Not that I count much on the wisdom of markets but I am curious about the relative timing of today's jump in BTC and the news of that ruling. A Bloomberg article dated today, on bitcoins risks did not mention this.
remember how Y2K was supposed to crash all civilization because bad code in the bowels of all infrastructure and control systems could not deal with the rollover from 1999 to 2000? That didn't happen much. I am still here. How is it that a 1 second error brings down a server?
The [cr]Appstore is going to do a pretty good QA job on the user interface. The backends can bite you in less obvious ways but crapware is crap because you think the answers it gives or the bills it sends stink:the dumb get dumped. Software that truly and immediately effects human safety and comes with no liability disclaimers is mighty hard to find. Who is going to use Swift for stuff that is sold/unleashed through outlets other than the Appstore? Let in the clowns.
I went to sleep when STDLIB and Posix would have done most of what I imagine containers will do. I wake up and Containers are here. Really, now; what is new here? VMness?
good question. If you have a laser strong enough to instantly ionize a patch of air between you and an exploding munition [we are talking milliseconds for the whole show here!] that itself must create a shock wave as the super-heated air expands more or less into what we would perceive as an explosion. I am hoping the Boeing Boeing engineers have some proof the cure is better than the disease, so to speak.
If you can shape the surface of the discontinuity in gas density by this method, you could cause a lensing effect that redirected the shock wave but you cannot get rid of energy by adding energy to it. If you manage to create an underpressure that coincides with the overpressure of the munition, that will happen at a certain point and will require an energy density on a par with the munition if you mean to protect by a cancellation of superimposed pressure waves. And watch out for your side lobes...the cancellation would be localized while elsewhere in the battle an addition would occur.
If they are 501 C(3), let them raise money the way the other charities do and get the hell off of my tax bill. I donate to police and firefighter charities but I make sure I know where my money is going.
and, Chrome so far, has a far better record on security patches and exploits than Windows. We'll see how long that holds up but if I had to choose what laptop to put into the hands of untechnical users, security would be a big factor.
I find this news of Chromebook stealing Windows market share has a "they have this coming to them" feeling. So Google has the bucks and the talent to make an OS and practically give it away. Ha Ha. For them, pushing the penetration of Internet use to the lowest strata is all they need because its the clicks, not the OS licenses that make their revenue.
I feel like its karma, like the demise of MS is deserved because, in spite of Bill Gates earlier public dismissal of the Internet as fad, MS came back with a brutal, loss-leader give-away of IE just to defend itself from its own hubris [and inadvertently polluting their own OS with "back orifices"]. Google may cut the legs from under MS but primarily because they know where their bread is buttered and they work to expand that...not because they need to damage the business model of a competitor.
That is sad. Fear and ignorance have always held progress, or just plain "pleasure of finding things out" in check. But that kind of info-conservatism was one problem our supposed American freedoms banished, and we have claimed, to our enormous advantage in standard of living. What are we now? A country where fear and ignorance are institutional and pervasive. You can't go underground for your supplies either since that will clearly indicate to the bureaucracy that you had nefarious intent. *sigh*
I remember reading in the [now discontinued] "Amateur Scientist" column that used to publish in Scientific American, a guide to how one could build a medium power infrared CO2 laser. Nowadays, just buying the parts would have DHS knocking on your door[or maybe they don't bother with knocking?]
i set my FB acct to require 2FA if its accessed from an "unfamiliar" device. Yes, I need to be carrying my phone to make that work but the two conditions, novel device and carrying cell phone DO correlate for me. I think it worth the cost of a txt message since I wind up with a record [also event notification emails] of any attempt to break in to my account
now if I just had any social life or was someone interesting enough to be spied upon, this would all be justified and useful.
won't work if you drive a plastic car ['Vette, Saturn] but with metal bodywork your average care is already half way to being a Faraday cage.
A concealed job of finishing that cage would be difficult but most openings just need a grounded hardware cloth covering of proper mesh [must study TFA to see what frequency is used].
Active jamming to cancel out the incoming waves is not likely due to the high frequency they probably use.
BTW, do they test this thing on Dick Cheney to see if it shuts down pacemakers?
all those years skewering the Pointy Haired Boss when in fact the Pointy Haired Doctor was on a collision course with his contentment and independence.
I agree with this position. Allthough there are complexities in assessing ones state of health toward the end, the majority of them can be addressed with a clear DNR order and durable power of attorney granted to a trusted younger friend...with backup provisions. In an era of smaller families and highly mobile careers, many/. readers will eventually be dying alone, sorry, just a strong probability ladies and gentlemen.
