Do people use Bitcoin to complete transactions for material goods or has Bitcoin become an investment vehicle?? I.e. What percentage of Bitcoin transactions pay for pizza (or Teslas or houses) and what percentage are people saying "I'll just buy low and sell high and make a killing like everyone else". I assume there's no way to look at the blockchain and determine this... that would pretty much kill the idea of anonymity.
Just need a couple dozen people doing it part-time as a hobby, but only if they've got no motivation (like stock options, a VP breathing down their neck or their job) to make it dramatically better, faster, cheaper, smaller and less power consumptive than the competition.
Official Whitehouse policy re: the Donald's statements is (according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders) that people shouldn't believe every word. I guess that means if he says he's having some fun & launched missiles at NK, we can laugh along and say "ha ha, only foolin". Hopefully NK, China and Russia would get the joke too.
I'm not on RescueTime; I'm on, like, Boulder Golden Durban Goat Poison Oh Jesus Chem Kush got-any-crackers time. I can't imagine trying to flip my neurons to a new thread 300 times a week, much less 300 times a day. Isn't there some research that says that it takes people 20+ minutes to get fully engaged after an interrupt or task switch?
How does the RETPOLINE mitigation applied to binaries deal with dynamically (JIT) de-compressed or unencrypted code? The ability for speculative pre-fetching to gather data that's normally off-limits to a process seems like a huge can of worms for code that can be pre-processed by the mitigation.
/unrelated/ I'm not up-to-speed on webasm, but I can see how a vuln might be crafted from an instruction stream since the assembly generator is (presumably) following a recipe.
if someone wants to learn a new language there are others like Rust, Go....though those might just be fads
I'm trying both those. While Golang is pretty easy, Rust is hurting my brain. The first few demo programs in Programming Rust leave (for me) a lot of questions. Those demos also have a high "punctuation character to alphabetical character" ratio. Or perhaps it's a low "alpha to punctuation" ratio. Admittedly that isn't a standard measurement and I'd never noticed it before, but man, there's a butt-load of colons in there.
1. We do care about what you think but we know we can't change your mind because you're probably just as old, stubborn and crotchety as we are.
2. No one gives a shit how you feel.
2. We actually do care about what you feel. Been there. Felt that. And yes it's no fun. Let's get together over coffee some time and talk about it.
3. You aren't as smart is you think you are. If you are, keep your fucking mouth shut about it.
3. Maybe you know more about that than I do, but I'd rather talk about my hip replacement.
4. Don't bother trying to save the World. The World doesn't give a fuck about you or your efforts.
4. We tried to save the world and gosh darnit, just ended up screwing it up more. Good thing the youngsters have so much energy and attitude. Maybe they can straighten out the mess we made. Now it they'd only get off their phones and stop swatting each other.
5. Take responsibility for the dumb fuck things you've done and don't do them again.
5. Take responsibility. Clean up the wreckage of the past. Try not to do the same stuff again, but frankly I'm too old to be doing protest marches and getting run down.
6. Don't treat people like shit.
6. Some folks don't deserve the treatment they get; others don't get the treatment they deserve. Ain't our job to fix that. Wanna play Scrabble until "Wheel"
comes on?
7. Remember it's not about you.
7. Have I told you about my hip replacement? I'll make this short....
8. It's none of you fucking business.
8. From what you've told me, sounds like something I did back in the 60s. I can see you don't want to talk about it right now.
9. Don't leave a mess
9. I made a mess. Sorry. I wish I could help clean it up but my hip is locked up.
10. Don't Whine.
10. I apologize for all the moaning. Kids don't have an appreciation of just how painful cancer and arthritis is. I hope they or their loved ones never have to learn that lesson.
Forget transaction fees. This is crypto-balloting -- independent from cryptocurrencies. Blockchain maintenance would not be a for-profit business.
Are you saying that counting a ballot after the election is bad?? Traditionally, ballots were processed after the election except for absentee ballots and other special cases.
How about as a mechanism for counting votes? I.e. an electronic voting machine tallies Joe Schmoe's vote and submits that to to the chain. I'm not sure if Joe has a private key or the private key is associated with the machine. The private key needs to be setup so that it cannot be associated with Joe; but with Joe's vote.
The AI simply opts to plagiarize, not knowing that it's illegal....
I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.
This technology is being developed to replace things like high-paid ghost-writers of pop music and screen writers in Hollywood. With the current state of the entertainment industry, these jobs should be easy to automate.
