josephagoss

This is a little depressing isn't it? I wonder if there is any mechanism to counter this?

I was always under the impression that these server based frameworks are better for two reasons, the code is safe, so you're leaking less of your code, and that the size of the website on the client is reduced allowing for faster downloads.

I could be very wrong, but I feel more comfortable keeping as much code on the server as possible.

I've currently backed up over 400gb but have only ever had to restore about 100gb. That experience was fine, with no issues. I guess I can't say I have ever done a full restore though.

Crashplan. I've used it for years and has never failed me. They have an option for a client side key too, so they can't even access your files.

I used Ease of Access Center in Windows to control the mouse via the numpad to get past the really annoying ones, getting past those parts was worth it.

Will this affect the way we do AJAX requests? Or the speed of them? Or has this no impact on websites talking back to the server? My knowledge of networking at the HTTP level is limited and I am trying to find some context.

OP was talking about Notch and parallels with JKR, the 'he' is intentional.

Could something like ring signatures be used here?

But isn't it easier to do away with capitalism altogether so that we can all be equal, no matter the effort we put in?

This future of no capitalism people want scares the heck out of me, almost makes everything I've worked for pointless.

Satoshi most likely has a stash of several thousand Bitcoin that were mined using a standard miner without their tell-tale finger print. (Something about the odd nonce distribution with Satoshi's coins gives away his main set.)

Also when Satoshi left the development team in 2010 he could've been mining normally like everyone else, and he could have easily amassed 10,000+ Bitcoin in that time without it ever being linked to his early 1,000,000 coins.

I think it's likely Satoshi has cashed out millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, just not from the pile of coins everyone is watching.

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression most nodes are now opting not to store any "OP_RETURN" transaction.

I once thought about storing information into the Bitcoin blockchain for another use case, but found out that very few nodes would actually store it.

I would donate to GIMP if they started caring about UI.

I think it's because there used to be a really bad alt-coin called Bytecoin, and the stigma remains to this day.

I was about to buy a Pro 2, might hold off on one of these.

For taking notes and digital art/illustration, these devices are amazing and I've been using my friends one a lot.

Can someone explain to me how this planet can be 10,000,000 years old? Isn't that formation far too new for a star system that close? I would have expected such formation to be inside a nebula near the core of the galaxy.

Lets face it, the 'brand' of Dropbox has been tarnished by Rice.

Even if all the other cloud sync companies have to hand over data to the US Government, at least they aren't being so blase about it by putting Rice on their board.

I don't know much about cancer, but it seems like a common denominator is that they are all forms of unregulated cell growth.

Doesn't that mean there is such a thing as cancer? Perhaps the final cure would be an augmented immune system that can tunnel to any area of the body and remove these cells. Something like nanobots I guess.

Although I do understand your point, that the several hundred forms of cancer in humans require radically different approaches for curing until nanobots.

We cancelled my premium account and my girlfriends premium account after we decided we could not support Dropbox's new direction.

Rice does not inspire confidence with a company handling private data.

The paper should be titled "POS Cryptocurrency with no blockchain" as that is the most innovative idea they are talking about.

There already exist pure POS coins, Nxt through a concept called transparent forging may be capable of resisting anything up to a 90% attack.

I'll have a read of this properly when I get home.

Very true, we don't need everything to be pegged to a single currency. Another development that will make moving between crypto-currencies more fluid will be decentralized exchanges.

I believe that apart from Counterparty and ColoredCoins, Ethereum may also be able to run as a decentralized exchange in fact helping Bitcoin and the other Alternative coins.

I assumed a long time ago that eventually many of these coins will somehow tie into each other in the process of building the future foundations of a new decentralised internet. I think that time is coming.

If you read Vitalik's post it'll give a very good run down on side chains. http://bitcoinmagazine.com/12349/side-chains-challenges-pote...

Sidechains have issues in the current incarnation that we have been shown; they need to be mined and a 51% attack on Bitcoin will enable the miner to gain access to the coins that are in the Bitcoin blockchain waiting for release via the two way peg.

If these issues cannot be solved then Vitalik may be correct that Ethereum based side chains might actually be a better way as it seems Ethereum is designed to handle this type of advanced contract.

Either way, whatever coin (bitcoin or ether) implements these side chains safely and correctly will likely win as being the foundation for the future of cryptocurrency/platforms.

The side chain idea allows the native cryptocurrency to compete and win out over other competitors. Want faster confirms? Use side chains. Want Zerocash anonymous transactions, peg into Zerocash and peg back out again. I believe the future will be a battle between Bitcoin and Ethereum with a major war zone being sidechains.

Also consider this: If cryptocurrency can have on top of itself many other applications built (decentralised: {web hosting,web app hosting, databases, information, computing engines: {search, math, compute}, contracts, code}) then does that coin itself eventually gain 'intrinsic' value via being the foundation of all these new systems?

Imagine a TOR that is based entirely on the greed incentive and not just good will, where the entire system is an Ethereum contract. Imagine an open source google search where the code is run entirely on top of the nodes and each search costs 1 cent in ether to be paid to the nodes for hosting and running the code.

If this happens, that coin becomes pegged to a brand new internet running on top of blockchains. Just something to think about.

Hey, is there any chance we can download the RAW data alongside the JPG file?

Yeah after a while the comments become immortal.

It's a pest when you post something only to realise a little while later that perhaps it should have been written differently or not written at all.

Happens to me all the time.

That is very impressive. I'm amazed they essentially keep a revision history of their system configuration.

Is it too pedantic to want the tech support to just say they were probably mining cryptocurrency instead of bitcoin? It's most likely the intruder was mining either litecoin or whatever coin is most profitable for the month. I know it's all very much the same but they were almost certainly not mining bitcoin.

A $5,000 AWS instance would mine about $1 worth of bitcoin and would not be worth the time logging into someones account.

When the announced they had amassed over 1% of all Bitcoins and they had been buying for months, you could calculate their average buy price. I did that and it worked out to be about $10 - $30 a coin.

They won't be hurt for a long time.

They made $10k plus a huge amount of free advertisement for their company and services (security). I reckon this release alone will earn them far more than your estimated $90k difference.

Mind you, your point is certainly valid if this were a random hacker type.

I use this as my main sync software. However the code is still closed and backdoors could easily exist.

Yeah you're right, looking back on my estimate I'm really underestimating humanity if 100,000 can't learn and build this stuff in the long term. 100,000 hungry and driven people could do a lot if survival was on the line.

It's less about the people and more about the resource capabilities on the ship. If the ship has machinery that can rebuild things like a chip Fab for example, and the knowledge to repair all said machines, it becomes more feasible. If the ship has no machinery to construct advanced machines/facilities even 100,000 might not be enough to construct advanced tech.