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I'd like to add to this something I've seen others point out before.

Bitcoin's Blockchain grows exponentially larger with time.

In 2 years it went from about 200mb to 6gb.

I'll rough-graph this exponential growth to show you clearly what it means At around 10 years you're talking about a 100gb file sitting on the drives of every bitcoin user. At 20 years that 100gb file is now over 4tb. In 30 years that's 9tb. And so on, you can read a graph.

The blockchain is a fundamental aspect of the bitcoin, you can't just start truncating it. It will grow like this forever. Bitcoin will eventually grow so large that it is impractical for even the most diehard of virtual currency enthusiast. The only way to keep it functional is to assume massive advances in technology or that everyone is going to move to cloud based bitcoin banking, letting a third party company do all the processing and blockchain storage. At that point bitcoin would be as equally regulated as any other currency rendering the entire point of bitcoin useless.

The reality here is that bitcoin is an intentionally manufactured bubble. Anyone that understands math and has a reasonable grasp of how large a terabyte actually is can easily see this if they look past the near blinding glamour that the bitcoin proponents toss out to distract you from the truth.

Another point to consider is that bitcoin is not a stable currency. It swings up and down very wildly in value. This is fine if you treat it like an investment akin to trading the Forex markets, but it's pretty terrible not knowing from day to day how many bitcoins it takes to fill your gas tank. If you do get involved with bitcoin be prepared to exit at any time or you risk losing everything. Enron was also a fantastic investment for early adopters.

The purpose of my post wasn't a general rant about Bitcoin, but more of a reference to the now famous (and very true) Anatomy of a Bubble. It's a beautiful rendering of what many of us have known about bubble behavior for some time. I wrote my post hastily during my (public transit :P ) commute, but a quick google search shows that we are back in the media awareness phase, and there'll probably be a manic rise before a nasty crash. I'm only guessing 15-20 because it's the "mean", though I still maintain that Bitcoin is doomed to fail in the long, long term. I don't want to go there, I'm only posting to point out where we're at.

I suppose what triggered this bubble was the mess in Cyprus, as well as the currency gaining some recognition by financial institutions there. Not really sure how that's going to work with the inherent instability of Bitcoin. (and the patterns of behavior that inflationary currencies bring about)

That said, I suppose I was too accusative of the original poster. Starting out with pointing out its recently inflated value, effectively "Bitcoins are currently double what you last remember them being if you don't have any" reminds me of the mania surrounding other bubbles in my lifetime. Supp0rtLinux is probably not trying to incite mania given their long history on /., though I guarantee you fake posts with the sole purpose of raising public awareness of the bubble will omnipresent until it crashes in the next 1-2 months.

Would your Kindle allow you to run remote X sessions?

That depends on whether or not Amazon left a feature essential to the X server for Android out of the Kindle Fire. Did it?

Err.... I won't take the low hanging fruit and I'll assume that you're trolling. You simply have to be.

https://www.google.com/search?q=laser+safety+glasses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Windows has a bigger install base than Android, and PCs are far more lucrative target than a weak phone with a weak data connection.

Android will overtake Windows installed base in just a couple of years. Even now, there are not several orders of magnitude more Windows machines than Android.

What OS flaws? Reference?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=malware+windows+vulnerability

...the $600 price tags on phones

I keep reading about $600 smart phones in stories on this T-Mobile no-contract scheme. You can have an amazing unlocked no-contract quad-core Nexus 4 for $299-349 here. It's HSPA+ which is all you'll get with T-Mobile in most markets anyhow.

If the best argument against this deal is that unlocked iPhones cost too much then sign me up. Data coverage is the real problem with T-Mobile... but perhaps they're really solving that now.

You make it sound like schizophrenia is actually a 'fixable' problem, that it can be cured reliably.

There's actually a growing body of evidence that common parasite Toxoplasmosis can cause schizophrenic symptoms in humans. For those people for whom their schizophrenia is due to Toxoplasmosis infection, treatment with drugs designed to control Toxo makes their schizophrenia go away.

