I am not 100% sure about this, but you can usually trick those programs that want to connect to a display using xvfb.
It might not work. I use this trick to do headless capybara-webkit testing. Worst case scenario, you need to launch a real X-server with a display. You should not need a monitor (I could be wrong about this too), but you do need to fool the graphics card into letting you access its hardware for OpenCL purposes.
Then you use the fglrx driver that is packaged in ubuntu and ppa:bitcoin/ppa
The news is news because Gallium3D is open source. I do not know if this means that GPU mining with ATI cards on FreeBSD is possible now, but I would speculate that yes, it is.
These workers range from housekeepers and maintenance to personal care attendants, food preparers, and dish washers. I am sure there are other job descriptions outside of what I've specced, but nothing about 'SEIU' charter says they are or should be government workers.
If you don't want them to get paid then don't publish in their journals? Seems they want to make that a condition of continued episodic publication of their journals, under the trade name they've established. So, go take your business elsewhere.
Also, if you default (and did not die), I had read that your family can be held responsible for your federal student loans even if they did not co-sign, which I have not been able to find a link to confirm. This link seems to say I am wrong about the co-signing. It is co-signing that makes you liable. Mea culpa. http://www.bankrate.com/finance/debt/co-signing-student-loan-makes-you-liable.aspx
What's wrong is that they can come after your family if you die or default, even when your family have not co-signed on your loans. They should assume, I guess, since your parents had the money to raise you and feed you until you reached college age that they can be liable for your debts, too. Pish tosh.
Maybe I read on the internet what I wanted to have, and forgot what I actually got for $170 at BestBuy
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper XT [AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series]
It's not the holy grail card. Still hashrate scales to money pretty linearly, as long as the difficulty and exchange rate situations work out favorably.
The point in January where my balance drops to zero is when I cashed out to buy the Jalapenos, for 22.04 BTC.
I have not bought any BTC since then, as you can see from the regular pace of increase on the chart. Boy what a mistake that has been. Hope to see the return soon, still waiting for Butterfly Labs to ship their first batch. Any day now, maybe if I'm lucky I'll only be waiting til June for orders in the 16000 range like mine to ship.
I have a Radeon HD 5970 and that's not even a good card (200MHash/sec overclocked) running full-time all the time, it puts out 0.26BTC about once a week for some time now. At today's rate of $88/BTC, that's about $92/mo. I have not calculated my power usage and I am looking forward to ASIC, but if the calculations I've seen are anywhere near accurate, two Jalapenos at $314 are going to generate close to about as many bitcoins when the difficulty catches up to the amount of hash power BFL is going to allow to be added to the network.
(If I turn off the GPU, which is est. ~45 times less powerful than two Jalapenos by hashrate, I will probably see reduced power usage on the order of 100W, but not down to as low as the 9W consumed by the Jalapenos, to see my usage that substantially reduced I would need to invest in an Android with USB-OTG for my mining or perhaps a Raspberry Pi, otherwise I will still need to keep the computer on full-time.)
You commented so many times on this thread that you actually replied to yourself here. I'm not even sure what you're arguing, except "everyone else is wrong." Since you're on Slashdot, I think you must be arguing that libertarian absolutes are just as wrong as fascist absolutes and socialist absolutes. Do you know what threatens the bitcoin? So far, from my understanding, 51% attack. That and advanced, persistent violent oppression-types.
What threatens the legitimacy of US Dollars and other government-printed dollars? It's probably a shorter list, right. Just like there are more Linux and Mac OS viruses, because the attack surface is larger. Am I right?
Real people don't even use paypal, we have credit and debit cards tied to real bank accounts not to some scummy ass company known for ripping its customers off.
Perhaps you should grow up and get a bank account like normal people and stop dicking with paypal.
Paypal solves no problem that wasn't already solved before it existed, it serves no useful purpose.
I have plenty of bank accounts, and I've paid my fair share of overdraft fees when I read my bank balance from the website and thought that was a decent substitute for keeping a check register.
You simple fail to understand how bitcoin isn't anything like you think it is.
How do you think I think Bitcoin is?
So "real people" drive where they need to be, which is the bank, and they don't use companies that do what Banks do unless they are banks. Or they use the US Postal Service and they order checks from a printer. Is that what you're saying?
