Isn't this based on a rather simple assumption that his desire to be the anonymous inventor started before he published the paper on it. What if, he or she had written the paper and begun work under their own name, and later regretted it and decided it would be best to not actually be in the spot light?
I mean no idiot would use their real name as a cover, however, if his real name is already out there, pretending it is a cover and not disabusing people who say its a cover from their claims, might serve to create enough confusion as to allow a person who regretted using his real name to fade away into obscurity....without going as far as trying to fake his death or anything.
All that said, I am pretty doubtful as well, I don't think this guy invented bitcoin. Of course, I also don't think the association hurts his job prospects, especially if he hasn't found work in the industry in a decade.
If anything, it may help his job prospects as people feel bad for this old engineer, or don't believe his denials and want the famed Satoshi Nakamoto on their payroll. I mean hell, even if he denies it, truth has never stopped a salesman from making winks and nudges at a client.
Shit I can practically hear the conversation "Well I mean, we are the company with Satoshi Nakamoto on staff" "I heard about that, he claims he didn't invent bitcoin" "right, well publicly he claims that, yes." "Oh?" "You know I can't talk about that but...::wink::"
I think you have it wrong. You see, these creationists...they have a book which describes exactly how the world was created. It is called the Bible and it states pretty clearly how it happened. The problem here is that this so called "evidence" contradicts the very strong evidence they have...namely, their book.
Since it contradicts their book by claiming to take billions of years, it must (by very definition) be wrong. So what you really have is the Big bang is a bad interpretation of the natural world.
Now excuse my while I go wash my hands for typing that.
Perhaps that is what he meant about most transparent administration? You know, kind of like trying to beat the world land speed record.... oh wait thats fast...for single wheeled vehic....oh how about single wheeled electric, multi-passenger vehicles? What No record?....oh we have that so beat!
Set the bar low enough, and you barely need to step over it.
I thought about this for a second a while back but, it slams up against one really major...no...fundamental problem.
The exchange is a point where currencies/commodities/etc meet. No amount of messing with the details behind how you move money around in your accounts can actually cause food to move to your table or hand you dollar bills. At some point the rubber has to meet the road or else you are just spinning wheels.
The bitcoin protocol, or any such protocol can only deal with itself. In order to exchange cryptocurrency for dollars, you need to actually exchange them.
which I question.... by the time the first matter which used to be the ball reaches the batter, the ball no longer conforms to the definition of a baseball by the rules of the game. I think the pitcher would be guilty of illegally modifying the ball.
As such, according to a quick review, looks like the pitcher should be given a warning, and the pitch called as a ball.
Couple of days ago I got a simple request to install an agent on some hosts. No biggie....5 minute job. So I put it off for other priorities. Figured friday afternoon is a good day to catch up, so couple of hours ago I started....Except the install script was updated, and requires some prerequisite updates....ok fine....Oh and the install script doesn't work if there was a failed run unless you clean X up manually...ok...Oh and this other one actually had the agent installed but not working, and that other cleanup? Well that was wrong for this case... now it needs more manual cleanup..
Now 6 emails, a couple of IM threads, and 4 quick hallway conversations later... almost done....totally a 5 minute job from here.
Then maybe I can go test the script I was writing today....you know, the one I just finished adding a whole bunch of test cases to be sure it can run in the current environment, and give an appropriate error if it can't. (oh the irony)
That is some pretty wide open conjecture. I have personally been reading and commenting on slashdot for more than a decade and I have skipped or missed entire articles full of comments. Slashdot has contained comments on everything from Natalie Portman to Hot Grits.
Conjecture: Most everything said on slashdot today has already been said by someone on Slashdot prior to it.
Yes, it is called "having fun with it". If he didn't, it would be pretty boring.
I was pretty hooked after reading the first one I ever saw, which was about what would happen if a pitcher could throw a baseball at a signficant fraction of the speed of light. I thought it was pretty hilarious to see see the breakdown.
A simple "a huge explosion destroying the ball park and leaving a crater" would have answered the question, but, it wouldn't be very much fun, and wouldn't have anyone looking to buy his book.
is if it burst into flames with the president in it..... then I might throw a party. Otherwise, this just associates Tesla with a mass murderer who condones torture and doesn't think it needs to be prosecuted aggressively.
I wouldn't say ever..... every time i hear of an abusive domain shutdown, I think gee, maybe its time to stop letting ICANN be the authority and move to an alternative DNS.
I expect it will happen one day. I would like to see something like namecoin where there is no central authority and no way to shut down a domain at all, other than for it to expire.
