This whole thing sounds like it's several years away from being trustworthy
The currency is trustworthy, to the best of anybody's knowledge. The systems around it are very immature.
Some friends of mine run a medical first aid charity and just yesterday all of their donations were stolen from their blockchain.info account.
Aside: apparently the way this works is you log onto the site and enter your password, and Google Authenticator, and then it downloads your wallet to the local machine, where it's decrypted. At that point the bitcoin malware steals your wallet and passphrase. But, back to the show:
The reddit thread about this event was severe.
What idiots for not having a hot wallet and several cold wallets. What idiots for not printing out their keys on paper and keeping them on a computer instead. What idiots for not booting a brand new machine with Tails, establishing an address, then wiping the hard drive and destroying the WiFi card and only ever using paper to get funds between them!
These redditors are insensitive assholes, but they're probably not wrong. That appears to be the level of security effort necessary to safely use bitcoin. The "be your own bank" mantra means you have to be as good as a bank, but if you are you have the same level of control as a bank.
So, buyer beware: bitcoin is a powerful tool, but so is a four foot chain saw. Use both carefully and appropriately. At some point there will be systems in place to not have to worry so much about these things (just like you can hire a guy to bring you a load of firewood).
Really? I looked at the side-by-side and I saw striking differences in proportions, thickness of borders, bezel positioning, button arrangement, button shape, typeface, font weight, text color, and screen characteristics.
The similarities I saw included a screen larger than a hand grip (to fit the human hand shape), a wheel selector, inputs for probes, a similar safety yellow on the side edges, to make it easy to spot (like traffic signs) and a faceplate color similar to the LCD screen color.
They both look similar, in that they both look like multimeters and not toasters, but as far as trade dress goes, they don't look like similar multimeters to me.
If two reasonable people can agree about whether they look similar or not, perhaps this area of trademark law isn't well-constructed.
This woman sounds insane, likely a dangerous psychopath, and perhaps should be removed from society herself.
My State's constitution talks about prison specifically and instructs that "The true design of all punishments being to reform". That was 1782.
This is 2014 and she's talking like there are witches to burn. And instead of the hollow echoes of a homeless person, this is on the front page of Slashdot.
They say democracy gives a society the best outcome it deserves..
Additional thought: responsible disclosure only works because of the threat of full disclosure.
Sometimes. Other times the vendor threatens the researcher. Other times the researcher never takes it public. In all of those cases, there is a problem the community doesn't know about for some period of time.
I've advocated for Informed Disclosure in the past. In a nut shell, you tell the public that there is a problem, that the problem is related to X, that to work around it you can do Y, and that there will be a full disclosure release in n days. At that point you contact the vendor with the full details of the exploit and give them the time to fix it.
It avoids the aforementioned problems, but you better choose 'n' wisely or your name will be mud.
Both full disclosure and responsible disclosure have problems and we can do a little better.
It's not cool to assume that you have a property right in somebody else's body if they don't object, but the same ends could be achieved by giving priority to organ donors and their dependents based on years on the organ donor list. We already do this for living donors.
The ultimate problem is that such competing systems can't be put into place, even to test them - the high priests of the medical cartel tell us what they think is the best system this season and everybody else has to follow it or face being caged for going against the gods (err, surgeons - even they make the same mistake).
Almost all bank transactions are reversible in the case of fraud, no bitcoin transactions are ever reversible.
The blockchain transactions aren't reversible, but neither are bank ledger transactions. At the customer service level, both can be refunded (even when it's a bad idea: see Mt. Gox). It's like like in USD's you're going to get the same bills back, but that's why currency is fungible.
In other words they are just trying to help encourage women to give lectures on IT related subjects because they feel that they are otherwise under-represented.
This misses the point of Jane Elliott's brown-eyes-blue-eyes experiment. Women don't need separate-but-equal facilities to excel - there is no functional difference between a man and a woman in an IT role. Telling them they need a special venue is telling them they're not good enough for the "men's lecture". It's an insidious form of sexism.
Do individual women need encouragement? Of course - our culture favors quiet little mermaids, not bold warrior princesses. But do encourage those women who need the encouragement and *don't* tell them they're not good enough for the men's group, but also encourage the quiet nerdy guy who's terrified to speak in front of a group. And if you do encounter this fabled guy who is trying to keep women down in IT - kick 'em in the balls and tell him that women don't have that weakness.
