I'm admittedly guessing here, but you're basically saying that the only person / group who is able to perform this attack would actually have to be so rich that they wouldn't need to perform this attack?
Or, they might be extremely rich and simply decide to destroy the Bitcoin currency for some personal reason? ( hate, jealousy, lack of control, whatever...)
I think I can live with that. This person/group would then also be able to destabilize most other currencies in the world, possibly even China, US and EU currencies?
That's about right. And why would people in the government want to destroy Bitcoin. Many of them and their banker friends are making money off it right now.
There are many degrees of computer security, just like in real life. When you deal with lots of money, you want security that matches with the risk. Banks can lie to you and pretend that they do that while not telling you that they have been robbed.
Because of it's deflationary nature and lack of manipulation by government entities, I agree that it will continue to rise.... unless:
1. Somebody hacks the protocol, maybe with a quantum computer. If this happens, all Bitcoins will be instantly worthless and the price will plummet to nothing.
2. A major exchange gets hacked. If Mt. Gox got hacked and 50% of the world's Bitcoins were stolen all at once (or the cash that people were trading for them), you better believe there is no way it is reaching the numbers you are saying. Confidence would be shaken for a very long time.
I could go on, but it's certainly not fool-proof. There are several scenarios where it could be devalued instantly.
That said, I believe there is no better investment opportunity on the planet right now and if you can afford to risk a small amount of money, you should probably look into it.
The content owners granted access permissions to everyone by leaving their S3 buckets public; there's no way stumbling upon information made publicly available is considered hacking. Only the owners of these buckets could be convicted of anything, assuming stupidity is a crime.
Again, tell that to weev, who did the EXACT same thing and has already been convicted of 41 months in prison.
I have an Asus netbook that I kept plugged in all the time. After about 2 years, the battery won't even do half of what it used to.
2 years later, I bought an Asus tablet. I was determined not to repeat the situation, so I charge as little as possible and then use battery power until it dies. After 2 years, I still have about 90% of the battery function.
Actually, modern batteries run much better these days with fewer charges and complete drains. So this strategy not only saves power but increases battery life.
My concern is that California wouldn't renew my license because some unrelated person with my same name had unpaid tickets in Florida, which I hadn't been in during the time of the events. And they didn't even send me anything I could respond to. They just kept my money and did nothing.
That WAS the thinking of the woman who started Planned Parenthood. She was a racist who was all too happy to encourage minorities to kill their own children...
Powdered thorium metal is pyrophoric and will often ignite spontaneously in air. Natural thorium decays very slowly compared to many other radioactive materials, and the alpha radiation emitted cannot penetrate human skin meaning owning and handling small amounts of thorium, such as a gas mantle, is considered safe. Exposure to an aerosol of thorium, however, can lead to increased risk of cancers of the lung, pancreas, and blood,[citation needed] as lungs and other internal organs can be penetrated by alpha radiation. Exposure to thorium internally leads to increased risk of liver diseases. Thorium is radioactive and produces a radioactive gas, radon-220, as one of its decay products. Secondary decay products of thorium include radium and actinium. Because of this, there are concerns about the safety of thorium mantles. Some nuclear safety agencies make recommendations about their use.[85] Production of gas mantles has led to some safety concerns during manufacture.
I have bad hearing and I can hear artifacts in 192 or lower. But once you get up to 220/240 or so, forget it. (This is on the latest LAME.dll, on Fraunhoffer you can definitely hear stuff at 256).
I never used less than 192 anyway. And as soon as LAME came out with the alt-preset stuff, everything I've ripped sounds identical to the CD. I never went back and re-ripped the 192 stuff, but in a quiet room with a very good system I can hear very few artifacts (like an almost perfect JPEG).
Ironically, the same audiophiles will often have cable with absolutely horrible HDTV artifacts and not even care...
The Hydrogen Audio people with "golden ears" did hearing tests on LAME encoding at alt-preset medium (about 240kbps typically) and NOBODY could tell the difference. That's why LAME hasn't changed lately. There's nothing left to do if you leave it at this setting. 320 won't be any different.
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I'm admittedly guessing here, but you're basically saying that the only person / group who is able to perform this attack would actually have to be so rich that they wouldn't need to perform this attack? Or, they might be extremely rich and simply decide to destroy the Bitcoin currency for some personal reason? ( hate, jealousy, lack of control, whatever...) I think I can live with that. This person/group would then also be able to destabilize most other currencies in the world, possibly even China, US and EU currencies?
That's about right. And why would people in the government want to destroy Bitcoin. Many of them and their banker friends are making money off it right now.
There are many degrees of computer security, just like in real life. When you deal with lots of money, you want security that matches with the risk. Banks can lie to you and pretend that they do that while not telling you that they have been robbed.
