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Comment · 8 years ago
That would be useless, as the key could just be passed through.
Comment · 8 years ago
Critically, it also doesn't leave a trail by running a server anywhere.
Comment · 8 years ago
That's why they're using two different stats engines.
Comment · 8 years ago
They are linked as HTTP referrer, so they can get the tokens out of the stats page later on.

It's using a popular and well known domain to evade detection.

Comment · 9 years ago
"Hey Siri" is.
Comment · 9 years ago
Siri recognises the "hey siri" bit unique to the owner, further commands aren't validated.
Comment · 9 years ago
> There are also military specific parts of GPS that civilian receivers can't access. I don't know if military receivers are ignoring civilian signals, though.

For all intents it's a different system, the packets are encrypted, the right receiver hardware gives you vastly superior accuracy. There's civilian hardware which can use the packets without decrypting them for better accuracy, there's some patents on doing this amusingly.

Comment · 9 years ago
The US military uses encrypted GPS, not the civilian one.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not really in this world, but you'd save more power by recycling aluminium cans (%5+ of US power consumption) than by killing off cryptocurrency mining.
Comment · 9 years ago
The answer is a little unfortunate, even though things are said to be worth $xxxxM market cap, but the depth of the market is so shallow that the true value is near zero.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's worthwhile to note that not a single once of the thousands of "ICO" things that have been launched in the last year have actually done anything of value. They all generate hype, raise money, and then give up and go to work on other things. It happens over and over again with no memory of the past failures, apparently.

That said I wouldn't fault you for believing that a lot of the $xM raised in x ICO just turned out to be largely the creator seeding the pot and a minority of other people buying into something "big". You could even take out a loan, there's nearly zero risk other than the operator of the ICO running with the scratch.

Comment · 9 years ago
TCP or UDP transports.
Comment · 9 years ago
Should be easy to describe then.
Comment · 9 years ago
All obfuscation around a central controlling group that have the ability to reverse any transactions they don't like or negatively financially impact them, in other words.
Comment · 9 years ago
The principle of Ethereum is that code is law, the "hacker" followed the law to the letter and acted in a prescribed manner. What's the crime here exactly?

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