Would people stop saying this? It's not a feature baked into BitCoin. I'll repeat myself: BitCoin is not inherently anonymous.
Actual anonymity with a digital currency requires you to avoid spending it anywhere it could ever be linked to your physical person in any possible manner. You also need to acquire it with the same caveats.
Is the damn thing heavy enough to stay in one place or do I need to bolt it down? I clicked on TFL (I know! I know!) and saw what looked like a plastic base.
A prime number (or prime integer, often simply called a "prime" for short) is a positive integer p>1 that has no positive integer divisors other than 1 and p itself. (More concisely, a prime number p is a positive integer having exactly one positive divisor other than 1.) For example, the only divisors of 13 are 1 and 13, making 13 a prime number, while the number 24 has divisors 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 (corresponding to the factorization 24=2^33), making 24 not a prime number. Positive integers other than 1 which are not prime are called composite numbers.
Prime numbers are therefore numbers that cannot be factored or, more precisely, are numbers n whose divisors are trivial and given by exactly 1 and n.
While the term "prime number" commonly refers to prime positive integers, other types of primes are also defined, such as the Gaussian primes.
The number 1 is a special case which is considered neither prime nor composite (Wells 1986, p. 31). Although the number 1 used to be considered a prime (Goldbach 1742; Lehmer 1909, 1914; Hardy and Wright 1979, p. 11; Gardner 1984, pp. 86-87; Sloane and Plouffe 1995, p. 33; Hardy 1999, p. 46), it requires special treatment in so many definitions and applications involving primes greater than or equal to 2 that it is usually placed into a class of its own. A good reason not to call 1 a prime number is that if 1 were prime, then the statement of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic would have to be modified since "in exactly one way" would be false because any n=n1. In other words, unique factorization into a product of primes would fail if the primes included 1. A slightly less illuminating but mathematically correct reason is noted by Tietze (1965, p. 2), who states "Why is the number 1 made an exception? This is a problem that schoolboys often argue about, but since it is a question of definition, it is not arguable." As more simply noted by Derbyshire (2004, p. 33), "2 pays its way [as a prime] on balance; 1 doesn't."
With 1 excluded, the smallest prime is therefore 2. However, since 2 is the only even prime (which, ironically, in some sense makes it the "oddest" prime), it is also somewhat special, and the set of all primes excluding 2 is therefore called the "odd primes." Note also that while 2 is considered a prime today, at one time it was not (Tietze 1965, p. 18; Tropfke 1921, p. 96).
Take it up with the many mathematicians who disagree with you. The dictionary actually says virtually the same thing as Wolfram MathWorld. So, your point was?
a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded
Google Voice numbers aren't BS. For all paperwork and official communication, I give out my Google Voice number. Only friends and family get my cell phone number.
If it's really important enough, the caller will make it easy for me to call them back. If I can't call them back at a direct number, they're just shit out of luck.
Plus, audio interfaces for voicemail are terrible. It's vastly preferable for me to read a transcript, as I also have fairly severe hearing loss.
To be fair, I repeatedly rebuilt my joystick, which was about the simplest possible piece of electronics you could attach to it. And the power bricks were crappy, but I got lucky on all counts. I've had to rebuild Apple power bricks an obscene numbers of times (small shitty wires, virtually no strain relief, etc.), but I never had to do that for my C64.
I did repeatedly have to drain the keyboard and clean it, inside and out. Never died on me though. I was speaking from experience about the beer...
There is no solution to that. The best you can really hope for is encouraging them screw safely. Provide condoms, birth control, and STD testing, problem mitigated.
Yeah, fuck the whiners. It's a huge step forward, and the whiners don't have the technical chops to know what's going on or why they should shut up and care--or just shut up and accept that something useful is being done and will likely benefit them in the future.
Perhaps we should limit your statement to "developers who create applications intended to be used in a setting which may critically impair a human or endanger their life". You can still build all sorts of things privately (performing engineering activities) without ever selling it to anyone or placing anyone's life in jeopardy--and without being licensed. I see no reason for software to be different.
Agreed. I no longer have the desire or feel the need to chase specs. Not gaming as much is one part of it, but another part of it is that being a programmer means being able to make the machine do what you want--and most of the things I want to do don't require the machine to have ridiculous specs. If they need ridiculous specs, they can be tested on a low end machine and spun up on a remote VM for the task.
Thinkpad T500 here. Nothing fancy, 3 GB of memory, Core 2 Duo @ 2.53 GHz, Mobility Radeon HD 3650.
I buy cheap refurbs. Computers have hit the price point of being essentially disposable, and my needs for raw computing horsepower aren't that great on my primary box. I mostly need a browser, text editor, and a shell.
