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by gst 15y ago
Where is anarchy? What's burning? Someone sold a huge amount of Bitcoins. The market acted accordingly. Expect a bounce back to the old exchange rate as soon as Mt. Gox is available again. Of course it might be possible that the computer of
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by gst 15y ago
What's the point of submitting stories about security problems? What's the point of submitting stories about Google? What's the point about submitting stories about Rails? People are interested in it and that's why it gets upvoted. If you'r
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by gst 15y ago
HSTS (even with the embedded list) only works if the website operator opts-in. Just one example where your suggestion might break sites: Let's assume a site hosts non-SSL content on www.example.com and SSL content on example.com. Now the si
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by gst 15y ago
Yes there is a compelling reason: It's not the task of the browser to do this. With such an ugly hack you gain some short term benefits at large long term costs. I guess about 15 years ago someone asked: "Why not let the browser try to inte
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by gst 15y ago
This doesn't have to do with security updates. This is most likely a simple ddos/flooding attack and there are not many things you can do against them.
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by gst 15y ago
I've had it more than once that a driver tries to deliberately drive me of the road. In one case where I stopped and wanted to wait until the driver is gone, he stopped, got out of the car, and wanted to start a fight. The reason in that ca
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by gst 15y ago
My personal experience shows that it's best to have no bike paths at all. I typically only use my bicycle as means of transportation here (in Vienna) and the only accidents that I had so far were at locations where the bike path crosses a s
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by gst 15y ago
If there's a public mining pool it's easy to estimate it's computing power. Just take part in the mining pool and compare your own computing power with the percentage of the 50 BTC that you get for each block. Or, alternatively, you can tra
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by gst 15y ago
You can't "reject attacker nodes". There is nothing in the blockchain that identifies a given miner.
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by gst 15y ago
Yes, the US gov can easily prevent financial institutions from exchanging Bitcoins: If a bank holds US dollars, those dollars are "stored" in the US (even if the bank is located outside the US). So the US gov just needs to threaten that it
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by gst 15y ago
"Even in a worst case scenario, if a government or some other anti-Bitcoin faction gets a hold of greater than 50% of the processing power (an extremely expensive feat, and hardly worth it unless you're really determined to destroy the netw
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by gst 15y ago
I guess that they currently already earn something like hundread thousand dollars a month, based on the current volume and their trade charges.
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by gst 15y ago
It would surprise me if Mt. Gox would maliciously manipulate accounts, as this would not make sense for them. Currently they own loads of money via transaction fees - why should they risk their monopoly status for some short term gains?
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by gst 15y ago
Mt. Gox might be the most popular one, but unless you're going to buy/sell an extremly high amount of Bitcoins, other exchanges are viable too. Currently I like Bitmarket.eu most: This site acts as an escrow just for the Bitcoin side of the
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by gst 15y ago
If you're putting your savings into that it's your own risk. People know that right now Bitcoin should be regarded as completely volatile financial instrument. If you want to gamble: fine, but don't cry if it doesn't work out the way expect
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by gst 15y ago
I guess that depends on the country. As long as they do not "destroy" or "maliciously manipulate" some data, charges in many countries are pretty low (and sometimes non-existant). In addition, there are many countries that won't extradite t
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by gst 15y ago
I'm currently not really worried about the volatility, as Bitcoin turned out to be more stable than I expected for an essentially unregulated P2P currency. Sure - it might be a somewhat bumpy ride at the beginning and some people might be t
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by gst 15y ago
This would just decrease life time even further (compared to letting it run all the time).
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by gst 15y ago
Italy has already been mentioned in the replies. Sweden is another one. Actually they are currently discussing/planing to completely ban cash transactions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10538032
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by gst 15y ago
I think the bitmarket.eu approach works quite fine: The seller stores his Bitcoins at the bitmarket.eu (free) escrow service. The buyer wires the money via bank transfer directly to the seller. The seller releases the Bitcoins on bitmarket.
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by gst 15y ago
A few days after this German lobby group argued against Bitcoin the Bitcoin value (in EUR) nearly doubled. In addition, even my non-techie friends now know about Bitcoin.
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by gst 15y ago
This site is quite old and is actually an art-project started in 2004 or 2005 (just Google for 'ubermorgen' in combination with 'google will eat itself'). At this time the price of the shares was much lower.
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by gst 15y ago
Depends. On my server I use Tarsnap. On my client I use Wuala's "backup folder" feature.
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by gst 15y ago
De-dupe: Wuala encrypts the file with a key derived from the file itself. This key is then encrypted with the user's key and both (the file and the encrypted key) are uploaded to the cloud. Disadvantage: If the file is known to an attacker
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by gst 15y ago
It all depends on the type of your work. While I did my PhD I've often worked multiple days without a real sleep in between, because some problems were so interesting to me. At those times I would wake up in the night, think about how I can
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by gst 15y ago
If you've got spyware installed on one of the endpoints you don't need any backdoor in Skype. Just dump the audio output and input directly from the audio card.
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by gst 15y ago
For me the problem is that a "bookmark" function is missing. I usually follow interesting projects so that I'm able to find them later on. For most of those projects I'm not interested in the commits, I'd just like to have a link to them so
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by gst 15y ago
Interesting question. I can give you a counter-example, why I think that taxes shouldn't apply to generated coins: Let's say you programm an application (or paint a picture, etc.) and it is easy to estimate the market value. Do you need to
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by gst 15y ago
And even if you take a given rate you cannot be sure that you can really sell your coins for this rate. E.g., assume that you are one of those early miners who currently owns at least 400.000 BTC (see http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.com/2011
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by gst 15y ago
I think the complicated decision here is how to classify Bitcoins: If you treat Bitcoins as currency you would need to state the value of your Bitcoin income on your tax statement. However, when doing so you would need to convert the Bitcoi

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