Well, hardware aside, there's also the fact that the iPad 2 is running that stinking hippo carcass rotting in the field that's called IOS. Someone please, for the love of god, put IOS out of it's misery. It's such an antiquated, creaky piece of shit. Apple really needs to catch up with modern user interfaces. Fisher Price UI went out of style years ago.
Citation needed, otherwise you're full of shit. Almost none of what you listed takes BitCoin natively; you have to convert to USD or other Government Backed currency before buying those services.
Everything I listed in my original post was purchased with BTC natively. Some of the links listed above are native, some are gift cards, which, as far as I know, no corporation has (yet) been able to get their gift cards backed by the government.
The quoted post said the only way to spend BTC was to buy illegal things on Silk Road (completely false) or convert to Government Backed Currency (also completely false).
So please, stop lying and spreading misinformation. If you are really just ignorant instead of a lying sack of shit, then please stop posting until you get even a modicum of accurate information.
Actually no. I'd like more important debates, like about the U.S. debt ceiling, the Oslo bombings or Lulzsec activities.
Umm, with the exception of the latter, why don't you go read CNN.com or something? If I wanted to read about the US deb ceiling or the Oslo bombings, Slashdot is not exactly the place I'd think of first. I'd have to be pretty stupid to expect those kinds of stories to appear on a tech news site.
Good luck going into a Bureau de Change and coming away with something for your bitcoins.
Good luck going into a Bureau de Change and coming away with something for your stamp collection.
WTF... why go to a supermarket to buy a lawnmower? You'd go to a hardware store. Why go to a Bureau de Change to exchange a digital currency? Go to a digital exchange.
No, regular, government backed money is still more valuable. For one, I can actually buy things with my government backed money. To buy things with BitCoin, either I have to use Silk Road, which for the most part, only deals in drugs and other illegal and quasi-legal things, or I have to.... convert them to government backed currency.
Wow, you are one misinformed motherfucker. But you go on believing that; I'll enjoy my pair of 6990's, ERM-2K3UCU, dental work (well, maybe I won't "enjoy it"), gift cards, products from Amazon and Newegg, laptop, Steam games, computer case, among many other things that I am using and have purchased with Bitcoins. I've never been to the Silk Road site.
BTC is far, far more convenient than Paypal. However, there is a drawback and that is lack of an escrow/accountability device for sending BTC... but if you're dealing with a company, the worry is far less and I'd much rather use BTC to pay for online services than provide my credit card, much less have to go through PP.
So... in short, please buy a clue (either with your government back currency or BTC) before typing on your little keyboard.
iPhone users have never been the sharpest tools in the shed to begin with...
I mean, they think a Fisher-Price interface model is the best thing since sliced bread. Do you really think they are sophisticated enough to understand something as complex as 4G (when compared to their Fisher Price toys?)
I just... Uh... christ. It's just too much to contradict you since it's completely obvious you've read absolutely nothing about Bitcoins and how they work. You, quite literally, hit every single problem that's already been addressed in the FAQ on the head. I don't think you missed a single point. Reading *just* the FAQ would have answered every question/debunked every comment you made. You couldn't even be bothered to do that, huh?
Everything you just wrote is a steaming pile and 100% false/inaccurate.
Why is this on/.? For people who thought (like "Good Morning America") that AOL was synonymous with "Internet" it might be appropriate but for the rest of us (and the early adopters of Slashdot) it was IRC and ICQ. We laughed at AOL and most of us tried to get any friends off of it as quickly as possible. Some of us even started local ISPs just so they could actually get onto the Internet. This sort of article might be appropriate for the New Yorker or Wall Street Journal but for Slashdot it's drivel.
Uhh... yeah I would have to agree with you. I didn't think AIM was very popular, at least not at the level this stupid article makes out to be. ICQ was the top IM client in the 90's. Everyone had an ICQ number, I knew very few people with an AIM handle. You could guarantee that if someone used IM they used ICQ. The same could not be said for any other client.