I grew up using the Internet, I am loathe to "drop anything in the mail," and I'll tell you that my experience with Paypal has actually been great (when I accidentally overdraw my account, which has happened several times, they e-mail me a notice and don't threaten me with $38 per day in fees)
But I'm smart enough to realize that's not anything I've done, it's just Paypal's gracious favor since they like to have more customers, and they would like you to switch to using Paypal rather than a bank.
I'm tired of being a customer of crooked banks and I know what happens to merchants who accept Paypal. The Visa/MasterCard agreements are not any better. They cost.
I suppose you have one bank and one checking account and you're very happy with it. I want another option and the bank is not it. I believe in coming up with ideas rather than shooting them down. I'm open to you coming up with a better idea than Bitcoin for stored value transfer.
No, you're wrong, the whole cartel of fees-collecting, tax-charging, interest-bearing rich get richer profit from the system of central authority where "mystery shopper" can put you on investigation status and have your funds held, or risk of your account being shut because they have a bone to pick.
Those are all barriers to a new business gaining traction, as to the large business who does hundreds of transactions per day these costs can be absorbed and insured, but for the seller who does three sales a week, a chargeback puts you out of business. That can be your mortgage payment on the line (more likely utility or rent), and if you drop-ship, you just forked over the whole amount of money for merchandise which may have been delivered, but now YOU are on the hook for the full amount again, with two merchants and possibly return shipping cost as well.
By the way, since the buyer filed a dispute, you won't have access to any of the money they sent in order to help with resolving the issues, and we're holding 50% of your other sales' for 45 days because you are on our shit-list.
They want you to think it's only for contraband because they want you to continue to pay the Visa tax.
How can you deny that there is a value to having a Paypal with no 'central authority' or any 'One trusted third party'?
Do you use Paypal? Have you ever been robbed by Paypal? I guess you could deny it, if the answers to both of those questions are not both 'yes'. For many people though, I am sure, there needs to be a way to have your money 'on the wire' without putting it into the hands of someone who can seize it when their authority or government of favor decides it's time to do so.
For people who don't use Paypal every day, it will take 10 days to move money using Paypal. At that kind of break-neck speed, you might as well write a check and put a stamp on it.
Sure they are sending ~3 requests a day to an organization that can handle millions of queries per second. I would be upset if they had sent individual letters -- now that's abuse!
I'm not even going to worry about the privacy issues, in my mind I'm imagining Google as a one-man (or two-man) IT department where your highest paying client sends you fewer than 3 requests per day. We get these ridiculous RFPs where they ask us to detail our 'strategy' for this or that, and sometimes I'd like to tell them, "we have none." Are you joking? We're not hundreds of guys here, and we're not on your payroll!
That would cripple me. I can't imagine receiving 3000 requests per day and having to process them in order to be in compliance with the law.
Well, sister post is not strictly correct, it is possible to mine the same coin, but the compound unlikelies make it so improbable, and here are the factors:
You would need to have the same private keys, since the coin as reward will be granted to your private key, which essentially means you need the same wallet, and that's so unlikely to happen (strong cryptographic keys) unless you are actually sharing wallets and therefore private keys. Maybe I'm wrong, even then...
The piece that makes it a solution or not a solution is called the nonce, it's basically random numbers that you choose to include in the block's nonce field (there is no meaning to them) and if the hash of the block is a low enough number to meet the difficulty, then the network accepts it as a solution... so assuming that two people (miners) with the same wallet and the same exposure to transactions (and the same affinity to include them / not include them in the target block) came up with the same nonce at the same time, yes, I think it's possible.
I don't think it would happen unless you were also seeding from the same random number source (two virtual machines created from the same primordial pool, sharing entropy incorrectly, perhaps?), and there's no reason to do that on purpose for two miners with independent processing power, since it only means you would be half as likely to find a solution as if you seeded from two different sources.
Maybe you have, but I think that just because you can run Linux on it does not mean you must.
