Can someone please name for me a single site that obtains my consent before storing cookies in my terminal?
Bigcharts.com. A site that displays stock charts - you can configure the display, and when you hit "store settings" there's a pop-up explaining that they need to store a cookie for this purpose, and asking whether that would be OK.
I always found that classy. And there's no technical reason not to - just acceptance and permissiveness by the user base.
A government must be pretty thoroughly corrupt to enable an outsider to affect the punishment of an individual. If this were in American that would be different, but to assume that US corporations have so corrupted the Danish government seems like cynicism and mental laziness. I think there's a missing piece here, and likely one very tied to local politics. It's quite arrogant for we Americans to assume all the worlds events are all about us!
Yes, that's exactly why "solitary confinement" is the closest thing to brutal torture most modern societies will inflict. Vile mental punishment.
WTF has this guy done to anger the authorities to such an extent? Do American corporations really have such reach? I doubt that - makes me wonder what the rest of the story is.
You know geekoid, this post could really substitute for evey other post you've ever made on Slashdot.
"You are not important, acting for the benefit of society is".
That's every geekoid post right there. But I do have to wonder what you think "society" is made of, if not these remarkably unimportant individuals. Do you see "society" as a moral entity in itself, having some moral value separate from the benefit of each individual, or something?
Bitcoin is mainstream when there are forex futures traded in the major markets in similar amounts to other currencies, when there are bitcoin savings accounts, when central banks include it in their reserves, and of course when you can but most everyday goods with it. Today. it is none of these things.
IMO bitcoin is just as inflationary as any other currency, if it ever becomes mainstream (which is why I say it solves the uninteresting problems). Inflation has very little to do with the amount of physical currency in circulation (the M0), which is all bitcoin caps.
Doesn't change anything. The only way to be at all anonymous with an authenticated bitcoin transaction is on a stolen internet connection. Linking transaction particpants -> IP Addresses -> physical addresses is not a difficult task for a government.
You should also point out that every specie-based currency was also ruined by debasement over time. A gold standard does nothing to prevent governments screwing the currency.
You seem to miss a key point, however: the money supply has little to do with how many physical units of currency exist. Bitcoin only caps the M0, it does nothing at all to limit the M2/M3, and therefore it doesn't prevent inflation.
TFA doesn't really counter Stross's arguments much (besides arguing about carbon footprint, but really BTC is small potatoes even if you care about such things). The authors instead focus on why his objections just aren't important, and I tend to agree with that.
In terms of actual economics, Stross is much in favor of state control of things, especially economic things (read his blog to get the best insight on his views), and BTC is the opposite of that. TFA primary argument, and one I'm quite sympathetic to is "well, who knows!" Economists argue over everything, and there's certainly no uniform agreement over what makes a good currency.
As Feynman would say "one experiment is worth 1000 expert opinions". BTC is quite worthwhile IMO as an experiment. Personally, I think it's misguided and solves only unimportant problems, but hey, lets run the experiment and find out who's right. If bitcoin really becomes mainstream then it is a good currency, because the best currency is the one people want to use. And if instead it's crap, then it will never realy matter outside of eternal/. stories, and so no significant harm done.
I think you'll find many missionaries also do charitable work while they're in-country. But I expect the tithes are 10% of his income (at least, that's the tradition in Western culture), and the other half is "real" charity.
Yeah, I figured the objection would be "but I don't like his choice of charities, someone else should decide that for his money". It's always a call for more central power, always.
Romney only "pays 15%" because he gives a ton of money to charity (20% of his income IIRC). That is, in fact, praiseworthy. Do you pay more than 35% in combined taxes+charity?
The only low-ish rates are long term capital gains, and I do think we get significant structural benefit to the country by rewarding long-term investing over quarter-by-quarter speculation.
The only way not to pay taxes on significant income is to get that income on muni bonds, which is just fine. You don't get any more "take home pay" from muni bonds vs corporate bonds, you just avoid transferring money from the local government paying the interest to the federal government.
Yes, today, but really there hasn't been much focus on anything except ways to reduce element size for decades. If the goal becomes "half the heat at the same frequency" rather then "double the frequency" in N years, with the same brainpower and funding thrown at the problem, there's certainly many doublings-of-efficiency available before "I canna break the laws of physics Captain", without going smaller.
