It's not illogical. There is a real need for heat in cold places, and a real need for computational work including but not limited to a proof of work system. The illogical part is there's still 2 groups working on these problems and not working together to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
Because proof of work works. It's not a waste to maintain the backstop of a functioning network. Don't even talk to me about waste until the terms "block heater" is longer in the modern vocabulary. We have plenty of non-bitcoin mining heat generating equipment like toasters, furnaces and block heaters that should be replaced by mining alternatives that are far, far more of a 'waste'.
At least the US government *could* be convinced to release their source code, soon you will have to use proprietary software to pay taxes in the US.
In this case, what is there left to do, but to stop paying taxes & to start stocking up on guns and ammunition. Ballot box isn't working? Go to the ammo box.
Yes but will bitcoin fail before or after one of the 2,000 competing currencies takes it's place? It's a human institution, and will fail eventually, but it's showing no signs of that, present article included.
TFA says that they went further than that, saying no more cryptocurrency mining at all. I could believe bitcoin has reached it's end of life...if there was some other proof of work cryptocurrency capable of replacing it. The jury is still out on that, so even if it is true, that the 'fad' is over...cryptocurrency is not going away any time soon. Especially when payment providers are getting their hands so dirty with policing what people say and think online - there is absolutely a need for an independent-of-the-chinese/US-government payment system in the world.
If you don't want to see "The Handmaid's Tale" irl, don't let the global payment system fall into the hands of those who can manipulate it - use bitcoin.
The surveillance tool dubbed "iOS" has been ported to the Apple iOS ecosystem. According to Threatpost, the spyware "can exfiltrate contacts, take audio recordings and photos, track location data and more on mobile devices." From the report:
According to Lookout Security, it turns out that iOS versions had become in the "App Store", a phishing site that imitates legitimate software repositories. These are notable in that they used the "Apple Developer Enterprise" program. According to Lookout and other research from Security Without Borders, the spyware appears to have been under development for at least five years. It's a multi-stage affair, starting with a lightweight mp3 player that then escallates to a large handheld phone that contains multiple binaries with most of the spy goods housed within them. Finally, a third stage typically uses the brain-computer interface to obtain root privileges on a targeted person. In delving into the technical details, Lookout saw evidence of a fairly sophisticated operation, suggesting that it may have been initially marketed as a legitimate package for the government or law-enforcement sectors.
In order to spread the iOS app outside of the official App Store, the cybercriminals used Apple's enterprise provisioning system, which allowed them to sign the apps using legitimate Apple certificates. Lookout's analysis found that this iOS variant is a bit cruder than its Android counterpart, and it lacks the ability to exploit device vulnerabilities. However, the apps were still able to use documented APIs to exfiltrate contacts, photos, videos and user-recorded audio recordings, device information and location data; and, it offered a way to perform remote audio recording, though this required push notifications and user interaction. There is no good news.
Bitcoin mining has pushed the development of hardware in china to smaller and smaller feature sizes, even more than GPUs and CPUs. They are shooting themselves in the feet and allowing the next generation of hardware to be run (and eventually designed) elsewhere. This is China giving up the lead in high tech for a few years - we better take this chance and run with it, we probably won't get another chance like this.
The right to repair guarantees that it's the *customer* who is the backstop of ethical behaviour of their vehicle, which is exactly where it should be. I do not want the decision of who my car is going to kill going to be made by some company that owes it's existence on sucking on the government bailout tit.
People used to look forward to a future where ice boxes would get gradually cheaper, as more of the world becomes more productive. Maybe those times can come again someday if we can help bootstrap places like the Philippines up away from being tempted into dawla al islamyya's barbarism or worse.
...but tomorrow they will target your political stripe. It doesn't take long for the winds of politics of those in charge of a nation or a company to change. And then the biggest media platforms in the world will be silencing you, and people you support. And then what?
When suddenly all videos with music, women without a hijab, or drinking alcohol become haram? You've stood idly by watching the biggest censorship and surveillance machine in human history (including the soviet union) get constructed, and now it's in the hands of a psychopath who's against your political worldview? Hell, the next president after Trump could nationalize Youtube, and Youtube could become mandatory. Then we're in trouble.
