I can buy food with USD. I can buy a car. I can buy all sorts of things that are useful, or even essential, in day to day life. Buying gold futures, by contrast, does not have any use, except to then sell those futures, hopefully at a profit. Sure, you could sell the gold futures for USD and use those to buy something of use, but at that point it's no different from cashing out of bitcoins in any other way.
For the same reason it's bad to show streakers at sports games. If you give someone nationwide publicity for doing a bad thing, more people will do that thing.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Causing the deaths of thousands of people doesn't make it okay to profit from the suicide of another. And make no mistake, that is what's happening here. They air these chases as ultra-low-budget action movies to draw eyeballs and sell ads, knowing full well how these things can end.
Ugh, don't give them ideas. I like to actually own the games I buy. This piecemeal approach to purchasing seems to require one to spend five times as much to get the full game. If they start selling players and teams piecemeal, why not plays as well? "Oh. you want to throw a curveball? That'll be 800 EA bucks, please. Why yes, they are sold in bundles of 750, why do you ask?"
Not every friend is going to know to archive the data on their end. If they want to forget and move on, then they can do the same thing they do when they want to forget and move on from a bad relationship. Unfriend. Done. Maybe set up a system where anyone who unfriends you after death can refriend you at will, in case years later they feel like reminiscing.
What's the rationale behind not keeping a frozen account for posterity? Is disk space really at such a premium? Obviously Facebook shouldn't send spam to mourning people, that's just a strawman.
Well first of all, programming the game isn't free, so even with fake teams, it wouldn't be free. Additionally, it's not like the NFL (or MLB or whoever) charges EA some amount of money per license sold. The terms would be more like EA pays X million dollars in exchange for exclusive rights for Y years. Given those terms, it doesn't make sense to sell versions of the game without the real rosters.
Why, technically, can't rosters be updated separately from the engine?
Obviously they can be, but that's not what you're asking. What I suspect you are really interested in is why those roster updates can't be released for free, or at least very cheap.
The answer is licensing. If you want to make a sports game using real team names, and real player names, and real player likenesses, then you need to pay a lot of money to the respective leagues and player associations. EA and 2K can't afford to release free roster updates every year while still paying those licensing fees.
Presumably the new implants wouldn't be made of lead and mercury and such. According to the fine article, they contain silicon, magnesium, and oxygen, all of which are naturally found in the body and play a positive role. Silicon is the only questionable one, since the human body normally only has around a gram of the stuff, but if the circuits are sufficiently tiny, they won't make much difference.
Oh Slashdot, news for luddites, as always. Just once I'd like to see a story about a new technology in which there isn't an immediate upmodded post about how it's so scary and awful.
Tell me, how does the dissolvability of this new tech make it ideal for surveillance? Are you one of those tin foil nutcases who thinks the US is implanting tracking devices in people? If so, why do they want those devices (which are already so well hidden that they've never been found) to dissolve? If not, how exactly are they going to surreptitiously get these scary tracking devices into people?
"You're just saying Obama isn't a good candidate because he's black, and you are a racist!"
No one ever said those words to you, you lying piece of shit. But lots of people (like you!) accused black voters of being racist for voting for him, and nevermind the fact that black people have supported the Democratic candidate by 90+% margins in each of the last several elections, ever since the Republicans openly announced that they were pursuing a "Southern Strategy" to take advantage of racial hatred following the passage of the Civil Rights Acts.
So you bitch about imaginary people accusing you of racism while simultaneously accusing others of racism. What a great person you are.
Not that it even fucking matters. This is the most trivial little "flaw" you could possibly imagine. Some intern putting together a glorified powerpoint went to Google Image Search, typed in "battleships" and picked the coolest looking picture.
As for the embassy hit, fuck you for trying to politicize that. They reacted quickly, based on what appeared to be the case, and then revised their understanding when more details came to light, just like any sane person would do. If they refused to issue an initial statement, you'd criticize them for that. If they refused to change their statement when new facts came to light, you'd (justifiably) criticize them for that too.
As for ACTUAL screwups, how about their mistaken belief that they could keep unemployment under 8% with the stimulus? Are you gonna claim that the media hasn't covered that?
Wouldn't calling a religion "batshit crazy" qualify as both vulgar and profane? Or is "profanity" specific to using religious words (e.g. damn, hell, etc.) as curses?
I would vote for him in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, no sane, intelligent person would try to be President. You have to either be a naive Pollyanna thinking you'll somehow rise above the partisanship, a Machiavellian sociopath willing to put up with anything for power, or a blithering idiot who's simply unaware of the hell you'll be dragged through every day of the campaign, and the further torments that await when everyone uses you as the scapegoat for every single thing that goes wrong.
Sounds much like Occupy Wall Street in the USA. Didn't like the status quo, but doomed with no clear platform or list of achievable goals.
Sounds like the American revolutionaries. Did you know they didn't come up with the Constitution until over a DECADE after declaring independence? And that their Declaration of Independence had no clear platform or list of achievable goals, containing instead a paragraph of platitudes like "the right to pursue happiness" followed a laundry list of bitching about the status quo?
I guess that must be why their revolution failed, right?
There will be tweets (or weibos as the case may be), until the government gets around to blocking them. For example this one and these.
It's pretty clear that this wasn't just a little fight, but it seems to be under control at this point. The cops were out in force, and there appear to have been military personnel on the scene as well.
