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Re: Visual bookmarks in Opera 25 for computers

msstk — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:50:20 -0000

I noticed today after my update that something terrible happened to my font view. As a web-developer I was shocked. It not the way I can do my sites via Opera. Just say what did you do to fonts. I can't actually read 11px Tahoma or Arial. In FF or Chrome it's okay.

As for new speed dial and bookmarks, I'd be more happier if bookmark button did not send me to a different page. It would be better if it could work like an old one - as a tab, not as a link. Still using the old SD. New is still too bad.

Re: Visual bookmarks in Opera 25 for computers

msstk — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 03:14:58 -0000

Oh thank you soooo much, Mr.

It's called DirectWrite font rendering system. I turned it off. Everything looks good now.

Re: Закладки в Opera – они вернулись! Обзор Opera 25 для компьютера

msstk — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:37:26 -0000

У меня вопрос, будет ли реализация закладок без перехода на страницу управления закладками. В качестве вкладки Speed Dial. Копилка была очень полезна из-за своей быстроты и удобства. Переход от экспресс панели к копилке и обратно не составлял труда. Теперь приходится делать дополнительные действия. А я уже привык к удобству и быстроте.

Re: Закладки в Opera – они вернулись! Обзор Opera 25 для компьютера

msstk — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:40:36 -0000

Не выключается. В том то и дело, что Копилки уже нет. Вместо нее ссылка на страницу закладок, что очень неудобно

Re: Почему не стоило давать Киеву этот мэйджор

msstk — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:16:02 -0000

3000 человек. Грустно. Жаль

Re: Contact

Glyn MacLean — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 06:24:41 -0000

Feel free to leave your comments here.

Re: Some Thoughts On Ethereum and The DAO

Glyn MacLean — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 06:48:44 -0000

I have posted an article on the same here. I have a different perspective. As an early investor in DAO and Ethereum and expert in accounting technology. https://www.linkedin.com/pu...

Re: Some Thoughts On Ethereum and The DAO

Glyn MacLean — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:42:16 -0000

On the bright side

- 100% of the value was caught and quarantined immediately.
- There was never any chance that the value could be withdrawn.
- 100% of the value will be routed back to rightful owners
- Global exchange shut down occurred simultaneously.
- The temporary drop in ethereum rate means that there is no Eth or DAO bubble!
- The low rate is a good time to buy, if you believe that the value will increase.

On the dark side

- There is some work to do on DAO protocols.
- With hacks comes restriction of freedoms.
- This has impacted trust and value.

Re: The DAO is Under a Curator-lead White Hat Attack

Glyn MacLean — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:36:24 -0000

I agree with Mario and add this. This is a bit like ego fueled trolls, who attack people and systems for their entertainment. The apathy of these individuals is a trait, not of helpfulness to a community: but of psychopathy; due to the lack of empathy and self control around the indignity their actions cause to others. Because such 'vile intent' has been known for thousands of years, it has been written into the tenants of common law. Into the underlying human rights concepts, which underpin commercial law. Irrespective of the rules of the DAO or Ethereum, these smaller commercial rules must operate in accordance with greater international law. Any 'exploitation', must also operate within the broader context of how international law interprets the intent of actions and this 'intent' will override the DAO and Ethereum rules. It is naive to think that we can attack small rules without being held accountable to these greater rules. These 'hackers' that think they can never be held accountable for their actions are wrong. A good international legal team could take a localised team to the cleaners and set a precedent in the supreme court. While ego drives these actions, "look at me, I am smarter than you', great pride also comes before a great fall. If you intend to take on a whole community, no matter how big you are, no matter how smart you are, there is always going to be someone more powerful than you. No one can be more powerful than a united global community that agrees an ethical standard. The gift in this is that we get to come together as a community and agree this standard. We came into Ethereum and DAO seeking good faith in democratic conventions, with human rights ideologies of equanimity. Anyone who comes at this with more selfish ambitions and vain conceits is an enemy to all good people and unwelcome. The way to assist the system is not to undermine it, not to disrespect me and the thousands of others who support this with real value, undermining our value. I wouldn't be surprised if in fact the group behind this, intrinsically intended to defraud the system by lowering the value of DAO, only to buy it up low and sit on it while the value appreciates again. It may take a while to prove this, but if this stands to be true, then the law of attraction applies. If you take away the freedoms of a whole community, one way or another, you too will lose your freedom too. These actions held no more sense than the behaviour of a petulant child. Poignant, because the actions created a child and then another child DAO.

