There are no conceptual flaws in the implementation of Bitcoin that I can foresee,
Well if TFA (first link) didn't point out a conceptual flaw then you weren't trying very hard.
When virtually the first mention of Bitcoin in any official capacity comes from "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network" of the US Treasury department, you can pretty much see that it would only take one or two government agencies throwing their weight around and equating Bitcoin with some form of crime to pretty much bring Bitcoin crashing down.
By the very way Bitcoin works, several aspects of it fall under the claimed power of this Agency:
FinCEN's regulations define the term "money transmitter" as a person that provides money transmission services, or any other person engaged in the transfer of funds.
Further all of Paragraph C (De-Centralized Virtual Currencies) is aimed squarely at Bitcoin. As long as you use your mined bitcoin to purchase green beans grown in your neighbors garden you are ok. But as soon as YOU or your NEIGHBOR try to spend the bitcoin beyond your little over the fence arrangement they come under regulation.
In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency.
Its a huge power grab, designed to reign in Bitcoin by regulating anyone who tries to actually USE it, and failure to submit to this regulation will certainly be a defined as crime. Now who whats to hold Bitcoin?
They are quick to name persons of interest, slow to retract any such announcements, but now want to hide behind the Judges robes for over prosecuting a nothing case. The corruption of this DOJ exceeds anything under Bush.
The reasons why there are bad directors is because they really don't matter.
Most of them meet once or twice a year, most of them hold enough stock to prevent them from being dismissed, and most of them don't get involved in the management of the company on a day to day basis.
Most boards are a lot like a Congressional Oversight Committee. They know very little about the day to day operations of the company, and make mostly macro decisions (lets sell off the Paint division, its always losing money) and seldom dig into the turf of the operational managers.
Corporate line management have insulated themselves from corporate board meddling, in much the same way that The Department of Agriculture or Interior have largely kept Congressional committees in the dark.
Worse than that, no one has measured RF tissue heating from a cell phone in temperature controlled (that is to say living) tissue. So even if B->C were true, no one has demonstrated that A->B is even happening in vivo from cell phone transmitters.
Your head temperature probably rises more when standing outside in the sun.
The idea of leaving the cell phone in your pocket while talking on bluetooth simply ADDs RF to another location (the pocket) while doing nothing to reduce over all exposure. The body part most exposed to radiation is probably the hand, more specifically the Other Hand, (the non-dominant hand) with which most people hold the phone.
catching a 7 meter 500 ton space rock has nothing whatever to do with diverting dangerous asteroids or killer asteroids or even the mostly annoying asteroid that broke Russian windows. Real asteroid diversion would use tutally different tactics over many months or years, provided early enough warning was had.
Maybe, maybe not. The Bag-it-on-the-fly technique has been proposed for larger bodies as well. And we have enough space junk floating around the planet to practice on. You always start small. Its a practice mission at best, with a payload of manageable size.
The rock that broke up over Russia was estimated at close to 10,000 tons. NASA currently believes the Russian meteorite was about 49 feet in diameter, or 15 meters. We never saw it coming.
Since all the money will be spent here on earth, they can have fountains, Rolls Royces, and Yachts just by doing banker tricks with all those funds that Boeing and General Dynamics and lowly technicians deposit from the NASA contracts.
This is obviously the least of Microsoft's failures with Metro.
If you think Metro is a failure because of screen ratio you are nuts. It has nothing to do with ratio.
Its a failure because people don't like scrolling halfway around the world looking for monster Icons just to launch applications that they used to be able to launch quickly from a small desktop icon or a start bar. Its a failure because only a few apps work perfectly with Metro, and the rest still launch a desktop (sans a proper Start Menu).
Metro ONLY works on small devices. Hang it on a 24 inch screen and you will yank your hair out scrolling. But on a tablet it works passably well. You can get used to its idiosyncrasies fairly quickly.
That said, Microsoft should be gunning for larger tablets, not smaller ones.
Yup, I had a Windows 7 tablet too. HP Slate something something, running an Atom processor. Pretty useless, slow, but I needed it for testing in my day job.
Just got Windows 8 Pro running Core i5 64bit. (Again, needed for my day job). Whole different story. I will finally be able to leave my monster laptop at home when I travel.
This is a very nice machine, and Windows 8 makes more sense on this device than on any laptop.
Too expensive mind you, but fully capable, and FAST.
It even runs VmWare Player (very well) so I can have another OS stored on the MicroSD card and run it concurrently. Every piece of Windows software I've thrown at it works perfectly out of the gate, even our proprietary stuff.
If the price would come down three or four hundred bucks they would sell boatloads of these. For me its a tax write-off, as it would be for much of the business world. But Home users looking for web surfing and email would be better off with an Android or IOS tablet.
I've got lots of Linux machines and an android tablet and phone. I've spent years hating Microsoft, (while making good money working in that environment). For what I need to do, this is a very viable device.
