I didn't know there were important transactions that needed bitcoins. Excluding anything related to bitcoins, of course, what might those transactions be?
The Panasonic toaster oven uses two type of infrared heat to achieve instant cooking temperature -- cuts cooking time in half, under a $100 in you look around. Best of all, no microwave radiation.
Bit/doge/prime/lite/whatevercoin have almost the same characteristics as gold. Those calling them a pyramid scheme might as well call gold a pyramid scheme. It's not. It's simply a scarce resource with a nearly finite supply.
No. BTC is a scarce resource that has no value. While gold is a scarce resource with incredible value, due to extreme ductility, almost unmatched inertness/luster and near top-of-the-class conductivity.
My trip to the library to pick up books takes all of two minutes. Go in, pick up holds, check them out, leave. Facebook dude is there for who knows how long. No comparison.
Like a friend of mine says about his Google glass, The best feature is that now he can take all the pictures of boobs and asses he wants and no one is the wiser.
I'm curious, could he be sued by someone who flashed him and he glass-posted it to the Internet? Where is the line drawn?
It depends on how the antennas are aimed. They are directional after all. For example, you talk about an "old school" microwave long distance relay -- how likely is it that this will be aimed at you, the ground, etc. It is aimed, as tightly as possible, at the next relay tower.
To the direct south of me, just five houses away, I've measured levels of 24,000 microwatts per meter squared (on the sidewalk) -- one-third of the reading directly in front of a working microwave oven. Move ten feet (or one foot) over and it is "just" 2,000 or 4,000. Outside my home it is 700 and the one time I took readings north of me I gave up after a house or two -- they were in the 100 range. And yes I have an "antenna farm" just a hundred yards away, with dozens of antennas spread over an enormous retirement center roof. By the way, at the base of all that, the front door measurements at the center are just 100 to 300.
It is about are you line-of-sight, and where are the antennas aimed.
And you evidently never worked at an analog exchange. Start your education process with a search on "stepper motors". Cliff notes: once you have a route through the exchange, you get your ring and nothing else. And it keeps ringing.
In thinking of an analogy to the old stepper system, I would say completing a call through an analog exchange would be like getting all your lemming sacrifices in place before unleashing the rest of the horde (the ringing current) through the path (connection). A busy signal would be a stationary lemming blocking your path, or using up all your specific-function lemmings before completing the pathway. Only cure in Lemmings is a level retry. Same for old analog system -- waiting out a busy signal in the old days was completely futile, by the way.
In this case, the Target-leased/owned equipment is picking up the call, realizing they don't have anyone available to handle it, and then dropping the call internally by faking a busy signal.
By picking up the call, I imagine, they can claim responsiveness. In reality they are totally swamped and unresponsiveness, at least when I called earlier today.
My red card goes to nowhere (i.e. It is their credit card version). So unless the thieves shop at my store and fake my signature, I imagine I'm ok.
I just tried to call Target and got some amusing results. Predictable busy signal on first three tries. Then, for variety, the phone rang two or three times, then dropped into a busy signal. This would not have even been possible in the old analog phone system -- we have progressed indeed. Able to reproduce the ring-becomes-busy on my next few tries.
It's a shame that we probably won't get good details about what happened.
Right. And considering Target has a rather unique "red card" of their own, I would at least like to know if THIS was also compromised during the most recent hack. Seems more secure, mainly because it is less portable to other stores.
You sound like you are bi-polar/M.D. Not trying to troll or argue or anything.
I know several M.D. -- all high I.Q. When you talk about a new project, that is the mania side of your nature showing. When you say a cycle of brain chemical addiction, that is very much M.D. -- with sufferers typically addicted to the manic side. Many M.D. do not want to take Lithium (or the worse drugs like Depakote...strongly not recommended) because then they don't get their high any more. And in general they don't think they are M.D....
I blame that on focusing so hard on my hobbies that I can't really talk about much else. Both of the M.D. I am thinking of have their hobbies (that others call their addictions) and that is about it.
On the other hand, having cared for ADHD types, there is no sign of them having any hobbies. They can't eat, chew gum and read without trying to do all three at the same time. They sure as heck aren't getting high I.Q. results on tests.
When I was a kid I had to go to Sunday school. There I was the worst fidget in the history of fidgets. Around age 10 or 12, I don't remember exactly, I was allowed to opt out. Went hand logging with my father instead. I was cured!
Maybe half of ADHD is just the mind-numbing boredom of school, when compared to today's video games/YouTubes/athletics/music/etc. A problem I call "tasting the ice cream". You don't have any problems getting your kids to eat all kinds of healthy things...until they taste ice cream.
