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What this needs is a clearer social/collaboration angle. This is blind speculation, but I feel like the *book and the internet have killed much of the reason for a traditional "desk" (paper, phone, and paraphernalia).

I don't need another transient place to put my laptop, and I imagine any serious business person/company has their workspace long figured out. What I could use, though, is a nice infrastructure for fluidly moving around and meeting people in an environment conducive to work.
Can asynchronous flash bring down the price only?
It doesn't even need to be a real problem - just one that the investor perceive as a problem. And given that the tech is pretty complex and beyond the understanding of a lot of people using bitcoin then that risk is even greater.

And as with any investment scheme the potential for manipulation by rumour is also very real. There is a lot of regulation around more mainstream investment and money mechanisms to stop this (and it still happens) - bitcoin, which has no centralised "defender", will be just as prone to it.

I would imagine that now a wider audience is becoming aware of bitcoin we will start seeing this kind of thing in the next few months (and possibly are already doing)
Yes, because in a deflationary environment, just sitting on the money is an investment in itself.

Let's say you have an amount of money which buys you today 1 house. If within 1 month, with the same amount of money, you'll be able to buy 1.04 houses, nobody will invest in any business which increases real (non-money denominated) assets at anything lower than 4% per month.

Or, to look at it from another angle: the central bank cannot set a negative interest rate, that is, take interest just for keeping the money in the account (people will keep it under the mattress instead). So the deflation rate is the minimum interest rate that the businesses must achieve in order to be economically viable and attract funds (otherwise investors sit on the money). The greater the deflation rate, the more bankruptcies it causes.
Along with perfect visual and coding skills, "The Valley" wants designers in-house and under control. If companies want to hire talent, they need to be more willing to hire remotely. What's holding them back is the irrational fear of losing control. "How can I make sure he's working a full eight hours a day?" "What if he drops off the face the earth?"

Interface design can be done from anywhere on the globe. It's silly to restrict your hires only to locals or those desperate enough to relocate.

The anachronism that is http://hoveringartdirectors.tumblr.com offers a glimpse at the absurdity (and unintentional hilarity) of working in-house. How is hovering more efficient than viewing the design on your own monitor? Which is a more realistic use-case of your application? Actually using the app yourself, or standing by someone and having them show you?
It's FUD because you misinterpretted one statement out of a multi-hundred word essay?
The problem is attribution. Imagine if all an Al-Qaeda hacker had to do to start a major war was to compromise a Chinese computer and use it to attack a sufficiently sensitive US military target.
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Not a fan of bit coin. Convertibility is the only issue in author's diatribe. Author has not understood several concepts re bit coin.

Bc is not a normal currency, it's not reserve currency. It's much more like a stock that's tradable without exchange. Limited quantity, market set price,

Mining is not free. When something succeeds early adopters always mKe out big. It's their payoff for risk.
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Android has multi-tasking which is a pretty fundamental difference in how the phone behaves -- it seems odd to call it a copy of iOS. It also doesn't look that similar.
Why do we expect real ROI to vary significantly based on whether the currency is inflating by 2% or deflating by 2% y/o/y? I would expect if I were a lender, and inflation increased, I would price that in to my new transactions, and I would think if I were a business, I would be impacted much more by my ability to convert real time and real resources into real value than by the number of loaves of bread I could buy if I spent all my cash reserves on them.
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Actually many cryptographic algorithms that got defeated, haven't been defeated with "new discoveries in mathematics". Also, you can't really prove that such an algorithm is secure. You can only prove that it exhibits certain properties that make it more secure versus other algorithms.

Judging by how cryptographic methods got defeated in the past, I think it's safe to assume that it's only a matter of time.
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After the article they have a link after the word 'source' that links to: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...
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That's life for reverse engineered stuff. If you don't really know what a function does, how do you name it?
As a designer, there is definitely a great benefit being able to take your ideas and build them. What's more is that you have full control over your ideas and how they're implemented. That being said, though, there's a lot of back and forth. At one point your design may be top notch, but your code may suffer and vice versa. It's just how it is. However in a startup environment, the goal is quick and functional as opposed to being perfect. It really depends on your priority, but knowing how to code as well as design is extremely liberating.
It isn't a MiTM attack, it is a listening-in attack.

