This is not a failure of bitcoin. Suppose you had a stack of companies whose purpose is to store your physical gold and prevent it from being stolen and to serve as an exchange allowing customers to trade gold for currency. Then, it turns out that some of them had inadequate security or were outright crooked and the gold they were storing went missing. This would not be a failure of gold itself. Sure, if sufficient quantities of gold were affected, it would affect the price of gold, but it does not change gold itself. This is the same situation.
Even if you stole an amount of gold equal to all of the gold allegedly in Ft Knox, or that allegedly used to be in Ft.Knox, unless you put it on rockets and send it into the heart of the sun, the world wouldn't treat the situation as one in which the amount of gold in the world already removed from the ground had suddenly changed.
The whole point of stealing it would be to exchange it for something else, either directly for goods or services, or for some country's currency to be spent for goods or services at some point.
So the world would continue to consider that stolen gold part of the overall "supply".
So stealing it wouldn't really make it less rare or more rare unless you could steal a considerable majority of the gold in the world and "corner the market", so that by keeping it out of "circulation" you cause the same amount of demand that existed previously to wind up chasing a smaller supply, which would drive up the price, but you'd have to keep it out of circulation to keep the price high, because once you start to unload it, you've increased supply again.
Not to mention that a sharp increase in the price of gold would result in a boom in previously unprofitable mining operations, which would start adding to the world-wide supply, which would bring down the price.
The real problem here is the notion that bitcoin is a currency. It really isn't. It's a virtual commodity much like gold, with similar properties save for the fact that gold is physical and bitcoin is not. (Sure, the odds that everyone suddenly decides to pack up their toys and ignore bitcoin are much higher, mostly because there are no "real" uses to bitcoin, unlike gold which has actual uses other than being somewhat "rare" and looking pretty.) The same things that make gold less than idea as an actual currency (or a backer to a currency) apply to bitcoin. Sure, you can use either one as a place holder in a transaction if both parties agree, but you could just as easily use a common fiat currency, chickens, or grains of sand.
The other day the Netscape guy explained that bitcoin is a distributed ledger system, and it seems to me that that is where its real value lies, since apparently even if it gets stolen there is a record of it having been stolen so that you don't wind up with a situation where, if all of the bitcoin in existence were stolen, it would appear that it was still where it was and you'd suddenly have twice as much bitcoin apparently in existence as was previous to the theft.
In other words, supposedly the way the keeping track of where each bitcoin or fraction thereof is prevents the creation of counterfeit bitcoin and the resulting dilution of value.
But none of this is my area of expertise, and I admit to the very distinct possibility of being wrong.
It is also not a 'jet' fighter. Props to the submitter for not including that mistake from TFA.
In the original submission, he or she included that mistake.
And I see that the calling it a fighter plane mistake persists, in spite of there being no indication that this thing was ever intended to be a weapons platform (or ever could have been without some serious changes, and maybe not even then, since it was designed to go fast in a straight line, but not necessarily to be capable, without coming apart in mid-air, of the aerobatics necessary in a dog fight).
It's possible that they lurked for a l-o-o-o-ng time before signing up for an account (apparently about a year ago or a little less, judging by comment dates) and that's why their UID is so high.
Not enough amplifier kills tweeters, because clipping produces high-frequency (as in higher than you can hear) square waves and the tweeters cannot respond to that high a frequency and so the energy is turned into heat instead of air movement and it burns out their voice coils.
Maybe that's what Dell is trying to say happened here.
Public schools exist to protect property values by keeping the neighborhood from filling up with illiterates (hope I spelled that properly : - ), and by making neighborhoods more attractive to buy a house in because there are good schools nearby, and even for the purpose of turning out people better able to to be informed citizens, the better to choose wisely representatives and the path of the nation.
Okay, admittedly that last part is utopian idealism that's being rapidly destroyed by big money buying congresscritters, but an uneducated populace will never fix that, or even know to fight it.
Once you start copying a file to a TiVo from a PC, you can start playing it while it's still downloading.
