Link to new petition for a response not written by Pistole.
It makes little difference whether or not Rossi destroys this planet. Earth is a classic type 13 which typically destroys itself at about this stage in it's development. Sometimes through war, often through environmental catastrophe, but more commonly a type 13 planet is unintentionally collapsed into a pea sized object through scientists trying to determine the mass of the Higgs Boson Particle.
He could mean:
a+bi is "larger" than c+di if and only if a^2-b^2 > c^2-d^2 (i.e. N(a+bi) >N (c+di))
or
a+bi is "larger" than c+di if and only if a > c and b > d
The first one is better though.
This is basically equivalent to requiring everyone to have a public and a private key, then signing the key of whichever candidate they want to vote for.
It would be a secure and verifiable system. However it would never work because it's not something that a normal voter would understand.
The only problem would be making it anonymous. If you required each person to have a new key for each election and had all keys signed by a central authority (recording only that a person already had a key signed, but not actually recording which key it was), I think it might be theoretically possible.
Also, since only the central authority can know which keys are properly signed, someone could always make a fake signed key, if someone were to try and bribe them into casting a specific vote. That way, even if the vote buyer required the person to cast their vote right in front of them, they'd have no actual way of knowing whether or not it was valid.
Alas, if only everyone was a cryptonerd.
1. We don't fully understand the complex legal issues involved with creating a new currency system.
2.We don't want to mislead our donors. When people make a donation to a nonprofit like EFF, they expect us to use their donation to support our work. Because the legal territory around exchanging Bitcoins into cash is still uncertain, we are not comfortable spending the many Bitcoins we have accumulated.
3. People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin. We were concerned that some people may have participated in the Bitcoin project specifically because EFF accepted Bitcoins, and perhaps they therefore believed the investment in Bitcoins was secure and risk-free. While we’ve been following the Bitcoin movement with a great degree of interest, EFF has never endorsed Bitcoin. In fact, we generally don’t endorse any type of product or service – and Bitcoin is no exception.
Although right now, 'mining' bitcoin is a fool's errand; it would be cheaper to just buy them than to spend the power mining them.
Actually, that's not true, at least not in every case.
Currently I'm mining on my gaming rig for about
However, I'm running on a gaming rig with decent graphics cards I already had. If I had to first purchase the items for the sole sake of mining, There'd be no gaurantee of ever being able to make back that investment.
This proposed order, in short, represents a nightmare, a true dystopia, for higher education....Yet you can be sure that if [these] things happen, all of our campuses would be pressured to adopt the “Georgia State model” in order to avoid litigation.
Disclosure: I am currently a graduate student at Georgia State University.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (9) Dammit, little-endian systems *are* more consistent!