Andrew Reagan and others at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington have used sentiment analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs. “We find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives,” they say.
How about a hacked version of the malware that returns incorrect results to the C&C? It doesn't even have to use a lot of CPU cycles... just get the command to start, delay as long as possible and return a response with "Found the answer!" with some random pile of fluff. The idea is to get the C&C to trust the bogus results while making it wait as long as possible so that it essentially submits the wrong answer to the blockchain or at least loses the race to some other miner.
Obviously not an unlimited immigration policy. That would be too generous and compassionate. Not at all proper. Only let in the people you can use for their skills and abuse for being born to their parents. That's how to make lifelong friends.
From the sound of it, are the Rotating Festering Assholes the DC-based successors to the Butthole Surfers?
It could also be a dance...
You put your hand in your pants
And your brain in a trance
Then you spin across the room
In a festering gloom
Ain't never gonna see such an evil crevasse
Grease me up daddy, got a festering ass.
Of course, if the Heavy does not make it to orbit, the Roadster may end up swimming with the fishes (which might also be interesting).
If it does make it, let's say it goes into orbit around Mars. And everyone forgets about it until 2062. The first manned mission to the red planet has just landed. Everyone is congratulating themselves on accomplishing the impossible. Earth communications loses contact with the crew on the return transport vehicle parked in orbit. The last picture received from it's external camera showed a "Tesla" logo.
Slashdot Mirror
...I'm all for a decentralized block chain currency that is as carbon neutral as, say, pornhub ...
Hmmmm. Porncoin or Pr0nC0in? Maybe. Pussycoin? WeinerCoin? Nah. BoinkCoin? Yea. Dat's da ticket.
Do people use Bitcoin to complete transactions for material goods or has Bitcoin become an investment vehicle?? I.e. What percentage of Bitcoin transactions pay for pizza (or Teslas or houses) and what percentage are people saying "I'll just buy low and sell high and make a killing like everyone else". I assume there's no way to look at the blockchain and determine this ... that would pretty much kill the idea of anonymity.
Damn. And me with no mod points today.
Like this? (raw image)
Just need a couple dozen people doing it part-time as a hobby, but only if they've got no motivation (like stock options, a VP breathing down their neck or their job) to make it dramatically better, faster, cheaper, smaller and less power consumptive than the competition.
Can Gwyneth Paltrow promote Orange Goop for use in a enema?
Official Whitehouse policy re: the Donald's statements is (according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders) that people shouldn't believe every word. I guess that means if he says he's having some fun & launched missiles at NK, we can laugh along and say "ha ha, only foolin". Hopefully NK, China and Russia would get the joke too.
I'm not on RescueTime; I'm on, like, Boulder Golden Durban Goat Poison Oh Jesus Chem Kush got-any-crackers time. I can't imagine trying to flip my neurons to a new thread 300 times a week, much less 300 times a day. Isn't there some research that says that it takes people 20+ minutes to get fully engaged after an interrupt or task switch?
How does the RETPOLINE mitigation applied to binaries deal with dynamically (JIT) de-compressed or unencrypted code? The ability for speculative pre-fetching to gather data that's normally off-limits to a process seems like a huge can of worms for code that can be pre-processed by the mitigation.
/unrelated/ I'm not up-to-speed on webasm, but I can see how a vuln might be crafted from an instruction stream since the assembly generator is (presumably) following a recipe.
Python is from 1989, Ruby 1995.
if someone wants to learn a new language there are others like Rust, Go....though those might just be fads
I'm trying both those. While Golang is pretty easy, Rust is hurting my brain. The first few demo programs in Programming Rust leave (for me) a lot of questions. Those demos also have a high "punctuation character to alphabetical character" ratio. Or perhaps it's a low "alpha to punctuation" ratio. Admittedly that isn't a standard measurement and I'd never noticed it before, but man, there's a butt-load of colons in there.
Remember these things.
Or these alternatives
1. No one gives a shit what you think.
1. We do care about what you think but we know we can't change your mind because you're probably just as old, stubborn and crotchety as we are.
2. No one gives a shit how you feel.
2. We actually do care about what you feel. Been there. Felt that. And yes it's no fun. Let's get together over coffee some time and talk about it.
3. You aren't as smart is you think you are. If you are, keep your fucking mouth shut about it.
3. Maybe you know more about that than I do, but I'd rather talk about my hip replacement.
4. Don't bother trying to save the World. The World doesn't give a fuck about you or your efforts.
4. We tried to save the world and gosh darnit, just ended up screwing it up more. Good thing the youngsters have so much energy and attitude. Maybe they can straighten out the mess we made. Now it they'd only get off their phones and stop swatting each other.
