Do you really think Paypal is paying more for your privacy? Ha!
If Paypal is paying to keep the data to their own, it's because they found a buyer that pays them more if it's exclusive. Believing otherwise is just foolishly naive.
I don't know what kind of incompetent banks you have where you live, but banks here don't let anyone with an IBAN set up a direct debit. Our direct debits here in Portugal need to be authorized by the account holder, after proper authentication.
what happens to the blockchain, when the internet goes down for a while?
Each Bitcoin client contains a full copy of the blockchain. If the internet goes down for a while, new transactions can't be made until it's up again, then all the clients sync up and continue where they left.
How long do bitcoins continue to exist, when there is no bitcoin network?
There's not really such a thing as "a bitcoin". The blockchain is a ledger, it only contains transactions. So, I'd say they continue to exist as long as at least one of the hundreds of thousands of hard drives that contain a copy of the blockchain continue to exist. That said, you probably need a least a few hundred to form any kind of decent network.
What if bitcoin is the only currency, and there's no way to pay workers to get it back up and running?
If the Internet as a whole stopped working for an appreciable amount of time, I'd be more worried about the coming economical and then social meltdown than about getting my month's paycheck.
But even a world wide Internet breakdown is still more likely than Bitcoin somehow becoming the only currency in the world.
Well, the "thickness" distribution would have to be very odd not to account for some exceptions.
In my opinion, kids aren't much dumber than adults, they just have assimilated less stuff. That can be bad (less useful knowledge) or good (less prejudices).
But in any case, have you tried teaching average adults to program? Because you might start finding difficult to believe that anyone can program;)
Agreed; unless the battery gives out - and then the phone will warn me earlier, so I can warn the other person - I never have dropped calls, even when talking inside a car on the highway.
I speak as someone who hosts his own email, website, RSS client, etc: paraphrasing an often quoted saying, "it's only $5 a month if your time has no value".
While I enjoy administrating it, it's not set it and forget it, unless you want some security flaw in ownCloud to allow someone to break in and delete your stuff, or worse. You need to monitor it, keep up with updates, deal with larger upgrades that might break your stack, etc.
Keeping up with anything besides MM crap without wasting half a day opening different websites which only update once in a while.
If you're content reading aggregators like Slashdot, it doesn't offer you much, but if you want to read say, Lambda-the-Ultimate, it's much less annoying to be told when there's new content.
You forgot one thing: it's not possible to get the software for free if it doesn't exist yet;) A big part of our business is development of new software.
Besides, most of our costumers are not technologists, so the idea of going around setting up public source repositories is kind of foreign to them. We're significantly cheaper than the alternatives (mainly SAP), so they're happy to pay.
That said, we do offer additional value: hosting, support, custom development and training.
That's what tools like the Google Closure Compiler do - they analyze the code and remove unused parts. Unfortunately, the code still needs to follow some strict guidelines to be well processed by the compiler, and jQuery doesn't, so the result doesn't work well. There's an open bugÂ, but not much interest in it.
That said, it might not be worth it; 10KB is still bigger than the 0KB you get from using a copy that's probably already in the user's cache, like the one in the Google CDN, so this is almost a moot point.
I don't particular care about C++, but despite NOT being an American - or, for that matter, a native English speaker -, I'm completely opposed to Unicode characters outside of comments and strings.
It's exactly because not everyone uses the same language that we should standardize on a limited subset, and ASCII is the most common and well supported of those, and also part of the de-facto International Language (English), which any decent programmer has to understand, at least minimally.
And by the way, that you can't use $ in your variables has nothing to do with Unicode support, of course.
Not exactly; Bitcoins themselves don't have or are numbers, they're just an amount.
The Bitcoin protocol is essentially a ledger. In order to take some bitcoins from an account, you need to identify where did they come from (previous transaction crediting that account).
So, transactions have hashes, but coins themselves don't; they're just amounts that get transferred.
By the time child labor was outlawed, the industrial base had been built up to the point that child laborers weren't needed, and were vanishingly rare.
