"It's like saying that credit cards are insecure because they only have 10,000 possible 4-digit PINs"
That has not been true for a while, now. Wells Fargo makes you pick a PIN up to 12 digits long, now. It's en like that since I got my WF account in ~2008.
Of course, 12 digits in a 10-digit numerical system makes things a bit easier to break due to necessarily repeating symbols, but oh well.
"8 years of, on the long term, constant gain is a ridiculously long tulip mania"
No. Bitcoin pretty much followed the exact same pattern as any regular financial note, right down to bull runs and bear traps, on a much higher-accelerated timescale. This means that it is likely that Bitcoin will have a depression, a serious one, faster than you expect.
And as it stands, with China holding the majority of bitcoin and hashing power, (they are the ones manufacturing these ASICs and such) they effectively control the currency. The Great Firewall of China doesn't make transaction times any easier, and the ledger/blockchain is so huge as to be useless to anyone new to the currency.
This is very clearly an 'established players only' playground. It's the exact same bullshit as the Federal Reserve.
No, bitcoin is quite vulnerable, especially with some of the latest updates. The new transaction reverse feature is so easily abused as to be worthless. I can 'buy' something with bitcoin and then reverse the transaction. You're shit out of money, shit out of product, and shit out of luck. No real chance of recourse.
I easily got 40 MPG. The L20 version I had, with unibody construction, was a 3-door with a 3A-SU engine, roughly one ton (why it came with a 750 kilogram jack, beyond me.) It had good acceleration, too, and able to hit 55MPH in second. It was a speedy little buggy.
You guys should look into hiring some of the older/. and SF community members. Many of us actually remember when it was good here/there, and some would help you do it for cheap. Hell, I'll take minimum wage instead of my normal $75/hr consultation rates if you're willing to ask questions and listen to the bluntly honest answers.
"Big websites can pay a fee not to be blocked. And it is these proceeds that finance the Cologne-based company and its 49-strong workforce."
Pay up or be blocked - sounds like a RICO violation right there. I bet some legal fuckery could be twisted out of one of our treaties to make it happen.
Simple: Communism. China is a single-party republic ruled by the Communist Party.
International Relations Theory: China is a right-wing Leninist State, not a Communist one. Leninism is the political theory that a single party rules the government and governs all affairs as opposed to individual politicians. The confusion stems from the fact that the single party in China is the Communist Party even though they do not practice Communist political theory, but rather state-directed, right-wing economic and political theory.
CIA Factbook: The CIA classifies China's government as a "communist state". The CIA further defines communism as:
"a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single - often authoritarian - party holds power; state controls are imposed with the elimination of private ownership of property or capital while claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people (i.e., a classless society)."
However, the actual functioning of Chinese society and economy is a bit schizophrenic. In its attempt to become a more powerful economic force in the world and to improve its industrial infrastructure, China's laws about private property and private companies have become more and more capitalist in nature. Property rights are starting to be taken seriously, which encourages private development and private investment in the Chinese economy.
The communist tendency to control all industry is still at odds with this growing quasi-capitalist economy, and they have not yet worked out the difference between "restrictions for the sake of government control" and "protecting consumers from dangerous products and fraud".
"Because most economists are not really strong when it comes to IT. They also have a really poor track record, as a whole, of predicting the future of the economy."
And you think a bunch of IT nerds are going to be any good at predicting the future of the economy?
Most IT geeks fail to remember history, let alone learn from it. That's why we've got the current SJW shit infesting Reddit, Twitter, and crap like Tumblr spreading around and fucking things up. That's why you've got laws going around restricting the internet well past what should be allowed, and bandwidth caps, and more.
And those IT people have lost all control to higher-up talking heads, all in the name of money. They can't control what they once built. You think they're in any position to even ATTEMPT to control the economy?
No, don't, because it was, and still is, a gamble.
As of right now, China essentially controls BitCoin. The hashing power and currency concentration they currently hold means that in the future, at a whim, China could knock that currency out.
And it is in the Communist Government's interest to do so. Just wait until China has accumulated/hoarded enough of the Bitcoin and more of the hashing power. It's going to kill it dead. Those who have not paid attention to general history will learn a painful lesson once more. Greed is what kills any economic/social/political system or currency.
