Even pessimistically speaking, even if it was conceivable that IRS would turn a blind eye on very big corporations and big-shoed politicians who are "too big to fail", I can't wrap my head around why would they ever not go after the property of private tax-dodging millionaires, who have little or no influence on politics and/or national economy.
Err.. The European privacy laws are pretty much common sense. Just consider that people have the right to know what personal information is stored of them. If you are open about what information you collect, you should have no problem. But if you want to obscure what information you collect or collect more information than you openly admit, you are going to have a bad time.
I certainly hope that Sladhot has acquired "Independent.ie's express written consent" for linking to their article in the scoop, as stipulated in the newspaper's online edition's Terms & Conditions:
Hypertext links to this website by other users and websites are permitted provided that the link to this website is in a simple list of companies by pointing to Independent.ie's home page http://www.independent.ie. This limited licence entitles other users and websites to link to Independent.ie's home page only, and linking to other content on or information in this website is prohibited without Independent.ie's express written consent.
Today's high was $266, the low was $105 and currently it is trading around $180
If that was directed at the submitter (underwritten), I put "over 250 USD" in the scoop, which covers $266. Also, I did not want to put a low value, because the market is very, very unstable right now. All that could be said was that MtGox was reporting 140 USD when the scoop was submitted.
Now the martket seems to be regaining, possibly with news that the fall was connected to a DDoS.
Bit Coin works even if there are no "firms" to issue or exchange. Therefore, there is no one to regulate.
And where do you think people will get their BitCoins if there are no exchanges? Who will accept BitCoins? They as-is useful for only very few things.
Businesses (read: entities that manage much larger cash flows than your monthly salary) will stop accepting BitCoins the very moment they can not be readily exchanged for local currency.
So in essence, BitCoin is just a really geeky way of sending someone money online through these BitCoin <=> real currency exchanges. It has one downside though compared to PayPal: all BitCoin transactions are public, so it is devoid of any privacy, AFAIK. Anyone could write a script that will trace your transactions, if they can figure out your wallet number.. Not very nice!
Chrome for Android is still only available for Android versions greater than 4.0, which excludes about 60% of all Android users, while Firefox is available to Android 2.2+, which constitutes about 98% of all Android users (source)
One of these days people will slowly realize that the USA has no money and can't pay it's debts as the USA like most of the western world don't know anything about virtual money.
Well, you still can't change the fact that the USD is the world's reserve currency and the de facto universal currency for measuring the value of "stuff". Wanna buy some BitCoins? Browse to Mt.Gox and the BitCoins' exchange rate is expressed in USD for exactly this reason.
If a distributed virtual currency is to replace the fiat currencies, the process is going to be slow and manageable, and will take decades. It will also require the co-operation of those in control of the present-day fiat currencies. I don't have any hard figures, but I bet even though gold has been around much longer than distributed virtual currencies, only a fraction of world's wealth is in gold; much more is in government bonds and foreign cash reserves. So even if one currency has immediate value, it obviously does not lead to the collapse of other currencies that have only fiat value. Fiat currencies are backed by governments, which are very powerful.
Actually, the way I understand it, Antigua is allowed to gather profits amounting to 21 million USD from selling copies of American works. They definitely won't be using RIAA's "special math", as used in U.S. anti-filesharing court cases, to calculate the profits, or they would actually need to find someone who would buy a Metallica album for 21 million (when you can get it for maybe one millionth of that price from the record shop). Instead if realized, they would be selling the content at whatever price the public is willing to pay, until they have recovered the 21 million USD (minus running costs for the operation, of course.)
But I am sure that most users of any value for GitHub know how to easily circumvent The Great Firewall. But seriously, this is quite pathetic demonstration on China's part. Whom can GitHub hurt, anyway? Too bad I don't think there is a legal method to challenge the Chinese governments decisions for the Chinese citizens and residents.
Except that once you start taxing personal information collection, it legitimizes the whole business model. Corporations feel that they are entitled to your information, because they are already paying for it. I would much rather see governments actually enforcing existing laws on who can collect our personal information and to what extent.
I was surprised to learn that in Japan many workplaces actually organize morning exercise for their employees (video). Even if it is done on the company time, I am pretty sure that if you calculate the benefits to the workplace community, increased productivity (exercise boosts productivity) and healthier employees (even mild exercise has massive health benefits), it actually pays itself off to the employer. I bet it would also be a great motivation for many westerners to get up early to the office for the exercise that they get paid to do, compared to say going to the gym after-work.
This is an age-old technology, where a proxy server is used to compresses some of the mobile web page content (such as images) to accelerate the browsing experience on slow networks. In Opera Mobile the feature is called "Turbo browsing", and can be trivially disabled from the settings menu.
You seem to have misunderstood the meaning of the word gerrymandering. Here is a helpful video explanation of what it means. When Congressional districts proliferate so that they become more and more polarized to either Democratic or Republicans, gerrymandering is usually to blame.
