Are you saying you keep your life savings in your house? Wow I don't do that. I don't think most people would do that. Most of us trust financial institutions to safeguard our large amounts of money.
I'm just saying, these currencies are all different whilst all similar. It's a mistake to map one currency metaphorically onto another.
No I do not keep my dollar money all at home because I can't make multiple encrypted backups of my cash only spendable by me. Crypto currencies are meant to be a replacement for many thing among them traditional banking and credit services. After the 08 banking crash and bailout what do you trust more a golden parachuted banking executive, or strong cryptography and backups? I can save a wallet to multiple encrypted micro-sd cards, or split it into encrypted par fields distributed to friends so that n of x pieces are needed to even see my still encrypted wallet.
Sure it is. If a hacker gets my CC info and makes charges, my loss is limited to hassle and frustration. If a hacker gets my BTC info, I lose my BTC forever. That makes BTC like cash, which sure can be stolen, but to steal my cash you have to walk up to me and get my wallet away from me. A wallet thief can only rob a handful of people per day, whereas a BTC thief can take a hundred million dollars from ten thousand people in one night.
There are lots of tradeoffs for all these different systems. None of them are exactly perfect but none of them are worse than all the others in every way. Each has different strengths.
Do you keep your entire life savings in cash in your dead cow wallet? no? then why would you keep it all in your mobile cryptocurrency wallet? have a offline wallet at home for you savings and carry you spending money in you mobile wallet problem solved.
Really, comic books having been doing this for years...
well they had superman in the comic, we here in reality have space shuttles like Columbia, and Challenger, and rockets like Apollo 1. If we were in a comicbook universe why not just have superman spin a turbine and give us unlimited energy.
Much of the reason that it hasn't been developed after 50 years as you say is because the people writing the cheques for nuclear research want dropable/launchable nukes that they can blow up the planet. So when someone suggest a possible safer option that does not produce the wanted isotopes for making a big boom, it gets very little funding.
Well Intel has fabs in Hillsboro Oregon, Chandler Arizona, Rio Rancho New Mexico, Hudson Massachusetts, Leixlip Ireland, Kiryat Gat Israel, Dalian China, so thats bullshit. As most of theirs are in the US.
and you don't have to send body bags and letters home to widows?
Yes you do, just later when the border is dissolved and civilians run across any mines that weren't removed (which, if the mines were deployed in a shithole, will be all of them).
Well technically you could be sending the letters to parents or widowers, but you get the idea.
my guess is by the time that boarder is dissovled many of them will have gone off already.
Most countries have already agreed to ban landmines, by signing the Ottawa Treaty.
Yes. But any country likely to start a big war(USA, China, Russia, Iran, Isreal, India, Saudi Arabia Etc) did not sign the treaty. The ones that did reserved the right to keep them around for "training purposes". And the treaty did not ban anti-vehicle mines, claymores, cluster munistions or pretty much anything that a lay person would call a mine.
Alternatively we could just have won the race to sentients within this galaxy and others just haven't evolved there yet or are less advanced then us, who says other extra planetary lifeforms have to have evolved first.
If their hypothetical communications are encrypted then it would look like random noise could that not then simply be interpreted as more noise in the cosmic microwave background radiation?
Just a common misconception of the idiots that make up the majority of CS majors.
Lets assume for the sake of argument the human brain is not a Turing machine. The universe however is a Turing machine and we are being computed on it and as we have consciousness as such via transitive property the universe is computing consciousness; therefore Turing machines can given enough time compute consciousness. QED bitches.
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Turring machines must have; memory, the abiltity to read memory the ability to write to memory the ability to inciment and decriment data stored in memory, and at the minimum run a NAND instruction on data. We have these abilities and can compute NAND, we are turing machines.
I think to be consistent, Aaron Swartz's supporters have to take McAfee's side.
No this is different. With Aaron it was scientific papers that were funded with public money then locked behind a private paywall and none of the proceeds going back to to the public, Arron then tried to download them a give them back to the public that paid for the writing of said documentation. In this case it is Mcafee is stealing info that was privatively funded by another private company and keeping it for themselves. The situations are completely different as well as their motivation.
Hush, you fool! If an Apple Genius overhears you saying that, or anything else that questions Father Steve, you'll get excommunicated for life! FOR LIFE!!
I dont know it think Steve Wozniak would agree with the sentiment however L Ron Hubbar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Steve Jobs would not.
It's considerably smaller than that. 63 decimal places can calculate the circumference of the observable universe to an accuracy of one planck length. I can't think of a single practical application that would have any need to calculate a distance that large to that level of precision.
To build my full scale working model of the universe of course how else are you going to build your turing oracle.
Different environments from most businesses which just need file, email, web and a few app servers. I'm sure you can find any special use case to suit your argument, but the fact remains, for most people, most of the time, walking into an MS shop requires the least amount of effort. Try not to let you religious beliefs stand in the way of reality.
The city of Munich did just that. They run a kUbuntu derivative now. They found for email web and an office suite linux works fine.
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Are you saying you keep your life savings in your house? Wow I don't do that. I don't think most people would do that. Most of us trust financial institutions to safeguard our large amounts of money.
I'm just saying, these currencies are all different whilst all similar. It's a mistake to map one currency metaphorically onto another.
No I do not keep my dollar money all at home because I can't make multiple encrypted backups of my cash only spendable by me. Crypto currencies are meant to be a replacement for many thing among them traditional banking and credit services. After the 08 banking crash and bailout what do you trust more a golden parachuted banking executive, or strong cryptography and backups? I can save a wallet to multiple encrypted micro-sd cards, or split it into encrypted par fields distributed to friends so that n of x pieces are needed to even see my still encrypted wallet.
