This really hit me recently when I left the house after doing some cryptography research.
When I "locked" the wooden door with a piece of metal that has been photographed by probably countless cameras... I just had to laugh at myself and wonder why I bad been programmed to do this seemingly pointless action my entire life.
I remember clicking through those same pictures a few days back and I was under the impression that I was telling the observers what pictures I thought were more beautiful, not safer.
Did they just re-label the same data here or is this another separate program?
>They have been able to compromise certain Tor users in specific situations. Historically this has been done by finding an exploit for the Tor Browser Bundle or by exploiting a user that has misconfigured Tor.
I'm not touching TOR until I figure out how they managed to capture Ross Ulbricht.
>The two techniques that most help me to fall asleep when I’m under pressure are to write down what’s on my mind (to get it off my mind) and to breathe deeply if I’m still staying awake — in to a count of three, out to a count of six.
A friend of mine once told me as I was feigning sleep one evening as usual to: "just breathe like you are already asleep"
The willy report was quickly debunked as being FUD.
Those bots were just the dark pool bots that larger players paid Mt Gox to buy large amounts of Bitcoin on a drip feed system over time so as not to spook the markets.
Completing a list of criteria and scoring well on standardized tests is pretty much all that qualifies somebody for a "degree" from any one of our current post secondary insitutions.
When you wrote "fake Bachelor's degree from some fake accreditation system" I assumed you were talking about the Universities and Colleges of the world.
Satoshi planned for this 51% mining attack problem, and so far we're ok.
His premise was that if a miner ever grew so large as to be capable of performing a 51% attack, that they would have so much wealth invested in the Bitcoin network that they would never dare try anything.
The Bitcoin network is GHash's golden egg laying goose.
The Bitcoin network is entirely safe in GHash's hands imho.
The only real worry comes in when the 51% miner is a bad actor.
>at 35% hashpower and 3 confirmations, this means that GHash can currently steal altcoins from an altcoin exchange with 15.6% success probability – once in every six tries.
Yes, but come on. They never would. Would Bill Gates jump into an active volcano to pick up a penny? Even if he had a 15.6% of picking up that penny without dying a fiery death?
>So what if, for the sake of example, GHash gets over 51% again and starts launching 51% attacks (or, perhaps, even starts launching attacks against altcoin exchanges at 40%)? What happens then?
I'll bite. The ~75% of GHash's mining power that is being pointed at GHash by regular Bitcoin ASIC miners who are enjoying their 0% fees and merged mining drops off overnight. Their domain names are DDOSd at a record breaking level for weeks on end, and every other pool adopts a modified bitcoind that hard-forks (erases) any damange GHash might have caused.
GHash is left with a few thousand nearly worthless Bitcoin (because the USD/BTC value would tank on their 51% attack news) and they are also left without the possibility to basically print themselves free money until the end of time.
It's probably something like an FCC compliance requirement.
Does your hard drive provide pointless-something-random functionality that RSA/NSA thought up? No? Well it's not allowed to be sold legally inside the United States, then. Please return with a properly functioning product.
I missed the part where Adams championed the pivot as the greatest business innovation of all time.
He starts out the article rather casually: "You might be interested in some of the things I've discovered.".
If you don't generally care what he has to say, why did you bother to read it? He was only commenting on an interesting aspect of our industry.
You don't see too many car companies pivoting to motorcycles, for example. Learning about "the pivot" is interesting reading to a lot of people, just maybe not for you and I.
This is my biggest fear when using anything Google-related.
They are notoriously difficult to get in touch with, and as such I probably wouldn't even considering signing up for this service.
Getting access to a real person when there is a problem with one of my domains is very valuable to me.