You seem awfully fixated on stereotypes which aren't actually important in any meaningful way. History review?
Baby books, new baby announcements and cards, gift lists and newspaper articles from the early 1900s indicate that pink was just as likely to be associated with boy babies as with girl babies. For example, the June 1918 issue of the Infant's Department, a trade magazine for baby clothes manufacturers, said: "There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl."
Before Gatsby, a 1918 trade catalog for children's clothing recommended blue for girls. The reasoning at the time was that it's a "much more delicate and dainty tone," Finamore says. Pink was recommended for boys "because it's a stronger and more passionate color, and because it's actually derived from red."
To our 21st century ears, all this men in pink stuff may sound a bit blushy. "It's so deeply entrenched in us and our culture," says Finamore. "We think of pink as such a girlish color, but it's really a post-World War II phenomenon."
One would think that Mozilla would take a step back and think, what might we be doing wrong?.
Absolutely nothing! At least, if you're targeting the market segment consisting of people who think every program they use should be a full operating system. These people can be reliably identified by one or more characteristics, such as frequent use of the dangerous, addictive drugs IDE and EMACS. Other symptoms include falling ill with Fully Redundant Internet of Things Outsourcing Syndrome (FRITOS), excessive time spent in walled gardens, and withdrawal anxiety from smart phones or other mobile devices.
I believe the GP is implying that modern fiction often copies real life events from historical cultures, not that it rips off their fiction directly (which some works do, but that's tangential to the actual point).
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What is stopping them from running away with all the money stashed in the escrow accounts?
Perhaps, in large part, because repeat customers are better business than people you just scammed?
I know the *money* is supposedly untraceable
Would people stop saying this? It's not a feature baked into BitCoin. I'll repeat myself: BitCoin is not inherently anonymous.
Actual anonymity with a digital currency requires you to avoid spending it anywhere it could ever be linked to your physical person in any possible manner. You also need to acquire it with the same caveats.
Is the damn thing heavy enough to stay in one place or do I need to bolt it down? I clicked on TFL (I know! I know!) and saw what looked like a plastic base.
Fine, I have a better citation than the AC.
A prime number (or prime integer, often simply called a "prime" for short) is a positive integer p>1 that has no positive integer divisors other than 1 and p itself. (More concisely, a prime number p is a positive integer having exactly one positive divisor other than 1.) For example, the only divisors of 13 are 1 and 13, making 13 a prime number, while the number 24 has divisors 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 (corresponding to the factorization 24=2^33), making 24 not a prime number. Positive integers other than 1 which are not prime are called composite numbers.
Prime numbers are therefore numbers that cannot be factored or, more precisely, are numbers n whose divisors are trivial and given by exactly 1 and n.
While the term "prime number" commonly refers to prime positive integers, other types of primes are also defined, such as the Gaussian primes.
The number 1 is a special case which is considered neither prime nor composite (Wells 1986, p. 31). Although the number 1 used to be considered a prime (Goldbach 1742; Lehmer 1909, 1914; Hardy and Wright 1979, p. 11; Gardner 1984, pp. 86-87; Sloane and Plouffe 1995, p. 33; Hardy 1999, p. 46), it requires special treatment in so many definitions and applications involving primes greater than or equal to 2 that it is usually placed into a class of its own. A good reason not to call 1 a prime number is that if 1 were prime, then the statement of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic would have to be modified since "in exactly one way" would be false because any n=n1. In other words, unique factorization into a product of primes would fail if the primes included 1. A slightly less illuminating but mathematically correct reason is noted by Tietze (1965, p. 2), who states "Why is the number 1 made an exception? This is a problem that schoolboys often argue about, but since it is a question of definition, it is not arguable." As more simply noted by Derbyshire (2004, p. 33), "2 pays its way [as a prime] on balance; 1 doesn't."
With 1 excluded, the smallest prime is therefore 2. However, since 2 is the only even prime (which, ironically, in some sense makes it the "oddest" prime), it is also somewhat special, and the set of all primes excluding 2 is therefore called the "odd primes." Note also that while 2 is considered a prime today, at one time it was not (Tietze 1965, p. 18; Tropfke 1921, p. 96).
Take it up with the many mathematicians who disagree with you. The dictionary actually says virtually the same thing as Wolfram MathWorld. So, your point was?
a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded
You didn't finish the story! What about getting your windows replaced? Did you get to demonstrate this property to the contractor?
Google Voice numbers aren't BS. For all paperwork and official communication, I give out my Google Voice number. Only friends and family get my cell phone number.
If it's really important enough, the caller will make it easy for me to call them back. If I can't call them back at a direct number, they're just shit out of luck.
