Comment Why the Smartphone hate? (Score 1) 86
For the 5-15 minutes per week I spend playing games, the options available on a smartphone are adequate.
Comment Expensive hardware that wasn't mine (Score 1) 301
Mid 90s, someone at work had helpfully returned a Dialogic DTI/211 full length ISA card to me by putting it in my top desk drawer, which was mostly full with cables and small parts. Except that they had never borrowed it from me in the first place, so I never expected it to be there. It was in an anti-static bag, so not recognizable.
Some time later I'm working on something at a different table. Reach to the side and put a ribbon cable in that drawer without looking. I push it closed, and it pops back open. I push much harder, and something cracks.
Telephony board that I was told ran somewhere between $5k and $15k at the time is now in two pieces.
Comment Re:Oh this is easy .... (Score 1) 394
I do just fine without social media accounts, and I don't have a 5 digit UID.
Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns 143
This analysis of trading logs from the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange analyzes a subset of the transactions that took place there prior to the exchange's collapse, and makes the case that two bots (the writer calls them "Willy," and "Markus") were making suspicious transactions which may have been used to intentionally manipulate the trading price, and which can explain the loss of Bitcoin inventory on which the exchange's failure was blamed.
The author of the analysis says "[T]here is more than plenty of evidence to suspect that what happened at Mt. Gox may have been an inside job. What I hope to achieve by releasing this analysis into the wild is for the public to learn the truth behind what happened at Mt. Gox, how it affected the Bitcoin price, and hopefully for the individuals responsible for the massive fraud that occurred at Mt. Gox to be put to justice. Although the evidence shown in this report is far from conclusive, it can hopefully spur a more rigorous investigation into Mt. Gox’s accounting data, both by the public (using the leaked data) and the authorities (forensic investigation on the actual data)."
Comment I am... (Score 1) 1596
a meat popsicle.
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