Howells amassed his Bitcoins in February 2009, reports Ars Technica, after just a week of running a program on his laptop; but he knocked lemonade on the laptop a year later and broke it down for parts. He eventually tossed the hard drive without remembering what was on it.
And his chances of getting it back don't look good. He tells the Guardian that even for the police to find it, they'd need "a team of 15 guys, two diggers, and all the personal protection equipment. So for me to fund that, it's not possible without the guarantee of money at the end."
As for those who want to give it a go on their own, bad news: A rep for the city council says searchers will be turned away.
Agreed, but man, we could have been so much further along by now.:( You're right, and eventually we will get there. I got a 99 Ford Taurus on the cheap last year that serves me well enough. Maybe in 5/10 years I'll buy a second hand electric.
If we don't have reasonably priced electric SUVs today, remember the electric car was purposely killed off in the U.S. back in the 1990's. There could have been a push then that would have led to a mostly electric vehicle society by now. Blame the people in power then (and still today) if you don't have cheap, sensible transportation.
They like me at the blood center ( www.nybloodcenter.org ) because my blood is common (O+), and I am CMV- ( http://blog.inceptsaves.com/blog/2011/05/04/what-does-it-mean-to-have-cmv-negative-blood/ ), which allows me to donate platelets that help premature babies develop immune systems. Everyone who can should donate, the need is that great. Plus, you get free cookies!
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In recent years, advanced canopy designs have led to many fatalities associated with daring maneuvers known as "hook turns" and "swoops".
Inducing a parachute into a steep, sometimes 180 degree, diving, hook-like turn just prior to landing can make for a very exciting "swoop"; a long, high speed (horizontal) landing flare inches from the ground. When properly handled, these "swoops" are an extremely thrilling way to land, and an impressive sight to behold. A skilled canopy pilot can cruise inches above the ground at over 20 or 30mph, slowly bleeding off airspeed to make a soft, tippy-toe landing.
To put it in fighter pilot lingo, this is a skydivers way of "flat-hatting" or "hot-dogging". As with flying high performance aircraft, the risks associated with these kinds of crowd-pleasing, show-off maneuvers are great.
If a jumper misjudges the altitude at which the final diving turn is initiated, or begins leveling-off for their landing too late, the jumper may impact the ground while the canopy is still diving at a very high rate of speed. This is often fatal, and has left the skydiving community often bemoaning the ironies of a skydiver dying under a perfectly good parachute. Many skydive centers have wisely banned the practice of low hook turns.
This type of fatality can also occur when a jumper mistakenly turns his or her canopy too sharply, too low to the ground -- as when maneuvering to avoid an impending collision with another canopy* or ground structure. (*another avoidable scenario is mid-air collisions between skydivers flying under canopy)
The original french article sais he had a class C permit (whatever that is, I'm not into skydiving) which they say means you jumped more than 200 times.
BTW, what is a low turn?
This video demonstrates a low turn, and the 'sudden stop' that happens right after...
And it's things like this that app developers do that end up really pissing off their users, as the comments here prove.
App users are less naive and more aware about permissions than they were a year or so ago, and are less forgiving of apps that needlessly use and abuse them. And once you piss off a user to the point that they uninstall your app, it's over. So, short term gain leads to customer dissatisfaction, customer moves on to a different app, and doesn't go back to the app that offended them.
Some apps improve with each update, so then updating is welcomed. And the developer is quick to respond if the update causes issues. An app that needs to update just to add an extra level of ads and unneeded permisssions will be deleted. A user might have a stressful life as it is, and realize that this app is needlessly adding to their stress, and isn't so important to have anymore.
Please excuse my flippant remark, I'd just woken up...
I really avoid using 'apps' that require use of the internet, most can be accessed from the actual websites. I myself do not tweet, or FB, or any other social sites. Slashdot is as social as I get, never saw the point in the others since I have no wish to be 'noticed' outside of my own circle of people. Android doesn't protect it's app users well enough, and 'permissions' need to always be decided by the user, not the app designer. I've had a yahoo email address of mine lifted from my contacts by a game app, it spammed my friends and family pretending to be me. It's a great free game, but it turned itself back on sometime after I'd force-stopped it and accessed my information to spam the people in my contacts. That's a big no-no with me. Now the only time I'll play it is by sideloading it when offline and uninstalling it as soon as I'm done playing it. You burn me once, that's all it takes for me to remember you.