This doesn't cover everyone with schizophrenia, but it is a step towards a reliable cure of some forms of the disease.

Links for the interested.

Cheers,

How many times has this been discussed already?
https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&rlz=&q=site%3Aslashdot.org+tech+bubble&oq=site%3Aslashdot.org+tech+bubble

The discussion on Slashdot has been in decline for some time now.

Nokia is not a design company. They're an engineering company.

They make most of their money selling phones. As such they are a consumer electronics company. Nokia doesn't make the majority of their money selling engineering. They may have an engineering culture but that isn't the same thing. Similarly Apple is a consumer electronics company that arguably has a design culture.

(Actually you can make a very credible argument that Apple really is a software company that bundles their software with nicely designed commodity hardware. One could put Android on an iPhone or Windows on a Mac but if Apple did that Apple's profit margins would disappear faster that you could say shareholder lawsuit because everything that truly makes their products different in important ways is in the software. A Mac running windows isn't much different from a PC from Dell or HP.)

Nokia's R&D also is more engineering-focused. Hardware, signals processing, accessibility, etc. They'll be trying to cram a large swiss army knife worth of tools into a phone, or coming up with new antenna designs to improve signal transmission and reception, or finding new materials to make lighter, thinner phone casings.

All of which is meaningless unless they can come up with products people want to buy or technology they can license to others who do have products people want to buy. I think large companies absolutely should have research labs working on some long term basic science and engineering problems. But Nokia is seriously in danger of going out of business. They have lost over $4 billion in the last two years and their share price is around $3.28 per share as I write this. Their assets are falling faster than their liabilities. While they still have a lot of cash, they have been hemorrhaging cash for the last year or so. Their market cap is around $12 billion which Apple, Microsoft, Samsung or Google could buy with petty cash were they so inclined. (I doubt any of them would except maybe Microsoft)

When I googled that sentance, the first result that came up was:

Sport Fishing Girls undermined in fish porn wake.

"I want to open a bunch of web pages in tabs while connected to Wi-Fi, hit the road, and then being able to display each page without having the device purge the page from the cache and try to reload it from a data connection that doesn't exist."

There's an app for that.

Does anybody want to play Doom like it was 1993?

I don't have any real sentimental attachment to Doom, but I did pay money to have R-Type on my Android phone/tablet.

Over the last few decades, Nokia has spent more money in R&D than almost any other company in the world.

They do spend quite a lot but they're not top of the heap even just in technology companies. IBM, and Microsoft both spend considerably more on research.

Nokia has spent roughly $4-5 billion per year but it's been dropping steadily from about $5B in 2009 down to about $3.7B last year. A very substantial sum to be sure but not out of line with other large tech companies and they've been forced to spend steadily less due to their financial position. Kind of amazing that they can't seem to develop a hit phone when they spend 5X what Apple does on R&D. Makes you wonder what the heck they are doing.

Over the last few decades, Nokia has spent more money in R&D than almost any other company in the world.

They do spend quite a lot but they're not top of the heap even just in technology companies. IBM, and Microsoft both spend considerably more on research.

Nokia has spent roughly $4-5 billion per year but it's been dropping steadily from about $5B in 2009 down to about $3.7B last year. A very substantial sum to be sure but not out of line with other large tech companies and they've been forced to spend steadily less due to their financial position. Kind of amazing that they can't seem to develop a hit phone when they spend 5X what Apple does on R&D. Makes you wonder what the heck they are doing.

Over the last few decades, Nokia has spent more money in R&D than almost any other company in the world.

They do spend quite a lot but they're not top of the heap even just in technology companies. IBM, and Microsoft both spend considerably more on research.

Nokia has spent roughly $4-5 billion per year but it's been dropping steadily from about $5B in 2009 down to about $3.7B last year. A very substantial sum to be sure but not out of line with other large tech companies and they've been forced to spend steadily less due to their financial position. Kind of amazing that they can't seem to develop a hit phone when they spend 5X what Apple does on R&D. Makes you wonder what the heck they are doing.

