Tradesinsight? Plural? Because tradesinsight is a DNS not found, but tradeinsight.info will notify me when Nancy pelosi and other Congress members trade.
I'd suggest no one should investigate. So you lost your Bitcoin from some massive fraud? Too bad. That's the cost of playing that game. You should not get a free pass when you ask your government for assistance, and you should not have your government investing time and money looking into massive fraud concerning Internet Fun Bucks. You assume all risk when using this kind of money.
> In particular, anything that needs regular updates is not "firm" in any sense.
It's really not about the updates that makes something "firm". Hardware is hard because it's a real physical thing. Software is soft because it's a non-physical thing, a set of instructions. Firmware is firm because it's less physical than hardware, and is more physical than a set of instructions. Firmware is software, in that it's a set of instructions, but additionally it needs to be loaded or flashed or programmed into the hardware, and stored either on-chip or in some ROM or NVRAM nearby, differentiating firmware storage from software storage on disk, tape, or some other peripheral storage. At the time, this made pretty clear sense, but over time, things were made murky by multifacted uses of NVRAM and peripheral storage.
So, "software built into hardware" is a pretty good definition. When you say something isn't firmware, it's software, that seems mistaken. All firmware is software, not all software is firmware. The size doesn't matter. Whether it's an application or a device driver doesn't matter. What defines the "firm" part of firmware is whether it's "built into the hardware". That's it.
So, yeah, you're having a definition problem. If you keep whatever definition that you currently have, then you're gonna have a bad time. If you try to "draw a firm line somewhere between the code in a tiny microcontroller running a battery charger and the operating system running on a general-purpose application processor", with this new definition, the question becomes "where is this code stored?". It doesn't matter how large it is, whether it's 100 lines of code in your battery charger or 1,000,000 LOC for your OS. If it's in on-board storage, it's firmware. If it's in peripheral storage, it's software.
I think we shouldn't forget the real stars of that movie, Maury Chaykin and Eddie Deezen, both playing epic nerds. Jim and Alvin were my heroes. Not so much now.
Bitcoin is neither your wallet nor your bank account. Some people want to treat it like a wallet, others like a bank account, others like their account on a stock exchange, others as an investment vehicle, others as a hedge against the dollar, and I'm sure there are other comparisons that make sense to people. Ultimately, Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which has both it's own unique benefits and it's own unique foibles.
... and I hope you realize that your bank account CAN be completely drained without the money being recoverable. If you're trying to say it can't, then might I suggest to watch some scam-baiting videos to see how those scammers operate, and how they try to do exactly that to the elderly and the unaware. You can call it a bug all you want, but it's quite possible to have your bank account drained; and, despite what others in this thread have said, an attacker can do that from thousands of miles away.
I've watched this video a few times, and I recommend the part at 25:43 which describes agility. To repeat it here:
1) Find out where you are
2) Take a small step toward you goal
3) Adjust your understanding based on what you've learned
4) Repeat
I think this is useful as a high-level guide, and it's both easily memorizable and generally memorable. I use a silly mnemonic "FI-TA-AD-RE", and I come back to it whenever I'm working and get to a point where I have to ask myself "What the hell am I doing?"
There is also an incentivization problem here. For every person that they get onboard, “Worldcoin will allow everyone to claim a free share of it.” That share is worth $0.07 in US dollars today. If I don't think it's worth 7 cents to produce my iris data, then the best strategy is to wait until the coin goes up to my price point before entering that market. It makes the most sense to hold off until the coin hits $65,000 US before getting the "free share" and immediately converting it into another currency.
I remember that the binary for L0phtCrack had some sort of software protection included with it, and it took a 1-bit change to be cracked, itself -- a 0x74 to 0x75, iirc (or 0x74 to 0xEB if you're a stickler for doing it right). I don't remember exactly what the protection was, maybe there was some sort of password count limit or time limit. It was a long time ago. I just remember being a little disappointed that it was that easy.
The government never said that masks don't work, because "the government" is a thing which does not speak. The former US Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, who was appointed by the former president, claimed that masks don't work in his now famous tweet "STOP BUYING MASKS". Fauci did not say this; Fauci instead said that for several reasons "there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask" at that time. The White House Press Secretary was absent, so there was no comment from the former president's Press Secretary. Which of those voices, or lack of voices, or any other voices, would you say qualify as the statement by "the government"? Unless you're a 2-dimensional South Park "nutter" character, you should realize that "the gubbmint" does not share a single voice, if it has a voice at all.
If you're treating the government as a solitary nebulous entity, then accountability goes out the window. It's important to keep the individuals that make up the government accountable and responsible, as President Biden has with Jerome Adams, who is no longer the Surgeon General. Accountability is also why Fauci still serves as the NIAID Director of the NIH.
SWIM once said to me: Funny thing about those System 75's, the entire ordeal originated from the hack of a bank's telephone system, who had a small Unix UUCP network and, for some odd reason, put all their System 75 logins and passwords into their Systems file. The default login information leaked out after a hacker named Syadasti announced that he was willing to turn any System 75's given to him into usable remote PBXes, and eventually some other hacker (Scott Simpson, maybe? don't know) set up a system on his own home line that responded like a System 75 would, and gave Syadasti that number. He promptly tried to login with the cust/rcust accounts, which were recorded by the other hacker, which led to the explosion of System 75 hacks throughout the US.
When I first heard the lab leak hypothesis around Feb or March 2020, it was entirely non-partisan and was being investigated by people who had no skin in the political game. At the same time, some other politically-motivated people were claiming that the virus was both a "democratic hoax", and a "bioweapon" made by China and deliberately released on their own people so that it could be blamed on the US and embarrass the US President. Now, those same politically motivated people are tying themselves to the lab leak theory, because none of their other nonsense panned out.
I'm surprised that people had forgotten this already. You don't hear much about a "democratic hoax" or a "bioweapon" nowadays, but those words were a part of the conversation a year ago.
Note that the phrase "politically motivated people" was substituted for the original term "whack jobs", which I think is more appropriate; however, your asked me to use "non charged terms", so I did my best.
It didn't make the cut? It certainly should have. I vacillate between Doggy-coin, and using a long O, something like DOE-gee-coin (as in "Get along, little doggies", which is sometimes sung with a long O). The use of Doje-coin always seemed silly. The mascot is a friggin dog, not a doje or a dozh, whatever those nonsense words mean. Stick with Doggy-coin, it make the most sense.