When users are given full control of their devices is the day I'll be comfortable with these them, and I sure don't see that day coming anytime soon.
Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda statements may be partly false and partly true. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
You stated you were "clearifying why things went down" but did you consider any other side but the US version of events? So yeah, its spreading propaganda.....
Being born and having lived my life in the U.S., I carry a U.S. bias. I haven't been convinced by your postings. And until any better 'proof' comes along, we'll have to "agree to disagree", as it is said.
Also, the word is "clarify", there is no such English word as "clearify". Am I correct, or am I promoting my own 'propaganda'? Use your own brain and decide for yourself.
Oh yes, please continue to to repeat that mass-murder-justifying state propaganda. It does wonders for our society's ability to think clearly about moral issues.
I am not spreading propaganda, just clarifying why things went down as they did back in 1945 for the AC.
AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public.
Uh, not true. They were pumping out new bombs on a production line, and the third bomb would have been ready to go soon after the second was dropped; Truman vetoed any further use. If I remember correctly, they were up to about one bomb a month by that point, and accelerating.
Correct, but the U.S. had used up it's inventory...
" Charles Sweeney published his memoirs as War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission (Avon, 1997). During the party following the successful Hiroshima drop, he recalled that Paul Tibbets took him aside and told him that he was to command the second atomic mission, with Kokura as the primary and Nagasaki as the secondary target. Timing was important, Tibbets said: "It was vital that [the Japanese] believed we had an unlimited supply of atomic bombs and that we would continue to use them. Of course, the truth was that we only had one more bomb on Tinian. Delivery of the third bomb was several weeks away.""
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Howells amassed his Bitcoins in February 2009, reports Ars Technica, after just a week of running a program on his laptop; but he knocked lemonade on the laptop a year later and broke it down for parts. He eventually tossed the hard drive without remembering what was on it.
And his chances of getting it back don't look good. He tells the Guardian that even for the police to find it, they'd need "a team of 15 guys, two diggers, and all the personal protection equipment. So for me to fund that, it's not possible without the guarantee of money at the end."
As for those who want to give it a go on their own, bad news: A rep for the city council says searchers will be turned away.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/28/newser-bitcoin-landfill/3775271/
Pic of kids building with moneyblocks is also here http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2010/09
Nature is so amazing, and continues to inspire us. For those who haven't seen the four winged jellyfish... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boxeUaFl3R8
http://www.howtogeek.com/176392/smart-tvs-are-stupid-why-you-dont-really-want-a-smart-tv/
Agreed, but man, we could have been so much further along by now. :( You're right, and eventually we will get there. I got a 99 Ford Taurus on the cheap last year that serves me well enough. Maybe in 5/10 years I'll buy a second hand electric.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/xbox_one_first_day_glitches/
They like me at the blood center ( www.nybloodcenter.org ) because my blood is common (O+), and I am CMV- ( http://blog.inceptsaves.com/blog/2011/05/04/what-does-it-mean-to-have-cmv-negative-blood/ ), which allows me to donate platelets that help premature babies develop immune systems. Everyone who can should donate, the need is that great. Plus, you get free cookies!
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-video-illustrates-maven-missions-investigation-of-a-lost-mars/#.UoTqxLxq61s
BTW, what is a low turn?
In recent years, advanced canopy designs have led to many fatalities associated with daring maneuvers known as "hook turns" and "swoops".
Inducing a parachute into a steep, sometimes 180 degree, diving, hook-like turn just prior to landing can make for a very exciting "swoop"; a long, high speed (horizontal) landing flare inches from the ground. When properly handled, these "swoops" are an extremely thrilling way to land, and an impressive sight to behold. A skilled canopy pilot can cruise inches above the ground at over 20 or 30mph, slowly bleeding off airspeed to make a soft, tippy-toe landing.
To put it in fighter pilot lingo, this is a skydivers way of "flat-hatting" or "hot-dogging". As with flying high performance aircraft, the risks associated with these kinds of crowd-pleasing, show-off maneuvers are great.
If a jumper misjudges the altitude at which the final diving turn is initiated, or begins leveling-off for their landing too late, the jumper may impact the ground while the canopy is still diving at a very high rate of speed. This is often fatal, and has left the skydiving community often bemoaning the ironies of a skydiver dying under a perfectly good parachute. Many skydive centers have wisely banned the practice of low hook turns.
