Why such a hard step instead of a constant progression?
That's a good question. Maybe because it was simple? Anyway that's what Satoshi came up with and it will have to do. The decision has been criticized for unnecessary turbulence/price volatility which it causes.
Many newer cryptocurrencies such as Monero have opted to smoothly decreasing supply instead.
I had one SD card fail, but the current (Sandisk Extreme Class 10 8 GB) one has lasted ca. two years without an issue. Also the network connection is reliable when using a fixed IP address defined in/etc/network/interfaces.
I've rebooted it once during those two years due to software upgrade:
Earlier this month [May 2015], the Danish Parliament proposed a law that would allow stores to refuse to accept cash payments in exchange for goods or services. http://fortune.com/2015/05/22/...
It shows how secular protests turn into massacre and then to desperate fight for survival. They received no support from outside world, other than from the islamists (who had plenty of weapons and supplies, likely sponsored by such countries as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia). You can guess the rest.
Watch it and then come here to say that they had a choice. I think that most western young people can easily relate to people shown in the film. They are not that different from us.
The only downside to the unicomp keyboards is that the main metal plate inside with the contacts inside is assembled by melting the heads of dozens of plastic "rivets", forming a permanent seal that would need to be ground-off, then be very difficult, or impossible to re-attach. Would be far better if they just screwed it together.
Also have you tried to wash the keyboard? (disassembled as much as you can or atleast removing keys and springs first). You can put it thru dishwasher, just remember dry it throughly before plugging back in. (putting key sockets facing a fan for a day or maybe using hair dryer). I've washed one model M in a shower and let it dry on the balcony for a week and it works well.
"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.
Maybe you slept during the history class? Byzantine as a term was coined by Germans in the 1500s in an attempt to revise history as the Holy Roman Empire wanted to paint itself as successor of Rome. (It seems to have worked suprisingly well) Both "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" are terms created after 1453 (the fall of Constantinople).
The Empire now called as "Byzantine" was called Imperium Romanum (Latin) or Basileia Rhomaion (Greek) and it's citizens were called Romans regardless of the language they spoke. It's the very same Roman Empire with uninterrupted line of Emperors from the time of Caesar and not "Greek who pretends to be Roman" as you falsely claim. During the 600s they changed the offical language from Latin to Greek (administration and army) as it was practical to do so since that was the lingua franca in most of the areas controlled by the Empire.
You mean, Georgia, Ukraine and (brewing) Moldova? With functional takeover of a number of ex-USSR countries as well (Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova differ only by daring to stand up to Russia)? And aiding bloody coups elsewhere?
Don't forget Chechenya. That war basically brought Putin into power.
Moscow apartment bombings were executed to get a pretext for invading Chechenya (2nd war). FSB even got caught planting one of the bombs. Guess who was leading the FSB back then? Guess who blamed it all to Chechens?
For Putin, killing thousands of people is nothing. He will do just about anything to stay in power. I don't really think he needs to be paranoid even. With all the crimes he has done, whoever follows might not be easy on him
That does not follow. A large company can accept Bitcoins and convert immediately to their local currency. That does not require faith in a long-term forecast.
Implementing an infrastructure to handle a new payment protocol isn't free. Would you bother to add support for something that isn't going to be around?
The Roman Empire lasted another 200 years after the currency was fully debased to 5% silver in 270 CE. That's pretty fucking good by historical standards, especially since the first 100 years of that were reasonably stable and prosperous.
Roman empire (Imperium Romanum) lasted well into middle ages. It ended with the fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks in 1453.
I know Catholics like to rewrite history, but Romans made no such difference. In fact the city of Rome wasn't even capital of the empire after 330 CE when emperor Constantinus named Constantinople as the new capital. Trade in the east meant that's where the money was and the court moved accordingly.
Western parts were administered from Ravenna (Mediolanum) between 330 and 426 as the Rome (the city) fell into relative insignificance before falling to Goths. Rome was reconquered by the Roman Empire during Gothic wars in 535-554 CE.
The very very low transaction costs of cryptocurrency is only true for a very small population of very technically sophisticated persons -- maintaining safe and secure encrypted data backups involves the kind of skillset that companies pay good money for, so doing this as a hobby is not exactly "free" in any practical sense. The rest of us will need to lean on exchanges, and factor in how to pay for insurance against another apparent (IMHO) inside job like MtGox.
No need for encypted data backups. Transactions are all in the blockchain, not on your computer and addresses (and private keys) can be generated offline. It's enough if you just print your private keys on paper and keep those safe. The only way to lose your bitcoins is to lose your private keys.
This also the reason why storing bitcoins on an exchange is a bad idea. If you don't have the private key those bitcoins are not really yours.
I've had a Netgear WNDR3800 running a customized OpenWRT build by arokh https://forum.openwrt.org/view... for past couple of years and I've been very happy with it. My experience with routers is limited, but it's hands down the best router I ever had.