I mean, sure, there's no built-in support for filesystems on block devices. I was kind of expecting to see that in the next release. But who needs read-write filesystems anyway? ^_^
I don't follow you, just because Linux can run on L4, and Linux can run on Genode, and Genode can run on L4, Besides that... "another" L4Linux-alike? Where do you find them all? What news outlets do you frequent? Because I honestly haven't heard of dozens of projects just like Genode. This is not an attempt at flaming. You're obviously not convinced that you need a Genode, and clearly neither am I. I'll be the first to admit it's hard to have a thought-provoking discussion about something you don't know exactly what it does, and you're not sure why you need it.
I was particularly disappointed when after hours of fiddling around just to bring up something called Noux that was finally resembling a shell, I was able to bring it down (and it seemed, the whole Genode system with it) just by typing 'ls'. Maybe that's just not how it's meant to be used. Maybe I just didn't know the correct recovery sequence. I was impressed but just more-so impatient. Glad to know that these guys make new releases every 3 months.
The story was reported yesterday on Hacker News, and the headline on/. is just as sensational as it was in the other forum.
There is no admission, and there is no source. The anonymous staffer who will not be named is some underling with no pull or sway, and nobody has resigned. He didn't even say what the headline claims he said.
As a person coming from a position of no knowledge, I would have to guess that the drive is 100% electric, and when you hear the dinosaur burning engine turn on, it's to provide additional power to the drive and to recharge the battery. I just checked wikipedia, it seems that's what series hybrid means.
Kind of like the 16 hour tablet/dock, where each battery provides 8 hours of life, except that neither part has an internal combustion engine in the tablet. Lucky for the car and not the tablet; my dock seems to be losing its juice capacity, now I'm thinking about a new or refurbished dock to keep it at 16 hours capacity, for an extra $60-100.
This thing was a steal at $325... we'll have to see how I feel at $425. Probably no big deal, at least I don't have to put gallons into it.
He has a vested interest on patent infringement damages being awarded regardless of the content of the patent. In this concrete case he manipulated the jury to disregard the instructions to consider the validity of the patents. It's like having an insurance company owner deciding on a case of insurance coverage.
Vested interest... I do not think that means what you think it means. I'm looking for details on the 20-year old patent lawsuit that bankrupted [Hogan]... but there is so much trash in the news, I can really only see that he also "purchased a house under mysterious circumstances."
I'm sure he has not forgotten the lawsuit that bankrupted him. But a 20 year old patent would have expired, well, up to 20 years ago. A vendetta is not a vested interest. So, how does he make money off of this? Apple stock?
c) what exactly the judge is supposed to do about it even if he was?
The judge could have annulled the jury decision based on them not following the jury instructions and she could have sent them back to do their work properly.
I am not sure that a judge has that power, unless there is proof of wrongdoing on the part of the jury, or improper communication for example between the plaintiffs and the jury foreman, I always thought it was the jury who had the power to annul, as in the case when a judge says clearly "if this then that, you must deliver a guilty verdict."
The jury can then go and discuss "well yes, both this and that, but we're still going to say he's not guilty." That's jury nullification. I don't want to sound like I'm talking out of my ass too much, I am not a lawyer, and I know that this is a civil trial, and those words are used to mean a verdict in a criminal proceeding.
Still, as much as we all hate patents around here, I would expect the Slashdot crowd to be more supportive of this guy who worked so hard and finally got his come-uppance in a round-about sort of way. He was able to deliver a verdict against the company that bankrupted him. Sort of. Seagate-Samsung corporate alliance is going down. Why does everyone want to take that away from him? Don't we like to support the little guy over the cartel?
Why aren't there any other Android tablets with GPS? (Besides ASUS.) Why is there only one MIPS android tablet, and it's crap? These are the questions that I want answers to. I suspect that they are both because patents.
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I am not 100% sure about this, but you can usually trick those programs that want to connect to a display using xvfb.
It might not work. I use this trick to do headless capybara-webkit testing. Worst case scenario, you need to launch a real X-server with a display. You should not need a monitor (I could be wrong about this too), but you do need to fool the graphics card into letting you access its hardware for OpenCL purposes.
Then you use the fglrx driver that is packaged in ubuntu and ppa:bitcoin/ppa
The news is news because Gallium3D is open source. I do not know if this means that GPU mining with ATI cards on FreeBSD is possible now, but I would speculate that yes, it is.