Bummer.. So this is not really autonomous, just a car with very advanced collision avoidance technology.
Though it probably is a good step towards fully autonomous (self-driving) cars. Considering that traffic is the leading cause of accident fatalities in the world, this is a great thing.
A substance with a negative temperature is not colder than absolute zero, but rather it is hotter than infinite temperature.
It seems this is a very specific quantum mechanical perversion, and no classical systems can reach the state quantum physicists call "negative temperature".
Still, I don't think gun control is a solution to your problems. If a criminally insane person wants to stage a shooting spree, he will find his ways to that end irrespective of the legislation—at least in any non-Totalitarian society. Even if you do have gun control and permits, people who are into the firearm sports must have access to their equipment. And even then, if you would go as far as to outlaw shooting sports (which would be impossible due to immense public opposition), guns could still be smuggled in and sold in the black market, just like with recreational drugs today.
I don't believe recreational drugs should be illegal anymore than I believe that controlling access to guns as accessories to crime should be. The real problems behind both types of crime lie deeper in the social fabric. Look at your economic inequality, slums, education system, (mental) health care and media. There's lots you could improve, that would have much bigger effect on drug and gun crime than any legislation increasing policing measures could ever have.
I am inclined to point out, that a tragedy that at the outset looks even more deadly took place in Norway only last year. The perpetrator in that case used a bomb and firearms. However, Norway has very strict gun control. Obviously gun control does not prevent such tragedies.
By all fairness, even at worst it's not any more colored than FOX News. If you ignore the rather obvious Russian state-sponsored propaganda relating to anything to do with international power politics, it's actually often a surprisingly interesting and novel news source.
No, using GitHub is not dangerous. But reusing code from the Internet without investigating its licensing status is. Then again, the same goes for anything that you find online, and they teach kids at school these days what you can and can't re-use. Your ignorance will not protect you.
BBC does not "own" the airwaves. The British airwaves are "owned" (regulated) by Ofcom, a government agency akin to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. Ofcom is independent from BBC, a public service broadcaster itself largely free from government's control.
China Telecom also hijacked web traffic to US government websites in April 2010 for 17 minutes. At least that incident seems to have been a purposeful disruptions to capture sensitive data and/or try out a novel cyberwarfare tactic.
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Even pessimistically speaking, even if it was conceivable that IRS would turn a blind eye on very big corporations and big-shoed politicians who are "too big to fail", I can't wrap my head around why would they ever not go after the property of private tax-dodging millionaires, who have little or no influence on politics and/or national economy.
Err.. The European privacy laws are pretty much common sense. Just consider that people have the right to know what personal information is stored of them. If you are open about what information you collect, you should have no problem. But if you want to obscure what information you collect or collect more information than you openly admit, you are going to have a bad time.
I certainly hope that Sladhot has acquired "Independent.ie's express written consent" for linking to their article in the scoop, as stipulated in the newspaper's online edition's Terms & Conditions:
Hypertext links to this website by other users and websites are permitted provided that the link to this website is in a simple list of companies by pointing to Independent.ie's home page http://www.independent.ie. This limited licence entitles other users and websites to link to Independent.ie's home page only, and linking to other content on or information in this website is prohibited without Independent.ie's express written consent.
.. #dealwithit
Today's high was $266, the low was $105 and currently it is trading around $180
If that was directed at the submitter (underwritten), I put "over 250 USD" in the scoop, which covers $266. Also, I did not want to put a low value, because the market is very, very unstable right now. All that could be said was that MtGox was reporting 140 USD when the scoop was submitted.
Now the martket seems to be regaining, possibly with news that the fall was connected to a DDoS.
There is a value connected to mining and acquiring the mining equipment, but at least currently it is way lower than where the currency is trading.
Bit Coin works even if there are no "firms" to issue or exchange. Therefore, there is no one to regulate.
And where do you think people will get their BitCoins if there are no exchanges? Who will accept BitCoins? They as-is useful for only very few things.
Businesses (read: entities that manage much larger cash flows than your monthly salary) will stop accepting BitCoins the very moment they can not be readily exchanged for local currency.
So in essence, BitCoin is just a really geeky way of sending someone money online through these BitCoin <=> real currency exchanges. It has one downside though compared to PayPal: all BitCoin transactions are public, so it is devoid of any privacy, AFAIK. Anyone could write a script that will trace your transactions, if they can figure out your wallet number.. Not very nice!
Chrome for Android is still only available for Android versions greater than 4.0, which excludes about 60% of all Android users, while Firefox is available to Android 2.2+, which constitutes about 98% of all Android users (source)
One of these days people will slowly realize that the USA has no money and can't pay it's debts as the USA like most of the western world don't know anything about virtual money.
