Good thing you're not solving real problems. What. A. Fucking. Waste.
I bet you would change your tune if you had been making bitcoins by the hundreds or thousands per day using just a cheap CPU, back when it first came out.
Or, you did and you didn't keep them....
Modded down for telling the truth. These guys are wasting a small town's worth of power to do worthless calculations.
On more than one occasion I have used bitcoin - that I mined myself - to buy something useful.
I created real money out of thin air using "worthless calculations" and then purchased a good or service with that money directly.
Crypto mining is NOT worthless.
Crypto is NOT going away.
" And Windows 8 as is is ONLY oriented towards tablets"
false.
false
I recently fixed a Surface Pro 2 tablet for a client of mine. He had a VPN client installed which blew up the wifi when the recent MS update went through which updated ***EVERYTHING*** on the tablet.
It isn't TOTALLY bad. It isn't good either. It's way too thick, too heavy, too hot. The screen is very nice I'll give it that.
The OS is annoying and frustrating and - for the life of me - purposely and consistently inconsistent. Follow me there? It's like it just does things differently for no reason. Bring up the "jewels" menu and then "settings" while in the tile desktop and stuff is one way, bring up the same menu while in the old school desktop and it is another way.
I've worked on a few desktop and laptops with windows 8 and the VERY first thing I do on FIRST BOOT is install the 3rd party taskbar hack. Working on this surface is the first time I've taken the time to figure out how to get around on 8. Because it's actually a tablet.
Windows 8 IS geared only towards tablets, for some reason it mistakenly gets installed on laptops and desktops without touch screens.
If someone gave me a surface pro I would sell it and buy an ASUS transformer or just a 10" galaxy note with a keyboard cover.
I'll just leave this here: the Daily Mail-o-matic headline genrator
IS THE BBC GIVING HOUSE PRICES DIABETES?
WILL THE INTERNET HAVE SEX WITH HARD-WORKING FAMILIES?
inquiring minds want to know!
It depends on who you are and where you are. Ethnic minorities can have more than one child, so their ethnic group and culture do not become diminished. Rural villagers can also have more than one child sometimes, especially if their first child is not a boy. In some cases, they can keep having children until they get a boy. That is thought to reduce the incentive to engage in infanticide of female babies. Doctors are also not allowed to tell prospective parents whether their child will be a boy or a girl -- that is forbidden because it could also lead to infanticide. Finally, if the parents are wealthy, then they can simply pay the fine for extra children, and then it doesn't matter.
What? Infanticide is discouraged?
Those savages! Don't they know it's a woman's choice? Gasp! China is a such primitive backward society!
I had no idea the contents of a physical drive changed its smell!
This is very intriguing!
Well, I would assume that the dog is trained to indicate on the scent of the various parts of the computer components such as printed circuit boards, solder resin, various typical packaging materials such as integrated circuit housing polymers, and so on.
Oh, wait, whoosh! almost missed it there.
Also, does concealing a memory device now automatically imply child porn?
Child porn is bad stuff, but heaven forbid they have copyrighted movies on there. Or even worse than that, Metallica MP3s.
I mean, really. We *know* that (most) grandmas ain't exactly surfin' like crazy. They're terrified of viruses, and all the other associated buzzwords, and were uncomfortable around new technology before that. Certainly there are exceptions -- but I'm not at all surprised to hear that the demographic mentioned isn't exactly spearheading the digital revolution.
This 30% number is going to go down over time -- as these people die.
1. Good cyber people won't put up with the insane government clearance bullshit. They'll go to work for Google or Microsoft.
2. Good cyber people don't want to live in places like Jessup, Maryland or Barksdale, Louisiana.
3. Lots of good cyber people are autodidacts; the report says no more autodidacts should be hired because Ed Snowden was an autodidact. Puh-leeze.
I'd be happy to be a government cyber warrior as long as I can do it in my mom's basement and get paid in hot pockets and star trek dvds.
you trusted your BC to some yahoo that ran a fricking Magic:The Gathering trading club...really?
What? You don't do all your banking at the comic book shop?
might be safer to put your money into comic books rather than bitcoin, ha ha.
the thing is, the coins have fluctuated in dollar value but actually haven't crashed or disappeared.
MTGOX was just one exchange, and a goofy one at that IMO, there are many others and more will come.
BTC isn't going anywhere. Both as an idea and a currency.
The problem is that spam is inexpensive to send. Especially if you are using a bot net of infected computers so you utilize someone else's bandwidth. If you spend $100 to send out 1 million e-mails and get a 0.1% return rate at $1 per user, you make $900 per campaign.
The math to show why spam still exists is really just that simple. Statistically it does pay.
The emails can be purchased cheaply, botnet space is cheap, VPNs to hide your identity are cheap and effective, and the payoff is good.
And since it is a relatively "harmless" thing to do, most spammers can probably sleep well at night.
A random person in the street can name you multiple Kardashians but won't be able to name you the vice president.
So no, a random person on the street won't know who Linus Torvalds is.
thanks for the info.... def puts perspective on it. So it's sort of a straw / camel's back kind of thing, huh?
bear in mind this man is guilty of nothing more than saying something politically incorrect within the privacy of his own house.
What happened here? 1984 much?
Conspiracy insight level 2: The government already has a sentient AI, but it's an Aspie like Data on Star Trek, so they're crowd-sourcing its emotional development. *dun-dun-DUN*
If they're also putting patches of live skin on his arm, and seductively blowing on it, that would also explain who is running things behind the scenes.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
