I'm all for finding more efficient ways to do things but we can likely realize much greater benefit from the traditional financial institutions cleaninp up their act than from halting the wasteful mining of bitcoins.
These things are not mutually exclusive. We have to accept neither stupid shit like BitCoin, nor are we forced to accept the corrupt banking industry. Seems however, we'd rather keep both and play the fool on both ends.
It would make me happy for BitCoiners to get a basic common sense education and join reality rather than continuing to push it.
Every time I see a wanna-be geek proclaim the greatness of BitCoin I die a little inside.
You should ask the people of the B-Ark how well their unlimited currency worked out for them. As I recall, before the drastic measures kicked in, it took roughly 3 forests in order to buy one ships peanut.
Of course those useless bastards in the B-Ark are the ones who survived, while everyone else on Golgafrincham died as an indirect result of dirty telephones.
Get The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Read it, get the point of that particular bit of the story.
They disrupt the flow of electricity in active circuits. You'll have to reboot your phone, and the tower will need to as well. Your data will still be there just like it was before.
This isn't the matrix or some other hollywood movie. EMPs are disruptive but not tragic unless you happen to be in say one of the newer aircraft that are 100% fly by wire or no chance of manual control. Your car probably won't even stop running if you're in motion and its builtin resets kick in fast enough.
Just because they call Kim Jong Un 'Great Leader' or whatever doesn't mean that the ones who can actually carry out military orders are also his age and as irrational.
And he's no longer in his 20's, but his 30's.
And they've not YET fired a shot, they have in recent years actually fired artillery shells, hit South Korean soil and killed South Koreans.
Uhm, just for reference. Saddam was intentionally misleading THE WORLD into thinking he had WMDs to avoid having Iran invade and wipe him out. Unfortunately, the US did it instead, so he was screwed either way.
The point however is that at no point to Iraq claim not to have WMDs. They were in fact bragging about having them on their own televisions statements and intentionally 'leaking' videos of 'secret meetings' where he would talk about the various weapons they had... just so Iran would think they had them.
You can argue for/against invading them all day long and thats another story, but your utterly and completely ignorant of the actual WMD situation in Iraq before the war.
Let me give you this really important hint. Fox news isn't the only one thats full of shit.
Do you know why we think N. Korea has WMD? Because they are telling us they do to scare Seoul and for posturing in general.
Do you know why we thought Iraqi had WMDs? BECAUSE THEY WERE TELLING US THEY DID TO SCARE IRAN AND POLITICAL POSTURING.
While you might think WMD in Iraq was a Bush excuse to go in, the truth of the matter is that the same kind of shit Kim is pulling was done by Saddam before we went in as well. If you weren't so concerned with your politics you'd know this, hell there is video documentation of Saddam talking about his WMDs on broadcast television as well as other 'intentionally leaked' tapes so he could try and avoid having Iran run over his ass. The end result is that it kept Iran out, but we called his bluff.
No, but not all nukes are the same size. Some are less dirty than others. Most importantly... 'fall out' doesn't effect the world anything like you've seen on TV or read on the Internet/seen in Fallout the game.
This is nothing more than a head mounted smartphone, with less features.
It'll probably take a bit of time in the hands of some crazy members of the public before we see any really innovative things out of this.
Personally, I don't see the big deal, its really just a head mounted smarth phone. Just a slightly different form factor, but due to its single display, a bad one unless you like headaches. But... thats usually said a lot just before something groundbreaking happens:)
So if you can't view the photo IDs... that means you can't use them for sending to anyone else to opt me out... so why are you even storing them or asking for them? Do you fax out encrypted images for your users or something and expect some sort of fax-decrypter on the other end? Or is this some new quantum computing attribute where magically only the intended person can see it, because it exists in both an encrypted and decrypted superposition state?
In fact, marriage is one of the fastest and easiest paths to a green card.
Not sure what decade you're living in, but that hasn't been true for years. Since every one 'thinks' thats the easy route... guess which one they had to clamp down on?
Let me give you a hint, if you're getting your PhD so you can 'get a good job', you don't understand what you're doing.
You get a PhD in a field because you're retardedly in love with the field to the point that you don't care about being amazingly wasteful and throwing away large sums of time and money JUST to learn more about the subject. Ph.Ds are ENTIRELY ACADEMIC EXERCISES with VERY LITTLE PRACTICAL VALUE in almost every case when they don't entirely revolve around an almost unhealthy obsession with learning more about a specific subject for your own personal enjoyment. A precious few people are actually doing PhD programs that will be more than a way for the school to rape them.
