MtGox had been taking months to make payments and they had been doing this for about a year. They made bad excuse after bad excuse for this. They blatantly lied about the delays in support tickets. It was obvious that something was seriously wrong for around a year. I'm sorry for anyone that lost money but there were many obvious warning signs.
The whole world is better off without companies like MtGox. Good riddance to bad rubbish and may they be replaced with a competent outfit.
LTO-4 is the minimum I'd probably go with these days, because it is the first generation to have hardware based AES encryption via SCSI SPIN/SPOUT commands.
Call me paranoid but how can you be sure what the hardware is actually doing? The NSA has forced various companies to do very bad things, and backups are one of the easiest ways to get data out of a company.
They are preaching this message to the wrong audience. We know how to do backups. We know they have to be stored off site. We know they have to be tested. We know you have to keep them secure either with encryption or physical security or both. We know there are very many ways to do store backup data all with various pros and cons.
The problem is the CEO's and the PHB types of the world don't see anything but the cost of backups.
They want the current DNS hierarchy to be split into different hierarchies that all follow the same model. They want to turn US control into country or EU control. Same nonsense, different tyrants.
What the world needs is something peer2peer and cryptographically strong.
That would be the only true solution. The current DNS setup sucks.
NameCoin was the only workable distributed DNS solution I've seen, and it never prevented the domain squatting problem. Do you know of any better projects?
Electronic cigarettes are about a million times better than the regular kind. However isn't it better not to be chemically dependent and to not suffer the mood swings and chronic withdrawal pains?
I see plenty of smokers. They don't enjoy smoking, they enjoy being without the withdrawal symptoms for a short while.
you can get lung cancer having never smoked and never been around anyone who has. Using lung cancer to say smoking is bad is like saying thinking or using beta causes brain cancer.
Nimoy has COPD not lung cancer. Smoking isn't the sole cause of lung cancer, it's a HUGE risk factor but not the sole cause. Smoking also causes a bunch of other really debilitating diseases.
You do realize that many people, while possibly addicted to smoking, continue to do so because they want to, they enjoy it. When you tell them to get help or to quit, you are actually telling them not to do something that is legal and they enjoy.
It's a drug addiction with exceptionally serious heath effects. People don't enjoy drug addictions, they suffer them and only feel relief when they are high.
When a smoker enjoys smoking what they are enjoying is the withdrawal effects disappearing for a short while.
Why should she? Freedom means free to make bad choices the one who needs help is you. Let people make their own decisions good or bad, Help only when asked and try to guide but Never! Never impose your ideals of whats right and wrong on another.
Freedom doesn't mean the freedom to harm other people. Drug addicts do harm other people. This is why most drugs are illegal unless proscribed, because they harm far more people than just those taking them.
Smoking does heavily increase your chance of getting lung cancer but it's not the sole cause of it. Smoking does make you far more likely to suffer from one or more of a very large array of nasty illnesses during your lifetime. It also reduces your life span significantly.
Quit smoking if you care at all about the risks of illness and disability that smoking causes. Or accept that you are a nicotine junkie and that you are lying to yourself about your habit because you can't face withdrawal.
At one point, we really were a leader of democracy!
That's ancient Greece you are thinking of. US Democracy was always corrupted by money and power.
The US did have freedom, social mobility, land, and opportunity, but all that was drawing to a close in the 80's. Right now the US is less free than the countries people left to move there.
Give up on the party politics. Both Republican and Democrat governments have behaved exactly the same on this issue.
They both point at each other and cry "Your fault, You did this!" and far too many people believe one side or the other instead of seeing them for what they are, an alliance designed to keep themselves in power at any cost.
remember, people in glass houses should not throw rocks. or something...
at this point i trust our current mobile OS's as much as i trust theirs. at least with theirs i have no doubts i'm being watched.
China isn't more proficient than the US at spying, it's just the fake outrage about China's spying is much more public. Most likely you are being spied on a hell of a lot closer than any given Chinese citizen. Changing your OS will only help so far as the NSA is taping the network to and from your computer, your phone, and every bank transfer you make.
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MtGox had been taking months to make payments and they had been doing this for about a year. They made bad excuse after bad excuse for this. They blatantly lied about the delays in support tickets. It was obvious that something was seriously wrong for around a year. I'm sorry for anyone that lost money but there were many obvious warning signs.
The whole world is better off without companies like MtGox. Good riddance to bad rubbish and may they be replaced with a competent outfit.
How about a backup of an email store where the data is almost entirely text?
What the hell are you talking about? The variations in storage capacity are a product of how compressible your data is.
LTO-4 is the minimum I'd probably go with these days, because it is the first generation to have hardware based AES encryption via SCSI SPIN/SPOUT commands.
Call me paranoid but how can you be sure what the hardware is actually doing? The NSA has forced various companies to do very bad things, and backups are one of the easiest ways to get data out of a company.
