There's not a whole load of interesting comments in this thread. You can easily say "Stupid people" but you don't learn much from that. Have a look at the details too.
Bitcoin has been a really interesting study in trust. Pirate managed to get away with what he did because people put a lot more trust in him than other people would. Pirate had a very good safe reputation before this and people had an idea of who he was. The other thing that is interesting is that it could have been a pass-through to somebody else. The next thing is that people were given info on how the profits were supposed to happen... I don't much about the scam but I think the cover story was supposed to be arbitrage on the dollar? In reality some think that his plan was to scare the market with some dumps... but it didn't pan out.
So, lessons to be learnt: - you shouldn't judge trust by WHO but HOW. The distance of money between the trustee and you is key. Bitcoin of course made it seem very distant and therefore more tempting - things happen gradually. You have a bank... then you realise you can get away with lending out a bit... then it's a bit more... and so on - just because there's a real and plausible plan doesn't mean you won't be scammed - just because someone has a good reputation isn't a great guide - the value of the reputation:scam profit ratio is a better guide
If you're thinking of doing this DIY with a router USD port or Raspberry Pi bear in mind that some USB IDE/Sata adapters don't support spindown (hdparm -y or -Y). As a result you have a 2.5" disk running constantly leading to failure and also a risk of overheating.
Unfrtunately I can't tell you which adapters support the poweroff or standby signals.
I really don't like the tying of software features to specific phones. Phone manufacturers really try to push it as they know it stratified the market whereas if all the software is the same standard Android platform you can compare phones easily. This is why Android is better value than iphone - it puts phone makers into competition and they don't like it. I take this even further by wanting Cyanogenmod on every phone I buy so it's familiar.
As great as this software is I'm not going to buy into something that makes phones massively more expensive by dividing the market and also giving me less choice.
It's also probably a battery drain so I think have to anticipate automating turning it off when bluetooth pairs with a vehicle handsfree kit.
I think everyone is different. For me when I watch something 3D my attitude can take it as 2 separate images or if I work at it I can sometimes change my attitude to get it to go 3D. Some scenes with certain depth attributes help. It's not just films, I've had the problem with just stereoscopic images. It makes the head hurt trying to make it work.
This movement is another problem again. I think one can learn it but probably there might be a situation where kids learn it no worries and can do it really well and us old folk are always a bit slow with it.
re: waste. That's a fair point. The people are being paid to secure the network. It's inefficient use of resources of course. There have been subsequent designs, one working on "Proof of stake"(?) another that votes by IP (so anyone with lots of IPs is more powerful).
To the thread in general: There was no disruption to MtGox AFAIK. The Instawallet is the 2nd online wallet to be hacked - not many people use online wallets after the first one got hacked.
2 factor auth is available for many of the exchanges.
I totally know what you are talking about here. In times of great stress the thinking part of the brain shuts off (adrenaline) and as you speak your mind can blurt out what you are thinking about - which is usually about bombs or "oh crap did I pack these bags? do I know what's in them - how can I? someone could have slipped drugs in there" -becomes- "drugs"
Similar to the young hopeless guy who says totally the wrong thing with tits in his face.
In Argentina most people do this. They have to. We are going into the same situation that they went into so we will soon have to do this too.
Soon it will be people who hide cash under the mattress, the wealthy and the homeless.
What happened in Argentina after falling was that police started to feel sorry for people. Everybody knows we're all desperate. Nobody talks about it unless over some wine with some friends and even then not so openly. There was a social change whereby people don't like it but they turn a blind eye because they know it's about survival.
The USA will turn that corner if Europe tanks enough to spread bank failure to the USA and this is seen as a given.
However, in the interim both the status quo, the police and the sheeple will continue acting like the old ways.
So be prepared. And don't send your address to Mt.Gox!
I agree. Better to lease the CPU time to a local university or anyone else who wishes to pay - is there a market for this out there? I'm sure I remember hearing out this somewhere.
Definate kudos for the idea. This inspires the leasing out to a University or similar who might be able to bee more green as a result and then you are lining up on that green goal... assuming making such processing available isn't like roads and actually encourages growth.
I agree. It's exactly where the linux desktop improvements need to be - doing the desktop in the linux way rather than copying.
I'd like to see more drag and drop linking to programs; edit those pix, imagemagick those pics into a flow of processing and so on.