A wireless network is essentially a hub, rather than a switched network, and as such all hosts on one leg of the network get to see all the packets transported through it no matter what their source or destination and it is up to your network card and/or OS to filter out those that are relevant to it. In a switched arrangement (which all modern wired networks are) by contrast, the switch is bright enough to only send your NIC ethernet frames that are addressed to it.

Even if the network is passkey protected this does not stop all hosts seeing all the packets: the password and encryption are only for authentication and protecting the network from the outside, it offers no protection from other nodes on the same network leg once you have joined.

So an attack like firesheep doesn't need to inject anything pretending to be from the target node to get facebook to send it the session token - it simply sets the network interface to "promiscuous mode" so that it can see all the packets and not just those addressed to your machine. It then sifts through those packets looking for HTTP headers containing cookies destined for facebook, and reads the session token from them. Once you have that token you can make HTTP requests to facebook as if your browser is the one that opened that session, so you can post as that user and read all their stuff without knowing their password. The same goes for any other service operating over plain HTTP.

The only way around this with current wireless protocols is to use a secure transport for your communications. SSL based protocols, like HTTPS for instance, would protect the content of the communication from such inspection. The same goes for SSH, SFTP, IMAPS, and so forth. For facebook specifically you can switch on the "always user HTTPS" security option to protect yourself if using a web browser to access the service, but be aware that neither the iPhone or Android applications currently respect this setting.

If I ever connect my netbook to a public wireless network I always run all communication through an OpenVPN setup that I have - this way all packets travelling in and out of my machine are encrypted in a way that protects them from inspection by other hosts on the same access point, even if the packets themselves are not protected (by being part of an HTTPS stream for instance). This probably isn't an option for the non-technical man-on-the-street, nor does it currently protect streams direct from my phone (though I'm told OpenVPN can be made to work on Andriod, I have yet to try) if I ever let it connect to a public wireless access point, so isn't a perfect solution.
How did he know the person who had his Mac was the one who stole it 2 years earlier?
Actually, no. If you look at those files, you're "tainted" and can't be the one who writes a new implementation. The correct way to do reverse engineering for compatibility is to have to completely separate teams. The first does the reverse engineering and writes the specification/documentation. The second completely separate teams takes the specs/docs and writes an entirely new implementation.

This is the process used to achieve the "IBM PC Compatible" system you're probably using right now (including your Mac). Reading up on the development of the Compatibles is a good way to understand how to do reverse engineering correctly.
Where did you expect them to start from? Build the kernel from scratch?

That actually wouldn't be a bad idea. As someone pointed out, I also feel that filesystem hierarchy, window frames and the desktop metaphor is now outdated and overly stretched. Imho, they would be better come out with a whole new OS with no backwards compatibility, while keeping developing windows for the time necessary (10-15 years) to allow most of its users and software a 'transition' to the new system.

If they don't do it, someone else will do.
The extent to which ToS are enforcible has to be tested yet, especially wrt people who aren't even using the client. I mean hackers who just take advantage of the information released by someone who actually broke the ToS. How are they even bound by the ToS?
That is what I thought. Your previous reply confused me.

Firesheep for Android.
IANAL, but might the DMCA exemption on reverse engineering for program-to-program interoperability possibly apply in the US?[1]

Of course I have NFI what country the skype-open-source poster is in. FWIW the blog host (blogspot) is obviously in the US, the depositfiles.com file host has DNS registered in Seychelles but seemingly resolves to a US server...

[1] http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi#QID210
As a side note, the original article is a very interesting read that actually leaves me with a very good impression of Elop.
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Not sure about the implementation, but I like the idea. I'm working at a cafe right now with a good internet connection because my home connection has been down for the past two days -- go Verizon! If there were easily identifiable office space for daily rental, I'd probably have taken advantage.
"Groupon provides the mechanism to move businesses and customers over to a part of the diagram previously regarded as unreachable. It only works because customers can collectively commit to buying more than they would with a run-of-the-mill coupon."

But it breaks down when that business fails to increase it's capacity. Case in point: I used groupon once for a restaurant and the experience was horrible. The restaurant was completely unprepared for the number of people showing up.
On paper I got $40 bucks worth of food and service for $20 bucks, but the experience was so bad I wish I had stayed home and saved my $20 bucks.

