That won't work, it could be prevented by a man-in-the-middle attack on the victim's own computer. Just spoof the blockchain signatures required as if the payment was sent on an ad-hoc network and the program would unlock itself.
It's possible that, as enlightened as you may justifiably feel you are, your grandchildren will find you embarrassingly ignorant and closed-minded about something, too.
Improvement implies progress toward an objective moral standard. I believe in one, so that's a fine statement by me, but then I also believe that each generation has moral strong spots and moral blind spots.
>> Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare.
Judging older generations by today's standards isn't really any different then them judging you by their standards.
I'd say Thomas Jefferson was wrong for having slaves. Granted, that was bad. But if he had a time machine, he'd probably point out all kinds of moral blind spots in my generation.
You are forgetting that morality is not absolute. It fluctuates over time.
It's possible that in the future, homophobia may become the norm again in developed countries. People in that era will look down on us as permissive degenerates, just like we look at 19th century people as intolerant bigots.
...I realize I kind of sound like a dick there. Good on you for the internship and all, but if you think of it as work you're gonna burn yourself out.
Ah who am I kidding you're not gonna listen to any of this, lol. You'll figure it out on your own, I guess, and then take a 4 year break from programming, partying and doing a lot of drugs. And then come back to it after realizing that you liked programming the whole time.
..or you'll just burn out. Or you might get hit by a truck or something.
Not really. My story is kind of unrelated to that little anecdote.
I started coding at like, 12. It was mostly fun little "side" projects like game addons and personal websites. I was praised amongst my friends as the "programmer genius" and I built a reputation online.
Eventually I ended up landing myself a web programming job when I turned 16, ended up hating it. Got another internship offer at 17 at a legit web search company. I hated that too.
I eventually decided I hated programming and stopped going to the search company (eventually got laid off for truancy). I spent my senior year of HS and freshman year of college partying a lot getting bad grades with no real direction.
I'm all for games on Linux, but the reason why he's saying "Linux is the future" is because the MS Store is threatening Steam's business model if it stays on Windows.
Yeah, I installed Ubuntu on my computer illiterate dad's computer and he prefers it to Windows 7. He says its faster and easier. He doesn't even know how to copy and paste.
The number of electronic computers in the world probably exceeded human population around 1992--3, and currently has a 'birthrate' of 10^10 per year, counting μcontrollers.
"Goddamn hacker bullshit. Looks like someone used a buffer overflow on the mainframe to encode a virus, and the thing dropped a bunch of malformed proteins while replicating in place of the data organelles. It's growing tumors and vomiting everywhere, probably cancer. We're going to have to terminate it and promote the secondary out of hibernation."
