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[edit]Lost Icon for Google Chrome
[edit]On my Samsung Galaxy A15, the icon for Google Chrome has disappeared from my screen. I may have accidentally deleted the icon. It is still installed. If I have launched it, I can switch to it, and on starting up my phone, I can open it by going through the Apps listing in the Settings, but I would like to have an icon for it. How do I put an icon back on the desktop of an Android phone when the app is installed but doesn't have an icon? Robert McClenon (talk) 02:59, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- There are multiple choices for the home screen on Samsung Galaxy phones. Every home screen setup is different. In some, you long-hold the icon in the apps list until the home screen appears and then drag/drop it where you want it. In others, you long-hold the background of the home screen, then select a location, and select an app to drop on that location. There are other methods for other home screens. If you can state what you are using, it is easier to give specific instructions. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 13:23, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Bitcoin friendlies needed
[edit]Disclaimer: I have $41,000 CAD in 20:1 leverage forex trading accounts and 0.3 bitcoin in a wallets.
This issue was brought up in an online bitcoin group: Talk:CNBC#2024_AFF_Bitcoin_Coverup. Somebody moved 29,000 government bitcoin two days after Trump's July 27/2024 speech to Hodl all coins.
The 230,000 bitcoin should be on the books of the Assets Forfeiture Fund. The last fiscal year for the fund was Sept 30/24. The 2023 audit seems to have been published January/2024. https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/24-018_0.pdf From page 1: "KPMG reported one significant deficiency in the FY 2023 Independent Auditors’ Report, noting that improvements are needed in controls over seized property and forfeiture revenue."
Sovereign_immunity_in_the_United_States#Actions_taken_in_bad_faith "Typically if a party can demonstrate that the government intentionally acted wrongly with the sole purpose of causing damages, that party can recover for injury or economic losses."
Many in the bitcoin world are wondering who and why those with access crashed the bitcoin price, and more so, why there is no mainstream media coverage. CNBC has been pressured to at least state they will investigate. It has been reported to the FBI as either misuse for financial gain, or election tampering. A report was also filed with the Office of Inspector General (United States) which is "...charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating fraud, waste, abuse, embezzlement and mismanagement of any kind within the executive department.
The main question is: If mainstream media doesn't expose it, the FBI and the Office of Inspector General don't act, then what would be a good recourse?
References
Music Air BB (talk) 06:57, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I must confess I understand nothing or very little of the above, but am nevertheless fairly sure that your main question is not about computing, information technology, electronics, software, or hardware. Also note that we cannot offer legal advice. If you believe you have been wronged, perhaps you should talk to a lawyer. If a whole class of people has been wronged, there is such a thing as class action. A competent lawyer should be able to determine whether this is appropriate in this case. --Lambiam 15:58, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Cryptocurrency is a speculative investment, and is designed to be non-transparent, and to make it difficult to trace. This also makes it difficult to trace the actions of other investors that might have influenced the price. One reason why mainstream media do not report on the fluctuations in the value of cryptocurrency is that they know that it is a speculative non-transparent investment that is difficult to understand and more difficult to report on. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:26, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The US government wallets are transparent. https://www.arkhamintelligence.com/ reported it on x, with the transactions records from the blockchain. They did the same with the German state of Saxony when they crashed the price with a very retarded move. Anyone with access to the Assets Forfeiture Fund should have known that their hoard is large enough to crash the price with any hint of movement. I can picture some fool on that fateful Monday setting up a transfer, checking their plan with the small test bit, then WHAM! lets see if A: I have the power, B: My power over the hoard can move the price, C: Will I be held to task on it, D: Will I have 15 minutes of fame hit main stream media and make me infamous. E: etc. One person could have done it, or a group decision, and both would benefit in many ways. My main query is why are only crypto groups concerned about blinded Americans that allow this blatant wrong to happen without asking why and what should the consequences be. I will contact large groups of lawyers like the Republican National Lawyers Association and its Dem equal; BlackRock legals, Microstrategy legals, etc. I could go on to list many more notable groups that would champion this. The reason I posted on this desk is for intelligent and politically neutral input.Music Air BB (talk) 00:34, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'll let you judge whether my input is "intelligent" or not: Most people who took Bitcoin seriously at the beginning, continue to do so with the sober realisation that people, corporations, and states, are free to manipulate the price and do so very regularly - up and down, up and down. The premise of the distributed ledger is that code is law. That said, as you pointed out, real law still exists and people can still be prosecuted for theft, misappropriation, etc. even if the code allowed them to. However, they act in the same global anarchy that allowed things like the plunder of Iraq.
