Did you miss the part where they didn't get away with it and had to refund $700k?
You mean $35 per defrauded customer, or 0.07% of what they stole? Yeah, that'll show em, I'm sure they'll update their next act of mass fraud to ensure they make up that 0.07% such that they can pocket a cool billion.
You're missing the point entirely. The update required has to happen right the fuck now for everyone to get converted over before the first quantum computers capable of cracking it are available. It has to be initiated from every single wallet holder individually and it equates to every single wallet holder needing to accumulate 4-8 TB worth of signatures for every single year of operation. By the time the first quantum computers happen that's a 16-32TB blockchain every single user of bitcoin must have themselves, or the entire system becomes consolidated to the point banks can easily strongarm regulations to gain control over it. Everyone claiming bitcoin can survive the post-quantum cryptography era (in a few years, this isn't some far future thing) is either ignorant of the technical details of the system or an outright scammer.
It doesn't have to be practical for everyone, it only takes one person to use a quantum computer in the span of a day to drain every single unconverted bitcoin account.
Why? It has 5 years (at best) before quantum computing destroys it. The post-quantum algorithms require ENORMOUS signature sizes that can't be mitigated with a lightning-network style hack, and would have to be adopted years in advance such that everyone holding any BTC could transition their account over. The math adds up to about 4-8TB/yr every single wallet holder has to maintain just to verify the blockchain (or convert the whole thing into a centralized system where you just trust what is effectively a bank to verify transactions for you - it loses the whole "decentralized' appeal as a result.) That's to say nothing of the cost of transaction sizes when it costs you a minimum of 31KB just to sign a transaction. Lots of accounts won't even be able to pay to convert to the post-quantum protocols, and in turn you'll end up with a massive quantity of missing/lost BTCs siphoned up by whoever possess the first quantum computer capable of running Shor's algorithm (the ensuing scandal from which will likely yield regulations effectively making BTC centralization get taken over by existing banks anyway.)
Antivirus companies are the leading cause of viruses and spam. I worked at a company which used Symantec Spam Protector for about 5 years. ~$3,000/yr for the server application with updates. It registered a grand total of 2-3 spams (across all email addresses in the company) per day - it "worked" in that it prevented them from going through, but was still set to log them. Decide it's not worth 3k/yr to prevent an approximate 2% (for the size of the company) chance of a person getting a single spam email per day. The week after the subscription was canceled suddenly every email address in the company was inundated with spam - about 1 every 2-5 minutes for every address. The culprit was obvious so people decided to try to wait them out, a year later they gave up and renewed the subscription, the new spam protection server shows the steady flow of spam (and only blocks ~90% of it.)
Antivirus and anti-spam are the most obvious rackets in modern computing.
I have it on good authority from random posters on/. that self driving cars are 20 years away and that taxi cab and Uber drivers have nothing to worry about.
They are, but corporations are greedy and they have good lawyers.
This is the fundamental issue with self driving cars: if a person runs someone over and kills them their life is ruined, they are in prison or in so much debt they'll never afford a car again, let alone be allowed to drive. If a megacorp owned by another megacorp as a shell company kills someone the survivors have to sue a megacorp, which they have no chance of winning against (nevermind getting a fair settlement: e.g. every board member, executive, and programmer involved going to jail for manslaughter and getting total ownership over everything possessed by the shell company, the parent company, the board members, executives, and programmers involved.) When a person kills someone they are removed from society, it should be no different for a corporation or the people running that corporation.
1) Stock up on PC components.
2) PC component producers move to the US to avoid tariffs.
3) People are stocked up on PC components so they can't compete with overseas manufacturing due to lack of sales.
4) Yet another attempt by China to corrupt our economy for their own benefit succeeds.
They drank their own virtue-signaling koolaid while creating radical liberal propaganda. It's never been about helping creators, but they have it in their head they have to justify their actions on behalf of people who are supposedly wronged in order to better sell them, no matter that nobody believes them.
So it's tough to boil down a huge parallelized system with radically different compute nodes to a single Human-readable equation? Well, can't say that's shocking.
Oh..you were defining "Human readable" as "ecologists and climate scientists can understand it"...oh...ahahahahaha.