IRC was never terribly popular with the "mainstream," though. Just us tech geeks.
The transaction itself is not even traceable to an IP. If you visit a website and make a purchase and they give you a wallet ID to send money to, then they might have an IP that is tangentially related to the transaction.
However, if you publish a wallet ID in a newspaper or perhaps put up a billboard or communicate the wallet ID by some method that is untraceable, and someone decides to send money to that wallet ID, you will have no idea what IP, person, thing, etc... sent the funds and no way to get that information.
Among other things, the article makes two claims about Bitcoin: one, that the coins are untraceable, and two, that because each transaction is cryptographically signed, you can verify the chain of ownership of any Bitcoins you are given.
Doesn't the second point contradict the first?
Hi,
Please trace this wallet: 18rh6LBTtJVzLBmCMgm7G1xZE6RUqWPwnd
Tell me who it is, how to find them, where they are... in fact, tell me anything about them other than that wallet 18rh6LBTtJVzLBmCMgm7G1xZE6RUqWPwnd has received X number of coins and sent Y number of coins.
The only thing you can do with a Bitcoin is say it was received or sent by a wallet ID. If that wallet ID is only used once (to either receive or send) then what good is it to you? Even if it's used regularly and you can trace the goings in and goings out of a particular wallet, who is it? Where are they? You can choose your level of anonymity. Use TOR or a public terminal to conduct the transaction with a website, now even your IP is anonymous if it's somehow linked to the wallet.
bitcoin is designed to have "diminishing returns" in terms of bitcoin generation. ie: the longer the project goes on, the fewer new bitcoins will be generated. This ignores that the longer the project goes on, especially if it is successful, the fewer bitcoins will usefully exist. ie: not just a counter that says how many bitcoins exist, but the number of bitcoins which are valid and usable, as opposed to being lost due to lost keys, etc.
You seem to forget the fact that Bitcoins are divisible to at least 8 decimal places. So even if there is only 1 bit coin in the world, it could be divided among millions of addresses.
Even if 1 BTC = 10,000 USD, I could buy something for.00001 BTC.
You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future.
Only an idiot would not be able to help themselves think that all programming will be done like this in the future. Even most programming would be an incredible leap of logic and faith.
Drag and drop programming is good for simplistic solutions to simplistic problems. It will never replace traditional programming for complex systems. I hate to say never, but when talking about a system like this, it just simply isn't designed for doing anything complex, because the moment a program gets complex to a system like this would be even more complex to use and maintain than a traditional programming language, making it a hindrance rather than an asset.
All programming done like this in the future indeed.
For anyone into flight or racing sims three monitors gives a massive boost and some users are moving to 3+ montiors to handle additional data.
A large number of users in the iRacing and rFactor communities are moving to 3 monitors as it provides vital peripheral vision when racing against others and really adds to the immersion. However whilst I use it when racing if I am playing other games I drop back to a single monitor as there is no real benefit.
I could totally see where it would be beneficial in those scenarios. I don't play any of those sorts of games unfortunately, though. I've tried to get FSX to run on the 3 (actually 4) monitors, but FSX is just soooo poorly programmed that it can barely run at more than a slideshow on two monitors, much less 4. This with 2x 480GTX's.
In the 230V world, individual outlets are usually expected to handle up to 10A (Australia) or 13A (UK), which is 2300VA (not exactly 2300W) or 2990VA. This does not (usually) set our houses on fire:) Do you really think it would do so?
Well, there are 350+ million people at a minimum that are in the 110v world. My computer draws more than 10 amps with everything at full blast... I can't remember the exact amount as it's been nearly a year since I metered it. Adding another computer or turning something on will overload the 15 amp circuit. If you have an older house with older wiring, it's a danger. I'm not saying it's likely, but it's certainly not out of the realm of a reasonable concern.