- Because of that, and the fact that it would be difficult to actually attribute, in a court, the price movement to the suggested causes, I think the effect of legal action would be tepid. Maybe the same energy should be focused on making sure the government in question, is more transparent in the future about why it issues cryptocurrency transactions, each time it does. Komonzia (talk) 21:04, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- The US government wallets are transparent. https://www.arkhamintelligence.com/ reported it on x, with the transactions records from the blockchain. They did the same with the German state of Saxony when they crashed the price with a very retarded move. Anyone with access to the Assets Forfeiture Fund should have known that their hoard is large enough to crash the price with any hint of movement. I can picture some fool on that fateful Monday setting up a transfer, checking their plan with the small test bit, then WHAM! lets see if A: I have the power, B: My power over the hoard can move the price, C: Will I be held to task on it, D: Will I have 15 minutes of fame hit main stream media and make me infamous. E: etc. One person could have done it, or a group decision, and both would benefit in many ways. My main query is why are only crypto groups concerned about blinded Americans that allow this blatant wrong to happen without asking why and what should the consequences be. I will contact large groups of lawyers like the Republican National Lawyers Association and its Dem equal; BlackRock legals, Microstrategy legals, etc. I could go on to list many more notable groups that would champion this. The reason I posted on this desk is for intelligent and politically neutral input.Music Air BB (talk) 00:34, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Cryptocurrency is a speculative investment, and is designed to be non-transparent, and to make it difficult to trace. This also makes it difficult to trace the actions of other investors that might have influenced the price. One reason why mainstream media do not report on the fluctuations in the value of cryptocurrency is that they know that it is a speculative non-transparent investment that is difficult to understand and more difficult to report on. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:26, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- File:Trump DOJ BTC chart2024 Q3Q4.jpg
The government in question, should more transparent in the future about why it issues cryptocurrency transactions, each time it does. This is called open and transparent democracy and not global anarchy. The Asset Forfeiture Program was illegally abused on Monday, July 29. People around the world lost money because of it and the price has still not recovered. Most countries have access to the FBI toll free numbers and should be demanding an investigation or at least a reason/excuse. A simple phone call to the DOJ from an FBI agent would clarify if any wrong doing was done and result in a statement by anyone in government as to why. Music Air BB (talk) 18:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- I mean, I agree, but the fact that many 'question-mark' points on the above graph are of a similar order of magnitude to the area where the crypto was moved demonstrates my point that correlation is not causation. Although, people in the US are being prosecuted and convicted for market manipulation in crypto markets, so if the rule of law is still a thing, one would expect it can at least make it to a court. It wouldn't be the first time that a deputy US Marshal acted in their own interest.
- By the way - I never said bitcoiners are in favour of global anarchy. Just observing that, like the tenacious honeybadger, the hardcore ones stick with it regardless of what manipulation they think is going on, and while being fully aware that it may sometimes halve / quarter in price because of something specific that doesn't affect the fundamental integrity of the protocol, or just randomly. From this point of view, people who think they lost money should have had the same expectations.
- To further avoid misunderstanding, when I said "they" act in global anarchy, I meant the state.
- With each reply, this thread gets more off topic. So would kindly suggest taking the question to a different website entirely because I can't think of an appropriate venue on this one. Komonzia (talk) 19:06, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- OP is a sock evading a block. Suggest this be archived. Girth Summit (blether) 16:52, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Microsoft Access Database Sharing and Lockout
[edit]I have four Microsoft Access databases on my Windows 11 desktop computer, and have sharing set up with my Windows 11 laptop computer. After I had been using one of the databases on my laptop computer, I went to my desktop computer and tried to open it. I got the message: Microsoft Access The database has been placed in a state by user 'Admin' on machine 'GANESHA' that prevents it from being opened or locked.
That obviously means that the laptop computer (and my computers have mythological names) has locked the database for exclusive use. I walked over to the laptop computer and closed the database. I have had the databases open by Access on both the desktop computer and the laptop computer at the same time in the past without a locking conflict. So my questions are, first, what actions that I do on one computer will cause it to lock the database exclusively so that the other computer cannot open it? Second, once this happens, is there anything that I can to unlock it other than closing the database? (I know that isn't difficult when the computers are in adjoining rooms. I know. I know.) Robert McClenon (talk) 18:28, 16 October 2024 (UTC)