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I'll admit that I didn't even open this because of its size but I'm deeply confused by the the subject. I'm no cyber criminal but I know fundamentally how a bot net works, in fact I'm sure if you google it your first few results will describe how IRC / telnet is leveraged as conduit, through which the metroids commune with mother brain. How is it the least bit surprising that an enterprising troll would leverage newer chat clients as means to the same end. Bleh, now I just feel like the majority of reddit commenters, leaving an uninformed shit post after not reading the article. Is this actually worth reading? I guess is what I'm asking.
If Bitcoin becomes too expensive to mine, the difficulty adjusts downward until it becomes cheap enough again. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

You are correct that people have a higher incentive to obtain Bitcoin than to spend it. It doesn't follow that there is no incentive to obtain it.
It wouldn't make it to production. Multiple design agencies send multiple mockups each to Netflix. Someone at Netflix picks a few that they like and then the original design agency has another set of artists ("Finishers") who made the high-res, non-watermarked, final image.

The problem is, if your source images have watermarks and the competing design agencies' don't, Netflix is going to pick your mockups for finishing less often because they don't look as good. The market selects for design agencies that don't use images with massive watermarks in their mockups.
Google indexes the books, not repackaging them for a different audience. Fundamentally they're doing the same thing for books that they do for web pages, whose copyrights are also not violated by search indexing.

Netflix's designer, on the other hand, appropriated someone else's photograph wholesale.
> the rolling codes mean they would need to either have access to the "secret" and ban all future codes, or just ban "imnotabot*" which wouldn't be sustainable if multiple botnets started using this method

They will have access to the secret, because they have access to the programs that run the TOTP algorithm.
Saw that yesterday as well, always a cat and mouse game.
"Market cap as % of GDP" is a pretty strange way to determine whether the stock market is over/undervalued. The usual yardstick is Price/Earnings ratio. In that regard we are a little above average right now, but certainly not in outlier or "DEFCON 2" territory. http://www.multpl.com/
The problem of distance-bounding mechanisms is that the technology isn't quite there yet. A microcontroller in a keyfob operates at ~5 MHz. If it takes 1 clock cycle to receive & decode the first bit of the cryptographic challenge as well as to start transmitting the first bit of the response, then the R/F signal has already traveled 60 meters. Most cars parked in a driveway by the owner's house are less than 30 meters away from the keyfob.

The limited performance of the low-power microcontroller isn't the only problem. The R/F signal itself is modulated at a low baud rate. If it's modulated at 1 Mbaud then each bit is sent as an R/F symbol that's 300 meters long in the air. In a sense the R/F receiver needs to demodulate "300 meters of R/F analog data" to be able to decode it to a 0 or a 1. If there is a little delay or noise at the beginning of the 300 meters of data because the signal is being relayed (if you can visualize what I mean), then the receiver isn't going to notice.

The low-power constraint on the keyfob (as it's powered by a small battery that must last years) prevents manufacturers from developing R/F physical layers and chips that are performant enough for precise distance-bounding.
That's the old version (and perhaps part of the reason there is a new version).
The total stock market index fund (VTSAX) is a slightly better choice IMO, but it really doesn't matter much either way.
Of course, it depends a bit on what you are trying to model.

Most of the time the different ways to model computing only have a polynomial slowdown to emulate each other. In that sense, quantum computers are different from Turing machines: the best way we know to emulate quantum computers on Turing machines has exponential slow downs.
> Well, surely DRM prevents enough users from copying the product to make it worthwhile?

It surely does not. DRM is broken (by any skilled pirate), and the rest of pirating users can get it without said DRM after that. So let's make it clear. Usage of DRM has nothing to do with piracy.
This is true of many things, but seems to be politically unpopular to notice. The right will claim that prices are what prices are and cannot be changed, and the left will claim it's all in resource allocation.
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You confuse anarchocapitalism with libertarianism.

Something like 90% of libertarians I speak with are in favour of social safety nets (guaranteed basic income comes up a lot) and progressive taxation.

Everyone believes in collective effort for the greater good. People just disagree about the best way to achieve this collective effort.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. I've done many many meetups and never paid.

The organizers have to pay though, and that sucks. But I can understand the business model.
This is such a weird objection (and it's occurring all over the thread, not just here). By the same logic, do you think you're entitled to any commercial stock photo, so long as it's "generic" or "mechanical" enough?
Libertarianism (at least, to me) is about not stopping people from doing something that isn't harming others.