With some time, I would even be willing to start accepting that as.com and telling icann dns users to get off the legacy system.
It makes sense the NASA budget is tight, they don't have a lot of jobs that can just be handed to anyone's nephew, and its hard to dupe a bunch of engineers into buying expensive equipment they don't need that may or may not even work as intended.
This makes NASA a piss poor government program from the POV of politicians. What is the point if they can't make some kickbacks or repay a large campaign donation with favors? Duh. This isn't rocket science.
I bet if they found a reason to buy full body scanners and found some jobs that don't actually require showing up or doing anything, they would have far less funding issues.
You can go there, live there, call it what you want.... I will still rename it if I feel like calling it something else.
Screw them both. I name myself the authority of names, now I am going to make up words for people to use. Use them or don't, but neither you, nor the IAU can stop me.
On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide (wikipedia)
There is some speculation that he may have inhaled cyanide accidentlly, (which would be proposterous unless he had say... was doing gold electroplating in his house....oh which he was. He also apparently was known to eat an apple before bed nightly.
Now perhaps it was accidental, perhaps the whole gold plating thing was just to justify having cyanide around? Nobody is ever going to know.... but the poisioned apple makes for a nice story and adds a bit more mystery to the man than accidental inhalation of chemicals while trying to gold plate his silverware.
A quick check at one service which lists such large amounts, you would be looking at almost $20k/year to keep a single offsite copy of that. That is the posted price however, I imagine that is enough that you could shop around and find a deal, but, a deal is still going to be prohibitive for most people.
At 20 TB I would start thinking about one of two things: Tape, and/or git-annex.
Unless prices have changed since I last looked and the scales tipped, tape has the advantage of being cheap. Of course, you will need to test your tapes occasionally and likely want 2 copies just in case, but, at that point you are invested in tape, may as well.
The other possibility is git-annex and lots of drives, but you can mix types. That way you can keep a catalog of your library and information on where it all is, and how many copies of each thing you have.
Of course, any way you slice it, each physical piece of media is something that can fail so you have to occasionally test to ensure redundancy.
That is interesting. When I read the article.... and I am ready to hate on comcast at any time, they are my provider for various reasons (including me being lazy yes) but I am not a huge fan of them.
That said, I couldn't help but think... that is an odd domain name, and its not like it makes any sense that it would be blocked. It looks like the kind of randomly named domain a phisher might use, which makes me wonder... maybe this domain was blocked due to being part of some botnet or equivalent and then later became owned by the current owners? (not cleaning up things like that is hardly a new or unique issue)
Now I see your post and I think.... you may be on to something. I think that unless someone can find rhyme or reason for bans, then we should probably assume incompetence rather than malice. I mean, its not like there is a pattern of blocking based on content or ownership, they are not even competitors of comcast unless they have some diversification plans that I wouldn't have ever expected.
> By the time you hit 70-80 years of age, the whole of humanity probably seems like am unweighted > random behaviour generator.
Doubtful. Problem is, most people don't really get a representative sampling of that behaviour; and can build both behaviours and filters that reduce the randomness or perception of it.
I was going to go into a rant about perception and treating people badly and getting treated badly...ie self fullifilling ideas. However, a better example is texas holdem players. We can take an objectively analyse any situation in the game and come out with odds. I can tell you, based on those, that out of the gate, the best hole cards out there: Pocket Aces....are NEVER more than a 3 to 1 favorite.... not even against 7 2 off.
Thing is, you would think that after thousands of hands, players would start to get hip to the statistics involved, and many do, however, an average night is often maybe a couple of hundred hands at a decent table. The number of hands you need to play to really get a significant sample is much larger than a night or two of casual play....far too long for most people to really get a sense of it without rigerous study....even then people's intuitive feel for it tends to get very skewed by recent events.
You will hear people who have played the game for years talk about entirely stupid things like implying that past outcomes affect future odds, or being shocked that Pocket aces is never more than a 3 to 1 favorite.
Close; but you are essentially correct. It isn't the address but, the transaction which contains a small program which defines what inputs are needed to spend the coin.
Basically, you can think of a bitcoin transaction like a check. However, it is a check that allows for more nuanced cashing protocols. The standard default bitcoin transaction is exactly that, it defines the payee in terms of a public key, and requires the signature of the payee (by the private key) to "spend" (to make a new check out of it, or several new ones)
You could issue a transaction that just requires a password, or requires multiple keys, etc. Unlike a bank check, I could write a check to two people such that they must BOTH sign it.
