Let's get the fucking gaming commissions in on this along with the Feds, since this lies within the jurisdiction of both. You want to see how fast these nickel-and-dime pay-to-win loot boxes go away? CA and NV gaming commissions are the state-based people you want to complain to.
"Remember how Command & Conquer: Renegade was received when Westwood tried the opposite?"
It's still going as Renegade X and even just recently had an update. Granted, it's totally out of Westwood's hands, now, but it's still well and alive.
"it's not just "wealthy chinese investors". it's almost everyone involved in bitcoin."
If you bother checking where all the equipment is coming from - China. Who holds the most hash power? China. Who is dumping the most national currency into Bitcoin? China.
In other words, it's wealthy Chinese investors. 'Everyone else' is nothing more than their plaything right now for them to drain and move on.
"Exactly. Practically no use for it. It's a utility in some boards perhaps."
Or as a dental agent, or as a binding agent for vaccines or antibiotics or other medications, used in makeup (so you can get laid and reproduce) and much more than your narrow viewpoint demonstrates.
"What about pearls? Do they have value? - they didn't until they were MARKETED next to expensive social status items. "
Wow your lapidary history knowledge is highly lacking. The pearl trade was quite alive and well for a very, VERY long time (centuries if not millennia in the Persian Gulf) until the 1900s crash.
"In some way your work and BTC are very vulnerable. Jewellery can go out of fashion & BTC can become obsolete."
If you think jewelry is going out of fashion any time soon, you have probably never gotten laid and don't understand mating rituals.
Not much of a geek, and your knife is very, very dull and blunt.
...should pay the social and monetary costs for the damage he's done to society. He knew the consequences, and took the action any goddamned way. Full responsibility lies on him and Mark and they should pay dearly. Slam them straight back to middle class.
"There is no particular reason to buy gold beyond a store of value."
Spoken like someone that doesn't work in the lapidary industry. Meanwhile, I'll continue my solder work on this $100 22k hand-hammered chunk of gold shank, put in a nice little 2 carat imperial-grade fire agate, and sell it for about $1,500 in a week or two.
"It isn't manipulable -- If someone had 51% of the BTC mining, then one would worry."
Wrong! China holds most of the hashrate and processing power. They can easily hit a 51% attack if they wanted.
"It is secure, and far more useful than most fiat currencies."
It is digital and thus it can be hacked. People have had their bitcoins stolen through electronic means. Security is a fallacy in a chaotic system such as a computer.
"The value isn't going anywhere but up."
And anyone that paid attention to any economic history will quickly say "This is a bubble that's going to leave a lot of 'investors' high and dry."
"When you get paid, you stay paid."
WRONG. To boot, plenty of fraud involving exchanges of goods for bitcoin has already happened, leaving plenty without recourse.
"BTC only will go up in value."
That you use the qualifier 'only' demonstrates you really have no fucking clue about economics.
"BTC is verifiable independent of a bank."
Verifiably stupid with no government insurance if your bank gets robbed, like Mt. Gox.
"If you avoid Mt. Gox like exchanges, your BTC is far safer than a bank."
Given my fuzzing audits on several exchanges - you're better off with a bank. And as stated above, banks come with insurance if you lose your money.
As I look at the manual to my old TV Remote watch from the 90s (which worked on my high school's B&W Zenith TVs) and current manuals today, the code has not changed. So, yes.
Sounds like a lawsuit for fraud, to me. Selling a product you have no intention of supporting, and in fact plan to make unusable in a very short period of time.
"The latter written by someone who apparently has not done real world dispersed support for a living."
Son, I manage the entire SoCal network for an Arizona-based mental health facility. Come back when you know how to do your job and have to comply with HIPAA laws at the same time.
Your lazy remote access shit doesn't fly in real world security situations, child.
"Let me get this straight - software issues that can be fixed remotely with proper remote management should not be allowed"
If you need hardware to fix a *software* issue, you're a special kind of stupid and the company you chose for your code is also dumb as shit for not doing proper QA.
"Don't ever manage any IT department that matters. You are demonstrably incapable."
The NSA has their own special commands in the IME. You're a fucking idiot to think they're not crawling around inside your network without you knowing.
Don't ever try getting a job in security, you'd fail fucking miserably.
Oh, and that machine SHOULD NOT BE DEAD but yet because the tiny ME is dead (despite every system from long ago running fine without one) you're hosed.
You must be new in IT to not see why these things are inherently stupid. Try again when you've got 25+ years of experience in it.
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This is technically online gambling.
Let's get the fucking gaming commissions in on this along with the Feds, since this lies within the jurisdiction of both. You want to see how fast these nickel-and-dime pay-to-win loot boxes go away? CA and NV gaming commissions are the state-based people you want to complain to.
"Remember how Command & Conquer: Renegade was received when Westwood tried the opposite?"
It's still going as Renegade X and even just recently had an update. Granted, it's totally out of Westwood's hands, now, but it's still well and alive.
Well, no shit. True Scotsmen don't drink coffee. We drink whisky. The Irish drink coffee and the English drink tea.
Fucking WOOSH if there ever were a woosh.
Looked at latest release. Vulnerability still present.
Back to sleep I go.
"vulnerabilities in linux kernel drivers for usb are relatively easy-to-fix *SOFTWARE* issues."
And yet one sits there, still fucking untouched, and has been since 2003.
Wake me up when Linus actually makes a WORKING fucking product and maintains the core components of it.
"it's not just "wealthy chinese investors". it's almost everyone involved in bitcoin."