Not even. The bandwidth gain alone from this even in the megahertz range is nuts. Let us see if this thing can handle multiple wavelengths simultaneously.
Yes, fuses will blow either by over-voltage in such a situation, as you need to overcome the voltage from that power supply in order to start doing damage.
Pay attention what happens here with this. This is going to be an important lesson for you to learn from.
This is also an opportunity to capitalize. You see this bad move being made? Do the opposite of it and also take advantage of it. Hire some of those people leaving the company. Turn SourceForge into a better Github. Invest a little money, get a couple of these people, let them work remotely, see what happens.
Current doesn't kill silicon, voltage does. Example, you take an LED. It's a red one that runs at 2V. You can probably dump 3-4x that voltage through it without a resistor, and it won't care as long as the polarity is correct and it has adequate heat sinking. Now, this same LED has a reverse breakdown voltage. Many LEDs now days have native protection about double their nominal operative voltage. So for this LED, it can take upwards of ~4V reverse polarity. You give it 5V or higher in reverse, you will destroy the p-n junction.
This knowledge is what is used to design LED arrays which can run natively off wall power without any power driver circuitry.
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"It's like saying that credit cards are insecure because they only have 10,000 possible 4-digit PINs"
That has not been true for a while, now. Wells Fargo makes you pick a PIN up to 12 digits long, now. It's en like that since I got my WF account in ~2008.
Of course, 12 digits in a 10-digit numerical system makes things a bit easier to break due to necessarily repeating symbols, but oh well.
"8 years of, on the long term, constant gain is a ridiculously long tulip mania"
No. Bitcoin pretty much followed the exact same pattern as any regular financial note, right down to bull runs and bear traps, on a much higher-accelerated timescale. This means that it is likely that Bitcoin will have a depression, a serious one, faster than you expect.
And as it stands, with China holding the majority of bitcoin and hashing power, (they are the ones manufacturing these ASICs and such) they effectively control the currency. The Great Firewall of China doesn't make transaction times any easier, and the ledger/blockchain is so huge as to be useless to anyone new to the currency.
This is very clearly an 'established players only' playground. It's the exact same bullshit as the Federal Reserve.
No, bitcoin is quite vulnerable, especially with some of the latest updates. The new transaction reverse feature is so easily abused as to be worthless. I can 'buy' something with bitcoin and then reverse the transaction. You're shit out of money, shit out of product, and shit out of luck. No real chance of recourse.
I easily got 40 MPG. The L20 version I had, with unibody construction, was a 3-door with a 3A-SU engine, roughly one ton (why it came with a 750 kilogram jack, beyond me.) It had good acceleration, too, and able to hit 55MPH in second. It was a speedy little buggy.
No point in trying to post as AC when you're attaching your name to everything.
You guys should look into hiring some of the older /. and SF community members. Many of us actually remember when it was good here/there, and some would help you do it for cheap. Hell, I'll take minimum wage instead of my normal $75/hr consultation rates if you're willing to ask questions and listen to the bluntly honest answers.
"These days, manuals get crappy fuel economy; autos beat them every time"
Find me a non-hybrid that beats my 1987 manual transmission Tercel's 40+ MPG.
I have yet to see one at any dealership.
" the fuel economy is noticeably better than manuals"
My 87 Tercel hatchback got 40 MPG easily. I have yet to see any automatic transmission car with such a rating on it that isn't some sort of hybrid.
Your post is indicative that you are not a civil engineer and thus you need to shut the fuck up.
Or just use uBlock Origin, which doesn't play this bullshit game.
"Big websites can pay a fee not to be blocked. And it is these proceeds that finance the Cologne-based company and its 49-strong workforce."
Pay up or be blocked - sounds like a RICO violation right there. I bet some legal fuckery could be twisted out of one of our treaties to make it happen.
"While that's true, AMD hasn't had a strong product launch since 2012."
AMD hasn't NEEDED a strong product launch, considering the lack-luster performance of the mobile i5 versus an old as dirt Athlon II.
"Still, driver support is needed for the details of adressing (up to) 32 cores on that particular architecture."
The details of x86-64 have been well known for more than a decade. The architecture hasn't changed.
