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"And do you know what it costs to file a patent?"
It's under $1000 last I priced it, if you can manage your own paperwork and patent search and are filing as an individual, not a corporation. Yeah 'paper bag' needs to be re-invented, especially in Cali-fornicate-you. Nice Job!
/me needs to re-invent "wheel" next
My PC CPU temperature suddenly jumped from 36 to 93C and fans are running at 100%
Wonder if we can blame Windows 10 this time?
In other news, I debugged the problem with my BIOS, seems that there is indeed a problem with corruption over time related to power usage/standby but the fix is just replacing the chip.
Despite putting it in a socket a swap with nearly identical machine it did not work, any ideas?
This is on a very old HP netbook but I bought a new battery for it not 3 months ago so would rather like to get it going again if possible.
(yes, see the joke, ha ha hardy ha ha ha)
Sorry, I have to report a vulnerability in your script. Purely as proof-of-concept, I hacked it and took delivery of my first physical bitcoin.
"took delivery of my first physical bitcoin."
Haven't you heard that some of these asteroids out there consist of such rich yields of bitcoin that it will soon be economic to mine them? Particularly if they strike Earth
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/
Some reports have suggested even without an asic!
I think the 2038 flyby may offer rich pickings:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
See for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0
However apparently around 2011 people gave up on the idea since it just cannot compete with dedicated hardware.
There are still lots of proof-of-concept Javascript bitcoin miners on Github, so it would be technically very simple to set this up. It just wouldn't make any money...
And another thing - what's this troll malarky? Give me back my beer (icon)
You'll be pleased to know I can see your beer icon when I hit reply.
As well as the troll icon there was some other 'text scrolling' crossing the icon selector when I made a post earlier today. That seemed entirely meaningless. I guessed it related to April 1st but couldn't figure out what. Perhaps it wasn't rendering properly in my browser.
WebGL doesn't cut it anymore for bitcoin mining, but the upcoming WebASIC standard might be useful for this (currently available under an "experimental-" prefix in Firefox Nightly).
This allows web designers to embed "WebVerilog" into their HTML. WebVerilog is a hardware description language like Verilog but fully sandboxed for security using an actual physical sandbox.
Once your browser (Firefox for now, but Edge support is already announced) downloads the WebVerilog, it is then re-transmitted to the nearest chip foundry where a custom chip is fabbed. This is then delivered and installed into your computer or mobile device using a drone. (For Apple devices this may involve heating the device up to 600 degrees Celsius to dissolve the glue). At that point the Javascript "onload" handler executes and the web page is now ready to use its custom hardware.
Clearly this allows a website to use custom hardware for bitcoin mining, which is currently the only cost-effective way to mine.
Note that you may need to practice some care visiting websites using this upcoming technology, since the cost for the custom mask needed to fab the chip (typically starting from $1,000,000) will be added to your telephone bill.
Apparently Fox News cannot take the risk of publishing April Fool stories, because none of their "readers" can distinguish them from the, um, real news.
The story was headlined "China infiltrating millions of Americans' family homes with cyborg dogs", which alleged that "Chinese agents, disguised as Hispanic immigrants to avoid police attention, have been dognapping family pets and replacing them with undetectable robodogs programmed to spy on every aspect of Americans' lives". It went on to explain that "The stolen pets have been disposed of in Chinatown enclaves all over the USA, accounting for the rise, noted first by food hygiene agencies during 2015, of ultra cheap meat in oriental takeaway and delivery meals. The FBI had dismissed 142 previous reports as 'fake news' until a Republican congressman in Arkansas reportedly choked in a Chinese restaurant, regurgitating Mystery Chow Mein and a collar marked 'Bruno'."
The story was spiked by a senior editor on the advice of Sean Spicer, who said "Trump would go nookular."
Steve Bannon was last seen scuttling away with a pad of blank Executive Orders, muttering "A wall, a wall, a yooge great wall ... we must keep the dogs outside the Beltway. Watch the kennels! ..."
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