oh...and the idea that someone might have been throwing the daily blockchain into a git repos probably never occurred to anyone, not even developers or exchange makers or government agencies whose job it is to track everyfuckingthing we do on the net.
"Tokyo police are now scratching their heads. "The National Police Agency seems to lack the ability to analyze the bitcoin trading history of Mt. Gox," a government official told a source probing the investigation."
"While there are now for the first time over a billion smartphones in use around the world -- a staggering number -- Ericsson estimates that there's an astonishing 4.5 billion people who own mobile phones. For those who paid attention in math class, that's 4.5 times as many."
huh??
firstly, the ratio is hardly needed to make the point...pretty sure everyone knows that 4.5 billion is alot more then 1 billion.
plus, i think the pointless math lesson would probably be more necessary for those who *didn't* pay attention in math class.
like an early poster mentioned...the author of this article is suspect.
it's really nice to hear the the test that almost totally defined my future opportunities that I took when i was 16 (1982), barely old enough to understand much about career and life...
when what collage you were accepted to and what you were to study pretty much defined how successful you could be (thank god those times are changing fast, tbh)......has been "fundamentally rethought" and judged wanting in many areas...
what is this really telling people in my age group??
"whoops...sorry about that...due to our ignorance you missed 60 points on the test that could have helped you get scholarship money and/or admission to a significantly better schoo...better luch next time, oh our bad, there isn't any next time"
i HIGHLY doubt this...the people i know running XP on old hardware are totally clueless about linux...all they really use the machines for is browsing, email, and perhaps an application here n there.
i'd have to say...isn't it a pretty good assumption that 90% of machines running XP are under-powered (by modern standards) boxes that just won't really be able to handle the transition to the soon-to-be-free 8.1?
running even win7 on a machine with less then 2G is a nightmare...i can't imaging 8.1 being much better.
ms has to know this...besides the obvious (to us slashdotters of course) idea to move them to linuux peppermint or xfce, what does ms expect these user to do?
seriously...you bring up an interesting point and having thought about it, pretty much the only thing i could think over that RS supplies that i may need in a pinch (so no online option) would be those items.
not exactly life or death shit, but hey interesting thought experiment.
...as a 11 year-old kid riding my bike to the local RS, actually sitting in the display window in the strip-mall, and pounding code into a TRS-80 (around 1976) and saving the BASIC programs on a cassette drive, so i'll always have a soft-spot for these guys. the guys that used to work there would tell me i helped sales as people would walk by, see a kid on a "computer", and think to themselves "well, how hard could it be to use one of those if this kid is doing sorta-cool stuff on it?"
however, like someone else here said, it's been painful to watch the slow and steady decline of this American institution (yes i said and stand behind that characterization)...they have always been totally overpriced but often were the only game in town for getting components and such.
it's been almost 20 years since your write tCatB...i gave it a quick read and thought, "well, it *is* dated now, isn't it?" altho i am old enough to remember when its' ideas were pretty cutting edge.
given the current state of software development (ie the ease of use of PHP and the fact that, without a doubt, the cathedral model has won), what would you either like to change or add to your original thesis?
...but gold has had human value since the dawn of time...it's used in jewelry as a representation of wealth...it's even a vital commodity for certain electronics applications.
but bitcoin?? are people going to wear hashes on their t-shirts?
this is where your interesting-but-flawed analogy breaks, inho at least.
i'm wondering where exactly are we going to have to put the piece of black tape or sharpie scribble to disable it...
lol DRM...will they ever learn?
knock knock: "OMFG it's the coffee police.,..AGAIN!!" "damn, so who forgot the firewall the damn thing this time??" "well...shit i was surfing for porn and disabled the FW for freakydeaks,com.."
pound pound "OPEN UP...WE CAN SMELL THE CRIME BREWING HERE DO NOT RUN"
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I wonder how much oil and/or coal it takes to create the electricity to charge this bus everyday?
And yes, I know that CA just opened the worlds largest solar farm, but we all know most power on the grid is still carbon-burning.
i think it far far FAR more unlikely that even one monkey exists then Shakespeare's complete works do.
14 billion years is basically infinity, at least to our puny-yet-rather-clever brains.
hahahah i know this is a troll...
God would use tar of course.
oh...and the idea that someone might have been throwing the daily blockchain into a git repos probably never occurred to anyone, not even developers or exchange makers or government agencies whose job it is to track everyfuckingthing we do on the net.
like you said...
"..."
"Tokyo police are now scratching their heads. "The National Police Agency seems to lack the ability to analyze the bitcoin trading history of Mt. Gox," a government official told a source probing the investigation."
that's not a bug, it a feature.
move over "X is the year for linux on the desktop"...we have a new contender.