You drive it up onto the dock and drop it off. Pay to ship it on the next boat, and it'll get put with the others uninspected. Having the wrong one left at the end will not be noticed until after it's too late, and even if noticed, nobody will think it as big a deal as it could be.
So, you've never actually been to an international port then, right Marc? Next time you get to Seattle take the guided tour.
How did you get that container into the port? Pay off another gate guard? And another, and another? What about that unshipped container sitting on the dock?
You are not going to sneak rogue container into the shipping yard and somehow get it on a ship. You also need to infiltrate Samsung or Honda, and put several of your people in charge of loading those Honda snow blowers or Samsung Refrigerators into the shipping containers, hold the shipping supervisor's daughter for ransom, bribe the US Customs inspector at the port of departure in Japan, who notices the container weighs way more than it should, and keep a lid on the whole operation for the week and a half that the ship is underway to the US.
Freight of suspect origin is the stuff they inspect on departure (not so much on arrival). The countries of origination have just as much skin in the game as does the US, and aren't going to let North Korea or Al Qaeda cross-deck any freight without their own inspection.
Its way harder than you speculate or see on TV. If it were as easy as you seem to think, LA, Seattle or New York would be smoking rubble already.
Thin clients are everywhere. EVERY-Friggen-WHERE!!!
Hint: Check your Smartphone or Tablet. Check out Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox. Thin clients morphed while you were asleep.
And Google Glass is already being heavily developed even when its not out of beta yet.
Time to wake up from your long winter's nap AC, and stop telling other people to shut up until you get a clue. Final products don't always look like the speculative products. 3D printers won't always be making toys. They will probably be making our clothing, and there may well be one in every closet/laundry room which could pop out a new shirt on demand (custom tailored), and recycle the old ones.
The definition of air is sufficiently broad to include the Martian atmosphere. Mars has wind sufficient to cause dust storms, so there is obviously air of some composition there.
They inspect it where its packed so they don't have to inspect it here. At the Sony plant, in the dock yards in Korea, Japan, and China. Go down to to the harbor with your binoculars. Virtually every container will have a customs band on the door. You don't see them inspecting because it was done dockside overseas.
Gartner is actually correct, if not late to the party. You can already find them on line for under $1000. Serious ones for under 2000 are easy to find. Does Gartner not know about Google?
First, NK is already pretty much a steaming pile, as a little time surfing with google earth would show.
But the melting slag comment sounds like something last heard around these parts just before Desert Storm. Even if NK used one of the Nukes, there is no way the US would respond in kind. We know which way the wind blows, and it would not be necessary.
One does not "pull a boat" into Oalkand or LA without the US already knowing what is on it and where it came from. In exchange for fast customs clearance the US clears the vast majority of containers before the ship departs from foreign ports.
Unless you have been on another planet for the last 5 years, these images are more of the same. I'll be "startled" when I see something truly different, or even tracks in the sand. That kitten jumping over a rock due in the middle distance due east at maximum resolution is a tad odd, but other than that there is not much startling or unique here if you've been a fan of rover missions.
Yeah, but then what do you do when you work for a company with 192.168.0.0 merging with another company using the same range? Does it matter if they already both had 10.0.0.0 reserved and in use?
You are merging. Its time to do it right, as disruption is expected at this time.
Back in the day, this was a tough nut to crack, but not anymore. I've actually had to do this a few times in my day job.
If you have already NATed both sites (the most probable case), you simply look to your DHCP server, and manually fix any reservations that were made for things that need statics (an ever decreasing number of things these days), then simply revise the DHCP server to use a new range in 10.x.x. Do it at midnight and everybody will be moved by morning as leases expire. 10 is big enough that you can handle everything even with multiple DHCP servers handling different ranges all within 10, but a mask big enough to reach everyone.
If you were manually assigning statics at workstations you deserve all the pain that might inflict.
Its a lot easier nowadays, since most small routers will serve DHCP and people don't do the manual assignments any more because of the lack of a DHCP router. I remember well the days when disjoint agencies and offices were not on a common network, and each little office tended to have their own little network, often with no Wide Area Connection. People almost always manually assigned IPs in those days. It was a mess. (Alaska State government was a prime example. It took years for state network Admins to get little office on line.)
The ban on cell phones in the air is imposed by the FCC, not the FAA. Its because a cell phone a mile above the ground can light up every cell tower in a 25 mile circle ant the hand off and registration systems were never designed for this.
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There are no conceptual flaws in the implementation of Bitcoin that I can foresee,
Well if TFA (first link) didn't point out a conceptual flaw then you weren't trying very hard.
When virtually the first mention of Bitcoin in any official capacity comes from "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network" of the US Treasury department, you can pretty much see that it would only take one or two government agencies throwing their weight around and equating Bitcoin with some form of crime to pretty much bring Bitcoin crashing down.
