You're not kidding. Did anyone notice that the Whitehouse.gov uses a let's encrypt cert?

Not mad about it. I think people don't understand what it is and how the rug can be yanked out from under them at any time. I've already seen people lose six figures on a pullback. They panicked and sold. Bought high and sold low. It's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure.

Bitcoin was great as a start. Proof of concept. It was set up intentionally to be very computationally intensive. Starting it up was also very risky. If they ever find out who Satoshi is, he could be in for some tough times. That comes with dealing with billions and trillions of dollars especially if you cut the government(s) out.

So, to be widely considered as a solution, it has to support a crazy amount of transactions per minute. Like 20 or 30 million. Right now, it can barely keep up with what we already have. If something bad happens, and something bad always happens when dealing with money, who is holding the bag? There is no government to complain to, no bank, nobody. It could go to 0 tomorrow and who would you talk to about it? Nobody. That's who. It's not backed by gold or anything else. It's also not "anonymous" like they'd have you believe. People are busted all the time. The US Government sold off around 30,000+ bitcoins this year from Silk Road and others. It's also environmentally terrible because of the power required to power the miners. The company Mara recently bought up a big wind farm in Florida, then took it off the grid to power their bitcoin miners. There's talk about using a nuclear reactor to do this. In Russia, they bought a big power plant. Not sure if that's still being used.

The real answer is not Bitcoin for those reasons. It's something like Ripple. If it passes muster. Right now, it's in litigation, though it's looking good. I know people who have 6 and 7 figures into btc and rtx. Recently, rtx went from about 50 cents to about 3 dollars. I think it beat every other crypto this year. It certainly blew BTC away. Which one will be THE crypto - that's the million-dollar question.

Someone I know and yes he's black told me what it's like to be on parole. He said cops can stop you whenever and wherever they want to. They can harass you. They can get right up your crack. Where were you last night? Where were you this morning? The guy I know said it was so bad that he went to his parole officer and said - I want to go back to jail and serve my sentence. Once he served his sentence he's like anyone else when he walks out those gates.

So the fact he was a parolee I'm not surprised the courts did what they did.

24 digits? LOL. Try 314159... I knew a kid in HS who remembered pi to 50 digits.
You must change your password... Ok. 14159...

A larger chump blows it off. The stock went up about 10 dollars a share today. So a 30 cent contract this morning was around 3.00 this afternoon. Don't let Trump derangement syndrome cheat you out of money.

Maybe you like your money from the Gubment. They can tell you to go to college, get degrees in things you can't get a job in with a huge debt. Lots of chumps out there. They're not mega people.

It didn't drop 60%. There was a spike when they combined and that always happens when companies combine like that. Speculators.
So it went back into the normal trading range for the year. It didn't go down at all for the year. Low for the year is about $17.

Today it went up about 10 dollars. 30 cents/contract for 32 strike this morning was close to 3 dollars at the end of today. Not bad for a days work. It'll probably go back to $40/share.

Ever watch a man drown? I have. Silently is not something I'd describe happening. It's a lot of flailing, yelling if they can. They're fighting for their life. Not for long. The first time I saw it happen I was just 6 years old. Local pond. We were having a family picnic for the 4th of July. Well over 50 years ago and I still remember it.

If they're out there I think they're smart enough to stay away. We have nukes after all. Sure, they may have a fancy ray gun or some other weapon. It's like a guy with a knife and you have a gun. There's no question the gun is a better weapon. That guy with a knife can still kill you surprisingly fast as long as he's less than 21 feet away. If they come down to earth, they're effectively within that 21' rule. They can be blown to smithereens. They could also end up triggering war while some countries deal with them, others think it's a ruse for an attack.

Another indicator of danger is the trash in orbit. I'm sure a 1KG piece of spacecraft moving at 17,500 miles per hour is still a danger to them. It's not as if they can call AAA spacecraft repair. If they do this all the time I'm sure they know about all of this stuff. Which civilizations they can interact with and which ones are dangerous. I think we're one of the dangerous ones.

