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I'm a huge fan of http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/ for finding USGS maps - it's a simple, visual browser to find all available years + scale levels for any location.

I get the general gist of what problem must be solved for bitcoin mining, namely wanting to find a nonce that pairs with your data to result in a hash with x leading zeros where x …

Thanks, I think I phrased the question poorly as I wasn't suggesting a weakness in bitcoin, I was wondering whether there might be any value to the mining output.

Is it possible that bitcoin mining operations are actually generating the analog of a giant rainbow table to aid in the decryption of SHA-256 data? Perhaps some mechanism that woul…

the monumental fuck up was cancelling mysql backup and having all engineers work directly with the production database, what you did was INEVITABLE..

>"He was clearly someone who knew he had really fucked up this time and couldn't use his age as an excuse." That's a bold statement - I don't know his full history or all the facts…

maybe, but there's a lot more to it than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/hacker/

definitely agree, gonna be tough to argue that the corporation itself was "present" in his car