SEIU - Service Employees International Union
These workers range from housekeepers and maintenance to personal care attendants, food preparers, and dish washers. I am sure there are other job descriptions outside of what I've specced, but nothing about 'SEIU' charter says they are or should be government workers.
Who said I'm not getting paid?
Well, not to write this post. But you seem to think I'm saying the authors should be paid. I'm not.
If you don't want them to get paid then don't publish in their journals? Seems they want to make that a condition of continued episodic publication of their journals, under the trade name they've established. So, go take your business elsewhere.
So who in this story is the scammer, who is doing the scamming, and who is supposed to be getting scammed?
I think what you're saying is that the lawyer gets paid $1mil and you (person inheriting the mil) owe $100k.
Are you crazy? Ain't nobody got time for that.
(Now you're on the other side, and I'm the one insisting that you should work for free.)
There are other than federal student loans:
http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=76403ee4-9604-480e-ad05-9f2cf2292cce
This story is about a guy who has exactly that problem.
Also, if you default (and did not die), I had read that your family can be held responsible for your federal student loans even if they did not co-sign, which I have not been able to find a link to confirm. This link seems to say I am wrong about the co-signing. It is co-signing that makes you liable. Mea culpa.
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/debt/co-signing-student-loan-makes-you-liable.aspx
What's wrong is that they can come after your family if you die or default, even when your family have not co-signed on your loans.
They should assume, I guess, since your parents had the money to raise you and feed you until you reached college age that they can be liable for your debts, too. Pish tosh.
Maybe I read on the internet what I wanted to have, and forgot what I actually got for $170 at BestBuy
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper
XT [AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series]
It's not the holy grail card. Still hashrate scales to money pretty linearly, as long as the difficulty and exchange rate situations work out favorably.
Here, more documentation for the curious: https://www.beeminder.com/yebyenw/christmas-bitcoins
The point in January where my balance drops to zero is when I cashed out to buy the Jalapenos, for 22.04 BTC.
I have not bought any BTC since then, as you can see from the regular pace of increase on the chart. Boy what a mistake that has been. Hope to see the return soon, still waiting for Butterfly Labs to ship their first batch. Any day now, maybe if I'm lucky I'll only be waiting til June for orders in the 16000 range like mine to ship.
That sounds plausible.
I have a Radeon HD 5970 and that's not even a good card (200MHash/sec overclocked) running full-time all the time, it puts out 0.26BTC about once a week for some time now. At today's rate of $88/BTC, that's about $92/mo. I have not calculated my power usage and I am looking forward to ASIC, but if the calculations I've seen are anywhere near accurate, two Jalapenos at $314 are going to generate close to about as many bitcoins when the difficulty catches up to the amount of hash power BFL is going to allow to be added to the network.
(If I turn off the GPU, which is est. ~45 times less powerful than two Jalapenos by hashrate, I will probably see reduced power usage on the order of 100W, but not down to as low as the 9W consumed by the Jalapenos, to see my usage that substantially reduced I would need to invest in an Android with USB-OTG for my mining or perhaps a Raspberry Pi, otherwise I will still need to keep the computer on full-time.)
You commented so many times on this thread that you actually replied to yourself here. I'm not even sure what you're arguing, except "everyone else is wrong." Since you're on Slashdot, I think you must be arguing that libertarian absolutes are just as wrong as fascist absolutes and socialist absolutes. Do you know what threatens the bitcoin? So far, from my understanding, 51% attack. That and advanced, persistent violent oppression-types.
What threatens the legitimacy of US Dollars and other government-printed dollars? It's probably a shorter list, right. Just like there are more Linux and Mac OS viruses, because the attack surface is larger. Am I right?
Real people don't even use paypal, we have credit and debit cards tied to real bank accounts not to some scummy ass company known for ripping its customers off.
Perhaps you should grow up and get a bank account like normal people and stop dicking with paypal.
Paypal solves no problem that wasn't already solved before it existed, it serves no useful purpose.
I have plenty of bank accounts, and I've paid my fair share of overdraft fees when I read my bank balance from the website and thought that was a decent substitute for keeping a check register.
You simple fail to understand how bitcoin isn't anything like you think it is.