This type of fatality can also occur when a jumper mistakenly turns his or her canopy too sharply, too low to the ground -- as when maneuvering to avoid an impending collision with another canopy* or ground structure. (*another avoidable scenario is mid-air collisions between skydivers flying under canopy)
http://www.fabulousrocketeers.com/Photo_Jolly_Roger.htm
The original french article sais he had a class C permit (whatever that is, I'm not into skydiving) which they say means you jumped more than 200 times. BTW, what is a low turn?
This video demonstrates a low turn, and the 'sudden stop' that happens right after...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmm-md8uuf0
http://blip.tv/pauldotcom/cedric-blancher-on-wifi-security-6158722
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ps4-smash-launch-playstation-4-destroyed-video,25098.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131116-oldest-clam-dead-ming-science-ocean-507/
App users are less naive and more aware about permissions than they were a year or so ago, and are less forgiving of apps that needlessly use and abuse them. And once you piss off a user to the point that they uninstall your app, it's over. So, short term gain leads to customer dissatisfaction, customer moves on to a different app, and doesn't go back to the app that offended them.
Some apps improve with each update, so then updating is welcomed. And the developer is quick to respond if the update causes issues. An app that needs to update just to add an extra level of ads and unneeded permisssions will be deleted. A user might have a stressful life as it is, and realize that this app is needlessly adding to their stress, and isn't so important to have anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WuHzE-1fk
I really avoid using 'apps' that require use of the internet, most can be accessed from the actual websites. I myself do not tweet, or FB, or any other social sites. Slashdot is as social as I get, never saw the point in the others since I have no wish to be 'noticed' outside of my own circle of people. Android doesn't protect it's app users well enough, and 'permissions' need to always be decided by the user, not the app designer. I've had a yahoo email address of mine lifted from my contacts by a game app, it spammed my friends and family pretending to be me. It's a great free game, but it turned itself back on sometime after I'd force-stopped it and accessed my information to spam the people in my contacts. That's a big no-no with me. Now the only time I'll play it is by sideloading it when offline and uninstalling it as soon as I'm done playing it. You burn me once, that's all it takes for me to remember you.
When users are given full control of their devices is the day I'll be comfortable with these them, and I sure don't see that day coming anytime soon.
How would something like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube work without an Internet connection?
Better?
Perhaps you should look up the word "propaganda"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda statements may be partly false and partly true. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
You stated you were "clearifying why things went down" but did you consider any other side but the US version of events? So yeah, its spreading propaganda.....
Being born and having lived my life in the U.S., I carry a U.S. bias. I haven't been convinced by your postings. And until any better 'proof' comes along, we'll have to "agree to disagree", as it is said.
Also, the word is "clarify", there is no such English word as "clearify". Am I correct, or am I promoting my own 'propaganda'? Use your own brain and decide for yourself.
Any downloaded app that re-spawns after I 'force stop' it (Android), or doesn't function unless it has a working internet connection.
Does it say "Norton" anywhere in the name? Uninstall!!!
... These nation are still innocent when it come to weapon of mass destruction.
And I pray that they stay innocent that way. War is to be avoided if at all possible. Nucleur weaponry should be the option of last resort.
Oh yes, please continue to to repeat that mass-murder-justifying state propaganda. It does wonders for our society's ability to think clearly about moral issues.
I am not spreading propaganda, just clarifying why things went down as they did back in 1945 for the AC.
AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public.
Uh, not true. They were pumping out new bombs on a production line, and the third bomb would have been ready to go soon after the second was dropped; Truman vetoed any further use. If I remember correctly, they were up to about one bomb a month by that point, and accelerating.
Correct, but the U.S. had used up it's inventory...
" Charles Sweeney published his memoirs as War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission (Avon, 1997). During the party following the successful Hiroshima drop, he recalled that Paul Tibbets took him aside and told him that he was to command the second atomic mission, with Kokura as the primary and Nagasaki as the secondary target. Timing was important, Tibbets said: "It was vital that [the Japanese] believed we had an unlimited supply of atomic bombs and that we would continue to use them. Of course, the truth was that we only had one more bomb on Tinian. Delivery of the third bomb was several weeks away.""
http://www.warbirdforum.com/third.htm
http://csis.org/blog/understanding-decision-drop-bomb-hiroshima-and-nagasaki