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by mpyne 11y ago
Well, this case en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley pertains to your question. Some of the dissenting opinions raise the same questions you do, but there's a reason I had to call them 'dissenting opinions'.
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by mpyne 11y ago
Mass surveillance of the type where a warrant would be required individually is problematic. Flying in public airspace taking video of public locations is just another GoPro ad though. Except, apparently, when it's the police taking th
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by mpyne 11y ago
"The Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) is a family of specifications published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) used in conjunction with the ISO/IEC 14908 control networking standard for smart grid appli
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by mpyne 11y ago
No, but what's your point? Should we require computer programmers to read books explaining why murdering people is wrong in case there's another Hans Reiser or Ross Ulbritch?
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by mpyne 11y ago
Truly proof that there is nothing new under the sun. Between Pericles's justification for why Athens had to expand to the unexpected agony of the plague, the decision to undertake the Sicilian expedition, the capture of the Spartiates,
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by mpyne 12y ago
The way I like to think about it is that integer zero is the name in the C/C++ language (and runtime) for the actual null pointer, nothing more or less. In particular you can't assume anything about the integer representation of t
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by mpyne 12y ago
GCC advances frequently break code exploiting undefined behavior that had been working in a certain way for years. "Works as you'd expect" is certainly one of the possibilities of undefined behavior, after all, but that'
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by mpyne 12y ago
Sure, but in a military operation there's no substitute for planning and coordination, and execution . The plan will always need to change, and you can find a dozen generals with famous quotes that will back that up. But the solution
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Does it feel weird to write code that's being used to track people? Does it feel weird to design mechanical implements designed for the sole purpose of destroying human life? I'm not speaking of drones and missiles, mind you;
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by mpyne 12y ago
Even the dedicated release website is a refreshing send-up: https://imasheep.hurrdurr.org/
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by mpyne 12y ago
That ['DARPA created the Internet'] wasn't the point they made though. If anything I think your "many other networks" example reinforces the point. The private sector left to its own devices came up with tons of inc
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Do you imagine that these people will openly disclose that they are discriminating? Actually yes, since mid-size or larger companies are required to file EEO reports [1] that are used to compare the hiring/retention rates of prote
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by mpyne 12y ago
I'm assuming the difficulty of finding a decades-old IBM Selectric to get the authentic "government form letter" feel is what keeps the scammers out here.
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by mpyne 12y ago
We're effectively always a bitcoin-core bug away from another instance of this. Any bug which could lead to a partition (i.e. where post-upgrade clients believe one chain is the main chain and pre-upgrade clients think a separate chain
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by mpyne 12y ago
Is it that simple? The "Basic Bitcoin Security Guide" posted by a /r/bitcoin moderator seems to make it out to be much more complex: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1pxy4w/bas
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Is massive credit card fraud not a problem? It is a problem for most people, and if not for you, then certainly for the businesses losing 3% to credit transactions on top of all the fraudulent orders. Fraud happens with Bitcoin too. If
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Blockchain enables value-transfer, what is that in plain english? Money. A digitally-signed email enables value-transfer too. Depending on your risk profile you could even go for an authenticated TLS connection that just does a RESTful
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by mpyne 12y ago
> No it didn't, it was replaced with a slightly different history, or history remained the same, depending on which side and which client you happened to be running at the time. This is precisely what he just said. A valid blockchai
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by mpyne 12y ago
> How is money also programmable money? Does he mean USD, USD as claimed by paypal, USD as claimed by venmo? Yes to all of those. Computers have been absolutely intertwined with finance and money for decades, so much so that it's be
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by mpyne 12y ago
Give it 10 years and I guarantee "the white paper" will be treated as reverently as the Qu'ran or the Holy Bible in some circles.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Not 7 transactions but 7 settlements per second, which clear in under 60 minutes. You can have as many binding transactions per second as you want off the chain. If you're willing to engage in transactions off-chain then you might
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Of this only a small amount is paid for the by the person who creates the transaction, the rest of paid for by those who hold Bitcoin. I always find it ironic that the illusion of low fees per transaction in Bitcoin is subsidized by th
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by mpyne 12y ago
My fingernails are growing faster than Bitcoin's price... the bigger concern is that Bitcoin is already near its practical transaction-per-second. Just a couple of weeks ago there were a few whole blocks' worth of unconfirmed tran
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by mpyne 12y ago
But that doesn't take into account that Bitcoin price increases (since we're assuming for the sake of argument that the price will actually reach insane heights again) cause mining hashrate to go up, which causes network difficult
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by mpyne 12y ago
> secure an international low cost payment network That's something which is actually handled fine in fiat, believe it or not. Nor is Bitcoin "low cost": Even with the price in the dumps recently a Bitcoin transaction stil
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Externalities don't invalidate the entire theory, they just mean that adjustments have to be made in the cases where there are externalities. Are your adjustments the epicycles upon epicycles hammered onto ancient astronomy's
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by mpyne 12y ago
Um.... you perhaps know less than you think you do about what "close US allies" do and do not engage in behind closed doors. Half of the reason Five Eyes even exists is to reduce the threat of espionage conducted by close allies.
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by mpyne 12y ago
This is very true, but that still leaves a significant gap between what you're talking about (military/strategic intelligence enabled by network operations) and an actual military campaign conducted against adversary networks. Bot
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by mpyne 12y ago
One of my favorite examples of this: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-07/news/mn-1711_1_rocky-...
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Would you recommend using a logarithmic graph because you expect Bitcoin use to increase exponentially? In that case, wouldn't the use of a logarithmic scale at this point imply a direct belief in the future of Bitcoin use? This i

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