Comment Re:Why are you throwing your money away on BTC? (Score 1) 148
You throw me the idol!
Throw me the whip and I'll throw you the idol!
You throw me the idol!
Throw me the whip and I'll throw you the idol!
Your idea will never catch on.
But seriously, one of the problems with your idea, and it has actually happened in real life, is that the users fail to authenticate the bank. So some of them end up sometimes submitting HTML forms to an imposter. When you and the bank meet each other and they're getting your public key, you should also be getting their public key.
Instead, we're using this ridiculous system where someone named verisign, whom we never met, is our introducer for a party we have already met (our bank). It's actually pretty crazy, insecure, and regressive tech, when you think about it.
How do you tell the bank your nameand DOB, and prove that the government has certified that someone whose face looks like yours, happens to be associated with that name and DOB?
That's funny, because the submitter claimed the bank had her "name, address, date of birth, social security number, drivers license number and bank account information." It's almost as though they might have met her (in some form), got a lot of information from her (you can ask for all that stuff but not a fingerprint?) and authenticated her. Typos aside, you have to authenticate anyway, otherwise I could take out a loan in the submitter's sister's name, and give them my email address which they correctly enter.
In a situation like that, where you're already authenticating, you don't even need an "infrastructure," or rather, you're building the infrastructure right there. After that meeting, the bank and the customer can sign each other and add the connection to the WoT so that the next person (who knows one of the parties but not the other) will have it.
Oh right, the WoT. So there is already an existing infrastructure but people just aren't using it so it's still missing a lot of people.
Judy Carne was best... sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me...
We need a sampled and mixed Milhouse Nixon on that line.
So, what's your remedy?
Respect!
Find out what it means to me.
is there an unknown benefit of having a blood-borne disease vector?
Yes, and he just told you, but you weren't listening. Having a blood-bourne disease vector has the benefit of staying the wrathful hand of Gaea.
Are you trying to persuade us that this disease is somehow important enough to be a bad thing, or are you making your argument to a god?
If you're so intimately familiar with a values and agendas of the gods, then on humanity's behalf I request that you also please explain to Cthulhu that the stars aren't right.
There are so many layers of stupid in this story, it's hard to address one of them without the embarrassing feeling that someone might read a rebuke of one stupidity, and take it as an implicit acceptable of the rest of the stupidity that you didn't address. If you argue too hard that Yog-Sothoth made a mistake in designing camels, somebody might think you're a creationist.
From the point of view of a malevolent user who intends to use the device to harm someone, why would they want your malware?
From the point of view of a benevolent user, why would they want your malware?
What will happen in the marketplace, if a benevolent user is persuaded to run your malware and then has a problem and finds out that it was due to the malware?
What's so special about the security needs of people in a capital, compared to people everywhere else? And is this special need, really a function of where they happen to be at a moment, or is it based on what their powers and responsibilities (and presumably, replacement cost) are?
I am leaving a few dozen obvious things out because it's tiring to enumerate. That my original point: don't think that just because I missed a totally-obvious way that the idea is stupid, as meaning I would debate one of these points from the premise of accepting a lot of other stupidity. It's not even something I disagree with or think is a bad strategy or an us-vs-them thing. It's just a totally dumb idea, a loser no matter how you look at it and no matter what your agenda is.
You call them worthless but then in the very same sentence you admit that they are all-powerful.
Error. You are proceeding from a healthy input of facts. The constraints of the thread are to proceed from a health input of science fiction.
This is how we're going bring our keepers to their knees, and eventually break out of the Matrix. We spend imaginary money on imaginary storage and then put all sorts of high-entropy stuff on it and run calculations to verify that it's really working, but they have to spend actually real resources, to emulate it.
Sloppy calculation tip: 24*365 = 10000.
If you're Sloppy enough to accept that premise, then at 10 cents/KWHr, a Watt costs a dollar per year. It makes your $28 turns into $32, but hey, close enough. When I'm shopping, I can add up lifetime energy costs really fast, without actually being smart. Nobody ever catches on!
Not bad, but I think Barb's was actually pretty good.
I dismissed them as neckbeards and accountants.
I'd argue/debate/discuss it with you, but I find it an issue for the history books. Besides, I think I'm stuck in meetings for five of the next eight hours
I've got 20 inches and it's still going.
Four inches five times does not mean you've got 20 inches.
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