Well, you still can't change the fact that the USD is the world's reserve currency and the de facto universal currency for measuring the value of "stuff". Wanna buy some BitCoins? Browse to Mt.Gox and the BitCoins' exchange rate is expressed in USD for exactly this reason.
If a distributed virtual currency is to replace the fiat currencies, the process is going to be slow and manageable, and will take decades. It will also require the co-operation of those in control of the present-day fiat currencies. I don't have any hard figures, but I bet even though gold has been around much longer than distributed virtual currencies, only a fraction of world's wealth is in gold; much more is in government bonds and foreign cash reserves. So even if one currency has immediate value, it obviously does not lead to the collapse of other currencies that have only fiat value. Fiat currencies are backed by governments, which are very powerful.
Actually, the way I understand it, Antigua is allowed to gather profits amounting to 21 million USD from selling copies of American works. They definitely won't be using RIAA's "special math", as used in U.S. anti-filesharing court cases, to calculate the profits, or they would actually need to find someone who would buy a Metallica album for 21 million (when you can get it for maybe one millionth of that price from the record shop). Instead if realized, they would be selling the content at whatever price the public is willing to pay, until they have recovered the 21 million USD (minus running costs for the operation, of course.)
But I am sure that most users of any value for GitHub know how to easily circumvent The Great Firewall. But seriously, this is quite pathetic demonstration on China's part. Whom can GitHub hurt, anyway? Too bad I don't think there is a legal method to challenge the Chinese governments decisions for the Chinese citizens and residents.
Except that once you start taxing personal information collection, it legitimizes the whole business model. Corporations feel that they are entitled to your information, because they are already paying for it. I would much rather see governments actually enforcing existing laws on who can collect our personal information and to what extent.
I was surprised to learn that in Japan many workplaces actually organize morning exercise for their employees (video). Even if it is done on the company time, I am pretty sure that if you calculate the benefits to the workplace community, increased productivity (exercise boosts productivity) and healthier employees (even mild exercise has massive health benefits), it actually pays itself off to the employer. I bet it would also be a great motivation for many westerners to get up early to the office for the exercise that they get paid to do, compared to say going to the gym after-work.
This is an age-old technology, where a proxy server is used to compresses some of the mobile web page content (such as images) to accelerate the browsing experience on slow networks. In Opera Mobile the feature is called "Turbo browsing", and can be trivially disabled from the settings menu.
News at 10 o'clock.
I like how that plays with your sig.
You seem to have misunderstood the meaning of the word gerrymandering. Here is a helpful video explanation of what it means. When Congressional districts proliferate so that they become more and more polarized to either Democratic or Republicans, gerrymandering is usually to blame.
Bummer.. So this is not really autonomous, just a car with very advanced collision avoidance technology.
Though it probably is a good step towards fully autonomous (self-driving) cars. Considering that traffic is the leading cause of accident fatalities in the world, this is a great thing.
A substance with a negative temperature is not colder than absolute zero, but rather it is hotter than infinite temperature.
It seems this is a very specific quantum mechanical perversion, and no classical systems can reach the state quantum physicists call "negative temperature".
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Still, I don't think gun control is a solution to your problems. If a criminally insane person wants to stage a shooting spree, he will find his ways to that end irrespective of the legislation—at least in any non-Totalitarian society. Even if you do have gun control and permits, people who are into the firearm sports must have access to their equipment. And even then, if you would go as far as to outlaw shooting sports (which would be impossible due to immense public opposition), guns could still be smuggled in and sold in the black market, just like with recreational drugs today.
I don't believe recreational drugs should be illegal anymore than I believe that controlling access to guns as accessories to crime should be. The real problems behind both types of crime lie deeper in the social fabric. Look at your economic inequality, slums, education system, (mental) health care and media. There's lots you could improve, that would have much bigger effect on drug and gun crime than any legislation increasing policing measures could ever have.
I am inclined to point out, that a tragedy that at the outset looks even more deadly took place in Norway only last year. The perpetrator in that case used a bomb and firearms. However, Norway has very strict gun control. Obviously gun control does not prevent such tragedies.
By all fairness, even at worst it's not any more colored than FOX News. If you ignore the rather obvious Russian state-sponsored propaganda relating to anything to do with international power politics, it's actually often a surprisingly interesting and novel news source.
No, using GitHub is not dangerous. But reusing code from the Internet without investigating its licensing status is. Then again, the same goes for anything that you find online, and they teach kids at school these days what you can and can't re-use. Your ignorance will not protect you.
They "own" all of the airwaves.
BBC does not "own" the airwaves. The British airwaves are "owned" (regulated) by Ofcom, a government agency akin to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. Ofcom is independent from BBC, a public service broadcaster itself largely free from government's control.
China Telecom also hijacked web traffic to US government websites in April 2010 for 17 minutes. At least that incident seems to have been a purposeful disruptions to capture sensitive data and/or try out a novel cyberwarfare tactic.