostly since it doesn't work.
Let me summarize it: It's a >50% attack except less than 50% and it just relies on probability and luck and the purpose isn't to fake data. In reality, it doesn't actually work reliably.
I don't see where the math adds up here. Let's say you have 33% of all mining at your pool. You have a 1 in 3 chance of finding a valid block solution before anyone else. So, you win it and hold it and secretly work on a 2nd block since blocks are based on the data before them. Now you happen to find a 2nd block that works before anyone else does. Finding one valid solution is unlikely but finding two before anyone else finds one is exponentially harder. Then they expect them to find 3? It would happen less than 1% of the time.
Now the other problem is they claim "as soon as another pool is about to find a valid block, you release yours." That's impossible. As soon as another pool broadcasts that it found a solution, the others check it, and it's already too late. Work is non-progressive so you can't tell if another pool is "getting close." So then it'd be a gambling thing. If you find a solution and start working on a second one without telling anyone and claiming your 25 BTC reward, you're more likely to lose to another pool before you find a 2nd valid block value. So you'd be holding it, holding it, holding it, oops you lost it and got 0 BTC.
To prevent that, a long time in the future, it will rely on miners getting paid primarily by the transaction fees which will be 1000x higher due to increased transaction volume. Also, the block reward dropped from 50 to 25 BTC quite a while ago and it made the price go through the roof.
Did anyone else get a kick out of the photo they chose for that article? I can imagine how that went...
"Hmmm, we're shooting for an article about finding a supernova...I know, point to it!"
"This this?...THERE IT IS!"
Now that's interesting, I added certain custom punctuation and the comment system stripped it out without telling me. Maybe Slashdot doesn't support proper punctuation.
This is an Onion article apparently. I read it as BlackBerry Abandons Sale Plans Will Replace CEO. They're making an ultra smart phone called The Abandons which is smart enough to replace their CEO so it's going to.
You're an idiot. They just made a reactor that puts out more than you put it, they fuse Boron, not Tritium, and it doesn't release any radiation that can't be blocked by tin foil.
Hmm let's see. There's this one thing called public opinion and voting. So, if they don't want a big, fat, "you're fired" come election time, they better start supporting Snowden. You're either against the big, evil, spying government or you are it.
In the case of Amazon's room full of lawyers vs some guy from this article, I rule in favor of Amazon's room full of lawyers. Thanks for your expert testimony, lol.
Ooh look at all our math and science and graphs and studies and blah blah blah. If this was actually founded in reality and not biases, bribes, personal interest, and greed, they'd be saying fusion is where the money should go. If you build a fusion plant and create radiation-less energy with no side effects and a waste output of mundane atoms, you're already pretty good. Now turn everything off and walk away. Oh look, it does nothing, unlike a nuclear fission reactor, which will blow everything up and poison thousands of square miles for hundreds of years. In fact, a hurricane mixed with a tsunami mixed with a sharknado would simply blow out a fusion reactor like a birthday cake candle. So they can take that report/study/press release and shove it directly up their asses.
I took the whole test she posted and got a perfect score:-D yay! I sort of see where question #1 makes no sense but I get what they were trying to get at. A 6 cent cup of coffee perhaps? I dunno. Anyway, I'm a former math and programming tutor at my college and am now CIO and head software engineer at my company. That may have skewed the results a bit, lol.
Wow, nobody tell them that the light actually does hit the planet at different times in different parts of America. Apparently the author didn't realize that.
"Edward Snowden is calling for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop its espionage charges against him"
Mmmhmm. Yeeeeeeeeah fuuuuuuuucking riiiiiiiiight. They'd be more likely to let Hitler go at this point. I get the impression they might still be just the tiniest bit mad at him.
Boy did they point the scope right at their foot. If I were the mayor, I'd get in front of some cameras and tear them a new ass. I'd say exactly what they're doing any why, call them greedy and evil, and tell anyone who supports me to switch to another ISP. There goes a couple hundred thousands customers. Then Comcast might re-assess how wise it was from a profit standpoint to try something so stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? Nobody thought up this gem yet?
If it was carefully mapping Earth's gravity, shouldn't they know where it's going to land?
Are you ready for a riddle for the ages? If Linux is open source and Ubuntu is open source then why can't a volunteer coder just remove that stupid crapware feature? (scroll down for answer)
Because it's not open source anymore. It's corporate garbage.
That's all fluff and deflecting the real problem. They hired idiot contractors who suck at their job and were just there to make everything overpriced and make a fortune for the company owner. THAT is the real problem.
I run a computer repair shop and this is not an exaggeration. Anyone stupid enough to accidentally install and then use Chrome is evidently also stupid enough to install 50 different advertising and crapware plugins as well. Every copy of Chrome I see is infected with DefaultTab and MP3Rocket and Babylon, etc. This now makes perfect sense because they can advertising themselves as the clean and safe browser.
