Apple only use their CPUs in small, passively cooled battery powered devices... Would be interesting to see how they could scale if coupled with the typical cooling and power supply that an i7 or ryzen chip uses, or if they could add more cores.
It will affect someone who goes on holiday and wants to use a local sim to avoid extortionate roaming charges (or in some cases a lack of roaming agreement which prevents you from having any service at all)...
It will affect someone who buys a subsidised phone but intends to use a different one with the service...
A carrier lock is ineffective at deterring theft, blacklisting the IMEI of a stolen device (both on the networks themselves, and with apple/google etc) is far more effective.
People are already taxed on the profits they make from selling bitcoin... Taxes are already levied on the hardware purchased for mining bitcoins, and the power consumed to operate the hardware. Any extra tax which singles out bitcoin differently from any other legal activity
“We are spending tens or maybe hundreds of megawatts on producing something that has no tangible existence and no real use for humans outside the realm of financial speculation,” he said. “That can’t be good.”
There are MANY financial trading companies doing exactly the same thing, and have been doing so since long before bitcoin came into existence.
The community is small, but it consists primarily of more tech savvy users... When non tech savvy users have problems, questions, or need advice on what to buy they go to these more technical users. If you alienate these users, they won't recommend your products and might even advocate against them.
I bought a couple of (at the time) highend gpus in the early days of bitcoin, i only have time to play games for a few hours a day at most so the rest of the time i let them mine bitcoins just out of curiosity as the gpus would otherwise sit idle or rendering a stupid screensaver. Turns out those bitcoins paid for both the power used and the cost of the GPUs.
You can pay a dollar price with a card denominated in another currency, the card issuer will exchange whatever currency you hold into whatever the recipient wants at the time of processing (while also usually adding a fee for the service)...
Well that assumes that you actually made a profit, you could easily have made a loss by trading bitcoin too. There is also a threshold for personal sales as far as i understood, if you buy a car and sell it again later you don't have to declare the sale unless you're doing it as a business.
Besides, it's no different than any other form of trading. You buy an asset, its value goes up or down, you sell that asset.
Which is fine if the machines aren't yours and you don't have to pay for the power they use. A single machine may generate a trivial amount, but there are many thousands of insecure machines out there. Add them all up and you've got a lucrative earner. You don't even have to spend your own time collecting the machines, you can use automated scripts to scan for and infect machines.
Well for any system of importance, you should be doing *all of the above*...
You shouldn't be connecting it to the internet, irrespective of how up to date it is. You shouldn't be running software which isn't receiving security fixes. You shouldn't be using general purpose software for a single purpose device. You shouldn't be running software which receives anything other than security fixes (ie you should only fix the bugs, not introduce any other changes).
Violating EULA is not an infringement of copyright... In many locations, an EULA is totally unenforceable. A service agreement may exist when you are using *their* server, but in this instance you're using a third party server so that doesn't apply.
Works very well, supported out of the box on linux for many years and available as an installable driver package for windows, there is now support for virtio in various bsd flavors too.
Virtualization extensions are not exactly new, they've been around for more than 10 years now... It's highly unlikely that anyone will be deploying such old processors on a hypervisor system.
KVM works fine on many models of Atom, i've used it on a few. The really lowend models are again not the sort of systems you'd actually be using something like this on.
Nothing is perfect, open is still a few steps ahead of closed because the opportunities are available to you even if you choose not to take them, and everyone has an equal level of access to the code. Every problem that *can* happen to open source, can and does happen to closed source code as well, but closed source has an additional set of problems too.
Even where disputes are regulated, if you purchased bitcoin and received what you paid for at the price you were shown at the time of purchase then the dispute would be rejected. It doesn't matter if the value of bitcoin goes up or down, you agreed to buy a specific amount of bitcoin for a specific price, it was entirely your choice to do so.
Disputes/chargebacks are for when the seller does not provide what was agreed - ie they don't provide the goods, provide less (of the actual good, ie they sent you 1 bitcoin when you agreed to buy 2) or provide defective goods.
The card issuers themselves dont stop you from buying these things, it's the organisations offering those goods of services that choose not to accept cards.
You can buy anything legal that someone is willing to sell and accept cards, the card issuers usually don't place restrictions on what you can buy, its entirely the choice of the sellers if they are willing to sell the goods and take cards as payment for them.
All this talk of "volatility and risk" is a blatant lie, the banks are scared that crypto will cut them out of the loop.
If they were truly concerned about risky purchases, they wouldn't let you buy stocks, or use cards to pay for other forms of gambling etc.