Admittedly that's usually a file recorded on another one of your TiVos on the same account, and usually on the same LAN and in the same house, and uploaded to that PC in the first place, but at least it incorporates the idea that "digital on disc means you don't have to wait for the entire tape to finish recording so that you can rewind it to the beginning before you can play it back".
Upon loading the article page I was confronted with some spam video that started playing and blasting audio unrequested. Is this the next shoe to drop? First beta, next auto playing video ads? I've never disabled ads on slashdot and I disable my adblocker BECAUSE the ads haven't been annoying.
It's like I just told SuperKendall, it's not the change so far, it's the sure and certain knowledge that, if left unchecked, the changes will eventually culminate in a site that's all buzzwords and Kardashian articles.
Swap in words like Bassett, Broyhill, Sealy, Stearns, Kincaid, Foster-Seeley, High Point, Beautyrest, Simmons, and several appliance brands, and yeah, pretty much.
Slashdot Mirror
http://lcdalternatives.com/ probably has a kit made up already for that particular model TV.
This is not a failure of bitcoin. Suppose you had a stack of companies whose purpose is to store your physical gold and prevent it from being stolen and to serve as an exchange allowing customers to trade gold for currency. Then, it turns out that some of them had inadequate security or were outright crooked and the gold they were storing went missing. This would not be a failure of gold itself. Sure, if sufficient quantities of gold were affected, it would affect the price of gold, but it does not change gold itself. This is the same situation.
Even if you stole an amount of gold equal to all of the gold allegedly in Ft Knox, or that allegedly used to be in Ft.Knox, unless you put it on rockets and send it into the heart of the sun, the world wouldn't treat the situation as one in which the amount of gold in the world already removed from the ground had suddenly changed.
The whole point of stealing it would be to exchange it for something else, either directly for goods or services, or for some country's currency to be spent for goods or services at some point.
So the world would continue to consider that stolen gold part of the overall "supply".
So stealing it wouldn't really make it less rare or more rare unless you could steal a considerable majority of the gold in the world and "corner the market", so that by keeping it out of "circulation" you cause the same amount of demand that existed previously to wind up chasing a smaller supply, which would drive up the price, but you'd have to keep it out of circulation to keep the price high, because once you start to unload it, you've increased supply again.
Not to mention that a sharp increase in the price of gold would result in a boom in previously unprofitable mining operations, which would start adding to the world-wide supply, which would bring down the price.
The real problem here is the notion that bitcoin is a currency. It really isn't. It's a virtual commodity much like gold, with similar properties save for the fact that gold is physical and bitcoin is not. (Sure, the odds that everyone suddenly decides to pack up their toys and ignore bitcoin are much higher, mostly because there are no "real" uses to bitcoin, unlike gold which has actual uses other than being somewhat "rare" and looking pretty.) The same things that make gold less than idea as an actual currency (or a backer to a currency) apply to bitcoin. Sure, you can use either one as a place holder in a transaction if both parties agree, but you could just as easily use a common fiat currency, chickens, or grains of sand.
The other day the Netscape guy explained that bitcoin is a distributed ledger system, and it seems to me that that is where its real value lies, since apparently even if it gets stolen there is a record of it having been stolen so that you don't wind up with a situation where, if all of the bitcoin in existence were stolen, it would appear that it was still where it was and you'd suddenly have twice as much bitcoin apparently in existence as was previous to the theft.
In other words, supposedly the way the keeping track of where each bitcoin or fraction thereof is prevents the creation of counterfeit bitcoin and the resulting dilution of value.
But none of this is my area of expertise, and I admit to the very distinct possibility of being wrong.
It is also not a 'jet' fighter. Props to the submitter for not including that mistake from TFA.
In the original submission, he or she included that mistake.
And I see that the calling it a fighter plane mistake persists, in spite of there being no indication that this thing was ever intended to be a weapons platform (or ever could have been without some serious changes, and maybe not even then, since it was designed to go fast in a straight line, but not necessarily to be capable, without coming apart in mid-air, of the aerobatics necessary in a dog fight).
