I am/was recently on a trip for work to Boca Raton Florida. I just spent the bulk of my day beside a pool that overlooked the ocean. I swam in the pool and in the ocean and I enjoyed the Mojito's as I relaxed and let the ocean breeze sway me to slumber.

It was nice.

The overarching theme musically seemed to be Bob Marley. -This was not my choice, but rather the resorts. Still, there are times when nothing other than Marley seems appropriate.

As a kid, from the age of 16 on, we listened to Bob all summer long. In the off chance that there is someone on Hubski unfamiliar with Bob Marley, here is a link to his Greatest Hits.. LEGEND Enjoy.

CRYPTOGRAPHY is an arms race between Alice and Bob, and Eve. These are the names cryptographers give to two people who are trying to communicate privily, and to a third who is trying to intercept and decrypt their conversation. Currently, Alice and Bob are ahead—just. But Eve is catching up. Alice and Bob are therefore looking for a whole new way of keeping things secret. And they may soon have one, courtesy of quantum mechanics.

I looked online once for a Bob Ross original that I might be able to afford. They're out of my current price range.

I would love to own a Bob Ross to remind me of all the time I spent watching him paint. So soothing.

As a kid we had a tv that only got the PBS channel and therefore, I saw a lot of Bob.

blockchain is just a database

The devil is in the implementation details, but a potentially significant difference is the reduced need for trust. When the records office maintains their own database, outsiders have to trust the office to maintain and report records accurately.

Scenario 1:

You buy a house from Alice. The records office inserts a record of the transaction in their SQL Server database. You and others can confirm the transaction using a public web API the office provides.

Alice's ex-husband, Bob, has a friend in the records office. He makes a quiet payment and gets the friend to update the record, changing the seller's name from Alice to Bob. Bob then takes you to court, saying he was always the rightful owner and the sale by Alice was fraudulent. Your mortgage lender made you buy title insurance for scenarios like this, and you have a long legal battle involving paper records and hopefully reliable database backups.

Scenario 2:

The records office records the transaction in a contract on a public blockchain. Within a minute, the transaction is visible to anyone in the world, using the same tools that work for all other transactions on the blockchain. They can also review the code that makes the contract work. A bad actor could still enter a false record, but it can be immediately detected by outsiders, and valid records will be essentially immutable forever within an hour.

Any hack that takes advantage of a defect in the contract logic will put all the records at risk, and the defect will be visible to outsiders. An exploit that can rewrite the blockchain history would destroy the multibillion dollar blockchain itself.

It's a flawed film. The problem with it is narratively, all the stories gain impact and the narrative gains strength from eliminating George Clooney's character. Unfortunately, the basis for Syriana were the Robert Baer books "See No Evil" and "Sleeping With The Devil" in which CIA Agent Bob Baer describes his career as a case officer in the South Asia station of the CIA as well as his dealings with Saudi Arabia. In Syriana, Bob Baer is played by George Clooney.

Stephen Gaghan was much more interested in portraying the lives around the CIA's involvement in Saudi oil while Bob Baer was more interested in telling you why the CIA fucked up the Middle East. No easy compromise there.

Still, the script was nominated for an oscar and George Clooney won for the role I have just described as supernumerary to the plot, so there you go.

Here's the basic structure of the argument thus far:

ARTICLE: It is not the facts on the ground that caused the poor to side with the Republican party, it's elite liberal smugness.

KB: Here, chapter and verse, are the facts on the ground that aren't even touched on by the article.

TLE: I feel that the article is right and you are wrong.

KB: What you feel does not contradict known, well-established facts.

TLE: I feel that facts have a liberal bias.

KB: That does not change their factuality.

TLE: I still feel justified in disputing your facts with my feelings.

Look - you don't have an argument. You have an emotional reaction. The argument of the article is that liberals don't have an argument, they have an emotional reaction and it's utterly and completely wrong.

However, I recognize that this has not yet compelled you to examine your own viewpoint, nor is it likely to. Fundamentally, you are putting forth your feelings, free and unfettered by justification or fact, and demanding that I somehow acknowledge them as equivalent to historical events. You are also choosing to change the subject at will and hold me accountable for not answering assertions that you have not yet made.

So look. It's like this. You register to vote. You get to choose "Republican" "Democrat" or "Independent" (or some random splinter party that nobody cares about). To vote in a primary you only get to choose "your side." How do you pick "sides?" Well, what "values" does "your team" believe in? What is its mascot? What are its colors? Who are some of its famous players? How are you doing on the away games? How are you doing at home? What's going on at the convention? Who's going to speak for "your team?"

