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by epscylonb 14y ago
This comes up a lot in the bitcoin world where people think it is neat that they could use a pass phrase as their private key to their wallet. It's actually incredibly dumb, if the attacker knows you are using a pass phrase then a dictionar
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by epscylonb 14y ago
I chuckled, the point I was trying to make is that I think this may make a conventional war more likely. The iranian regime seems pretty adept at holding on to power, and the ramifications of online warfare seem to helping them.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
> The big difference between NK and Iran is that in the Iranian case people will know what they are missing. To begin with.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
This could be seen as retaliation for stuxnet, widely believed to be a joint US and Israeli creation. I wonder if the creators of stuxnet are surprised by this. We tend to think of cyber warfare as being less harmful than the conventional k
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by epscylonb 14y ago
What happens if you lose the ID card?.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
I had a similar idea, for an "auth box" that would could be hosted by a third party or ran at home on the end of a consumer connection. Whenver you log in or sign up to a site, a request is made to this device which can authenticate the use
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by epscylonb 14y ago
Someone said the other day in the submission about Tent, they should have published a protocol first. It should have been designed before they wrote any code, app.net at least seems to have this in it's favour.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
I agree. I hate adverts, but I think app.net is unlikely to topple FB or Twitter in the social sector. Myspace is a warning to Twitter and FB, if you don't look after your users, improve your service and keep them happy then you the adverti
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by epscylonb 14y ago
Probably not that high, but you may be surprised. http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001001.html
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by epscylonb 14y ago
"If you look at something like a Boeing 747 -- that's over a quarter of a billion dollars, buying a 747," he said. "You need two of them for a round trip. But nobody is paying half a billion dollars to fly from L.A. to London. It's a few th
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by epscylonb 14y ago
This is the big problem with acquiring bitcoin right now, of course once you have it, transactions are very cheap.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
If you run a service where you need to pay bitcoins out to users then that means your systems have to respond to user input and send money to them. It turns out this is pretty tricky to secure. The current popular strategy is to have hot an
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by epscylonb 14y ago
I am personally amazed at how much the author of bitcoin got right, he is clearly a genius. However, bitcoin is not perfect, interestingly, it seems as though bitcoin's creator did not predict the rise of mining pools. They could eventuall
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by epscylonb 14y ago
The biggest fallacy in the article is that people with large bitcoin balances are "comfortable" leaving their "wealth" there. The market is very thin, any large selloffs would make the price drop significantly.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
There is value in aggregation, and more specifically curation. This is essentially what paper news does at the moment, and people are willing to pay for it.
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by epscylonb 14y ago
Rushed legislation is usually bad legislation. As a UK citizen I agree with you, the real problem is the apathetic electorate though, we get the politicians we deserve.
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by epscylonb 15y ago
Before copyright, people still made a living from music, books, art, etc. It was just a different model, patronage was common, the modern equivalent is probably something like kickstarter. Even under the current system, most artists don't
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by epscylonb 15y ago
Actually since the beginning of the year bitcoin's price has been relatively stable, around the $5 mark. Whether this is the natural market price or if there is manipulation going on is hard to tell. Certainly bitcoin is more volatile than
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by epscylonb 15y ago
Agreed, bitcoin wallets can and have been stolen, but it is difficult to imagine a scenaerio involving bitcoin and 10 million separate individuals. The only thing I can think of is if bitcoin becomes really popular and lots of people use ho
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by epscylonb 15y ago
Is this the endgame, apps split between client and server?. I sincerely hope not, the current popularity for moving things client is just a band aid. The real problem is the network is not quick and redundant enough. Ideally every node on
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by epscylonb 15y ago
The smart people in the music industry know that to remain relevant they need to stay close to the artists. This once lopsided relationship is changing to be more equal, the record companies need the artists to make money. There is value i
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by epscylonb 15y ago
I wonder what impact these phenomena would or could have on planets like earth.
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by epscylonb 15y ago
1) with enough widespread adoption this would be smoothed out, after all the value of the dollar against other currencies is not static either. 2) yup, this is a problem, though I believe technically it should be a capital gain in most coun
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by epscylonb 15y ago
I think 5 years. I suspect the business model that is most likely to work is an extension of the current one. Larger multiplexes with more screens, when you go to the cinema you have a wide choice of movies to see. Movies would no longer dr
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by epscylonb 15y ago
I agree, but apparently we are in the age of the polymath.
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by epscylonb 15y ago
My problem is that I am often tired when I get home from work, not that I am procrastinating as such. But there are a ton of things I would like to do, anyone got an algorithm for beating tiredness?.
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by epscylonb 15y ago
Anachronistic is the word you are looking for. The licence fee made perfect sense when it was created, it arguably has been unfair to consumers since VHS became popular.
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by epscylonb 15y ago
The cost of creating the content has come down too, people tend to talk about this more in the context of film but it applies equally to TV too.
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by epscylonb 15y ago
"A consistent reduction in cloud height would allow Earth to cool to space more efficiently, reducing the surface temperature of the planet and potentially slowing the effects of global warming." So this would appear to counter act the glob

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