The risks of competitive sports are well understood, and players at the highest levels tend to be extremely well paid. Noone is forced to play sports, they knew the risks and made a choice.
Did those replacement players only ever play 3 games, or did they only play 3 games at professional level? Chances are those "replacement players" were just second rate players who weren't quite good enough to play for the major teams, but still played regularly as amateurs or for lower tier teams.
They place far too much reliance on the tracking information too... If the tracking says "delivered" then they won't ever refund you. I've had a package where the tracking said it was delivered but i had no trace of it, and noone had ever come to my door on the stated days (based on cctv evidence as well as being physically home at the time).
Turns out the guy tried to deliver it to the house next door, which at the time was empty. I only found out about it several months later when someone moved in and noticed a card with my name/address on it, and a completely ruined weather beaten package left behind his garden gate. By that time i had already tried to use paypal's resolution process, tried to contact the courier and ended up having to file a dispute with my card issuer to get refunded.
Paypal (and ebay) also try to make the buyer pay for return shipping (with tracking, which increases the price significantly), but this is against the law in many european countries where the seller must pay for all costs in cases where the goods are faulty or otherwise not as advertised.
Some sellers also ship from one country, but list their return address in a different one - paypal will only process your claim if you send the item to the registered address which might be prohibitively expensive. I've had cases where the cost of returning the goods exceeds the value of the items.
And finally, you as a buyer can also abuse the system, your claim will be automatically refunded once you submit tracking information - so buy something expensive, file a dispute, and ship a small empty box back to the seller (with tracking). Once it arrives you'll get refunded and the seller has no recourse to complain about *what* you sent back.
Yes the very notion of a credit card is pretty ridiculous, it's a pull method of payment instead of push, and its the reason why cards are not accepted or issued in many parts of the world with high crime rates.
But then why do you need the paypal middleman? The merchant could simply supply you with their (Receive-only) bank account number, and you can transfer directly from your own bank. The only reason services like paypal exist are because bank transfers are typically stupidly overpriced, often far too slow and the banks tend to make them too convoluted to perform.
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Apple only use their CPUs in small, passively cooled battery powered devices... Would be interesting to see how they could scale if coupled with the typical cooling and power supply that an i7 or ryzen chip uses, or if they could add more cores.
It will affect someone who goes on holiday and wants to use a local sim to avoid extortionate roaming charges (or in some cases a lack of roaming agreement which prevents you from having any service at all)...
It will affect someone who buys a subsidised phone but intends to use a different one with the service...
A carrier lock is ineffective at deterring theft, blacklisting the IMEI of a stolen device (both on the networks themselves, and with apple/google etc) is far more effective.
It's about locking customers in, nothing else.
People are already taxed on the profits they make from selling bitcoin...
Taxes are already levied on the hardware purchased for mining bitcoins, and the power consumed to operate the hardware.
Any extra tax which singles out bitcoin differently from any other legal activity
“We are spending tens or maybe hundreds of megawatts on producing something that has no tangible existence and no real use for humans outside the realm of financial speculation,” he said. “That can’t be good.”
There are MANY financial trading companies doing exactly the same thing, and have been doing so since long before bitcoin came into existence.
The community is small, but it consists primarily of more tech savvy users...
When non tech savvy users have problems, questions, or need advice on what to buy they go to these more technical users. If you alienate these users, they won't recommend your products and might even advocate against them.
They could reduce the size and weight, but likely by reducing the battery size so it would be a problem then...
I bought a couple of (at the time) highend gpus in the early days of bitcoin, i only have time to play games for a few hours a day at most so the rest of the time i let them mine bitcoins just out of curiosity as the gpus would otherwise sit idle or rendering a stupid screensaver.
Turns out those bitcoins paid for both the power used and the cost of the GPUs.
However any sufficiently popular cryptocurrency moves towards ASICS, rendering GPUs useless for mining.
You can pay a dollar price with a card denominated in another currency, the card issuer will exchange whatever currency you hold into whatever the recipient wants at the time of processing (while also usually adding a fee for the service)...
Does that make euros any less of a currency?
Well that assumes that you actually made a profit, you could easily have made a loss by trading bitcoin too.
There is also a threshold for personal sales as far as i understood, if you buy a car and sell it again later you don't have to declare the sale unless you're doing it as a business.
Besides, it's no different than any other form of trading. You buy an asset, its value goes up or down, you sell that asset.
Which is fine if the machines aren't yours and you don't have to pay for the power they use.
A single machine may generate a trivial amount, but there are many thousands of insecure machines out there. Add them all up and you've got a lucrative earner.
You don't even have to spend your own time collecting the machines, you can use automated scripts to scan for and infect machines.