Re: The DAO is Under a Curator-lead White Hat Attack

Glyn MacLean — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 02:34:21 -0000

Beautiful response Flow.

Re: ICO Token Sale Bonanza Raises Legal, Moral and Practical Questions

Glyn MacLean — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:36:44 -0000

Great article thanks. Completely agree with your sentiment. I would go so far as to say that these ICOs devalue the overall market, if they don't deliver value; this decimates the digital currency and blockchain industry. I experience this day to day already. Wild eyed amateur investors getting into PONZI schemes like Coinomia and OneCoin. So I began conducting due diligence and background checks on companies as people brought them to me. It is the Wild West. One company had a guy wanted by Interpol. Another one had it's directors home residence in a slum. It's absolutely true that fraud is growing at an exponential rate in blockchain and cryptocurrency. However, as we fight back against this, we can't allow banks and the incumbent industry to control the security narrative. If they have their way, they will regulate against democracy principles for a closed network controlled by a few. And that's the real war going on here. With the DDoD attack on Ethereum, I am seeing a level of funding and organisation going on here against the democratisation of money. Here we are so close to peer to peer banking and eliminating trillions in bank fees. Morality and Ethics matters here. We should look to our virtues and values first.

Re: Bitcoin’s Price Correction Called in Advance by Analyst

Glyn MacLean — Fri, 26 May 2017 19:32:34 -0000

I predicted this one week ago. Look, the bottom line is that we should apply some common sense. Some people try to get all fancy and come up with spectacular charts in the same way that people read tea leaves. You can read anything you want into anything! The laws of universe are not that complicated. Bubbles always burst. However, heat always rises. Scarcity, scalability, usability and interconnectivity tell us a story. Read that story in the facts and the future about peaks and troughs of the diffusion of innovation is self revealing.

Re: Bitcoin’s Price Correction Called in Advance by Analyst

Glyn MacLean — Fri, 26 May 2017 19:52:00 -0000

Dig by doing nothing. Hold your position and sit on it long term. Bitcoin will rise to $10k within three years. Don't forget, FIAT has a looming issue, PENSIONS can not be funded by year 2025 with a ratio of 2 pensioners requiring 1 worker to pay for their retirement. This is a tsunami of ageing population that gets worse, with successive generations of ageing population more than doubling. Bitcoin trials for pension plans have already been conducted in England. Once governments switch to digital currency for money, BOOM.

Re: Bitcoin’s Price Correction Called in Advance by Analyst

Glyn MacLean — Fri, 26 May 2017 20:06:54 -0000

You need to get AHEAD of the CURVE by following the PEOPLE that pioneer great ideas and not the ideas themselves. That's the key. I personally know one of the original investors in WAVES. Follow the people BEHIND the technology. Some of these guys are serial entrepreneurs. So if you miss the first 'WAVES', you catch the next one.

