The industrial use of Bitcoin is primarily as a medium of exchange. You give me your widget and I can sign over some Bitcoin to you. You can then sign it over to someone else for the thing or currency you want.
It also funcations as a signed message notary service protected by the strength of all the hardware and electricity that is securing the blockchain.
Bitcoin isn't great for jewelry though...you got me there.
There is nothing about Bitcoin that is fake. It's harder to counterfeit than a gold bar yet instantly assayable by anyone who downloads the software or checks with one of a few blockexplorer.com type servers out there.
Mind you, people will need to realize that their computers and their electricity may be being used by someone else to make money but if they're getting paid for it in some other way, that can be part of the deal. This announcement is about a way to get vitual in-game items for mining in an open, potentially full-disclosure way.
Other non-Bitcoin related uses of your computer that may be happening right now to make someone else money are to send spam, launch DDOS attacks, or host phishing websites.
Take a little time to read about it:https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/
If you like technology, there are many fascinating areas that Bitcoin brings together: p2p networks, cryptography, economics to name a few.
Regardless of the image problem Bitcoin has and people's propensity to denounce it based on what they've heard, it really is a revolutionary development. If the current Bitcoin network doesn't make it into your life, you can bet that one or many of its predecessors will.
One of the things it enables is fast global transactions. I created a site to sell digital downloads for Bitcoin called CoinDL: https://www.coindl.com/ and the processing time is averaging under 10 seconds which is pretty impressive considering there's no company, government or other centralized organization involved in the transfer.
Not to speculate too much but we've probably passed the peak of mining hardware being listed for sale. Due to difficulty decreases and recently increasing prices, you may see increasing prices on GPUs in the next month or two.
This. I think the author of the article is actually using dismissiveness as a device to disarm people. If he downplays it people perhaps won't feel as threatened. "It's crazy" but maybe it's true.
I would like some confirmation though that there really is NO other evidence of dark matter.
Perhaps even if this theory doesn't stand the test of time, it will highlight the actual reasons dark matter has grown to become so accepted in our understanding of galactic mechanics.
Even though this story posits a 0-day in OpenSSH as the culprit, I'm of the mind that free software with a strong patch and update system is as good as it gets. If you don't update your systems say because you don't want to break stuff, sorry but even non-0-days will bring you down. So on the sysadmin side, we're moving toward more specialization.
This sounds an awful lot like a bitcoin-style blockchain. There is of course no double-spending problem to solve but mining can go to pay for the cert-certifying nodes.
Some questions the fine article could have answered:
* What material was this fossil found in?
* Where was it found roughly?
* What theories exist for why it was so well preserved?
There is another variation of this problem that's worth mentioning that involves hosted services. Individuals in the company may be tempted to create unauthorized individual accounts on cloud services and put company information there. Like the OP could have created a bunch of calendar accounts for his coworkers on some popular service. This has the potential to be even messier than the rogue in-house server case as the data is likely already non-compliant by being on some other organization's servers.
Another more minor issue is if the company decides to use such a service and create logins linked to the domain name. In that case there may be account clashes whereby the users much jump through some hoops to access their rogue account as well as the official one since they may use the same email account to access both services.
This. I had a theory that reading one line all the way across a screen was more annoying two lines half-way across buit thanks/. for providing the evidence to prove my theory. Whatever you choose to do, I'm sure I'll get used to it...or else I'll turn to greasemonkey/Stylish.
I think you misread GS as MS. I've not noticed any anti-Goldman Sachs bias on Slashdot. Many other biases? Yes. Against GS? Not so much.
I just hope the yet-to-be-screwed foreign investors learn their lesson and disallow this type of investment shenanigans in the future. Zuckerberg's brazenness never ceases to amaze.
Was just looking for information about this operation from ICE and decided to take a look at the ICE Privacy and Usage policy. http://www.ice.gov/about/legal.htm... My favorite part, and yes it's understandable if someone actually attacks their site but it's always a question what constitutes an attack these days:
In certain circumstances, however, ICE may take additional steps to identify you based on this information and ICE may share this information, including your identity, with other agencies.
The views expressed by the stories and comments submitted on this site do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Geeknet or its subsidiaries. Or something like that...
There's no correlation between age of a product and security. If anything the older the project and more nebulous the code base, the less likely anyone inside Adobe even understands it all. I use sumatrapdf and evince so I'm not affected personally but I think the only hope is either replacement or freeing the source code for the product. From a business perspective, Adobe will only go and fix bugs that become a big enough PR disaster that they can't ignore them. There would also need to be a viable alternative to their products.
Similarly to how Microsoft has had to acknowledge OpenOffice, at some point hopefully GIMP and Inkscape and other creative tools will cause Adobe to address their own issues. The software industry has a serious lack of competition and without free software that closely mimics commercial products, it's hard to imagine anything improving substantially in the near future.
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The industrial use of Bitcoin is primarily as a medium of exchange. You give me your widget and I can sign over some Bitcoin to you. You can then sign it over to someone else for the thing or currency you want.
It also funcations as a signed message notary service protected by the strength of all the hardware and electricity that is securing the blockchain.
Bitcoin isn't great for jewelry though...you got me there.
There is nothing about Bitcoin that is fake. It's harder to counterfeit than a gold bar yet instantly assayable by anyone who downloads the software or checks with one of a few blockexplorer.com type servers out there.
