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^ I'll take the bait:
what did these people use before bitcoin?-tomos (July 23, 2014, 03:52 PM)
Nothing, crime didn't even exist before Bitcoins were created. But instantly after their manifestation the entire planet en masse went criminally insane.what would they use if there were no bitcoin?-tomos (July 23, 2014, 03:52 PM)
They'd all have to go back to swapping hen weights and handjobs.
-Stoic Joker (July 23, 2014, 06:26 PM)
Many of our users protect their privacy and defend themselves against snooping advertising companies by using Tor. This has been the case from day one at Coinkite and we accept that everyone has their own reasons.
Until now, these users have been using the Tor Browser and simply surfing to Coinkite.com using that wonderful package. Starting today, anyone who wishes to use Tor with Coinkite can also use our new “onion address" to connect directly to Coinkite over the Tor network:
http://gcvqzacplu4veul4.onion
Moore's Law -- the ability to pack twice as many transistors on the same sliver of silicon every two years -- will come to an end as soon as 2020 at the 7nm node, said a keynoter at the Hot Chips conference here.
While many have predicted the end of Moore's Law, few have done it so passionately or convincingly. The predictions are increasing as lithography advances stall and process technology approaches atomic limits.
"For planning horizons, I pick 2020 as the earliest date we could call it dead," said Robert Colwell, who seeks follow-on technologies as director of the microsystems group at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. "You could talk me into 2022, but whether it will come at 7 or 5nm, it's a big deal," said the engineer who once managed a Pentium-class processor design at Intel.
Moore's Law was a rare exponential growth factor that over 30 years brought speed boosts from 1 MHz to 5 GHz, a 3,500-fold increase. By contrast, the best advances in clever architectures delivered about 50x increases over the same period, he said.
Exponentials always come to an end by the very nature of their unsustainably heady growth. Unfortunately, such rides are rare, Colwell said.
"I don't expect to see another 3,500x increase in electronics -- maybe 50x in the next 30 years," he said. Unfortunately, "I don't think the world's going to give us a lot of extra money for 10 percent [annual] benefit increases," he told an audience of processor designers.
Colwell poured cold water on blind faith that engineers will find another exponential growth curve to replace Moore's Law. "We will make a bunch of incremental tweaks, but you can't fix the loss of an exponential," he said.
DARPA tracks a list of as many as 30 possible alternatives to the CMOS technology that has been the workhorse of Moore's Law. "My personal take is there are two or three promising ones and they are not very promising," he said.
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
While the guidelines nominally prohibit nominations based on unreliable information, they explicitly regard “uncorroborated” Facebook or Twitter posts as sufficient grounds for putting an individual on one of the watchlists. “Single source information,” the guidelines state, “including but not limited to ‘walk-in,’ ‘write-in,’ or postings on social media sites, however, should not automatically be discounted … the NOMINATING AGENCY should evaluate the credibility of the source, as well as the nature and specificity of the information, and nominate even if that source is uncorroborated.”
There are a number of loopholes for putting people onto the watchlists even if reasonable suspicion cannot be met.
One is clearly defined: The immediate family of suspected terrorists—their spouses, children, parents, or siblings—may be watchlisted without any suspicion that they themselves are engaged in terrorist activity. But another loophole is quite broad—”associates” who have a defined relationship with a suspected terrorist, but whose involvement in terrorist activity is not known. A third loophole is broader still—individuals with “a possible nexus” to terrorism, but for whom there is not enough “derogatory information” to meet the reasonable suspicion standard.
Just because something is hard to suss out doesn't mean it should, or arguably even need to be, so difficult.
In my world, that's just bad design.-40hz (July 24, 2014, 05:53 AM)
You got a story about drinking warm piss?!? O_o ...Was this during a trip to Brazil by chance??-Stoic Joker (July 23, 2014, 11:45 AM)
I soooooo do not want to hear this story!-40hz (July 23, 2014, 02:15 PM)
Ren, PM me the story please.-superboyac (July 23, 2014, 03:27 PM)
One of the features of the iiNet Copyright Trial was our strong stand against monitoring our customers. The Hollywood Studios believed we should data-match information provided by third parties who were monitoring our customers, and then send warning notices to alleged copyright infringers, all without lawful warrants – the High Court agreed with us.