While I disagree with much of what you say, I'll just focus on this:
...that electron shifts towards the nucleus of the oxygen. That is why water molecules, while actually neutral (if not ionized), still act polar - the oxygen is essentially negative, the hydrogens positive.
That is not why water acts polar. Water acts polar because of the nature of the oxygen atom itself. It has 6 electrons and wants to share 2 more. The electrons pair up into 4 groups or areas. Two of those areas are on the Oxygen atom only...think of them as rabbit ears. The other two share with Hydrogen atoms. Think of them like legs of the Oxygen. The point is that on half the Oxygen atom there are nothing but electrons...4 of them. This makes that side of the Oxygen negative. Oxygen is asymmetrically charged. THIS is why it acts polar. The side that is sharing electrons with the Hydrogen is neutral, the other side where there are 4 electrons, all part of the Oxygen atom in the first place, is negative. Not because the Oxygen is "out muscling" the Hydrogen.
My original reason for posting was to point out that no atom is "taking" anything. That would completely unbalance the charges of a given atom. Not gonna happen. Instead it is a sharing. Yes the sharing can be a bit uneven, depending on the number of protons in the nucleus, atom size, room in the outer orbital, etc. etc. But bonds involving sharing of electrons. Period.
When you fire off phrases like: There are valence bond theory, orbital hybridization, resonance, and quite a few more.
it makes me realize that you don't have a clue what you are talking about. Throwing three descriptions at a concept does not explain it.
they're not inclined to give, borrow, or take electrons from other elements
Except these aren't the words used on the wiki page. The word I was taught is "share". For example, Hydrogen has one electron and desires two for stability. So it shares one from Oxygen or Carbon, etc. And in that sharing, Oxygen (desiring two) gets its needs satisfied by sharing one each with two Hydrogens.
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I didn't know there were important transactions that needed bitcoins. Excluding anything related to bitcoins, of course, what might those transactions be?
The Panasonic toaster oven uses two type of infrared heat to achieve instant cooking temperature -- cuts cooking time in half, under a $100 in you look around. Best of all, no microwave radiation.
Bit/doge/prime/lite/whatevercoin have almost the same characteristics as gold. Those calling them a pyramid scheme might as well call gold a pyramid scheme. It's not. It's simply a scarce resource with a nearly finite supply.
No. BTC is a scarce resource that has no value. While gold is a scarce resource with incredible value, due to extreme ductility, almost unmatched inertness/luster and near top-of-the-class conductivity.
Hello Sava,
I completely agree with you about the ether, and in fact I just posted such a comment before I read your comment.
I look forward to reading more about your theory and humbly offer my own for your consideration.
Best,
Floyd
Since De Pretto and Preston and Poincare and Newton all were ether advocates, isn't it about time we try some ether theories once again?
Einstein's French science.
It might be considered that the people who control the NSA, and the supporting government, are the actual traitors...
FTFY
My trip to the library to pick up books takes all of two minutes. Go in, pick up holds, check them out, leave. Facebook dude is there for who knows how long. No comparison.
I'm curious, could he be sued by someone who flashed him and he glass-posted it to the Internet? Where is the line drawn?
Wish it was just that.
Page source = 128KB.
ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v of page yields 16KB.
Is that other 112KB of CSS really necessary?
It depends on how the antennas are aimed. They are directional after all. For example, you talk about an "old school" microwave long distance relay -- how likely is it that this will be aimed at you, the ground, etc. It is aimed, as tightly as possible, at the next relay tower.
To the direct south of me, just five houses away, I've measured levels of 24,000 microwatts per meter squared (on the sidewalk) -- one-third of the reading directly in front of a working microwave oven. Move ten feet (or one foot) over and it is "just" 2,000 or 4,000. Outside my home it is 700 and the one time I took readings north of me I gave up after a house or two -- they were in the 100 range. And yes I have an "antenna farm" just a hundred yards away, with dozens of antennas spread over an enormous retirement center roof. By the way, at the base of all that, the front door measurements at the center are just 100 to 300.
It is about are you line-of-sight, and where are the antennas aimed.
My video on the subject.
Agreed.
One question I have: How do we know Snowden said any of what is being reported in this story?
Here is some new physics. Feel free to critique it.
And you evidently never worked at an analog exchange. Start your education process with a search on "stepper motors". Cliff notes: once you have a route through the exchange, you get your ring and nothing else. And it keeps ringing.
In thinking of an analogy to the old stepper system, I would say completing a call through an analog exchange would be like getting all your lemming sacrifices in place before unleashing the rest of the horde (the ringing current) through the path (connection). A busy signal would be a stationary lemming blocking your path, or using up all your specific-function lemmings before completing the pathway. Only cure in Lemmings is a level retry. Same for old analog system -- waiting out a busy signal in the old days was completely futile, by the way.