If you bother checking where all the equipment is coming from - China. Who holds the most hash power? China. Who is dumping the most national currency into Bitcoin? China.
In other words, it's wealthy Chinese investors. 'Everyone else' is nothing more than their plaything right now for them to drain and move on.
Each transaction costs about $32.25 just in energy used alone at my peak rates.
What a fucking waste.
"would suggest anyone who is tired of the stock market manipulation seriously consider this but do your homework first"
And yet you're too fucking blind to see the bitcoin manipulation happening right under your nose thanks to wealthy Chinese investors.
Shill spotted.
"Exactly. Practically no use for it. It's a utility in some boards perhaps."
Or as a dental agent, or as a binding agent for vaccines or antibiotics or other medications, used in makeup (so you can get laid and reproduce) and much more than your narrow viewpoint demonstrates.
"What about pearls? Do they have value? - they didn't until they were MARKETED next to expensive social status items. "
Wow your lapidary history knowledge is highly lacking. The pearl trade was quite alive and well for a very, VERY long time (centuries if not millennia in the Persian Gulf) until the 1900s crash.
"In some way your work and BTC are very vulnerable. Jewellery can go out of fashion & BTC can become obsolete."
If you think jewelry is going out of fashion any time soon, you have probably never gotten laid and don't understand mating rituals.
Not much of a geek, and your knife is very, very dull and blunt.
...should pay the social and monetary costs for the damage he's done to society. He knew the consequences, and took the action any goddamned way. Full responsibility lies on him and Mark and they should pay dearly. Slam them straight back to middle class.
"There is no particular reason to buy gold beyond a store of value."
Spoken like someone that doesn't work in the lapidary industry. Meanwhile, I'll continue my solder work on this $100 22k hand-hammered chunk of gold shank, put in a nice little 2 carat imperial-grade fire agate, and sell it for about $1,500 in a week or two.
"It isn't manipulable -- If someone had 51% of the BTC mining, then one would worry."
Wrong! China holds most of the hashrate and processing power. They can easily hit a 51% attack if they wanted.
"It is secure, and far more useful than most fiat currencies."
It is digital and thus it can be hacked. People have had their bitcoins stolen through electronic means. Security is a fallacy in a chaotic system such as a computer.
"The value isn't going anywhere but up."
And anyone that paid attention to any economic history will quickly say "This is a bubble that's going to leave a lot of 'investors' high and dry."
"When you get paid, you stay paid."
WRONG. To boot, plenty of fraud involving exchanges of goods for bitcoin has already happened, leaving plenty without recourse.
"BTC only will go up in value."
That you use the qualifier 'only' demonstrates you really have no fucking clue about economics.
"BTC is verifiable independent of a bank."
Verifiably stupid with no government insurance if your bank gets robbed, like Mt. Gox.
"If you avoid Mt. Gox like exchanges, your BTC is far safer than a bank."
Given my fuzzing audits on several exchanges - you're better off with a bank. And as stated above, banks come with insurance if you lose your money.
As I look at the manual to my old TV Remote watch from the 90s (which worked on my high school's B&W Zenith TVs) and current manuals today, the code has not changed. So, yes.
Sounds like a lawsuit for fraud, to me. Selling a product you have no intention of supporting, and in fact plan to make unusable in a very short period of time.
Vulnerabilities present and reported in the kernel-based DRIVER FOR A TOY since *2003* and still not fucking fixed.
The kernel should do nothing more than act as a basic bit router.
Most other OSes get this right. Why can't Linus in his infinite wisdom do the same?
Oh, right, his inability to be fucking wrong.
How is this Slashdot's fault when Google decided to fuck over half the web for their own gain?
Whomever downmodded you is a fucking idiot that has never heard of Tsar Bomba.
"The latter written by someone who apparently has not done real world dispersed support for a living."
Son, I manage the entire SoCal network for an Arizona-based mental health facility. Come back when you know how to do your job and have to comply with HIPAA laws at the same time.
Your lazy remote access shit doesn't fly in real world security situations, child.
"Let me get this straight - software issues that can be fixed remotely with proper remote management should not be allowed"
If you need hardware to fix a *software* issue, you're a special kind of stupid and the company you chose for your code is also dumb as shit for not doing proper QA.
"Don't ever manage any IT department that matters. You are demonstrably incapable."
The NSA has their own special commands in the IME. You're a fucking idiot to think they're not crawling around inside your network without you knowing.
Don't ever try getting a job in security, you'd fail fucking miserably.
You are so wrong that people already hacked the IME and proved you wrong long ago.
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/...
The entire system has to run, every part is dependent upon the other in a chain of trust.
"Many parts of it have to be expressly enabled in the BIOS."
Actually, no, and the most recent news revealed was that there was an accessible NSA-specific command HARDCODED INTO THE IME.
But please, by all means keep covering up when almost all of us know better. That's the sure sign of a shill.
Click N Type was one I remembered testing out for a one-armed friend. That's where I first saw it, almost 20 years ago.
They were modded -1 because they're dead fucking wrong. The IME runs AT ALL TIMES IF PRESENT.
Oh, and that machine SHOULD NOT BE DEAD but yet because the tiny ME is dead (despite every system from long ago running fine without one) you're hosed.
You must be new in IT to not see why these things are inherently stupid. Try again when you've got 25+ years of experience in it.
"I do not have the time to run between different office locations to fix people's issues when I can easily deal with it remotely."
Until that ME processor itself dies. Then you're stuck fucking going there any goddamned ways to replace an entirely dead machine.
Lazy people should not be allowed hardware access.