Comment: Re:Uh oh! (Score 1) 74
It's a reference to this SNL commercial, I think:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory
Comment: Just be careful... (Score 1) 261
...not to drop it.
Comment: Re:He's mentioned everything except (Score 1) 112
I don't disagree with what you are saying at all, but I am curious:
Who is going to do the educating, exactly, and how? It's not like you can force people to learn things they don't want to learn. You don't need a license to use a computer or the Internet.
Make no mistake, there are actively, willfully ignorant users all over the place. They know what they need to do to learn more - use the computer more. But they don't want to, because using the system is not an enjoyable, rewarding experience. It's more like they approach it with a sense of dread -- "I could click or do something wrong and just ruin the damn thing!" Consider also that even the cheapest pc still costs a few hundred dollars, which is a lot of money for some folks.
They'd rather just have someone that already knows how to use a computer fix their issue for them, thereby separating the world into the haves and have nots (or in this case, know and know nots) that we have today.
Those 500K Bitcoins That Caused a 'Flash Crash' We->
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Kargan writes "It looks like the hacker who breached Mt. Gox made off with about $34,000 worth of Bitcoin and then artificially crashed the market by dropping a sell order for 500,000 BTC, according to the post-mortem about the hack published by Mt. Gox. But while the hacker did withdraw 2,000 in actual BTC, which Mt. Gox is replacing at their own expense, the enormous sell order was vapor:
We would like to note that the Bitcoins sold were not taken from other users’ accounts—they were simply numbers with no wallet backing. For a brief period, the number of Bitcoins in the Mt. Gox exchange vastly outnumbered the Bitcoins in our wallet. Normally, this should be impossible.
The sales could not have been completed because there were no actual Bitcoins to transfer. The hacker had simply assigned himself a huge number of BTC, which was enough to place orders on Mt. Gox and confuse the market."
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We would like to note that the Bitcoins sold were not taken from other users’ accounts—they were simply numbers with no wallet backing. For a brief period, the number of Bitcoins in the Mt. Gox exchange vastly outnumbered the Bitcoins in our wallet. Normally, this should be impossible.
The sales could not have been completed because there were no actual Bitcoins to transfer. The hacker had simply assigned himself a huge number of BTC, which was enough to place orders on Mt. Gox and confuse the market."
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Comment: David Bryne's take on this issue (Score 1) 355
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all
Very interesting stuff. David is a very smart guy and has been there and done that in the music biz, from all sides of the equation. He interviews several folks in the industry as well.
Comment: The new account setup continues to suck (Score 3, Insightful) 154
It won't let you create an account (even for testing purposes) using servers and settings that it can't "probe".
Working at a tech support firm as I do, the new account wizard that was implemented with TB3 is an absolute nightmare for users. I like TB better than MS mail clients in general, but they make us and our users' lives far more difficult than need be.
Do away with the "autoconfiguration" crap and just let people specify what they want, or at least make it optional to have TB "autodetect" everything, for cripes' sake. What's wrong with letting the end-user configure an account using any settings they want?
Comment: And this is why... (Score 1) 229
...I don't have a facebook/myspace/twitter/socialnetworkingsiteofthemonth account.
Can't find what's not there!
Comment: Gonna kick it root down (Score 1) 44
So how you wanna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
So how we gonna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
So how we gonna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
Break it on down, gonna kick it root down
It's not a putdown, I put my foot down
And then I'm makin' some love, I put my root down
Like 'Sweetie Pie' by the Stone Alliance
Everybody knows I'm known for droppin' science
Beasties -- ahead of their time AND helping save Admins everywhere the trouble of statically configuring ARIN’s trust anchors.
Comment: Re:To unclear (Score 1) 556
On the other hand, there is a website know where you can enter the MAC address of a router, and it will give you the location of that router, based on data on Google's servers.
Is that this site? I'm sure there are more, but this one only took about a minute to find (via Google of course):
http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/
Comment: Re:I live in KCK, and I don't understand. (Score 1) 162
Exactly what I was going to say. It's almost as if Google chose an economically depressed but large city on purpose, to show what effects just having ultra-fast Internet will have on economic, business and educational development in a metropolitan area, to point to and say "Look what we did here, we turned this city around completely."
And even though I wholeheartedly agree that there are lots of parts in Wyandotte County that I would fear to even drive through, there is also Village West and all the new development out there to take into account.
The more I think about it, the more this starts to make sense. And I have to look on the bright side, eventually it has to be built out to the entire Greater KC area...right?
And even though I wholeheartedly agree that there are lots of parts in Wyandotte County that I would fear to even drive through, there is also Village West and all the new development out there to take into account.
The more I think about it, the more this starts to make sense. And I have to look on the bright side, eventually it has to be built out to the entire Greater KC area...right?