They are preaching this message to the wrong audience. We know how to do backups. We know they have to be stored off site. We know they have to be tested. We know you have to keep them secure either with encryption or physical security or both. We know there are very many ways to do store backup data all with various pros and cons.
The problem is the CEO's and the PHB types of the world don't see anything but the cost of backups.
I've seen some amazingly dumb MS Exchange "experts" as well. Maybe they all get a MS book on exchange admin that barely even mentions how email works.
They didn't know you could alias mail from one address to another for example.
It time the EU did the right thing and went and fucked itself.
What happened to thinking win-win? You suggest the US should remain the power hungry tyrant, the EU wants a new power hungry tyrant.
A decent peer2peer DNS reimplementation would remove the need for any tyrants at all.
They want the current DNS hierarchy to be split into different hierarchies that all follow the same model. They want to turn US control into country or EU control. Same nonsense, different tyrants.
What the world needs is something peer2peer and cryptographically strong.
De-centralized DNS would be better.
That would be the only true solution. The current DNS setup sucks.
NameCoin was the only workable distributed DNS solution I've seen, and it never prevented the domain squatting problem. Do you know of any better projects?
Do you trust the US government? If so you are the only one that does.
That's what I was thinking. If you ask a random person 'is astrology a science?' they will hear 'is astronomy a science?'
I don't hear people talking about the future predicting nonsense in any context.
Or, start using electronic cigarettes
Electronic cigarettes are about a million times better than the regular kind. However isn't it better not to be chemically dependent and to not suffer the mood swings and chronic withdrawal pains?
I see plenty of smokers. They don't enjoy smoking, they enjoy being without the withdrawal symptoms for a short while.
Your friend is genetically defective. It's sad, it happens, the world turns.
Because everyone who gets something really nasty as a result of smoking deserves it? That's addict's reasoning, anything to justify the drugs.
you can get lung cancer having never smoked and never been around anyone who has. Using lung cancer to say smoking is bad is like saying thinking or using beta causes brain cancer.
Nimoy has COPD not lung cancer. Smoking isn't the sole cause of lung cancer, it's a HUGE risk factor but not the sole cause. Smoking also causes a bunch of other really debilitating diseases.
Do you think we are stupid?
Not sure. That argument sure is stupid.
You do realize that many people, while possibly addicted to smoking, continue to do so because they want to, they enjoy it. When you tell them to get help or to quit, you are actually telling them not to do something that is legal and they enjoy.
It's a drug addiction with exceptionally serious heath effects. People don't enjoy drug addictions, they suffer them and only feel relief when they are high.
When a smoker enjoys smoking what they are enjoying is the withdrawal effects disappearing for a short while.
Why should she? Freedom means free to make bad choices the one who needs help is you. Let people make their own decisions good or bad, Help only when asked and try to guide but Never! Never impose your ideals of whats right and wrong on another.
Freedom doesn't mean the freedom to harm other people. Drug addicts do harm other people. This is why most drugs are illegal unless proscribed, because they harm far more people than just those taking them.
Nimoy didn't get lung cancer, he got COPD.
Smoking does heavily increase your chance of getting lung cancer but it's not the sole cause of it. Smoking does make you far more likely to suffer from one or more of a very large array of nasty illnesses during your lifetime. It also reduces your life span significantly.
Quit smoking if you care at all about the risks of illness and disability that smoking causes. Or accept that you are a nicotine junkie and that you are lying to yourself about your habit because you can't face withdrawal.
People have been complaining about changes to this site for as long as I've been on it. Slashdot never dies.
He is saying that if you put burning thermite on a pile of books in a halon atmosphere nothing will stop the thermite but the books won't burn either.
People don't commit arson with thermite anyway, they use gasoline or maybe just one match would work in a warehouse full of paper.
Depends what you mean by safe.. All that evidence getting destroyed must have made a lot of criminals safer..
No problem, just restore it from an off-site backup.
They had a off site backup didn't they? Didn't they?
Why should they? Linux works and they can alter any part of it they choose.
You don't see China inventing new-fire or new-wheel either.
At one point, we really were a leader of democracy!
That's ancient Greece you are thinking of. US Democracy was always corrupted by money and power.
The US did have freedom, social mobility, land, and opportunity, but all that was drawing to a close in the 80's. Right now the US is less free than the countries people left to move there.
Give up on the party politics. Both Republican and Democrat governments have behaved exactly the same on this issue.
They both point at each other and cry "Your fault, You did this!" and far too many people believe one side or the other instead of seeing them for what they are, an alliance designed to keep themselves in power at any cost.
remember, people in glass houses should not throw rocks. or something...
at this point i trust our current mobile OS's as much as i trust theirs. at least with theirs i have no doubts i'm being watched.
China isn't more proficient than the US at spying, it's just the fake outrage about China's spying is much more public. Most likely you are being spied on a hell of a lot closer than any given Chinese citizen. Changing your OS will only help so far as the NSA is taping the network to and from your computer, your phone, and every bank transfer you make.