I used to be like a ninja master with regex. Especially with grep and egrep. I had a boss about 30 years ago who thought he had the impossible. It was for cobol. He wanted to know how many of I'll call it splat that was in the code. Splat was always in a certain form, though multiple lines. That was the problem. Multiple lines. I think that project was around 300 million lines of cobol. About 20 minutes later I was back in his office with the answer. The customer said - BS. I want the filenames and line numbers. I had never pulled out line numbers in grep. Sure enough, it would do it. About 15 minutes later I had paper. He spun around his chair, pulled up a file in the middle of the stack of papers, went to the line. Then said - Oh, I see. Thanks.

He had far more than he imagined.

The next big job using reges was for splunk.

All in the past now. I haven't used it in years. Just for easy command line stuff.

I'll have to give ai a try with some splunk regex expressions. I have a local instance for my machines. I hadn't thought of that.

Slashdot doesn't seem to be nearly as smart as it used to be. I'm disappointed by a lot of comments.

You're right. You have to buy the right product. I was in a security seminar recently. He said to buy the $20/month option and check all the beta stuff. Then he asked it for a proposal to move a company into compliance with CISecurity framework. Include details, pictures, and so on. It was quite a query. Sure enough, it spits out a better proposal than I could have come up with and I have 30 years in the industry. You have to review it of course because sometimes it'll put crap in the document. I've written those documents before. It's a lot of work. I think he also supplied it supplemental data. Size of company, and so on. It did it in a few seconds.
The document was ready to be presented to the C suite for implementation. Gant chart, costs, all that stuff.

Chat.openai.com. Subscribe to the plus plan ($20/month) in settings->beta enable all features. In settings->data disable chat history. Make a training opt-out request at privacy.openai.com. Now you're ready to rock.

Funny thing about this - we tried doing away with it before. In 1973 they voted to do away with it and we tried it in 1974. Everyone hated it. I remember that experiment.

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Year after year we continue to hear from people about it. OMG, I have to do something. This is terrible. Then we move it back, same thing again. OMG, I have to do something again.

Sure. However, it's relative to you.

Couldn't resist. Obvious joke.

There is no freight train. You've been fooled. You can always figure it out if you think about it.
1) If you pay certain people a whole bunch of money they'll solve the "crisis." July 4, 1776 was a very hot day. So nothing new.
2) The 1930s was the hottest decade of the 1900s though temperatures in datasets show the 1930s wasn't as hot as it was. This can be confirmed by the fact Dr. Hansen had to admit he was wrong in the 2000s when he claimed the 1990s was the hottest. He claimed it was a Y2K bug that caused the error. Changing data is a sure sign of scientific fraud.
3) What are the supposed "knowledgeable people" doing? They're buying Miami properties. They're buying properties that are waterfront in Hawaii, Martha's vineyard, and so on. If they know so much why would they buy a property that will be underwater soon? They just set a fire in Hawaii to clear a whole bunch of natives out to get their beautiful waterfront property. Same group of people. They know it's BS.
4) Can anyone get funding to do a scientific analysis that isn't man made global warming? Not since Algore was VP. He fired most of the veteran weather researchers at the world weather building just inside the beltway near Suitland. Anyone that didn't go along with his lies.

I could go on for a long time with this. Yes, we are warming up. We're coming out of a mini ice age. Proof of that is we're finding settlements that are coming out of the ice and they're less than 1000 years old. They used to grow grapes in England during Roman times. Indelible facts.

I can also tell you that where I am in Maryland which is about 350' above sea level that my backyard is a bit of soil over sand. We can find old sharks teeth in it. Near Calvert Cliffs you can go along the beech and dig 'em out yourself. It's legal. One of the few places in the world you can do that. The sea was much higher. We are also entering a global ice age and there's nothing we can do about it. Geological time, it's here right now.

Relax. It's weather. Going to electric won't help. It will make things much, much worse. Unless we eliminate around 80% of the people on earth. That's what they were up to in 2020.

40 years ago I could find a manual on any auto lot in the country. New or used. No problem. 20 years ago I could still find them. Not necessary on every lot. 5 years ago you'd have your work cut out for you to find one and I think the number of new cars that had a manual could be counted on one hand. Today it's like a scavenger hunt to find a manual. I think there's just one or two that make them, maybe?

Manuals are all fun and games until you get into a 5 or 10 mile bumper to bumper backup.

Wonder if anyone else will get that.
LOL.