Gee elucido; after seeing you post how bitcoins will increase 10x by 2014 in three posts now I can see that you selflessly want us all to partake in this great opportunity. I think I'll go and get some now!
But I know enough to ask questions. I have had grave concerns about the validity of their design since I first read about it on slashdot some years back. It seemed to me the case had not been made that bitcoin was not vulnerable to rapid destruction of value, due to attacks on fundamental flaws in its design.
Hard-hitting analysis there.. Any cryptographers want to walk us through the technical issues raised here, maybe allay our fears?
"you people"? The thing is you can't respond to people like the GP and say "well.. not really. come on, here's an anecdote about our CIO planning ahead."
Maybe P8 can maintain the integration between the P1-7 providers, P9 can handle all the different contracts, and P10 can figure out why it takes so long to load data through 5 layers of providers?
The company I work for with ~2000 employees paid $80,000 AUD for our Christmas party at a convention center.
We spent $xx,000 on a marketing firm to develop a screensaver which promoted our corporate values, but which flickered in a way that gave some people headaches, and had to be taken down.
Our department went Go-karting twice last year, and I was given 5 days of training for something I haven't used before or since.
Two years ago someone in our department was paid by another department ~$40,000 in billable hours to write some software which for whatever reason wasn't suitable.
There are spikes in the number of broken company iPhone 4s after iPhone 5s come out.
We spend tens of thousands on color ink because engineers don't like electronically marking up documents.
My sister works for a charity which spent $30,000 for a web-dev company to build a template-based website (which the web-dev company owns).
Large businesses waste money, you're in no position to say it had no value, and the amount of money is trivial. If you consider this excessive don't get mad when you run into a front-line IRS worker who hates their job and behaves as such.
In computer science at uni we learned Oracle for database stuff, C for network programming, UNIX system calls for OS design, OpenGL for computer graphics, Java for basic programming, Linux was our OS and Eclipse was our IDE.
In my first job out of uni all of those were exchanged for the Windows equivalents; it really doesn't matter what platform you learn on.
I know right, they started teaching history in high school, now everyone considers themselves a historian and the hard working historians are out of work!
We need the next generation to be as dumb as possible, so we can be employed for as long as possible.
Loosely translated: The people in the code.org film already knew each other from other places before they made the film! And they have similar ideals and goals! And therefore they were probably involved in 9/11!!
If it's not the GnuSense Linux fork GnuTense it's worth actively working against, because anyone we can persuade to stop working on other distros will start working on GnuTense!
Some routers are worth $20k, but obviously a school will never need one of these.. The question is why they were sold to schools; was it fraud by Cisco? was it a badly designed procurement process? was it corruption?
Hi, what you need is webcamd for a low powered machine with a cheap USB webcam (best to check the chipset compatibility before buying, just in case).
There'll be a bit of manual page reading, setting the motion detection thresholds and areas, configuring it to start on boot, archive/FTP images taken, add timestamps to the images, etc, and writing the scripts that will get run when motion is detected, but it'll be cheap, customizable and it'll work.
I've used this setup in a local maritime simulator where there was a breakin attempt (lots of projectors and electronics naturally), and they wanted a bit of extra security on the cheap.
Yeah.. wake me up when they have ported it to the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages and maybe I'll think about potentially buying a game. (As long as it contains no DRM and is also part of the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages, audited by portaudit, of course.)
There are many free trade agreements, what do you mean "the Free Trade Agreement"? And FTAs are (as the name suggests) intended to promote free trade; how was "the" free trade agreement created in response to market based iron ore pricing? And Australia doesn't have a free trade agreement with China who are our main importers of iron ore.
I'm an Australian, and I pay more for technology than people in other parts of the world including the US. This is kind of a pain in the ass, but I have to admit that if it wasn't worth it to me I wouldn't pay. Our currency is really strong at the moment, so in general imports are very cheap and local goods/services are very expensive, and we really pay very little for technology in relative terms.
I sure wouldn't want other countries which buy our imports to say to us "wait that's not fair; it only costs you guys $40/tonne to export iron ore and we're paying $150/tonne. We're going to get the government involved to try and fight that somehow".
To that I would say "the value of something is whatever its buyer is willing to pay for it" and we have to be consistent in that.
No, I don't understand the difference. Suppose Apple allowed another company to make iPhone hardware, so long as it met the specifications and they paid Apple appropriately; why would Apple then have to allow people to dual-boot?
Currently Apple have alternative suppliers for the components that go into the iPhones, but they are the ones who ultimately do the packaging and shipping. Are you saying that if Microsoft did the packaging and shipping it would be okay for them to ban dual-booting? Are you saying that it's no problem for them to do it for the Microsoft Surface, which they do package and ship?
Did you know Apple are "the single gatekeeper" for what runs on iPhones? Isn't that outrageous? And I when I discovered I can't run QNX on my Nintendo Wii I was just furious.. It's almost like they're not selling these devices as general purpose computers!
As it is, the most we can do is not buy computers that meet both of these specifications: Windows RT running on an ARM processor. By doing so we are effectively surrendering and increasing their (again, Microsoft's) power to further destroy our freedom in the future
It's the same deal with iOS isn't it? Even with Android phones you need to work to root them. Same thing for Tivos, TVs, consumer linux routers, etc; the device and software are sold as a single package. Hardly a new evil Microsoft thing, and not even controversial outside of the FSF.
But I agree 100% that if you don't like it don't buy it.
