owenmarshall

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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>Could have brought some DLP vendor in to find it and roll out rapid database level encryption without changing application code. Wait... if Sony fully encrypt the database, they need a way to ask the database to be decrypted from their
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
OK, let's take those criticisms and re-apply them a bit: -- It's not a traditional pyramid scheme, but I see a lot of similarities between that description and the current state of buying/selling stocks. promising participants payment, ser
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
I wouldn't adopt this business model without an insanely good team of programmers... or an insanely good team of lawyers. Maybe even both.
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>I'm one of those people that, whenever they hear about economic problems, always thinks individuals are responsible. I want to know, am I wrong? Yes. And no. Economic problems arise because of a complex interactions between individuals
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>But otherwise you don't have an underlying asset to sustain the value. That's the biggest problem with Bitcoin, I think. Now, if I could purchase more goods and services with Bitcoins, this might mitigate the risk of using it. But as o
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>A transaction takes 2 willing participants. That's what makes me the most nervous about Bitcoins -- for me to turn my paycheck into Bitcoins, or turn Bitcoins into something I can give to my mortgage holder, I've got to find a person t
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
How ? Presumably, I can't call the bank and tell them to transfer from someone's account using their phone/email address. Do you have a problem giving your Paypal address out? I don't: I give mine out and people can use it to transfer
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
My experience has been to the contrary: I rarely find people willing to crush entrepreneurs' ideas; instead, most people seem to be quite reluctant to tell others that their ideas are, frankly, terrible. In the end, people waste money on i
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
Why? All this allows you to do is to initiate a transfer to someone using their phone or email, rather than making you know their routing number & checking number.
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>My alma mater, a public university in Ontario, Canada does this, but it appears to have more to do with government regulation of certain programs. Good! This is, IMO, the best approach to degree programs. People could study what intere
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>As a side note, is a BS in pure math particularly useful, beyond the fact that it's a bachelor's degree? That always struck me as one of those disciplines that would require an advanced degree to be of use. Note that I don't have a mas
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>I do also think that the survey is flawed in that it doesn't track post-bachelors degrees. Psychology degree holders came in at the bottom of the list, but anyone who knows even a little bit about the mental health field knows that vir
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>As someone who only ever encounters math as a tool rather than a a great passion or source of intellectual stimulation, it makes me really happy to see this said out loud. From the perspective of a mathematician, I'd like to see textbo
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
IMO, both you and smokeyj are correct. The real advantage in telling the "idea guy" to try to build it themselves comes when they realize that programming is difficult. Sure, they could master it if they were willing to put in the time an
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
>Maybe a self-proclaimed biz guy ought to prove himself by getting money lined up first, either by earning it, or convincing people to invest in him. That's the difference between an "ideas man" and an entrepreneur. And it's the easiest
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
I had a similarly amusing moment years back when I saw a bit-blit demo in the browser. All this excitement about something that was state of the art on Commodore 64s. (And yes, I do understand how the ubiquitous nature of the web actually
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
It'd be pretty low, considering the cardinality of the set of attested "gods" ;)
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
The world needs more managers like that.
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
Sure, it might be fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the part of adopters. But rightly so -- if there's one place where people are going to be conservative, it's with their banks. The very first thing I did when I hit BankSimple.com was CTRL
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
The first rule of Usenet: don't talk about Usenet. But seriously, a comparison: * This service appears to do a full download, unpackaging, and will even transcode. If you download binaries from Usenet, you've got to deal with sometimes inco
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by owenmarshall 15y ago
OpenBSD po-ta-to, Windows po-tah-to.
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by owenmarshall 16y ago
>It shows that Aurora are being bent over a barrel by their suppliers data rates. Doubtful. Aurora likely negotiated an extremely low monthly rate, knowing that these devices would use very little data in very predictable ways. Aurora s