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721.
by nwh 13y ago
> Bitcoin is, by design, highly vulnerable to network analysis. By design as in, that's the only way the network could conceivably work. Each node must be able to verify that the chain is intact and valid, otherwise they would ha
722.
by nwh 13y ago
A forum scraper bot comes across this page: http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/251990/14 "You always find something in the very last place you look." Bamn.
723.
by nwh 13y ago
You underestimate people. More often than not people will use a quote like the example in the parents post did. In a world of custom FPGA devices to crack passwords, it wouldn't take long.
724.
by nwh 13y ago
A phrase like that is very easy to crack actually. People have been cracking brain wallets in the Bitcoin world (think storing all your money behind a passphrase that anybody can access, madness!) with greater complexity than that. From the
725.
by nwh 13y ago
The issue is also that people will just squat on compromised accounts and then nick funds as they appear. Low probability I suppose, and that's what they're betting on.
726.
by nwh 13y ago
How do you prove who was right? You can't if the user isn't able to sign the address, in which case it just becomes a communication race condition.
727.
by nwh 13y ago
Ugh. There's even some sly wording in that blog post too. ⁢⁢ > Will you be sharing my personal & financial information with GoDaddy? > Your personal and financial information stays securely in our system. No third-party v
728.
by nwh 13y ago
You missed the bit where GoDaddy is largely regarded as the scum of the Internet. Their impossible interfaces, distasteful advertising, dark patterns regarding renewals and addon services, parking domains, and support for massively oppressi
729.
by nwh 13y ago
Depends how managed you need it, but Digital Ocean have been getting nothing but praise of late. They're incredibly cost effective too.
730.
by nwh 13y ago
Her first appearance is earlier than that though, where she has arms — http://theinfosphere.org/images/c/ca/The_Turangas%27_First_A...
731.
by nwh 13y ago
Well no, not really. How do you know a user has paid? Sure there might be a 1BTC transaction in the last 5 minutes, but is it the user who has just paid or somebody else who hasn't contacted you yet? Such simple issues are made simple
732.
by nwh 13y ago
It simply just lets you know who paid you, and avoid exposing your entire revenue to everybody else to view. Additionally it makes sure that your clients aren't connected by their payments, it keeps their pseudo-anonymity.
733.
by nwh 13y ago
It's awful, there's no getting around it. The newsstand icon just seems to be the way it is because the designer ran out of ideas. I can't wait for a jailbreak so I can remove some of the most awful animations.
734.
by nwh 13y ago
Ridiculous really. You use a new address every time, a single one for a company is not the way you're supposed to do it for many reasons, not the least being that you can't tell who paid for what.
735.
by nwh 13y ago
Could have just been an oversight, there's quite a lot of them in Futurama when you look closely. They often change history to match their own story at the time, like Leela's mother originally had normal arms rather than tentacles
736.
by nwh 13y ago
I pay $70USD a month for a barely functioning ADSL line in Australia that might hit 40KB/s on a good day. It's literally faster for me to walk to a place in the city that has fibre and upload files there.
737.
by nwh 13y ago
http://advertising.apple.com/ Apple sell your location data to advertising companies too.
738.
by nwh 13y ago
It's not just Facebook, Apple does this too with their "iAd optout" pages too. Limit tracking: [ off | on ] I'm still not sure which side I want really.
739.
by nwh 13y ago
They're generally not usable for anything SHA256 related. The input they take is a string, and a range of nonces to attempt. The only data they return is a positive if a particular nonce gives a low enough value. There's nothing u
740.
by nwh 13y ago
Be aware that you don't need the blockchain to use Bitcoin really. MultiBit or Electrum let you use the network securely without it, and have a minimal disk and memory footprint (megabytes, if that).
741.
by nwh 13y ago
Yep.
742.
by nwh 13y ago
It isn't even criticism. It disturbed me, but I didn't ever say it was bad.
743.
by nwh 13y ago
For some reason that is deeply unsettling. Something about the movement at the edges.
744.
by nwh 13y ago
> They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company. There's no evidence they're doing this. For average
745.
by nwh 13y ago
Unfortunately many of the people the TSA impact aren't American at all. We have nothing to do with your democratic system, no matter how disfunctional it is.
746.
by nwh 13y ago
The main thing I can suggest to anybody wanting to do the same is to buy an SSD, no matter what other choices you make with your Mac. The speed difference is just unbelieveable; you'll never want to go back to anything with a spinning
747.
by nwh 13y ago
That's bloody adorable.
748.
by nwh 13y ago
I still can't imagine not find an example of where anybody would want to return 500MB of results to PHP for processing.
749.
by nwh 13y ago
That sounds grossly ineffective. Reminds me of some production PHP I saw once, returned the entire database (`SELECT * from 'db'`) and manually walked through it with a for() loop. It wasn't very efficient at scale.
750.
by nwh 13y ago
'Loose' and 'lose' seems to be the new their/there/they're.

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