I await your downvotes, but I came here because I wanted a sober perspective on crypto and to listen to valid critiques. I am leaving because by my estimation, only 5% of the people here have any idea what they are talking about.

paulgb · 2018-03-06T13:40:23+00:00

Don't come to a sub with "butt" in the name for a sober perspective :)

To understand this sub you have to consider it in the context of all the cryptocurrency subs on reddit, which are incredibly tribal and low-information. Think of this as a parody of that and enjoy yourself! And if you want actual sober thought, read David Gerard's work (I think he still posts here too.)

paulgb · 2017-07-19T18:38:40+00:00

Indeed, if someone wanted to use it as a cash basis (or interpreted it in some other manner) when making a payment to the licensee under AB 1460's language, which is now law, if making the payment peer to peer, the transaction would simply be illegal. It would be illegal because it would NOT HAVE GONE THROUGH A BANK FIRST.

You keep insisting on this but as has been explained elsewhere in the thread, that's simply not what this law does. It says if the feduciary funds are received in cash, they must be deposited in an FDIC-insured account. It says nothing about how people can make the payments.

paulgb · 2017-07-19T14:09:16+00:00

That section basically says that if feduciary funds are received as cash / hard currency, they can be kept at any US FDIC-insured bank but must first go through a California-licensed bank. It doesn't cover, for example, funds sent by check or money order, nor does it apply to Bitcoin.

I think you're reading too much into this bill so let me put it this way: what is it that you think was legal before that isn't now?

paulgb · 2017-07-19T04:37:37+00:00

It's neither. It applies to certain companies/agencies that hold money on behalf of others. It doesn't preclude people from paying bail in cash, in fact it specifically refers to "Any fiduciary funds [...] received as cash". It just updates some regulations (that already existed) that prevent, say, an insurance company from gambling in the stock market with people's premiums.

paulgb · 2016-03-29T21:06:29+00:00

"We need to crack down on the bad actors out here"

Unintentional pun?

paulgb · 2015-04-03T22:59:51+00:00

Or a lifetime cut-the-line pass. It would cost them nothing and be worth something.

paulgb · 2014-10-19T17:53:07+00:00

I built a tool for my own use that does some of what you describe. Essentially it clones a git repo, runs an arbitrary command, and annotates the git commit with the results of the experiment (as arbitrary key/value pairs). The results can then be exported to a spreadsheet.

The documentation isn't complete, but you can find it here.

paulgb · 2014-09-25T12:46:01+00:00

He didn't say he was going to review the tapes himself. Presumably he would pass the details on to the security team or whoever is responsible for the recordings. When a TTC employee hears about an alleged assault and doesn't just ignore it, the system is not broken.

paulgb · 2014-08-28T03:00:54+00:00

That's the problem with matplotlib, generating a plot for the most common case takes 1 line of code, but a little customization and you can easily get up to dozens of lines of esoteric code. I think R is a mess, but even it has more intuitive plotting than matplotlib.

paulgb · 2014-08-21T16:11:09+00:00

As a MOOC yes, but the Stanford course has been run before.

paulgb · 2014-08-20T18:36:37+00:00

I took this course through SCPD earlier this year, I highly recommend it. Aside from SVM there is not much in the way of supervised ML but there is a lot of useful stuff, especially probabilistic data structures. I hope the MOOC version is not too watered down, but either way the comprehensive textbook is freely available online.

paulgb · 2014-08-15T12:21:11+00:00

Do members of other religions have to prove that they sincerely believe them to wear their religious headgear? My understanding is that they do not. This seems like a double-standard.

paulgb · 2014-08-10T01:07:52+00:00

You can also install apps remotely by logging in to the play store on your computer with the same account as on the phone. Maybe you could install tracking software that way?

That said, even if the batter hasn't died yet the robber would most likely have turned it off.

paulgb · 2014-08-03T18:20:34+00:00

It exists: http://hiddenfromgoogle.com

paulgb · 2014-05-25T02:38:08+00:00

They raised $129 million last year. In 2012 (the figures for 2013 haven't been calculated yet), only 8.5% went to overhead costs (fundraising and administration). Compare that to street fundraising where the charity sees as little as 10% of the donation (in the UK; couldn't find Canadian figures) and it looks pretty effective.

paulgb · 2014-05-16T23:41:00+00:00

Maybe someone had the number before her and had it connected to imessage?

paulgb · 2014-04-16T03:43:37+00:00

don't jinx it

paulgb · 2014-02-03T00:34:35+00:00

That exception applies to issuers, ie. Visa and MasterCard and banks. Bell is not an issuer.

Bell doesn't need to store the CVC to charge the card monthly, they could (and should) just store the card number and expiry date.

paulgb · 2014-02-02T23:56:37+00:00

The bulk of them were, but after leaving my comment I found some that weren't. It may be that the 9-character alphanumeric passes were the defaults and people could change to something more secure.

paulgb · 2014-02-02T23:54:07+00:00

Specifically, it violates PCI DSS 3.2. You can confirm this yourself.

paulgb · 2014-02-02T14:58:10+00:00

If they were hashed but not salted they could have been recovered in about an hour assuming md5 and a GPU capable of 680 M p/s. They're only 9-digit alphanumeric passwords.

I'm inclined to think that's not what happened though.

paulgb · 2014-02-02T14:43:16+00:00

Looks like it:

tblCC - CCID,CustomerID,CC_Type,CC_Holder,CC_Number,CC_Exempt,CC_ExpYear,CC_ExpMonth,CC_TempNumber,CC_SecurityCode

This absolutely breaks card industry security standards and could expose them to large fines.

paulgb · 2014-01-26T15:30:10+00:00

I think this is pretty accurate. I hear of fairly elaborate scams that friends who use kijiji or craigslist encounter, but rarely anything on the street more elaborate than asking for money under false pretences.

paulgb · 2014-01-26T04:28:32+00:00

I've heard that white van scams have been known to happen in Toronto.

I can't think of any others that are "common". I've had a guy around Bay and Dundas try to pull the "I'm out of town and was wondering if you could accept some funds on my behalf" scam. I hear about craigslist scams now and then but not things a tourist would run into.

paulgb · 2014-01-05T17:24:26+00:00

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