By the very way Bitcoin works, several aspects of it fall under the claimed power of this Agency:
FinCEN's regulations define the term "money transmitter" as a person that provides money transmission services, or any other person engaged in the transfer of funds.
Further all of Paragraph C (De-Centralized Virtual Currencies) is aimed squarely at Bitcoin. As long as you use your mined bitcoin to purchase green beans grown in your neighbors garden you are ok. But as soon as YOU or your NEIGHBOR try to spend the bitcoin beyond your little over the fence arrangement they come under regulation.
In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency.
Its a huge power grab, designed to reign in Bitcoin by regulating anyone who tries to actually USE it, and failure to submit to this regulation will certainly be a defined as crime. Now who whats to hold Bitcoin?
Your own quote mentioned HF radio, not VHF.
If you knew half as much as you thing you do, you would know that HF radios can cover thousands of miles.
Exactly.
They are quick to name persons of interest, slow to retract any such announcements, but now want to hide behind the Judges robes for over prosecuting a nothing case. The corruption of this DOJ exceeds anything under Bush.
The reasons why there are bad directors is because they really don't matter.
Most of them meet once or twice a year, most of them hold enough stock to prevent them from being dismissed, and most of them don't get involved in the management of the company on a day to day basis.
Most boards are a lot like a Congressional Oversight Committee. They know very little about the day to day operations of the company, and make mostly macro decisions (lets sell off the Paint division, its always losing money) and seldom dig into the turf of the operational managers.
Corporate line management have insulated themselves from corporate board meddling, in much the same way that The Department of Agriculture or Interior have largely kept Congressional committees in the dark.
Worse than that, no one has measured RF tissue heating from a cell phone in temperature controlled (that is to say living) tissue.
So even if B->C were true, no one has demonstrated that A->B is even happening in vivo from cell phone transmitters.
Your head temperature probably rises more when standing outside in the sun.
The idea of leaving the cell phone in your pocket while talking on bluetooth simply ADDs RF to another location (the pocket) while doing nothing to reduce over all exposure. The body part most exposed to radiation is probably the hand, more specifically the Other Hand, (the non-dominant hand) with which most people hold the phone.
catching a 7 meter 500 ton space rock has nothing whatever to do with diverting dangerous asteroids or killer asteroids or even the mostly annoying asteroid that broke Russian windows. Real asteroid diversion would use tutally different tactics over many months or years, provided early enough warning was had.
Maybe, maybe not. The Bag-it-on-the-fly technique has been proposed for larger bodies as well. And we have enough space junk floating around the planet to practice on. You always start small. Its a practice mission at best, with a payload of manageable size.
The rock that broke up over Russia was estimated at close to 10,000 tons. NASA currently believes the Russian meteorite was about 49 feet in diameter, or 15 meters. We never saw it coming.
Since all the money will be spent here on earth, they can have fountains, Rolls Royces, and Yachts just by doing banker tricks with all those funds
that Boeing and General Dynamics and lowly technicians deposit from the NASA contracts.
This is obviously the least of Microsoft's failures with Metro.
If you think Metro is a failure because of screen ratio you are nuts. It has nothing to do with ratio.
Its a failure because people don't like scrolling halfway around the world looking for monster Icons just to launch applications
that they used to be able to launch quickly from a small desktop icon or a start bar. Its a failure because only a few apps work
perfectly with Metro, and the rest still launch a desktop (sans a proper Start Menu).
Metro ONLY works on small devices. Hang it on a 24 inch screen and you will yank your hair out scrolling.
But on a tablet it works passably well. You can get used to its idiosyncrasies fairly quickly.
That said, Microsoft should be gunning for larger tablets, not smaller ones.
Yup, I had a Windows 7 tablet too.
HP Slate something something, running an Atom processor. Pretty useless, slow, but I needed it for testing in my day job.
Just got Windows 8 Pro running Core i5 64bit. (Again, needed for my day job).
Whole different story. I will finally be able to leave my monster laptop at home when I travel.
This is a very nice machine, and Windows 8 makes more sense on this device than on any laptop.
Too expensive mind you, but fully capable, and FAST.
It even runs VmWare Player (very well) so I can have another OS stored on the MicroSD card and run it concurrently.
Every piece of Windows software I've thrown at it works perfectly out of the gate, even our proprietary stuff.
If the price would come down three or four hundred bucks they would sell boatloads of these. For me its a tax write-off, as
it would be for much of the business world. But Home users looking for web surfing and email would be better off with
an Android or IOS tablet.
I've got lots of Linux machines and an android tablet and phone. I've spent years hating Microsoft, (while making good money
working in that environment). For what I need to do, this is a very viable device.