In my situation the restaurant and Groupon dropped the golden football.
One technique that I've used in the past is to print the PDF to file as SVG, edit in Inkscape, then print the SVG to file as PDF.

I think I used Evince to open the PDF and print to SVG.
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Sorry, I am not very fluent in OCaml. Also, I didn't find word "message" in the link above.

I am experiencing limitations of pure objects and message passing almost right now. In my spare time I am currently developing dynamic data flow CPU which is based on immutable "objects" and message sending. It is quite unusual style of programming, very unlike anything else, including Smalltalk, Erlang and everything.
having just read the article, it's apparent that the author has misunderstood, or entirely does not understand the principles behind what's going on.

the number of new bitcoins, for instance, that are allocated for a time period, is fixed, and from what i understand, is allocated to users by the proportion of time spent "mining". ie, 10x more mining on everyone's part does not mean 10x more coins mined.

secondly, the idea that a currency with a finite supply is a bad thing, is just rubbish. gold backed and silver backed currencies have all existed at one time or an other. some would argue that they have more benefits than fiat currency.

his final point is almost entirely non-sensical, and is related to the part before. during the bank bailouts in the financial crisis (which again, some would argue we are still in the midsts of), the bailouts created money out of air - devaluing the currency for everyone, increasing inflation, and THEN passed the debt to tax payers. how this is construed as a benefit for citizens of respective governments is beyond me. during recessions, the poor get poorer and the richer get richer. money doesn't disappear, it gravitates to those that already have it.

his 3rd point is the only one that comes close to making sense, alas, it's not really an issue. people are their own converters. how much someone will pay for something is entirely up to them, and whilst i don't see there ever being an extra column in XE.com, that's really neither here nor there.
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Relatedly: there was a presentation about (reversing) Skype internals on BlackHat Europe 2006 (warning, PDF): http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-...

Skype probably updated their client/protocol since, but still an interesting read.
While attacks against the basic building blocks of cryptosystems (like the SHA256 hash or AES block cipher) are rare, the protocols built upon those blocks can be independently vulnerable.

Take the Needham-Schroeder public key protocol from 1979, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needham-Schroeder_protocol#The_... . It's simple and "obviously" foolproof, but a vulnerability was published in 1995, 16 years later.

Right now, we don't know if the bitcoin protocol has such a flaw. However, if it turns out to have an exploitable flaw, the entire bitcoin network will have to switch to a new protocol, which I haven't heard described as something they have a concrete plan for.
It works perfectly on my 'Galaxy'.
He probably wasn't considering the mac was stolen in Boston and the guy was instead in Vegas.
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If they don't have a ship date yet, why are they showing this off? It seems like they're just asking for any of their good ideas to be stolen before they launch. Apple's approach seems to be to develop in secret and show something off just before it hits the shelves.

Is Microsoft just seeing to see how people react to this, leaving room to backpedal if necessary?
I have no idea if it is solid or not but statements like:

"Bitcoin will be tested but from what we know about it at the moment, it looks solid."

worry me. Its easy to make things for ideal conditions. If bitcoin becaomes mainstream the stresses will be incredible. Where there is money to be made there are smart people looking for an angle and leverage. Even governments suffer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

This is an experimental mechanism. It is not based on main stream economics and it has no government or bank protecting it with regulation or defending it. The originators may have hit upon something new that is solid and can stand on its own two feet or they may have initiated the construction of a tower of cards.

Even if you are a full on supporter of bitcoin you would be mad to assume that it doesn't have a fatal flaw at this stage.
And why wouldn't that argument work for all other goods, too, rendering the deflation argument misguided?
> that gained widespread adoption

No. What it has gained is: speculation.
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The GP doesn't want it outlawed, just doesn't want people to specifically choose to have transactions privately for fear of moving the price, because that's a sign that the market isn't healthy. A healthy market should be resilient against normal trading.
aside from the awesome technical exersize in hacking, i don't see this as any net benefit for VOIP.