Our education system is set up for average and can not handle the two sides of the bell.
We can rail all we want about how the education system is so "stupid", but it's not. It produces exactly the kind of people that a monopoly system is required to produce. Look all around - wherever parents have a choice of schools, they send their kids to the best one, often if the costs are severe.
They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club....The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.... Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing (2005)
Not unless you use a hidden camera. If you use a visible camera and no one objects, you can assume their implicit permission
But if you're standing on a pier photographing a beach, aren't you 'hidden' in that most subjects do not see your camera? 16MP sensors are amazing things when coupled with a good lens.
The trick with good times is when they don't last. What we see, more so in this cycle that most, is centralization of power and responsibility/regulation (there has never existed a more regulated society than the modern West).
The cost of this is extreme - by some estimates, most people pay 30-60% of their earnings for the year to support such a structure (if you don't understand the average 22% cost of goods as embedded income taxes, google for the Harvard economics study). When we have an extreme downturn, like now (we need 350,000 jobs per month added for 10 straight years just to get back to "Bush era" employment numbers), people can't afford it. Just this week we have the example of Obama saying that people should cancel their phone service to pay for his healthcare scheme, but that's just a glaring example of a pervasive problem.
Only so many people will allow their homes to be confiscated to pay for the ostentatious lifestyle in DC and on Wall Street, while they're having trouble putting food on the table for their families. If trends continue, the USD will lose its place as the national reserve currency (debt-to-gdp is over 100% now; Bretton Woods was agreed upon when the USD was still backed by gold) which will cause a rapid loss of buying power. And the more the US outsources, the less will be there when the USD loses its value. At some point, they can crank up the printing presses to fund poverty programs, but when people stop accepting dollars, there's nothing else to do but to implement wage and price controls and/or seize the means of production. The odds of a revolt go up with each step along the way.
The shame of it is, we can see this coming, and we can recognize that we need decentralization and de-escalation of power, but the political system does not allow for it to back itself down. Even the very name, "lawmakers" is telling - "law-removers" isn't in the lexicon.
Jefferson himself predicted the situation, and even recommended revolution as the solution. I'd rather see a peaceful and economic one.
For a networking or storage appliance, it should get on the network using stateless autoconfiguration.
Hey, man, you've given yourself away as being from the future.
pfSense is a good example of how to do an interface well for network configuration. I'm not sure that defining a network topology in a directory server would be easier or better.
Do you mean that in most countries, if you take a picture of a crowded beach, you'd need six thousand model releases to be legal?
'Cause that doesn't sound sane. Not that most regulations are.
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and apparently there's nothing more newsworthy coming across the firehose. I suppose we should take this as a sign that many people have stopped contribuitng to/. Perhaps they're over at SoylentNews now.
So we learned nothing from the 2001 US bombardment and invasion of Saudi Arabia then?
Either Ahmadinejad or Assad are beind this one. It doesn't matter that Ahmadinejad is out of power - he wanted to nuke Israel (it doesn't matter if that was a mistranslation). Assad just needs a good bombing anyway (it doesn't matter how he's going to price his oil).
'Cause Blackwater got BILLS TO PAY (it doesn't amtter that Blackwater changed its name to Xe and then to Academi to cover its tracks). And we've got bombs on the shelf that are getting close to their expiration date! Plus: jobs!
The bastards now are so full of themselves that they don't even pretend anymore.
Well, that is part of it - to show you what's there place and your place. Like at the airport, nobody expects to find a bomb in the keester of a midwest sales manager, but he's gonna get the anal probe so that he knows just who's in charge. It's worse than most people would treat a dog, really.
But a few X fanbois think they know better 'cuz hmm erh.... network transparency!
One way or the other, networked Wayland will get figured out - I don't need X primitives across the wire, I just need to run an app. This can be figured achieved.
I'm more concerned that security is an afterthought in Wayland, and it'll get bolted on at some point. X's security is enough to make an auditor's skin crawl and Wayland isn't (yet) any better.
Maybe Wayland will forever be a development idea and somebody will fork it to address practical concerns. It might not even be too early for a fork - for as long as large numbers of people have been expressing concerns about both issues, we (meaning I, casually) haven't heard any recognition from the project that those are important issues and design work is taking those needs into consideration.
