I'm as green as anyone, but lordy that was some one-sided summary Hugh. Can I at least ask for some other numbers, such as the number of bird kills resulting from pollutants dumped out by the big coal fired plants in Ohio?
I'd be fine with the number of deaths as a percentage.
There is ample peer-reviewed validated research out there that shows that some people are more efficient at metabolizing food, and that you can exercise as much as you like and eat as little, and still not lose weight as much (and suffer a variety of undesirable side effects in the process).
Some people don't obey the laws of thermodynamics?
The power of Bitcoin is often what people point to as its weakness - the fact that it isnt backed by any ~one~ conventional govt/issuer.
No, it's a weakness.
Any number of entities (governments, Columbian drug cartels, Russian Mafia, etc.) could have been quietly buying up bitcoins for the last six months and sitting on them. Lack of liquidity creates a seller's market so bitcoin prices skyrocket as a result. When the time is right they can dump all their coins on the market for a massive profit. The price of bitcoin will crash and they can buy back their stock at a fraction of the price just in case it ever recovers.
This trick only works if you can do it in secret (so people mistake the lack of liquidity for market confidence - nobody wants to sell!!)
The reality is Bitcoin is stateless so China can't exert influence on it. Scares them, it does. Yes.
LOL!
China could buy up 90% of all bitcoins, creating an artificial scarcity. It would be a seller's market without anybody knowing why. Prices would soar. Idiots would be going crazy to buy them.
When it reaches $10,000 (or whatever) they could dump their coins on the market, making a handsome profit for themselves and ruining everybody else's day. Bitcoin would probably collapse as a result, allowing them to buy back their 90% stake at firesale prices. Rinse, repeat.
It's not just governments who could do this. Bitcoin is still small enough for any number of cartels to do it. I expect they're eying it up right now. They might even be the reason it's at $1000 today.
It means it's attracted the attention of the big players so they'll be the only ones making big profits from now on.
Anybody with enough capital can manipulate the bitcoin market (just like any other stock/share) - creating artificial shortages to drive the price up, dumping it into the hands of greedy individuals when it peaks, buying back when it crashes down. Rinse, repeat.
Marketing is driving the software? They don't care about security? System administration is outsourced?
Quit. Leave now. Take only your jacket. Your adrenals will thank you later.
Wuss.
The sensible option is to learn to relax. By informing your boss, you've done your job.
If you really want to make an effort then you can make a weekly report called "Security status bulletin" listing/naming the worst problems plus their possible consequences. Send it to the people who need to know.
Keep evidence, make sure other people know you repeatedly told the boss, collect your wage packet, go home every day. If you think this is unprofessional you need to Read more Dilbert.
Hipsters are, by definition, ignorant of fashion trends.
The first selling point given in the video is, "You can always dress for the destination, not the ride, and never worry about sweating". (at1:50 in the video)
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I'm as green as anyone, but lordy that was some one-sided summary Hugh. Can I at least ask for some other numbers, such as the number of bird kills resulting from pollutants dumped out by the big coal fired plants in Ohio?
I'd be fine with the number of deaths as a percentage.
Wikipedia says (with citations) that there's 100,000 Golden Eagles in north America and that large raptorial birds suffer a 5% mortality rate per year.
By my reckoning that's 5,000 dead birds per year, 75,000 since 1997.
85 of those were due to wind turbines? That's statistical noise.
(Just like all other reports of bird deaths due to wind turbines...)
There is ample peer-reviewed validated research out there that shows that some people are more efficient at metabolizing food, and that you can exercise as much as you like and eat as little, and still not lose weight as much (and suffer a variety of undesirable side effects in the process).
Some people don't obey the laws of thermodynamics?
Nonsense, it's obviously the vaccines! That chick that appeared on Playboy said so!
Don't worry, she'll go on national TV and apologize for all the harm she's done then spend the rest of her life making restitution.
The power of Bitcoin is often what people point to as its weakness - the fact that it isnt backed by any ~one~ conventional govt/issuer.
No, it's a weakness.
Any number of entities (governments, Columbian drug cartels, Russian Mafia, etc.) could have been quietly buying up bitcoins for the last six months and sitting on them. Lack of liquidity creates a seller's market so bitcoin prices skyrocket as a result. When the time is right they can dump all their coins on the market for a massive profit. The price of bitcoin will crash and they can buy back their stock at a fraction of the price just in case it ever recovers.