2014 is the year for medicine on the genome.
obviously, the dark matter came from Uranus
"While there are now for the first time over a billion smartphones in use around the world -- a staggering number -- Ericsson estimates that there's an astonishing 4.5 billion people who own mobile phones. For those who paid attention in math class, that's 4.5 times as many."
huh??
firstly, the ratio is hardly needed to make the point...pretty sure everyone knows that 4.5 billion is alot more then 1 billion.
plus, i think the pointless math lesson would probably be more necessary for those who *didn't* pay attention in math class.
like an early poster mentioned...the author of this article is suspect.
this stuff is beginning to read like a script...it has everything.
the us dollar is backed by "the full faith and credit of the us government"
which means its' ability to confiscate wealth and land and use it to secure its notes, using various federal agencies.
also, to use its' formidable military to battle and perhaps even conquer foreign countries to access resources.
and bitcoin has.....hmmm a distributed blockchain loaded with encrypted data.
yeah...sure the dollar and bitcoin are almost identical.
yeah...i get it...thanks i really couldn't tell that luck was spelled wrong and that i don't follow typical conventions.
i'm glad my 9th grade english teacher is reading slashdot these days....whowuddathunk?
it's really nice to hear the the test that almost totally defined my future opportunities that I took when i was 16 (1982), barely old enough to understand much about career and life...
when what collage you were accepted to and what you were to study pretty much defined how successful you could be (thank god those times are changing fast, tbh)... ...has been "fundamentally rethought" and judged wanting in many areas...
what is this really telling people in my age group??
"whoops...sorry about that...due to our ignorance you missed 60 points on the test that could have helped you get scholarship money and/or admission to a significantly better schoo...better luch next time, oh our bad, there isn't any next time"
or some shit like that....sigh.
becuz it annoys you, AC?
really?
i HIGHLY doubt this...the people i know running XP on old hardware are totally clueless about linux...all they really use the machines for is browsing, email, and perhaps an application here n there.
i'd have to say...isn't it a pretty good assumption that 90% of machines running XP are under-powered (by modern standards) boxes that just won't really be able to handle the transition to the soon-to-be-free 8.1?
running even win7 on a machine with less then 2G is a nightmare...i can't imaging 8.1 being much better.
ms has to know this...besides the obvious (to us slashdotters of course) idea to move them to linuux peppermint or xfce, what does ms expect these user to do?
i've seen plenty of legacy markup code that i wouldn't want touch without protection.
a soldering iron and solder?
seriously...you bring up an interesting point and having thought about it, pretty much the only thing i could think over that RS supplies that i may need in a pinch (so no online option) would be those items.
not exactly life or death shit, but hey interesting thought experiment.
"..but every single one had "WE'RE RADIOSHACK BITCH" .. "
i just shot coffee thru my nose...
...as a 11 year-old kid riding my bike to the local RS, actually sitting in the display window in the strip-mall, and pounding code into a TRS-80 (around 1976) and saving the BASIC programs on a cassette drive, so i'll always have a soft-spot for these guys. the guys that used to work there would tell me i helped sales as people would walk by, see a kid on a "computer", and think to themselves "well, how hard could it be to use one of those if this kid is doing sorta-cool stuff on it?"
however, like someone else here said, it's been painful to watch the slow and steady decline of this American institution (yes i said and stand behind that characterization)...they have always been totally overpriced but often were the only game in town for getting components and such.
it's been almost 20 years since your write tCatB...i gave it a quick read and thought, "well, it *is* dated now, isn't it?" altho i am old enough to remember when its' ideas were pretty cutting edge.
given the current state of software development (ie the ease of use of PHP and the fact that, without a doubt, the cathedral model has won), what would you either like to change or add to your original thesis?
...but gold has had human value since the dawn of time...it's used in jewelry as a representation of wealth...it's even a vital commodity for certain electronics applications.
but bitcoin?? are people going to wear hashes on their t-shirts?
this is where your interesting-but-flawed analogy breaks, inho at least.
im don't claim to be the best grammatist, either...
im don't claim to be sherlock holmes, but im pretty sure im detecting a pattern here...
i'm wondering where exactly are we going to have to put the piece of black tape or sharpie scribble to disable it...
lol DRM...will they ever learn?
knock knock: "OMFG it's the coffee police.,..AGAIN!!"
"damn, so who forgot the firewall the damn thing this time??"
"well...shit i was surfing for porn and disabled the FW for freakydeaks,com.."
pound pound "OPEN UP...WE CAN SMELL THE CRIME BREWING HERE DO NOT RUN"