What kind of ham fisted simian is incapable of using a touch screen smart phone with one hand? I can do all the required features of my Galaxy S just fine with one hand. I can't imagine a situation where this is required unless you are just too uncoordinated to exist in modern society.
However, perhaps iOS is indeed too clunky to use with one hand. Perhaps he should just consider upgrading to a modern smartphone OS instead of sticking with a 5 year old piece of crap.
Having a triple monitor 30" set up and having played games at 7680x1600, I've come to the conclusion for me personally that it's not worth the hassle. I have since gone back to single monitor game play for a number of reasons... some mentioned in the article, some not.
1. The fisheye on the side monitors if very pronounced. It's tolerable, but looks goofy. 2. There's a lot of screen restate, for FPSs, this is actually a hindrance. Having to move your eyes too much causes response lag and you become less competitive. For non-FPS games, things become a bit more useful, though... however, most non-FPS games don't support resolutions that high, so it becomes moot. 3. Those that do (Civ 5, sorta), things look odd. Since I only have a pair of 480GTXs driving the setup, things are also pretty laggy in the few non-FPS games that support that high of a resolution. 4. Power consumption... Even my system, as opposed to a single or dual 6990 system, draws more than 1400 watts from the wall with the graphics cards at max and all three monitors running. Throwing a 6990 or two onto that would approach 2kw power consumption; there is home wiring that won't support that, as the amp limit on a circuit is typically 15 amps. You are, seriously, risking setting your house on fire if you have anything other than your computer plugged into that circuit.
For me personally, I'd need a pair of 6990's to drive all three monitors at an acceptable frame rate and that's not something I'm willing to shell out for given my disappointment with the current state of games and their support of extreme resolutions. Until game designers decide (if they ever do) to support crazy resolutions and aspect ratios, it's really a pointless exercise, at least for me. I'll probably be sticking to 1 monitor gaming for the foreseeable future and save my other two monitors for actual work.
I thought it was 7 years, not 3 years? Has the law changed in the last decade or two? I haven't really kept up with that, since I've been keeping things for 7 years. Would be nice to throw out an additional 4 years worth of crap.
If you have a court case which requires the documents, I'm pretty sure that printing out your electronic copy won't really work, because you could have easily modified it while it was stored there.
To answer original question - I have a big file. Sometimes I prefer having something physical that can be brought out as proof.
I've never had a problem bringing my printed documents to court. I digitize everything now and I've had to take a few documents to court now and then for various reasons, the judge has never batted an eye. One case involved a contract and it was a digitized copy of the contract, no problems at all.
YMMV of course, but since I see many large businesses digitizing everything, including signed documents and digitized copies of cancelled checks are valid proof I'd say you'd probably be fine.
So basically the shoe is now on the other foot and someone/people have now done to Sony what Sony has been doing to the public for years now. Namely, stealing their information, compromising their computer systems and causing general havoc within the household due to poorly or maliciously designed objects.
Yeah, I think I would be. I've not found any movie yet where 3D has really added to the story in any meaningful way. Maybe someone will find a vehicle for it, but up to this point it hasn't added anything for me personally.
I finally can say definitively, for myself, that 3D is just a big snore fest. I saw Thor in 3D a couple days ago and the 3D added absolutely nothing at all to the movie. I would have been fine seeing it in 2D. I've been paying extra for the 3D version of movies for awhile now and I kept coming away with a less than enthusiastic appreciation for 3D in movies. With Thor, I've finally decided that I'm not going to pay extra for 3D anymore. There is just nothing there to compell a rational person to pay extra for it. If it's just part of the movie, great, I'll watch it, but I'm not paying for it anymore.
Thor having a meh ending didn't help either, but a movie review is another story in itself.
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I'll continue to not buy it EVEN HARDER.
For god sakes man, don't sprain anything!
What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?
Best Line Ever.