I think one of the reasons few people know about it is that it is only relevant for people writting clients, and even then, the vast majority of the time its just filling in defaults. The actual uses for custom signature checking scripts are rather rare and specific.
The numbers for alphalpha and water exported didn't make a lot of sense, so I did a couple of quick searches: http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcor...
This is, of course, not real water nor the water contained in the crop itself, but the water used to irrigate the crop, water that could be used for something more importantâ"at least according to the authors.
That is right, they are counting as "exported" water which....the vast majority of.... evaporates locally, and stays in the local environment.
Well.... you remember that old commercial where the father finds the kids drugs and asks him where he learned about all this stuff. What does the kid say? Come on...you remember it....
"I learned it from watching you".
Gee, just how does he justify slurping up all their records indiscriminately....maybe...he learned that somewhere.
I never actually read any asimov. Believer it or not....not sure you are familiar with this consept...but people repeat things that other people said. Bibliopgraphy generally can be reserved for scholarly articles.
Well unless you want to sit them down in the bedroom and re-enact the sex education skit from the Meaning of Life there are not a lot of other options besides the drawings in biology text books. Then again, maybe not being a parent and not looking to teach anyone the birds and the beeds, I have totally missed the plethora of options...then again, even if it exists, I bet a lot of parents miss it too.
> nor do most women really want said monster penises jammed up their rectum
Maybe not monsters but, a significant number do enjoy having things....well jammed is maybe the wrong word.... never mind....
I really liked the way one person put it to me a while back. Some people used to have some idea the earth was flat, but then some people realized that wasn't true and said it was a sphere. Well, that was clearly wrong too but a sphere is a lot closer to the truth than flat; treating wrongness as a boolean would just label them both wrong but, one is clearly a lot less wrong than the other.
So to some degree, it was settled...possibilities were excluded. Then, well its clearly not a sphere, it bulges in the middle, I have heard "slightly pear shaped" is a good description.... then you have the satellites that have precisely measured variations in gravitational field...they have an even more complex picture.
Whether it is settled or not depends on to what degree you need the answers.
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Isn't this based on a rather simple assumption that his desire to be the anonymous inventor started before he published the paper on it. What if, he or she had written the paper and begun work under their own name, and later regretted it and decided it would be best to not actually be in the spot light?
I mean no idiot would use their real name as a cover, however, if his real name is already out there, pretending it is a cover and not disabusing people who say its a cover from their claims, might serve to create enough confusion as to allow a person who regretted using his real name to fade away into obscurity....without going as far as trying to fake his death or anything.
All that said, I am pretty doubtful as well, I don't think this guy invented bitcoin. Of course, I also don't think the association hurts his job prospects, especially if he hasn't found work in the industry in a decade.
If anything, it may help his job prospects as people feel bad for this old engineer, or don't believe his denials and want the famed Satoshi Nakamoto on their payroll. I mean hell, even if he denies it, truth has never stopped a salesman from making winks and nudges at a client.
Shit I can practically hear the conversation ::wink::"
"Well I mean, we are the company with Satoshi Nakamoto on staff"
"I heard about that, he claims he didn't invent bitcoin"
"right, well publicly he claims that, yes."
"Oh?"
"You know I can't talk about that but...
I think you have it wrong. You see, these creationists...they have a book which describes exactly how the world was created. It is called the Bible and it states pretty clearly how it happened. The problem here is that this so called "evidence" contradicts the very strong evidence they have...namely, their book.
Since it contradicts their book by claiming to take billions of years, it must (by very definition) be wrong. So what you really have is the Big bang is a bad interpretation of the natural world.
Now excuse my while I go wash my hands for typing that.
I would love to give all politicians a break...somewhere around C1 or C2.
Perhaps that is what he meant about most transparent administration? You know, kind of like trying to beat the world land speed record.... oh wait thats fast...for single wheeled vehic....oh how about single wheeled electric, multi-passenger vehicles? What No record?....oh we have that so beat!
Set the bar low enough, and you barely need to step over it.
I thought about this for a second a while back but, it slams up against one really major...no...fundamental problem.
The exchange is a point where currencies/commodities/etc meet. No amount of messing with the details behind how you move money around in your accounts can actually cause food to move to your table or hand you dollar bills. At some point the rubber has to meet the road or else you are just spinning wheels.
The bitcoin protocol, or any such protocol can only deal with itself. In order to exchange cryptocurrency for dollars, you need to actually exchange them.
which I question.... by the time the first matter which used to be the ball reaches the batter, the ball no longer conforms to the definition of a baseball by the rules of the game. I think the pitcher would be guilty of illegally modifying the ball.
