The box we got from the cable company that includes the cable modem and phone hookup has an internal battery backup so the phone will work in a power outage. Not sure if I'd trust that (got a UPS on it anyway) but at least someone thought about it.
Gox had an implementation flaw in their transaction reconcilement and a clear lack of auditing. Of course, the only source of this information is Gox. So, that's their version of what happened.
Long before this happened there were complaints about Gox being difficult about withdrawing funds, and speculation that they had been running as a fractional reserve and the run up in price was driving them to insolvency.
Without an independent investigation it's impossible to say what actually happened. That said, both versions point to a problem with one exchange, not with Bitcoin itself, and so far not a problem with any other exchanges.
Certain US government regulations require that electronic communications of publicly traded companies are logged. Once you have to log all that information, someone will get the idea to use it for something.
Where I work, we don't have an obligation to log our Lync conversations, and we have those features disabled.
If you're productive, I don't care how you work. When you're holding everyone else up, then 'your way' doesn't cut it and you need shown a faster way to work. In one particular case, the person reports to me and they aren't getting enough done in the day. It turns out that they're wasting a lot of time by working inefficiently.
I wish I could disagree, but I help so many users that run one program full screen. I just sit back and shake my head as they constantly switch from one program to another instead of arranging the program windows to see everything they need at one time.
It really start to piss me off when they have two monitors and switch between two programs, both on the main screen, both full screen. Then they wonder why it takes so long to get things done.
You may not like bitcoin, but it isn't a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme takes money from new investors to make fake payments to the existing investors and fails as soon as there aren't enough new players to keep the scheme running. None of that matches bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a method of exchange. Some people take bitcoin directly in exchange for goods or services, some people accept it indirectly though a service that converts it to another currency for them. Gold is the best historical analogue and it'd be just as hard to buy a loaf of bread with a block of gold as a bitcoin wallet unless there was a merchant who will accept it directly or a middle man to convert it to a form they do take.
Bitcoin has no reliance on new people participating. Only that people are willing to use it as a method of exchange.
At least for hibernation, using BitLocker on the system drive will make sure the hiberfil.sys (and I guess the paging file as well) is on an encrypted volume that can't just be copied and analyzed later.
Because the people contributing to the pool aren't the people controlling the pool.
So when the hashes that I want to be earning me BTC are giving a group the ability to mess up the system, a rational choice would be to move to a new pool.
For me, BitCoin doesn't fill a void in my banking life. It's interesting and kinda fun to mess around with.
For people who don't have access to trustworthy financial institutions (or governments), I think it does fill a void. Their biggest hurdle would be getting BTC from their local currency (like China blocking BTC last month).
I think that it would be better if BTC traded in a narrower band, but I think that as it picks up in use, liquidity will help with that.
It's a shame that we probably won't get good details about what happened. If they're PCI compliant, those devices need to be on their own network away from the rest of the company machines. If they were actually doing that, I'd think that they could have caught this with some sort of egress filtering that would either block or alert when it saw CC information going out, or outbound connections from the CC system to unauthorized systems.
Of course, my bet is an inside job. With the right people involved, you can bypass almost anything.
If you want to go after someone, it probably should be the vendor that sold the crappy implementation.
I'm not a fan of more government, but since the power grid really goes beyond the company owning it, you should have regulations requiring the testing and remediation of any technical/physical security issues. That takes care of your hypothetical lazy IT Manager, the boss who blocks the good manager because it's expensive and not required, and the company who wants to keep selling equipment.
You should look at the warranty and operating environment specs for commodity and enterprise hard drives. One has a warranty that ends pretty much as soon as you open the packaging, and the other will be replaced at the manufacturer's cost for five years. One is rated to be operating a few hours a day, the other is designed for continuous operation. One rates their speed as the maximum burst transfer, the other sustained operation.
There's plenty of places that it's a bullshit term, but storage isn't one of them.
You seem to think that Netflix is choosing not to have those movies in its streaming service. I think Netflix would like to have every movie on their service.
You need to be complaining about the media companies that own that content and how they either won't license at any cost, or would only license at an absurd fee to Netflix (and thus their customers).
Microsoft really does need a preinstalled app that is just to teach you how to use the new UI.
They actually do have a manual, it's right here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/2/E/A2E4C3EB-99A0-47B4-A620-D2F94FCDF3E5/Windows8_WindowsRT_ProductGuide_EN.pdf
This is on page 11, it's also in the intro video shown to all new users (which is incredibly short and vague).
What's wrong with testing impairment rather than looking for a chemical concentration. What level of THC equals impairment? Wouldn't that be different for different people?
If there weren't cases of undetected error and outright fraud in peer reviewed science I would agree. Many experiments are non-trivial to reproduce and sometime the only review possible is to confirm the analysis of the researcher's data sets.
I just don't see where an exemption from examination in court proceedings protects science.
Unless you're suing them and this lets them shield the e-mail to their lab tech that says "sample set B is really screwing up our results, go ahead and shred any copies you have and I'll update the findings."
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The box we got from the cable company that includes the cable modem and phone hookup has an internal battery backup so the phone will work in a power outage. Not sure if I'd trust that (got a UPS on it anyway) but at least someone thought about it.
Gox had an implementation flaw in their transaction reconcilement and a clear lack of auditing. Of course, the only source of this information is Gox. So, that's their version of what happened.
