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  1. Re:The Korean War is in a cease-fire on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    From their point of view, the entire world is trying to crush them, and certainly has their head pinned.
    Quite insightful!

  2. It takes something legitimate backing a currency to give it value.
    No it does not.

    If we go together to a dinner, I can not pay my 25$ bill, and you step in, I write you an "I O U 25$, signed by Angel". And if it happens to happen that you run out of money and ask a friend, give him "our" "IOU" and he knows me and accepts it: that is money.

    No one is backing it. Our common friend just trusted you/me the same way you trusted me.

    But it is a kind of bad idea to hand over "I O U" cheques without kind of agreement of the issuer (that was me), could lead to lots of arguments :D

    Anyway: money does not work the way you think. I suggest the books: "Money of the future" and "The future of money".

  3. D-Marks are actually still circulating in "the Ost Block", even as you can not simply convert them into Euro anymore since a few years.

    Same for Franc in north Africa.

  4. Re:Why dont we just cut their fucking internet? on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    they didn't even want to know why my IP address is a continent away from my shipping address...
    And why would they?
    It would completely spoil the idea of using the internet.

    Sadly the streaming services did not get that yet.

  5. Re:This is why we need to criminalize CryptoCash on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it not be more reasonable to "legalize it", or stop being hypocrites about stuff that was 25 years ago?

  6. Re:This is why we need to criminalize CryptoCash on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to say centuries to emphasize your point, but well, 50 years? Minimum? Perhaps 70 years?

  7. Re:This is why we need to criminalize CryptoCash on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    BTC never was anonymous,
    It is fully traceable.

    Hence the break downs on Silk something and others

  8. Re:I'm so behind... on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Your dollars are created out of nothing, too.

  9. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Could it overflow causing a dump of sensitive data? Could the interpreter have a vulnerability in it? Could the OS have a vulnerability in it? Could the hardware have a vulnerability in it?
    As long as Inprint the static text 'hello world', no to all of them.

    You still cannot guarantee that nothing bad will come of running a machine with that software on it. There's still every possibility someone could hijack the system.
    Of course I can. The system does not sccept any input, hence you can not feed anything into it to compromise it.

    Again, no such thing. You have a dangerous naivety towards IT security if you believe absolute security is a thing - your mindset is why more attacks are successful than necessary
    Actually it is the opposite around.
    Your idea that there is no secure system is a self fulfilling prophecy by guys who don't care about security or bugs.
    Care for it, adress the issues, learn, improve and most important: stop bitching, stop being fatalistic.

  10. Re:Why does a language need an "Enterprise Edition on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    And how exactly would you name a Java release/bundle/specification that is aimed for enterprices and business applications like Amazon or Twitter?

    Enterprise Edition sounds fine dor me.

  11. I really wonder about the stupidity ... not particular yours ... but posters you answer too, and some things you say, of course.

    FIRST: the most important, the USA has absolutely no leverage at all over China. China is not a third world country. The only thing USA could try to attempt are legislations to restrict imports from China.
    All this "if war" is such a bullshit. If America would test a war with China (or the idea China fears american troops in a unified NK ... how retarded is that).
    Get it: China has nukes. You know that? If *foreign* (insert country) soldiers enter China in sufficient strength to be a threat, Chine will use its nukes. At least that is what I would do if I was in power. And I bet the Chinese government/military has not even 1% of the scruples I would have, see SECOND.

    SECOND: the Chinese, like most of their neighbours, are mostly Buddhists.
    They don't get to hell because they are assholes.
    They don't get to heaven because they are saints.
    They fucking (ignore my bad wording) don't care how many people they kill, how many own people get killed if they fight.
    BECAUSE: they get DAMN REBORN next incarnation cycle. Every bomb they drop on e.g. the USA and every bomb they receive in retaliation simply starts a new cycle of reincarnation for both parties involved. You Christians are so stupid, it is unbelievable.