Sure it is. If a hacker gets my CC info and makes charges, my loss is limited to hassle and frustration. If a hacker gets my BTC info, I lose my BTC forever. That makes BTC like cash, which sure can be stolen, but to steal my cash you have to walk up to me and get my wallet away from me. A wallet thief can only rob a handful of people per day, whereas a BTC thief can take a hundred million dollars from ten thousand people in one night.
There are lots of tradeoffs for all these different systems. None of them are exactly perfect but none of them are worse than all the others in every way. Each has different strengths.
Do you keep your entire life savings in cash in your dead cow wallet? no? then why would you keep it all in your mobile cryptocurrency wallet? have a offline wallet at home for you savings and carry you spending money in you mobile wallet problem solved.
Really, comic books having been doing this for years...
well they had superman in the comic, we here in reality have space shuttles like Columbia, and Challenger, and rockets like Apollo 1. If we were in a comicbook universe why not just have superman spin a turbine and give us unlimited energy.
to big of a deltaV to counter the earths angular momentum and drop into the sun you would probably just end up with a very erratic orbit
Much of the reason that it hasn't been developed after 50 years as you say is because the people writing the cheques for nuclear research want dropable/launchable nukes that they can blow up the planet. So when someone suggest a possible safer option that does not produce the wanted isotopes for making a big boom, it gets very little funding.
Well Intel has fabs in Hillsboro Oregon, Chandler Arizona, Rio Rancho New Mexico, Hudson Massachusetts, Leixlip Ireland, Kiryat Gat Israel, Dalian China, so thats bullshit. As most of theirs are in the US.
and you don't have to send body bags and letters home to widows?
Yes you do, just later when the border is dissolved and civilians run across any mines that weren't removed (which, if the mines were deployed in a shithole, will be all of them).
Well technically you could be sending the letters to parents or widowers, but you get the idea.
my guess is by the time that boarder is dissovled many of them will have gone off already.
Don't mines qualify as "autonomous weapons"?
Most countries have already agreed to ban landmines, by signing the Ottawa Treaty.
Yes. But any country likely to start a big war(USA, China, Russia, Iran, Isreal, India, Saudi Arabia Etc) did not sign the treaty. The ones that did reserved the right to keep them around for "training purposes". And the treaty did not ban anti-vehicle mines, claymores, cluster munistions or pretty much anything that a lay person would call a mine.
But a pound of gold does not .
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Alternatively we could just have won the race to sentients within this galaxy and others just haven't evolved there yet or are less advanced then us, who says other extra planetary lifeforms have to have evolved first.
If their hypothetical communications are encrypted then it would look like random noise could that not then simply be interpreted as more noise in the cosmic microwave background radiation?
Can you not just run the unix kill command as per the first recommendation on the Apache documentation for stopping and restarting Apache?
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/...
No.
Just a common misconception of the idiots that make up the majority of CS majors.
Lets assume for the sake of argument the human brain is not a Turing machine. The universe however is a Turing machine and we are being computed on it and as we have consciousness as such via transitive property the universe is computing consciousness; therefore Turing machines can given enough time compute consciousness. QED bitches.
ps
Turring machines must have;
memory, the abiltity to read memory the ability to write to memory the ability to inciment and decriment data stored in memory, and at the minimum run a NAND instruction on data.
We have these abilities and can compute NAND, we are turing machines.
that is a economic philosophy not design philosophy
It's not real like a car, it's digital. Everyone should have access to it for free.
McAfee did nothing different than what millions of people do every day via TPB.
The difference is while TPB may be dicks they are fighting even bigger dicks MPAA
mcafee is a dick but are screwing over non-dicks
I think to be consistent, Aaron Swartz's supporters have to take McAfee's side.
No this is different.
With Aaron it was scientific papers that were funded with public money then locked behind a private paywall and none of the proceeds going back to to the public, Arron then tried to download them a give them back to the public that paid for the writing of said documentation.
In this case it is Mcafee is stealing info that was privatively funded by another private company and keeping it for themselves.
The situations are completely different as well as their motivation.
unless it is a hardware keyloger.
Apple does not represent anything free and open.
Hush, you fool! If an Apple Genius overhears you saying that, or anything else that questions Father Steve, you'll get excommunicated for life! FOR LIFE!!
I dont know it think Steve Wozniak would agree with the sentiment however L Ron Hubbar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Steve Jobs would not.
then turn it on after you delete them, uh oh hacker used a file recovery utility your dick pics they are now a 4chan meme.
It's considerably smaller than that.
63 decimal places can calculate the circumference of the observable universe to an accuracy of one planck length.
I can't think of a single practical application that would have any need to calculate a distance that large to that level of precision.
To build my full scale working model of the universe of course how else are you going to build your turing oracle.
which the nuking ausies or baby mulching machines?
Different environments from most businesses which just need file, email, web and a few app servers. I'm sure you can find any special use case to suit your argument, but the fact remains, for most people, most of the time, walking into an MS shop requires the least amount of effort. Try not to let you religious beliefs stand in the way of reality.
The city of Munich did just that. They run a kUbuntu derivative now. They found for email web and an office suite linux works fine.
There's a reason Microsoft Office is the industry standard,
Yes there is a reason. It involves antitrust law violations.
Windows aint done 'til lotus won't run.
I run Windows 8 in a VM on Vista. It's like a layer cake of failure.
If only you duel booted your Vista install with Windows ME and installed BOB on it, then you would have the ultimate windows fiasco in a box.
I don't what planet you've been on, but reinstalling windows from scratch has been standard practice since win95 for anytime windows shits its panties
funny my but I find the standard practice to be nuke windows form orbit when it blows up install $linux and make a windows vm thats backed up.