Well, hardware aside, there's also the fact that the iPad 2 is running that stinking hippo carcass rotting in the field that's called IOS. Someone please, for the love of god, put IOS out of it's misery. It's such an antiquated, creaky piece of shit. Apple really needs to catch up with modern user interfaces. Fisher Price UI went out of style years ago.
Citation needed, otherwise you're full of shit. Almost none of what you listed takes BitCoin natively; you have to convert to USD or other Government Backed currency before buying those services.
You are a lying sack of shit
Everything I listed in my original post was purchased with BTC natively. Some of the links listed above are native, some are gift cards, which, as far as I know, no corporation has (yet) been able to get their gift cards backed by the government.
The quoted post said the only way to spend BTC was to buy illegal things on Silk Road (completely false) or convert to Government Backed Currency (also completely false).
So please, stop lying and spreading misinformation. If you are really just ignorant instead of a lying sack of shit, then please stop posting until you get even a modicum of accurate information.
Actually no. I'd like more important debates, like about the U.S. debt ceiling, the Oslo bombings or Lulzsec activities.
Umm, with the exception of the latter, why don't you go read CNN.com or something? If I wanted to read about the US deb ceiling or the Oslo bombings, Slashdot is not exactly the place I'd think of first. I'd have to be pretty stupid to expect those kinds of stories to appear on a tech news site.
Really? Can only buy useless crap with them? Gee, I got a pile of silver that cost me pennies on the dollar using bitcoins. /shrug
Yeah, and these two XFX 6990's I have are worthless, too. Replaced my even more worthless 480GTX's!
Since 6990's are worthless, would the GP mind sending me a few?
Good luck going into a Bureau de Change and coming away with something for your bitcoins.
Good luck going into a Bureau de Change and coming away with something for your stamp collection.
WTF... why go to a supermarket to buy a lawnmower? You'd go to a hardware store. Why go to a Bureau de Change to exchange a digital currency? Go to a digital exchange.
No, regular, government backed money is still more valuable. For one, I can actually buy things with my government backed money. To buy things with BitCoin, either I have to use Silk Road, which for the most part, only deals in drugs and other illegal and quasi-legal things, or I have to.... convert them to government backed currency.
Wow, you are one misinformed motherfucker. But you go on believing that; I'll enjoy my pair of 6990's, ERM-2K3UCU, dental work (well, maybe I won't "enjoy it"), gift cards, products from Amazon and Newegg, laptop, Steam games, computer case, among many other things that I am using and have purchased with Bitcoins. I've never been to the Silk Road site.
BTC is far, far more convenient than Paypal. However, there is a drawback and that is lack of an escrow/accountability device for sending BTC... but if you're dealing with a company, the worry is far less and I'd much rather use BTC to pay for online services than provide my credit card, much less have to go through PP.
So... in short, please buy a clue (either with your government back currency or BTC) before typing on your little keyboard.
iPhone users have never been the sharpest tools in the shed to begin with...
I mean, they think a Fisher-Price interface model is the best thing since sliced bread. Do you really think they are sophisticated enough to understand something as complex as 4G (when compared to their Fisher Price toys?)
I just... Uh... christ. It's just too much to contradict you since it's completely obvious you've read absolutely nothing about Bitcoins and how they work. You, quite literally, hit every single problem that's already been addressed in the FAQ on the head. I don't think you missed a single point. Reading *just* the FAQ would have answered every question/debunked every comment you made. You couldn't even be bothered to do that, huh?
Everything you just wrote is a steaming pile and 100% false/inaccurate.
Why is this on /.? For people who thought (like "Good Morning America") that AOL was synonymous with "Internet" it might be appropriate but for the rest of us (and the early adopters of Slashdot) it was IRC and ICQ. We laughed at AOL and most of us tried to get any friends off of it as quickly as possible. Some of us even started local ISPs just so they could actually get onto the Internet. This sort of article might be appropriate for the New Yorker or Wall Street Journal but for Slashdot it's drivel.
