Or more formally, after considering the risk premium one *must* offer *more* when offering stock not cash. Once one considers such a risk premium the stock based offer may actually be the lesser offer even when the hypothetical dollar amount is more.
The actual security audit will be carried out by employees of the IT departments at the European Commission and the European Parliament
Damn, they are quite desperate to *seem* to be doing something useful. But yet again the bureaucrats think themselves the solution, to want to grow their departments and "fiefdoms", NOT! If they wanted to do something useful the European Commission would fund some top ranked Universities within the EU to do the audit.
Once upon a time the icon would have been a shark. Sigh.
To be fair, sharks would suffocate / freeze / explode on Mars.
Not the robotic space probe sharks. Nor the native marian sharks, keep in mind they think they found surface water that freezes and melts periodically. Stay away from any standing martian water.
this is kind of dangerous, the last thing we want is some kind of rogue alien probe with a rock boring drill running around new york city like a big daddy from bio shock
Damn right its dangerous. Look at what the martian probes did to earth when they started sampling things for organic compounds in HG Wells' historical account.
At least the thing can't come back to earth, right? Right?
Its not like it matters if the probe has lasers when it left. Look at V'ger, it left with only a camera and a sound system and it came back pretty heavily armed.
Exactly this. In this era of a complete disregard for the 4th amendment...
I agree there is disregard for the 4th amendment but this is NOT the case to argue that. US Customs has *always* been allowed to search your person and property at a border crossing since the founding days of our republic. What may be arguable in this case is that a TSA agent did the search not a Customs agent. Of course "deputizing" TSA as customs agents would close that loophole.
Is there any government on earth that does not have the right to search the person and property of an international traveler when they cross the border? Note "international traveler", within the EU you are no longer an international traveler, but when originally entering the EU from outside you were.
And by at the border I am referring to at the border, not 100 miles inside. That is a different situation IMO.
Same goes for your computers and any hard drives or usb sticks.
I bring a cheap chrome book to check email, browse the web, etc. My chrome book is much cheaper than an iPad. I don't need to bring my dev laptop if that's all I'm going to do with it. When traveling on business internationally I bring my older dev laptop, its slower but if lost its not that much of a loss.
I do Android development so a Samsung a generation or two behind is always available since I have those for testing and if lost they are easily replaced. Just need a local SIM card upon arrival.
Nope, try again, A US Citizen has an absolute right to re-enter the US. Lyttle v US, Fikre v FBI, and other cases uphold this. They can detain you, they can make life difficult, but if you're a US citizen, they *cannot* send you back.
And the government has a right to search your person and your property as part of a U.S. Customs inspection. Its been that way since the founding days of our republic. There is no right to privacy in your person and property when crossing the border. You may be able to cross but your property will not if Customs want to search it. The only argument one may be able to make is that the TSA agent was not "deputized" and an ICE agent.
... it has to piss Bernie Sanders supporters off...
Well, maybe because he's part of the political machine that rigged things in favor of Hillary and now he gets his reward for doing so. From the summary:
"Kaine was an early supporter of Clinton's, appearing at a "Ready for Hillary" breakfast in May 2014 where he urged her to enter the 2016 presidential race... In 2009, President Obama picked Kaine to lead the Democratic National Committee."
Better! The artist's experiment with a new medium has revealed that it is ephemeral, as are all things in life. While you might think you are working digital marble, like the sculptors of the ancients, the cyber medium is more akin to shifting sand.
I threw up in my mouth a little writing that.
I think you should put that into a federal grant application.:-)
I'm a gen Xer and I sympathise with the millennials. The boomers screwed everything up, broke the economy, dragged me it if the EU, and have a massive sense of entitlement. If I hear "I've worked hard all my life" one more time I thought it was bad when I had to pay for the education that the boomers got for free. But then I look at the deal the millennials have, and realise they are even worse off.
Hate to break it to you but blame the 'greatest generation' as well. They developed many of the stupid business practices that led to the downfall of U.S. industry. They only seemed to know what they were doing in the 50s/60s because they effectively had no competition, literally blew it all up in the 40s, so many a foolish idea was allowed to persist and become entrenched. They started to push the costs onto future generations, for example the countering a demand for higher wages with increased retirement benefits. That bill won't come due for decades, but it eventually did, and such overhead made U.S. manufacturing less competitive. Combined with the trade policies they passed in Congress they share in the blame for exporting U.S. industrial production.
If anything I'd say this guy is ahead of his time. Those of us who started in this field in the 1980s are fully aware of value of backups, but m kids' generation trusts the cloud to always be there for them.