Actually, reality is more interesting; in the UK, child labor was still common, so much that one of the most important groups for the Factory Acts (which restricted it) were the owners of the mechanized factories, who sought to eliminate their still relevant competition (as well as protect the children, I'm sure).
So while the material itself is not on the torrent sites, they are heavily "partners in crime". Like a drug dealer, but not drug maker.
I'd like to see a drug dealer which doesn't handle drugs.
The problem with the analogies people make up, is that they're simply wrong.
Not only a torrent site doesn't see the contents of the files, as - unlike drugs - files are not illegal (otherwise the MPAA and c couldn't sell them either). Copyright infringement occurs when a person X transfers a file Y to another person Z without the proper authorization from the copyright holder(s).
Therefore, a torrent site would have to know the appropriate rights for each transaction (X, Y, Z) to be able to determine if it's copyright infringement or not. Not doing so would be detrimental to copyright holders themselves, like when Youtube deleted an artist's own music videos, uploaded by herself.
It's a shame that people are too lazy to inform themselves not to fall to the big media lies.
Technically you should then store your material in some kind of legal torrents site.
1. Torrent sites don't store material, only links. 2. Kat and other sites are not "illegal". (The previous version of TPB was, but its now hosted somewhere else, so it isn't now).
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Do you really think Paypal is paying more for your privacy? Ha!
If Paypal is paying to keep the data to their own, it's because they found a buyer that pays them more if it's exclusive. Believing otherwise is just foolishly naive.
I don't know what kind of incompetent banks you have where you live, but banks here don't let anyone with an IBAN set up a direct debit. Our direct debits here in Portugal need to be authorized by the account holder, after proper authentication.
what happens to the blockchain, when the internet goes down for a while?
Each Bitcoin client contains a full copy of the blockchain. If the internet goes down for a while, new transactions can't be made until it's up again, then all the clients sync up and continue where they left.
How long do bitcoins continue to exist, when there is no bitcoin network?
There's not really such a thing as "a bitcoin". The blockchain is a ledger, it only contains transactions. So, I'd say they continue to exist as long as at least one of the hundreds of thousands of hard drives that contain a copy of the blockchain continue to exist. That said, you probably need a least a few hundred to form any kind of decent network.
What if bitcoin is the only currency, and there's no way to pay workers to get it back up and running?
If the Internet as a whole stopped working for an appreciable amount of time, I'd be more worried about the coming economical and then social meltdown than about getting my month's paycheck.
But even a world wide Internet breakdown is still more likely than Bitcoin somehow becoming the only currency in the world.
Well, the "thickness" distribution would have to be very odd not to account for some exceptions.
In my opinion, kids aren't much dumber than adults, they just have assimilated less stuff. That can be bad (less useful knowledge) or good (less prejudices).
But in any case, have you tried teaching average adults to program? Because you might start finding difficult to believe that anyone can program ;)
If the other person didn't warn them that the battery could give out, there's no practical difference from an hang up on purpose.
Agreed; unless the battery gives out - and then the phone will warn me earlier, so I can warn the other person - I never have dropped calls, even when talking inside a car on the highway.
Why do you assume it's only one person? The heavy texters I know are usually conversing with multiple people at the same time.
Why not? TinyTinyRSS has native mobile apps, including an official Android client.
I speak as someone who hosts his own email, website, RSS client, etc: paraphrasing an often quoted saying, "it's only $5 a month if your time has no value".
While I enjoy administrating it, it's not set it and forget it, unless you want some security flaw in ownCloud to allow someone to break in and delete your stuff, or worse. You need to monitor it, keep up with updates, deal with larger upgrades that might break your stack, etc.
Keeping up with anything besides MM crap without wasting half a day opening different websites which only update once in a while.
If you're content reading aggregators like Slashdot, it doesn't offer you much, but if you want to read say, Lambda-the-Ultimate, it's much less annoying to be told when there's new content.
When you say "shared", do you mean VPS or actually shared "web hosting"? Because TTRSS need a background daemon running to work well.
I run it on my cheap VPS and it's been working just fine, even with a machine running a slew of other stuff (websites, email, git annex, etc).
