A couple of little easter eggs in bespoke software;
Hold a couple of modifier keys and click on the icon in the about dialog, "The developers [names] would like to present you with a complimentary cup holder" followed by opening the CD ROM tray. Every new developer checked in a change with their own name once they'd passed their probationary period.
Leave the about dialog open for 5 minutes, the dialog goes black and the developers names start floating around like the game asteroids. Click on a letter and it will disappear, splitting the name in half. With both parts moving slightly faster. Probably should have made it slightly hard to start though. The customer had a ball, but the manager was not happy.
Yeah, yeah. The sky is falling.... Except that it isn't. With signed bootloaders like shim, you can install or run any operating system yourself without changing the BIOS to disable Secure Boot at all.
Not being able to run a 3rd party OS was a concern with Windows 8. But the open source community have solved that problem. So being able to disable Secure Boot is no longer required.
... if a whole bunch of people internally at Valve said they wanted to do it
He's being quite literal there. Valve doesn't force people to work on particular projects. If nobody wants to do it, it wont get done.
Only allow one sided transactions that create new tokens to be signed by the reserve bank's key. Partition transactions into separate chains based on transaction hash. Validate the "official" blockchain in large data centers. Offer API access to submit or verify transactions without fetching the entire chain.
It really shouldn't be difficult to design the basic software changes to the bitcoin client. Scaling across a data center might be a bit more work though.
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