Because people are getting in a huge state over nothing.. The fear is that Microsoft will then remove the ability to turn it off later (despite the fact it would be inviting a massive anti-competition lawsuit)
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Gee elucido; after seeing you post how bitcoins will increase 10x by 2014 in three posts now I can see that you selflessly want us all to partake in this great opportunity. I think I'll go and get some now!
But I know enough to ask questions. I have had grave concerns about the validity of their design since I first read about it on slashdot some years back. It seemed to me the case had not been made that bitcoin was not vulnerable to rapid destruction of value, due to attacks on fundamental flaws in its design.
Hard-hitting analysis there.. Any cryptographers want to walk us through the technical issues raised here, maybe allay our fears?
I take it you're as leveraged as you can get to take advantage of such amazing returns?
If they hadn't locked it out everyone would be complaining "Why is it taking so long to patch *it's being exploited in the wild*!"
There is just no good way to deliver news of a security hole.
"you people"? The thing is you can't respond to people like the GP and say "well.. not really. come on, here's an anecdote about our CIO planning ahead."
Maybe P8 can maintain the integration between the P1-7 providers, P9 can handle all the different contracts, and P10 can figure out why it takes so long to load data through 5 layers of providers?
The IRS stole from you? You should take them to court.
Large businesses waste money, you're in no position to say it had no value, and the amount of money is trivial. If you consider this excessive don't get mad when you run into a front-line IRS worker who hates their job and behaves as such.
In computer science at uni we learned Oracle for database stuff, C for network programming, UNIX system calls for OS design, OpenGL for computer graphics, Java for basic programming, Linux was our OS and Eclipse was our IDE.
In my first job out of uni all of those were exchanged for the Windows equivalents; it really doesn't matter what platform you learn on.
I know right, they started teaching history in high school, now everyone considers themselves a historian and the hard working historians are out of work!
We need the next generation to be as dumb as possible, so we can be employed for as long as possible.
Loosely translated: The people in the code.org film already knew each other from other places before they made the film! And they have similar ideals and goals! And therefore they were probably involved in 9/11!!
Maybe start a petition?
If it's not the GnuSense Linux fork GnuTense it's worth actively working against, because anyone we can persuade to stop working on other distros will start working on GnuTense!
Some routers are worth $20k, but obviously a school will never need one of these.. The question is why they were sold to schools; was it fraud by Cisco? was it a badly designed procurement process? was it corruption?
And then US businesses are at a disadvantage to EU businesses which only sell their products in the US.
Hi, what you need is webcamd for a low powered machine with a cheap USB webcam (best to check the chipset compatibility before buying, just in case).
There'll be a bit of manual page reading, setting the motion detection thresholds and areas, configuring it to start on boot, archive/FTP images taken, add timestamps to the images, etc, and writing the scripts that will get run when motion is detected, but it'll be cheap, customizable and it'll work.
I've used this setup in a local maritime simulator where there was a breakin attempt (lots of projectors and electronics naturally), and they wanted a bit of extra security on the cheap.
HTH,
Yeah.. wake me up when they have ported it to the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages and maybe I'll think about potentially buying a game. (As long as it contains no DRM and is also part of the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages, audited by portaudit, of course.)
A few million people would die of starvation, but hey..
Do you even know what a free trade agreement is?
There are many free trade agreements, what do you mean "the Free Trade Agreement"? And FTAs are (as the name suggests) intended to promote free trade; how was "the" free trade agreement created in response to market based iron ore pricing? And Australia doesn't have a free trade agreement with China who are our main importers of iron ore.
I'm an Australian, and I pay more for technology than people in other parts of the world including the US. This is kind of a pain in the ass, but I have to admit that if it wasn't worth it to me I wouldn't pay. Our currency is really strong at the moment, so in general imports are very cheap and local goods/services are very expensive, and we really pay very little for technology in relative terms.
I sure wouldn't want other countries which buy our imports to say to us "wait that's not fair; it only costs you guys $40/tonne to export iron ore and we're paying $150/tonne. We're going to get the government involved to try and fight that somehow".
To that I would say "the value of something is whatever its buyer is willing to pay for it" and we have to be consistent in that.
No, I don't understand the difference. Suppose Apple allowed another company to make iPhone hardware, so long as it met the specifications and they paid Apple appropriately; why would Apple then have to allow people to dual-boot?
Currently Apple have alternative suppliers for the components that go into the iPhones, but they are the ones who ultimately do the packaging and shipping. Are you saying that if Microsoft did the packaging and shipping it would be okay for them to ban dual-booting? Are you saying that it's no problem for them to do it for the Microsoft Surface, which they do package and ship?
Did you know Apple are "the single gatekeeper" for what runs on iPhones? Isn't that outrageous? And I when I discovered I can't run QNX on my Nintendo Wii I was just furious.. It's almost like they're not selling these devices as general purpose computers!
As it is, the most we can do is not buy computers that meet both of these specifications: Windows RT running on an ARM processor. By doing so we are effectively surrendering and increasing their (again, Microsoft's) power to further destroy our freedom in the future
It's the same deal with iOS isn't it? Even with Android phones you need to work to root them. Same thing for Tivos, TVs, consumer linux routers, etc; the device and software are sold as a single package. Hardly a new evil Microsoft thing, and not even controversial outside of the FSF.
But I agree 100% that if you don't like it don't buy it.
Because people are getting in a huge state over nothing.. The fear is that Microsoft will then remove the ability to turn it off later (despite the fact it would be inviting a massive anti-competition lawsuit)
We're talking about Microsoft here! They'll do anything they can to prevent Linux running on their hardware and block out all competition.