FTFY
Actually, not. But Atari 8-bit blew Apple II out of the water:
http://www.trs-80.org/was-the-trs-80-once-the-top-selling-computer/
Blink polyfill: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10248923/how-can-i-detect-if-a-browser-supports-the-blink-tag
They already lost. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110802/02374615353/court-shuts-down-zediva-apparently-length-cable-determines-if-something-is-infringing.shtml
And how exactly are most Cypriots going to travel when they can't get at any of their money?
Because of it's deflationary nature and lack of manipulation by government entities, I agree that it will continue to rise.... unless:
1. Somebody hacks the protocol, maybe with a quantum computer. If this happens, all Bitcoins will be instantly worthless and the price will plummet to nothing.
2. A major exchange gets hacked. If Mt. Gox got hacked and 50% of the world's Bitcoins were stolen all at once (or the cash that people were trading for them), you better believe there is no way it is reaching the numbers you are saying. Confidence would be shaken for a very long time.
I could go on, but it's certainly not fool-proof. There are several scenarios where it could be devalued instantly.
That said, I believe there is no better investment opportunity on the planet right now and if you can afford to risk a small amount of money, you should probably look into it.
They test every ship with a geiger counter. The containers with the nuke would be found very quickly.
The content owners granted access permissions to everyone by leaving their S3 buckets public; there's no way stumbling upon information made publicly available is considered hacking. Only the owners of these buckets could be convicted of anything, assuming stupidity is a crime.
Again, tell that to weev, who did the EXACT same thing and has already been convicted of 41 months in prison.
Tell that to weev. He'll be available to talk to you in 41 months.
You mean like the creationist (Russell Humphreys) who correctly predicted all the magnetic fields in the solar system?
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/21/21_3/21_3.html
And the evolutionists who keep redoing their junk "dynamo" hypothesis to "explain that too".
Q: How much magnetic field will Uranus have?
Evolutionists: Zero, cause it's a gas planet and doesn't have enough metal for the dynamo effect.
Creationist: Between 2 and 6 x 10^21.
Big difference there. Guess who was right?
I have an Asus netbook that I kept plugged in all the time. After about 2 years, the battery won't even do half of what it used to.
2 years later, I bought an Asus tablet. I was determined not to repeat the situation, so I charge as little as possible and then use battery power until it dies. After 2 years, I still have about 90% of the battery function.
Actually, modern batteries run much better these days with fewer charges and complete drains. So this strategy not only saves power but increases battery life.
Sprint has had unlimited everything for a long time at a pretty good price too. You could have sent a message for years now. Did you?
Oooo. Alex Kasa said the F word.... ;)
My concern is that California wouldn't renew my license because some unrelated person with my same name had unpaid tickets in Florida, which I hadn't been in during the time of the events. And they didn't even send me anything I could respond to. They just kept my money and did nothing.
That WAS the thinking of the woman who started Planned Parenthood. She was a racist who was all too happy to encourage minorities to kill their own children...
http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
Exactly. Just listen to more songs.
From Wikipedia:
Powdered thorium metal is pyrophoric and will often ignite spontaneously in air. Natural thorium decays very slowly compared to many other radioactive materials, and the alpha radiation emitted cannot penetrate human skin meaning owning and handling small amounts of thorium, such as a gas mantle, is considered safe. Exposure to an aerosol of thorium, however, can lead to increased risk of cancers of the lung, pancreas, and blood,[citation needed] as lungs and other internal organs can be penetrated by alpha radiation. Exposure to thorium internally leads to increased risk of liver diseases. Thorium is radioactive and produces a radioactive gas, radon-220, as one of its decay products. Secondary decay products of thorium include radium and actinium. Because of this, there are concerns about the safety of thorium mantles. Some nuclear safety agencies make recommendations about their use.[85] Production of gas mantles has led to some safety concerns during manufacture.
Maybe not so absurd...
They already ignore frequent small transactions unless a small bitcoin fee is paid.
All the prosecutor has to do is point to Mega and Wikileaks, both cases in which the US prosecuted people who are
1. not citizens
2. never in the US
I have bad hearing and I can hear artifacts in 192 or lower. But once you get up to 220/240 or so, forget it. (This is on the latest LAME.dll, on Fraunhoffer you can definitely hear stuff at 256).
I never used less than 192 anyway. And as soon as LAME came out with the alt-preset stuff, everything I've ripped sounds identical to the CD. I never went back and re-ripped the 192 stuff, but in a quiet room with a very good system I can hear very few artifacts (like an almost perfect JPEG).
Ironically, the same audiophiles will often have cable with absolutely horrible HDTV artifacts and not even care...
And if you used the LAME codec, I would wish you good luck at 256. Cause you're gonna need it.
The Hydrogen Audio people with "golden ears" did hearing tests on LAME encoding at alt-preset medium (about 240kbps typically) and NOBODY could tell the difference. That's why LAME hasn't changed lately. There's nothing left to do if you leave it at this setting. 320 won't be any different.