There's nothing at all morally or ethically bankrupt about it. If anything, libertarianism holds higher moral and ethical ground than any other ideology.
I'm pretty sure people would pay for streaming services even if a DRM-free copy were easily available. Why? Because streaming a movie is no fun when the server can't deliver the necessary bandwidth. Maintaining an infrastructure that can handle streaming at the scale of Netflix costs money no pirate bay will ever be able to afford. So streaming services could still compete with the free offering based on quality of service.
I’d argue most of the run up in the last year is driven almost purely by price, with people embracing and then purveying the ‘Bitcoin story’ because it helps rationalize their decision and not because they necessarily understand or believe it.

The funny thing is how said people often then come to genuinely believe they believe or understand Bitcoin, when in reality they’ll scatter at the first sign of a major correction. In fact, increasing conviction about an outcome after a person has paid money to bet on it is a well studied cognitive bias.
This caused it - http://omnichest.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgW...
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What might those types of images be, and what statute entitles you to use them?
The "hard left" is a tiny minority that isn't represented and is soundly rejected by the Democratic party, and it is not running the country like the alt-right is.

There are no "hard left" senators or representatives or supreme court justices or attorney generals or campaign chief executives or presidents, but there are many alt-right ones.
This could be good for seniors or people with mobility issues, for the rest, this will lead to articles about how lazy people have become and how we must get outside and get fit or cave in under the unrelenting laziness afforded by modernity.
Nothing that involves "Tor" fits the "trivial" definition.

If Netflix captures the market of people who aren't comfortable subverting encryption, they win. 100% capture is unnecessary if they get the people who can't and intimidate the people who won't with the occasional prosecution of the people who do.
But bitcoin does provide value to me. It is a quick and secure payment channel that isn't at the mercy of any one government or bank. That alone is extremely valuable. All too often i've found that I can't access my own money. Keeping it in cash is a recipe for disaster, banks often close accounts, have poor business hours, and have unfortunate amounts of fraud meaning I need to get a new credit card pretty often because some vendor I gave that number to decided to charge me more, or continue charging me after our business was done. I've been stuck while traveling multiple times because my bank decided to close my card due to what they thought looked like fraud, leaving me stranded.

With bitcoin I can send $20 to a friend without him worrying about paypal freezing his account because of "shady activity", or I can receive donations on my website without needing to rely on a tipping service that could go under at any moment. I can spend my bitcoin anywhere that accepts it without worrying that they will double charge me, or continue charging me monthly, or lose my account info causing a hacker to be able to charge me.

That has value, and the idea that it's entirely worthless because you can't make money with it via some 3rd party enforcement is silly.

If you don't see the value in what bitcoin offers, then you'd be crazy to invest! I agree that if I ignore that part of bitocoin, it looks an awful lot like a crazy investment bubble that is going to explode down to nothing. But I do think it has value, and whether it's $10,000 a bitcoin or $1 a bitcoin, it will continue to have value for me because of the secure, decentralized, and fast nature of using it as a payment system.
> What is so hard in writing table migration, it is like a few minutes of your time.

The company I work for has 10's of TB's of data on most customer systems, and migration is either impossible as they have no place to store it, or too costly in time to move.

So while writing the code is not hard, the difficulty (or even possibility) of field upgrades can vastly influence whether or not a feature is considered.
Interesting, back then it was already really easy to use PPTV or other "apps" that would stream anything
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Libertarianism advocates for the privatization of EVERYTHING and the destruction of the social safety net.

The privatization of everything including the social safety net.

> Have fun enforcing your property rights when the guy with more capital can drain you dry in the private court system

Users of the current court systems are having "fun" too, you know. What's the benchmark here?
Shot, maybe not, but stabbed or clubbed or just being beaten into a pulp are worldwide. I’m not making a statement about gun control, just pointing out that the risks of breaking into a home are not limited to firearms.
The article actually mentions the index funds phenomenon; they become less diverse when 20 million people are buying into the same 'asset class' (index funds being an asset class). They consider it one of the potential warning signs.
A Google update to Android a while back (couple years ago) removed the separate email app, which I needed for work (Exchange), without asking and without a replacement. Despite a new Exchange interface being added much later, I lost a lot of faith in Google that day.

Apple's constant update nags make older iOS devices borderline unusable, but acquiescing to the update makes the device completely unusable due to massive lag.
Everyone and their mother is starting an alt-coin.

My next-door neighbor's sister's hairdresser has started one as well. Every 10th coin you mine, you get 15% off your next appointment. Have you looked into that one yet?
>if I came across as hostile or rude

How did you think you would come across, if you call someone "insane" and the behaviour of others "fucking stupid"?
See also: Apple (~256B in cash), Google (~86B in cash). This cash is mostly securities, though; their "pure" cash positions would be "mere" ~15B and ~13B, respectively.
Can I recompile Windows without any telemetry? Can I build my own Windows OS from scratch or install a pre-built one from a person or organization I trust?