Yes, exactly. The limiting factor on built-from-commodity-parts supercomputers is in fact the heat from what I hear. You pack in the CPUs as tight as you can, but that limit is the ability to transfer the heat out at that density. A 4 GHz core with half the heatload of the current would more-or-less double the number of cores you can shove in a given cabinet (without the ceiling catching fire).
I think the next couple of decades will be mostly about efficiency. Between mobile computing and the advantage of ever-more cores, the benefits from lower power consumption (and reduce heat load as a result) will be huge. And unlike element size, we're far from basic physical limits on efficiency.
Mining is the same as "transaction authentication". If you have a better idea for incenting people to authenticate transactions without a central server, the world would benefit.
Almost no malware today has anything to do with the OS. It's possible that the radically-different SE Linux security model would help, but then look who wrote that. No, I don't think the OS is relevant here.
Warning: reading the following warning will make you feel like that time when you didn't notice in time that something had crawled into your beer can and died.
Pretty hard to prevent when they can display arbitrary images. You'd have to do something they couldn't replicate, like personalizing it per user, or using a reserved part of the screen.
Trivial: just put a very obvious and different border around any dialog raised by the browser, like thick red and black hashing or something equally unsubtle. It's wouldn't solve every problem, but making it really obvious when it's a pop-up would help.
Or, better, just remove the whole horrible idea of pop-ups from the world of browsers. It solves a problem that no longer exists in tabbed browsing. Restrict web pages from opening anything but a new tab, and nothing of value will be lost.
Why the heck are you still allowed to post on/.? Do you have juicy pictures of someone at Dice? Are you someone's nephew?
We already know your views on every topic: whatever gives the powerful central authority even more power is what BH wants. You sure waste a lot of words in saying that, and very few here love totalitarianism the way you do, so how do you manage to twist Dice's arm?
Damn, and this is just one more comment on a BH thread. I should be ashamed for doing anything but ignoring it, but I just couldn't help myself.
The Shootout at the OK corral was about an extortion racket, with the cops doing the extortion and one family refusing to pay. I really hope that wasn't the norm in the old west.
No, I said the "point of most states concealed carry laws", because those are different than their open carry laws. The distinction between the two was the important bit.
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Can someone please name for me a single site that obtains my consent before storing cookies in my terminal?
Bigcharts.com. A site that displays stock charts - you can configure the display, and when you hit "store settings" there's a pop-up explaining that they need to store a cookie for this purpose, and asking whether that would be OK.
I always found that classy. And there's no technical reason not to - just acceptance and permissiveness by the user base.
A government must be pretty thoroughly corrupt to enable an outsider to affect the punishment of an individual. If this were in American that would be different, but to assume that US corporations have so corrupted the Danish government seems like cynicism and mental laziness. I think there's a missing piece here, and likely one very tied to local politics. It's quite arrogant for we Americans to assume all the worlds events are all about us!
Yes, that's exactly why "solitary confinement" is the closest thing to brutal torture most modern societies will inflict. Vile mental punishment.
WTF has this guy done to anger the authorities to such an extent? Do American corporations really have such reach? I doubt that - makes me wonder what the rest of the story is.
You know geekoid, this post could really substitute for evey other post you've ever made on Slashdot.
"You are not important, acting for the benefit of society is".
That's every geekoid post right there. But I do have to wonder what you think "society" is made of, if not these remarkably unimportant individuals. Do you see "society" as a moral entity in itself, having some moral value separate from the benefit of each individual, or something?
Bitcoin is mainstream when there are forex futures traded in the major markets in similar amounts to other currencies, when there are bitcoin savings accounts, when central banks include it in their reserves, and of course when you can but most everyday goods with it. Today. it is none of these things.
IMO bitcoin is just as inflationary as any other currency, if it ever becomes mainstream (which is why I say it solves the uninteresting problems). Inflation has very little to do with the amount of physical currency in circulation (the M0), which is all bitcoin caps.
Doesn't change anything. The only way to be at all anonymous with an authenticated bitcoin transaction is on a stolen internet connection. Linking transaction particpants -> IP Addresses -> physical addresses is not a difficult task for a government.
You should also point out that every specie-based currency was also ruined by debasement over time. A gold standard does nothing to prevent governments screwing the currency.
You seem to miss a key point, however: the money supply has little to do with how many physical units of currency exist. Bitcoin only caps the M0, it does nothing at all to limit the M2/M3, and therefore it doesn't prevent inflation.