Well for any system of importance, you should be doing *all of the above*...
You shouldn't be connecting it to the internet, irrespective of how up to date it is.
You shouldn't be running software which isn't receiving security fixes.
You shouldn't be using general purpose software for a single purpose device.
You shouldn't be running software which receives anything other than security fixes (ie you should only fix the bugs, not introduce any other changes).
Violating EULA is not an infringement of copyright... In many locations, an EULA is totally unenforceable.
A service agreement may exist when you are using *their* server, but in this instance you're using a third party server so that doesn't apply.
Works very well, supported out of the box on linux for many years and available as an installable driver package for windows, there is now support for virtio in various bsd flavors too.
There are a variety of systems out there which do this...
Proxmox for one, SolusVM, and many more.
Virtualization extensions are not exactly new, they've been around for more than 10 years now... It's highly unlikely that anyone will be deploying such old processors on a hypervisor system.
KVM works fine on many models of Atom, i've used it on a few. The really lowend models are again not the sort of systems you'd actually be using something like this on.
Nothing is perfect, open is still a few steps ahead of closed because the opportunities are available to you even if you choose not to take them, and everyone has an equal level of access to the code.
Every problem that *can* happen to open source, can and does happen to closed source code as well, but closed source has an additional set of problems too.
Even where disputes are regulated, if you purchased bitcoin and received what you paid for at the price you were shown at the time of purchase then the dispute would be rejected.
It doesn't matter if the value of bitcoin goes up or down, you agreed to buy a specific amount of bitcoin for a specific price, it was entirely your choice to do so.
Disputes/chargebacks are for when the seller does not provide what was agreed - ie they don't provide the goods, provide less (of the actual good, ie they sent you 1 bitcoin when you agreed to buy 2) or provide defective goods.
The card issuers themselves dont stop you from buying these things, it's the organisations offering those goods of services that choose not to accept cards.
You can buy anything legal that someone is willing to sell and accept cards, the card issuers usually don't place restrictions on what you can buy, its entirely the choice of the sellers if they are willing to sell the goods and take cards as payment for them.
All this talk of "volatility and risk" is a blatant lie, the banks are scared that crypto will cut them out of the loop.
If they were truly concerned about risky purchases, they wouldn't let you buy stocks, or use cards to pay for other forms of gambling etc.
The risks of competitive sports are well understood, and players at the highest levels tend to be extremely well paid. Noone is forced to play sports, they knew the risks and made a choice.
Did those replacement players only ever play 3 games, or did they only play 3 games at professional level?
Chances are those "replacement players" were just second rate players who weren't quite good enough to play for the major teams, but still played regularly as amateurs or for lower tier teams.
In some jurisdictions, the law says you *MUST* accept returns if you are selling at a distance (ie online) and/or for a fixed price.
Because they sold it for more than they paid for it? Why wouldn't they want to do the same thing again?
They place far too much reliance on the tracking information too...
If the tracking says "delivered" then they won't ever refund you. I've had a package where the tracking said it was delivered but i had no trace of it, and noone had ever come to my door on the stated days (based on cctv evidence as well as being physically home at the time).
Turns out the guy tried to deliver it to the house next door, which at the time was empty. I only found out about it several months later when someone moved in and noticed a card with my name/address on it, and a completely ruined weather beaten package left behind his garden gate. By that time i had already tried to use paypal's resolution process, tried to contact the courier and ended up having to file a dispute with my card issuer to get refunded.
Paypal (and ebay) also try to make the buyer pay for return shipping (with tracking, which increases the price significantly), but this is against the law in many european countries where the seller must pay for all costs in cases where the goods are faulty or otherwise not as advertised.
Some sellers also ship from one country, but list their return address in a different one - paypal will only process your claim if you send the item to the registered address which might be prohibitively expensive. I've had cases where the cost of returning the goods exceeds the value of the items.
And finally, you as a buyer can also abuse the system, your claim will be automatically refunded once you submit tracking information - so buy something expensive, file a dispute, and ship a small empty box back to the seller (with tracking). Once it arrives you'll get refunded and the seller has no recourse to complain about *what* you sent back.
Yes the very notion of a credit card is pretty ridiculous, it's a pull method of payment instead of push, and its the reason why cards are not accepted or issued in many parts of the world with high crime rates.
But then why do you need the paypal middleman? The merchant could simply supply you with their (Receive-only) bank account number, and you can transfer directly from your own bank. The only reason services like paypal exist are because bank transfers are typically stupidly overpriced, often far too slow and the banks tend to make them too convoluted to perform.