During my freshman year in college, I was running Gentoo. On cold nights I would set Portage to recompile OpenOffice six times and then I would turn the CPU fan up before going to bed. It kept my abysmal little dorm room quite warm.:)
From the comments in TFA, as written by one of the authors:
We don't set out to to de-anonymise the thief - we are researchers, not law enforcement, and we are just using that as an example to show its possible to trace the flow of Bitcoins around the network.
It is possible to use Bitcoin in a way that is almost certainly anonymous, in the same way it is possible to get almost certain anonymity on the Internet, by using encryption, onion routing, and never associating your identity with your actions.
Our point is that you don't get this anonymity automatically, and that most casual users of Bitcoin may not be anonymous, even though many of them may believe they are.
The system looks more anonymous than it is.
This, of course, is something we've already discussed ad nauseum here.:)
Yes and no. Yes, in that it sends and receives e-mails just fine. No, in that Exchange calendar support (which we use heavily here at my office) is still ridiculously fubar, even with the Lightning addon. [comments based on Thunderbird 3.5 & Lightning about 3 months ago]
... Marvel doesn't give a shit about doing faithful comic book movies as much as they care about making movies that people actually want to see.
Agreed. As nerdy as I am, I'd rather see a fun comic book movie with a new canon than a faithful retelling of old canon that produces a movie I regret watching.
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See, I just made the assumption that Bryan Singer said, "I wasn't involved in X-3 so I'm ignoring everything it did." Considering how awful I thought X-3 was, I was more than happy to accept that premise.
I'm not the only one who's encountered people who are experts in their field, yet lack the ability to coherently explain even the basis because they don't have the skills to do so.
As someone who was homeschooled for 8 years, I can confidently say that it did not hamper my people skills in any way. There are plenty of opportunities for homeschooled kids to socialize. Most locales have homeschool meet-ups and coordinated events. Mine had over 50 kids; plenty of opportunity to learn about bullies, idiots, and especially know-it-alls.:)
Get prescribed amount of work done, then do whatever you want for the rest of the day.
I was homeschooled from fourth grade through twelfth. This is pretty much what I did, except I did it in week chunks. My mother would plan out the school year in advance then hand me my workload for a given week. I would then crank through as much as I could, often getting my work done on Wednesday, leaving Thursday and Friday for leisure time.
That schedule allowed me to start up my own computer repair business when I was 16. It was great - I could schedule clients during normal business hours when I might have been in school wasting time for the slower kids to catch up.
If you're willing to assume that all companies are going to keep your data safe, you're awfully naive. Whether or not they should is one thing... whether or not they will is another.
Besides, it's not like you couldn't have seen this coming. When you install the app to your Android phone, you get the following screen:
This application has access to the following:
* Network communication (create Bluetooth connections, full Internet access, view network state, view Wi-Fi state)
* Your personal information (add or modify calendar events and send email to guests, read contact data)
* Phone calls (read phone state and identity)
* System tools (Bluetooth administration, change network connectivity, change Wi-Fi state, modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping, automatically start at boot)
If that doesn't scream "We are going to take data about you and sell it", I don't know what does.
This wasn't "bred" or modified by the scientists from an existing bacterium, it was occurring naturally in Mono Lake and was transported to the lab for concentrated study. That was the second-to-last question answered in the NASA TV broadcast.
Except those can be solved brute-force with a simple "yes" or "no"... you're guaranteed to be right half the time. You'd need questions with more ambiguous or context-sensitive answers like:
If train A leaves Chicago traveling 100MPH and train B leaves New York traveling 150MPH and the distance between the two cites is 600 miles how far from New York will it be when the two trains meet?
And you thought word problems would never be useful!
The goal of the contest is to develop new interactions on unique hardware that you cannot get anywhere else. We supply you with the special hardware and you show us how innovative you can be with it....
To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010.
Twilight Zone was excellent. I miss that machine. My local bowling alley (with attached arcade) had one I'd visit once a week, and suddenly one Saturday it was gone and replaced with Terminator: Judgement Day.
I would have fired you because you don't know English. Grammar is spelled with an A. Also, your signature is missing proper capitalization and punctuation.
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During my freshman year in college, I was running Gentoo. On cold nights I would set Portage to recompile OpenOffice six times and then I would turn the CPU fan up before going to bed. It kept my abysmal little dorm room quite warm. :)
We don't set out to to de-anonymise the thief - we are researchers, not law enforcement, and we are just using that as an example to show its possible to trace the flow of Bitcoins around the network.
It is possible to use Bitcoin in a way that is almost certainly anonymous, in the same way it is possible to get almost certain anonymity on the Internet, by using encryption, onion routing, and never associating your identity with your actions.
