The difference is bitcoin is going to do it because it's becoming an automated market. Algorithms will pump up the value. Hardware ASIC miners will pump up the volume.
If you understand how it's designed, it will never again go below $50. It will probably rise to $1000 by the end of 2013. And by 2015 it could and probably will be in the tens if not hundreds of thousands.
So those who put their entire life savings into bitcoin, those who will put $100,000 or so in today will be millionaires or perhaps even billionaires a few years from now.
If you wait for it to pop this time you'll miss out. It will never be $2 a coin again. In fact it's going to reach $1000 a coin by the end of the year.
And when that happens you'll all wish you bought 1000 coins for a few cent. Now look at you all rushing to pay $100 per coin. By this time next year it will be $1000 per coin. A year later it will be $5000. Then 6 months later it could be $20,000, then $100,000, etc.
"The U.S. Supreme Court will review genomic patent rights in an upcoming hearing on April 15. At issue is the right of a molecular diagnostic company to claim patents not only on two key breast and ovarian cancer genes — BRCA1 and BRCA2 — but also on any small sequence of code within BRCA1, including a striking patent for only 15 nucleotides. "...
"This means if the Supreme Court upholds the current scope of the patents, no physician or researcher can study the DNA of these genes from their patients, and no diagnostic test or drug can be developed based on any of these genes without infringing a patent," says Dr. Mason.
* Personally I believe the supreme court will throw out these patents.
These laws were meant to be broken. Either break the law or move to a country with sensible patent laws.
The way these algorithms work are entirely different from conventional algorithms. They are not only faster but more elegant and simple too. Beautiful algorithms but the problem is no quantum computer currently exists which can take advantage.
It can do optimization type problems but it's not an actual quantum computer. It's not actually good at solving "millions of problems" it's just good at solving a couple of problems "millions of times" faster.
Privacy is only dead if you give it up right now. It's not dead yet. There are still people holding on to whatever bits of privacy are left (and there are some). You don't have to bring devices home with microphones in them or cameras. You can still get by without a cell phone. If you can't chances are you can simply turn it off when your not using it. It isn't a perfect solution although I work with someone who does exactly this. One of my employees isn't reachable while on the road. He does have a cell phone. It is always off unless he needs to make a call. His wife calls him at work when she needs to reach him. You can use Tor to get privacy online in areas that you may not wish to be known for looking or things you may not want others to know you partake in or otherwise believe/speak.
In the real world privacy is largely dead. It is sad that the law doesn't prohibit hidden recording devices in public places. Where cameras might be absolutely necessary (high security instillations) there should be notices posted everywhere that one might be within the range of the camera.
A tin foil hat wont protect you from a high tech privacy invasion. There is no privacy and no way to defend yourself against the snooping potential of the electromagnetic spectrum.
No- but you can use a hardened environment with Tor and it becomes much more difficult to legally conduct surveillance until there is at least suspicion (and Tor doesn't equal suspicion). At that point it highly depends on what the person is doing. If they are posting copyright infringing material? Probably not going to draw the attention of the authorities where the authorities are going to be able to identify a person of reasonable intelligence. Bomb threats? (there are lots of these and identifying a person could be difficult from a large crowd if its been passed through tor; example schools have lots of kids who would be potential candidates for such activity; few kids really like school). Child porn? Again- unless there posting pictures/video/etc that could be a tough one. I'm pretty confident that there are lots of people out there. Just given the significant number of reports every day and the utter hopelessness of police catching every perp....
No it doesn't. They will find out you're using Tor and that is all they'd have to know to suspect you're a terrorist.We aren't talking about the USA.
Apparently you don't know the technology very well or the capabilities. Putting thousands of people under surveillance at a time is easy and is being done. I'm talking tens of thousands. It's expensive to scale up into the millions but millions of people wont be expert enough to use Tor and use it properly, and they probably know who all the most expert types are and are building files on them.
Quantum Computers? Really? I wouldn't hold your breath.
My money is we will have workable fusion power plants before we have a usable quantum computer that is able to play video games.