Yeah, I've been using DSLR Controller to control my Canon T3i via my tablet (USB) for some time. It's pretty clumsy having to deal with a cable but I would rather do that then have my camera support wireless.

Dozens of "sites" yes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+games&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS498US498&aq=f&oq=linux+games&aqs=chrome.0.57j59j60j62j61j60.1692&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 none of these are anywhere as comprehensive as the Game Tome.

What I didn't know about was Star Trek-Phase II, a not for profit, fan financed ST series that almost has three episodes finished. Below is a link to their webpage, looks real good.

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

In addition: Big Pharma and Oxycontin.

The good news is that increased enforcement is choking off the street supply of painkillers.
The bad news is that prescription opiates are being replaced with real opiates: heroin.
You can find news articles talking about the shift, starting around 2008

This is what I loved about Google Reader that nothing else I've looked at seems to have. With Google, you add a shortcut to your browser to http://www.google.com/reader/next?go=nextauto... Every time you click on it it takes you to the next new page in one of your subscribed feeds. If there are no more unread pages, it takes you to some end-of-the-internet page. That's all it does, and that's all I want it to do. i don't want extra crap, I don't want to be forced to install a plug in, and I certainly don't want even more facebook , et. al, icons. Just provide me with a quick and simple way to view all the sites I've subscribed to.

What the hell is the problem anyway? For fifteen minutes at the beginning and end of a flight you can't use your iWhatever or eWhatsis. Big deal.

Because if these tiny sources (cube law, hello?) of random RF noise really were a problem, they don't suddenly become less of a problem while flying in the air at over 10,000 ft. Or when flying through or even remotely near a thunderstorm that produces many times that RF. Heaven help the poor pilots that get painted by a military radar or even the radar from the airport.

It's not like an airplane needs reliable controls when say, hurtling through the air at a couple hundred miles an hour over populated areas, is it?

At the best we can blame the aircraft designers for not doing their due diligence in properly shielding the route between servos and controllers and cockpit. After all, shielding is precious weight in paying passengers you'd have to give up in fuel. And we obviously don't have lighter weight communication medium that isn't RF sensitive.

Why are you posting this on Slashdot? http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=slashdot

Why not post a direct comparison?

Why are you posting this on Slashdot? http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=slashdot

Why not post a direct comparison?

Why are you posting this on Slashdot?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=slashdot

Why is on slashdot homepage?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=digg

Can you explain to me where in the 2nd amendment it guarantees the right to have more than just 1 bullet in a magazine?

That's sort of the point, the 2nd amendment does not guarantee you the right to any number of bullets in a firearm, in fact it doesn't even say anything about firearms.

What part of "Shall not be Infringed" do you need explained?

Can you explain to me where in the 2nd amendment it guarantees the right to have more than just 1 bullet in a magazine?

That's sort of the point, the 2nd amendment does not guarantee you the right to any number of bullets in a firearm, in fact it doesn't even say anything about firearms.

What part of "Shall not be Infringed" do you need explained?

Can you explain to me where in the 2nd amendment it guarantees the right to have more than just 1 bullet in a magazine?

That's sort of the point, the 2nd amendment does not guarantee you the right to any number of bullets in a firearm, in fact it doesn't even say anything about firearms.

What part of "Shall not be Infringed" do you need explained?

Can you explain to me where in the 2nd amendment it guarantees the right to have more than just 1 bullet in a magazine?

That's sort of the point, the 2nd amendment does not guarantee you the right to any number of bullets in a firearm, in fact it doesn't even say anything about firearms.

What part of "Shall not be Infringed" do you need explained?

An engineer at Orbital Sciences created a 1/48th scale paper model of the landsat satellite that you can print, build and hang above your cubicle for nerd cred.

Printable model here.
Assembly Instructions here.

It actually looks pretty cool... not that I'll be spending two hours building it myself.