Uhh... yeah I would have to agree with you. I didn't think AIM was very popular, at least not at the level this stupid article makes out to be. ICQ was the top IM client in the 90's. Everyone had an ICQ number, I knew very few people with an AIM handle. You could guarantee that if someone used IM they used ICQ. The same could not be said for any other client.
IRC was never terribly popular with the "mainstream," though. Just us tech geeks.
This whole story is a load of bunk.
The transaction itself is not even traceable to an IP. If you visit a website and make a purchase and they give you a wallet ID to send money to, then they might have an IP that is tangentially related to the transaction.
However, if you publish a wallet ID in a newspaper or perhaps put up a billboard or communicate the wallet ID by some method that is untraceable, and someone decides to send money to that wallet ID, you will have no idea what IP, person, thing, etc... sent the funds and no way to get that information.
Ok... mtgox.com
Among other things, the article makes two claims about Bitcoin: one, that the coins are untraceable, and two, that because each transaction is cryptographically signed, you can verify the chain of ownership of any Bitcoins you are given.
Doesn't the second point contradict the first?
Hi,
Please trace this wallet: 18rh6LBTtJVzLBmCMgm7G1xZE6RUqWPwnd
Tell me who it is, how to find them, where they are... in fact, tell me anything about them other than that wallet 18rh6LBTtJVzLBmCMgm7G1xZE6RUqWPwnd has received X number of coins and sent Y number of coins.
The only thing you can do with a Bitcoin is say it was received or sent by a wallet ID. If that wallet ID is only used once (to either receive or send) then what good is it to you? Even if it's used regularly and you can trace the goings in and goings out of a particular wallet, who is it? Where are they? You can choose your level of anonymity. Use TOR or a public terminal to conduct the transaction with a website, now even your IP is anonymous if it's somehow linked to the wallet.
bitcoin is designed to have "diminishing returns" in terms of bitcoin generation. ie: the longer the project goes on, the fewer new bitcoins will be generated. This ignores that the longer the project goes on, especially if it is successful, the fewer bitcoins will usefully exist. ie: not just a counter that says how many bitcoins exist, but the number of bitcoins which are valid and usable, as opposed to being lost due to lost keys, etc.
You seem to forget the fact that Bitcoins are divisible to at least 8 decimal places. So even if there is only 1 bit coin in the world, it could be divided among millions of addresses.
Even if 1 BTC = 10,000 USD, I could buy something for .00001 BTC.
You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future.
Only an idiot would not be able to help themselves think that all programming will be done like this in the future. Even most programming would be an incredible leap of logic and faith.
Drag and drop programming is good for simplistic solutions to simplistic problems. It will never replace traditional programming for complex systems. I hate to say never, but when talking about a system like this, it just simply isn't designed for doing anything complex, because the moment a program gets complex to a system like this would be even more complex to use and maintain than a traditional programming language, making it a hindrance rather than an asset.
All programming done like this in the future indeed.
For anyone into flight or racing sims three monitors gives a massive boost and some users are moving to 3+ montiors to handle additional data.
A large number of users in the iRacing and rFactor communities are moving to 3 monitors as it provides vital peripheral vision when racing against others and really adds to the immersion. However whilst I use it when racing if I am playing other games I drop back to a single monitor as there is no real benefit.
I could totally see where it would be beneficial in those scenarios. I don't play any of those sorts of games unfortunately, though. I've tried to get FSX to run on the 3 (actually 4) monitors, but FSX is just soooo poorly programmed that it can barely run at more than a slideshow on two monitors, much less 4. This with 2x 480GTX's.
In the 230V world, individual outlets are usually expected to handle up to 10A (Australia) or 13A (UK), which is 2300VA (not exactly 2300W) or 2990VA. This does not (usually) set our houses on fire :) Do you really think it would do so?
Well, there are 350+ million people at a minimum that are in the 110v world. My computer draws more than 10 amps with everything at full blast... I can't remember the exact amount as it's been nearly a year since I metered it. Adding another computer or turning something on will overload the 15 amp circuit. If you have an older house with older wiring, it's a danger. I'm not saying it's likely, but it's certainly not out of the realm of a reasonable concern.