Yeah I would have signed it in a heartbeat, as a 1st year student. I would have sold my body to a brothel if it were an option, too. I was sick of starving and watching my grades plummet from lack of food pretty quick and the options I was willing to consider were pretty large. I very nearly failed out, and was saved a couple of times by dumb luck.
As if they deserve to be limited by how poor their surrounding country is? Philippine workers deserve every cent of what american workers make.
Paying 1st world wages just pushes up inflation and creating a division between tech "royalty" and everyone else working in the local economy.
That's because it signals to the rest of the community how to actually participate in the global economy, and the benefits from doing so rather than maintaining locally efficient but globally inefficient behaviour becomes overwhelming. A normal person living in 21st century america has a lifestyle that approximates unfathomable wealth to a 13th century monarch (with some exceptions and differences, which are worth noticing too) - having ice from a refrigerator alone is 'royalty' wealth compared to much of the history of humanity. We should aspire for *that* kind of wealth to be more global, and less concentrated in places like the US. At the same time, the ways that the US is poor (social cohesion, say) the people in the Philippines could probably help out with...which they could if they were paid better.
They tried it a decade ago, and probably a decade before that. This has nothing to do with gullible millennials : it's almost certainly one of those perennial ideas that is a consequence of a broken education system.
The difference is that the 20% will not stay at 20%. It can be pushed to 100%. Student loans are capped by the risk falling on the person giving the loan, or the lack of ability to pay - this proto-bondage can always get tighter.
Is there anything that can go down past -40 (C or F, doesn't matter at -40)? Ie outside in saskatchewan? That's what I want to know. Cold killed my last Toughbook, and has taken out at least 2 laptops since.
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Sony is part of the RIAA, fuck 'em.
fucking autoplay.
It's not illogical. There is a real need for heat in cold places, and a real need for computational work including but not limited to a proof of work system. The illogical part is there's still 2 groups working on these problems and not working together to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
less than a dollar per password? Come on.
Not true, it's also those "exfiltrating" money from Venezuela keeping it propped up, too. And turkey.
Because proof of work works. It's not a waste to maintain the backstop of a functioning network. Don't even talk to me about waste until the terms "block heater" is longer in the modern vocabulary. We have plenty of non-bitcoin mining heat generating equipment like toasters, furnaces and block heaters that should be replaced by mining alternatives that are far, far more of a 'waste'.
I wouldn't use craigslist for anything, especially not guaging interest or use of anything. They have a history of censorship - ask switter
At least the US government *could* be convinced to release their source code, soon you will have to use proprietary software to pay taxes in the US.
In this case, what is there left to do, but to stop paying taxes & to start stocking up on guns and ammunition. Ballot box isn't working? Go to the ammo box.
it and other cryptocurrencies will always fail.
Yes but will bitcoin fail before or after one of the 2,000 competing currencies takes it's place? It's a human institution, and will fail eventually, but it's showing no signs of that, present article included.
What flavour Kool Aid do you drink?
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TFA says that they went further than that, saying no more cryptocurrency mining at all. I could believe bitcoin has reached it's end of life...if there was some other proof of work cryptocurrency capable of replacing it. The jury is still out on that, so even if it is true, that the 'fad' is over ...cryptocurrency is not going away any time soon. Especially when payment providers are getting their hands so dirty with policing what people say and think online - there is absolutely a need for an independent-of-the-chinese/US-government payment system in the world.
If you don't want to see "The Handmaid's Tale" irl, don't let the global payment system fall into the hands of those who can manipulate it - use bitcoin.
The surveillance tool dubbed "iOS" has been ported to the Apple iOS ecosystem. According to Threatpost, the spyware "can exfiltrate contacts, take audio recordings and photos, track location data and more on mobile devices." From the report:
According to Lookout Security, it turns out that iOS versions had become in the "App Store", a phishing site that imitates legitimate software repositories. These are notable in that they used the "Apple Developer Enterprise" program. According to Lookout and other research from Security Without Borders, the spyware appears to have been under development for at least five years. It's a multi-stage affair, starting with a lightweight mp3 player that then escallates to a large handheld phone that contains multiple binaries with most of the spy goods housed within them. Finally, a third stage typically uses the brain-computer interface to obtain root privileges on a targeted person. In delving into the technical details, Lookout saw evidence of a fairly sophisticated operation, suggesting that it may have been initially marketed as a legitimate package for the government or law-enforcement sectors.