This trick only works if you can do it in secret (so people mistake the lack of liquidity for market confidence - nobody wants to sell!!)
Bitcoin is a perfect target for it.
The reality is Bitcoin is stateless so China can't exert influence on it. Scares them, it does. Yes.
LOL!
China could buy up 90% of all bitcoins, creating an artificial scarcity. It would be a seller's market without anybody knowing why. Prices would soar. Idiots would be going crazy to buy them.
When it reaches $10,000 (or whatever) they could dump their coins on the market, making a handsome profit for themselves and ruining everybody else's day. Bitcoin would probably collapse as a result, allowing them to buy back their 90% stake at firesale prices. Rinse, repeat.
It's not just governments who could do this. Bitcoin is still small enough for any number of cartels to do it. I expect they're eying it up right now. They might even be the reason it's at $1000 today.
The exact same thing could be said of any number of tech stocks that skyrocketed then crashed into nothingness about 10 years ago.
Some people got lucky, many many others got burned.
Or tulip bulbs...
Dollars have been around long enough to earn their trust.
How come we only see bitcoin stories on slashdot?
How come there's no stories about Litecoin, Namecoin, etc.? They both have "billion dollar" values, too.
It means it's attracted the attention of the big players so they'll be the only ones making big profits from now on.
Anybody with enough capital can manipulate the bitcoin market (just like any other stock/share) - creating artificial shortages to drive the price up, dumping it into the hands of greedy individuals when it peaks, buying back when it crashes down. Rinse, repeat.
In contrast, my Logitech G500 wired mouse worked so well, when it started acting up I bought another one.
So...you're comparing a wired mouse to a wireless one that only failed when the batteries ran out?
How was the wireless one when the batteries were OK? Maybe the lesson should have been "avoid wireless", not "avoid Microsoft".
Barges can also have their own propulsion, for example the river homes that people pilot around the canals here in the UK are barges.
Those things were pulled by horses when they started out, hence "barges".
Adding a motor made them into "boats".
Or just care less.
this is the root cause of the original problem, why would you keep compounding the issue?
You need to read more Dilbert. Seriously.
clearly the OP takes some semblance of enjoyment and self satisfaction from his work
He should get a hobby...?
Marketing is driving the software?
They don't care about security?
System administration is outsourced?
Quit. Leave now. Take only your jacket. Your adrenals will thank you later.
Wuss.
The sensible option is to learn to relax. By informing your boss, you've done your job.
If you really want to make an effort then you can make a weekly report called "Security status bulletin" listing/naming the worst problems plus their possible consequences. Send it to the people who need to know.
Keep evidence, make sure other people know you repeatedly told the boss, collect your wage packet, go home every day. If you think this is unprofessional you need to Read more Dilbert.
In the US it seems the lines can be wherever they want them to be at a time to guarantee you cross them.
Yeah, that can never happen in a dictatorship.
In other news: You can charge a Nissan Leaf with a phone charger....
Perjury is a crime. Were the appropriate penalties applied?
Surely Commodore was first with its floppy disks/printers.
Rubbish. Laptops had trackballs in front of the keyboards long before Apple added a touchpad to their powerbooks.
Rubbish.
The only people who can migrate are the people who only do Facebook/Youtube.
Reason: People who do any kind of job/work need a screen bigger than 10".
The PC market will stabilize again once those people are out of the way.
In Asia, they are teaching kids Science.
In America, we are teaching them that as long as almost all the experts agree, the science doesn't matter.
Worse, they're teaching them their personal feelings and opinions are as good as any amount of reproducible experiments and data.
Why bother? My bike works fine without an electric wheel.
Not everybody sees cycling as a macho endurance event.
Some people have to wear suits to work, not spandex.
Hipsters are, by definition, ignorant of fashion trends.
The first selling point given in the video is, "You can always dress for the destination, not the ride, and never worry about sweating". (at1:50 in the video)
Game. Set. Match.
From the video it appears the first version will only work if you live in a wooden-floored loft and have to carry your bicycle up the stairs.
Maybe that's how they charge the battery.
Don't forget Windows 8. That must have made a lot of people hold on to their old PCs.