What kind of ham fisted simian is incapable of using a touch screen smart phone with one hand? I can do all the required features of my Galaxy S just fine with one hand. I can't imagine a situation where this is required unless you are just too uncoordinated to exist in modern society.
However, perhaps iOS is indeed too clunky to use with one hand. Perhaps he should just consider upgrading to a modern smartphone OS instead of sticking with a 5 year old piece of crap.
Having a triple monitor 30" set up and having played games at 7680x1600, I've come to the conclusion for me personally that it's not worth the hassle. I have since gone back to single monitor game play for a number of reasons... some mentioned in the article, some not.
1. The fisheye on the side monitors if very pronounced. It's tolerable, but looks goofy.
2. There's a lot of screen restate, for FPSs, this is actually a hindrance. Having to move your eyes too much causes response lag and you become less competitive. For non-FPS games, things become a bit more useful, though... however, most non-FPS games don't support resolutions that high, so it becomes moot.
3. Those that do (Civ 5, sorta), things look odd. Since I only have a pair of 480GTXs driving the setup, things are also pretty laggy in the few non-FPS games that support that high of a resolution.
4. Power consumption... Even my system, as opposed to a single or dual 6990 system, draws more than 1400 watts from the wall with the graphics cards at max and all three monitors running. Throwing a 6990 or two onto that would approach 2kw power consumption; there is home wiring that won't support that, as the amp limit on a circuit is typically 15 amps. You are, seriously, risking setting your house on fire if you have anything other than your computer plugged into that circuit.
For me personally, I'd need a pair of 6990's to drive all three monitors at an acceptable frame rate and that's not something I'm willing to shell out for given my disappointment with the current state of games and their support of extreme resolutions. Until game designers decide (if they ever do) to support crazy resolutions and aspect ratios, it's really a pointless exercise, at least for me. I'll probably be sticking to 1 monitor gaming for the foreseeable future and save my other two monitors for actual work.
I thought it was 7 years, not 3 years? Has the law changed in the last decade or two? I haven't really kept up with that, since I've been keeping things for 7 years. Would be nice to throw out an additional 4 years worth of crap.
If you have a court case which requires the documents, I'm pretty sure that printing out your electronic copy won't really work, because you could have easily modified it while it was stored there.
To answer original question - I have a big file. Sometimes I prefer having something physical that can be brought out as proof.
I've never had a problem bringing my printed documents to court. I digitize everything now and I've had to take a few documents to court now and then for various reasons, the judge has never batted an eye. One case involved a contract and it was a digitized copy of the contract, no problems at all.
YMMV of course, but since I see many large businesses digitizing everything, including signed documents and digitized copies of cancelled checks are valid proof I'd say you'd probably be fine.
So basically the shoe is now on the other foot and someone/people have now done to Sony what Sony has been doing to the public for years now. Namely, stealing their information, compromising their computer systems and causing general havoc within the household due to poorly or maliciously designed objects.
Boy, guess what I don't feel for Sony?
Yeah, I think I would be. I've not found any movie yet where 3D has really added to the story in any meaningful way. Maybe someone will find a vehicle for it, but up to this point it hasn't added anything for me personally.
I finally can say definitively, for myself, that 3D is just a big snore fest. I saw Thor in 3D a couple days ago and the 3D added absolutely nothing at all to the movie. I would have been fine seeing it in 2D. I've been paying extra for the 3D version of movies for awhile now and I kept coming away with a less than enthusiastic appreciation for 3D in movies. With Thor, I've finally decided that I'm not going to pay extra for 3D anymore. There is just nothing there to compell a rational person to pay extra for it. If it's just part of the movie, great, I'll watch it, but I'm not paying for it anymore.
Thor having a meh ending didn't help either, but a movie review is another story in itself.