That is a bit of revisionist history. The kids of the 80s had to learn that floppy diskettes and hard drives failed too and this developed an appreciation for backups, just as today's kids will learn that "bad things" happen in the cloud too, which is actually something the "kids" with the 1960s/70s learned on their centralized mainframe based storage. Every generation starts out "trusting" technology and is eventually relieved of that silly notion.
Well, if Google lost m kids' baby pictures you could say the same thing. The monetary and cultural value of those pictures is zero, but they're still important to me.
Important enough to back up?
The artist's "experiment" has made a "discovery". Its important to back up your data regardless of who your online storage "partner" is.
Actually you are mistaken because you assume the speculation is day trading. Many speculators are holding coins for longer than hours, waiting for big changes like the one we have recently experienced. Many are probably trying to time their exit right now, play "safe" and exit at 650 or risk a little more an exit at 750. Many thinking things will eventually stabilize at 500 to 600, like the year spent at 250 to 300, same block reward for miners despite the halving to keep the hardware online.
The context of this discussion involved tx velocity and throughput. Sure, I agree that speculation is one of bitcoins killer apps, but bag holders don't place much tx pressure onchain when they sell a few coins once a year with a single tx to send them to an exchange so I don't know where you are going with this discussion being that you were insinuating Bitcoin needed to have a higher tps than VISA because a few early investors dump some coins once a year.
If you re-read you will find I am referring to a wide spectrum of timeframes. More importantly VISA only does consumer transactions while Bitcoin does both consumer transactions and speculative trading, so yes, Bitcoin needs a greater capacity than VISA.
Who said time line change? I said alternate universe. Or in the phrasing of the original series a "mirror" universe, or in actual theoretical physics a "parallel" universe where massive differences can originate from a single quantum event.
Neither the universe that Spock originated from nor the universe he influenced history in are necessarily the universe of the original series. Do I really need to mention the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of the original series to demonstrate how there is no "cannon" violation?
Actually you are mistaken because you assume the speculation is day trading. Many speculators are holding coins for longer than hours, waiting for big changes like the one we have recently experienced. Many are probably trying to time their exit right now, play "safe" and exit at 650 or risk a little more an exit at 750. Many thinking things will eventually stabilize at 500 to 600, like the year spent at 250 to 300, same block reward for miners despite the halving to keep the hardware online.
Visa is not supporting a speculative investment scheme. Bitcoin is more analogous to high frequency wall street trading, not actual consumer transactions. Bitcoin is *currently* primarily a speculative investment scheme.
99.9% of speculation and btc day trading happens offchain within exchanges though.
Doubtful. Leaving bitcoins in an exchange is universally considered high risk and that transferring the coins to your wallet is highly advised.
In the past the value of bitcoin was inherently tied to the production costs of bitcoin where there is a very narrow margin of profit above the minting costs from production.
What makes you think this has changed? The price has roughly doubled with a reward halving upcoming.
Today the cost of bitcoin production dropped from ~1.6 million per day to around 820k a day USD and the price remained the same.
Look at a historical chart. It ramped up in anticipation, speculation. It doesn't just double on the day. People have been expecting the doubling, so miners stay around, and have been buying as a result.
No, bitcoin could switch from a proof of work system to a proof of ownership system. The problem with the later is the initial distribution of coins, but that is a problem for a new coin not an established coin that is already widely distributed.
There are many more problems with proof of stake than you imply. Take a look at the security concerns the Ethereum community has with a bad actor controlling a significant stake and their upcoming wishes to switch to proof of stake as an example.
You are merely re-stating the problem I described earlier, and bitcoin is widely distributed and beyond such concerns. This issue we both refer to is a big problem for coins that are born proof of stake, not those who switch to proof of state once mature.
You are confusing actors with writers. Writers decide who a character is and what they are about. Actors implement the writer's vision, actors communicate that vision through their performance.
Except that this case is 180 degrees opposite to your argument. The writers (which is to say, the modern day assignees of the writing task by the copyright holders) specifically and loudly tied the change to the actor.
The actor has no input? Honey, that's exactly what he has here.
Uh, no, because we're talking at Takei's influence on the original series. And as for the new movie, you are wrong again, Takei isn't in favor of reimagining the character as gay. Its the director and/or writers making the call, not the actor.
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I think if they find something it will be the low hanging fruit and provide a false sense of security.
Yes, code for the next person to work on it. And pray your predecessor did the same.
Personally I think of the described semicolons as 1 character comments.
And unneeded parenthesis in an expression are 2 character comments.
bird in hand, and all that
Or more formally, after considering the risk premium one *must* offer *more* when offering stock not cash. Once one considers such a risk premium the stock based offer may actually be the lesser offer even when the hypothetical dollar amount is more.