As such, according to a quick review, looks like the pitcher should be given a warning, and the pitch called as a ball.
This is so true; in fact, it is my current pain.
Couple of days ago I got a simple request to install an agent on some hosts. No biggie....5 minute job. So I put it off for other priorities. Figured friday afternoon is a good day to catch up, so couple of hours ago I started. ...Except the install script was updated, and requires some prerequisite updates....ok fine. ...Oh and the install script doesn't work if there was a failed run unless you clean X up manually...ok ...Oh and this other one actually had the agent installed but not working, and that other cleanup? Well that was wrong for this case... now it needs more manual cleanup..
Now 6 emails, a couple of IM threads, and 4 quick hallway conversations later... almost done....totally a 5 minute job from here.
Then maybe I can go test the script I was writing today....you know, the one I just finished adding a whole bunch of test cases to be sure it can run in the current environment, and give an appropriate error if it can't. (oh the irony)
That is some pretty wide open conjecture. I have personally been reading and commenting on slashdot for more than a decade and I have skipped or missed entire articles full of comments. Slashdot has contained comments on everything from Natalie Portman to Hot Grits.
Conjecture: Most everything said on slashdot today has already been said by someone on Slashdot prior to it.
Yes, it is called "having fun with it". If he didn't, it would be pretty boring.
I was pretty hooked after reading the first one I ever saw, which was about what would happen if a pitcher could throw a baseball at a signficant fraction of the speed of light. I thought it was pretty hilarious to see see the breakdown.
A simple "a huge explosion destroying the ball park and leaving a crater" would have answered the question, but, it wouldn't be very much fun, and wouldn't have anyone looking to buy his book.
is if it burst into flames with the president in it..... then I might throw a party. Otherwise, this just associates Tesla with a mass murderer who condones torture and doesn't think it needs to be prosecuted aggressively.
I wouldn't say ever..... every time i hear of an abusive domain shutdown, I think gee, maybe its time to stop letting ICANN be the authority and move to an alternative DNS.
I expect it will happen one day. I would like to see something like namecoin where there is no central authority and no way to shut down a domain at all, other than for it to expire.
With some time, I would even be willing to start accepting that as .com and telling icann dns users to get off the legacy system.
It makes sense the NASA budget is tight, they don't have a lot of jobs that can just be handed to anyone's nephew, and its hard to dupe a bunch of engineers into buying expensive equipment they don't need that may or may not even work as intended.
This makes NASA a piss poor government program from the POV of politicians. What is the point if they can't make some kickbacks or repay a large campaign donation with favors? Duh. This isn't rocket science.
I bet if they found a reason to buy full body scanners and found some jobs that don't actually require showing up or doing anything, they would have far less funding issues.
You can go there, live there, call it what you want.... I will still rename it if I feel like calling it something else.
Screw them both. I name myself the authority of names, now I am going to make up words for people to use. Use them or don't, but neither you, nor the IAU can stop me.
No not arsenic, cyanide:
Although.... that isn't the whole story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
There is some speculation that he may have inhaled cyanide accidentlly, (which would be proposterous unless he had say... was doing gold electroplating in his house....oh which he was. He also apparently was known to eat an apple before bed nightly.
Now perhaps it was accidental, perhaps the whole gold plating thing was just to justify having cyanide around? Nobody is ever going to know.... but the poisioned apple makes for a nice story and adds a bit more mystery to the man than accidental inhalation of chemicals while trying to gold plate his silverware.
A quick check at one service which lists such large amounts, you would be looking at almost $20k/year to keep a single offsite copy of that. That is the posted price however, I imagine that is enough that you could shop around and find a deal, but, a deal is still going to be prohibitive for most people.
At 20 TB I would start thinking about one of two things: Tape, and/or git-annex.
Unless prices have changed since I last looked and the scales tipped, tape has the advantage of being cheap. Of course, you will need to test your tapes occasionally and likely want 2 copies just in case, but, at that point you are invested in tape, may as well.
The other possibility is git-annex and lots of drives, but you can mix types. That way you can keep a catalog of your library and information on where it all is, and how many copies of each thing you have.
Of course, any way you slice it, each physical piece of media is something that can fail so you have to occasionally test to ensure redundancy.
> A device will work only if it's well maintained.
This much is true. And now look what has happened, without proper maintenance we sit here now before this disaster.
