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Is it possible someone has been running a 'malleability bot' deliberately targeting transactions to cause this issue as much as possible?

On the other hand someone bought on btc-e for $102. Good price...assuming the current spiral downward on the Mt Gox news reverses.

If you have malware on your device that snoops your clipboard activity then you've lost - that's not 'this kind of programs' fault.

What is the 'Firefox Account' the new sync system uses and how does it differ from Persona? Will I need a 'Firefox Account' for other Mozilla services? What about Firefox OS? It seems bizarre to me to have this additional account system while promoting Persona as the system for other people to use. Is Persona abandoned?

Edit: the article mentions a Firefox Account is needed to use the Firefox Marketplace too. That's a webapp which I thought would have suited Persona.

With pools moving towards paying miners the transaction fees it becomes more difficult to recover from mistakes like this. The pool would have to contact the miners that received the fees to recover them.

> The next expected block is always due in 10 minutes

Not if the current network speed is higher than the difficulty level due to more mining power having come online since the last difficulty change.

You could estimate this by examining the block times over the last 120 (or some N) blocks, estimating the difficulty for that solve rate, and using the ratio of current network difficulty over the the estimated difficulty times 10 minutes.

> The fact that anyone on my Wifi can access it with their phone, instantly, with nothing to install is a magical experience.

Does ChromeCast not require an app on the device? I thought it wasn't integrated with the OS.

It still needs power though so it needs to be plugged into something - whether USB or wall socket. What are the open viewing options? It seems to only provide youtube and google movies in countries that don't have netflix. Does it support streaming a local video from a phone or PC?

Aren't you instead locked into Google's ecosystem?

I don't know of other IDE's that use the idea. It's a pity as I used this feature a lot when using HD/FD.

What are the advantages of Chromecast over something like Apple TV?

Dylan did well in multiple ICFP contests IIRC.

Mindy was used to bootstrap Gwydion Dylan, a Dylan compiler implementation. This was the main open source Dylan implementation for quite some time until Functional Objects (which obtained the code and rights from Harlequin when they went out of the language business) open sourced their implementation which is now 'Open Dylan'.

Functional Developer (What was Harelequin Dylan) was nice. The editor would syntax highlight the code based on the optimization level. In this way you could look at a method call and see if it was inlined or not and decide whether to seal functions or classes to improve performance.

Another interesting feature was the editor was written in Dylan (using a framework called Deuce). This was emacs-like and had features like virtual sections in a buffer that could each be mapped to a different file on disk. This allowed viewing in a single editor pane the implementations of all methods of a generic function even if they crossed multiple files. This could also be edited as if it was a single file.

How do dog friendly work places deal with employees that are allergic to dogs?

They have to do that work anyway due to Firefox OS.

Mozilla could take great strides towards this type of phone if they cared. Integrate tor, Whisper Systems RedPhone and SercureText, HTML tracking disabled, etc. I'm surprised their Firefox OS looks and works so much like every other phone out there.

One of the best development books I've read is Thinking Forth [1]. Don't let the Forth aspect put you off. It's full of great design tips and ways of thinking about programming.

[1] http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

Try adding a language with proof solving capabilities. ATS, Agda, Idris, Coq spring to mind.

"Malware that can hijack the users' cookies" is a little different to "which is possible through DOM traversal" though. I wanted to address the point in case some got the impression just using the DOM via JS would allow it.

If the ads are shown in an iframe on a different domain you won't be able to traverse them due to cross origin restrictions.

This is already a problem with namecoin. If you grep through the blockchain there's all sorts of dubious stuff in plain text.

You ask "Who is Sunny". I believe they refer to "Sunny King", author of Peercoin and Primecoin. Some people seem to think Sunny is Satoshi.