Mind you, people will need to realize that their computers and their electricity may be being used by someone else to make money but if they're getting paid for it in some other way, that can be part of the deal. This announcement is about a way to get vitual in-game items for mining in an open, potentially full-disclosure way.
Other non-Bitcoin related uses of your computer that may be happening right now to make someone else money are to send spam, launch DDOS attacks, or host phishing websites.
Take a little time to read about it :https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/
If you like technology, there are many fascinating areas that Bitcoin brings together: p2p networks, cryptography, economics to name a few.
Regardless of the image problem Bitcoin has and people's propensity to denounce it based on what they've heard, it really is a revolutionary development. If the current Bitcoin network doesn't make it into your life, you can bet that one or many of its predecessors will.
One of the things it enables is fast global transactions. I created a site to sell digital downloads for Bitcoin called CoinDL: https://www.coindl.com/ and the processing time is averaging under 10 seconds which is pretty impressive considering there's no company, government or other centralized organization involved in the transfer.
Does anyone know how many of the 2000+ they've found have been in the "comfort zone"?
Not by growth in daily transactions: http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=
I wonder if they ever go from providing exploits to "remote controlled product support".
Not to speculate too much but we've probably passed the peak of mining hardware being listed for sale. Due to difficulty decreases and recently increasing prices, you may see increasing prices on GPUs in the next month or two.
This. I think the author of the article is actually using dismissiveness as a device to disarm people. If he downplays it people perhaps won't feel as threatened. "It's crazy" but maybe it's true.
I would like some confirmation though that there really is NO other evidence of dark matter.
Perhaps even if this theory doesn't stand the test of time, it will highlight the actual reasons dark matter has grown to become so accepted in our understanding of galactic mechanics.
Even though this story posits a 0-day in OpenSSH as the culprit, I'm of the mind that free software with a strong patch and update system is as good as it gets. If you don't update your systems say because you don't want to break stuff, sorry but even non-0-days will bring you down. So on the sysadmin side, we're moving toward more specialization.
On malware and free software: http://trygnulinux.com/action/?q=node/68
This sounds an awful lot like a bitcoin-style blockchain. There is of course no double-spending problem to solve but mining can go to pay for the cert-certifying nodes.
I will totally buy the DVD if they can have this sissy tower repeatedly destroyed by one or more Big Dogs.
Would becoming 'increasingly marginal as a place to live' include the Gulf of Mexico being taken over by a large, year-round, standing hurricane?
Some questions the fine article could have answered: * What material was this fossil found in? * Where was it found roughly? * What theories exist for why it was so well preserved?
Just after I registered peakscandium.com!
There is another variation of this problem that's worth mentioning that involves hosted services. Individuals in the company may be tempted to create unauthorized individual accounts on cloud services and put company information there. Like the OP could have created a bunch of calendar accounts for his coworkers on some popular service. This has the potential to be even messier than the rogue in-house server case as the data is likely already non-compliant by being on some other organization's servers.
Another more minor issue is if the company decides to use such a service and create logins linked to the domain name. In that case there may be account clashes whereby the users much jump through some hoops to access their rogue account as well as the official one since they may use the same email account to access both services.
Of course all the software through it is free (as in freedom).
All those miles of cat6, fiber, and aps are great but tell us more about the software! The only software mention in TFA was mobile apps. Me so sad.
This screenshot clearly shows the problem.
There is way too much whitespace including a single rectangle of pure
whitespace that takes up a full 30% of the rendered window!
This. I had a theory that reading one line all the way across a screen was more annoying two lines half-way across buit thanks /. for providing the evidence to prove my theory. Whatever you choose to do, I'm sure I'll get used to it...or else I'll turn to greasemonkey/Stylish.
I think you misread GS as MS. I've not noticed any anti-Goldman Sachs bias on Slashdot. Many other biases? Yes. Against GS? Not so much.
I just hope the yet-to-be-screwed foreign investors learn their lesson and disallow this type of investment shenanigans in the future. Zuckerberg's brazenness never ceases to amaze.
Was just looking for information about this operation from ICE and decided to take a look at the ICE Privacy and Usage policy. http://www.ice.gov/about/legal.htm ... My favorite part, and yes it's understandable if someone actually attacks their site but it's always a question what constitutes an attack these days:
In certain circumstances, however, ICE may take additional steps to identify you based on this information and ICE may share this information, including your identity, with other agencies.
Dear Nintendo,
Congratulations, your request for trademark of the phrase "It's on rike Donkey Kong" has been approved.
Sincerely,
The Trademark Office
1500 diodes, making a rate of 0.67 words per photo diode. Stunning, simply stunning. Also, marvelous.
The views expressed by the stories and comments submitted on this site do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Geeknet or its subsidiaries. Or something like that...
There's no correlation between age of a product and security. If anything the older the project and more nebulous the code base, the less likely anyone inside Adobe even understands it all. I use sumatrapdf and evince so I'm not affected personally but I think the only hope is either replacement or freeing the source code for the product. From a business perspective, Adobe will only go and fix bugs that become a big enough PR disaster that they can't ignore them. There would also need to be a viable alternative to their products.
Similarly to how Microsoft has had to acknowledge OpenOffice, at some point hopefully GIMP and Inkscape and other creative tools will cause Adobe to address their own issues. The software industry has a serious lack of competition and without free software that closely mimics commercial products, it's hard to imagine anything improving substantially in the near future.