As an outsider, judging by how 9/11 "rallied the American spirit" - no thanks. You all went batshit crazy and still are. I'm afraid to think where more rallying will leave you. Checkpoints on every block? Full body scanners and patdowns at every public event? Personally I still like my odds of dying of a heart attack versus being killed in a terrorist act. Please don't take more civil liberties away. That stuff is contagious and other countries are catching it. Also, condolences to the bereaved and wounded.
Actually Windows is a tough nut to crack also, nowadays. Most patches nowadays are for exploits that require local access to the machine. Of course Flash is another issue entirely...
Unless your pass-thought was created while you were drunk, too. In which case the challenge will be exactly how many drinks did you have. Failed attempt - have another drink!
Definitely expect these peering into your windows in a few years' time. I'm glad I'm over 40 - I'll probably be dead by the time the true "Big Brother" state arrives. But it's certainly coming.
This is when you start shooting people, because population control will never happen. People believe they have a right to reproduce and so do their babies. All you can do is keep your head down and hope you can ride out the coming storm - but at the end of the day none of it means anything on this pale blue dot. We won't be missed.
To be fair, if we had the technology to "jump from planet to planet consuming their resources", we'd necessarily have a technological advantage over more sedentary xenos. Said coalition would first require that the aliens 1) be in contact with each other and 2) be sufficiently advanced to "beat us" without consuming their own resources... My money is on the civilization with the most advanced industrial base. It's much easier to switch from ploughshares to guns than it is to develop and grow an entire industrial sector overnight.
Not many actually. Windows 7 is pretty good. All these vulnerabilities they are patching only work when the attacker has local access to your machine. And everyone will tell you that if someone has local access, that machine is compromised, period, no matter what OS you are running.
One could argue that Apple didn't deliver a better user experience either. But they packaged it in such a shiny package with rounded corners that the user simply didn't care. Quite a few of the ipod/phone/pad "interface" things, while different, are absolutely not functional, are certainly more time consuming, etc than the "old" way of doing things.
Yes! Prices have come down. I bought a 512GB SSD and I have no regrets whatsoever. Boot times are amazingly fast, and load times for apps almost instant.
Another thing that plays against these bitcoin idiots is that their "currency" is limited, there will only every be 21M bitcoins, who knows how many are out there now, but it's certainly a number small enough for any passing Russian billionaire to play with, especially with 90% of these nerds stockpiling these bitcoins, nay, buying even more in the hopes of becoming fabulously wealthy. Can't take more than a few dozen million on the buy side to seriously impact the market. The best bit about this type of market manipulation is that when you start buying, by definition you are the one buying low. And of course if this kind of manipulation can happen once, it can happen "n" times since as we've said, the number of bitcoins is fixed. Let's see just how stupid these nerds are...
Plus lets completely ignore that these nerds forget that the purpose of bitcoin was supposed to be a currency. As a vendor how the hell am I expected to set my price when the "currency" is changing at a rate of 100% a day? And how is a buyer supposed to decide to buy, when he can get more goods or services if he waits a few hours? There is no value as a currency. I can imagine NO ONE is honoring bitcoin transactions for goods/services at the moment. So what good is bitcoin again? It seems like Satoshi-san's brilliant idea failed to account for good old fashioned human greed. But hey, if he kept some of the initial blocks of bitcoin to himself he's quite likely sitting on a fortune if he cashed out anyway, so what does it matter?
But yeah nerds, blame it on DDoS. THAT is what undid your precious Bitcoin. Hey the price is still good, you could always get out a 2nd mortgage and buy more. If it went up to $260 once, it could do it again! In fact, why not $520!
It takes a whole hour to teach 10 year olds loop and conditional statements, something that could be taught in 5 mins and mastered in 10? Why yes, sign my school district up for this, how many millions will it cost?
You haven't even looked at the graph, have you? Yeah there are vendors that do accept BitCoin. Say you want to buy, er, a "t-shirt" on silk road. Your 1 Bitcoin t-shirt last week still costs 1 Bitcoin today. Except 1 Bitcoin was $30 last week, now it's $150+ (as of this morning). Still going to buy that t-shirt? Didn't think so. So the vendor has to drop his price to 0.20 Bitcoin today for the same tshirt, or he isn't going to sell any. Just stop being so damned dense and look at the graph. You cannot have a medium of exchange that is changing in value 500% a couple weeks.
Microsoft is (or should be) so busy saving its own skin it can't afford a war with anyone right now. Windows 8? Meh. Office 365? Meh. The Microsoft iPad thingie what was it called again? Yeah. Was it worth pissing off all the OEM's over? Ballmer just keeps shooting himself in the foot again and again and again. It's almost as if he wants Microsoft to fail.
The winning side becomes the losing side in a flash. I'll tell you right now which side I want to be on when the torches and pitchforks get going, and it's not the "winning" side. Wealth too is transitory. It's often gone within two generations, and usually less.
