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Comment I'm thinking bigger... (Score 1) 327

So I remember reading stories which basically said if you control ENOUGH of the bitcoin currency, you can then start faking the chain and cause it to split in two which would really screw with the economy. Does this guy now own enough to execute this? It'd explain his "I'm goign to get 7% back" claims by simply he'd be diverting funds from others due to the weighting of his own coins...

Or maybe I'm utterly confused; I forget :)

Comment Re:and then in 6 months?? (Score 4, Insightful) 131

If they wanted to take him down, he'd disappear.

6 months doing _what_ is the question you need to ask. He already knows the kind of social influence he needs to rise to the "top" of headless organizations such as anon. And anon has the lovely thing that no one needs to ask who you are. Anyone asking would be viewed with suspicion....

Cut off one head and many shall spawn in its place? What happens when that head is under the control of the feds I wonder?

Comment AOO/Libre Office (Score 2) 120

Seriously, you've not pointed out whats _wrong_ with your spreadsheets to help us make _any_ real suggestion.

Firstly your gunning to change a system which apparently works. This is asking for failure.

As others have pointed out this could very simply be a database + web front end, but unless you know _why_ your changing it, your likely to make it worse.

Comment Re:Field dependent requirement (Score 2) 1086

To quote Winger: "She's only 17" You need math to know wether that's legal in your state or not.
Seriously though....

I'm a lowly IT Analyst. I dont' think of my team as the matrix enlightened, but more like a custom car shop. You bring in a vette, and we tune it into the vehicle that you need, and fix whatever rattles. Sometimes that means stretching it out and adding 2 more doors and some cargo space (recreating a cts-v?) Most often though, it's finding ways to minimize maintenance.

Being one of 2 people on my team that understand stats / higher algebra, I can fake code my way through many of our team's issues just by using Excel and a few Vlookups & compound ifs to quickly get necessary stats on small to medium flatfile data sets in just a few minutes.

I can prove to my manager how much work I'm doing in comparison to my peers by illustrationg ticket closure rates over time, as well as show a function predicting when our team will theoretically hit 0 counting for new tickets. I often find myself Illustrating how order of operations can affect outcomes in all kinds of situations, etc..

Where I'm going with this....
While I'm obviously no math Genius. Math has certainly helped me apply various degrees of logic to solve problems much quicker than my peers. My EMM (english major mgr) is actually an awesome boss, but frequently requires the logic to be presented in an "informal" way not just for her, but for our many customers. In order to do that most easily, you have to understand it! (or use a car analogy).

In conclusion, I'm JUST an analyst, 2nd teir IT up from Desktop, not a DBA, not an unix admin, not an architect, not a coder... and yet I apply math all the time. I can only imagine how much better I could be at my job if I could have gotten through calculus after I discovered Ritalin! I don't believe I could do higher level postions (design / coding) without functional (pun intended) use of math above my current skill level.

Comment Re:Or just install gentoo.... (Score 1) 179

I wrote the parent.

You fail to understand what gentoo does properly.

It has bin packages; That means you can either compile the package yourself; or grab the bin package from any number of bin package providers..... With debian, how often can you choose someone elses compliation of the same package, have the package manager actually manage updates for it properly and not blow up when some updates come through for the shared libs?

So erm, whats the point of your distro again?

Comment Nice self reference article (Score 1, Insightful) 341

Step 1. Post links sure to get your self banned on G+
2. Don't actually attempt to contact anyone at G+ about your account; simply click "recheck link on profile"
3. Post on Slashdot notice of your banning - make sure to state you didn't break the rules ever, except for those times you did.
4. Tell visitors you didn't miss G+; but you still feel its worth wasting their time by having them read about your lack of missingness of G+

Yes, I just coined the term "missingness" when items aren't simply missing; but they are so unfindable they have a high missingness rating.

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