The copy and paste improvement is good. Seeing the pics is good. The eye candy... meh. Possibly that's what put a lot of people of reading the article and we only have a few comments. I admit I usually skip anything from Enlightenment.
I'll keep an eye out for a separate package but otherwise I guess I might install side by side with XFCE, use XFCE and this as terminal.
It's a good question. I wonder... how did it work before Google?
I remember people used to use Geocities a lot because it was free. Other than that a lot of people used to make webpages just for fun and enjoyment of sharing something with the world. In the very early days I don't remember there being a lot of ads, not on the bullitin boards either.
My own weak anecedotal evidence leads me to believe that it's not just the amount of salt but the type and balance between those types of salt.
Salt is the sea is: Cl 55%, Na+ 30.6%, SO2 4 7.7%, Mg2+ 3.7%, Ca2+ 1.2%, K+ 1.1%, Other 0.7%.
We are decended from fish and the fat distribution in our bodies is still marine mammalian...
so to me it makes sense that we need to stop thinking in terms of "salt" and start thinking about different ions in the body; a thing I coin electrolytic (im)balance.
It would be nice to see a study looking at this to either give this some scientific acceptance or rule it out.
UK: A very nice prepay market thanks to fair competition. Prepay is better value than contract in all cases. Yes I know it's controversial. Hard to unpick the brilliant salemanship of contact phones but if you do that maths and actual case studies I think you'll find it's better across the board. When doing your sums remember: 1) Risk analysis on the debt risk converted to a monetory amount 2) take off the value of the "free" phone and divide the X-net minutes by the remainder 3) would you actually use this much if you didn't have already paid for it and feel you had to use it? 4) unused allowances that don't roll over 5) bill theft risk; your base to quantify is insurance 6) "unlimited" internet... isn't Wallmart (ASDA UK) do a very basic and simlpe billing service. Giffgaff also but with an option for extra data at 1gb/£10 and more. Plenty more options.
EU in general: Anti-competitive practices on roaming clamped down with limits enforced by gov - a shame to have to resort to but... nice! Now people can travel across the EU with the same prepay simcard and it's like the big country it's supposed to be.
Australia: Similar to the UK but maybe slightly not quite as good... researching. NZ similar.
Peru: Now has `ok` prepay options. South America in general was terrible only a few years ago with basically no prepay data but thankfully that has changed and travellers can now email!:-) Still not as good as the UK though.
Argentina: Similar to Peru. Telefonica, Claro, Personal. Personal seemed the best for prepay by a way. No support at all - better to ask other travellers and just buy a new sim/throw money at it.
Spain: Only very slightly better than South America? Not sure. Cuold be exactly the same now as South America... similar companies of course; Claro, Movistar..
North America: Sounds contract centric. CDMA options confusing. I don't get it.
If you list your phone on ebay.com you can have it seen in the UK on ebay.co.uk as well.
If you list a CDMA only, no sim please let us know with a clear "This is a CDMA phone with no simcard slot available for the W-CDMA ("3G" "UMTS") systems in use in the UK" - but you can still use it like a tablet.
Don't forget to buy a spare old phone for travelling. I'll be glad to sell you one. Ker-ching. Or indeed... to swap your locked phone for one.
Although I actually think it's a long sentance personnally (if it was up to me I'd leave it at a sentance with no jail time since not being able to get a job and turning to crime might be enough for a first time)... I think it's short for the political setup we're seeing come through; Daily Mail readers who say lock them up and throw away the key. As such I'd rather this sentence length than life sentances or whatever's going round in the USA.
Swallowing pill tech. I'd like to see all of this much more assessible and cheap. Ideally I'd like to see people taking it into their own hands or using a 3rd party just for sealing the units. You can get a swallowable pillcam - very useful for checking gut health. You should be able to do it yourself if you want to with buyer beware - no doctor.
How's about a crowd funded pillcam... under the guise of use for industrial inspection applications.
The difficult part is the sealing yet maintaining a clear view. Wireless comms makes it a bit more difficult to remain small but that's not essential if you're prepared to sift through your own crap. Besides, we see kickstarter projects getting to this size now with wireless - drugs smugglers swallow bigger packages.
This would be a very rewarding project because of the patents otherwise involved making this $100 tech $10,000. By making this tech available for cheap we can improve early cancer diag, crons, IBS, allsorts. And it would be one in the eye for patents.
