Indeed on all points, and I'm still trying to figure out why people keep making the assumption that identity protection or obfuscation measures of any sort are part of the protocol. Maybe it's the "crypto" part of "cryptocurrency" that causes some kind of automatic correlation, although if that were the case one would think that the widespread use of cryptographic mechanisms for identity verification might encourage the opposite assumption.

I don't understand why people keep assuming Bitcoin is designed to be anonymous. It isn't.

I'll expand upon my last comment a bit: if I had a dollar for every time I've heard the expression "I'm an expert at [insert thing here]" from someone who has the benefits of age and allegedly tons of experience with [insert thing here], and I subsequently have to fix whatever busted server/network/software config was put in place by the "expert," I'd be a wealthy man. Instead, at 32 I've learned that assumptions about competence should never be made based on things like UIDs. You can hope someone who has been in a field for a while knows what he's doing, but you cannot assume it, as you'll simply see that assumption proven wrong too many times and with too many nasty consequences.

Your assumption would be incorrect. Someone existing for a set period of time on this planet is not a reliable indicator of knowledge. That's one of the hardest things I've had to learn in fifteen years of systems work.

You've demonstrated you have no idea how these attacks work, why they're important, or even how BGP itself works.

No worries at all; the intent of my post was to encourage the GP to consult documentation specific to the implied case that the Mathematica developers hadn't considered the problem. I believe your submission was a good one, as it isn't always a guarantee that developers will have considered the implications of floating point calculations in any given codebase. Getting people to think about things is never a bad thing.

I think this really is the best option, all things considered.

So fix the compiler, or stop compiling for 32 bit. RAM is cheap, especially when you're talking about the cost per GiB of hundreds of gibibytes of it.

I don't have to be a mathematician to say that sounds like one hell of a party.

Oh really.

Yeah, I've seen "projections and promises" like those off and on for nearly two decades on the part of many states. Oddly enough, it doesn't wind up working out. Attempting to counter with Future Money (TM) is no counter at all. Nice try, though.

Roger that:

• The Specter of Bankruptcy Haunts California
• Detroit’s Bankrupt. Is California Next?
• California Bankrupt
• Bankrupt San Bernardino in showdown with California pension fund over arrears
• Bankrupt Cities, Municipalities List and Map

As soon as you're done reviewing that information, plus what you can find with a simple Google query, kindly go fuck yourself.

The technology is great, but I hope those $1M payments are via cashier's check or out of state escrow, as the state of California is dancing on the fine edge of bankruptcy.

Oh my, that was supposed to be a link to a Philosoraptor pic, but it appears I had to wrong URL in my buffer. Sorry about that, folks!

Indeed.