Seriously though, this result would be obvious to anyone with distributed system design experience. We don't have the computational power on Earth (outside of the actual ecosystem) to model the whole system. Hell, even with a multi-acre closed environment like Biosphere 2 it still took decades to get a self-stable model working with more limited nodes (species, interactions, resources, etc.) Next someone will post an article acting shocked that they can't model the whole universe on an Arduino...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are doing fine today. We've already set off as many nukes as we have in the global arsenal for testing purposes, the radiation dissipates pretty rapidly. Sure, if you nuke one spot repeatedly that spot will be unlivable for a long time, but we don't have enough nukes to do that everywhere and we don't even have enough to nuke each spot once to begin with. The ecosystem recovers much faster than Humans in an area do, overall it's a net win for the environment when Humans nuke eachother because animals and plants other than Humans tend to have much more rapid lifecycles (not that that's a reason to justify or warrant nuking people, just that "but the environment" is a pretty lame argument against nukes.)
They found that out during the Biosphere 2 project: as concrete sets over years it sucks in and fixes Oxygen. Would be better if we could come up with a concrete formula which fixes CO or CO2 instead.
I didn't suggest there was anything involved outside of the nucleus, but there are a huge number of mechanisms that we know of, seemingly growing every couple years, which extend well beyond a singular trigger. It has a lot more to do with how operons are utilized that it does anything else.
Are you aware "methylation at codon sites" doesn't even make sense? Epigenetics is the switching on and off of genes in a hereditary or environmental manner not directly relating to evolutionary mutation (aside from the fact the genes evolves in the past but were deactivated by default.)
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There are no cryptocurrencies immune to this.
Did you miss the part where they didn't get away with it and had to refund $700k?
You mean $35 per defrauded customer, or 0.07% of what they stole? Yeah, that'll show em, I'm sure they'll update their next act of mass fraud to ensure they make up that 0.07% such that they can pocket a cool billion.
That'll show them. Any company that is caught scamming that many people deserves to be shut down, no if's and's or but's.
You're missing the point entirely. The update required has to happen right the fuck now for everyone to get converted over before the first quantum computers capable of cracking it are available. It has to be initiated from every single wallet holder individually and it equates to every single wallet holder needing to accumulate 4-8 TB worth of signatures for every single year of operation. By the time the first quantum computers happen that's a 16-32TB blockchain every single user of bitcoin must have themselves, or the entire system becomes consolidated to the point banks can easily strongarm regulations to gain control over it. Everyone claiming bitcoin can survive the post-quantum cryptography era (in a few years, this isn't some far future thing) is either ignorant of the technical details of the system or an outright scammer.
It doesn't have to be practical for everyone, it only takes one person to use a quantum computer in the span of a day to drain every single unconverted bitcoin account.
I'd actually buy some of those.
Why? It has 5 years (at best) before quantum computing destroys it. The post-quantum algorithms require ENORMOUS signature sizes that can't be mitigated with a lightning-network style hack, and would have to be adopted years in advance such that everyone holding any BTC could transition their account over. The math adds up to about 4-8TB/yr every single wallet holder has to maintain just to verify the blockchain (or convert the whole thing into a centralized system where you just trust what is effectively a bank to verify transactions for you - it loses the whole "decentralized' appeal as a result.) That's to say nothing of the cost of transaction sizes when it costs you a minimum of 31KB just to sign a transaction. Lots of accounts won't even be able to pay to convert to the post-quantum protocols, and in turn you'll end up with a massive quantity of missing/lost BTCs siphoned up by whoever possess the first quantum computer capable of running Shor's algorithm (the ensuing scandal from which will likely yield regulations effectively making BTC centralization get taken over by existing banks anyway.)
Antivirus companies are the leading cause of viruses and spam. I worked at a company which used Symantec Spam Protector for about 5 years. ~$3,000/yr for the server application with updates. It registered a grand total of 2-3 spams (across all email addresses in the company) per day - it "worked" in that it prevented them from going through, but was still set to log them. Decide it's not worth 3k/yr to prevent an approximate 2% (for the size of the company) chance of a person getting a single spam email per day. The week after the subscription was canceled suddenly every email address in the company was inundated with spam - about 1 every 2-5 minutes for every address. The culprit was obvious so people decided to try to wait them out, a year later they gave up and renewed the subscription, the new spam protection server shows the steady flow of spam (and only blocks ~90% of it.)