    THIRD: no one, except some scientist, is interested in how China, the culture and the society works. You only look on: bad communists, oh, good capitalists, oh bad patent/IP thieves, oh bad CO2 polluters ... what a bullshit. I would not wonder if any USA administration replaces the ambassador of the previous administration immediately by a new one.
    That simply does not work. PERIOD. Does not matter when you replace him. The Chinese, like any other asian country, expects a FAMILY of ambassadors. A father who was 40 years ++ ambassador and set up a good relationship with Chinese diplomates. And his son, or a long known well introduced assistant as his successor. And the next successor already at the horizon.
    If you replace your ambassador every 8 years (or 20, doe snot matter), the signal to an Asian is: that man was incompetent, you never could trust him ... you do that several times in a row: they know: you only sent the most stupid diplomates to China, because obviously they are all so incompetent that you have to replace them regularly. Or so incompetent that your own government (yes, the administration changed) does not trust them.
    It takes 20 - 30 years to establish a "trust worthy" ambassador in an Asian country. And he has hard work to start preparing his replacement after 15 years of service, so he is not replaced by an "unknown" when he retires.
    So, that was one of the simplest lectures about asian culture(s) ... there are hundreds others.
    Read some books about it and stop pretending you have any clue what is going on in China or North Korea.

    For most Asian countries, America, UK and other European countries are: the arch enemy Yes that might sound dramatic in your eyes, erm ears. angel'o'sphere is again overstating some shit. No. We are the arch enemy. Not only because of all the bollocks our nations did from roughly 1650 till 1990s, but because we repeat and repeat it all again. And mostly: because the DON'T FORGET!! They exactly know that "we" the "west" only want to exploit them. Opium wars, choosing the wrong side in the Chinese rebellion, destroying the Japanese Banking system in the 1980s/1990, the war in Vietnam, the war in Korea ... with what ignorance/arrogance do the westerners think there was anything justified in bombing Vietnam into a stone age? If you had any moral reasons to go for a war in Asia, you should have saved Cambodia. But no! "Evil communists" kill the south Vietnam dictatorship (same as the american freedom fighters did in the independence war!),so we have to jump in, be

  12. Re:Why does a language need an "Enterprise Edition on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Java is not a compiler.

    It is a huge set of specifications, a huge set of standard libraries, and a mountain of open source frameworks and platforms. And VMs ...

    SE: standard edition, mainly for desktop apps, but the line to EE is blurry
    EE: enter prise edition, defines standards for accessing DBs, do OR mapping (via annotations (*)), have annotation(*) based REST/SOAP services and build in tools to support development or out of the box deployment

    In other words, if you want to run a C++ web service, you first need a web server (extra download and install) where you can deploy your *.so/*.dll to, then you configure something that the web server knows what requests to route to your plug in.

    In Java EE, there is a build in web server, and you simply deploy the *.dll analogon (a *.war) and the server configures everything automatically, based on annotations (*)

    (*) an annotation can be considered as a smart comment. The compiler puts it into the object code and the deployment environment interprets it (with framework support) and weaves the necessary missing code around it or uses reflection to orchestrate what ever the annotations are supposed to do.

  13. Re:I haven't used Java since my college days... on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The version control plug in of Eclipse, especially abstracting away the conflicting wordings of the various SCC systems, is the best I have ever seen.

    And don't forget: Eclipse has a vi/vim plug in, too.

  14. Re:Well...duh... on The Only Safe Email is Text-Only Email (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    The default setting on OS X and now macOS is:
    ta tam!
    Text only.

    Thanx for trolling.

  15. Re:Nuclear Power is the way to go for clean baselo on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Battery storage is about 95% efficient.
    Significantly above pumped storage.

    Go back into your cave, troll!

    just don't think it is a viable solution to peak shifting/load balancing for things like solar or wind supply issues.
    Actually it is, as Germany and other countries demonstrade since decades, stuoid troll.

  16. Re:Like other commissions on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    And how exactly would it be lawfull to prohibit tipping?
    When I worked (on minimum wages) in a bar, I usually made more money from tips than from the wage.
    And in Europe as a part time worker you hardly get more than minimum wage. To have a decent (not big, nut ok) wake you need to be sallary employes. And even then, no one has any leverage about tips. The worst that can happen is that the tips are pooled, shared with the kitchen and guys on the tap, and redistributed to the 'walking force'.

    That a boss can deny employees to accept tips is absurd, what a fucked up country you live in, it makes me sad ...