Simple! The much safer alternative is shooting rubber bands off your fingers at other players instead :-D
Let's pre-emptively invade space!
WWWHHHHYYY?! Why would they do that to them? They might as well donate a brick to their window too. All their IT systems will come to a screeching halt! The power bill will go through the roof since nobody can find the damn shutdown button. This is the worst thing that could ever happen to any charity organization! Plus, it doesn't boot without EUFI! Do you think they have the budget for UEFI-capable computers? Fuck no, they're mostly P4's.
I did further research on this, since it sounded really familiar, and it's exactly what I thought. Not only does the exploit not work in reality but we've known about it for 3 years and nobody has exploited it, mostly since it doesn't work.
Let me summarize it: It's a >50% attack except less than 50% and it just relies on probability and luck and the purpose isn't to fake data. In reality, it doesn't actually work reliably.
I don't see where the math adds up here. Let's say you have 33% of all mining at your pool. You have a 1 in 3 chance of finding a valid block solution before anyone else. So, you win it and hold it and secretly work on a 2nd block since blocks are based on the data before them. Now you happen to find a 2nd block that works before anyone else does. Finding one valid solution is unlikely but finding two before anyone else finds one is exponentially harder. Then they expect them to find 3? It would happen less than 1% of the time.
Now the other problem is they claim "as soon as another pool is about to find a valid block, you release yours." That's impossible. As soon as another pool broadcasts that it found a solution, the others check it, and it's already too late. Work is non-progressive so you can't tell if another pool is "getting close." So then it'd be a gambling thing. If you find a solution and start working on a second one without telling anyone and claiming your 25 BTC reward, you're more likely to lose to another pool before you find a 2nd valid block value. So you'd be holding it, holding it, holding it, oops you lost it and got 0 BTC.
To prevent that, a long time in the future, it will rely on miners getting paid primarily by the transaction fees which will be 1000x higher due to increased transaction volume. Also, the block reward dropped from 50 to 25 BTC quite a while ago and it made the price go through the roof.
Bitcoin just doubled in value like a week ago so you're wrong. You can now make a killing on mining again.
Yay, what an amazing invention...oh wait, it's a Hitachi so it will fail after 366 days. Forget that then.
Did anyone else get a kick out of the photo they chose for that article? I can imagine how that went...
"Hmmm, we're shooting for an article about finding a supernova...I know, point to it!"
"This this?...THERE IT IS!"
Now that's interesting, I added certain custom punctuation and the comment system stripped it out without telling me. Maybe Slashdot doesn't support proper punctuation.
This is an Onion article apparently. I read it as BlackBerry Abandons Sale Plans Will Replace CEO. They're making an ultra smart phone called The Abandons which is smart enough to replace their CEO so it's going to.
You're an idiot. They just made a reactor that puts out more than you put it, they fuse Boron, not Tritium, and it doesn't release any radiation that can't be blocked by tin foil.
Hmm let's see. There's this one thing called public opinion and voting. So, if they don't want a big, fat, "you're fired" come election time, they better start supporting Snowden. You're either against the big, evil, spying government or you are it.
In the case of Amazon's room full of lawyers vs some guy from this article, I rule in favor of Amazon's room full of lawyers. Thanks for your expert testimony, lol.
But would this technology allow scientists to finally see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Ooh look at all our math and science and graphs and studies and blah blah blah. If this was actually founded in reality and not biases, bribes, personal interest, and greed, they'd be saying fusion is where the money should go. If you build a fusion plant and create radiation-less energy with no side effects and a waste output of mundane atoms, you're already pretty good. Now turn everything off and walk away. Oh look, it does nothing, unlike a nuclear fission reactor, which will blow everything up and poison thousands of square miles for hundreds of years. In fact, a hurricane mixed with a tsunami mixed with a sharknado would simply blow out a fusion reactor like a birthday cake candle. So they can take that report/study/press release and shove it directly up their asses.
I took the whole test she posted and got a perfect score :-D yay! I sort of see where question #1 makes no sense but I get what they were trying to get at. A 6 cent cup of coffee perhaps? I dunno. Anyway, I'm a former math and programming tutor at my college and am now CIO and head software engineer at my company. That may have skewed the results a bit, lol.
We should invite all the google glass enthusiasts to it on one day and then sink it.
Wow, nobody tell them that the light actually does hit the planet at different times in different parts of America. Apparently the author didn't realize that.
"Edward Snowden is calling for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop its espionage charges against him"
Mmmhmm. Yeeeeeeeeah fuuuuuuuucking riiiiiiiiight. They'd be more likely to let Hitler go at this point. I get the impression they might still be just the tiniest bit mad at him.
Boy did they point the scope right at their foot. If I were the mayor, I'd get in front of some cameras and tear them a new ass. I'd say exactly what they're doing any why, call them greedy and evil, and tell anyone who supports me to switch to another ISP. There goes a couple hundred thousands customers. Then Comcast might re-assess how wise it was from a profit standpoint to try something so stupid.