Custom firmwares can be installed from the stock web interface (same as normal firmware update). It has plenty of processing power and RAM and has been very reliable. Between firmware updates it has regularly clocked over a year of uptime without a hiccup.
his is why the US catches Russian sleeper agents occasionally... or busts Chinese spies. This happens all the time. And the general convention on the matter is that if we don't punish their spying we won't punish their spying.
Being in company of China and Russia with your track record isn't something I'd consider to be proud about.
Sami (the first inhabitants of Fennoscadia after the ice age) word for mother is eadni, which shares it's origin with Finnish Ãiti. Finns might have actually loaned it from the indigenous population when settling here thousands of years ago. So that recent.;)
In Finnish mother is "Ãiti". There also exists another word for mother "emo", but it's not used anymore in reference to human mother (except few local dialects), only when referring to mothers of other animal species. Though I think Estonian ("ema") and some other Finno-Ugric languages still have it in its original meaning.
BTW. Wouldn't it be time for slashdot to support accented letters already? Ã is a with two dots over it, pronounced like letter a in english word ash.
I can confirm that chatting with Google Talk accounts works using 3rd party XMPP servers. XMPP is actually the only IM protocol (if screen+irssi on remote server isn't counted) that I use with my phone (N9 also) and it works through the phone's integrated messaging client (telepathy). Video and voice calls using XMPP are bit flaky, but for simple messaging it's great.
Well, I don't know what N9 you guys are talking about, but my Nokia N9 (RM696) definitely uses X11 as default.
~ $ Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.9.5 Release Date: 2011-03-17 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 arm Current Operating System: Linux rm696 2.6.32.54-dfl61-20121301 #1 PREEMPT Mon Apr 2 14:14:32 EEST 2012 armv7l
~ $ dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.5-meego2121+0m8 Xorg X server - core server ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1-meego1042+0m6 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver ii xserver-xorg-input-mtev 0.1.14+0m6 Multitouch XI2 input driver ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.0-264+0m8 X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
That's not the impression I get from all that's been happening up there in NK lately. They aren't behaving by anyone's definition of "rational".
Kim Jong-un trying to unite people behind him by building up imaginary foreign threat? Not exactly a novel idea or completely without rationale. He's a new leader, people are unsure of his power and some might want to take his place or get rid of him.
For all practical purpose, they are 100% unpredictable. You have no way of telling what they're going to do next.
Probably next he will just make more threaths. Threats don't kill, but they can coinvince some potential competitors in the political elite of NK that Kim Jong-un is not weak. Whatever the case the NK's dictator loves his power and using nukes would be the fastest way to throw it all away. He won't do that. It might sound stupid to people who like to dehumanize their opponents, but he's not crazy (as in irrational). It's ofcourse debatable if lust for power that goes beyond the needs of the people is sane, but then many if not all of our leaders are crazy.
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That's a good question. Maybe because it was simple? Anyway that's what Satoshi came up with and it will have to do. The decision has been criticized for unnecessary turbulence/price volatility which it causes.
Many newer cryptocurrencies such as Monero have opted to smoothly decreasing supply instead.
I've rebooted it once during those two years due to software upgrade:
Earlier this month [May 2015], the Danish Parliament proposed a law that would allow stores to refuse to accept cash payments in exchange for goods or services. http://fortune.com/2015/05/22/...
There's a very good documentary about this called "Return to Homs", which everyone should see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt31...
It shows how secular protests turn into massacre and then to desperate fight for survival. They received no support from outside world, other than from the islamists (who had plenty of weapons and supplies, likely sponsored by such countries as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia). You can guess the rest.
Watch it and then come here to say that they had a choice. I think that most western young people can easily relate to people shown in the film. They are not that different from us.
You probably meant Nikaia (Greek) or Nicaea (Latin).
You can replace plastic rivets with nuts and bolts: http://imgur.com/a/QroSL
Also have you tried to wash the keyboard? (disassembled as much as you can or atleast removing keys and springs first). You can put it thru dishwasher, just remember dry it throughly before plugging back in. (putting key sockets facing a fan for a day or maybe using hair dryer). I've washed one model M in a shower and let it dry on the balcony for a week and it works well.
Maybe you slept during the history class? Byzantine as a term was coined by Germans in the 1500s in an attempt to revise history as the Holy Roman Empire wanted to paint itself as successor of Rome. (It seems to have worked suprisingly well) Both "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" are terms created after 1453 (the fall of Constantinople).
The Empire now called as "Byzantine" was called Imperium Romanum (Latin) or Basileia Rhomaion (Greek) and it's citizens were called Romans regardless of the language they spoke. It's the very same Roman Empire with uninterrupted line of Emperors from the time of Caesar and not "Greek who pretends to be Roman" as you falsely claim. During the 600s they changed the offical language from Latin to Greek (administration and army) as it was practical to do so since that was the lingua franca in most of the areas controlled by the Empire.
Don't forget Chechenya. That war basically brought Putin into power.