In iiNet’s view, we should not be forced to collect, store or match personal information on behalf of third parties – our only obligation is to retain the information necessary to provide, maintain and bill for services. iiNet does not keep any web browsing history or download records, for example.
Last week the Attorney General, George Brandis said the government is now actively considering a data retention regime that could impact on anyone who uses the Internet in this country.
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We don’t think this ‘police state’ approach is a good idea, so we’re fighting moves by the Australian Government to introduce legislation that would force us to collect and store your personal information.
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Police say “If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t be worried”. Personally I think that if you follow that dubious logic, we’d all be walking around naked. It’s not about being worried, or wanting to ‘hide’ anything. It’s about the right to decide what you keep private and what you allow to be shared. YOU should be the one to make that call, and that decision should stick until a warrant or something similar is issued to law enforcement agencies to seize your information.
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It is hard to measure exactly what this will all cost, but we expect that collecting and keeping every customer’s ‘metadata’ would require the construction of many new data centres, each storing petabytes (that’s 1 billion megabytes!) of information at a cost of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. There is no suggestion that the government would pay these costs, so our customers will be expected to pick up these costs in the form of a new surveillance tax.
Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government
...a case of 24 bottles of beer was $3.00-Cuffy (July 21, 2014, 12:57 PM)
I always thought of home-brewing as being about making a bottled beer (but maybe I'm wrong). Good Guinness on draught is a drink I grew up with and love, but bottled beer is simply a different world - there's such an incredible world of variety out there.-tomos (July 21, 2014, 01:41 PM)
http://food-hacks.wo...isnt-enough-0156372/
There's a couple of posts about beer at wonderhowto written by a "girl"!
Do girls know anything about beer???-Cuffy (July 22, 2014, 04:12 PM)
However, if you're serving bad beer, you might want to get it as cold as possible—almost like a slushy. That way you're less likely to get complaints because no one will be able to tell.
Government agents 'directly involved' in most high-profile US terror plots
• Human Rights Watch documents 'sting' operations
• Report raises questions about post-9/11 civil rights
Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says.
Some of the controversial "sting" operations "were proposed or led by informants", bordering on entrapment by law enforcement. Yet the courtroom obstacles to proving entrapment are significant, one of the reasons the stings persist.
Very clever educational and amusing music video. The video and the soundtrack are intended to go together.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes-IainB (July 22, 2014, 03:40 AM)
@ericnakagawa:
2014-07-22 04:36:55 UTC
Chase is closing all my bank accounts after I buy Bitcoin on @coinbase /cc @pmarca pic.twitter.com [Imgur]
ericnakagawa 24 points 3 hours ago
It's funny, because they kept my credit card account open. But "real" money accounts are getting shut down.
Keep going boys! I'm cheering for you! Keep it up! Keep. It. Up... Already posted on January 15, 2014 by me.-panzer (July 22, 2014, 02:24 AM)
New Surveillance Whistleblower: The NSA Violates the Constitution
A former Obama administration official calls attention to unaccountable mass surveillance conducted under a 1981 executive order.
...you show me how to brew a beer better than a pint of Guinness poured from a bar tap and I'll eat my hat.Tricky. Home-brewers don't have ready access to what would (for them) probably be a relatively expensive nitrogen infusion process.-mouser (July 20, 2014, 10:09 PM)-IainB (July 21, 2014, 04:10 AM)
...you show me how to brew a beer better than a pint of Guinness poured from a bar tap and I'll eat my hat.-mouser (July 20, 2014, 10:09 PM)
I tripped across this a few days ago and it's popping up everywhere.
Rob sent in a press release for it to Cop Block, and I think it spread from there.
NSFW - The video contains extreme, graphic violence. But it's a darn good tune!-Renegade (July 19, 2014, 12:40 AM)
Although I'm not a fan of rap, especially when the artist(s) only have 1 syllable words in their vocabulary, this actually sounds ok and addresses something. The video that comes with it is really disturbing though (at least to me).-Shades (July 19, 2014, 01:19 PM)
Exclusive: High-Level NSA Whistleblower Says Blackmail Is a Huge – Unreported – Part of Mass Surveillance
The Untold Story In the NSA Spying Scandal: Blackmail
It is well-documented that governments use information to blackmail and control people.