the time would have been much better spent working on the GNU VOIP client, not only would improvements have been usable without legal issues, they would be there in an (ostensibly, perhaps) understandable format - working code.
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Agree 100% with your last paragraph. The bank lobby, effectively an arm of the Federal Reserve system, is not going to stand by and watch any alternative currency gain traction. My guess is that they'll try to paint any legitimate alternative--Bitcoin or some successor--as a tool for terrorism and try to get it banished from the face of the earth that way.
Exactly. As nl stated [1], bitcoin would turn the currency into an investment. The very wealthy who would otherwise hold stock and property would instead have incentive to just hold the bitcoin currency.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611613
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I'm told that there were bugs in that process discovered shortly after its introduction that could mean the switch back to HTTP happened without the user being told so explicitly. These have been fixed, but the poster you replied to may have been unlucky enough to have used such an app during a window when such a problem was still present.

Another source of confusion is that nether the iPhone or Android native facebook applications respect the HTTPS setting, so to use HTTPS for facebook access on a phone make sure you use it via the web browser not the native app. IIRC this was one of the bugs: accessing facebook via one of those apps would reset the switch for next time you accessed the site by other means, whereas now it doesn't.
>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 of now, not many retailers accept it.

As a result, the Bitcoin market is being driven solely by speculation.
It's not can it be broken, but when. It took 13 years for MD5 to be thoroughly broken. There are already theoretical attacks on SHA-256, which is one of the reasons there is currently a competition for SHA-3. If Bitcoin is to be a currency, it needs to have long-term stability, which is not helped by basing itself on crypto-systems that will be broken eventually.
You may have overlooked the rough diamond: the fact that auditing can be easier. Tax departments can just ask what addresses a person used to send and receive btc. People have to declare income already (and people hide income), and now people will have to declare bitcoin addresses! It's all online for governments to check. So a DNS-like system over bitcoin addresses is the answer.
> A wireless network is essentially a hub, rather than a switched network, and as such all hosts on one leg of the network get to see all the packets transported through it no matter what their source or destination

The article claims that it works on WPA-2, but WPA-2 doesn't work the same way. WPA-2 uses individual encryption between the router and the device. This happens to be one of the biggest reasons it's recommended over unencrypted or WEP encryption, which are both passively sniffable. With WPA-2, you don't get all traffic on the network, you have to trick hosts on the network to explicitly send it to you.

To sniff WPA-2 traffic, this app must generate some kind of active MITM attack, probably ARP spoofing or flooding. I feel [very slightly] bad for the poor guy who tries this on his campus network and gets nailed in about four seconds.
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That proves the point. They have to invest their wealth in stock, real estate etc. instead of putting it in a chest/thumb drive and burying it on a lonely island in order to keep it.
>English is English, code is code.

I'm not sure this kind of 'render unto Caesar' thinking is conducive to literate code.

Definitely agree with you on the suffix conditionals.
Actually I was under the impression that Excel was the Emacs(I'm an emacs users :) ) of the non power users. They spend their entire life in there. If Microsoft would just embed IE into Excel(I know someone will point out how this is already happening ;0p) then they would never have to switch app.

My dad spends minimum 4-5 hours of his day in Excel. He's an accountant and uses it to organize all types of info on clients.

On the other hand I almost never use excel. About the only time (and I use google docs anyway) is for managing bills.
But what could the USAAF realistically have been able to do in 1940 to help the British?
Finally Bitcoin made it over $10/BTC. What's next?
You open a CAD program or code editor?
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what are fun are the reactions of those "wtf, what now?!" microsoft fanboys.
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I filed on behalf of my business, of which I am the owner. The online process has a spot where you list your business name.

Check out http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/initial_app.jsp

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Deal sites are all about achieving leads so shouldn't their MVP be a nice website with a way to show your interest by opting in? Amazon's brand will play a huge part in getting sign-ups, especially since they know our shopping habits.
Your ping pong ball example sounds very much like the car in the garage problem which is explained well here: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/Rec...

I suppose that's the same as the "ladder through the garage" paradox you mention?
What about those two statements needs reconciliation? I worked there, doesn't mean I like the products personally.

Sorry, I thought you had to sync it with itunes to do a bunch of stuff. My mistake.

The op started out making that mistake. He chose a pessimistic projection, I chose otherwise.