I can't "explain" an event that hasn't happened yet, except point out similarities to past events that this one so far is matching pretty well. But I'll just let this graph stand as an example of the past few days. Zoom out a little, say to the "D3" three day chart. If I was a retailer selling a $10 item and accepting bitcoin, I would currently have to be adjusting the price every minute. Does this make sense for a currency? Absolutely not. Better yet, when more money piles into bitcoin and prices elevate higher, a minor 0.1% fluctuation in bitcoin price could, as a vendor, represent my profit margin.
You cannot build a medium of exchange that lacks one of the basic components of accepted mediums of exchange: stability. A chicken is a chicken is a chicken. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. A US dollar, while not stable, degrades relatively slowly over time. Bitcoin? Let's not speculate. Look at the chart. Absolutely unusable as it stands, other than a medium of speculation. The long term prognosis is even worse if more greed and more money piles into the system. But hey, whatever man.
Tulips got real popular at one time, too. Bitcoin is now trading at $140+/per unit, and the curve is very sharply up. In fact anyone who knows anything about markets will tell you, it's not sustainable. When Bitcoin is at a few thousand dollars a unit - next week or so at this rate - and people start getting REALLY greedy, that's when the fun will begin. Demand has to be based at least partly on something other than human greed. But yeah go take out a second mortgage and put it all in bitcoin. You could be rich within a couple weeks. Or more likely, you'll have to pay off a second mortgage the hard way...
The battery has not marred the plane's launch. In fact, the plane has been launched and in service for a while. Journalists are "historians" indeed - lol.
The virtual currency that is "safe", despite numerous examples of exchange hacks and theft. The virtual currency that is "better than cash", but fluctuates in value up to 10% in a matter of hours. And the virtual currency that is experiencing record hyperinflation over the past few days. I wonder what happens when buyers realize that they will be paying "double the price in dollars" for their purchase between the time they enter an order and they receive their purchase. Wouldn't it make sense to hold off on your purchase if tomorrow your current bitcoin wallet can get you more? When we reach this stage of equilibrium between the massive inflating bubble that is Bitcoin and the deflationary drag on the actual bitcoin economy, people will suddenly realize how useless it is as a currency, vendors will stop accepting it, and the whole damned bubble will crash leaving a lot of hopefuls bereft of their life's savings (because look at that graph, we'll be filthy rich!), and a few Russian crime-lords much, much richer.
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As an outsider, judging by how 9/11 "rallied the American spirit" - no thanks. You all went batshit crazy and still are. I'm afraid to think where more rallying will leave you. Checkpoints on every block? Full body scanners and patdowns at every public event? Personally I still like my odds of dying of a heart attack versus being killed in a terrorist act. Please don't take more civil liberties away. That stuff is contagious and other countries are catching it. Also, condolences to the bereaved and wounded.
Actually Windows is a tough nut to crack also, nowadays. Most patches nowadays are for exploits that require local access to the machine. Of course Flash is another issue entirely...
He usually does cocaine when he comes down off his acid trip.
I think the concept you are missing is that at one point, user ID and password will eventually be merged into one.
Unless your pass-thought was created while you were drunk, too. In which case the challenge will be exactly how many drinks did you have. Failed attempt - have another drink!
Definitely expect these peering into your windows in a few years' time. I'm glad I'm over 40 - I'll probably be dead by the time the true "Big Brother" state arrives. But it's certainly coming.
They failed to adapt. It's still evolution, on an accelerated scale.
This is when you start shooting people, because population control will never happen. People believe they have a right to reproduce and so do their babies. All you can do is keep your head down and hope you can ride out the coming storm - but at the end of the day none of it means anything on this pale blue dot. We won't be missed.
To be fair, if we had the technology to "jump from planet to planet consuming their resources", we'd necessarily have a technological advantage over more sedentary xenos. Said coalition would first require that the aliens 1) be in contact with each other and 2) be sufficiently advanced to "beat us" without consuming their own resources... My money is on the civilization with the most advanced industrial base. It's much easier to switch from ploughshares to guns than it is to develop and grow an entire industrial sector overnight.
Not many actually. Windows 7 is pretty good. All these vulnerabilities they are patching only work when the attacker has local access to your machine. And everyone will tell you that if someone has local access, that machine is compromised, period, no matter what OS you are running.
Hey just seeing the looks on people's faces at the coffee shop when the Windows log on chime plays from a Mac could be worth the price.
One could argue that Apple didn't deliver a better user experience either. But they packaged it in such a shiny package with rounded corners that the user simply didn't care. Quite a few of the ipod/phone/pad "interface" things, while different, are absolutely not functional, are certainly more time consuming, etc than the "old" way of doing things.
Yes! Prices have come down. I bought a 512GB SSD and I have no regrets whatsoever. Boot times are amazingly fast, and load times for apps almost instant.