You are correct, that pre-built machines are almost never trustworthy. That is not really important though, in that the very nature of GPLed Linux makes a huge difference to the user in terms of control of their machine.

This false-equivalence FUD is not compelling.
Why pay for ads when you can pay for vote manipulation and viral marketing through organic posts? The cost / user engagement ratio has to be much better, right?
> You still have to pay market rate for professors, executives, maintenance, etc, if you want to stay relevant.

I'll venture that it's the executives who are pulling in the big bucks. Looking at the glassdoor numbers, profs are peaking at under $200k, the vast majority well under $100k. Contrast that with Comms directors making $250k.
DRM was the means. The goal was to shift away from the need to embed Flash.
Isn’t Apple forcing High Sierra upgrades? And my phone prompts me to update every day.
But it relies on all services I would use to add custom code to block all future rolling codes. For a problem that they don't really have any financial reason to write that custom code to stop it.

And any fix that they introduce, can be trivially updated to change around by any of the other services. They'd have to coordinate across all services that are used to update at the same time in order to stop it.
Ron Paul advocated that we pull out of every foreign military installation we have and look inward. This action would cause such a huge vacuum of power that WW III is a foregone conclusion in that scenario.

The lesson here? Libertarians have good ideas about: The war on drugs,
Have you ever used an Android phone?
Hah, you can clearly see a point when Bitfinex started tether scam this spring.
Apparently, I totally misread what you needed. Sorry. Your domain is very interesting. I briefly studied it a long time ago. They were using fusion of data coming from different components with quite non-deterministic algorithms such as fuzzy logic or neural networks. There wasn't any way to verify them at the time. I've seen a few attempts at such things but would need to know what kind of algorithm you use for sense, learn, and act (or whatever they call it). No guarantees here.
Actually transaction fees already pay a significant part of the mining reward. And with the development of 2nd-layer technology like Lightning Network, fees for on-chain bitcoin transactions can go very high indeed without significant adverse effects on bitcoin users.
There simply is no way to protect IP on the web, and refusing to understand that is burying-your-head-in-sand levels of myopia. If that takes "value" off the table, then it can come off the table, capitalism be damned.

You can try and legislate DRM all you want, but like a law to make pi=3 or enacting laws to declare that water not be wet, it is the wrong thing to legislate.
Ashcroft and Wadge also once wrote of U of Waterloo tech note called (as I recall) "Of Yea? The world's first sarcastic programming language". I remember it being really funny, but the only construct I remember is the "Come From" instruction - the sarcastic analogy of GoTo which was a sort-of hot topic back then. Wish I could find a link to the paper....
Yep. I don't know why people fail to understand this. As one comparison, Debian supports their user base; Microsoft supports their business model[1].

I also don't understand why anyone who cares about these issues would buy HP - they're establishing a great track record as a company that really wants to spy on their customers[2]. Almost worse than that is how incompetent they've been about it - a couple years ago it was FinFisher, and I believe they somewhat recently shipped a key logger in a driver by apparent accident.

For my part, my machines save one run OSes that expose full control of the machine[3]. OSes that don't, like other untrusted software, run in VMs so that I can still control them. Windows instances don't get network access anymore. I only use it for a couple apps that do what they need to do, so the bottled demon doesn't need updates until underlying needs change. It makes life much easier when a whole class of problems can't happen.

[1] Which is as it is 'supposed to be', as the rules are currently written.

[2] Not to mention board members...

[3] Yes, cellphones; not a novel observation. That's a different discussion that I've had several times here.
There's a permission for drawing over other apps.
"Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled"

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...

Just a quick example, as I am on the go currently.
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The peasants being peaceful? Where do you get that idea? Alcoholism, domestic violence, theft, fist fights, mob justice, banditry, etc. seem pretty common in peasant society that I have seen.

Or you just mean the peasants don't often pick fights with the soldiers, and their violence typically doesn't rise to the scale that would make history books?
You're thinking of Facebook Messenger, and no, it doesn't.
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If advertisers are edgy about something as locked down as YouTube, they’re going to be positively terrified of Reddit.
You drastically underestimate the amount of piracy that occurs from just “cntrl c cntrl V”ing files.

The goal is just to make it just hard enough to pirate that the masses don’t spend the time to figure it out.

