Posts by emmanuel goldstein

And you seemed so nice on the Yellow Pages ad.

Ah - the famous German sense of humour!

Re: When Will People Learn? Halifax Banking...52% APR / 68.4% APY

And then run a series of ads using kids' TV characters to promote the "Halifax Savers Prize Draw Superdraw". Remember when personal finance was something to be taken seriously?

Then again, given the casino mentality of bankers these days (not to mention tax-payer funded bailouts when their bets fail) - it seems somehow appropriate that they should market themselves not with a sober review of their strengths but with a game of chance.

Re: This is why Tribes need to set up server farms on reservations.

Tribal Sovereignty - the unique legal rights of native Americans - is restricted to specific areas of law such as hunting & fishing, water and gaming. It doesn't mean they can ignore all Federal laws and do what the fuck they feel like.

that discrepancy could easily be down to volatile intra-day exchange rates, which BTC certainly has.

Re: Nice results, but...

The article already made it clear that Libratus is only effective at heads-up poker.

Re: Follow the money. @emmanuel goldstein

@Cynic_999 Nice post. If only more people would "get" the bullshit nature of fiat money.

Re: Kingpin

If we're using motoring terms, "dipstick" seems to fit the bill nicely.

Re: V

I propose a crowdfunded Scramble Suit.

Seriously.

Re: Repeating history

I think he meant that from the point of view of an immigrant from central Europe in the 30s and 40s, Britain was indeed a relatively civilised place. The horrors you mention were dreadful and wicked but were either too distant in time or space so as to render them not really germane to a discussion about European union today.

Only if it's AC/DC

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

Things will get tricky for indoor cannabis gardeners. It will be trivial for smart meters to detect the 12 hour on, 12 hour off light cycle required for flowering. For the grows not stealing their power, that is.

Re: Surely...

Freeman or James?

Re: Very Sloppy Headline Writing

@Richard Jones 1

You're not thinking deeply enough about this issue. What happens when a less benign government rises to power? Imagine how the Nazis would have rubbed their hands with glee given access to this kind of information. It would have made rounding-up "undesirables" so much more efficient. It's not good enough to blithely sit-back and pretend it doesn't matter. It does.

Re: Congratulations etc.

Even if someone of his calibre did, for some unfathomable reason, choose to live here in Blighty, they'd be so shackled by poor infrastructure, red tape (health and safety alone would be enough), bloated and second-rate local governance and a general lack of imagination that I'd be extremely surprised if they were able to produce a usable rocket, let alone a reusable one!

Re: The idiom demands...

I like it. A sort of binary DOG/CAT weapon. Keep the two components separate and it's relatively safe to transport and store. Once combined though.....

That big orange tank has a height of 64.6 metres and a radius of 4.2 metres, for a volume of 1.4304 Olympic-sized swimming pools. More than enough, even allowing for it being subdivided into two tanks - one for the liquid oxygen and one for the liquid hydrogen.

Re: One way to scupper ransomware

is to make the effort to maintain a basic knowledge of OS security.

"Putting the cart ahead of the horse", as you put it, is no bad thing when it comes to possible existential threats. It is surely worth at least coming up with a feasible plan, especially in this case, where AI power could very well explode suddenly, unexpectedly and exponentially.

Re: In the place of guns and masks, this cybercrime organisation used laptops and the internet.

I totally agree with the tone of the OP's comment. And, let's not forget, there is activity going on *inside* the banking sector, and financial markets in general, that is just as deserving of some lengthy prison time.

Re: Robustness required

With all due respect, RTFA.

A 100Kg probe is not likely to be carrying anything alive, so chat about "Highest survived g force" is not relevant.

So fucking what?

Shock horror - man watches porn in hotel room.

Re: SOUNDS LAME

Hidden services are accessed through a .onion address.

AlphaBay's address is pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion

The phishing site is accessed over the public internet using the URL pwoah7foa6au2pul.me.pn

See the difference. Duh!

I can't be bothered to explain how the secret greeting phrase protocol combats phishing. Trust me, it works.