My GF works in a nursing home, surrounded by a mix of abandoned, demented people and others dying but with loving visitors.
She has insisted we establish enforcible living wills and "just shoot me" are to be spelled out beyond any bureaucrats ability to meddle in our last wishes.
How long before the cloud computing and storage services start charging a slight premium to have your stuff run/store on lower spots in their server racks?
so little of what news is dragged before me these days does much to make me hopeful of humanity's prospects on this planet. This story is the rare exception. We could be a great species. We could solve what looked for centuries to be impossible problems. We could...
Thanks/. This story was not in any of my regular channels today.
Why would a guy with no insurance call it "questionable"? It used to offer 170$/mo plans with 1200$ deductibles to guys in my category but now that any strung out hooker or dipsomaniac can be assured medical care, the cost is 300/month and the deductible is 3000$.
Where is the incentive to be personally responsible for your own health and its costs in a scheme like this?
And what if you are color blind? I am not color blind and can't make heads or tails of these paintball shotgun patterns vs the text descriptions.
Yes one objective is to frustrate bots...but if you frustrate humans, as pla points out, then you are a non-starter. Go back to your room CMU compsci person 'cause I know you are smart enough to do better.
Unfortunately for the average consumer, in fact virtually all consumers, the present scheme for credit card online purchases, e.g. Amazon, is trying to tell you that you can have all 3. What percent of consumers have to take a loss before either they or their card provider's insurance co. pulls the plug on this bizarre bazaar?
It does not sound like Nation State Attacker was at work here. The attack was not so sophisticated that the infosec boys were left scratching their heads as to how the breach was made. In fact, for a so-called vault, Inputs.io leaving up the access to old accounts that skirt 2FA seems sloppy. And, certainly, having 4100 BTC to spend for your porn and drugs would be motivation to some who are capable of such an attack.
But I assume central banks and gov'ts with propped up currencies don't want to see Bitcoin really take off. Just breaking everyone's trust in BTC is a win for them.
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Not that I count much on the wisdom of markets but I am curious about the relative timing of today's jump in BTC and the news of that ruling. A Bloomberg article dated today, on bitcoins risks did not mention this.
remember how Y2K was supposed to crash all civilization because bad code in the bowels of all infrastructure and control systems could not deal with the rollover from 1999 to 2000? That didn't happen much. I am still here. How is it that a 1 second error brings down a server?
The [cr]Appstore is going to do a pretty good QA job on the user interface. The backends can bite you in less obvious ways but crapware is crap because you think the answers it gives or the bills it sends stink:the dumb get dumped. Software that truly and immediately effects human safety and comes with no liability disclaimers is mighty hard to find. Who is going to use Swift for stuff that is sold/unleashed through outlets other than the Appstore? Let in the clowns.
I went to sleep when STDLIB and Posix would have done most of what I imagine containers will do. I wake up and Containers are here. Really, now; what is new here? VMness?
good question. If you have a laser strong enough to instantly ionize a patch of air between you and an exploding munition [we are talking milliseconds for the whole show here!] that itself must create a shock wave as the super-heated air expands more or less into what we would perceive as an explosion. I am hoping the Boeing Boeing engineers have some proof the cure is better than the disease, so to speak.
If you can shape the surface of the discontinuity in gas density by this method, you could cause a lensing effect that redirected the shock wave but you cannot get rid of energy by adding energy to it. If you manage to create an underpressure that coincides with the overpressure of the munition, that will happen at a certain point and will require an energy density on a par with the munition if you mean to protect by a cancellation of superimposed pressure waves. And watch out for your side lobes...the cancellation would be localized while elsewhere in the battle an addition would occur.
they are just going to take tapes of Star Trek to the patent office , maybe.
If they are 501 C(3), let them raise money the way the other charities do and get the hell off of my tax bill. I donate to police and firefighter charities but I make sure I know where my money is going.
and, Chrome so far, has a far better record on security patches and exploits than Windows. We'll see how long that holds up but if I had to choose what laptop to put into the hands of untechnical users, security would be a big factor.
I find this news of Chromebook stealing Windows market share has a "they have this coming to them" feeling. So Google has the bucks and the talent to make an OS and practically give it away. Ha Ha. For them, pushing the penetration of Internet use to the lowest strata is all they need because its the clicks, not the OS licenses that make their revenue.
I feel like its karma, like the demise of MS is deserved because, in spite of Bill Gates earlier public dismissal of the Internet as fad, MS came back with a brutal, loss-leader give-away of IE just to defend itself from its own hubris [and inadvertently polluting their own OS with "back orifices"]. Google may cut the legs from under MS but primarily because they know where their bread is buttered and they work to expand that...not because they need to damage the business model of a competitor.