I'm not bummed about the $20, but I am bummed about the letter.
I get that costs are going up. But the letter cited three things:
1) cost of fuel 2) prime video 3) prime kindle books
The cost of fuel has not gone up year-over-year. If anything, motor vehicle fuel costs are down a little bit, and anything that's fungible for natural gas has gone down.
So, Prime Video. It's a "free perk" but now you've got to pay for it.
3) Kindle books. I use the Kindle app, but I don't own an Amazon device so I don't even get this. Amazon even knows there's not a hardware kindle linked to my account - they could have tailored the letter.
So, that leaves me with the apparent idea that I need to pay $20 a year for Prime Video, which ain't much to write home about. If I had the imaginary choice, I'd gladly lose access to it for the $20.
But, since I'm smart enough to realize that Prime only appears to be paid for by unicorn farts, I would have appreciated an more forthright letter. I'm not gonna cancel, but the operation seems like it's getting a few cracks.
I suppose a would-be assassin would take a random pot shot at the guy, but that speaks more to how that motorcade shouldn't be so obvious when it is passing through either.
Perhaps it speaks more to being the head of an organization that is so reviled. Jefferson made note of the huge lines of people who would come to his office to complain about this or that. He only detested the ones who came seeking political appointments. I never read about anybody taking so much as a swing at him in his office.
I've yet to see anything that eliminates either possibility.
Not 'eliminates' per se, but local Malaysian media was reporting that one of the pilots' homes was searched by officials. Officials denied that it happened, of course.
Assuming that's true, this may turn out to be a heist more than a hijacking. I'm just not sure who it would be worth it for. Most States can buy an airliner easily enough (and the ones that can't aren't in the immediate vicinity of the Indian Ocean). Most non-state-actors would have trouble hiding an aircraft of that size given the runway requirements.
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Isn't this a bit like the company that mines your data for profit is complaining about the government that mines your data for power?
If showing you ads is like targeting your for a Hellfire drone missile strike, then sure. To me that fails the moral equivalence test.
This whole thing sounds like it's several years away from being trustworthy
The currency is trustworthy, to the best of anybody's knowledge. The systems around it are very immature.
Some friends of mine run a medical first aid charity and just yesterday all of their donations were stolen from their blockchain.info account.
Aside: apparently the way this works is you log onto the site and enter your password, and Google Authenticator, and then it downloads your wallet to the local machine, where it's decrypted. At that point the bitcoin malware steals your wallet and passphrase. But, back to the show:
The reddit thread about this event was severe.
These redditors are insensitive assholes, but they're probably not wrong. That appears to be the level of security effort necessary to safely use bitcoin. The "be your own bank" mantra means you have to be as good as a bank, but if you are you have the same level of control as a bank.
So, buyer beware: bitcoin is a powerful tool, but so is a four foot chain saw. Use both carefully and appropriately. At some point there will be systems in place to not have to worry so much about these things (just like you can hire a guy to bring you a load of firewood).
Really? I looked at the side-by-side and I saw striking differences in proportions, thickness of borders, bezel positioning, button arrangement, button shape, typeface, font weight, text color, and screen characteristics.
The similarities I saw included a screen larger than a hand grip (to fit the human hand shape), a wheel selector, inputs for probes, a similar safety yellow on the side edges, to make it easy to spot (like traffic signs) and a faceplate color similar to the LCD screen color.
They both look similar, in that they both look like multimeters and not toasters, but as far as trade dress goes, they don't look like similar multimeters to me.
If two reasonable people can agree about whether they look similar or not, perhaps this area of trademark law isn't well-constructed.
This woman sounds insane, likely a dangerous psychopath, and perhaps should be removed from society herself.
My State's constitution talks about prison specifically and instructs that "The true design of all punishments being to reform". That was 1782.
This is 2014 and she's talking like there are witches to burn. And instead of the hollow echoes of a homeless person, this is on the front page of Slashdot.
They say democracy gives a society the best outcome it deserves..
Additional thought: responsible disclosure only works because of the threat of full disclosure.
Sometimes. Other times the vendor threatens the researcher. Other times the researcher never takes it public. In all of those cases, there is a problem the community doesn't know about for some period of time.
