And yet you continue to conflate "the system" with "the currency." Cash is broken in almost exactly the same way as bitcoin. Though one could say it's harder to forge bitcoin than cash.
That's *all* bitcoin promises. If you give $10,000 cash to a "Nigerian prince" it doesn't mean that cash itself is any more or less secure. It means you're an idiot. Same thing with bitcoin. If you give your coins to somebody who is not careful with them then it's not the fault of the currency. You always have the option of storing them yourself - or even printing them out and stuffing them under your mattress.
It's an insecure landscape to be sure - but would you expect anything less from a young and revolutionary idea?
It's always that one thing that you're pretty sure of and don't bother to fact-check before posting that bites you in the ass. I got the two missions reversed.:-\
Does an uneducated whelp have to be the first to post in all of these? BitCoin isn't insecure - the site holding them was. FFS. MUST we cover this in EVERY article posted here???
We didn't have cancer in earlier times? How early? If you go back far enough then it's probably because we died of "other things" (starvation, infection, communicable diseases, etc.). It's not like we lived forever in some fanciful past free of cancer.
There is a ton of pseudo-science going around related to autism (thanks to Andrew Wakefield and his stripper buddy). I've never heard this claim before - do you have a source that involves actual science?
Salt isn't magic. If they stole your database they likely would get the salt and hash values (unless it is stored elsewhere and the hackers were unlucky). It will stop rainbow table attacks to be sure, but not brute force. At best (the hackers didn't get the salts) it will slow down brute force.
As I understand it road signs (or many of them) in the UK used to be in caps but studies showed that mixed-case was much easier to read (which mattered more as cars got faster) since we're looking for familiar patterns.
Looks like Microsoft will need to re-learn this lesson...
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And yet you continue to conflate "the system" with "the currency." Cash is broken in almost exactly the same way as bitcoin. Though one could say it's harder to forge bitcoin than cash.
That's *all* bitcoin promises. If you give $10,000 cash to a "Nigerian prince" it doesn't mean that cash itself is any more or less secure. It means you're an idiot. Same thing with bitcoin. If you give your coins to somebody who is not careful with them then it's not the fault of the currency. You always have the option of storing them yourself - or even printing them out and stuffing them under your mattress.
It's an insecure landscape to be sure - but would you expect anything less from a young and revolutionary idea?
It's always that one thing that you're pretty sure of and don't bother to fact-check before posting that bites you in the ass. I got the two missions reversed. :-\
Brain-fart - I got that completely backwards! Back to coding...
Does an uneducated whelp have to be the first to post in all of these? BitCoin isn't insecure - the site holding them was. FFS. MUST we cover this in EVERY article posted here???
Yes - but Pioneer 10 is moving away from us faster than Voyager 1 is - so at some point it will overtake.
Then it's... a witch?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twofortyfouram.locale&hl=en
+10 for being pedantic (the best kind of correct, technically correct), -1000 for knowing exactly what I was groping for, but choosing to be pedantic.
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Whaaah! The automobile is slower than my horse! And it doesn't go as faaaar! Whaaaah!
Previously VZW offered unlimited 3G plans (like the one I'm still on). And if you root your phone you get free tethering. So no, it wouldn't count.
That's what I'm reading too...
The AC makes a point. WTF?
And Eclipse....
They have beer vending machines though...
Are those ivory towers as nice as I hear they are?
You mean "donators." Subtle but important difference.
There is a story there just *begging* to be told...
Mod this to 11!
We didn't have cancer in earlier times? How early? If you go back far enough then it's probably because we died of "other things" (starvation, infection, communicable diseases, etc.). It's not like we lived forever in some fanciful past free of cancer.
There is a ton of pseudo-science going around related to autism (thanks to Andrew Wakefield and his stripper buddy). I've never heard this claim before - do you have a source that involves actual science?
Salt isn't magic. If they stole your database they likely would get the salt and hash values (unless it is stored elsewhere and the hackers were unlucky). It will stop rainbow table attacks to be sure, but not brute force. At best (the hackers didn't get the salts) it will slow down brute force.
As I understand it road signs (or many of them) in the UK used to be in caps but studies showed that mixed-case was much easier to read (which mattered more as cars got faster) since we're looking for familiar patterns.
Looks like Microsoft will need to re-learn this lesson...
First world problems...
Rayleigh scattering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
So sorry to have inconvenienced you with a post you had no obligation to read or reply to...