Moscow apartment bombings were executed to get a pretext for invading Chechenya (2nd war). FSB even got caught planting one of the bombs. Guess who was leading the FSB back then? Guess who blamed it all to Chechens?
For Putin, killing thousands of people is nothing. He will do just about anything to stay in power. I don't really think he needs to be paranoid even. With all the crimes he has done, whoever follows might not be easy on him
Implementing an infrastructure to handle a new payment protocol isn't free. Would you bother to add support for something that isn't going to be around?
Roman empire (Imperium Romanum) lasted well into middle ages. It ended with the fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks in 1453.
I know Catholics like to rewrite history, but Romans made no such difference. In fact the city of Rome wasn't even capital of the empire after 330 CE when emperor Constantinus named Constantinople as the new capital. Trade in the east meant that's where the money was and the court moved accordingly.
Western parts were administered from Ravenna (Mediolanum) between 330 and 426 as the Rome (the city) fell into relative insignificance before falling to Goths. Rome was reconquered by the Roman Empire during Gothic wars in 535-554 CE.
But hey, it runs Linux. :)
http://sea.sy/article/id/2048/...
No need for encypted data backups. Transactions are all in the blockchain, not on your computer and addresses (and private keys) can be generated offline. It's enough if you just print your private keys on paper and keep those safe. The only way to lose your bitcoins is to lose your private keys.
This also the reason why storing bitcoins on an exchange is a bad idea. If you don't have the private key those bitcoins are not really yours.
Then they do it wrong. Do they also not begin their sentences with capital letters?
I guess we agree that kilometre (or kilometer for the US) is an SI unit. So in the International System of Units:
k = kilo (prefix for one thousand)
m = metre (base unit of length)
h = hour (unit of time)
Thus the correct unit symbol for kilometre(s) per hour is either km/h or kmh^-1. It's really that simple.
Or 4 Mm^2. (4 square megametres)
I've had a Netgear WNDR3800 running a customized OpenWRT build by arokh https://forum.openwrt.org/view... for past couple of years and I've been very happy with it. My experience with routers is limited, but it's hands down the best router I ever had.
Custom firmwares can be installed from the stock web interface (same as normal firmware update). It has plenty of processing power and RAM and has been very reliable. Between firmware updates it has regularly clocked over a year of uptime without a hiccup.
They won't exit voluntarily. So you need to use force:
$ sudo killall -9 politicians
But whatever. You'll only end up witnessing the following:
"$USER is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."
Oh, so Android now ships with GNU/busybox userland and X (or Wayland in case of Sailfish) out of the box?
his is why the US catches Russian sleeper agents occasionally... or busts Chinese spies. This happens all the time. And the general convention on the matter is that if we don't punish their spying we won't punish their spying.
Being in company of China and Russia with your track record isn't something I'd consider to be proud about.
Sami (the first inhabitants of Fennoscadia after the ice age) word for mother is eadni, which shares it's origin with Finnish Ãiti. Finns might have actually loaned it from the indigenous population when settling here thousands of years ago. So that recent. ;)
In Finnish mother is "Ãiti". There also exists another word for mother "emo", but it's not used anymore in reference to human mother (except few local dialects), only when referring to mothers of other animal species. Though I think Estonian ("ema") and some other Finno-Ugric languages still have it in its original meaning.
BTW. Wouldn't it be time for slashdot to support accented letters already? Ã is a with two dots over it, pronounced like letter a in english word ash.
I can confirm that chatting with Google Talk accounts works using 3rd party XMPP servers. XMPP is actually the only IM protocol (if screen+irssi on remote server isn't counted) that I use with my phone (N9 also) and it works through the phone's integrated messaging client (telepathy). Video and voice calls using XMPP are bit flaky, but for simple messaging it's great.
and
From my Nokia N9:
/usr/bin/Xorg -logfile /tmp/Xorg.0.log -core -background none -logverbose 1 -verbose -1 -nocursor -noreset -novtswitch -s 0 -sigstop
~ $ ps -A | grep Xorg
553 root 244:41
17005 user 0:00 grep Xorg
~ $ dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.5-meego2121+0m8 Xorg X server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1-meego1042+0m6 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mtev 0.1.14+0m6 Multitouch XI2 input driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.0-264+0m8 X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
Kim Jong-un trying to unite people behind him by building up imaginary foreign threat? Not exactly a novel idea or completely without rationale. He's a new leader, people are unsure of his power and some might want to take his place or get rid of him.
Probably next he will just make more threaths. Threats don't kill, but they can coinvince some potential competitors in the political elite of NK that Kim Jong-un is not weak. Whatever the case the NK's dictator loves his power and using nukes would be the fastest way to throw it all away. He won't do that. It might sound stupid to people who like to dehumanize their opponents, but he's not crazy (as in irrational). It's ofcourse debatable if lust for power that goes beyond the needs of the people is sane, but then many if not all of our leaders are crazy.