Comment Re:Leaving US control (Score 1) 73
The NSA was then end of the open Internet. What we really need is a distributed DNS system that can't be screwed by IANA, ICANN, the UN, or any world government. And encryption everywhere.
The NSA was then end of the open Internet. What we really need is a distributed DNS system that can't be screwed by IANA, ICANN, the UN, or any world government. And encryption everywhere.
Right, something distributed and secure is badly needed.
Namecoin didn't solve the domain squatting issue though. I'm not sure it's solvable.
That's understating it. What the NSA did was more like setting up spy camera's in every room.
Read the 2008 paper. The idea was never that everyone would mine, it's that mining was going to be taken over by specialized equipment and that the difficulty adjustment system and the free market would compensate for the ever increasing mining power. It worked out exactly like that.
Err, no. It's going almost exactly as the 2008 plan said it would.
If you control 51% of the hashing power in the network, you can modify the block chain while simultaneously self-verifying your version as the one-and-true block chain.
No you can't. You still have to output valid blocks or every node will reject it. Every node validates every block and rejects anything that breaks the rules.
A 51% attack can't steal coins, generate more coins, or change the past in any way other than by generating a parallel blockchain. It's considerably less harmful than people seem to think.
Slashdot. Where someone picks a random rule or law and claims it explains whatever the current story is about.
There were no 80's or 20's in this story. Only a 50.
Just like USD is a fantasy. All money but gold is pretend computer numbers, yet somehow money is still useful.
It's so doomed to failure that major companies are taking it. That's not very doomed at all.
This has happened before will no ill effects. The situation got fixed with no ill effects. The possible effects of one pool having 50%+ of the mining power are significantly less harmful than reported.
People will tell you that you absolutely must use this language or that language like there is no alternative. Ignore those people. There is no one correct answer to this question. It's a matter of taste and choosing the right language for the job.
I get the impression you want quick shell script type programs. If so you might like Perl or Python. Perl has better regular expression support and lets you do more with less typing, Python is easier to master.
If it's held in secret how can anyone be sure it's anything that remotely resembles a fair trail? Maybe the defendants don't even know what that are being charged with. Maybe they are not allowed lawyers.
Secret trails are not the worst of this though. Since about 2005 the home secretary has the power to put anyone under house arrest indefinitely without any burden of proof. The UK government don't even need trails anymore.
If Gartner say curved TVs are rubbish then it's time to buy one.
Gartner have a very long history of being wrong about everything.
Or being roofied in a bar?
This was and maybe still is a common way of mugging men in India. A friendly guy buys you a drink. You fall asleep. You wake up with no wallet, watch, or bag. The intent is to steal property not commit a sexual assault though.
That's bad reasoning. Just because things are terrible elsewhere doesn't mean they can't be better here.
He who steps on others to reach the top has good balance.