How do you think I think Bitcoin is?
So "real people" drive where they need to be, which is the bank, and they don't use companies that do what Banks do unless they are banks. Or they use the US Postal Service and they order checks from a printer. Is that what you're saying?
I grew up using the Internet, I am loathe to "drop anything in the mail," and I'll tell you that my experience with Paypal has actually been great (when I accidentally overdraw my account, which has happened several times, they e-mail me a notice and don't threaten me with $38 per day in fees)
But I'm smart enough to realize that's not anything I've done, it's just Paypal's gracious favor since they like to have more customers, and they would like you to switch to using Paypal rather than a bank.
I'm tired of being a customer of crooked banks and I know what happens to merchants who accept Paypal. The Visa/MasterCard agreements are not any better. They cost.
I suppose you have one bank and one checking account and you're very happy with it. I want another option and the bank is not it. I believe in coming up with ideas rather than shooting them down. I'm open to you coming up with a better idea than Bitcoin for stored value transfer.
Waiting. OK, now. Go.
No, you're wrong, the whole cartel of fees-collecting, tax-charging, interest-bearing rich get richer profit from the system of central authority where "mystery shopper" can put you on investigation status and have your funds held, or risk of your account being shut because they have a bone to pick.
Those are all barriers to a new business gaining traction, as to the large business who does hundreds of transactions per day these costs can be absorbed and insured, but for the seller who does three sales a week, a chargeback puts you out of business. That can be your mortgage payment on the line (more likely utility or rent), and if you drop-ship, you just forked over the whole amount of money for merchandise which may have been delivered, but now YOU are on the hook for the full amount again, with two merchants and possibly return shipping cost as well.
By the way, since the buyer filed a dispute, you won't have access to any of the money they sent in order to help with resolving the issues, and we're holding 50% of your other sales' for 45 days because you are on our shit-list.
They want you to think it's only for contraband because they want you to continue to pay the Visa tax.
How can you deny that there is a value to having a Paypal with no 'central authority' or any 'One trusted third party'?
Do you use Paypal? Have you ever been robbed by Paypal? I guess you could deny it, if the answers to both of those questions are not both 'yes'. For many people though, I am sure, there needs to be a way to have your money 'on the wire' without putting it into the hands of someone who can seize it when their authority or government of favor decides it's time to do so.
For people who don't use Paypal every day, it will take 10 days to move money using Paypal. At that kind of break-neck speed, you might as well write a check and put a stamp on it.
Nope. http://bintouch.com/ shows what you're describing, www.bintouch.com redirects to http://www.bintouch.org/mailman/listinfo/cp-transition/
Because of a newsgroup with one post, almost a year ago?
You think this is a joke??? !!! 11one
Sure they are sending ~3 requests a day to an organization that can handle millions of queries per second. I would be upset if they had sent individual letters -- now that's abuse!
I'm not even going to worry about the privacy issues, in my mind I'm imagining Google as a one-man (or two-man) IT department where your highest paying client sends you fewer than 3 requests per day. We get these ridiculous RFPs where they ask us to detail our 'strategy' for this or that, and sometimes I'd like to tell them, "we have none." Are you joking? We're not hundreds of guys here, and we're not on your payroll!
That would cripple me. I can't imagine receiving 3000 requests per day and having to process them in order to be in compliance with the law.
Well, sister post is not strictly correct, it is possible to mine the same coin, but the compound unlikelies make it so improbable, and here are the factors:
You would need to have the same private keys, since the coin as reward will be granted to your private key, which essentially means you need the same wallet, and that's so unlikely to happen (strong cryptographic keys) unless you are actually sharing wallets and therefore private keys. Maybe I'm wrong, even then...
The piece that makes it a solution or not a solution is called the nonce, it's basically random numbers that you choose to include in the block's nonce field (there is no meaning to them) and if the hash of the block is a low enough number to meet the difficulty, then the network accepts it as a solution... so assuming that two people (miners) with the same wallet and the same exposure to transactions (and the same affinity to include them / not include them in the target block) came up with the same nonce at the same time, yes, I think it's possible.