Politics are every bit as tribal as sports and it has even more money thrown at it. "Our side" is in favor of the new library expansion, a bill guaranteeing the right of gays to marry and is putting forth Jane Smith as mayor. "Their side" is against the library expansion, has put forth a bill to gut school funding and wants to put "under God" on the license plate. Oh, by the way, they're putting forth Bob Jones as mayor.

You may not give the first fuck about Jane Smith vs. Bob Jones. You might not care whatsoever what goes on a license plate. But goddamn, you don't have kids, your sister sends Timmy to bible school and fuckin' A your taxes are way too high. So you're gonna come out to vote for that tax reform bill.

Are you... not going to vote for Bob Jones or Jane Smith? Are you going to leave the license plate question blank?

Or are you going to vote for your team?

Again: I didn't come up with this. This is APUSH shit. This is Poly Sci 101. It's as settled as the Bay of Pigs. Regardless of how you feel, this is. So while I appreciate the politeness, this is not "our" misunderstanding.

If he was forced to do it by someone else (like Stan Lee was), then they are cutting their own throat.

Bob Dylan's catalog is a fucking GOLD MINE of opportunity for someone to make a trillion dollars of selling 60 years of iconic lines, riffs, and songs for advertising, promotions, movies, etc. His "business manager" could easily get Bob to hand over assignment rights and make a billion dollars on that in the next year alone.

This is DEFINITELY a Bob move: sell everything for a big lump sum, leave the cash to the family, and also - poetically - do the big "sellout" on his own terms. It would happen eventually after his death anyway... this way he gets to control it, and do it on unequivocally on HIS terms.

That's some sweet poetry for someone who has juked the system his entire life.

Here is the HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906538

I believe that the author Bob Yirka is a paid blogger: http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/789376 However, I did not see that article in his Bio yet.

I don't know who owns phys.org, but it might be among the ranks of Intel's Inside Scoop (http://scoop.intel.com/) or AOL's autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com/), wherein professional bloggers are paid to provide content. If this is the same Bob Yirka, he writes for Suite101, which pays for articles, then sells them to blogs like scoop and autoblog. But it looks like he is a staff writer for physorg.

The best of the best :/ http://www.sitepoint.com/15-companies-that-really-get-corpor...

I've been championing Paul Carr, Mark Ames and John Dolan since The eXile. They get themselves in trouble by being snarky assholes... but sometimes, snarky assholes speak more truth than polite assholes.

I champion them because they're doing the same sort of stuff as Consortium News, who I used to support but sort of stopped because Bob Parry stopped writing about things I consider important. I championed Bob Parry because Bartcop told me to.

I read Pando because when NSFWCorp went tits up, it got absorbed into Pando... which meant 10% NSFWCorp, 90% Silicon Valley bullshit. However, since they've decided that the (failed) NSFWCorp model was the way to go with Pando, they're about 50% NSFWCorp, 50% Silicon Valley bullshit. They shuffled off a few great people in that Pando thing, in particular, Olivia Nuzzi. She's now writing for The Daily Beast but her stuff isn't nearly so interesting. It's a shame.

Anyway. I back Brecher/Dolan because of this article. He was the one guy who actually said "holy shit - Warsaw pact heavy armor vs. NATO heavy armor and nukes aren't even flying. It's a brave new world."

See, this is the war that I used to see in the paintings commissioned by Defense contractors in Aviation Week and AFJ: a war between two conventional armies, both using air forces and armored columns, in pine-forested terrain. That was what those pictures showed every time, with a highlighted closeup of the weapon they were selling homing in on a Warsaw Pact convoy coming through a German pine forest. Of course, a real NATO/Warsaw Pact war would never, ever have happened that way. It would have gone nuclear in an hour or less, which both sides knew, which is why it never happened. So all that beautiful weaponry was kind of a farce, if it was only going to be used in the Fulda Gap. But damn, God is good, because here it all is, in the same kind of terrain, all your favorite old images: Russian-made tanks burning, a Soviet-model fighter-bomber falling from the sky in pieces, troops in Russian camo fighting other troops, also in Russian camo, in a skirmish by some dilapidated country shack.

The graphic novels are mostly unique stories that get referenced either directly or obliquely in the novels, i enjoy them a lot. I think a few of them are re-tellings of parts of the books, and Storm Front might be a full length graphic novel somewhere. There's also short stories that have been published in some major anthologies that are plot relevant AND a companion mini-trilogy of short stories called "Working for Bigfoot" that are great world building and color on top of being hilarious.

Toot Toot and Bob are great fun and are some of my favorites and the Fandom favorites in general. In an interview when Jim was asked about the inspiration for Bob he says that he was directly a insult to a former writing teacher who said you can't have a character just be a talking head who delivers exposition. So Jim made a talking head that mostly delivers exposition and ribald remarks.