TFA doesn't really counter Stross's arguments much (besides arguing about carbon footprint, but really BTC is small potatoes even if you care about such things). The authors instead focus on why his objections just aren't important, and I tend to agree with that.
In terms of actual economics, Stross is much in favor of state control of things, especially economic things (read his blog to get the best insight on his views), and BTC is the opposite of that. TFA primary argument, and one I'm quite sympathetic to is "well, who knows!" Economists argue over everything, and there's certainly no uniform agreement over what makes a good currency.
As Feynman would say "one experiment is worth 1000 expert opinions". BTC is quite worthwhile IMO as an experiment. Personally, I think it's misguided and solves only unimportant problems, but hey, lets run the experiment and find out who's right. If bitcoin really becomes mainstream then it is a good currency, because the best currency is the one people want to use. And if instead it's crap, then it will never realy matter outside of eternal /. stories, and so no significant harm done.
I think you'll find many missionaries also do charitable work while they're in-country. But I expect the tithes are 10% of his income (at least, that's the tradition in Western culture), and the other half is "real" charity.
Yeah, I figured the objection would be "but I don't like his choice of charities, someone else should decide that for his money". It's always a call for more central power, always.
Romney only "pays 15%" because he gives a ton of money to charity (20% of his income IIRC). That is, in fact, praiseworthy. Do you pay more than 35% in combined taxes+charity?
The only low-ish rates are long term capital gains, and I do think we get significant structural benefit to the country by rewarding long-term investing over quarter-by-quarter speculation.
The only way not to pay taxes on significant income is to get that income on muni bonds, which is just fine. You don't get any more "take home pay" from muni bonds vs corporate bonds, you just avoid transferring money from the local government paying the interest to the federal government.
Yes, today, but really there hasn't been much focus on anything except ways to reduce element size for decades. If the goal becomes "half the heat at the same frequency" rather then "double the frequency" in N years, with the same brainpower and funding thrown at the problem, there's certainly many doublings-of-efficiency available before "I canna break the laws of physics Captain", without going smaller.
Yes, exactly. The limiting factor on built-from-commodity-parts supercomputers is in fact the heat from what I hear. You pack in the CPUs as tight as you can, but that limit is the ability to transfer the heat out at that density. A 4 GHz core with half the heatload of the current would more-or-less double the number of cores you can shove in a given cabinet (without the ceiling catching fire).
I think the next couple of decades will be mostly about efficiency. Between mobile computing and the advantage of ever-more cores, the benefits from lower power consumption (and reduce heat load as a result) will be huge. And unlike element size, we're far from basic physical limits on efficiency.
That always sounded like "utilizing" to me - adding extra syllables just to try to sound smart.
There doesn't seem to be a great alternative - it's more specific than "motivating" or "encouraging".
Mining is the same as "transaction authentication". If you have a better idea for incenting people to authenticate transactions without a central server, the world would benefit.
Almost no malware today has anything to do with the OS. It's possible that the radically-different SE Linux security model would help, but then look who wrote that. No, I don't think the OS is relevant here.
Warning: reading the following warning will make you feel like that time when you didn't notice in time that something had crawled into your beer can and died.
Pretty hard to prevent when they can display arbitrary images. You'd have to do something they couldn't replicate, like personalizing it per user, or using a reserved part of the screen.
Trivial: just put a very obvious and different border around any dialog raised by the browser, like thick red and black hashing or something equally unsubtle. It's wouldn't solve every problem, but making it really obvious when it's a pop-up would help.
Or, better, just remove the whole horrible idea of pop-ups from the world of browsers. It solves a problem that no longer exists in tabbed browsing. Restrict web pages from opening anything but a new tab, and nothing of value will be lost.
Why the heck are you still allowed to post on /.? Do you have juicy pictures of someone at Dice? Are you someone's nephew?
We already know your views on every topic: whatever gives the powerful central authority even more power is what BH wants. You sure waste a lot of words in saying that, and very few here love totalitarianism the way you do, so how do you manage to twist Dice's arm?
Damn, and this is just one more comment on a BH thread. I should be ashamed for doing anything but ignoring it, but I just couldn't help myself.
The Shootout at the OK corral was about an extortion racket, with the cops doing the extortion and one family refusing to pay. I really hope that wasn't the norm in the old west.
No, I said the "point of most states concealed carry laws", because those are different than their open carry laws. The distinction between the two was the important bit.