Long before this happened there were complaints about Gox being difficult about withdrawing funds, and speculation that they had been running as a fractional reserve and the run up in price was driving them to insolvency.
Without an independent investigation it's impossible to say what actually happened. That said, both versions point to a problem with one exchange, not with Bitcoin itself, and so far not a problem with any other exchanges.
Certain US government regulations require that electronic communications of publicly traded companies are logged. Once you have to log all that information, someone will get the idea to use it for something.
Where I work, we don't have an obligation to log our Lync conversations, and we have those features disabled.
If the pirate bay was facilitating transactions and keeping a portion as a fee, I think it would be a lot easier to shut them down.
More like filling all the bank door's locks with glue.
Well, building walls must be pretty standard if you have a list of situations and exactly what you do to address them.
If you're productive, I don't care how you work. When you're holding everyone else up, then 'your way' doesn't cut it and you need shown a faster way to work. In one particular case, the person reports to me and they aren't getting enough done in the day. It turns out that they're wasting a lot of time by working inefficiently.
I wish I could disagree, but I help so many users that run one program full screen. I just sit back and shake my head as they constantly switch from one program to another instead of arranging the program windows to see everything they need at one time.
It really start to piss me off when they have two monitors and switch between two programs, both on the main screen, both full screen. Then they wonder why it takes so long to get things done.
You may not like bitcoin, but it isn't a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme takes money from new investors to make fake payments to the existing investors and fails as soon as there aren't enough new players to keep the scheme running. None of that matches bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a method of exchange. Some people take bitcoin directly in exchange for goods or services, some people accept it indirectly though a service that converts it to another currency for them. Gold is the best historical analogue and it'd be just as hard to buy a loaf of bread with a block of gold as a bitcoin wallet unless there was a merchant who will accept it directly or a middle man to convert it to a form they do take.
Bitcoin has no reliance on new people participating. Only that people are willing to use it as a method of exchange.
Wins what? I never understand why people pick a tribe and then pray for the destruction of their foes.
We only win when there are multiple viable choices available. Once someone 'wins' their focus turns to consolidation and not to innovation.
At least for hibernation, using BitLocker on the system drive will make sure the hiberfil.sys (and I guess the paging file as well) is on an encrypted volume that can't just be copied and analyzed later.
Because the people contributing to the pool aren't the people controlling the pool.
So when the hashes that I want to be earning me BTC are giving a group the ability to mess up the system, a rational choice would be to move to a new pool.
For me, BitCoin doesn't fill a void in my banking life. It's interesting and kinda fun to mess around with.
For people who don't have access to trustworthy financial institutions (or governments), I think it does fill a void. Their biggest hurdle would be getting BTC from their local currency (like China blocking BTC last month).
I think that it would be better if BTC traded in a narrower band, but I think that as it picks up in use, liquidity will help with that.
It's a shame that we probably won't get good details about what happened. If they're PCI compliant, those devices need to be on their own network away from the rest of the company machines. If they were actually doing that, I'd think that they could have caught this with some sort of egress filtering that would either block or alert when it saw CC information going out, or outbound connections from the CC system to unauthorized systems.
Of course, my bet is an inside job. With the right people involved, you can bypass almost anything.
I don't know. The Tea Party seems to have some strange economic policies, but I don't see them as big anti-science wackos.
If you want to go after someone, it probably should be the vendor that sold the crappy implementation.
I'm not a fan of more government, but since the power grid really goes beyond the company owning it, you should have regulations requiring the testing and remediation of any technical/physical security issues. That takes care of your hypothetical lazy IT Manager, the boss who blocks the good manager because it's expensive and not required, and the company who wants to keep selling equipment.
You should look at the warranty and operating environment specs for commodity and enterprise hard drives. One has a warranty that ends pretty much as soon as you open the packaging, and the other will be replaced at the manufacturer's cost for five years. One is rated to be operating a few hours a day, the other is designed for continuous operation. One rates their speed as the maximum burst transfer, the other sustained operation.
There's plenty of places that it's a bullshit term, but storage isn't one of them.
The problem is that a TB of enterprise class storage (and backup) isn't $100.
You seem to think that Netflix is choosing not to have those movies in its streaming service. I think Netflix would like to have every movie on their service.
You need to be complaining about the media companies that own that content and how they either won't license at any cost, or would only license at an absurd fee to Netflix (and thus their customers).
Microsoft really does need a preinstalled app that is just to teach you how to use the new UI.
They actually do have a manual, it's right here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/2/E/A2E4C3EB-99A0-47B4-A620-D2F94FCDF3E5/Windows8_WindowsRT_ProductGuide_EN.pdf
This is on page 11, it's also in the intro video shown to all new users (which is incredibly short and vague).
It's not the e-mail part that is the problem with gmail at work, it's the calendar.
On a tablet you swipe in from the right side. The hot corners mess is only for mouse access.
What's wrong with testing impairment rather than looking for a chemical concentration. What level of THC equals impairment? Wouldn't that be different for different people?
If there weren't cases of undetected error and outright fraud in peer reviewed science I would agree. Many experiments are non-trivial to reproduce and sometime the only review possible is to confirm the analysis of the researcher's data sets.
I just don't see where an exemption from examination in court proceedings protects science.
Unless you're suing them and this lets them shield the e-mail to their lab tech that says "sample set B is really screwing up our results, go ahead and shred any copies you have and I'll update the findings."