Our point is that you don't get this anonymity automatically, and that most casual users of Bitcoin may not be anonymous, even though many of them may believe they are.
The system looks more anonymous than it is.
This, of course, is something we've already discussed ad nauseum here. :)
Sometimes a man needs a little G.
Wait, Pequod's and Queequeg's are owned by the same company? Mind. Blown.
range may be to long
and overload
on the wifi
on the cpu
on the software.
Burma Shave!
Wouldn't you want someone to notify you of this horrible transgression so that you can fix it and go to heaven?
I see that exact rationale used all the time. It makes me sad.
Yes and no. Yes, in that it sends and receives e-mails just fine. No, in that Exchange calendar support (which we use heavily here at my office) is still ridiculously fubar, even with the Lightning addon. [comments based on Thunderbird 3.5 & Lightning about 3 months ago]
... Marvel doesn't give a shit about doing faithful comic book movies as much as they care about making movies that people actually want to see.
Agreed. As nerdy as I am, I'd rather see a fun comic book movie with a new canon than a faithful retelling of old canon that produces a movie I regret watching.
See, I just made the assumption that Bryan Singer said, "I wasn't involved in X-3 so I'm ignoring everything it did." Considering how awful I thought X-3 was, I was more than happy to accept that premise.
I'm not the only one who's encountered people who are experts in their field, yet lack the ability to coherently explain even the basis because they don't have the skills to do so.
I work with them. *sob*
As someone who was homeschooled for 8 years, I can confidently say that it did not hamper my people skills in any way. There are plenty of opportunities for homeschooled kids to socialize. Most locales have homeschool meet-ups and coordinated events. Mine had over 50 kids; plenty of opportunity to learn about bullies, idiots, and especially know-it-alls. :)
Get prescribed amount of work done, then do whatever you want for the rest of the day.
I was homeschooled from fourth grade through twelfth. This is pretty much what I did, except I did it in week chunks. My mother would plan out the school year in advance then hand me my workload for a given week. I would then crank through as much as I could, often getting my work done on Wednesday, leaving Thursday and Friday for leisure time.
That schedule allowed me to start up my own computer repair business when I was 16. It was great - I could schedule clients during normal business hours when I might have been in school wasting time for the slower kids to catch up.
If only the submitter hadn't spent so many snow days at home instead of in school learning proper grammar! Oh, the humanity!
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/
That article made a lot more sense to me and had significantly less amounts of fanaticism.
Besides, it's not like you couldn't have seen this coming. When you install the app to your Android phone, you get the following screen:
This application has access to the following:
* Network communication (create Bluetooth connections, full Internet access, view network state, view Wi-Fi state)
* Your personal information (add or modify calendar events and send email to guests, read contact data)
* Phone calls (read phone state and identity)
* System tools (Bluetooth administration, change network connectivity, change Wi-Fi state, modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping, automatically start at boot)
If that doesn't scream "We are going to take data about you and sell it", I don't know what does.
99.99% of the world doesn't really give a shit about what you have on your home pc's hard drive
Correct. Instead they care about installing a keylogger to your hard drive and then accessing your credit card information.
This wasn't "bred" or modified by the scientists from an existing bacterium, it was occurring naturally in Mono Lake and was transported to the lab for concentrated study. That was the second-to-last question answered in the NASA TV broadcast.
If train A leaves Chicago traveling 100MPH and train B leaves New York traveling 150MPH and the distance between the two cites is 600 miles how far from New York will it be when the two trains meet?
And you thought word problems would never be useful!
I supposed we should just all consider ourselves fortunate it wasn't called FavreOffice.
I know! Think of all the personal data that could be intercepted if it was named FavreOffice!
not working yet * IEEE 802.11n
That's all 802.11n devices. You know, those things that have been on the market for like 2 or 3 years? From TFA:
Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets.
Yeah, I'm still pretty terrible. My only high score entries on a public machine came on that Terminator: Judgement Day machine.
The goal of the contest is to develop new interactions on unique hardware that you cannot get anywhere else. We supply you with the special hardware and you show us how innovative you can be with it. ...
To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010.
You also have to return the keyboard by October, so it's not yours forever. http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2010/Student_Contest.html
Twilight Zone was excellent. I miss that machine. My local bowling alley (with attached arcade) had one I'd visit once a week, and suddenly one Saturday it was gone and replaced with Terminator: Judgement Day.
I really like KDE and I believe that it needs to be supported better by distributions. Kubuntu is a mess.
I've been running KDE on Arch Linux since 4.1, and it's been great.
I would have fired you because you don't know English. Grammar is spelled with an A. Also, your signature is missing proper capitalization and punctuation.
-- The Spelling Nazi