My mom and her friends pass around cds and rip them on iTunes. Because it is easy. She’s pirated hundreds of cds. She didn’t know what what.cd is. She doesn’t know what the new version of what.cd. I don’t either.
My understanding is that "system app" just means it's baked into the ROM. So it's not actually possible to uninstall it without flashing. Disabling removes it from all the application lists except the one in settings where you can re-enable it. [0] My guess is that the rooted uninstall is removing it from all system lists. But the binary is still there in your ROM, unless you've flashed a new ROM that removes it.

[0] This is also why the disable button dialog discusses uninstalling the updates to an application. Because updates are obviously not written into the ROM; they're in normal application storage.
That's a tragedy of the commons problem. No one is incentivized to mine less. The price then sets itself against the cost of hardware arms racing and electricity.
Kind of. I'm not the 0898 from Popbitch. I just stole their handle on Hackernews.
Well specifically he gave his own story at said talk - it did not seem like a rare thing.
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I can definitely imagine it as a Coen brothers directed comedy
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You can both lock down the UI to minimize user error, and allow informed users to have complete control of the system.

Think safety locks on pill bottles or cabinets.
Maybe to bypass local blacklisting? For example, in the UK major ISPs block access to the popular torrent sites.
No, I'm still stalling on the update as a few friends had some problems with it. Every other week or so it reminds me of the update but I simply ignore that.
I use HP laptop. With latest Windows, it is manageable. One can use windows firewall to block out going connections on per app base.

1) Use SystemInternal's process explorer and track all network connections: (As admin: Add column to track the network tx, rx counts)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...

2) When I see some app, system that connect to network which I think it should not. I just block their network connections with Windows Firewall or uninstall those app.

There is a "netsh advfirewall firewall" command that can do this from command line.

3) BTW this works very well with Windows' own service too. I block svchost.exe, Edge, SerchIndex, etc from accessing internet. svchost.exe is allowed to access local subnet for file, print sharing. When I feel like upgrade to to latest version windows 10. I turn off the firewall rules for a few hours to allow the update to go thru.

4) Only Firefox and Chrome in my windows system are allowed to connect to internet full time. The CPU usage is normally < 15% and most of the time < 10% even when playing youtube @ 1080 resolution.

The latest Firefox Quantum has less CPU usage and faster also. I love it.

5) The WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is getting better - X, xfce4-termnial now working good enough for me. I like accessing the Ubuntu shell in windows environment without the overhead of Virtualbox.
Write a blog post, see what people say? And then maybe if you get a lot of interest you can write a book or do training or just leverage it into getting a better paying job.

I don't think this is a great income opportunity, though.

Best way to make more income is stable, low-stress job that pays you more than you get now. They do exist. Might even be your current job, if you can get a raise. Do some research and see if you're getting paid market rate (e.g. with Glassdoor, or talking to friends).
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Thanks for the comment. It is true there is the possibility of too many permutations. I suppose the other way of approaching this is to let the tools do what they do, but export or forward on specific data that such a cross-logging/monitoring system could deal with for very specific use cases, like those I mentioned. It is these use cases I'm looking to validate.
No, you reverse engineer the "domain generation algorithm" and figure out what the secret seeds are as input, then every time you need to know the name of the rendezvous point you figure out what the current seed is (easy if it's static, a little harder if it's dynamic) and run the algorithm.

Anyone that does this can register the reddit/twitter handles or domain names as soon as they figure this out, if they aren't pre-registered. And if you're the provider, you are then given a list of accounts to kill. Now you're in a game of cat and mouse with the botnet operator, and each move you take kills off some of the operators bots, perhaps all of them if you get ahead of them by enough.
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In another thread, someone else suggested $10M and I suggested $100M. (This is wealth, i.e., total assets / net worth, not annual income.)

The 99th percentile ("top 1%") of wealth by household seems to have been be $8.4M in 2007, according to https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-..., the most recent calculation I could find from a quick Google before heading to work - I'd love to see these calculations done with the raw data at https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm . From the summary on that page, they surveyed some 116 million households in 2007.

Suppose you tax all holdings at the top 1% of wealth by 1%/year, which is significant but not enough to wipe you out - after 50 years that leaves you with 60% of your original savings, assuming you weren't investing it.

That yields as a minimum $97T in tax revenue per year ($8.4M * 1.16M * 1%), and almost certainly significantly more because there-s a short tail of people with much more than $8.4M net worth. But if you split even this much among the 5% of households with "very low food security", that's $16,800/year. That's a lot of food.

(An actual scheme would have some sort of progressive tax, also, not a discontinuity at a certain dollar value)
Are you sure you put the snark aside?
Nick Szabo is a credible guess, but it's just a guess. Nakamoto was very good about protecting his identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo