You would think that law enforcement would be involved in releasing this sort of 'ransom'ware. What better way to disrupt this sort of crime industry than to discourage users from paying to recover access?
And it took 7 years to discover the bug. This is not a win for OSS security. Couple this with heartbleed and it's been a horrendous couple of years for trust of OSS code review.
There are only two cryptocurrencies with any real momentum today: Bitcoin and Ethereum. The former has a huge head start, while Ethereum is more ambitious and attempts to offer a broader platform for running smart contracts.
On the fringe you can add Monero or possibly Zcash (doesn't exist yet) as more privacy centric options. If you believe that any of these have a chance for broader adoption and use then you're still very early in the game as far as investments go. On the other hand, they could all fail and go to zero.
Does anyone work for a defense contractor or otherwise secure institution that's using Windows 10? If this data leakage does end up resulting in lost sales for Microsoft, then that would be the biggest factor in changing their minds. So far, I'm not sure that there's been any downside to Microsoft for their choices in end user privacy.
Unless the device knows what bandwidth utilization is like on the connection, this is nearly useless. The measurement needs to be done at the router or egress port level or for all the raspberry pi knows, there a dozen other devices on the network segment using 90% of the bandwidth for torrents, netflix, etc.
This is not Satoshi and he was not arrested for bitcoin related tax problems. Until someone wants to sign a message with Satoshi's PGP key or his well known private BTC key, then there's no reason to believe this is anything more than a hoax/prank.
Coincenter, a firm established to help guide policy creation with regard to crypto currencies, has a excellent response.
https://coincenter.org/2015/11...
How was Orkut? (I remember it was popular among some segments)
Orkut was great! I got an invite, logged in and forgot about it for years until Google announced that they were killing it. Google+ on the other hand annoys the crap out of me. Lets hope that eventually Google will get back to their Orkut roots.
OK, so if they have a live studio audience, how is it they managed to make it sound exactly like the laugh track from the Brady Bunch? The outcome is terrible regardless of whether the source is recorded or live.
They traveled back in time to the day of your birth and trained you to be a misanthrope who detests the sound of live human laughter?
Just a guess. You already seem intent upon disregarding any aspect of reality that conflicts with your preconceived notions, so I may as well go big.
I find Seinfeld and That 70s Show, both filmed in front of a live studio audience to be funny and the audience laughter doesn't bother me in the slightest. There's something different about TBB. Maybe it's the writing, maybe the audience is prompted to laugh at every joke no matter how mediocre - either way, it's missing something or this thread wouldn't exist.
As a self professed geek, I get a lot more out of the sophomoric humor in Friends than I ever have out of the BBT. Or maybe it's all just a moo point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
OK, so if they have a live studio audience, how is it they managed to make it sound exactly like the laugh track from the Brady Bunch? The outcome is terrible regardless of whether the source is recorded or live.
I know it sounds a bit crazy, but not all thieves are drugs users and not all drug users are thieves.
Maybe not all drug users are thieves, but most addicts will eventually turn to desperate measures to obtain drugs including thievery and violence. Taking the funds that are currently used in the war on drugs and providing substance abuse assistance is likely to be far more effective than attempting to curtail the flow of drugs through other means.
Through repercussions for non-compliance. Land-mines are inexpensive to produce and impossible to restrict but many countries have signed the Ottawa Treaty and the US only uses mines that self detonate shortly after the placement (typically 4 hours).
Of course, I'm certain that those who develop drones with AI abilities need only to keep the AI abilities turned off, until the time when it becomes convenient to enable them.
If the success of an asset or currency is predicated on a doomsday scenario then that asset/currency is doomed itself.
A fair point, from a US perspective since we've never destroyed our currency and had to re-issue it. Lots of other countries have experienced that doomsday scenario - just ask Argentina how many times they've rebooted their peso in the last few decades.
Things do blow up - it just hasn't affected your latte drinking, much and yet.
It should read. "Is the Greek financial crisis an opportunity for Bitcoin?"
And thus, the answer is "NO!"
Agreed, it's not an opportunity today. It could be an advertisement for Argentines or say Chinese concerned about the state of their monetary system and what that means for their personal wealth in the future. If 10% of one's cash holdings were BTC, worst case one is down 10%. In the best case, one is down 90% since the fiat is confiscated or worthless, but there is a hedge if BTC takes off. Localbitcoins.com - there's always a way to get some cash for your BTC. Can't always say that about your bank account...
Besides, gold has never been a good money substitute except for the very rich, and they probably already have their wealth stashed away some place abroad. Gold's value comes from having lots of it. If you want to buy a house having a few pounds could help you. But if you have just a few ounces of gold, how would you spend it? Shave it to buy a loaf of bread?
Exactly why the idea of a digital gold would be useful - no concerns about divisibility or spending it in places where you can't be physically present.
Indeed, Greeks that have already moved their funds out of banks don't need Bitcoin and the ones that didn't don't have funds to purchase Bitcoin. With that said, capital controls are a concern for other countries besides Greece and at some point these warnings (Argentina, Cyprus and now Greece) indicate that it makes sense to keep a portion of funds in products that can't be easily confiscated, controlled or taxed.
Bitcoin isn't going to solve Greece's citizenry's problems, but it sure could alleviate future meltdowns. Think that the Bitcoin volatility is bad? Try living for a week without access to a bank and maybe only $60 withdrawals per day. When countries horribly mismanage their finances, all of a sudden Bitcoin becomes far more attractive. Just ask any Zimbabwean who is getting $5 worth of value out of an account with anything less than 175 quadrillion Zimbabwe Dollars.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Indeed Monero has more than just built-in mixing. With ring signatures and one time use addresses, it makes using the blockchain to trace transactions very difficult.
It'll probably be about as a well received by authorities as PGP was back in the 1990s. Doesn't mean that it's not an important evolution of the way that ecommerce could work.
I would note that other articles on the OpenBazaar raise, do not use that word. Censorship-resistant seems to be the consensus on what the product aims to achieve.
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You would think that law enforcement would be involved in releasing this sort of 'ransom'ware. What better way to disrupt this sort of crime industry than to discourage users from paying to recover access?
And it took 7 years to discover the bug. This is not a win for OSS security. Couple this with heartbleed and it's been a horrendous couple of years for trust of OSS code review.
There are only two cryptocurrencies with any real momentum today: Bitcoin and Ethereum. The former has a huge head start, while Ethereum is more ambitious and attempts to offer a broader platform for running smart contracts. On the fringe you can add Monero or possibly Zcash (doesn't exist yet) as more privacy centric options. If you believe that any of these have a chance for broader adoption and use then you're still very early in the game as far as investments go. On the other hand, they could all fail and go to zero.
Does anyone work for a defense contractor or otherwise secure institution that's using Windows 10? If this data leakage does end up resulting in lost sales for Microsoft, then that would be the biggest factor in changing their minds. So far, I'm not sure that there's been any downside to Microsoft for their choices in end user privacy.
Unless the device knows what bandwidth utilization is like on the connection, this is nearly useless. The measurement needs to be done at the router or egress port level or for all the raspberry pi knows, there a dozen other devices on the network segment using 90% of the bandwidth for torrents, netflix, etc.
This is not Satoshi and he was not arrested for bitcoin related tax problems. Until someone wants to sign a message with Satoshi's PGP key or his well known private BTC key, then there's no reason to believe this is anything more than a hoax/prank.
Coincenter, a firm established to help guide policy creation with regard to crypto currencies, has a excellent response. https://coincenter.org/2015/11...
So, G+ is slowly becoming what Orkut was..
How was Orkut? (I remember it was popular among some segments)
Orkut was great! I got an invite, logged in and forgot about it for years until Google announced that they were killing it. Google+ on the other hand annoys the crap out of me. Lets hope that eventually Google will get back to their Orkut roots.
They traveled back in time to the day of your birth and trained you to be a misanthrope who detests the sound of live human laughter?
Just a guess. You already seem intent upon disregarding any aspect of reality that conflicts with your preconceived notions, so I may as well go big.
I find Seinfeld and That 70s Show, both filmed in front of a live studio audience to be funny and the audience laughter doesn't bother me in the slightest. There's something different about TBB. Maybe it's the writing, maybe the audience is prompted to laugh at every joke no matter how mediocre - either way, it's missing something or this thread wouldn't exist.