> We are talking about a plane that is owned by Malaysia
what plane? You replied to a post about the hawking of a product using some of the most "tell that to the families" scumbag tactics.
That is interesting. When I read the article.... and I am ready to hate on comcast at any time, they are my provider for various reasons (including me being lazy yes) but I am not a huge fan of them.
That said, I couldn't help but think... that is an odd domain name, and its not like it makes any sense that it would be blocked. It looks like the kind of randomly named domain a phisher might use, which makes me wonder... maybe this domain was blocked due to being part of some botnet or equivalent and then later became owned by the current owners? (not cleaning up things like that is hardly a new or unique issue)
Now I see your post and I think.... you may be on to something. I think that unless someone can find rhyme or reason for bans, then we should probably assume incompetence rather than malice. I mean, its not like there is a pattern of blocking based on content or ownership, they are not even competitors of comcast unless they have some diversification plans that I wouldn't have ever expected.
> By the time you hit 70-80 years of age, the whole of humanity probably seems like am unweighted
> random behaviour generator.
Doubtful. Problem is, most people don't really get a representative sampling of that behaviour; and can build both behaviours and filters that reduce the randomness or perception of it.
I was going to go into a rant about perception and treating people badly and getting treated badly...ie self fullifilling ideas. However, a better example is texas holdem players. We can take an objectively analyse any situation in the game and come out with odds. I can tell you, based on those, that out of the gate, the best hole cards out there: Pocket Aces....are NEVER more than a 3 to 1 favorite.... not even against 7 2 off.
Thing is, you would think that after thousands of hands, players would start to get hip to the statistics involved, and many do, however, an average night is often maybe a couple of hundred hands at a decent table. The number of hands you need to play to really get a significant sample is much larger than a night or two of casual play....far too long for most people to really get a sense of it without rigerous study....even then people's intuitive feel for it tends to get very skewed by recent events.
You will hear people who have played the game for years talk about entirely stupid things like implying that past outcomes affect future odds, or being shocked that Pocket aces is never more than a 3 to 1 favorite.
fine, its still not being exported to china.
Close; but you are essentially correct. It isn't the address but, the transaction which contains a small program which defines what inputs are needed to spend the coin.
Basically, you can think of a bitcoin transaction like a check. However, it is a check that allows for more nuanced cashing protocols. The standard default bitcoin transaction is exactly that, it defines the payee in terms of a public key, and requires the signature of the payee (by the private key) to "spend" (to make a new check out of it, or several new ones)
You could issue a transaction that just requires a password, or requires multiple keys, etc. Unlike a bank check, I could write a check to two people such that they must BOTH sign it.
I think one of the reasons few people know about it is that it is only relevant for people writting clients, and even then, the vast majority of the time its just filling in defaults. The actual uses for custom signature checking scripts are rather rare and specific.
The numbers for alphalpha and water exported didn't make a lot of sense, so I did a couple of quick searches: http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcor...
That is right, they are counting as "exported" water which....the vast majority of.... evaporates locally, and stays in the local environment.
That is straight up lies.
Well.... you remember that old commercial where the father finds the kids drugs and asks him where he learned about all this stuff. What does the kid say? Come on...you remember it....
"I learned it from watching you".
Gee, just how does he justify slurping up all their records indiscriminately....maybe...he learned that somewhere.
I never actually read any asimov. Believer it or not....not sure you are familiar with this consept...but people repeat things that other people said. Bibliopgraphy generally can be reserved for scholarly articles.
Well unless you want to sit them down in the bedroom and re-enact the sex education skit from the Meaning of Life there are not a lot of other options besides the drawings in biology text books. Then again, maybe not being a parent and not looking to teach anyone the birds and the beeds, I have totally missed the plethora of options...then again, even if it exists, I bet a lot of parents miss it too.
> nor do most women really want said monster penises jammed up their rectum
Maybe not monsters but, a significant number do enjoy having things....well jammed is maybe the wrong word.... never mind....
I really liked the way one person put it to me a while back. Some people used to have some idea the earth was flat, but then some people realized that wasn't true and said it was a sphere. Well, that was clearly wrong too but a sphere is a lot closer to the truth than flat; treating wrongness as a boolean would just label them both wrong but, one is clearly a lot less wrong than the other.
So to some degree, it was settled...possibilities were excluded. Then, well its clearly not a sphere, it bulges in the middle, I have heard "slightly pear shaped" is a good description.... then you have the satellites that have precisely measured variations in gravitational field...they have an even more complex picture.
Whether it is settled or not depends on to what degree you need the answers.