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My question is due to us getting bombarded every 2 days now with CME's coming from the sun, the next one scheduled to hit earth tomorrow is that something I could be using for promotional stuff?
You would just make a fool of yourself. Most computer cases are actual faraday cages, if properly grounded (and within there are plenty more, hdds for instance). Not to protect against external radiation but to shield you against EM emission from within the case.
Now "cosmic bombardment". Those very fast protons hit our atmosphere (causing nice looking aurorae) and decay mostly to muons at ground level. Bad news, there is no reasonable way to avoid them. Even if you put your safe deep beyond a mountain, they will get ya.
Why would apple reject bitcoin apps?
They want to process all payments issued by i, because that makes them money. But maybe with a whopping fee of 50% they might approve a BTC app someday.
Re: Is Satoshi's real identity Trinity grad student Michael Clear?
There's been a lot of posts and threads deleted in the last few days. Is somebody cleaning house. For an example, search Michael Clear, and you'll only find this thread, although there were 2-3 threads related to him at the beginning of the month.
You mean this thread or this for instance? (there are more) What looks like a cs is most likely just the inabillity to build a proper search index.
Re: Bitcoins have lost $210,000,000 USD since June 9th 2011
The market is figuring out what these weird things are worth. We know they're worth somewhere between $0 and $1 billion each, right?
I would recommend to express the value in baskets of wheat/rice/potatos, unless you know the future value of the USD. In which case i would appreciate a hint.
It's TLS 1.0 that's broken, not SSL 1.0 ...
Well, SSL 1.0 was broken a long time ago, never use it.
With that in mind are there any browsers about that support TSL 1.1 and/or 1.2?
Yes Opera supports it very well. But this doesnt help you with IIS being the only common used web server with at least wacky and hidden support for it. So basically on the server side coverage tends to be zero.
Of course this may change now.
Note vis is a defect noum meaning not all forms do exist.
vis, f. strength
singular / plural
normative: vis / vires
genitive: - / virium
dative: - / viribus
accusative: vim* / vires
ablative: vi* / viribus
vocative: vis / vires
*will scare those emacs folks, might be a good thing
vis, f. strength
singular / plural
normative: vis / vires
genitive: - / virium
dative: - / viribus
accusative: vim* / vires
ablative: vi* / viribus
vocative: vis / vires
*will scare those emacs folks, might be a good thing
If mankind doesn't restructure the entire human body, it's unlikely our species can survive more than 10^9 years from now on earth. If we don't fuck up everything before, obviously. Just as a side note.
Any anti-randomness-thwarting-scheme can have holes poked in it, but I'm taking the approach of transparency.
Transparent would be, if everyone can reproduce your result. To do so, you could publish your algorithm, use something everyone agrees on as input (for ex. the hash of the next block after all ticket slots are filled) and show all valid tickets.
You know what is the principal difference between inflationary and deflationary currencies? Inflationary currencies facilitate transfer of wealth from children to parents, while deflationary ones facilitate transfer of wealth from parents to children. I, personally, prefer to empower my children instead of robbing them.
I prefer to pass solid investments which ideally helped to improve the world they have to live in or their growing up on to them.
Thus, extremely rapid price inflation is a serious risk to anyone accepting payment in bitcoin.
More so it's the risk of anyone holding significant shares of their assets or get their earnings in Bitcoin. They have to eat at some point, the eventual deflation later on doesnt help.
I know. But isn't the reason for the rapid price inflation that there's simply a lot of coins are being produced right now? Inflation is like 40% per year. This will eventually change, of course, as the 50 coins per 10 minutes become a smaller and smaller part of the total pool (and when the mining payouts get reduced to 25 coins).
Why is it so hard to get, that prices are not just a function of the existing money and even if they would, Bitcoin won't be the only currency on this planet.
Re: Machine-detectable way to give a bitcoin address in an HTML page
The goal is to give an URL when/where a bitcoin address is needed, because URLs are generally shorter and easier to memorize than bitcoin addresses.
It's also ridiculous insecure as long as the resolving response is not cryptographically signed. Valid certificate/key management on the other hand is hard to do right and average joe fails at this on a daily basis. (just look at browsers for proof)
Also, how do you decide which price inflation indicator to use? What we call price inflation is just the price index issued by the government. But Bitcoin has no government and the price index can be calculated in infinite ways.
Most viable would be imho a theoretical exchange rate against a basket of all major fiat currencies. But if you don't believe in them, that's probably not an option. Historians have a similar problem and afaik they often use a very basic and overall consistent measurement, the price of a cow.
ponzi is not practical these days since you get sued and lose everything.
Are you sure? IANAL, but most schemes involve fraud (Madoff's for example, which btw went on for decades), what would make them illegal even without explicit ban.
Re: Native Linux not python Ncurses CPU GPU Miner FundRaiser
You should consider joining Kolivas. I hope i don't sound rude, but his status is already "god like", since his -ck Kernel really was the best Linux Desktop Kernel almost 10 years ago. (mainly because of his awesome work on schedulers)
Q: Does It have to download all the blocks when you first start using it or are you accelerating this process somehow?
BitCoinJ offers the option to store only chain headers, which are relevant to your wallet. Highly unlikely they didin't used it.
Why would Tycho limit his own income? He gets 3% of the pool, so bigger is better I would assume.
If the assumption spreads the block chain is compromised, his BTC income will be worthless in notime. And for this to happen, it must not be true. Some short selling jerk could easily throw in fake chains and claim double spending on some of the transactions deepbit validated. Until the mess is cleaned up, BitCoin might be dead anyways.
So unless a pools mission is to destroy trust in BTC, it's absolutely in their interest to never come close to 50% hashing power.