Microsoft has it coming.
That is sad. Fear and ignorance have always held progress, or just plain "pleasure of finding things out" in check. But that kind of info-conservatism was one problem our supposed American freedoms banished, and we have claimed, to our enormous advantage in standard of living. What are we now? A country where fear and ignorance are institutional and pervasive. You can't go underground for your supplies either since that will clearly indicate to the bureaucracy that you had nefarious intent. *sigh*
I remember reading in the [now discontinued] "Amateur Scientist" column that used to publish in Scientific American, a guide to how one could build a medium power infrared CO2 laser. Nowadays, just buying the parts would have DHS knocking on your door[or maybe they don't bother with knocking?]
I would deny just about anything.
i set my FB acct to require 2FA if its accessed from an "unfamiliar" device. Yes, I need to be carrying my phone to make that work but the two conditions, novel device and carrying cell phone DO correlate for me. I think it worth the cost of a txt message since I wind up with a record [also event notification emails] of any attempt to break in to my account
now if I just had any social life or was someone interesting enough to be spied upon, this would all be justified and useful.
won't work if you drive a plastic car ['Vette, Saturn] but with metal bodywork your average care is already half way to being a Faraday cage. A concealed job of finishing that cage would be difficult but most openings just need a grounded hardware cloth covering of proper mesh [must study TFA to see what frequency is used].
Active jamming to cancel out the incoming waves is not likely due to the high frequency they probably use.
BTW, do they test this thing on Dick Cheney to see if it shuts down pacemakers?
A Google search on "discredited soviet era biologist" produces, as its top match, a link to info on Lysenko...who pretty much got Stalin's blessing by touting a genetic theory, reviled and rebutted ever since, that such things are as now reported in mice could be used to change organisms...like Mensheviks. Ooops!
that is nice. but here in america, we have a plan to get back into the prison of poor health for poor people.
all those years skewering the Pointy Haired Boss when in fact the Pointy Haired Doctor was on a collision course with his contentment and independence.
I agree with this position. /. readers will eventually be dying alone, sorry, just a strong probability ladies and gentlemen.
Allthough there are complexities in assessing ones state of health toward the end, the majority of them can be addressed with a clear DNR order and durable power of attorney granted to a trusted younger friend...with backup provisions. In an era of smaller families and highly mobile careers, many
My GF works in a nursing home, surrounded by a mix of abandoned, demented people and others dying but with loving visitors. She has insisted we establish enforcible living wills and "just shoot me" are to be spelled out beyond any bureaucrats ability to meddle in our last wishes.
How long before the cloud computing and storage services start charging a slight premium to have your stuff run/store on lower spots in their server racks?
so little of what news is dragged before me these days does much to make me hopeful of humanity's prospects on this planet. This story is the rare exception. We could be a great species. We could solve what looked for centuries to be impossible problems. We could...
/. This story was not in any of my regular channels today.
Thanks
tried the Sherpa link...got nothing for my state. But then, NY doesn't need to be shown how to steer folks to health insurance options. Newyorkstateofhealth has been delivering the questionable ACA goods for a while now.
Why would a guy with no insurance call it "questionable"? It used to offer 170$/mo plans with 1200$ deductibles to guys in my category but now that any strung out hooker or dipsomaniac can be assured medical care, the cost is 300/month and the deductible is 3000$.
Where is the incentive to be personally responsible for your own health and its costs in a scheme like this?
And what if you are color blind? I am not color blind and can't make heads or tails of these paintball shotgun patterns vs the text descriptions.
...but if you frustrate humans, as pla points out, then you are a non-starter. Go back to your room CMU compsci person 'cause I know you are smart enough to do better.
Yes one objective is to frustrate bots
Unfortunately for the average consumer, in fact virtually all consumers, the present scheme for credit card online purchases, e.g. Amazon, is trying to tell you that you can have all 3. What percent of consumers have to take a loss before either they or their card provider's insurance co. pulls the plug on this bizarre bazaar?
i'd pick Secure and Wallet and screw Online...air gap for me.
It does not sound like Nation State Attacker was at work here.
The attack was not so sophisticated that the infosec boys were left scratching their heads as to how the breach was made. In fact, for a so-called vault, Inputs.io leaving up the access to old accounts that skirt 2FA seems sloppy.
And, certainly, having 4100 BTC to spend for your porn and drugs would be motivation to some who are capable of such an attack.
But I assume central banks and gov'ts with propped up currencies don't want to see Bitcoin really take off. Just breaking everyone's trust in BTC is a win for them.