As a self professed geek, I get a lot more out of the sophomoric humor in Friends than I ever have out of the BBT. Or maybe it's all just a moo point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I've always considered the show to be "blackface" for nerds.
Or "White Chicks" for Monty Python writers.
OK, so if they have a live studio audience, how is it they managed to make it sound exactly like the laugh track from the Brady Bunch? The outcome is terrible regardless of whether the source is recorded or live.
How about we just lock up thieves?
I know it sounds a bit crazy, but not all thieves are drugs users and not all drug users are thieves.
Maybe not all drug users are thieves, but most addicts will eventually turn to desperate measures to obtain drugs including thievery and violence. Taking the funds that are currently used in the war on drugs and providing substance abuse assistance is likely to be far more effective than attempting to curtail the flow of drugs through other means.
Time to add taking off that watch in addition to firing up VPN and private browsing before visiting your favorite adult sites now.
Bitcoin, perfect for all your illegal extortion needs. What a shining endorsement!
Well, it has one major competitor for criminal activity - the US Dollar. Yeah, I'll take that endorsement.
And who says bitcoin is worthless? Its clearly better than credit cards or cash in this case.
Through repercussions for non-compliance. Land-mines are inexpensive to produce and impossible to restrict but many countries have signed the Ottawa Treaty and the US only uses mines that self detonate shortly after the placement (typically 4 hours). Of course, I'm certain that those who develop drones with AI abilities need only to keep the AI abilities turned off, until the time when it becomes convenient to enable them.
If the success of an asset or currency is predicated on a doomsday scenario then that asset/currency is doomed itself.
A fair point, from a US perspective since we've never destroyed our currency and had to re-issue it. Lots of other countries have experienced that doomsday scenario - just ask Argentina how many times they've rebooted their peso in the last few decades. Things do blow up - it just hasn't affected your latte drinking, much and yet.
It should read. "Is the Greek financial crisis an opportunity for Bitcoin?"
And thus, the answer is "NO!"
Agreed, it's not an opportunity today. It could be an advertisement for Argentines or say Chinese concerned about the state of their monetary system and what that means for their personal wealth in the future. If 10% of one's cash holdings were BTC, worst case one is down 10%. In the best case, one is down 90% since the fiat is confiscated or worthless, but there is a hedge if BTC takes off. Localbitcoins.com - there's always a way to get some cash for your BTC. Can't always say that about your bank account...
Besides, gold has never been a good money substitute except for the very rich, and they probably already have their wealth stashed away some place abroad. Gold's value comes from having lots of it. If you want to buy a house having a few pounds could help you. But if you have just a few ounces of gold, how would you spend it? Shave it to buy a loaf of bread?
Exactly why the idea of a digital gold would be useful - no concerns about divisibility or spending it in places where you can't be physically present.
Indeed, Greeks that have already moved their funds out of banks don't need Bitcoin and the ones that didn't don't have funds to purchase Bitcoin. With that said, capital controls are a concern for other countries besides Greece and at some point these warnings (Argentina, Cyprus and now Greece) indicate that it makes sense to keep a portion of funds in products that can't be easily confiscated, controlled or taxed. Bitcoin isn't going to solve Greece's citizenry's problems, but it sure could alleviate future meltdowns. Think that the Bitcoin volatility is bad? Try living for a week without access to a bank and maybe only $60 withdrawals per day. When countries horribly mismanage their finances, all of a sudden Bitcoin becomes far more attractive. Just ask any Zimbabwean who is getting $5 worth of value out of an account with anything less than 175 quadrillion Zimbabwe Dollars. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Indeed Monero has more than just built-in mixing. With ring signatures and one time use addresses, it makes using the blockchain to trace transactions very difficult.
It'll probably be about as a well received by authorities as PGP was back in the 1990s. Doesn't mean that it's not an important evolution of the way that ecommerce could work.
I would note that other articles on the OpenBazaar raise, do not use that word. Censorship-resistant seems to be the consensus on what the product aims to achieve.
No, I do not buy into the 'busy weekend' excuse. Sounds like CYA bullshit to me.