Yes, the leaders of the fields have PhDs. The PhDs had nothing to do with making them leaders in their fields, they are simply artifacts associated with that type of person. The PhD doesn't make the man, they just are side effects of the process.
If you get a PhD because of what job it might land you, you are either in Academia or wasting your time. Its probably because a bunch of people who haven't ever had a real job outside of Academia told you it was 'required', but that doesn't make it any better. Might as well ask your insurance sales man if you need insurance.
Let me start with, so we're clear, I'm an american engineer.
Bring back long term contracts for STEM employees at high wages
Go fuck yourself. This arrogant attitude is EXACTLY what lead this situation you put yourself in. You are not special, you are not unique, you do not make the world go round, you do not deserve 'high wages' just 'because'. With RARE exceptions, it is not a job that is dangerous, the only real stress is entirely self induced in 99.5% of the IT workers in existence, and almost all of you have this retarded opinion that you are magically worth a metric fuckton of money each year because you know how to use a computer.
Guess what. In 1980, you would have been worth money with what you know now because no one else knew it. Now... my 8 year old can probably code you under the table (and me too for that matter). There are 15 people more qualified than you who want your job and are happy to do it for 1/10th as much because its FAR better than what they are doing now. And thousands more who can do it just like you for less still.
The days where you were something special are 20 years over, you're a commodity now. Deal with it or we will replace you and you'll regret being such an arrogant idiot. You will be replaced, they may not come to America and take your job, the jobs will just move there and then you'll be doubly fucked. It will be well deserved. There is no reason that these jobs have to be done on this particular plot of land.
Adapt or die. Hint: You're going the die route currently.
Google pays the tax rate for employees. They pay income tax for employees based on the cost of those meals. Last I heard, it was about $4500 a year. They pay this at smaller campuses. At larger ones, a deal negotiated with the IRS allows them to be exempt since it would take 'too long' to travel off campus to eat.
Google then pays a lump sum to the employee to compensate them for the tax liability at the end of the year.
Google is paying the tax in every single way the government requires and has even talked to them about it to get to where they are.
I don't have any idea how you can say they are dodging taxes, they freaking report the meals AS INCOME and paying to the IRS for that amount.
And your paycheck comes from someone elses tax dollars... and that was the point. Its ironic to bitch about people not paying taxes when your check comes from those taxes. While it doesn't in this specific case, the general point remains valid.
The app basically allows you to pay between $4k and tens of thousands of dollars to 'buy' a slot in the apple top downloads rankings for a day.
You give AppGratis 10K, and they tell you to put your app to $0 on next tuesday. Come tuesday you do your part, they notify a bunch of accounts (some real, some fake) about your app, these accounts then go download your free app, you climb up to number 80 on Apples charts for the day. The next day you put your price back up to something non-zero and hope that word of mouth and visibility give you an increased sales rate.
THAT is the problem. Its manipulating the market numbers based on who pays the most. It's buying a spot on the rankings that people think are generated by some form of actual popularity. Its a lie.
You would be pissed if Apple said '$100k gets you #1 app for a day, sign up here!' wouldn't you?
Yes, cause having Google spying shoved down your throat is way better than having an app who's sole existence was so that people could get recommendations on apps to try... based on who paid the most money.
Seriously? Are you fucking stupid? There are plenty of reasons to pick on Apple and point out their mistakes but you've utterly failed to get it on this one.
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I'm all for finding more efficient ways to do things but we can likely realize much greater benefit from the traditional financial institutions cleaninp up their act than from halting the wasteful mining of bitcoins.
These things are not mutually exclusive. We have to accept neither stupid shit like BitCoin, nor are we forced to accept the corrupt banking industry. Seems however, we'd rather keep both and play the fool on both ends.
It would make me happy for BitCoiners to get a basic common sense education and join reality rather than continuing to push it.
Every time I see a wanna-be geek proclaim the greatness of BitCoin I die a little inside.
You should ask the people of the B-Ark how well their unlimited currency worked out for them. As I recall, before the drastic measures kicked in, it took roughly 3 forests in order to buy one ships peanut.
Of course those useless bastards in the B-Ark are the ones who survived, while everyone else on Golgafrincham died as an indirect result of dirty telephones.
