All the three-letter-agencies that have access to the database almost certainly have been running facial recognition on it for years. Making it visible to users doesn't make it much worse, if anything it's good. Maybe people will start thinking about the consequences of uploading photos of themselves, their friends, their families, their homes etc.
But it you're doing something shady and you don't want to be tracked, or you just don't want to be tracked anyway, that ~8% a day risk may be worth it. You can move your bitcoin payments around for a couple of days before you sell them for dollars to make them harder to trace - in the worst case you lose the last few days' income if the exchange goes down.
No, with the current algorithm there is a fixed amount of bitcoins that can ever be mined, and a large part of them have been mined already. After all of them have been mined there can no longer be any new coins awarded for computing block hashes, the whole reward will come from transaction fees.
If I got one I would most likely install Debian on it, but if they make it work smoothly with Ubuntu it will probably be easy to make it work smoothly with Debian as well. And it would be nice to not have to pay the Microsoft tax, even if it's not much cheaper. Hell, it would be nice even if they are more expensive as long as Microsoft isn't getting any of it.
Network connectivity is a utility like water or electric power. If more people and corporations in a city have access to high quality network connections, that's obviously to the benefit of the city as a whole. Why would it be more wrong to have local government in control of network infrastructure, and use tax money to build and maintain it, than to do the same for power lines, clean water and sewers?
A flash memory, a microcontroller, a DAC, a speaker and a button. The memory contains a voice recording saying "You're too fat", which is played back when you press the button. It is the correct diagnosis in 95% of the cases.
These days a recording studio isn't something that you need a big corporation for. Very decent studio equipment for recording rock-type music typically doesn't cost more than the instruments it records. The only thing that's really in short supply is mixing and production skill - and anyone who can write and play music can probably learn that too, it just takes time.
Yes, the aspect of something else being the cause of our universe really isn't more stupid than, say, the theory of eternal inflation where new bubble universes are created from old ones ad infinitum. The stupidity is in refusing to admit that our current universe could have created itself from nothing (or alternatively existed forever) while claiming that the earlier thing that is the cause of our current universe, i.e. a Creator, did create itself from nothing (or alternatively existed forever). That is extremely inconsistent.
The European Court of Justice is the highest court in all EU member states in cases that regard EU law. So yes, a verdict here is pretty much a precedent that other national courts should follow, since a repeal to the ECJ should give the same verdict in similar cases.
Some people take their job much too seriously. So you have a slow computer, so you might get less work done. So what? It's not your problem, it's your employer's.
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"Rich product"? "Amazing development experience"? Are you sure you're not a marketer rather than a programmer?
All the three-letter-agencies that have access to the database almost certainly have been running facial recognition on it for years. Making it visible to users doesn't make it much worse, if anything it's good. Maybe people will start thinking about the consequences of uploading photos of themselves, their friends, their families, their homes etc.
Or maybe not.
But it you're doing something shady and you don't want to be tracked, or you just don't want to be tracked anyway, that ~8% a day risk may be worth it. You can move your bitcoin payments around for a couple of days before you sell them for dollars to make them harder to trace - in the worst case you lose the last few days' income if the exchange goes down.
No, with the current algorithm there is a fixed amount of bitcoins that can ever be mined, and a large part of them have been mined already. After all of them have been mined there can no longer be any new coins awarded for computing block hashes, the whole reward will come from transaction fees.
So Skype's PR people are morons. No surprise there, PR people are usually the bullshitters who couldn't make it as politicians.
Because the Windows licence funds Microsoft stunts like SCO?
If I got one I would most likely install Debian on it, but if they make it work smoothly with Ubuntu it will probably be easy to make it work smoothly with Debian as well. And it would be nice to not have to pay the Microsoft tax, even if it's not much cheaper. Hell, it would be nice even if they are more expensive as long as Microsoft isn't getting any of it.
As a swede myself I would really like to know which beaches you frequent.
And when the characters are fictional and animated, age shouldn't matter one way or the other.
People who are suspected of visiting prostitutes, even.
Indeed. As do all other sorts of patents as well.
It was never free. It had ads in it. It may be the case that the ad revenue didn't cover the expenses, but it was never free.
Network connectivity is a utility like water or electric power. If more people and corporations in a city have access to high quality network connections, that's obviously to the benefit of the city as a whole. Why would it be more wrong to have local government in control of network infrastructure, and use tax money to build and maintain it, than to do the same for power lines, clean water and sewers?
So Facebook wants a monopoly on feeding user-tagged photos to various intelligence services? Makes one wonder how much they are getting paid for that.
A flash memory, a microcontroller, a DAC, a speaker and a button. The memory contains a voice recording saying "You're too fat", which is played back when you press the button. It is the correct diagnosis in 95% of the cases.
And most professional producers aren't van Goghs.
These days a recording studio isn't something that you need a big corporation for. Very decent studio equipment for recording rock-type music typically doesn't cost more than the instruments it records. The only thing that's really in short supply is mixing and production skill - and anyone who can write and play music can probably learn that too, it just takes time.
Doesn't RIAA, or at least some of its members, own Spotify?
Yeah, right. That's the reason.
Yes, the aspect of something else being the cause of our universe really isn't more stupid than, say, the theory of eternal inflation where new bubble universes are created from old ones ad infinitum. The stupidity is in refusing to admit that our current universe could have created itself from nothing (or alternatively existed forever) while claiming that the earlier thing that is the cause of our current universe, i.e. a Creator, did create itself from nothing (or alternatively existed forever). That is extremely inconsistent.
The keyboard is hardly going anywhere. If you can't feel the keys you have to look at them to be able to type, and that is extremely inefficient.
You're still assuming that companies like Google have the "best and brightest". I really doubt that.
It's in Luxembourg, so yes.
The European Court of Justice is the highest court in all EU member states in cases that regard EU law. So yes, a verdict here is pretty much a precedent that other national courts should follow, since a repeal to the ECJ should give the same verdict in similar cases.
Some people take their job much too seriously. So you have a slow computer, so you might get less work done. So what? It's not your problem, it's your employer's.