I don't think it would happen unless you were also seeding from the same random number source (two virtual machines created from the same primordial pool, sharing entropy incorrectly, perhaps?), and there's no reason to do that on purpose for two miners with independent processing power, since it only means you would be half as likely to find a solution as if you seeded from two different sources.
Whoa there! Have you actually tried Genode?
Maybe you have, but I think that just because you can run Linux on it does not mean you must.
I mean, sure, there's no built-in support for filesystems on block devices. I was kind of expecting to see that in the next release. But who needs read-write filesystems anyway? ^_^
I don't follow you, just because Linux can run on L4, and Linux can run on Genode, and Genode can run on L4,
Besides that... "another" L4Linux-alike? Where do you find them all? What news outlets do you frequent? Because I honestly haven't heard of dozens of projects just like Genode. This is not an attempt at flaming. You're obviously not convinced that you need a Genode, and clearly neither am I. I'll be the first to admit it's hard to have a thought-provoking discussion about something you don't know exactly what it does, and you're not sure why you need it.
I was particularly disappointed when after hours of fiddling around just to bring up something called Noux that was finally resembling a shell, I was able to bring it down (and it seemed, the whole Genode system with it) just by typing 'ls'. Maybe that's just not how it's meant to be used. Maybe I just didn't know the correct recovery sequence. I was impressed but just more-so impatient. Glad to know that these guys make new releases every 3 months.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5284311
The story was reported yesterday on Hacker News, and the headline on /. is just as sensational as it was in the other forum.
There is no admission, and there is no source. The anonymous staffer who will not be named is some underling with no pull or sway, and nobody has resigned. He didn't even say what the headline claims he said.
I am not sure it ever works that way in the US. Maybe Germany.
As a person coming from a position of no knowledge, I would have to guess that the drive is 100% electric, and when you hear the dinosaur burning engine turn on, it's to provide additional power to the drive and to recharge the battery. I just checked wikipedia, it seems that's what series hybrid means.
Kind of like the 16 hour tablet/dock, where each battery provides 8 hours of life, except that neither part has an internal combustion engine in the tablet. Lucky for the car and not the tablet; my dock seems to be losing its juice capacity, now I'm thinking about a new or refurbished dock to keep it at 16 hours capacity, for an extra $60-100.
This thing was a steal at $325... we'll have to see how I feel at $425. Probably no big deal, at least I don't have to put gallons into it.
He has a vested interest on patent infringement damages being awarded regardless of the content of the patent. In this concrete case he manipulated the jury to disregard the instructions to consider the validity of the patents. It's like having an insurance company owner deciding on a case of insurance coverage.
Vested interest... I do not think that means what you think it means. I'm looking for details on the 20-year old patent lawsuit that bankrupted [Hogan]... but there is so much trash in the news, I can really only see that he also "purchased a house under mysterious circumstances."
I'm sure he has not forgotten the lawsuit that bankrupted him. But a 20 year old patent would have expired, well, up to 20 years ago. A vendetta is not a vested interest. So, how does he make money off of this? Apple stock?
c) what exactly the judge is supposed to do about it even if he was?
The judge could have annulled the jury decision based on them not following the jury instructions and she could have sent them back to do their work properly.
I am not sure that a judge has that power, unless there is proof of wrongdoing on the part of the jury, or improper communication for example between the plaintiffs and the jury foreman, I always thought it was the jury who had the power to annul, as in the case when a judge says clearly "if this then that, you must deliver a guilty verdict."
The jury can then go and discuss "well yes, both this and that, but we're still going to say he's not guilty." That's jury nullification. I don't want to sound like I'm talking out of my ass too much, I am not a lawyer, and I know that this is a civil trial, and those words are used to mean a verdict in a criminal proceeding.
Still, as much as we all hate patents around here, I would expect the Slashdot crowd to be more supportive of this guy who worked so hard and finally got his come-uppance in a round-about sort of way. He was able to deliver a verdict against the company that bankrupted him. Sort of. Seagate-Samsung corporate alliance is going down. Why does everyone want to take that away from him? Don't we like to support the little guy over the cartel?
Why aren't there any other Android tablets with GPS? (Besides ASUS.) Why is there only one MIPS android tablet, and it's crap? These are the questions that I want answers to. I suspect that they are both because patents.