Your reading comprehension and inference skills must be sorely lacking, then. I suggest remedial education.
Simple:
Communism. China is a single-party republic ruled by the Communist Party.
International Relations Theory:
China is a right-wing Leninist State, not a Communist one. Leninism is the political theory that a single party rules the government and governs all affairs as opposed to individual politicians. The confusion stems from the fact that the single party in China is the Communist Party even though they do not practice Communist political theory, but rather state-directed, right-wing economic and political theory.
CIA Factbook:
The CIA classifies China's government as a "communist state". The CIA further defines communism as:
"a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single - often authoritarian - party holds power; state controls are imposed with the elimination of private ownership of property or capital while claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people (i.e., a classless society)."
However, the actual functioning of Chinese society and economy is a bit schizophrenic. In its attempt to become a more powerful economic force in the world and to improve its industrial infrastructure, China's laws about private property and private companies have become more and more capitalist in nature. Property rights are starting to be taken seriously, which encourages private development and private investment in the Chinese economy.
The communist tendency to control all industry is still at odds with this growing quasi-capitalist economy, and they have not yet worked out the difference between "restrictions for the sake of government control" and "protecting consumers from dangerous products and fraud".
"Because most economists are not really strong when it comes to IT. They also have a really poor track record, as a whole, of predicting the future of the economy."
And you think a bunch of IT nerds are going to be any good at predicting the future of the economy?
Most IT geeks fail to remember history, let alone learn from it. That's why we've got the current SJW shit infesting Reddit, Twitter, and crap like Tumblr spreading around and fucking things up. That's why you've got laws going around restricting the internet well past what should be allowed, and bandwidth caps, and more.
And those IT people have lost all control to higher-up talking heads, all in the name of money. They can't control what they once built. You think they're in any position to even ATTEMPT to control the economy?
Can I get the number for your drug dealer?
No, don't, because it was, and still is, a gamble.
As of right now, China essentially controls BitCoin. The hashing power and currency concentration they currently hold means that in the future, at a whim, China could knock that currency out.
And it is in the Communist Government's interest to do so. Just wait until China has accumulated/hoarded enough of the Bitcoin and more of the hashing power. It's going to kill it dead. Those who have not paid attention to general history will learn a painful lesson once more. Greed is what kills any economic/social/political system or currency.
The technology will live, the currency will fail.
Security from thieves is one thing, how about security from hoarders?
Not even. The bandwidth gain alone from this even in the megahertz range is nuts. Let us see if this thing can handle multiple wavelengths simultaneously.
Yes, fuses will blow either by over-voltage in such a situation, as you need to overcome the voltage from that power supply in order to start doing damage.
Pay attention what happens here with this. This is going to be an important lesson for you to learn from.
This is also an opportunity to capitalize. You see this bad move being made? Do the opposite of it and also take advantage of it. Hire some of those people leaving the company. Turn SourceForge into a better Github. Invest a little money, get a couple of these people, let them work remotely, see what happens.
"Make no mistake, the people at the top of the Ponzi pyramid have a shit load of very real money at the end of it."
Uhh, excuse me, but pretty much every country on the planet has fiat currency, which means it's not real fucking money, at all.
"Certain processors are crippled to only allow 1 or 2GB of RAM"
That's not a processor lock, that's a BIOS/UEFI lock.
I'm looking squarely at you, Toshiba. Almost every 64-bit laptop I've seen from them is hard-locked to a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
"and invented massive cooling systems (water cooling with double fans and a radiator grill)."
I can guarantee you Intel did not invent such a cooling system design.
Source: Go look at any car around before Intel was even conceived.
Current doesn't kill silicon, voltage does. Example, you take an LED. It's a red one that runs at 2V. You can probably dump 3-4x that voltage through it without a resistor, and it won't care as long as the polarity is correct and it has adequate heat sinking. Now, this same LED has a reverse breakdown voltage. Many LEDs now days have native protection about double their nominal operative voltage. So for this LED, it can take upwards of ~4V reverse polarity. You give it 5V or higher in reverse, you will destroy the p-n junction.
This knowledge is what is used to design LED arrays which can run natively off wall power without any power driver circuitry.