I've advocated for Informed Disclosure in the past. In a nut shell, you tell the public that there is a problem, that the problem is related to X, that to work around it you can do Y, and that there will be a full disclosure release in n days. At that point you contact the vendor with the full details of the exploit and give them the time to fix it.
It avoids the aforementioned problems, but you better choose 'n' wisely or your name will be mud.
Both full disclosure and responsible disclosure have problems and we can do a little better.
Marijuana cures nothing, except perhaps intelligence.
Gosh, then reading this patent would become so difficult!
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So much focus.
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that you have to stop in the middle for moment (for a break).
It's not cool to assume that you have a property right in somebody else's body if they don't object, but the same ends could be achieved by giving priority to organ donors and their dependents based on years on the organ donor list. We already do this for living donors.
The ultimate problem is that such competing systems can't be put into place, even to test them - the high priests of the medical cartel tell us what they think is the best system this season and everybody else has to follow it or face being caged for going against the gods (err, surgeons - even they make the same mistake).
Almost all bank transactions are reversible in the case of fraud, no bitcoin transactions are ever reversible.
The blockchain transactions aren't reversible, but neither are bank ledger transactions. At the customer service level, both can be refunded (even when it's a bad idea: see Mt. Gox). It's like like in USD's you're going to get the same bills back, but that's why currency is fungible.
In other words they are just trying to help encourage women to give lectures on IT related subjects because they feel that they are otherwise under-represented.
This misses the point of Jane Elliott's brown-eyes-blue-eyes experiment. Women don't need separate-but-equal facilities to excel - there is no functional difference between a man and a woman in an IT role. Telling them they need a special venue is telling them they're not good enough for the "men's lecture". It's an insidious form of sexism.
Do individual women need encouragement? Of course - our culture favors quiet little mermaids, not bold warrior princesses. But do encourage those women who need the encouragement and *don't* tell them they're not good enough for the men's group, but also encourage the quiet nerdy guy who's terrified to speak in front of a group. And if you do encounter this fabled guy who is trying to keep women down in IT - kick 'em in the balls and tell him that women don't have that weakness.
Our education system is set up for average and can not handle the two sides of the bell.
We can rail all we want about how the education system is so "stupid", but it's not. It produces exactly the kind of people that a monopoly system is required to produce. Look all around - wherever parents have a choice of schools, they send their kids to the best one, often if the costs are severe.
It *IS* easily done, right?!?
What are your thoughts on this one?
Not unless you use a hidden camera. If you use a visible camera and no one objects, you can assume their implicit permission
But if you're standing on a pier photographing a beach, aren't you 'hidden' in that most subjects do not see your camera? 16MP sensors are amazing things when coupled with a good lens.
The trick with good times is when they don't last. What we see, more so in this cycle that most, is centralization of power and responsibility/regulation (there has never existed a more regulated society than the modern West).
The cost of this is extreme - by some estimates, most people pay 30-60% of their earnings for the year to support such a structure (if you don't understand the average 22% cost of goods as embedded income taxes, google for the Harvard economics study). When we have an extreme downturn, like now (we need 350,000 jobs per month added for 10 straight years just to get back to "Bush era" employment numbers), people can't afford it. Just this week we have the example of Obama saying that people should cancel their phone service to pay for his healthcare scheme, but that's just a glaring example of a pervasive problem.
Only so many people will allow their homes to be confiscated to pay for the ostentatious lifestyle in DC and on Wall Street, while they're having trouble putting food on the table for their families. If trends continue, the USD will lose its place as the national reserve currency (debt-to-gdp is over 100% now; Bretton Woods was agreed upon when the USD was still backed by gold) which will cause a rapid loss of buying power. And the more the US outsources, the less will be there when the USD loses its value. At some point, they can crank up the printing presses to fund poverty programs, but when people stop accepting dollars, there's nothing else to do but to implement wage and price controls and/or seize the means of production. The odds of a revolt go up with each step along the way.
The shame of it is, we can see this coming, and we can recognize that we need decentralization and de-escalation of power, but the political system does not allow for it to back itself down. Even the very name, "lawmakers" is telling - "law-removers" isn't in the lexicon.
