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What one man can create, another can destroy.
Gold cant be created by man.
Crypto currency though...
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I agree, but I'd change "Gold can't be created by man" to "Gold can't yet be created by man."
One day it will happen and it will be a rather interesting day when it does.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yeah, we have a few billion years of science and engineering to come before our sun eats our planet. Who knows what we will achieve.
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Technology accelerates.
I doubt that anyone who witnessed the Wright Brothers' flight in 1906, seriously expected that we'd land on the moon before the 1960's were out.
Around that time, Einstein indicated the possibility of converting energy to matter. There are, obviously, some huge hurdles to be crossed (especially in terms of power) but we already have multi-peta-watt lasers under development at ELI ...
It might not happen next week but it could be a lot closer than we think.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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However, the cost require to create 1 gram of gold probably more than the price of gold itself, making it uneconomical.
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In very-sub-microscopic amounts, it has been. Transmutation of elements has been going on for a long time.
Caveat: No matter how you slice it, converting one atomic nucleus to another will cost you energy. Even if you start with heavy elements (heavy meaning a greater number of nucleons than Gold), so that there's a net release of energy, it's not likely going to compensate for the activation energy involved in causing the very selection fission.
Coming from the lighter element side, energy is released until you reach Fe56, then it starts to cost you again.
Energy cost money.
Probably cheaper to extract gold from sea water - at least if gold gets expensive enough.
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"Phishing was the most widely used hacking technique"
Yes, blame it on the cryptos 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes, but apparently phishing was not the only technique. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You are not seriously suggesting that cryptos are as safe as money in the bank, are you? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I wouldn't dare to; everyone knows that banks aren't safe 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Have an upvote for making me snigger! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've just gone through about 20 articles making this claim but none provide a reference to the Ernst & Young report. I'll keep looking. Can anyone here provide reference to this report so I can read it?
[EDIT] This article provides a link to the report.
[EDIT] The document I referenced is not actually a report but rather a series of charts, figures and annotations. This suggests they are an accompaniment to an actual report which presumably discusses in detail information depicted in these figures. Assuming there is an accompanying report, I was not able to find the report. The fact this 'actual report' is not readily available leads me to believe this yet another case of the blind leading the blind.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
modified 23-Jan-18 18:33pm.
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Venuzuela has just adopted a crypto currency.
Like to buy some? ... after all, it's backed by their oil reserves ... which they cannot sell for any number of reasons, including social.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Yesterday, whilst moving one of our customer's sites to a new server, I started receiving 404 errors for a completely unrelated domain.
A quick nslookup revealed that one "A" record for someone else's domain was pointing to our new server. It wasn't just a Google DNS funny; I got the same result from both of their primary DNS servers.
There were no contact details on the whois record, so I found the most suitable email address from their main site - a "support@" address.
Me: DNS Error: [their site] is pointing to [our IP address], which is assigned to one of our servers. I suspect it should be pointing to [their IP address]. Please pass this message on to whoever deals with your DNS so they can fix it.
Support drone: What (entity) are you trying to access?
Me: Please read my message.
SD: We can't give you access to our site without consent from the (entity) owner.
Me: Read my message! I'm not trying to access your site. If you don't understand, please pass the message on as previously requested.
SD: No reply...
OK, that didn't work. So next I tried their Twitter account:
Me: Trying to report a problem with your DNS. Your support staff don't seem to understand. [their site] is pointing to the wrong IP address.
Twitter: No reply...
Having wasted enough time trying to help them, I gave up trying to get through to them. Our site has a URL-rewrite rule to redirect to the primary domain, so it's not like we're impersonating them or anything. We'll just end up getting extra traffic intended for their site.
This morning, their IT manager - whose details weren't listed anywhere on the site - contacted my boss, both by phone and email, to complain about me. 
Apparently, I should have magically known what his contact details were, and contacted him directly rather than using the support email address. My attempts to help his company resolve a simple configuration error are "unacceptable behaviour".
So remind me to never try to help anyone ever again!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In such a situation, this guy would have gotten a golden middlefinger from my boss.
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That's essentially what happened, but put slightly more tactfully.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: That's essentially what happened, but put slightly more tactfully
Sounds like at least your boss stood up for you. That's a positive.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Richard Deeming wrote: This morning, their IT manager - whose details weren't listed anywhere on the site - contacted my boss, both by phone and email, to complain about me.
Can I please get his contact details? I would especially like his name and phone number, I will call him from Australia and rip him a new a***hole for disrupting my kangaroo dating site with his DNS faarrrkkkk up.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: disrupting my kangaroo dating site
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote:
Seriously. I will call him and give feedback from the conversation here.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: kangaroo dating site
Where do I sign-up?
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Pom Pey wrote: Where do I sign-up?
www.thatcuntsgotmyipaddress.com.au.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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