Public IT is definitely who should not be responsible for this kind of testing
Absolutely, private IT should do it, in particular Hillary's private IT. After all there is no evidence they were ever hacked. :-)
EU to give taxpayer funded security audits.
EU to expand its department/fiefdom.
The actual security audit will be carried out by employees of the IT departments at the European Commission and the European Parliament
Damn, they are quite desperate to *seem* to be doing something useful. But yet again the bureaucrats think themselves the solution, to want to grow their departments and "fiefdoms", NOT! If they wanted to do something useful the European Commission would fund some top ranked Universities within the EU to do the audit.
Once upon a time the icon would have been a shark. Sigh.
To be fair, sharks would suffocate / freeze / explode on Mars.
Not the robotic space probe sharks. Nor the native marian sharks, keep in mind they think they found surface water that freezes and melts periodically. Stay away from any standing martian water.
Once upon a time the icon would have been a shark. Sigh.
And since when is HAL's camera blue? Hmm what color was SAL's camera?
this is kind of dangerous, the last thing we want is some kind of rogue alien probe with a rock boring drill running around new york city like a big daddy from bio shock
Damn right its dangerous. Look at what the martian probes did to earth when they started sampling things for organic compounds in HG Wells' historical account.
At least the thing can't come back to earth, right? Right?
Its not like it matters if the probe has lasers when it left. Look at V'ger, it left with only a camera and a sound system and it came back pretty heavily armed.
Exactly this. In this era of a complete disregard for the 4th amendment ...
I agree there is disregard for the 4th amendment but this is NOT the case to argue that. US Customs has *always* been allowed to search your person and property at a border crossing since the founding days of our republic. What may be arguable in this case is that a TSA agent did the search not a Customs agent. Of course "deputizing" TSA as customs agents would close that loophole.
Is there any government on earth that does not have the right to search the person and property of an international traveler when they cross the border? Note "international traveler", within the EU you are no longer an international traveler, but when originally entering the EU from outside you were.
And by at the border I am referring to at the border, not 100 miles inside. That is a different situation IMO.
Same goes for your computers and any hard drives or usb sticks.
I bring a cheap chrome book to check email, browse the web, etc. My chrome book is much cheaper than an iPad. I don't need to bring my dev laptop if that's all I'm going to do with it. When traveling on business internationally I bring my older dev laptop, its slower but if lost its not that much of a loss.
I do Android development so a Samsung a generation or two behind is always available since I have those for testing and if lost they are easily replaced. Just need a local SIM card upon arrival.
Nope, try again, A US Citizen has an absolute right to re-enter the US. Lyttle v US, Fikre v FBI, and other cases uphold this. They can detain you, they can make life difficult, but if you're a US citizen, they *cannot* send you back.
And the government has a right to search your person and your property as part of a U.S. Customs inspection. Its been that way since the founding days of our republic. There is no right to privacy in your person and property when crossing the border. You may be able to cross but your property will not if Customs want to search it. The only argument one may be able to make is that the TSA agent was not "deputized" and an ICE agent.
... it has to piss Bernie Sanders supporters off ...
Well, maybe because he's part of the political machine that rigged things in favor of Hillary and now he gets his reward for doing so. From the summary: ... In 2009, President Obama picked Kaine to lead the Democratic National Committee."
"Kaine was an early supporter of Clinton's, appearing at a "Ready for Hillary" breakfast in May 2014 where he urged her to enter the 2016 presidential race
He's just being paid for services rendered.
Better! The artist's experiment with a new medium has revealed that it is ephemeral, as are all things in life. While you might think you are working digital marble, like the sculptors of the ancients, the cyber medium is more akin to shifting sand.
I threw up in my mouth a little writing that.
I think you should put that into a federal grant application. :-)
I'm a gen Xer and I sympathise with the millennials. The boomers screwed everything up, broke the economy, dragged me it if the EU, and have a massive sense of entitlement. If I hear "I've worked hard all my life" one more time I thought it was bad when I had to pay for the education that the boomers got for free. But then I look at the deal the millennials have, and realise they are even worse off.
Hate to break it to you but blame the 'greatest generation' as well. They developed many of the stupid business practices that led to the downfall of U.S. industry. They only seemed to know what they were doing in the 50s/60s because they effectively had no competition, literally blew it all up in the 40s, so many a foolish idea was allowed to persist and become entrenched. They started to push the costs onto future generations, for example the countering a demand for higher wages with increased retirement benefits. That bill won't come due for decades, but it eventually did, and such overhead made U.S. manufacturing less competitive. Combined with the trade policies they passed in Congress they share in the blame for exporting U.S. industrial production.