You drive it up onto the dock and drop it off. Pay to ship it on the next boat, and it'll get put with the others uninspected. Having the wrong one left at the end will not be noticed until after it's too late, and even if noticed, nobody will think it as big a deal as it could be.
So, you've never actually been to an international port then, right Marc?
Next time you get to Seattle take the guided tour.
How did you get that container into the port? Pay off another gate guard? And another, and another?
What about that unshipped container sitting on the dock?
If this is so easy.....?
Yes it does cause a rather large inconvenience.
You are not going to sneak rogue container into the shipping yard and somehow get it on a ship. You also need to infiltrate Samsung or Honda, and put several of your people in charge of loading those Honda snow blowers or Samsung Refrigerators into the shipping containers, hold the shipping supervisor's daughter for ransom, bribe the US Customs inspector at the port of departure in Japan, who notices the container weighs way more than it should, and keep a lid on the whole operation for the week and a half that the ship is underway to the US.
Freight of suspect origin is the stuff they inspect on departure (not so much on arrival). The countries of origination have just as much skin in the game as does the US, and aren't going to let North Korea or Al Qaeda cross-deck any freight without their own inspection.
Its way harder than you speculate or see on TV. If it were as easy as you seem to think, LA, Seattle or New York would be smoking rubble already.
Thanks for proving me right.
Thin clients are everywhere. EVERY-Friggen-WHERE!!!
Hint: Check your Smartphone or Tablet. Check out Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox. Thin clients morphed while you were asleep.
And Google Glass is already being heavily developed even when its not out of beta yet.
Time to wake up from your long winter's nap AC, and stop telling other people to shut up until you get a clue. Final products don't always look like the speculative products. 3D printers won't always be making toys. They will probably be making our clothing, and there may well be one in every closet/laundry room which could pop out a new shirt on demand (custom tailored), and recycle the old ones.
Don't be such a box-thinker.
The definition of air is sufficiently broad to include the Martian atmosphere. Mars has wind sufficient to cause dust storms, so there is obviously air of some composition there.
They inspect it where its packed so they don't have to inspect it here.
At the Sony plant, in the dock yards in Korea, Japan, and China. Go down to to the harbor with your binoculars.
Virtually every container will have a customs band on the door.
You don't see them inspecting because it was done dockside overseas.
And 640k should be enough for anyone.
People like you predicted no on would have a use for a computer in the home.
Gartner is actually correct, if not late to the party.
You can already find them on line for under $1000. Serious ones for under 2000 are easy to find.
Does Gartner not know about Google?
First, NK is already pretty much a steaming pile, as a little time surfing with google earth would show.
But the melting slag comment sounds like something last heard around these parts just before Desert Storm.
Even if NK used one of the Nukes, there is no way the US would respond in kind. We know which way the wind blows, and it would not be necessary.
One does not "pull a boat" into Oalkand or LA without the US already knowing what is on it and where it came from.
In exchange for fast customs clearance the US clears the vast majority of containers before the ship departs from foreign ports.
Its your equipment. Works perfectly for me.
What you call artifacting, I call dusty air.
What part do you consider "startling"?
Unless you have been on another planet for the last 5 years, these images are more of the same. I'll be "startled" when I see something truly different, or even tracks in the sand. That kitten jumping over a rock due in the middle distance due east at maximum resolution is a tad odd, but other than that there is not much startling or unique here if you've been a fan of rover missions.
Wait till the next dust storm comes along. Not so clear then.
Yeah, but then what do you do when you work for a company with 192.168.0.0 merging with another company using the same range? Does it matter if they already both had 10.0.0.0 reserved and in use?
You are merging. Its time to do it right, as disruption is expected at this time.
Back in the day, this was a tough nut to crack, but not anymore. I've actually had to do this a few times in my day job.
If you have already NATed both sites (the most probable case), you simply look to your DHCP server, and manually fix any reservations that were made for things that need statics (an ever decreasing number of things these days), then simply revise the DHCP server to use a new range in 10.x.x. Do it at midnight and everybody will be moved by morning as leases expire. 10 is big enough that you can handle everything even with multiple DHCP servers handling different ranges all within 10, but a mask big enough to reach everyone.
If you were manually assigning statics at workstations you deserve all the pain that might inflict.
Its a lot easier nowadays, since most small routers will serve DHCP and people don't do the manual assignments any more because of the lack of a DHCP router. I remember well the days when disjoint agencies and offices were not on a common network, and each little office tended to have their own little network, often with no Wide Area Connection. People almost always manually assigned IPs in those days. It was a mess. (Alaska State government was a prime example. It took years for state network Admins to get little office on line.)
The ban on cell phones in the air is imposed by the FCC, not the FAA. Its because a cell phone a mile above the ground can light up every cell tower in a 25 mile circle ant the hand off and registration systems were never designed for this.
Unless you have a theory as to why radio waves might work differently at altitude, I can't see this as significant.