All the pieces are falling into place for Quantum Computers within the next 10 years. Price and manufacturing is the issue as that hasn't been solved yet but I wont be surprised if that is solved in the next 5 years.
CPU technology will be in the quantum computer era within those 10 years as the nano scale limit is breached. It's basically a dead end for consoles. The consoles will have initial success and then ultimately fail within 4-5 years. They will not have a 10 year life span, 4-5 years is now the lifespan of consoles.
He will probably never work again anywhere as a journalist. It's hard to make a living as a journalist, exceptionally hard. 6 months probation and being blackballed, while not as bad as 30 years in prison, can still destroy someones life.
However, there are probably individuals within Anonymous who are snitches and if you're dumb enough to hang out with them and give them your dox and real info don't be surprised if when they commit a crime they say you did it. Blackhat hackers are not the kind of people who typically are trustable with information or with secrets. Who is surprised?
30 years. Now that US militarized the internet, any small mistake, or that looked from very far aggresive move will have that kind of punishment, as they see anything related as war crimes. Even falling in a social engineering trick puts you into the enemy of the state category.
Meanwhile bankers that steal billons or just screw the entire world economy, are too big to jail or just gets even a lot more money from government.
And it's already to late to change anything of this. Any try to fix the system will get people 30 years of jail too.
It's not hard to avoid small mistakes. It's not hard to not incriminate yourself. It's not hard to not get entrapped. If you hang around hackers you will go to jail, period.
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Bitcoin isn't stock. You don't know shit about bitcoin. Do your research Mr. Cleverly. Bitcoin has fundamentals.
The people who sell out wont get to see it reach $1000. The smartest people bought in and stayed in the whole way from $2 to $1000.
The difference is bitcoin is going to do it because it's becoming an automated market. Algorithms will pump up the value. Hardware ASIC miners will pump up the volume.
The smartest people bought in when it was 5 bucks and will keep it until it's $1000+ or perhaps even $1 million.
Quote me. A year from now it will be approaching $1000 a coin. It will never be $17 a coin again.
If you wouldn't have invested 90 cent on bitcoin and it's now $100 a coin, you're a complete idiot.
When it's $1000 a coin the people who invested at 90 cent will be millionaires.
If you understand how it's designed, it will never again go below $50. It will probably rise to $1000 by the end of 2013. And by 2015 it could and probably will be in the tens if not hundreds of thousands.
So those who put their entire life savings into bitcoin, those who will put $100,000 or so in today will be millionaires or perhaps even billionaires a few years from now.
If you wait for it to pop this time you'll miss out. It will never be $2 a coin again. In fact it's going to reach $1000 a coin by the end of the year.
And when that happens you'll all wish you bought 1000 coins for a few cent. Now look at you all rushing to pay $100 per coin. By this time next year it will be $1000 per coin. A year later it will be $5000. Then 6 months later it could be $20,000, then $100,000, etc.
but I'm not a math expert.
"The U.S. Supreme Court will review genomic patent rights in an upcoming hearing on April 15. At issue is the right of a molecular diagnostic company to claim patents not only on two key breast and ovarian cancer genes — BRCA1 and BRCA2 — but also on any small sequence of code within BRCA1, including a striking patent for only 15 nucleotides. " ...
"This means if the Supreme Court upholds the current scope of the patents, no physician or researcher can study the DNA of these genes from their patients, and no diagnostic test or drug can be developed based on any of these genes without infringing a patent," says Dr. Mason.
* Personally I believe the supreme court will throw out these patents.
These laws were meant to be broken. Either break the law or move to a country with sensible patent laws.
The way these algorithms work are entirely different from conventional algorithms. They are not only faster but more elegant and simple too. Beautiful algorithms but the problem is no quantum computer currently exists which can take advantage.
It can do optimization type problems but it's not an actual quantum computer. It's not actually good at solving "millions of problems" it's just good at solving a couple of problems "millions of times" faster.
Does it still count as a religion if it relies on science to determine it's beliefs?