Your thoughts? (other than "swallowing a battery is dangerous. we must have a doctor do it for us. we don't want people coming into casulty after a lithium battery rupture" Also
Going through the 477 comment summaries I can see no mention of what exactly it is that is objected to or what the cause of the attack is trying to bring attention to.
What I like to do is actually look up what it is exactly the person protesting is trying to achieve, especially in the case of suicide bombers.
If you just blindly dismiss your enemy then you're not going to understand or be able to cure it... assuming you want to cure it.
Are we sure this is Islamists because it might make more sense if it was people with a different version of Egypt events who also have a Islamistic bent and don't like her opinion. Or simply people in Egypt who don't like her for writing Egypt's herstory.
I asks some Egyptians if Egypt is a muslim country and they said it's compilcated. It could be that there's nothing of this to do with Islam and there should be info on whether that is true or not with article background to what had happened.
This isn't to defend what has happened of course. But I do notice that when Islam is mentioned it's like bhow black people were mentioned before. I find myself wondering which type of Islamists are being talked about in the same way when I hear black people being talked about I wonder what ethnic group of black people are being talked about and sometimes... the person talking is refering to asians.
I know the world is supposed to be at war with Islam (play the headline with each of these countries - Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, Bali, Palestine, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Iran).. but I choose not to see good news in the world and in doing so lead the mindseye not to ignorance but peace thanks very much. Even when this kind of thing happens.
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There's not a whole load of interesting comments in this thread. You can easily say "Stupid people" but you don't learn much from that. Have a look at the details too.
Bitcoin has been a really interesting study in trust. Pirate managed to get away with what he did because people put a lot more trust in him than other people would. Pirate had a very good safe reputation before this and people had an idea of who he was.
The other thing that is interesting is that it could have been a pass-through to somebody else.
The next thing is that people were given info on how the profits were supposed to happen... I don't much about the scam but I think the cover story was supposed to be arbitrage on the dollar? In reality some think that his plan was to scare the market with some dumps... but it didn't pan out.
So, lessons to be learnt:
- you shouldn't judge trust by WHO but HOW. The distance of money between the trustee and you is key. Bitcoin of course made it seem very distant and therefore more tempting
- things happen gradually. You have a bank... then you realise you can get away with lending out a bit... then it's a bit more... and so on
- just because there's a real and plausible plan doesn't mean you won't be scammed
- just because someone has a good reputation isn't a great guide
- the value of the reputation:scam profit ratio is a better guide
If you're thinking of doing this DIY with a router USD port or Raspberry Pi bear in mind that some USB IDE/Sata adapters don't support spindown (hdparm -y or -Y). As a result you have a 2.5" disk running constantly leading to failure and also a risk of overheating.
Unfrtunately I can't tell you which adapters support the poweroff or standby signals.
I really don't like the tying of software features to specific phones. Phone manufacturers really try to push it as they know it stratified the market whereas if all the software is the same standard Android platform you can compare phones easily. This is why Android is better value than iphone - it puts phone makers into competition and they don't like it.
I take this even further by wanting Cyanogenmod on every phone I buy so it's familiar.
As great as this software is I'm not going to buy into something that makes phones massively more expensive by dividing the market and also giving me less choice.
It's also probably a battery drain so I think have to anticipate automating turning it off when bluetooth pairs with a vehicle handsfree kit.
All of this wouldn't have happened if Snowden had remain anonymous.
If it was still economical, yes I would pay the increased electricity bill if I felt it was worth it... but it's not.
I think everyone is different.
For me when I watch something 3D my attitude can take it as 2 separate images or if I work at it I can sometimes change my attitude to get it to go 3D. Some scenes with certain depth attributes help. It's not just films, I've had the problem with just stereoscopic images. It makes the head hurt trying to make it work.
This movement is another problem again. I think one can learn it but probably there might be a situation where kids learn it no worries and can do it really well and us old folk are always a bit slow with it.
How's about an old transflective screen like we used to have on the old nokias??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqnb1AQ_nvs
re: waste.
That's a fair point. The people are being paid to secure the network. It's inefficient use of resources of course. There have been subsequent designs, one working on "Proof of stake"(?) another that votes by IP (so anyone with lots of IPs is more powerful).