Plus, audio interfaces for voicemail are terrible. It's vastly preferable for me to read a transcript, as I also have fairly severe hearing loss.
To be fair, I repeatedly rebuilt my joystick, which was about the simplest possible piece of electronics you could attach to it. And the power bricks were crappy, but I got lucky on all counts. I've had to rebuild Apple power bricks an obscene numbers of times (small shitty wires, virtually no strain relief, etc.), but I never had to do that for my C64.
I did repeatedly have to drain the keyboard and clean it, inside and out. Never died on me though. I was speaking from experience about the beer...
There is no solution to that. The best you can really hope for is encouraging them screw safely. Provide condoms, birth control, and STD testing, problem mitigated.
Around here, Planned Parenthood does that.
"The Board of Education" was very similar to a cricket bat with holes drilled in it that our principal kept on the wall behind his desk
My parents had one of those when I was a kid, but I don't think you're allowed to use them anymore.
How the bloody hell did you go through *three* of them? I only had one, and it lasted until I gave it away many years later.
You could murder someone with a Commodore 64 after fishing it out of a swimming pool filled with beer and it would still run fine.
B..b..but... it's not perfect!!!
Yeah, fuck the whiners. It's a huge step forward, and the whiners don't have the technical chops to know what's going on or why they should shut up and care--or just shut up and accept that something useful is being done and will likely benefit them in the future.
Perhaps we should limit your statement to "developers who create applications intended to be used in a setting which may critically impair a human or endanger their life". You can still build all sorts of things privately (performing engineering activities) without ever selling it to anyone or placing anyone's life in jeopardy--and without being licensed. I see no reason for software to be different.
Agreed. I no longer have the desire or feel the need to chase specs. Not gaming as much is one part of it, but another part of it is that being a programmer means being able to make the machine do what you want--and most of the things I want to do don't require the machine to have ridiculous specs. If they need ridiculous specs, they can be tested on a low end machine and spun up on a remote VM for the task.
Thinkpad T500 here. Nothing fancy, 3 GB of memory, Core 2 Duo @ 2.53 GHz, Mobility Radeon HD 3650.
I buy cheap refurbs. Computers have hit the price point of being essentially disposable, and my needs for raw computing horsepower aren't that great on my primary box. I mostly need a browser, text editor, and a shell.
TFA is suggesting Xilinx should buy AMD, not the other way around.
You seem awfully fixated on stereotypes which aren't actually important in any meaningful way. History review?
Baby books, new baby announcements and cards, gift lists and newspaper articles from the early 1900s indicate that pink was just as likely to be associated with
boy babies as with girl babies. For example, the June 1918 issue of the Infant's Department, a trade magazine for baby clothes manufacturers, said: "There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl."
Aaaand, from NPR:
Before Gatsby, a 1918 trade catalog for children's clothing recommended blue for girls. The reasoning at the time was that it's a "much more delicate and dainty tone," Finamore says. Pink was recommended for boys "because it's a stronger and more passionate color, and because it's actually derived from red."
To our 21st century ears, all this men in pink stuff may sound a bit blushy. "It's so deeply entrenched in us and our culture," says Finamore. "We think of pink as such a girlish color, but it's really a post-World War II phenomenon."
One would think that Mozilla would take a step back and think, what might we be doing wrong?.
Absolutely nothing! At least, if you're targeting the market segment consisting of people who think every program they use should be a full operating system. These people can be reliably identified by one or more characteristics, such as frequent use of the dangerous, addictive drugs IDE and EMACS. Other symptoms include falling ill with Fully Redundant Internet of Things Outsourcing Syndrome (FRITOS), excessive time spent in walled gardens, and withdrawal anxiety from smart phones or other mobile devices.
I'm not much for following webcomics these days, but you're quite skilled. Keep up the good work, and good luck!
The trend in software development is always towards bloat, cruft and kitchen sink.
You could always convert to TempleOS.
Why do I care how many other people use it right now? Browsers come and go. It's maintained at present, and it works well.
Posted from my Pale Moon.
The one where an expansionist empire stopped growing and began stagnating until it stopped being an empire?
Since we're talking restoring monuments to violence, why not rebuild the Berlin Wall in the spirit of cultural preservation?
/ducks
I believe the GP is implying that modern fiction often copies real life events from historical cultures, not that it rips off their fiction directly (which some works do, but that's tangential to the actual point).
WHOOSH!
And it's on topic.
If they make predictions about things that are inherently unfalsifiable, the theories should be stripped down to respect that boundary.
If they make predictions about things that are falsifiable, but not within our reach to test at present, then keep all the theories.