An engineer at Orbital Sciences created a 1/48th scale paper model of the landsat satellite that you can print, build and hang above your cubicle for nerd cred.

Printable model here.
Assembly Instructions here.

It actually looks pretty cool... not that I'll be spending two hours building it myself.

So what? Other than the Landsat being a bit newer, Google satellite pictures of the same area are far more detailed. Allowing me to zoom down to a single tree. But street view of the same area provies and even higher resolution view. The color reproduction is also far more accurate.

So, What's the point of the announcement?

So what? Other than the Landsat being a bit newer, Google satellite pictures of the same area are far more detailed. Allowing me to zoom down to a single tree. But street view of the same area provies and even higher resolution view. The color reproduction is also far more accurate.

So, What's the point of the announcement?

I am also wondering if there are any Kickstarter type of foundations that might be used to help solicit donations to purchase additional equipment and help cover costs of getting the equipment to the school.

Here's what you do:

You see, there are many Christian organizations from the US going down there to bring the word of Christ to you heathens - or convert you from your evil Catholic ways.

Tell them that you need money for Jesus!

Then watch the money poor in!

As a matter fact, they'll even build the lab for you! It'll look like a church and it'll have an alter, but what better place to worship the FOSS Gods than an alter.

Here's some pictures for said alter:

This guy and this guy who looks like Jesus

I am also wondering if there are any Kickstarter type of foundations that might be used to help solicit donations to purchase additional equipment and help cover costs of getting the equipment to the school.

Here's what you do:

You see, there are many Christian organizations from the US going down there to bring the word of Christ to you heathens - or convert you from your evil Catholic ways.

Tell them that you need money for Jesus!

Then watch the money poor in!

As a matter fact, they'll even build the lab for you! It'll look like a church and it'll have an alter, but what better place to worship the FOSS Gods than an alter.

Here's some pictures for said alter:

This guy and this guy who looks like Jesus

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That goes on the top of the page. I then go out of my way to make use of all CSS that triggers IE-specific bugs.

...but loves the hardware.

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/dk1aiW4JjHd L "I'm still running ChromeOS on this thing, which is good enough for testing out some of my normal work habits (ie reading and writing email), but I expect to install a real distro on this soon enough. For a laptop to be useful to me, I need to not just read and write email, I need to be able to do compiles, have my own git repositories etc..
"

This is Shirley.
This is shorely. (Not a real word)
You were after surely.

This is Shirley.
This is shorely. (Not a real word)
You were after surely.

Maybe I'd better luck wishing for some higher res displays as standard on notebooks... How is it that cell phones need 1080p displays, but for doing real work, 1366x768 is supposed to be great ?!

...maybe you should look at a chromebook like the pixel. [2560 x 1700 at 239 PPI] which has a higher than 1080P resolution :)

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/

Gaming is for PCs. Not for handheld bullshit, not for fucking 7-year old consoles. It's for PCs. Anything else is games for girls and amateurs.

I'm not getting into a *platform* gaming debate, but what you are describing is a PC gamer. I game on PC's too, but on the move I've always has a portable device, and no Angry Birds is not a good example.

I'm currently playing though these. http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/44641397764/humble-bundle-with-android-5-has-landed they are the latest Humble Bundle games, they are available on your PC too :), although personally I have nothing against more casual games...if you only have a moment. Although having a look at https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topselling_paid_game its a nice selection of gaming (Angry Birds only gets 23rd on the list).

They say odt format is not available yet (with a typo missing the "not" on the store no less)

According to Google Play, it's the exact opposite: "only OpenDocument Text documents (ODT) are supported".

How about a gmail interface that can be used on small screens with large text?

You mean the new Gmail look that coexisted with the easily selectable old Gmail look for a year?

Have you noticed that lots of people -- google included -- now make sections of the browser window fixed, non-scrollable

You mean css position: fixed? Yeah, no website ever used that in the good old days.

