Was this directed at me? If we are going with the preposterous use of the word "assault" to talk about someone grabbing your bits then I've also been "assaulted" dozens of times. Depending on whether the person is someone you wanted attention from or not it ranges from a mental "mmm hmm I'm getting laid" to awkward and unwanted but at no point it is something negative enough to survive hopping to the next bar and having another drink.
Men and women should be entitled to complain. But we should also get a lot more realistic about the wide chasm between emotionally unpleasant and criminal and it is certainly nothing we should get a vote on if we ourselves feel too strongly and have an emotion rather than reason based bias.
The 0 kb block bug was fixed and the entire freaking point was to increase the blocksize since Bitcoin was never intended to have one long term and it is bottlenecking the system. Greedy people who want to prevent mining efficiency gains are the whole reason we have these problems massive transactions delays ultra high fees.
There are reasons to keep mining alive, we should never even blink at making an improvement to the protocol just because it puts EXISTING miners at a disadvantage.
Right, just because there was some kind of outcome you wanted to avoid doesn't make it rape. If you are going with that logic everyone who engages in oral sex for the sake of their partner is being raped.
I'm sorry, there are too many people who are actually rape victims suffering from the term rape being watered down by lumping in nonsense like this. Is it sexual harassment? Sure. But rape it is not.
Huh? I can't see how anything you've said there even remotely follows what I said. Also, you seem to have a great deal of trouble noting the marked difference between someone grabbing your ass and someone raping you.
Your first example is sexual harassment, not rape or assault, your second example is a prison rape, neither has anything to do with my contention that having ones ass slapped in a bar isn't appropriate behavior but it is preposterous to call it "sexual assault" regardless of the genders involved.
Normally I'd point out that Bitcoin's typical cycle doesn't prevent it from dipping low, it just won't settle low, it will settle at a price higher but they are calling the current version Bitcoin Cash instead of Bitcoin and acting like the obsolete blockchain is Bitcoin so who knows what the impact will be. By acting like it is something brand new you create the illusion of something just as untested as all the other cryptocurrencies out there even though it is the same coin that has been unhackable and unstoppable from the start.
On the bright side, Bitcoin doesn't die just because the speculative market flashlight goes off, Bitcoin isn't going anywhere.
Anyone of any gender should obviously be able to complain. Now lets put some reality googles on and consider the real level of offense here. The damage is minor discomfort and annoyance. Should you be able to complain and be protected from firing or legal punishment for an appropriate level of physical action to deter? Yes. Should you be protected from social consequences for complaining, yes. Should we label it with a dramatic word like assault and group it alongside serious attacks and blow it out of proportion? No. Should anyone be going to jail? Absolutely not.
"Having read about what guys like Weinstein and Nassar did, are you really saying that these complaints are without merit?"
I'd say they might be something to consider if asked out on a date or to work a late night project in the office by one of them and have absolutely no relevance in considering their impact as pioneers in game development.
"Um, have you ever dealt in government contracting? I have for many years. It's inefficient for many reasons, especially DoD.
Contracting officers change frequently, so they don't often understand the history or previous methodology on long term projects."
A little bit but I wasn't arguing with the overhead of government contracting. I've also dealt with large corporate contracting. Both are fairly ridiculous relative to reaching an arrangement with a startup. Largely though, the entire contracting process you are referring to is part of the inefficiency and overhead, the government is just an old and much larger entity than even the bigger corporations. Nothing about what I said indicates the government is efficient, large companies are also inefficient. If you want healthy, lean, and efficient you don't look to corporate giants you look to millions of >$10mil/gross profit organizations that burn bright and mostly die out replaced by new crops of the same without ever accumulating layer on layer of middlemen, lawyers, siloed entities, and management.
They are heavily regulated to grant and protect their local monopolies. See what has happened with the FCC and state attempts to protect net neutrality, municipal wifi, etc.
Also, there was a point I forgot, they also must incorporate net neutrality and be subject the FOIA as a condition of the non-profits government granted monopoly and funding.
And the big myth is government vs non-government inefficiency. The inefficiency grows with the age and size of the entity. To some extent this offset by sheer financial power and the perception of stability but dealing with IBM, AT&T, or HP (especially as someone working at one of these organizations trying to get something done) really isn't any better than government. The only reason these organizations aren't dead already is they have massive clients who are just as slow and inefficient as they are making it very difficult to overcome the inertia preventing going somewhere new. I guarantee you that any of these organizations there are a couple mergers a decade or more old that still aren't integrated and multiple ticket systems and like... just aging and growing kruft. The same thing you see in government.
"In fact government owned with yearly bidding on maintaining and running the system would be even better with all costs rolled into the access fee's charged to telecom providers."
Sounds an awful lot like the way wireless spectrum is handled by the FCC actually. We are at this proposal because of how terrible and monopolized that industry is.