To the thread in general: There was no disruption to MtGox AFAIK. The Instawallet is the 2nd online wallet to be hacked - not many people use online wallets after the first one got hacked.
2 factor auth is available for many of the exchanges.
I totally know what you are talking about here. In times of great stress the thinking part of the brain shuts off (adrenaline) and as you speak your mind can blurt out what you are thinking about - which is usually about bombs or "oh crap did I pack these bags? do I know what's in them - how can I? someone could have slipped drugs in there" -becomes- "drugs"
Similar to the young hopeless guy who says totally the wrong thing with tits in his face.
Fullscreen firefox and change the fullscreen hotkey. That's enough for me :-)
In Argentina most people do this. They have to. We are going into the same situation that they went into so we will soon have to do this too.
Soon it will be people who hide cash under the mattress, the wealthy and the homeless.
What happened in Argentina after falling was that police started to feel sorry for people. Everybody knows we're all desperate. Nobody talks about it unless over some wine with some friends and even then not so openly. There was a social change whereby people don't like it but they turn a blind eye because they know it's about survival.
The USA will turn that corner if Europe tanks enough to spread bank failure to the USA and this is seen as a given.
However, in the interim both the status quo, the police and the sheeple will continue acting like the old ways.
So be prepared. And don't send your address to Mt.Gox!
I agree. Better to lease the CPU time to a local university or anyone else who wishes to pay - is there a market for this out there? I'm sure I remember hearing out this somewhere.
Definate kudos for the idea. This inspires the leasing out to a University or similar who might be able to bee more green as a result and then you are lining up on that green goal... assuming making such processing available isn't like roads and actually encourages growth.
I agree. It's exactly where the linux desktop improvements need to be - doing the desktop in the linux way rather than copying.
I'd like to see more drag and drop linking to programs; edit those pix, imagemagick those pics into a flow of processing and so on.
The copy and paste improvement is good. Seeing the pics is good. The eye candy... meh. Possibly that's what put a lot of people of reading the article and we only have a few comments. I admit I usually skip anything from Enlightenment.
I'll keep an eye out for a separate package but otherwise I guess I might install side by side with XFCE, use XFCE and this as terminal.
Is there anything out there marked specifically for people wishing to migrate and help backup all their data from GMail to something else?
There are alternatives but Gmail works really well. I search for something on-a-par.
Schedule flight mode. Schedule email and SMS checking.
Why won't /. let me post smartass short replies? :p
Thanks that's a useful explanation regards battery and costs
- I was wondering why they're getting a year out of it rather than a month I get from my rooted eink Nook!
Still handy for yachting though.... until we get to diagrams I presume...
It's a good question.
I wonder... how did it work before Google?
I remember people used to use Geocities a lot because it was free. Other than that a lot of people used to make webpages just for fun and enjoyment of sharing something with the world. In the very early days I don't remember there being a lot of ads, not on the bullitin boards either.
Probably not the popular answer!
My own weak anecedotal evidence leads me to believe that it's not just the amount of salt but the type and balance between those types of salt.
Salt is the sea is:
Cl 55%, Na+ 30.6%, SO2
4 7.7%, Mg2+ 3.7%, Ca2+ 1.2%, K+ 1.1%, Other 0.7%.
We are decended from fish and the fat distribution in our bodies is still marine mammalian...
so to me it makes sense that we need to stop thinking in terms of "salt" and start thinking about different ions in the body; a thing I coin electrolytic (im)balance.
It would be nice to see a study looking at this to either give this some scientific acceptance or rule it out.
That's briliant - since it's cheaper than the link I gave I'd be happy to buy one from you with the Android support
One way to measure quality - Sensordone, air quality and other sensors via bluetooth keyring thingy kickstarter project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/453951341/sensordrone-the-6th-sense-of-your-smartphoneand-be
Related: Air cleaning plants (previously from slashdot)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air-filtering_plants (testing: http://cur.lv/redirect.php?code=fwrm )
UK:
A very nice prepay market thanks to fair competition. Prepay is better value than contract in all cases. Yes I know it's controversial. Hard to unpick the brilliant salemanship of contact phones but if you do that maths and actual case studies I think you'll find it's better across the board. When doing your sums remember: 1) Risk analysis on the debt risk converted to a monetory amount 2) take off the value of the "free" phone and divide the X-net minutes by the remainder 3) would you actually use this much if you didn't have already paid for it and feel you had to use it? 4) unused allowances that don't roll over 5) bill theft risk; your base to quantify is insurance 6) "unlimited" internet... isn't
Wallmart (ASDA UK) do a very basic and simlpe billing service. Giffgaff also but with an option for extra data at 1gb/£10 and more. Plenty more options.
