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DirtyCOWVuln on Twitter: “New 0day coming soon.”(twitter.com)
6 points by elux 9y ago|0 comments
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“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch(twitter.com)
60 points by elux 10y ago|21 comments
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Sidechain Elements: Open source code and developer sidechains for Bitcoin(blockstream.com)
101 points by elux 11y ago|24 comments
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by elux 12y ago
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by elux 13y ago
See "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph”, a 2012 paper by Ron and Shamir. (Adi Shamir of “RSA".) Preprint available here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf (The "Rich List” see
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by elux 13y ago
> How many legitimate real world services and products currently accept Bitcoins? I understand it is only the Chinese search engine. The hundreds (thousands now?) of (mostly) small businesses accepting bitcoin for goods and services inc
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by elux 13y ago
You may have heard that a proton is made from three quarks. Indeed here are several pages that say so. This is a lie — a white lie, but a big one. In fact there are zillions of gluons, antiquarks, and quarks in a proton. The standard
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You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins(arstechnica.com)
380 points by elux 13y ago|289 comments
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by elux 13y ago
>If the Americans don't like the situation then they can vote for someone who will enact legislation that reflects that, Like who? Red? Or Blue?
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by elux 13y ago
>Bitcoin has a long way to go before it's as easy to use as Paypal. Coinbase (out of Y combinator) is getting there.
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by elux 13y ago
Utterly flawed reasoning. See: "Prosecutor's fallacy" http://www.conceptstew.co.uk/PAGES/prosecutors_fallacy.html
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by elux 13y ago
From the WMAP edition at: http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2003.html >Q: How can you represent it as a sound? Sound is supposed to be a wave that travels through air, and there was no air in the early stages of the Big Ba
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by elux 13y ago
I believe the EFF donated their coins to the original "Bitcoin Faucet", a service by Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen that would give away fractions of a coin for free, so the newbies would have some to experiment with. (The Bitcoin Fa
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by elux 13y ago
> "Maybe prisons in the US should be paid on rehabilitation rate and not incarceration rate." Credit: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/196pe7/norwegian_...
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by elux 13y ago
Warning: The linked domain is satoshdice.com, not satoshidice.com Is this malicious? Did SatoshiDice.com get domain-squatted upon expiration? (It's not a phishing site, since satoshidice doesn't store any account information.)
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by elux 13y ago
Needs a single page HTML version. Single page text version here: http://www.pement.org/sed/sedfaq.txt
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by elux 14y ago
Do you want some? I could give you one.
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by elux 14y ago
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitcoin-price-breaks-all-time-hig...
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by elux 14y ago
April fools, so soon? >By Naomi O'Leary LONDON | Sun Apr 1, 2012 7:01pm EDT
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by elux 14y ago
See for yourself: "To me, and I hope to other UR readers, the logical leap from step 1 (BTC exchangers are indicted) to step 2 (BTC price goes to 0) is obvious. But here at UR, we are operating under our own special theory of money, which I
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by elux 14y ago
Summary: 1: A DOJ indictment is unsealed which names everyone [involved in] BTC/USD exchange, as a criminal defendant. 2: The BTC/USD price falls to 0 and remains there. BTC are permanently worthless.
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by elux 14y ago
Legitimate banks don't get hacked via Rails exploits.
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Jeff Gundlach: To Catch a Thief(businessinsider.com)
1 points by elux 14y ago|0 comments
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by elux 14y ago
Kernel newbies is down: http://www.isup.me/http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.7 Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vjkg-vG...
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The Money2020 Conference and the Future of Finance(digitaltrends.com)
3 points by elux 14y ago|0 comments
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by elux 14y ago
Long before Wikileaks, Assange worked on a project called "Rubberhose". (A hidden encrypted filesystem designed to offer protection against cryptanalysis by torture.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis | http://en.
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by elux 14y ago
"Norwegian crude oil production peaked in 2001 and as of 2012 it has declined about 50% from the peak. This fact has been overshadowed by the oil price growth in recent years." http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9166
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by elux 14y ago
Nope: http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/contact >Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 10485760) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /home/jps/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php on line 268
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by elux 14y ago
Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3707.msg53879#msg538... "The best thing about my water cooling and floor heating is that my wife keeps nagging me to buy a second 5970 to make the floor warmer. Beat this with a air cooled sy