Get The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Read it, get the point of that particular bit of the story.
Or, they could just not produce the power and save themselves the inefficiency of playing in ponzi scheme they have no chance of gaining from.
You can do fractional-reserve banking with gold coins, barrels of oil, strawberries, or any other commodity.
No, actually you can't.
Fractional reserve banking, much like bitcoin, requires extensive use of imaginary things in order for it to even pretend to appear good on paper.
You can not do fractional reserve banking with real physical items by definition.
it's a rounding error.
So is every car on the planet, but that doesn't mean we don't consider the output of those cars, does it?
Little things tend to add up quickly when you're paying absolutely no attention to efficiency.
FAIL ... yes, I know, if you're going to edit troll it helps if you can post a properly written post yourself ... I failed :(
It addressed three vulnerabilities in the Windows Kernel-Mode Driver
The? When did their become ONE 'driver' for all of windows?
Not that its the editor or submitters fault, its that way in the actual KB article.
Apparently MS has hired the slashdot guys to edit/approve new knowledge base entires.
sigh
EMP's don't "wipe out" electronics.
They disrupt the flow of electricity in active circuits. You'll have to reboot your phone, and the tower will need to as well. Your data will still be there just like it was before.
This isn't the matrix or some other hollywood movie. EMPs are disruptive but not tragic unless you happen to be in say one of the newer aircraft that are 100% fly by wire or no chance of manual control. Your car probably won't even stop running if you're in motion and its builtin resets kick in fast enough.
Just because they call Kim Jong Un 'Great Leader' or whatever doesn't mean that the ones who can actually carry out military orders are also his age and as irrational.
And he's no longer in his 20's, but his 30's.
And they've not YET fired a shot, they have in recent years actually fired artillery shells, hit South Korean soil and killed South Koreans.
Uhm, just for reference. Saddam was intentionally misleading THE WORLD into thinking he had WMDs to avoid having Iran invade and wipe him out. Unfortunately, the US did it instead, so he was screwed either way.
The point however is that at no point to Iraq claim not to have WMDs. They were in fact bragging about having them on their own televisions statements and intentionally 'leaking' videos of 'secret meetings' where he would talk about the various weapons they had ... just so Iran would think they had them.
You can argue for/against invading them all day long and thats another story, but your utterly and completely ignorant of the actual WMD situation in Iraq before the war.
Let me give you this really important hint. Fox news isn't the only one thats full of shit.
Do you know why we think N. Korea has WMD? Because they are telling us they do to scare Seoul and for posturing in general.
Do you know why we thought Iraqi had WMDs? BECAUSE THEY WERE TELLING US THEY DID TO SCARE IRAN AND POLITICAL POSTURING.
While you might think WMD in Iraq was a Bush excuse to go in, the truth of the matter is that the same kind of shit Kim is pulling was done by Saddam before we went in as well. If you weren't so concerned with your politics you'd know this, hell there is video documentation of Saddam talking about his WMDs on broadcast television as well as other 'intentionally leaked' tapes so he could try and avoid having Iran run over his ass. The end result is that it kept Iran out, but we called his bluff.
No, but not all nukes are the same size. Some are less dirty than others. Most importantly ... 'fall out' doesn't effect the world anything like you've seen on TV or read on the Internet/seen in Fallout the game.
This is nothing more than a head mounted smartphone, with less features.
It'll probably take a bit of time in the hands of some crazy members of the public before we see any really innovative things out of this.
Personally, I don't see the big deal, its really just a head mounted smarth phone. Just a slightly different form factor, but due to its single display, a bad one unless you like headaches. But ... thats usually said a lot just before something groundbreaking happens :)
So if you can't view the photo IDs ... that means you can't use them for sending to anyone else to opt me out ... so why are you even storing them or asking for them? Do you fax out encrypted images for your users or something and expect some sort of fax-decrypter on the other end? Or is this some new quantum computing attribute where magically only the intended person can see it, because it exists in both an encrypted and decrypted superposition state?
In fact, marriage is one of the fastest and easiest paths to a green card.
Not sure what decade you're living in, but that hasn't been true for years. Since every one 'thinks' thats the easy route ... guess which one they had to clamp down on?
Let me give you a hint, if you're getting your PhD so you can 'get a good job', you don't understand what you're doing.