  17. I go with the http://www.spiegel.de/ critics.
    It is super simple:
    bad critcs: go watch the movie, it is likely ok
    good critics: avoid it as hell, it is probaly the worst waste of money ever
    suoer good critics: try it, might be a matter of taste, can be good or not so good, but is usually not really bad

    On the other hand the kast decade I nadically avoided every movie except Lord of the Rings, and watched The expendabkes in youtube. How old is the first Pirates of the Carebean movie?

    I probbaly watch that blond fighter chick movie, thought ... ah, and I liked that 'monkey king' movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, but it was obvious that the movie would be good, regardless of online reviews (are the reviews paid for to be super good or super bad?)

  18. Re:Deforrestation of the Amazon and more on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't get your aggressive nitpicking.

    Which part of "coal is 99% carbon" and the rest is the dirt it is buried in, don't you get? That lignite is only 50% carbon and 50% dirt?

    Coal as in "coal" as we name "coal" and not "bitumen" which is super hard OIL does NOT contain hydrogen.

    Regardless what you believe. Sorry to bold some words.

    But perhaps americans have a strange definition of coal, just to find ways to argue with Europeans?

    Anthrazit, hard coal, lignite and the various stages between them: don't contain hydrogen. And regardless of yours and the parents believes: it would not matter at all if they had 5% hydrogen regarding cloud building or moisture in the atmosphere.

  19. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And you can not guarantee, that software always has a zero day exploit hidden.

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
    20 GOTO 10

    I doubt there is a zero day exploit hidden ... but well, the PRINT implantation could have a bug, but as long as you only print literal text ... what could happen?

    So, you gave the solution to your claims already in your explanation: "full and 100% accurate auditing of the entire hardware and software stack", that is what you do, if you want a secure system.

    Your parent is perfectly right: if you can not afford that, you have the wrong business model.

    your systems are always going to have an element of risk present.
    As soon as the are completely secured: no.

  20. Re:Don't get too excited on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If it has no electric engine to drive the car, it is not a hybrid.

    Obviously you found the name "micro hybrid" yourself. However I would hope people would slap the car manufactures on their wrist to coin such misnomers.

  21. Every new car can run on Bio Diesel. Since 20 years or so.
    There are some cars that have problems with the hoses transporting the fuel.

    Conversion to Ethanol is simple, too. Basically all old cars that use "normal gasoline" instead of "super", burn ethanol out of the box.

    However: in the long run both biodiesel and ethanol production use to much land and produce to much CO2 in the whole processing chain to make it feasible for nations or the planet to got there.

    Not far from my house is a gas station that sells bio diesel. It is about 10cents cheaper than diesle made from oil.

    If the diesel engine is big enough, e.g. a truck or cough cough, a tank: it burns everything anyway.

  22. The Teslas and Nissans are more or less simply ICE designs converted for *one* electric engine.
    If they were true advanced electric vehicles they had a linear engine in each wheel.

    But: then they had no "electronic stabilization", anti blocking brakes etc. p.p.

    To be able to use certified modern mechatronics (and anti blocking breaking systems are mandatory by law since nearly a decade), you basically are either required to buy of the shelf components or build your own ones and get them certificated.

  23. Volkswagen is the mother company.
    They have their own brand, VW, but they own: Porsche, Audi, Seat, Bentley, Scoda, Scania AB, Ducatti, Lamburghini and probably a few more I don't recall right now.

    And keep in mind that every "model" comes in various variations, that probably count as "model", too.

  24. Re:Nuclear Power is the way to go for clean baselo on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have enough EV cars, you have a huge pool of grid storage ...
    Cars connected to the grid.

    Same for PV house owners that chose to also have a big battery. You can join them in a virtual power plant, use them as balancing power pool.

    And before you yell your uninformed idiotic counters: we do that in Germany and other parts of Europe since nearly a decade. Every new battery bank house owners buy gets put into a virtual power plant. Unless of course he wants to life isolate, but for that a battery is still to expensive to make sense. You would better have your own Nat Gas fuel cell then.

  25. Re:Don't get too excited on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'hybrid' can mean 'stop the engine at the lights'
    That is not what hybrid means.
    And for your interest: all modern cars automatically stop the engine when you stop.