In this case, the Target-leased/owned equipment is picking up the call, realizing they don't have anyone available to handle it, and then dropping the call internally by faking a busy signal.
By picking up the call, I imagine, they can claim responsiveness. In reality they are totally swamped and unresponsiveness, at least when I called earlier today.
My red card goes to nowhere (i.e. It is their credit card version). So unless the thieves shop at my store and fake my signature, I imagine I'm ok.
I just tried to call Target and got some amusing results. Predictable busy signal on first three tries. Then, for variety, the phone rang two or three times, then dropped into a busy signal. This would not have even been possible in the old analog phone system -- we have progressed indeed. Able to reproduce the ring-becomes-busy on my next few tries.
Oh well, back to The Best of Bill Hicks.
He found them at the corner of Smith & Wesson.
Not if everyone shops at Dollar Tree!
You forgot ductility. Combining this with its nobility and you have the best gilding material -- for spaceships as well as palaces.
Also, its conductivity. Though bested by silver & copper, these both tarnish.
It's a shame that we probably won't get good details about what happened.
Right. And considering Target has a rather unique "red card" of their own, I would at least like to know if THIS was also compromised during the most recent hack. Seems more secure, mainly because it is less portable to other stores.
The recordings were of poor quality
So sharing them will net you double the financial penalty. Sneaky, very sneaky.
You sound like you are bi-polar/M.D. Not trying to troll or argue or anything.
I know several M.D. -- all high I.Q. When you talk about a new project, that is the mania side of your nature showing. When you say a cycle of brain chemical addiction, that is very much M.D. -- with sufferers typically addicted to the manic side. Many M.D. do not want to take Lithium (or the worse drugs like Depakote...strongly not recommended) because then they don't get their high any more. And in general they don't think they are M.D....
I blame that on focusing so hard on my hobbies that I can't really talk about much else. Both of the M.D. I am thinking of have their hobbies (that others call their addictions) and that is about it.
On the other hand, having cared for ADHD types, there is no sign of them having any hobbies. They can't eat, chew gum and read without trying to do all three at the same time. They sure as heck aren't getting high I.Q. results on tests.
Anyway, just some food for thought, my friend.
When I was a kid I had to go to Sunday school. There I was the worst fidget in the history of fidgets. Around age 10 or 12, I don't remember exactly, I was allowed to opt out. Went hand logging with my father instead. I was cured!
Maybe half of ADHD is just the mind-numbing boredom of school, when compared to today's video games/YouTubes/athletics/music/etc. A problem I call "tasting the ice cream". You don't have any problems getting your kids to eat all kinds of healthy things...until they taste ice cream.
While I disagree with much of what you say, I'll just focus on this:
...that electron shifts towards the nucleus of the oxygen. That is why water molecules, while actually neutral (if not ionized), still act polar - the oxygen is essentially negative, the hydrogens positive.
That is not why water acts polar. Water acts polar because of the nature of the oxygen atom itself. It has 6 electrons and wants to share 2 more. The electrons pair up into 4 groups or areas. Two of those areas are on the Oxygen atom only...think of them as rabbit ears. The other two share with Hydrogen atoms. Think of them like legs of the Oxygen. The point is that on half the Oxygen atom there are nothing but electrons...4 of them. This makes that side of the Oxygen negative. Oxygen is asymmetrically charged. THIS is why it acts polar. The side that is sharing electrons with the Hydrogen is neutral, the other side where there are 4 electrons, all part of the Oxygen atom in the first place, is negative. Not because the Oxygen is "out muscling" the Hydrogen.
My original reason for posting was to point out that no atom is "taking" anything. That would completely unbalance the charges of a given atom. Not gonna happen. Instead it is a sharing. Yes the sharing can be a bit uneven, depending on the number of protons in the nucleus, atom size, room in the outer orbital, etc. etc. But bonds involving sharing of electrons. Period.
When you fire off phrases like:
There are valence bond theory, orbital hybridization, resonance, and quite a few more. it makes me realize that you don't have a clue what you are talking about. Throwing three descriptions at a concept does not explain it.
they're not inclined to give, borrow, or take electrons from other elements
Except these aren't the words used on the wiki page. The word I was taught is "share". For example, Hydrogen has one electron and desires two for stability. So it shares one from Oxygen or Carbon, etc. And in that sharing, Oxygen (desiring two) gets its needs satisfied by sharing one each with two Hydrogens.
There's a reason nothing of any worth comes out of Boston.
(1) the band Boston
(2) Bill Burr