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rjpb (28)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
The Blog Cartoons (Episode 1)
A few readers mentioned to me that although they don't always read the whole blog post, they always read the blog cartoon that accompanies it. So here is a collection of…
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rjpb (28)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
Who Really Owns A Cryptocurrency?
At The Giraffe Crypto Conference History is the study of dictatorship, organized violence, murder, and theft. It is threaded with accounts of vainglorious leaders whose…
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rjpb (28)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
The Crazed Battle For Your Attention
Pugilistic promotion Let's take a detailed look at the boundless and diverse world of advertising. The Advertising Explosion In 2006, Jay Walker-Smith, President of the…
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rjpb (28)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
What Is The Value of Your $$$Data?
Personal data has value. Facebook and Google harvest billions from it through advertising. Talented hackers make a handsome living from stealing and selling it. The profits of…
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rjpb (28)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
What Is A (Crypto) Currency Anyway?
By the end of the WWII, the German economy was wrecked, Germany was split into four zones under the military rule of the Americans, British, French, and Russians. Hitler’s…
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rjpb (28)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Paul Krugman, Nobel Luddite
I’m reasonably sure Paul Krugman deserved his Nobel Prize in economics. It celebrated his research into, and theories about, economic geography and international trade. I have…
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rjpb (28)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Your Data, Red Shoes and Black Leather Furniture
Data Mining burst onto the scene as an exciting database technology in the 1990s. Businesses with big databases, (big retail, big banks, big insurance, etc.) snapped up the data…
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rjpb (28)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
If Data is The New Oil, Then You’re The Oil
Once upon a time, no-one cared much about personal data — at least not in the US. Yes, those crazy Europeans with their strange architecture and curious forms of government…
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rjpb (28)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
Soon We Will All Be Cryptocurrency Users
Cryptocurrency is the beating heart of investment mania right now — despite the recent downturn. Despite that, a surprising number of cryptocurrencies have seen over 1000%…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part M,N
Magic Quadrant: An impartial and highly accurate graphical representation of the relative rankings of vendor technology at a given point in time, which is utterly unrelated to…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part P, R
(reborn) Password: A very forgettable word that can prevent you from accessing your computer system. It becomes even more forgettable if you keep on changing it, so best not to.…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part J,K
Jaquard: The inventor of the punched card, which was used for weaving. If he'd taken out a patent the French would no doubt own the IT industry and we'd all have to refer to…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - I
(reborn) Icon: Icons are small meaningless pictures that are displayed on a computer screen. Originally, PC users selected commands using descriptive words such as ‘new’…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked Dictionary - Part H
(Reborn) Handshake: When two businessmen meet, they shake hands. When two computers meet they kiss and hug each other in an embarrassingly ostentatious show of affection that…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part G
(Reborn) Gaming: Refers to a kind of application promoted by hardware vendors in the hope of selling extreme high-end PCs. It worked like a charm. Gaming software distinguishes…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part C
Carrier: A word that describes an individual that spreads diseases and starts epidemics. Also “carrier signal”: a message from such an individual; and “carrier grade”: a term…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part S, T
(Reborn from an old blog post) Server Farm: A server farm is a green and pleasant place where innocent young servers gambol across the hillsides under blue skies in springtime.…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part O
(Reborn from a post long ago) OCR: Stands for Optical Character Recognition, an extraordinarily powerful technology that can precisely identify type-written words that it cannot…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part F
(Reborn from a long ago blog post) Failover: An operation that, when a system fails, automatically switches the software it was running over to a standby system, where it will…
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rjpb (28)in #writing • 8 years ago
The Forked IT Dictionary - Part E
(Reborn from a long ago blog post) Encapsulation: The making of pills. A similar process can be applied to software by wrapping it up in a container to stop it spilling out all…
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