Jefferson himself predicted the situation, and even recommended revolution as the solution. I'd rather see a peaceful and economic one.
For a networking or storage appliance, it should get on the network using stateless autoconfiguration.
Hey, man, you've given yourself away as being from the future.
pfSense is a good example of how to do an interface well for network configuration. I'm not sure that defining a network topology in a directory server would be easier or better.
Do you mean that in most countries, if you take a picture of a crowded beach, you'd need six thousand model releases to be legal?
'Cause that doesn't sound sane. Not that most regulations are.
and apparently there's nothing more newsworthy coming across the firehose. I suppose we should take this as a sign that many people have stopped contribuitng to /. Perhaps they're over at SoylentNews now.
So we learned nothing from the 2001 US bombardment and invasion of Saudi Arabia then?
Either Ahmadinejad or Assad are beind this one. It doesn't matter that Ahmadinejad is out of power - he wanted to nuke Israel (it doesn't matter if that was a mistranslation). Assad just needs a good bombing anyway (it doesn't matter how he's going to price his oil).
'Cause Blackwater got BILLS TO PAY (it doesn't amtter that Blackwater changed its name to Xe and then to Academi to cover its tracks). And we've got bombs on the shelf that are getting close to their expiration date! Plus: jobs!
Hey, maybe one of the eds just randomly pushed a journal post to the front page.
The bastards now are so full of themselves that they don't even pretend anymore.
Well, that is part of it - to show you what's there place and your place. Like at the airport, nobody expects to find a bomb in the keester of a midwest sales manager, but he's gonna get the anal probe so that he knows just who's in charge. It's worse than most people would treat a dog, really.
They'll make you an offer you can't refuse.
Chris Christy isn't the only one with machinations.
What, you don't think it's coincidence that the NJ State Flag has a severed horse's head at the top, do you?
But a few X fanbois think they know better 'cuz hmm erh.... network transparency!
One way or the other, networked Wayland will get figured out - I don't need X primitives across the wire, I just need to run an app. This can be figured achieved.
I'm more concerned that security is an afterthought in Wayland, and it'll get bolted on at some point. X's security is enough to make an auditor's skin crawl and Wayland isn't (yet) any better.
Maybe Wayland will forever be a development idea and somebody will fork it to address practical concerns. It might not even be too early for a fork - for as long as large numbers of people have been expressing concerns about both issues, we (meaning I, casually) haven't heard any recognition from the project that those are important issues and design work is taking those needs into consideration.
I'm not bummed about the $20, but I am bummed about the letter.
I get that costs are going up. But the letter cited three things:
1) cost of fuel
2) prime video
3) prime kindle books
The cost of fuel has not gone up year-over-year. If anything, motor vehicle fuel costs are down a little bit, and anything that's fungible for natural gas has gone down.
So, Prime Video. It's a "free perk" but now you've got to pay for it.
3) Kindle books. I use the Kindle app, but I don't own an Amazon device so I don't even get this. Amazon even knows there's not a hardware kindle linked to my account - they could have tailored the letter.
So, that leaves me with the apparent idea that I need to pay $20 a year for Prime Video, which ain't much to write home about. If I had the imaginary choice, I'd gladly lose access to it for the $20.
But, since I'm smart enough to realize that Prime only appears to be paid for by unicorn farts, I would have appreciated an more forthright letter. I'm not gonna cancel, but the operation seems like it's getting a few cracks.
I suppose a would-be assassin would take a random pot shot at the guy, but that speaks more to how that motorcade shouldn't be so obvious when it is passing through either.
Perhaps it speaks more to being the head of an organization that is so reviled. Jefferson made note of the huge lines of people who would come to his office to complain about this or that. He only detested the ones who came seeking political appointments. I never read about anybody taking so much as a swing at him in his office.
I've yet to see anything that eliminates either possibility.
Not 'eliminates' per se, but local Malaysian media was reporting that one of the pilots' homes was searched by officials. Officials denied that it happened, of course.
Assuming that's true, this may turn out to be a heist more than a hijacking. I'm just not sure who it would be worth it for. Most States can buy an airliner easily enough (and the ones that can't aren't in the immediate vicinity of the Indian Ocean). Most non-state-actors would have trouble hiding an aircraft of that size given the runway requirements.