It's possible that they lurked for a l-o-o-o-ng time before signing up for an account (apparently about a year ago or a little less, judging by comment dates) and that's why their UID is so high.
...kills woofers.
Not enough amplifier kills tweeters, because clipping produces high-frequency (as in higher than you can hear) square waves and the tweeters cannot respond to that high a frequency and so the energy is turned into heat instead of air movement and it burns out their voice coils.
Maybe that's what Dell is trying to say happened here.
As I see it, it's not what we want.
The question now is how big a % of the total /. userbase is *we*
Thanks for that link. Dice seems to have been able to keep it off my screen previously.
If you're joining the Slashcott, allow me to direct you to The Individual Midnight Thread.
http://slashdot.org/submission...
"Fact is though, the beta protest movement has its place."
And you'd like it confined to a "free speech zone" far from where anyone will actually be aware of it?
Public schools exist to protect property values by keeping the neighborhood from filling up with illiterates (hope I spelled that properly : - ), and by making neighborhoods more attractive to buy a house in because there are good schools nearby, and even for the purpose of turning out people better able to to be informed citizens, the better to choose wisely representatives and the path of the nation.
Okay, admittedly that last part is utopian idealism that's being rapidly destroyed by big money buying congresscritters, but an uneducated populace will never fix that, or even know to fight it.
Check this out
http://www.businessinsider.com...
for a glimpse of what they think the future should be.
Allow me to invite you to The Individual Midnight Thread
Allow me to invite you to The Individual Midnight Thread, since you'll need it 5 hours before I do.
http://slashdot.org/submission...
Any ideas where we could all gather during Slashcott Week to get reports from spies as to what is or is not happening here?
Can the Vulture spare us some bandwidth and cycles, perchance?
That's one nice thing about a TiVo.
Once you start copying a file to a TiVo from a PC, you can start playing it while it's still downloading.
Admittedly that's usually a file recorded on another one of your TiVos on the same account, and usually on the same LAN and in the same house, and uploaded to that PC in the first place, but at least it incorporates the idea that "digital on disc means you don't have to wait for the entire tape to finish recording so that you can rewind it to the beginning before you can play it back".
I somehow missed seeing that Business Insider article when it appeared.
The scary thing is that apparently they believe all that stuff they're saying about how much better it will be.
That would never happen.
They'd handcuff the women as well and turn all the kids over to foster care so that they could actually be sexually abused.
Upon loading the article page I was confronted with some spam video that started playing and blasting audio unrequested. Is this the next shoe to drop? First beta, next auto playing video ads? I've never disabled ads on slashdot and I disable my adblocker BECAUSE the ads haven't been annoying.
What is going on at slashdot?!?!
We are the Dice.
You will be SlashingtonPost'ed.
Resistance is futile.
Prepare to welcome your new Kardashian overlords.
It's like I just told SuperKendall, it's not the change so far, it's the sure and certain knowledge that, if left unchecked, the changes will eventually culminate in a site that's all buzzwords and Kardashian articles.
It's not about the changes thus far, it's about what they portend.
I see you've been here even longer than have I.
If what you actually want is SlashingtonPost, I'm surprised you've been able to stand it here the way it's been all this time.
We are the Dice.
You will be Huffington'ed.
Resistance is futile.
Prepare to welcome your new Kardashian overlords.
We aren't going to be here between the 10th and the 17th.
That's the Week of Slashcott.
We *are* the users, and we're fighting for ourselves (and, believe it or not, you, as well)
Swap in words like Bassett, Broyhill, Sealy, Stearns, Kincaid, Foster-Seeley, High Point, Beautyrest, Simmons, and several appliance brands, and yeah, pretty much.
Someone came around over 24 hours later to mod my suggestion for a periscope as a drone alternative off-topic.
Is Dice sending out the goon squads now?
These on-topic posts are so confusing just now.
Sir, and/or madam,
I applaud your comment and would greatly appreciate your consideration of this
http://slashdot.org/submission...
along with an upvote out of Firehose purgatory if quite convenient.