Antivirus and anti-spam are the most obvious rackets in modern computing.
YoU aLl HaVe PhOnEs, DoN't YoU?!
Mod parent up insightful.
I have it on good authority from random posters on /. that self driving cars are 20 years away and that taxi cab and Uber drivers have nothing to worry about.
They are, but corporations are greedy and they have good lawyers.
This is the fundamental issue with self driving cars: if a person runs someone over and kills them their life is ruined, they are in prison or in so much debt they'll never afford a car again, let alone be allowed to drive. If a megacorp owned by another megacorp as a shell company kills someone the survivors have to sue a megacorp, which they have no chance of winning against (nevermind getting a fair settlement: e.g. every board member, executive, and programmer involved going to jail for manslaughter and getting total ownership over everything possessed by the shell company, the parent company, the board members, executives, and programmers involved.) When a person kills someone they are removed from society, it should be no different for a corporation or the people running that corporation.
Real men don't use backups
No, non-soyboys don't use backups, real men just never close the editor.
1) Stock up on PC components.
2) PC component producers move to the US to avoid tariffs.
3) People are stocked up on PC components so they can't compete with overseas manufacturing due to lack of sales.
4) Yet another attempt by China to corrupt our economy for their own benefit succeeds.
No thanks, communist scum.
They drank their own virtue-signaling koolaid while creating radical liberal propaganda. It's never been about helping creators, but they have it in their head they have to justify their actions on behalf of people who are supposedly wronged in order to better sell them, no matter that nobody believes them.
I am retiring the instant I meet my relevant financial goals for doing so.
That's why millennials aren't allowed to afford homes.
So it's tough to boil down a huge parallelized system with radically different compute nodes to a single Human-readable equation? Well, can't say that's shocking.
Oh..you were defining "Human readable" as "ecologists and climate scientists can understand it"...oh...ahahahahaha.
Seriously though, this result would be obvious to anyone with distributed system design experience. We don't have the computational power on Earth (outside of the actual ecosystem) to model the whole system. Hell, even with a multi-acre closed environment like Biosphere 2 it still took decades to get a self-stable model working with more limited nodes (species, interactions, resources, etc.) Next someone will post an article acting shocked that they can't model the whole universe on an Arduino...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are doing fine today. We've already set off as many nukes as we have in the global arsenal for testing purposes, the radiation dissipates pretty rapidly. Sure, if you nuke one spot repeatedly that spot will be unlivable for a long time, but we don't have enough nukes to do that everywhere and we don't even have enough to nuke each spot once to begin with. The ecosystem recovers much faster than Humans in an area do, overall it's a net win for the environment when Humans nuke eachother because animals and plants other than Humans tend to have much more rapid lifecycles (not that that's a reason to justify or warrant nuking people, just that "but the environment" is a pretty lame argument against nukes.)
They found that out during the Biosphere 2 project: as concrete sets over years it sucks in and fixes Oxygen. Would be better if we could come up with a concrete formula which fixes CO or CO2 instead.
I didn't suggest there was anything involved outside of the nucleus, but there are a huge number of mechanisms that we know of, seemingly growing every couple years, which extend well beyond a singular trigger. It has a lot more to do with how operons are utilized that it does anything else.
Epigenetics is a lot bigger than a singular effect.
Are you aware "methylation at codon sites" doesn't even make sense? Epigenetics is the switching on and off of genes in a hereditary or environmental manner not directly relating to evolutionary mutation (aside from the fact the genes evolves in the past but were deactivated by default.)
Thousands of nuclear detonations over the whole of the Earth is a tiny amount of radiation compared to what we've observed.
It seems like it might just be that adding the vesticles pollutes the petri dish environment in a harmful way.
I'd like to see this where a control was given different vesticles, instead of only controlling for "added" vs "not added."
Epigenetic changes have been known for awhile, this study isn't new in that regard, just another nail. It is a neat experiment though.
This is just wrong. We've seen the effects of high radiation and Humans are little different from other animals, things adapt very rapidly.