Re: Coinbase Reverses – Plans to Allow Bitcoin Cash Withdrawals in January 2018

Glyn MacLean — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:00:08 -0000

The interesting point here is that there is no precedent for these changes digital currency (except maybe the split of ETH and ETC - more on that at the end of my comment). Until recently, the SEC, ASIC etc had been sitting back, but as new regulations come into play beyond the initial mechanisms governing exchanges such as AML and KYC, there has been a new drive to hold ICOs accountable. A key issue beyond class action for this 'virtual value' of Bitcoin Cash is market manipulation. Coinbase, as with many others, has to be careful not to be found to be trading in such a manner as to manipulate market value. Holding until January 18th, 2018 will have the impact of retaining and attracting wallet holders at Coinbase and is a good commercial move. By this date, the volatility of the market should have settled (somewhat) and the real value of Bitcoin Cash should be revealed. It makes sense to hold that long. It is morally unfair to hold anyones real value, but lets ask ourselves, given there is no precedent for this, how would a class action play out on something virtual? Bitcoin created by miners is earned and therefore real. Bitcoin bought with FIAT cash exchange is real. Whereas Bitcoin Cash is a technical wizardry, not much less different than depreciation or Fringe Benefit Tax. If you change the rule regarding depreciation or FBT, they no longer apply. So the good question here is, what is the rule? I'd really like to know myself! But having talked to authorities as a lecturer on Blockchain, I can tell you... they don't know either! I can tell you this, if the Blockchain community doesn't self regulate, then the authorities will come in with a default ruling. At the moment, I am being told just one thing by the authorities... CAVEAT EMPTOR... Buyer Beware. With great (supposed) rewards comes great risk. The simple explanation for why BTC will rule over BTC Cash is the same reason that ETH ruled over ETC. Conservatism. As a FinTech veteran, I can tell you that the financial community will always choose security over speed, the industry is programmed that way. My articles explain this in more detail. But I do think the speculative community is delusional that speed matters more than security for scalability.

Re: Coinbase Reverses – Plans to Allow Bitcoin Cash Withdrawals in January 2018

Glyn MacLean — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 22:42:04 -0000

Don't forget, that one way to sound out consumer demand for supply of anything is to restrict that supply. The consumer then applies pressure or release dependent on their level of demand. In this way, an organisation can manipulate community demand to the extent that the level of demand is now a known.

Re: Segwit2x a Scam? Community Members Cry Foul

Glyn MacLean — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:00:09 -0000

Two things alarm me. 1) Where are they getting the shares of the original Satoshi's stash from? (think about what that means) 2) Why launch during the one time of year that everyone is on annual leave? Aside from that, the claims are super bold, and Vitaly himself earlier tweeted about the difference between testing times and actual network times being something like only 10% to 20% of the test environment performance.

Re: Segwit2x a Scam? Community Members Cry Foul

Glyn MacLean — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:32:46 -0000

While I agree your logic, that last statement omits the exchanges that have excitedly promoted B2X. Wirex did a cheerleading mail out yesterday. Segwit2x has more support at launch (at least in rhetoric) than Bitcoin Cash. Yet I agree the spurious circumstances, you're right.

Re: Segwit2x a Scam? Community Members Cry Foul

Glyn MacLean — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:45:56 -0000

You are calling it, how it is.

Re: Quantum Computing ‘Poses No Realistic Threat’ To Bitcoin: Research

Glyn MacLean — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 10:45:24 -0000

You're welcome. I get a bit fed up with people going off online with narratives that don't interface with the real world. Lots of people are losing their bitcoin. In the most simple ways. Messages that blockchain is entirely secure, causes people to not pay adequate attention to their value or be practical about moving it around either. Unless you can actually read code, you wouldn't know if it was secure. With on chain and off chain solutions and interoperability, with data interchange going on. There are heaps of weak links in the chain. I should have added that the second weak link is the ethical standards by which governance occurs. We have banks on regulatory advisory boards that were fined during the GFC. Did you know that Roger Ver was criminally convicted fraudster, who did jail time? Who bragged to the SEC in public on twitter, that insider trading is probably good? No defamation there, Said it in public. There is a video of Roger Ver auditing Mt Gox and giving it the all clear, before everyone finally lost all their value. And this is the guy fronting so many Blockchain events. No wonder the SEC and ASIC are auditing over 70 ICOs. Good job. I hope some of them go to jail. We need to get fed up with the hype and hold people accountable. Time we started actually caring about how hard it is to create legally tender and ethical value and put the crooks and shysters where they belong. Rant over. :)

Re: Eccentric ICO Promoter John McAfee Says He’s Releasing a Physical Cryptocurrency

Glyn MacLean — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 10:57:35 -0000