Host it yourself: http://tt-rss.org/
Tiny Tiny RSS has filters, but there's also Yahoo! Pipes, which works with every reader.
If you don't mind self-hosting, try Tiny Tiny RSS, it's a barebones reader with just that kind of UI.
You forgot one thing: it's not possible to get the software for free if it doesn't exist yet ;) A big part of our business is development of new software.
Besides, most of our costumers are not technologists, so the idea of going around setting up public source repositories is kind of foreign to them. We're significantly cheaper than the alternatives (mainly SAP), so they're happy to pay.
That said, we do offer additional value: hosting, support, custom development and training.
OSS is free
Not necessarily; I write OSS for a living, but only a fraction is free.
"Man purses" are not well seen in my country either, but satchels / messenger bags don't bring you odd looks and accomplish much the same thing.
You can program on iPads: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
I'd prefer if it was free and less limited, but I think it's good enough to learn, and Lua is a much better language than BASIC ever was.
That's what tools like the Google Closure Compiler do - they analyze the code and remove unused parts. Unfortunately, the code still needs to follow some strict guidelines to be well processed by the compiler, and jQuery doesn't, so the result doesn't work well. There's an open bugÂ, but not much interest in it.
That said, it might not be worth it; 10KB is still bigger than the 0KB you get from using a copy that's probably already in the user's cache, like the one in the Google CDN, so this is almost a moot point.
I don't particular care about C++, but despite NOT being an American - or, for that matter, a native English speaker -, I'm completely opposed to Unicode characters outside of comments and strings.
It's exactly because not everyone uses the same language that we should standardize on a limited subset, and ASCII is the most common and well supported of those, and also part of the de-facto International Language (English), which any decent programmer has to understand, at least minimally.
And by the way, that you can't use $ in your variables has nothing to do with Unicode support, of course.
The coins themselves aren't identifiable; you could refuse to process the transactions coming from the thieve's addresses, but:
1.) Since the system is decentralized, you'd need to get all miners to agree to it (not likely).
2.) The thieves often send some of the coins to other people's addresses, to make it harder to identify them.
Not exactly; Bitcoins themselves don't have or are numbers, they're just an amount.
The Bitcoin protocol is essentially a ledger. In order to take some bitcoins from an account, you need to identify where did they come from (previous transaction crediting that account).
So, transactions have hashes, but coins themselves don't; they're just amounts that get transferred.
By the time child labor was outlawed, the industrial base had been built up to the point that child laborers weren't needed, and were vanishingly rare.
Actually, reality is more interesting; in the UK, child labor was still common, so much that one of the most important groups for the Factory Acts (which restricted it) were the owners of the mechanized factories, who sought to eliminate their still relevant competition (as well as protect the children, I'm sure).
Those links make the pirating possible in the first place.
So do browsers, web servers, the Internet, computers, etc.
Someone has to index the magnet links for people to find the actual files.
Yeah, like Slashdot: magnet:xturnbtihbe7968dc49ebc2994ec4129a7d42350831c95bb5
Damn piracy enablers!
So while the material itself is not on the torrent sites, they are heavily "partners in crime". Like a drug dealer, but not drug maker.
I'd like to see a drug dealer which doesn't handle drugs.
The problem with the analogies people make up, is that they're simply wrong.
Not only a torrent site doesn't see the contents of the files, as - unlike drugs - files are not illegal (otherwise the MPAA and c couldn't sell them either). Copyright infringement occurs when a person X transfers a file Y to another person Z without the proper authorization from the copyright holder(s).
Therefore, a torrent site would have to know the appropriate rights for each transaction (X, Y, Z) to be able to determine if it's copyright infringement or not. Not doing so would be detrimental to copyright holders themselves, like when Youtube deleted an artist's own music videos, uploaded by herself.
It's a shame that people are too lazy to inform themselves not to fall to the big media lies.
Technically you should then store your material in some kind of legal torrents site.
1. Torrent sites don't store material, only links.
2. Kat and other sites are not "illegal". (The previous version of TPB was, but its now hosted somewhere else, so it isn't now).