Just run it with an AI. Most of the jobs being replaced with AI and automation are dramatically more complicated than anything done by an executive now and organize as a non-profit.
"So the physical layer should be handled by a "public utility". The problem is, I'd really like it to be isolated from government control."
I'm all for a private company, just so long as it is a non-profit and the board and executives are barred from any subsequent employment or engagement by any organization which has any affiliation or significant funding/profit from any sort of communications company. This includes after they leave and should be handled like trust law where the courts disregard any sort of structure or chain of paper if the bottom line is a result of benefiting financially from money originating with a communications company they have assets seized similarly to a drug dealer (along with anyone else who ended up with any of the tainted money) and go to federal prison for life. Additionally, said communications company gets liquidated with the board and executives receiving the same treatment.
First of all you said dynamically typed like that is a strength, it's easier but more bug prone. Secondly, Perl. I see lots of benchmarks showing Perl near the end of the row but that is because you if you don't speak Perl you'll end up using it's flexibility to code up a bunch of array based garbage written like it's C code and include 400 spam modules to "avoid reinventing the wheel." When you load a module just to get the PID of your script when there is a built in that contains the pid... you are definitely reinventing the wheel.
Having used Lua, Python, and Javascript I for one vote for Perl for almost anything being done with any of the above. A few years back I'd have to give javascript a big edge because of node.js but as it always does Perl 5 has already absorbed its strengths.
"Weekly Sunday NYTimes. Weekly Powerball drawing numbers is the seed. Encrypt it three times via a pattern in the numbers previously discussed in person. 1,10,11,21,31,44, 80 are the numbers. Multiply them all. Square it. (or whatever) Then add your agent number and encrypt it. Then the result again."
Cracked. That is the seed, not the powerball number.
"Book ciphers use widely-available books or else are prone to discovery by the fact that people involved own an obscure book."
There is no registry of book ownership that I'm aware of. You are also putting the cart before the horse, you'd have to crack the code to determine the book before you could "discover" it involved an obscure book and go looking for them.
"If I pre-arrange a key with someone. Say Page 10 of the New York times as published on friday."
The "pre-arranging" is the part where you distributed the key. If that communication is intercepted or overheard the key is compromised. You can arrange something else that you'd both have access to but others would not to be the key but then the key transfer is actually whatever exchanged resulted in you both having that material AND the exchange.
This is ultimately no different than using outputs of a random number generation algorithm with the same seed, the seed is the key, not the off output you used to encode/decode the message.
"Having to distribute a key as long as a message is not very easy, and the requirement that the pad be generated with a cryptographically secure random number generator makes it a bit harder."
Not really. Have you ever heard of a coin? Perhaps some dice? Random data sources are cheap and trivial to find the instant you step away from a computer.
"They are all in agreement that there are a class of "Smart Criminals" out there who do not get caught, and are seldom, if ever, on the police radar."
There is a third class of criminal that includes everyone, smart and dumb, since we all break laws on a daily basis (and if you allow laws at the mercy of officer discretion almost everything we do it illegal). I doubt any of us makes it a month without having done something that is technically a felony.
The dumb people are the ones who think that just because they don't anything wrong they have nothing to worry about and push for stronger and more effective enforcement. Perfect enforcement and stronger penalties would mean everyone in prison. These days if you actually have a middle class profession you can lose your ability to be employed by falling behind on your bills., Just think about your prospect of paying off those unsheddable student loans racked up pursuing your masters degree with your lifetime of burger flipping money after a felony conviction for failing to enter your deductions correctly in quicken.
On the contrary. New techniques in forensics applied to past cases have consistently proven high numbers of wrongful convictions. I'm a US citizen who like all other US citizens breaks dozens of laws including felonies on a daily basis, many without knowing it even if I thought about it without any real malintent or harm to my fellow citizens. So I find it objectively far more important to limit law enforcement effectiveness to the most obvious and egregious violations and avoid wrongful convictions at all costs.
"whether or not it is net-beneficial, arming oneself is an inalienable human right"
The second amendment is net-beneficial and would be even more so if it were legally honored in the US (you'd have very few mass shootings if the crowd can shoot the crazy guy, which is why the vast majority have been in gun free zones). The right to bear arms is slightly about hunting, strongly about the people not being purely at the which of those in power, and most strongly about national defense. Foreign nations are highly unlikely to invade the US directly because the civilian population is well armed. If they did invade it would be somewhere like New York with heavy arms restrictions. Good luck talking anyone but a suicide trooper to patrol in a city when every third window has a sniper in it. That deterrent only has to make a difference one time... ever... to be worth any costs.
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Mod up!!
Too many people are confusing this with a good thing. This is to help block your knowledge of tracking.
This doesn't sound like they are removing the tracking information, just its display to you.
