jedunnigan

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by jedunnigan 11y ago
>Bitcoinica They partnered with Alpha Point some time ago. A cursory google search will confirm that.
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by jedunnigan 11y ago
Well, there may be one way. But it's not user friendly at all. When the driver presses lock/unlock on the fob, the car first sends a signed message with a session secret. The fob checks the signature, takes the secret and creates
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by jedunnigan 11y ago
If you ever have quality issues with the splitter, check out this product, works like a charm (but a bit pricey): http://www.hdfury.com/
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Transactions not having to propagate across the network a second time in blocks is certainly nice, but that doesn't solve all the problems of large blocks. As you said, that proposal is focused on maintaining an incentive for miners t
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
To avoid the pawn favoritism you could first select a category of piece, then a specific piece of that category and then finally select a legal move for the piece in question. I think this would be the most even handed way to make the game
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
No, you have missed the essence of my post. Technology doesn't pick a side. I'm not arguing against that. In the relationship between Bitcoin and it's users/developers/miners/nodes there are of course the ideol
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Philosophical inquiry doesn't necessitate an adjudication on morality, politics or regulatory climate. It can simply be a formalization of concepts observed in a system. Bitcoin doesn't exist without human input, it requires activ
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
So one might argue that that is a philosophy in and of itself. An agnostic one that is founded on technical specification, not moral imperative.
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Don't bother with the laser, just drive down the street and pass a car with HID headlights that aren't pointed directly towards the ground. At least in that situation your response will be to slow down (and hopefully the people be
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
I don't have a firm enough understanding of how the LIDAR and laser's work in these vehicles, but it occurs to me that it might be possible for a malicious actor to confuse the cars and cause accidents. That's concerning.
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
I wasn't commenting on what is better or worse. I was simply stating that there is a tangible effect on the decentralization of the network when you have a limited number of nodes. For example, maintaining privacy becomes much harder a
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
People like to quote the scalability page and claim that Bitcoin will have no problem scaling, but I don't think they really understand what Bitcoin will look like at scale. No one is saying that it _can't_ handle howevermany txs
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
This is likely an erroneous argument with little evidence to support it. Violence between street dealers and drug consumptors is unlikely to be the largest source of drug related violence. After all, if the street dealers started killing th
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
I think we will arrive at a future where it will no longer be legal to create such software. The FBI will then go after the developers of said platforms. Of course they will still go after the large sellers and such using traditional invest
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“Hacking Silk Road would not have run afoul of the Fourth Amendment,” claims FBI(arstechnica.com)
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Refer to jacquesm's post [0]: >Because (1) a jammer is an unlicensed transmitter and (2) jammers do not just jam with discretion they jam for as far as they reach and it is impossible to operate a jammer in such a way that you cover
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Fair enough, my wording was a bit more limiting than I meant it to be. But I hear you, and you make some good points. I guess I'll just use an old saying to put it one other way: 'the river is separate from the bed on which it flo
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Absolutely true. The time lapse is only to allow the user to inspect the drive before it is allowed to execute arbitrarily. That may not actually be possible now that I think about it, so the idea is bunked anyway.
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
>Because it is itself the process of growing. It is an intermediate phase. I think you missed what I was saying, you are conflating issues as well. I believe you can be tied to your successes and dedicate yourself to something without it
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
The fourth point in the article raises some red flags for me. I agree with the Capn: >My job is not my identity, I feel its healthy to generate a life outside your work that is entirely separate; You've hit on an important point her
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Perhaps some kind of time lapse would solve that problem. The USB won't execute anything for x minutes while you inspect what it is really doing (if it's your keyboard or mouse, do nothing). If nothing is done, allow the USB to lo
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Yep. It seems to me that homogeneity amongst nodes in a distributed consensus mechanism is of utmost importance; once you implement a hierarchical power structure dishonesty becomes difficult to deal with... especially when "voting&quo
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
In the long run it doesn't make much sense at all. [0] [0] http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/how-many-bitcoins-does-...
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Ah, memories. Hanging out on pbnation, talking shop about the latest markers and modifying the ones you had. Funny scene, I can imagine it has changed since I stopped (early 00's). Paintabll was the first technical interest of mine tha
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
>My speculation is that this is part of a greater strategy to abandon paymenet processing as the core and go towards redhat for bitcoin That's a very insightful comment. Given Jeff Garzik's work modularizing bitcoind and all of
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Ah yes, makes sense.
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
I think the postal service isn't the best analogy. Take the case where ISP's want to put high bandwidth content providers (e.g.) in the slow lane. I see this as the USPS equivalent of charging you by the size and weight of the pac
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
>Would it be possible to determine if your phone was connected to a Stingray instead of a regular cell phone tower? Yep. https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessm...
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by jedunnigan 12y ago
Would minute to minute logging effect the battery performance and thus make this data not entirely objective?

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