Privacy is only dead if you give it up right now. It's not dead yet. There are still people holding on to whatever bits of privacy are left (and there are some). You don't have to bring devices home with microphones in them or cameras. You can still get by without a cell phone. If you can't chances are you can simply turn it off when your not using it. It isn't a perfect solution although I work with someone who does exactly this. One of my employees isn't reachable while on the road. He does have a cell phone. It is always off unless he needs to make a call. His wife calls him at work when she needs to reach him. You can use Tor to get privacy online in areas that you may not wish to be known for looking or things you may not want others to know you partake in or otherwise believe/speak.
In the real world privacy is largely dead. It is sad that the law doesn't prohibit hidden recording devices in public places. Where cameras might be absolutely necessary (high security instillations) there should be notices posted everywhere that one might be within the range of the camera.
A tin foil hat wont protect you from a high tech privacy invasion. There is no privacy and no way to defend yourself against the snooping potential of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Why stop at Linux?
What good does it do to run software on Linux when you run on an Intel CPU with proprietary microcode?
You have obviously not *studied* security, although you raise real concerns. A security analysis requires defining a threat model.
The more obscure the threat model (such as Intel injecting a Tor backdoor into the microcode of its CPUs), the less weight it is given.
I'm not using an Intel based CPU. That being said I'm aware of that and other potential backdoors which is why I said what I said.
No- but you can use a hardened environment with Tor and it becomes much more difficult to legally conduct surveillance until there is at least suspicion (and Tor doesn't equal suspicion). At that point it highly depends on what the person is doing. If they are posting copyright infringing material? Probably not going to draw the attention of the authorities where the authorities are going to be able to identify a person of reasonable intelligence. Bomb threats? (there are lots of these and identifying a person could be difficult from a large crowd if its been passed through tor; example schools have lots of kids who would be potential candidates for such activity; few kids really like school). Child porn? Again- unless there posting pictures/video/etc that could be a tough one. I'm pretty confident that there are lots of people out there. Just given the significant number of reports every day and the utter hopelessness of police catching every perp....
No it doesn't. They will find out you're using Tor and that is all they'd have to know to suspect you're a terrorist.We aren't talking about the USA.
Apparently you don't know the technology very well or the capabilities. Putting thousands of people under surveillance at a time is easy and is being done. I'm talking tens of thousands. It's expensive to scale up into the millions but millions of people wont be expert enough to use Tor and use it properly, and they probably know who all the most expert types are and are building files on them.
Quantum Computers? Really? I wouldn't hold your breath.
My money is we will have workable fusion power plants before we have a usable quantum computer that is able to play video games.
All the pieces are falling into place for Quantum Computers within the next 10 years. Price and manufacturing is the issue as that hasn't been solved yet but I wont be surprised if that is solved in the next 5 years.
CPU technology will be in the quantum computer era within those 10 years as the nano scale limit is breached. It's basically a dead end for consoles. The consoles will have initial success and then ultimately fail within 4-5 years. They will not have a 10 year life span, 4-5 years is now the lifespan of consoles.
He will probably never work again anywhere as a journalist. It's hard to make a living as a journalist, exceptionally hard. 6 months probation and being blackballed, while not as bad as 30 years in prison, can still destroy someones life.
However, there are probably individuals within Anonymous who are snitches and if you're dumb enough to hang out with them and give them your dox and real info don't be surprised if when they commit a crime they say you did it. Blackhat hackers are not the kind of people who typically are trustable with information or with secrets. Who is surprised?
30 years. Now that US militarized the internet, any small mistake, or that looked from very far aggresive move will have that kind of punishment, as they see anything related as war crimes. Even falling in a social engineering trick puts you into the enemy of the state category.
Meanwhile bankers that steal billons or just screw the entire world economy, are too big to jail or just gets even a lot more money from government.
And it's already to late to change anything of this. Any try to fix the system will get people 30 years of jail too.
It's not hard to avoid small mistakes. It's not hard to not incriminate yourself. It's not hard to not get entrapped. If you hang around hackers you will go to jail, period.
Why would he be so stupid to even get involved in that stuff and not expect to be treated as a terrorist?
Even if it were open source it could still be tapped. Just maybe not as easily.