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Equifax hackers stole data for 200k credit cards from transaction history "Every day, around the globe, we are Powering the World with Knowledge."
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Wrong article!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Fixed, thank you. The real cats one etc. will hopefully migrate to the forum shortly.
TTFN - Kent
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I want to read that one.
This one was a major WTF moment.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Aerospace Corporation says its Brane Craft will wrap itself around debris orbiting Earth and drag it back down through the atmosphere, causing it to burn up and never again threaten satellites or astronauts. Plus wrap it in time for gift-giving season it seems
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Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life. It's a Commodore 64, isn't it? That's why everything is so slow?
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Is that an updated version of the article that we are all living in an advanced TV-show?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The core findings of the report show a significant gap between the top 25% of enterprises, referred to as the “Masters of the Modern Software Factory,” and everyone else across a range of measures including revenue, profit, executive leadership, risk-taking and adoption of modern software tools. I wonder where I could go to learn more about these modern software tools?
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These laws were drawn up with the best of intentions. They were supposed to protect us. But, sadly, they're being used for nefarious purposes. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
I didn't say it, Billy Shakes did.
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Interesting one, thanks. Bookmarked, Need some time to translate/understand
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Apple has explained why its new facial recognition feature failed to unlock a handset at an on-stage demo at the iPhone X's launch on Tuesday. Too many people looked at the phone? Riiiiiiiiiight
Because that will never happen in "the real world"(tm)
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Here are a few big-to-small numbers to know as Cassini prepares for self-destruction "I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil"
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He further went on to compare it to 'Tulip Mania' that affected the Dutch tulip industry during the 1630s As opposed to the banks?
Too political?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Too political?
No. Cryptocurrency is a chaos of participants. And as that post (or something similar to it) points out, governments should definitely fear the idea of losing control over "legal tender." Cryptocurrency will continue to live on the dark web, but anyone publicly announcing their virtual coin wallet will soon enough discover that they are going to jail as laws to regulate virtual currencies go into affect (see my post lower down.) ICO's are the new Ponzi scheme and I think the Chase CEO is right on the money, haha.
What will probably survive though, and have some interesting uses, is the underlying blockchain technology. But if people were dreaming of creating an untaxable monetary unit, well, those were just dreams.
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Marc Clifton wrote: But if people were dreaming of creating an untaxable monetary unit, well As Joe Black told... two things are unavoidable... death and taxes
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It is fairly obvious that digital currencies are a fraud, only the MORe Optimistical than Needed for Safety don't understand that. Besides, bubbles and frauds are definetely a JPMorgan area of expertise.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Might be fairly obvious to you, but won't be that obvious to all of us. Could you please explain how a BC is "obvious" a fraud? Compared to, say, the "Euro"?
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Because it is nothing. It does not exist. It's merely a convention between unknown (therefore untrustworthy) people. It can cease to exist from one moment to the other without any safety measure by anyone, leaving those who bought digital currency with real money with nothing, and those who sold nothing for real money richer.
Many people will buy this thingy until it will be closed down - the sellers keep the cash, the buyers an encrypted file. And noone can prevent that, no reevaluation of the curreny can be done, nothing.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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You're saying I am more untrustworthy than Mario Draghi??
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I for sure am. Try me: for 500$ I will send you an encrypted wallet with den2kCoins that you can spend online without banks or governments in the middle!
(Joke icon because I don't really want your 500$. The real price would be 1000, its value just doubled).
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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It's a fair question. Since the abolition of the gold standard, do "real" currencies mean anything in concrete terms? In the era of quantitative easing, it's hard to ascribe any real world value to something that can be printed at will. In many ways our currencies have become a matter of (largely consensual) mass-delusion.
Is BC any better? No, it's every bit as nebulous as what we already have.
Is every bubble destined to burst? Absolutely, that's what bubbles do.
Is the entire ball of string and sellotape that constitutes the global economy going to collapse in a big heap one day? I'm not sure, but I think I can guess where the smart money, pseudo-money and crypto-money would all be going.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: Is BC any better? No, it's every bit as nebulous as what we already have.
With the difference of BC being "limited" in amounts, and Euro's not. Mario keeps printing new ones, which dilutes the value of all euro's in existence. BC is in those terms equal to electronic money, with the difference that governments cannot inflate their way out of debt.
PeejayAdams wrote: Is every bubble destined to burst? Absolutely, that's what bubbles do. It's too soon to call BC a bubble; if it becomes a valid currency in more places then the demand will rise higher still (and so will the price).
PeejayAdams wrote: Is the entire ball of string and sellotape that constitutes the global economy going to collapse in a big heap one day? I'm not sure, but I think I can guess where the smart money, pseudo-money and crypto-money would all be going. It would be a temporary end of credit, not of money.
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I agree totally that QE makes a mockery of money, but as your quotes round "limited" suggest there's just no guarantee that a pseudo-currency won't go the same way.
I'm not entirely sure that it's too early to call it a bubble - anything that has risen from under $1K to a peak of something approaching $4K in the space of a few months certainly exhibits all the classic signs of something that's about to go pop.
Its valuation is based almost entirely on the assumption that it will become an increasingly accepted currency. It faces an unlimited number of competitors and given its rather sordid image, it is highly questionable whether many legitimate businesses would want to be seen accepting a currency that would come with so much negative baggage. I find it quite conceivable that some virtual currency or other may do what many expected BC to do but I can't see it being BC itself, it will be one that starts out in a far more reputable environment than the dark net.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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