5. Take responsibility for the dumb fuck things you've done and don't do them again.
5. Take responsibility. Clean up the wreckage of the past. Try not to do the same stuff again, but frankly I'm too old to be doing protest marches and getting run down.
6. Don't treat people like shit.
6. Some folks don't deserve the treatment they get; others don't get the treatment they deserve. Ain't our job to fix that. Wanna play Scrabble until "Wheel" comes on?
7. Remember it's not about you.
7. Have I told you about my hip replacement? I'll make this short ....
8. It's none of you fucking business.
8. From what you've told me, sounds like something I did back in the 60s. I can see you don't want to talk about it right now.
9. Don't leave a mess
9. I made a mess. Sorry. I wish I could help clean it up but my hip is locked up.
10. Don't Whine.
10. I apologize for all the moaning. Kids don't have an appreciation of just how painful cancer and arthritis is. I hope they or their loved ones never have to learn that lesson.
Forget transaction fees. This is crypto-balloting -- independent from cryptocurrencies. Blockchain maintenance would not be a for-profit business.
Are you saying that counting a ballot after the election is bad?? Traditionally, ballots were processed after the election except for absentee ballots and other special cases.
Just thinking out loud ...
How about as a mechanism for counting votes? I.e. an electronic voting machine tallies Joe Schmoe's vote and submits that to to the chain. I'm not sure if Joe has a private key or the private key is associated with the machine. The private key needs to be setup so that it cannot be associated with Joe; but with Joe's vote.
The AI simply opts to plagiarize, not knowing that it's illegal ....
I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.
This technology is being developed to replace things like high-paid ghost-writers of pop music and screen writers in Hollywood. With the current state of the entertainment industry, these jobs should be easy to automate.
Andrew Reagan and others at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington have used sentiment analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs. “We find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives,” they say.
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By the way, while there is *actual* fake news, most real news has "editorial bias" because it is reported and written
and read or consumed
by human beings, who are in general not completely unbiased however they may try.
Here's the responses I got to various whitehouse and congress URLs:
...then...
http://TrumpStyle.whitehouse.gov
409 Conflict
http://Talk-to-your-congressman.congress.gov
402 Payment Required
503 Service Unavailable
http://Help-Joe-Plumber-not-Joe-Billionaire.whitehouse.gov
421 Misdirected Request
http://women-are-people-too.whitehouse.gov
406 Not Acceptable
http://Melania.Trump.whitehouse.gov
416 Not Satisfiable
http://Leadership-By-Example.whitehouse.gov
301 Moved Permanently - See http://www.maralagoclub.com/
This is worse than the Kaspersky stupidity, which is saying something.
Kaspersky identified and tagged the Safran software as highly suspect. Problem solv..... Never mind.
How about a hacked version of the malware that returns incorrect results to the C&C? It doesn't even have to use a lot of CPU cycles ... just get the command to start, delay as long as possible and return a response with "Found the answer!" with some random pile of fluff. The idea is to get the C&C to trust the bogus results while making it wait as long as possible so that it essentially submits the wrong answer to the blockchain or at least loses the race to some other miner.
Otherwise, the US could face a Bitcoin mine shaft gap . . .
Wow. For some reason I just got a woodie. Tell me about Lenstra elliptic curve factorization, differential encoding and little endian nonces.
Obviously not an unlimited immigration policy. That would be too generous and compassionate. Not at all proper. Only let in the people you can use for their skills and abuse for being born to their parents. That's how to make lifelong friends.
From the sound of it, are the Rotating Festering Assholes the DC-based successors to the Butthole Surfers ?
It could also be a dance ...
You put your hand in your pants
And your brain in a trance
Then you spin across the room
In a festering gloom
Ain't never gonna see such an evil crevasse
Grease me up daddy, got a festering ass.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Best sig i've seen in a long time.
Of course, if the Heavy does not make it to orbit, the Roadster may end up swimming with the fishes (which might also be interesting).
If it does make it, let's say it goes into orbit around Mars. And everyone forgets about it until 2062. The first manned mission to the red planet has just landed. Everyone is congratulating themselves on accomplishing the impossible. Earth communications loses contact with the crew on the return transport vehicle parked in orbit. The last picture received from it's external camera showed a "Tesla" logo.
Set the controls
for the heart of the sun.