You get a PhD in a field because you're retardedly in love with the field to the point that you don't care about being amazingly wasteful and throwing away large sums of time and money JUST to learn more about the subject. Ph.Ds are ENTIRELY ACADEMIC EXERCISES with VERY LITTLE PRACTICAL VALUE in almost every case when they don't entirely revolve around an almost unhealthy obsession with learning more about a specific subject for your own personal enjoyment. A precious few people are actually doing PhD programs that will be more than a way for the school to rape them.
Yes, the leaders of the fields have PhDs. The PhDs had nothing to do with making them leaders in their fields, they are simply artifacts associated with that type of person. The PhD doesn't make the man, they just are side effects of the process.
If you get a PhD because of what job it might land you, you are either in Academia or wasting your time. Its probably because a bunch of people who haven't ever had a real job outside of Academia told you it was 'required', but that doesn't make it any better. Might as well ask your insurance sales man if you need insurance.
Let me start with, so we're clear, I'm an american engineer.
Bring back long term contracts for STEM employees at high wages
Go fuck yourself. This arrogant attitude is EXACTLY what lead this situation you put yourself in. You are not special, you are not unique, you do not make the world go round, you do not deserve 'high wages' just 'because'. With RARE exceptions, it is not a job that is dangerous, the only real stress is entirely self induced in 99.5% of the IT workers in existence, and almost all of you have this retarded opinion that you are magically worth a metric fuckton of money each year because you know how to use a computer.
Guess what. In 1980, you would have been worth money with what you know now because no one else knew it. Now ... my 8 year old can probably code you under the table (and me too for that matter). There are 15 people more qualified than you who want your job and are happy to do it for 1/10th as much because its FAR better than what they are doing now. And thousands more who can do it just like you for less still.
The days where you were something special are 20 years over, you're a commodity now. Deal with it or we will replace you and you'll regret being such an arrogant idiot. You will be replaced, they may not come to America and take your job, the jobs will just move there and then you'll be doubly fucked. It will be well deserved. There is no reason that these jobs have to be done on this particular plot of land.
Adapt or die. Hint: You're going the die route currently.
Google pays the tax rate for employees. They pay income tax for employees based on the cost of those meals. Last I heard, it was about $4500 a year. They pay this at smaller campuses. At larger ones, a deal negotiated with the IRS allows them to be exempt since it would take 'too long' to travel off campus to eat.
Google then pays a lump sum to the employee to compensate them for the tax liability at the end of the year.
Google is paying the tax in every single way the government requires and has even talked to them about it to get to where they are.
I don't have any idea how you can say they are dodging taxes, they freaking report the meals AS INCOME and paying to the IRS for that amount.
Okay, lets take away the tax dollars.
How's he eating now that no student can afford to go to school and pay the ridiculous amounts required by places like UF?
And your paycheck comes from someone elses tax dollars ... and that was the point. Its ironic to bitch about people not paying taxes when your check comes from those taxes. While it doesn't in this specific case, the general point remains valid.
So where's the coffee tax for office coffee? The delivered/bottled water tax? Soda tax?
What if they paid their employees in TVs or cars, should that be tax free?
We tax cars for personal use. We dont' tax food for personal use.
The app basically allows you to pay between $4k and tens of thousands of dollars to 'buy' a slot in the apple top downloads rankings for a day.
You give AppGratis 10K, and they tell you to put your app to $0 on next tuesday. Come tuesday you do your part, they notify a bunch of accounts (some real, some fake) about your app, these accounts then go download your free app, you climb up to number 80 on Apples charts for the day. The next day you put your price back up to something non-zero and hope that word of mouth and visibility give you an increased sales rate.
THAT is the problem. Its manipulating the market numbers based on who pays the most. It's buying a spot on the rankings that people think are generated by some form of actual popularity. Its a lie.
You would be pissed if Apple said '$100k gets you #1 app for a day, sign up here!' wouldn't you?
Yes, cause having Google spying shoved down your throat is way better than having an app who's sole existence was so that people could get recommendations on apps to try ... based on who paid the most money.
Seriously? Are you fucking stupid? There are plenty of reasons to pick on Apple and point out their mistakes but you've utterly failed to get it on this one.
Apple has never used the 'killswitch', the was Amazon, crawl back in your basement and put your tinfoil hat back on.
What world do you live in that makes sense?
You're arguing that Apple is petty for telling you that throwing a petty temper tantrum in public won't help you?
Seriously?