Another thing that plays against these bitcoin idiots is that their "currency" is limited, there will only every be 21M bitcoins, who knows how many are out there now, but it's certainly a number small enough for any passing Russian billionaire to play with, especially with 90% of these nerds stockpiling these bitcoins, nay, buying even more in the hopes of becoming fabulously wealthy. Can't take more than a few dozen million on the buy side to seriously impact the market. The best bit about this type of market manipulation is that when you start buying, by definition you are the one buying low. And of course if this kind of manipulation can happen once, it can happen "n" times since as we've said, the number of bitcoins is fixed. Let's see just how stupid these nerds are...
Plus lets completely ignore that these nerds forget that the purpose of bitcoin was supposed to be a currency. As a vendor how the hell am I expected to set my price when the "currency" is changing at a rate of 100% a day? And how is a buyer supposed to decide to buy, when he can get more goods or services if he waits a few hours? There is no value as a currency. I can imagine NO ONE is honoring bitcoin transactions for goods/services at the moment. So what good is bitcoin again? It seems like Satoshi-san's brilliant idea failed to account for good old fashioned human greed. But hey, if he kept some of the initial blocks of bitcoin to himself he's quite likely sitting on a fortune if he cashed out anyway, so what does it matter?
But yeah nerds, blame it on DDoS. THAT is what undid your precious Bitcoin. Hey the price is still good, you could always get out a 2nd mortgage and buy more. If it went up to $260 once, it could do it again! In fact, why not $520!
It takes a whole hour to teach 10 year olds loop and conditional statements, something that could be taught in 5 mins and mastered in 10? Why yes, sign my school district up for this, how many millions will it cost?
Yeah they think that not a single unionized shipyard worker was paid for this boat.
Mmmmmm crab cakes.....drooool
You haven't even looked at the graph, have you? Yeah there are vendors that do accept BitCoin. Say you want to buy, er, a "t-shirt" on silk road. Your 1 Bitcoin t-shirt last week still costs 1 Bitcoin today. Except 1 Bitcoin was $30 last week, now it's $150+ (as of this morning). Still going to buy that t-shirt? Didn't think so. So the vendor has to drop his price to 0.20 Bitcoin today for the same tshirt, or he isn't going to sell any. Just stop being so damned dense and look at the graph. You cannot have a medium of exchange that is changing in value 500% a couple weeks.
Since when is that part of the "libertarian mindset"? Justify your answer.
Microsoft is (or should be) so busy saving its own skin it can't afford a war with anyone right now. Windows 8? Meh. Office 365? Meh. The Microsoft iPad thingie what was it called again? Yeah. Was it worth pissing off all the OEM's over? Ballmer just keeps shooting himself in the foot again and again and again. It's almost as if he wants Microsoft to fail.
The winning side becomes the losing side in a flash. I'll tell you right now which side I want to be on when the torches and pitchforks get going, and it's not the "winning" side. Wealth too is transitory. It's often gone within two generations, and usually less.
I can't "explain" an event that hasn't happened yet, except point out similarities to past events that this one so far is matching pretty well. But I'll just let this graph stand as an example of the past few days. Zoom out a little, say to the "D3" three day chart. If I was a retailer selling a $10 item and accepting bitcoin, I would currently have to be adjusting the price every minute. Does this make sense for a currency? Absolutely not. Better yet, when more money piles into bitcoin and prices elevate higher, a minor 0.1% fluctuation in bitcoin price could, as a vendor, represent my profit margin.
You cannot build a medium of exchange that lacks one of the basic components of accepted mediums of exchange: stability. A chicken is a chicken is a chicken. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. A US dollar, while not stable, degrades relatively slowly over time. Bitcoin? Let's not speculate. Look at the chart. Absolutely unusable as it stands, other than a medium of speculation. The long term prognosis is even worse if more greed and more money piles into the system. But hey, whatever man.
Tulips got real popular at one time, too. Bitcoin is now trading at $140+/per unit, and the curve is very sharply up. In fact anyone who knows anything about markets will tell you, it's not sustainable. When Bitcoin is at a few thousand dollars a unit - next week or so at this rate - and people start getting REALLY greedy, that's when the fun will begin. Demand has to be based at least partly on something other than human greed. But yeah go take out a second mortgage and put it all in bitcoin. You could be rich within a couple weeks. Or more likely, you'll have to pay off a second mortgage the hard way...
The battery has not marred the plane's launch. In fact, the plane has been launched and in service for a while. Journalists are "historians" indeed - lol.
The virtual currency that is "safe", despite numerous examples of exchange hacks and theft. The virtual currency that is "better than cash", but fluctuates in value up to 10% in a matter of hours. And the virtual currency that is experiencing record hyperinflation over the past few days. I wonder what happens when buyers realize that they will be paying "double the price in dollars" for their purchase between the time they enter an order and they receive their purchase. Wouldn't it make sense to hold off on your purchase if tomorrow your current bitcoin wallet can get you more? When we reach this stage of equilibrium between the massive inflating bubble that is Bitcoin and the deflationary drag on the actual bitcoin economy, people will suddenly realize how useless it is as a currency, vendors will stop accepting it, and the whole damned bubble will crash leaving a lot of hopefuls bereft of their life's savings (because look at that graph, we'll be filthy rich!), and a few Russian crime-lords much, much richer.