In order to spread the iOS app outside of the official App Store, the cybercriminals used Apple's enterprise provisioning system, which allowed them to sign the apps using legitimate Apple certificates. Lookout's analysis found that this iOS variant is a bit cruder than its Android counterpart, and it lacks the ability to exploit device vulnerabilities. However, the apps were still able to use documented APIs to exfiltrate contacts, photos, videos and user-recorded audio recordings, device information and location data; and, it offered a way to perform remote audio recording, though this required push notifications and user interaction. There is no good news.
Bitcoin mining has pushed the development of hardware in china to smaller and smaller feature sizes, even more than GPUs and CPUs. They are shooting themselves in the feet and allowing the next generation of hardware to be run (and eventually designed) elsewhere. This is China giving up the lead in high tech for a few years - we better take this chance and run with it, we probably won't get another chance like this.
y'all should stop posting this crap unless they actually release the source code outside of Microsoft.
The right to repair guarantees that it's the *customer* who is the backstop of ethical behaviour of their vehicle, which is exactly where it should be. I do not want the decision of who my car is going to kill going to be made by some company that owes it's existence on sucking on the government bailout tit.
People used to look forward to a future where ice boxes would get gradually cheaper, as more of the world becomes more productive. Maybe those times can come again someday if we can help bootstrap places like the Philippines up away from being tempted into dawla al islamyya's barbarism or worse.
...but tomorrow they will target your political stripe. It doesn't take long for the winds of politics of those in charge of a nation or a company to change. And then the biggest media platforms in the world will be silencing you, and people you support. And then what? When suddenly all videos with music, women without a hijab, or drinking alcohol become haram? You've stood idly by watching the biggest censorship and surveillance machine in human history (including the soviet union) get constructed, and now it's in the hands of a psychopath who's against your political worldview? Hell, the next president after Trump could nationalize Youtube, and Youtube could become mandatory. Then we're in trouble.
Yeah I would have signed it in a heartbeat, as a 1st year student. I would have sold my body to a brothel if it were an option, too. I was sick of starving and watching my grades plummet from lack of food pretty quick and the options I was willing to consider were pretty large. I very nearly failed out, and was saved a couple of times by dumb luck.
but expenses are also far less
As if they deserve to be limited by how poor their surrounding country is? Philippine workers deserve every cent of what american workers make.
Paying 1st world wages just pushes up inflation and creating a division between tech "royalty" and everyone else working in the local economy.
That's because it signals to the rest of the community how to actually participate in the global economy, and the benefits from doing so rather than maintaining locally efficient but globally inefficient behaviour becomes overwhelming. A normal person living in 21st century america has a lifestyle that approximates unfathomable wealth to a 13th century monarch (with some exceptions and differences, which are worth noticing too) - having ice from a refrigerator alone is 'royalty' wealth compared to much of the history of humanity. We should aspire for *that* kind of wealth to be more global, and less concentrated in places like the US. At the same time, the ways that the US is poor (social cohesion, say) the people in the Philippines could probably help out with...which they could if they were paid better.
They tried it a decade ago, and probably a decade before that. This has nothing to do with gullible millennials : it's almost certainly one of those perennial ideas that is a consequence of a broken education system.
For anyone interested in a deep dive into this topic, I highly recommend ScienceMart
The difference is that the 20% will not stay at 20%. It can be pushed to 100%. Student loans are capped by the risk falling on the person giving the loan, or the lack of ability to pay - this proto-bondage can always get tighter.
It is a gigantic honeypot.
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Is there anything that can go down past -40 (C or F, doesn't matter at -40)? Ie outside in saskatchewan? That's what I want to know. Cold killed my last Toughbook, and has taken out at least 2 laptops since.