Just to be clear, JM is a gun for hire. He has confessed to having been paid large sums of money (pay to play) to promote cryptocurrencies and ICOs. A KOL (Key Opinion Leader) or Influencer, has an ethical responsibility to be transparent about whether they are recommending something because it is actually valuable, due to underlying problems it solves and the scalability use case over partner channels, or it is just because they paid you! Once it is known that you are being paid to promote something, you have to look at the person behind the promotion. Not everyone who says they are Robin Hood, is a hero, Some are just robbing the hood. I'm not saying he is either the hero or the villain, I would say, caveat emptor. Buyer Beware, because the SEC and ASIC aren't doing much to protect us from the crazy crypto promotions going on. I've seen major Blockchain events roll out criminals as folk heroes. Audiences are lapping it up, but it's grossly unethical to bring out criminals and hawks and then showboat them as anti-heroes.

Re: Eccentric ICO Promoter John McAfee Says He’s Releasing a Physical Cryptocurrency

Glyn MacLean — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 11:10:01 -0000

You sir, are the kind of chap I would share a Heineken, Tuatara craft beer or two with, while swapping idioms with the former global vice president of marketing saachi and saachi. He's in Indonesia right now skiing barefoot across sea food tables. Creative, but not crazy. You have to draw the line somewhere. I guess he did that there. ;)

Re: Quantum Computing ‘Poses No Realistic Threat’ To Bitcoin: Research

Glyn MacLean — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 11:14:36 -0000

Yeah, I'm on Steemit and Medium and wherever, but you know what? I hate the term followers. What are we? a Cult? Hate that word. I don't want anyone to follow me. I keep telling people not to. Nothing to see here. Follow Vitalik Buterin. Hey people, follow hong yie Huang. He's a cool guy. :) I'm boring.

Re: Quantum Computing ‘Poses No Realistic Threat’ To Bitcoin: Research

Glyn MacLean — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 11:24:12 -0000

Your achievements aren't what make you worthy, your humanity does. Just being here, being humane in the conversation, and sharing the values of your humanity in a community, your participation, actually makes you a leader. Because a leader is by definition, anyone who contributes a significant change to an organisation or a group. You just lead me (and the group - everyone who reads this) to the concept that real influence is about engaging people. Your voice counts. So you stand up with pride and share your voice online. Namaste.

Re: Quantum Computing ‘Poses No Realistic Threat’ To Bitcoin: Research

Glyn MacLean — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:45:26 -0000

If we are going to transform an industry, we often have to work with legacy products, catering to the lowest common denominator of channel, partner and client technologies.

This means that while we may use core architecture that is light years ahead in the development stack, if it doesn’t connect to the ecosystem, it is worthless.

Because the way that you scale is through interconnectivity of data interchange, mapping and then automating data actions between parties.

Good example is MYOB accounting software architecture features both ODBC (legacy) and API (more recent) interconnectivity.

If you want the smart contract to do something, it has to connect to both of those interfaces.

You can’t migrate a million customers off their software, so you have to map connectivity to what they have.

If you can’t do that, then game over on trying to connect to massive channels to market.

We must remember, that technology is and of itself, a channel to scalability to market. Most tech companies have scaled quickly via API.

Another example was an attendee at one of my blockchain lectures. Reinsurance corporation of America.

They had an issue with every insurer having slight variations to data tables in their decisioning software.

Industry standardisation was needed to get the insurers to conform to a standard.

Programming isn’t the only driver.

You have to incentivise the shift with carrot and stick. Penalise bad behaviours with charges and then reward good behaviours with discounts and rebates on compliance.

Most programmers in blockchain Understood the technology, but didn’t get the value across the partner relationships and how to map the customer and multi stakeholder journey.

It’s not just about the drivers, there is a qualitative aspect to rationalising value.

Disciplines range from UX (user experience) to CX (customer experience) to two new disciplines that I innovated to complete the ecosystem value cycle PX (partner experience) to VX (value experience)

and integrations meant using a full stack approach to development that bridged old world databases to with new world smart contracts.

So we can’t be dissing ODBC.

Because half the world is still on it.

Convert that old world to the new world and you will make trillions of dollars.

Namaste.