Was this directed at me? If we are going with the preposterous use of the word "assault" to talk about someone grabbing your bits then I've also been "assaulted" dozens of times. Depending on whether the person is someone you wanted attention from or not it ranges from a mental "mmm hmm I'm getting laid" to awkward and unwanted but at no point it is something negative enough to survive hopping to the next bar and having another drink.
Men and women should be entitled to complain. But we should also get a lot more realistic about the wide chasm between emotionally unpleasant and criminal and it is certainly nothing we should get a vote on if we ourselves feel too strongly and have an emotion rather than reason based bias.
The 0 kb block bug was fixed and the entire freaking point was to increase the blocksize since Bitcoin was never intended to have one long term and it is bottlenecking the system. Greedy people who want to prevent mining efficiency gains are the whole reason we have these problems massive transactions delays ultra high fees.
There are reasons to keep mining alive, we should never even blink at making an improvement to the protocol just because it puts EXISTING miners at a disadvantage.
Right, just because there was some kind of outcome you wanted to avoid doesn't make it rape. If you are going with that logic everyone who engages in oral sex for the sake of their partner is being raped.
I'm sorry, there are too many people who are actually rape victims suffering from the term rape being watered down by lumping in nonsense like this. Is it sexual harassment? Sure. But rape it is not.
Huh? I can't see how anything you've said there even remotely follows what I said. Also, you seem to have a great deal of trouble noting the marked difference between someone grabbing your ass and someone raping you.
Your first example is sexual harassment, not rape or assault, your second example is a prison rape, neither has anything to do with my contention that having ones ass slapped in a bar isn't appropriate behavior but it is preposterous to call it "sexual assault" regardless of the genders involved.
Normally I'd point out that Bitcoin's typical cycle doesn't prevent it from dipping low, it just won't settle low, it will settle at a price higher but they are calling the current version Bitcoin Cash instead of Bitcoin and acting like the obsolete blockchain is Bitcoin so who knows what the impact will be. By acting like it is something brand new you create the illusion of something just as untested as all the other cryptocurrencies out there even though it is the same coin that has been unhackable and unstoppable from the start.
On the bright side, Bitcoin doesn't die just because the speculative market flashlight goes off, Bitcoin isn't going anywhere.
Anyone of any gender should obviously be able to complain. Now lets put some reality googles on and consider the real level of offense here. The damage is minor discomfort and annoyance. Should you be able to complain and be protected from firing or legal punishment for an appropriate level of physical action to deter? Yes. Should you be protected from social consequences for complaining, yes. Should we label it with a dramatic word like assault and group it alongside serious attacks and blow it out of proportion? No. Should anyone be going to jail? Absolutely not.
"Having read about what guys like Weinstein and Nassar did, are you really saying that these complaints are without merit?"
I'd say they might be something to consider if asked out on a date or to work a late night project in the office by one of them and have absolutely no relevance in considering their impact as pioneers in game development.
"Um, have you ever dealt in government contracting? I have for many years. It's inefficient for many reasons, especially DoD.
Contracting officers change frequently, so they don't often understand the history or previous methodology on long term projects."
A little bit but I wasn't arguing with the overhead of government contracting. I've also dealt with large corporate contracting. Both are fairly ridiculous relative to reaching an arrangement with a startup. Largely though, the entire contracting process you are referring to is part of the inefficiency and overhead, the government is just an old and much larger entity than even the bigger corporations. Nothing about what I said indicates the government is efficient, large companies are also inefficient. If you want healthy, lean, and efficient you don't look to corporate giants you look to millions of >$10mil/gross profit organizations that burn bright and mostly die out replaced by new crops of the same without ever accumulating layer on layer of middlemen, lawyers, siloed entities, and management.
They are heavily regulated to grant and protect their local monopolies. See what has happened with the FCC and state attempts to protect net neutrality, municipal wifi, etc.
Also, there was a point I forgot, they also must incorporate net neutrality and be subject the FOIA as a condition of the non-profits government granted monopoly and funding.
And the big myth is government vs non-government inefficiency. The inefficiency grows with the age and size of the entity. To some extent this offset by sheer financial power and the perception of stability but dealing with IBM, AT&T, or HP (especially as someone working at one of these organizations trying to get something done) really isn't any better than government. The only reason these organizations aren't dead already is they have massive clients who are just as slow and inefficient as they are making it very difficult to overcome the inertia preventing going somewhere new. I guarantee you that any of these organizations there are a couple mergers a decade or more old that still aren't integrated and multiple ticket systems and like... just aging and growing kruft. The same thing you see in government.
"In fact government owned with yearly bidding on maintaining and running the system would be even better with all costs rolled into the access fee's charged to telecom providers."
Sounds an awful lot like the way wireless spectrum is handled by the FCC actually. We are at this proposal because of how terrible and monopolized that industry is.