If anything I'd say this guy is ahead of his time. Those of us who started in this field in the 1980s are fully aware of value of backups, but m kids' generation trusts the cloud to always be there for them.
That is a bit of revisionist history. The kids of the 80s had to learn that floppy diskettes and hard drives failed too and this developed an appreciation for backups, just as today's kids will learn that "bad things" happen in the cloud too, which is actually something the "kids" with the 1960s/70s learned on their centralized mainframe based storage. Every generation starts out "trusting" technology and is eventually relieved of that silly notion.
Well, if Google lost m kids' baby pictures you could say the same thing. The monetary and cultural value of those pictures is zero, but they're still important to me.
Important enough to back up?
The artist's "experiment" has made a "discovery". Its important to back up your data regardless of who your online storage "partner" is.
Actually you are mistaken because you assume the speculation is day trading. Many speculators are holding coins for longer than hours, waiting for big changes like the one we have recently experienced. Many are probably trying to time their exit right now, play "safe" and exit at 650 or risk a little more an exit at 750. Many thinking things will eventually stabilize at 500 to 600, like the year spent at 250 to 300, same block reward for miners despite the halving to keep the hardware online.
The context of this discussion involved tx velocity and throughput. Sure, I agree that speculation is one of bitcoins killer apps, but bag holders don't place much tx pressure onchain when they sell a few coins once a year with a single tx to send them to an exchange so I don't know where you are going with this discussion being that you were insinuating Bitcoin needed to have a higher tps than VISA because a few early investors dump some coins once a year.
If you re-read you will find I am referring to a wide spectrum of timeframes. More importantly VISA only does consumer transactions while Bitcoin does both consumer transactions and speculative trading, so yes, Bitcoin needs a greater capacity than VISA.
Who said time line change? I said alternate universe. Or in the phrasing of the original series a "mirror" universe, or in actual theoretical physics a "parallel" universe where massive differences can originate from a single quantum event.
Neither the universe that Spock originated from nor the universe he influenced history in are necessarily the universe of the original series. Do I really need to mention the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of the original series to demonstrate how there is no "cannon" violation?
Actually you are mistaken because you assume the speculation is day trading. Many speculators are holding coins for longer than hours, waiting for big changes like the one we have recently experienced. Many are probably trying to time their exit right now, play "safe" and exit at 650 or risk a little more an exit at 750. Many thinking things will eventually stabilize at 500 to 600, like the year spent at 250 to 300, same block reward for miners despite the halving to keep the hardware online.
Visa is not supporting a speculative investment scheme. Bitcoin is more analogous to high frequency wall street trading, not actual consumer transactions. Bitcoin is *currently* primarily a speculative investment scheme.
99.9% of speculation and btc day trading happens offchain within exchanges though.
Doubtful. Leaving bitcoins in an exchange is universally considered high risk and that transferring the coins to your wallet is highly advised.
Moving your goalposts much?
Nope, I didn't move from Takei to Shatner and Nimoy. I just responded to this example.
In the past the value of bitcoin was inherently tied to the production costs of bitcoin where there is a very narrow margin of profit above the minting costs from production.
What makes you think this has changed? The price has roughly doubled with a reward halving upcoming.
Today the cost of bitcoin production dropped from ~1.6 million per day to around 820k a day USD and the price remained the same.
Look at a historical chart. It ramped up in anticipation, speculation. It doesn't just double on the day. People have been expecting the doubling, so miners stay around, and have been buying as a result.
https://www.coinbase.com/chart...
No, bitcoin could switch from a proof of work system to a proof of ownership system. The problem with the later is the initial distribution of coins, but that is a problem for a new coin not an established coin that is already widely distributed.
There are many more problems with proof of stake than you imply. Take a look at the security concerns the Ethereum community has with a bad actor controlling a significant stake and their upcoming wishes to switch to proof of stake as an example.
You are merely re-stating the problem I described earlier, and bitcoin is widely distributed and beyond such concerns. This issue we both refer to is a big problem for coins that are born proof of stake, not those who switch to proof of state once mature.
You are confusing actors with writers. Writers decide who a character is and what they are about. Actors implement the writer's vision, actors communicate that vision through their performance.
Except that this case is 180 degrees opposite to your argument. The writers (which is to say, the modern day assignees of the writing task by the copyright holders) specifically and loudly tied the change to the actor.
The actor has no input? Honey, that's exactly what he has here.
Uh, no, because we're talking at Takei's influence on the original series. And as for the new movie, you are wrong again, Takei isn't in favor of reimagining the character as gay. Its the director and/or writers making the call, not the actor.