No Triganic Pu? For shame
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They just didn't want to deal in fiddling small change.
I've got some Flanian Pobble Beads here. If you also happen to have some Flanian Pobble Beads, we could probably work something out.
Given the current state of internet-focused writing, with the brutal drive to churn out as much clickbait 'content' as possible as fast as possible, with a side of SEO fuckery, I suspect that adding analytics capabilities to books will... perhaps not... be the most helpful development in literature.
ONE CLEVER TRICK TO SHOW HOW SHALL I LOVE THEE, NEW PARADIGM; LET ME COUNT THE 5 WAYS
1. I can think of no way in which this could possibly compromise the quality of the TITS literary experience.
2. Let us not forget that we are at the forefront BREASTS of a new publishing paradigm.
3. Electronic distribution promises to free BOOBS authors from the shackles of the traditional publishing industry.
4. It's an agile and disruptive way of making JUGS money through the process of creative destruction.
(below the jump)
5. The end.
> If Italian products are being advertised to Italians, then the service tax on the adds should be paid to the Italian government
A contemporary, but yet outmoded thought, in my opinion. The internet really shows exactly how old
fashioned this line of thinking is.
What is italy ? The idea that a patch of land and history forms a magical entity which give a small group
of people the right to tax and control the people living therein seems entirely arbitrary to me.
People both within, and without italy, can access servers both within and without of italy's current ground boundaries.
The goods and services and even idle chatter moving over the internet can be in any language, sold in any currency
or other unit of account, or even be given away for free.
Why should the italian government have any special purview over what is bought and sold over the internet ?
Who's to say whether a specific ad targets italians or not, the language ? What if the ad is in english, would it still
be considered to target italians? What is the advertized product is not sold in Euro's, would it still be taxable and
subject to these regulations ?
How about a product, made in china, sold to an italian speaking community living in london, hosted by a server
which physically resides in sweden, and has a
have to change to make it subject to these new rules?
It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
The distance between paranoia and reality has narrowed considerably.
Where's +1 Sad when you need it?
Trust the Computer. Happiness is mandatory. You are happy, aren't you, Citizen?
The "NRA mentality" is all that separates us from an authoritarian totalitarian regime.
For all we rail against the NSA's overreaching surveillance, and the ridiculousness of the patent and copyright system, there
are simply so many here on slashdot who cry and beg to give up fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the
constitutional origins of the united states...
The level of cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Its not about your penis.
Its not about whether or not more or fewer people are killed.
Its about fundamental liberties, and the role of government in our lives.
Its about being a citizen, and not a subject.
So you trust dollars implicitly and are leery of bitcoins, thats a perfectly understandable and reasonable position.
If you feel like taking part in the trendy thing, you can still sign your store up to accept bitcoins but instantly convert into dollars, and set your prices in dollars as well, so that your payment processor takes on any currency exchange risk for you.
If it gets to the point where you are leery of dollars and can buy **** anything **** with btc, then you can always
change it up and start accepting btc directly.
True, and insightful, however there is one difference: due to the nature of transactions,
coins are effectively melted down and recast each time they are moved. Even with
only a tiny percentage of coins having been directly stolen or used for nefarious purposes,
they would very quickly spread a taint through the whole body of moving coins.
> if the wallet file is lost or destroyed, the coins within it are effectively gone, correct?
If all copies everywhere are lost, and the wallet is a pure random one, yes.
Many types of wallets can be recovered with just a passphrase.
>If so, then at some point there's an expected loss over time
Absolutely correct.
At some point, 8 decimal places wont be enough, and the currency will need to be divided down into smaller fractions.
The interesting part, in my opinion, will be determining a fair way to prune ancient unspents, so the blockchain ETXO doesnt
grow endlessly.
er, that's why they are getting ISPs to block the routes to the sites, rather than taking the sites down.
They already forced ISPs to do it for child porn, then the courts enforced blocks on "pirate" sites because the child porn filters proved that it was technically possible, next step (previously announced, due to come in soon) they are forcing every UK ISP to implement porn (_legal_ porn) filters.
And now it's "block stuff that isn't porn/child-porn/illegal-under-copyright-law, but we don't like it anyway". No surprise.
Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're lying. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169254&cid=14107454
And the punchline is we're still surprised every time the ratchet turns tighter. Every. Fucking. Time.
True to form, slashdot is sceptical as ever.
We had the same baseless naysaying when it spiked to $200, and the same smug "told ya so's" when it crashed back down to $100
There is something bitcoin has that diamond and tulip bulbs don't, and even if crypto isnt your bag, I' expected more insight from such and otherwise smart crowd.
The third annual Kong Off will run this Friday through Monday.
Lots of places to play even if you're not competing.
Denver, CO: The 1-Up (official Kong-off location)
New Hampshire: Funspot
Portland, OR: Ground Kontrol
Vegas: Pinball Hall of Fame (might not have Donkey Kong, but it sure is fun.)
SF Bay Area: Pacific Pinball and High Scores, and many more smaller spots.
Who's missing from this list? Where's your town's reboot of the vintage arcade?
>People think that adding encryption to something makes it more secure. No, it does not. Encryption is worthless without
> secure key exchange,
This is false; encrypting everything by default significantly increases the barrier to casual eavesdropping.
Letters are usually sent in sealed enveloped. Yes, someone could go to the trouble to steam them open, but
generally they dont bother. When they must bother, its expensive.
How to establish trust is a completely separate problem. Its even separable: (you could have the authentication
and tamper-resistance with no encryption at all.).
If you have been paying attention to recent events, mass-eavesdropping has been a big thing in the news lately.
>MITM detection needs to be implemented within the protocol. This is tricky, but possibl
um, no, thats not true at all...
I remember that. For whatever reason 3d0g would get me out of it. I was just a kid and had no idea what to do with the gibberish that the assembler would spit out at me. I just knew how to get out and back to my prompt.
CALL -151: Think "65536-151" - jump to $FF69, which was the monitor ROM entry point.
3D0G: 0x3D0, "Go": Run the code that DOS put at location $03D0. I believe it was a 4C BF 9D, as in, JMP $9DBF, which was the DOS 3.3 entry point/warm start routine.
Damn, I'm old. After a long and convoluted ride through the IT world, I got to retire early because I spent my early teenage years messing around with that sort of thing. It was pure luck that I got my hands on the right machine at the right time, developed a love of computing at a time when home computers were regarded as nothing more than means to store recipes (mom), do taxes (dad), or play games (kids).
Anyways. Thanks, Apple guyz, for putting a disassembler into ROM. It's only been in the past few years that I realized just how much of an impact that comparatively minor technical decision had on my life.
Happiness is twin floppies.