1. Find documents not in any directory. You know: Everything you create goes in the root, not in any folder -- not changable. Anything you've classified or categorized with folders/tags is organized. Anything not so classified got lost. Suddenly, docs went from each to work with to painful.

Bullshit. Also, the service still exists. Are you saying they should never update it in any way? (insert this comment in all answers below)

2. A choice between page-layout oriented editing and free-form / web-page oriented editing. In fairness, this one was announced.

View -> Print layout.

3. A mail interface usable on smaller windows. Heck, a mail interface that doesn't assume it has the full screen.

You mean like the myriad of mobile versions that exist? Try http://m.gmail.com/
Or the basic HTML view? https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html (admittedly, this one should be more accessible)

4. Usability by people who need large fonts.

5. Usability by people with a low pixel count.

These are pretty much the same as 3. We get it, you have a small screen.

Google changes the display layout all the time. As they do, with no warning they break things.

I have to say that I disagree with 'all the time', but the more important point is that webbased interfaces are inherently auto-update, unless you run them from your servers you manage. I don't know any other supplier of webbased services that announces (big) changes as well as Google. You're free to provide an example of a company that 'does it right'.
In the mean time, I suggest that you switch to desktop applications instead of web applications. You obviously have issues with the latter.

I should not have to try to decipher their web page style to write a new style sheet code for the way I want the interface to look and function.

FTFY.

Hate not being able to edit...

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before the record and film industries go after Google and its competitors..

There's no more to classic gaming than tactile controls? That seems a little narrow

You try controlling something like Mega Man with touch controls as precisely as one can with a Nintendo controller. Other Slashdot users appear to be under the impression that most people aren't going to buy and carry a USB controller and OTG cable or buy a Dual Shock 3 controller and the Sixaxis app.

Played Pix'n'Love Rush?

No. Does it have a demo? Or should I buy it and be ready to return it in 10 minutes?

She wasn't eavesdropping.

Avdi Grimm said it best:

One other comment to address a bizarre accusation of hypocrisy that's come up a few times. If you cannot tell the difference between:

- someone tweeting a dick joke on their personal Twitter account, and;

- someone making a dick joke...
- ...while attending a tech industry conference
- ...that has a Code of Conduct
- ...as a representative of a sponsor
- ...while sitting in the middle of a crowded auditorium
- ...during a talk that others are trying to listen to
- ...but still loudly enough to be overheard ...if you seriously cannot identify any difference between those two scenarios, I really don't know if I have enough clue to help you. I can check the back room but in those quantities we'll probably have to back-order it.

I can understand the "overreaction" argument. But the "she's a hypocrite because she tweets dick jokes" argument just doesn't even get off the ground. Nor does "she was eavesdropping on a private conversation".

If that doesn't help, how about Richards' own blog post:

What I will share with you here is the backstory that led to this –

The guy behind me to the far left was saying he didn’t find much value from the logging session that day. I agreed with him so I turned around and said so. He then went onto say that an earlier session he’d been to where the speaker was talking about images and visualization with Python was really good, even if it seemed to him the speaker wasn’t really an expert on images. He said he would be interested in forking the repo and continuing development.

That would have been fine until the guy next to him

began making sexual forking jokes

I'll make this real simple: the PlayHaven guys weren't making private jokes, they were responding inappropriately to public comments.

When they see all the news headlines they'll think it is all about them.

Imagine your name is Previously Thought and check out the hilarious mad-libs in Google News.

An example,
"Polar bears and brown bears, species known to produce fertile hybrids, have much more in common genetically than Previously Thought."

More entertaining than reading about The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.

You shouldn't buy a camera from a consumer electronics company anyways.

Hi, Ken!

Especially on this note of redirection (hosts file hardcodes stop that, for one thing, ALONG WITH ADBANNERS TOO - plus custom hosts files can do 10 things listed below, adblock can't, period...):

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 [start64.com]

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA [google.com]

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).

& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!

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Same with Ghostery:

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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.

They were originally named Better Advertising, I