A motion filed by lawyers is not a judgement and is nowhere near legal precedent, as the typically sensational/. headline implies. Lawyers regularly file motions claiming the sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
Not dumb at all. There is risk with an unregulated exchange, and there is risk with a bitcoin wallet on your own PC. There are techniques for good security for a personal bitcoin wallet, but there is no (or little) regulation for bitcoin exchanges. Savings in an unregulated, uninsured bitcoin exchange are at a much higher risk than in a bank. But some people are not so good at personal PC security, so a bitcoin exchange might actually be safer than their PC.
Yes. You don't have to use an exchange at all if you don't want to. By the same token, you can start your own exchange if you want to, get people to send you their bitcoins, and close the exchange and claim they were stolen.
flexcoin was insignificant compared to MtGox -- about 1000 times smaller. Even so, unregulated, uninsured bitcoin exchanges (banks) are risky places for savings.
Why on earth would a New York City MTA executive tell companies they need to locate in big city downtowns? Surely he doesn't have an ulterior motive, does he? I wonder what the advice would be if we surveyed small-town mayors. Obviously biased news is not news.
The Department of Homeland Security has promised to protect us, and they have a quarter million employees.
Oh, wait... They only promised to protect us from ourselves.
...no ban on intuitively obvious software patents? No ban on trivial business process patents? No legal fees to victims winning lawsuits against patent trolls? Sounds like more political theater to me.
Clippy was one of the biggest failures of Office, regardless of occasional anecdotes. Microsoft has continued to degrade the usefulness of their help system ever since, both in Office and in Developer Studio. Google is now Microsoft's help system.
Slashdot is broken. It won't let me post because it thinks I just posted, and it won't tell me how long to wait. For the past 5 minutes it has said it's been 3 minutes since my last post. Maybe it's some kind of space-time warp.
It's decentralized. It's just that there are not many publicly available companies who pay cash for bitcoins. Somehow there are enough buyers to cause a price increase from $24 to $700 over the past year. I don't understand how bitcoins or gold either one retain their values.
Seems typical of recent/. quality control.
Even if the link were the correct link, a 30 meter crater on Mars is far from "spectacular". With a thin atmosphere, there are many meteorites that hit Mars that would burn up before striking Earth.
No kidding! I tried to upvote (I have moderator points), but nothing happened. I went from Firefox to a virgin copy of Chrome, and nothing happened again. Maybe now Dice "invisibly" blocks miscreants like Reddit does.
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A motion filed by lawyers is not a judgement and is nowhere near legal precedent, as the typically sensational /. headline implies. Lawyers regularly file motions claiming the sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
I prefer sucrose. It tastes good.
Not dumb at all. There is risk with an unregulated exchange, and there is risk with a bitcoin wallet on your own PC. There are techniques for good security for a personal bitcoin wallet, but there is no (or little) regulation for bitcoin exchanges. Savings in an unregulated, uninsured bitcoin exchange are at a much higher risk than in a bank. But some people are not so good at personal PC security, so a bitcoin exchange might actually be safer than their PC.
Yes. You don't have to use an exchange at all if you don't want to. By the same token, you can start your own exchange if you want to, get people to send you their bitcoins, and close the exchange and claim they were stolen.
There's a reasonable chance of it. It would be easy to do.
flexcoin was insignificant compared to MtGox -- about 1000 times smaller. Even so, unregulated, uninsured bitcoin exchanges (banks) are risky places for savings.
This way, the federal government can prevent those irritating demonstrations like this ones in Ukraine.
Computer directed flight control in 1940? Must have been a very large plane.
Why do we need a Space Elevator if we have Transporters?
Ice cream? Nobody told me I could get ice cream!!
Why on earth would a New York City MTA executive tell companies they need to locate in big city downtowns? Surely he doesn't have an ulterior motive, does he? I wonder what the advice would be if we surveyed small-town mayors. Obviously biased news is not news.
The Department of Homeland Security has promised to protect us, and they have a quarter million employees. Oh, wait... They only promised to protect us from ourselves.
...no ban on intuitively obvious software patents? No ban on trivial business process patents? No legal fees to victims winning lawsuits against patent trolls? Sounds like more political theater to me.
Iran is still not capable. They hired Russian and Chinese hackers.
Clippy was one of the biggest failures of Office, regardless of occasional anecdotes. Microsoft has continued to degrade the usefulness of their help system ever since, both in Office and in Developer Studio. Google is now Microsoft's help system.
There have been many periods in my career when I worked 60+ per week because I enjoyed it and wanted to. I got a lot accomplished during those times.
I tried to mod up, but it's broken.
Here's a good explanation:
http://blog.blockchain.info/20...
Slashdot is broken. It won't let me post because it thinks I just posted, and it won't tell me how long to wait. For the past 5 minutes it has said it's been 3 minutes since my last post. Maybe it's some kind of space-time warp.
MtGox has dropped from number 1 to number 3, with 21% of bitcoin volume. http://bitcoincharts.com/chart...
I own the moon, and I hereby give NASA authority to mine lunar coal.
It's decentralized. It's just that there are not many publicly available companies who pay cash for bitcoins. Somehow there are enough buyers to cause a price increase from $24 to $700 over the past year. I don't understand how bitcoins or gold either one retain their values.
Seems typical of recent /. quality control.
Even if the link were the correct link, a 30 meter crater on Mars is far from "spectacular". With a thin atmosphere, there are many meteorites that hit Mars that would burn up before striking Earth.
I'd upvote this if upvoting wasn't broken.
The NSA, CIA, FBI, OSBI, and Mayes County Sheriff's department have agreed not to turn off cell phones of undesirables.
No kidding! I tried to upvote (I have moderator points), but nothing happened. I went from Firefox to a virgin copy of Chrome, and nothing happened again. Maybe now Dice "invisibly" blocks miscreants like Reddit does.