Great, sock puppets.
Just run it with an AI. Most of the jobs being replaced with AI and automation are dramatically more complicated than anything done by an executive now and organize as a non-profit.
"So the physical layer should be handled by a "public utility". The problem is, I'd really like it to be isolated from government control."
I'm all for a private company, just so long as it is a non-profit and the board and executives are barred from any subsequent employment or engagement by any organization which has any affiliation or significant funding/profit from any sort of communications company. This includes after they leave and should be handled like trust law where the courts disregard any sort of structure or chain of paper if the bottom line is a result of benefiting financially from money originating with a communications company they have assets seized similarly to a drug dealer (along with anyone else who ended up with any of the tainted money) and go to federal prison for life. Additionally, said communications company gets liquidated with the board and executives receiving the same treatment.
First of all you said dynamically typed like that is a strength, it's easier but more bug prone. Secondly, Perl. I see lots of benchmarks showing Perl near the end of the row but that is because you if you don't speak Perl you'll end up using it's flexibility to code up a bunch of array based garbage written like it's C code and include 400 spam modules to "avoid reinventing the wheel." When you load a module just to get the PID of your script when there is a built in that contains the pid... you are definitely reinventing the wheel.
Having used Lua, Python, and Javascript I for one vote for Perl for almost anything being done with any of the above. A few years back I'd have to give javascript a big edge because of node.js but as it always does Perl 5 has already absorbed its strengths.
"Not really. You've already identified a human target."
You have? If we are going to assume major advantages why not a decoder ring?
Bug you when you tell the agent
"Weekly Sunday NYTimes.
Weekly Powerball drawing numbers is the seed.
Encrypt it three times via a pattern in the numbers previously discussed in person.
1,10,11,21,31,44, 80 are the numbers.
Multiply them all.
Square it. (or whatever)
Then add your agent number and encrypt it. Then the result again."
Cracked. That is the seed, not the powerball number.
"Book ciphers use widely-available books or else are prone to discovery by the fact that people involved own an obscure book."
There is no registry of book ownership that I'm aware of. You are also putting the cart before the horse, you'd have to crack the code to determine the book before you could "discover" it involved an obscure book and go looking for them.
"If I pre-arrange a key with someone. Say Page 10 of the New York times as published on friday."
The "pre-arranging" is the part where you distributed the key. If that communication is intercepted or overheard the key is compromised. You can arrange something else that you'd both have access to but others would not to be the key but then the key transfer is actually whatever exchanged resulted in you both having that material AND the exchange.
This is ultimately no different than using outputs of a random number generation algorithm with the same seed, the seed is the key, not the off output you used to encode/decode the message.
"Having to distribute a key as long as a message is not very easy, and the requirement that the pad be generated with a cryptographically secure random number generator makes it a bit harder."
Not really. Have you ever heard of a coin? Perhaps some dice? Random data sources are cheap and trivial to find the instant you step away from a computer.
"They are all in agreement that there are a class of "Smart Criminals" out there who do not get caught, and are seldom, if ever, on the police radar."
There is a third class of criminal that includes everyone, smart and dumb, since we all break laws on a daily basis (and if you allow laws at the mercy of officer discretion almost everything we do it illegal). I doubt any of us makes it a month without having done something that is technically a felony.
The dumb people are the ones who think that just because they don't anything wrong they have nothing to worry about and push for stronger and more effective enforcement. Perfect enforcement and stronger penalties would mean everyone in prison. These days if you actually have a middle class profession you can lose your ability to be employed by falling behind on your bills., Just think about your prospect of paying off those unsheddable student loans racked up pursuing your masters degree with your lifetime of burger flipping money after a felony conviction for failing to enter your deductions correctly in quicken.
"What outweighs what is not immediately clear..."
On the contrary. New techniques in forensics applied to past cases have consistently proven high numbers of wrongful convictions. I'm a US citizen who like all other US citizens breaks dozens of laws including felonies on a daily basis, many without knowing it even if I thought about it without any real malintent or harm to my fellow citizens. So I find it objectively far more important to limit law enforcement effectiveness to the most obvious and egregious violations and avoid wrongful convictions at all costs.
"whether or not it is net-beneficial, arming oneself is an inalienable human right"
The second amendment is net-beneficial and would be even more so if it were legally honored in the US (you'd have very few mass shootings if the crowd can shoot the crazy guy, which is why the vast majority have been in gun free zones). The right to bear arms is slightly about hunting, strongly about the people not being purely at the which of those in power, and most strongly about national defense. Foreign nations are highly unlikely to invade the US directly because the civilian population is well armed. If they did invade it would be somewhere like New York with heavy arms restrictions. Good luck talking anyone but a suicide trooper to patrol in a city when every third window has a sniper in it. That deterrent only has to make a difference one time... ever... to be worth any costs.