EU in general:
Anti-competitive practices on roaming clamped down with limits enforced by gov - a shame to have to resort to but... nice! Now people can travel across the EU with the same prepay simcard and it's like the big country it's supposed to be.
Australia:
Similar to the UK but maybe slightly not quite as good... researching. NZ similar.
Peru: :-) Still not as good as the UK though.
Now has `ok` prepay options. South America in general was terrible only a few years ago with basically no prepay data but thankfully that has changed and travellers can now email!
Argentina:
Similar to Peru. Telefonica, Claro, Personal. Personal seemed the best for prepay by a way. No support at all - better to ask other travellers and just buy a new sim/throw money at it.
Spain:
Only very slightly better than South America? Not sure. Cuold be exactly the same now as South America... similar companies of course; Claro, Movistar..
North America:
Sounds contract centric. CDMA options confusing. I don't get it.
If you list your phone on ebay.com you can have it seen in the UK on ebay.co.uk as well.
If you list a CDMA only, no sim please let us know with a clear "This is a CDMA phone with no simcard slot available for the W-CDMA ("3G" "UMTS") systems in use in the UK" - but you can still use it like a tablet.
Don't forget to buy a spare old phone for travelling. I'll be glad to sell you one. Ker-ching. Or indeed... to swap your locked phone for one.
Although I actually think it's a long sentance personnally (if it was up to me I'd leave it at a sentance with no jail time since not being able to get a job and turning to crime might be enough for a first time)... I think it's short for the political setup we're seeing come through; Daily Mail readers who say lock them up and throw away the key. As such I'd rather this sentence length than life sentances or whatever's going round in the USA.
Am I dickless for settling for that?
Swallowing pill tech. I'd like to see all of this much more assessible and cheap. Ideally I'd like to see people taking it into their own hands or using a 3rd party just for sealing the units. You can get a swallowable pillcam - very useful for checking gut health. You should be able to do it yourself if you want to with buyer beware - no doctor.
How's about a crowd funded pillcam... under the guise of use for industrial inspection applications.
The difficult part is the sealing yet maintaining a clear view. Wireless comms makes it a bit more difficult to remain small but that's not essential if you're prepared to sift through your own crap. Besides, we see kickstarter projects getting to this size now with wireless - drugs smugglers swallow bigger packages.
This would be a very rewarding project because of the patents otherwise involved making this $100 tech $10,000. By making this tech available for cheap we can improve early cancer diag, crons, IBS, allsorts. And it would be one in the eye for patents.
Related tech:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/15/2317219/mri-powered-pill-sized-robot-swims-through-intestines
Your thoughts?
(other than "swallowing a battery is dangerous. we must have a doctor do it for us. we don't want people coming into casulty after a lithium battery rupture"
Also
Going through the 477 comment summaries I can see no mention of what exactly it is that is objected to or what the cause of the attack is trying to bring attention to.
What I like to do is actually look up what it is exactly the person protesting is trying to achieve, especially in the case of suicide bombers.
If you just blindly dismiss your enemy then you're not going to understand or be able to cure it... assuming you want to cure it.
Are we sure this is Islamists because it might make more sense if it was people with a different version of Egypt events who also have a Islamistic bent and don't like her opinion. Or simply people in Egypt who don't like her for writing Egypt's herstory.
I asks some Egyptians if Egypt is a muslim country and they said it's compilcated. It could be that there's nothing of this to do with Islam and there should be info on whether that is true or not with article background to what had happened.
This isn't to defend what has happened of course. But I do notice that when Islam is mentioned it's like bhow black people were mentioned before. I find myself wondering which type of Islamists are being talked about in the same way when I hear black people being talked about I wonder what ethnic group of black people are being talked about and sometimes... the person talking is refering to asians.
I know the world is supposed to be at war with Islam (play the headline with each of these countries - Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, Bali, Palestine, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Iran) .. but I choose not to see good news in the world and in doing so lead the mindseye not to ignorance but peace thanks very much. Even when this kind of thing happens.