The number that believe in creationism has been pretty much constant for the past thirty years, according to the survey you cite. What makes you think that it's going to go up? And even if it does, what makes you so sure that belief in creationism correlates so closely to a desire to lock down the internet?
What exactly are you even getting at? That would should be afraid of "others"? Sounds like run-of-the-mill hate-mongering to me. No different from Rush Limbaugh moaning about how the US is on track to become majority-minority.
Wasn't Stuxnet transmitted by the good old fashioned "dropped" flash drive trick? I'm pretty sure these two events are unrelated. The Iranian theocracy wants control. This is just another vector by which to achieve it.
So 8k students out of 1.3M have formed study groups? While that's good for those students, I'd hardly call it scaling well. That's a rate of 0.6%. Far, far lower than what you get in traditional universities.
Do students really need to resort to a third party site to meet each other? If so, that's probably part of the problem right there. It seems like integrating social networking features right into Coursera would help to tremendously increase the rate at which students interact.
Maybe it has something to do with Android users treating their phones are tools, while iPhone users treat them as spouses.
My phone works. I'm in no more rush to download updates for it than I am to download the latest updates for Windows or Firefox. The only people who seem to get really worked up over software updates are the Applephiles.
You know what would be even nicer than acknowledging the problem? Allowing their users to choose which map program they want to use, instead of forcing them to be pawns in Apple's war on Google.
1) You need insurance because healthcare is legitimately expensive, and only the top 10% or so can afford to self-insure. Insurance in the US is more expensive than it ought to be because our system is a mess, with dozens of insurers and thousands of plans. 2) Your doctor needs insurance because he might make a mistake that literally costs you a limb, or worse. My friend lost his arm because the surgeon forgot to take the gauze out. Are you really going to argue that the doctor shouldn't have to make that up to him? 3) Pharmaceutical companies need insurance because when they make a mistake, it can ruin countless lives. Are you again gonna claim that people who's lives are destroyed do not deserve any recourse?
And so on...
Your attitude seems to be that society should leave the unlucky to die, so that costs can be lower for the rest of us. That's a tempting argument, if you're a self-centered, short-sighted monster. But someday, someone you care about will be the unlucky one. Maybe even you.
There aren't 171k common-use words in the English language. The number is closer to 50k, and for words that people would pick "randomly", I'd be surprised if it's even 5k. By the time you get anywhere near 171k you're including words like "adactylous" and "grugrus" that no one is going to think of using in a password. Source.
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I can buy food with USD. I can buy a car. I can buy all sorts of things that are useful, or even essential, in day to day life. Buying gold futures, by contrast, does not have any use, except to then sell those futures, hopefully at a profit. Sure, you could sell the gold futures for USD and use those to buy something of use, but at that point it's no different from cashing out of bitcoins in any other way.
For the same reason it's bad to show streakers at sports games. If you give someone nationwide publicity for doing a bad thing, more people will do that thing.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Causing the deaths of thousands of people doesn't make it okay to profit from the suicide of another. And make no mistake, that is what's happening here. They air these chases as ultra-low-budget action movies to draw eyeballs and sell ads, knowing full well how these things can end.
Ugh, don't give them ideas. I like to actually own the games I buy. This piecemeal approach to purchasing seems to require one to spend five times as much to get the full game. If they start selling players and teams piecemeal, why not plays as well? "Oh. you want to throw a curveball? That'll be 800 EA bucks, please. Why yes, they are sold in bundles of 750, why do you ask?"
Not every friend is going to know to archive the data on their end. If they want to forget and move on, then they can do the same thing they do when they want to forget and move on from a bad relationship. Unfriend. Done. Maybe set up a system where anyone who unfriends you after death can refriend you at will, in case years later they feel like reminiscing.
What's the rationale behind not keeping a frozen account for posterity? Is disk space really at such a premium? Obviously Facebook shouldn't send spam to mourning people, that's just a strawman.
Well first of all, programming the game isn't free, so even with fake teams, it wouldn't be free. Additionally, it's not like the NFL (or MLB or whoever) charges EA some amount of money per license sold. The terms would be more like EA pays X million dollars in exchange for exclusive rights for Y years. Given those terms, it doesn't make sense to sell versions of the game without the real rosters.
Why, technically, can't rosters be updated separately from the engine?
Obviously they can be, but that's not what you're asking. What I suspect you are really interested in is why those roster updates can't be released for free, or at least very cheap.
The answer is licensing. If you want to make a sports game using real team names, and real player names, and real player likenesses, then you need to pay a lot of money to the respective leagues and player associations. EA and 2K can't afford to release free roster updates every year while still paying those licensing fees.
And I hear a few of them even have a sense of humor!
Presumably the new implants wouldn't be made of lead and mercury and such. According to the fine article, they contain silicon, magnesium, and oxygen, all of which are naturally found in the body and play a positive role. Silicon is the only questionable one, since the human body normally only has around a gram of the stuff, but if the circuits are sufficiently tiny, they won't make much difference.
Oh Slashdot, news for luddites, as always. Just once I'd like to see a story about a new technology in which there isn't an immediate upmodded post about how it's so scary and awful.
Tell me, how does the dissolvability of this new tech make it ideal for surveillance? Are you one of those tin foil nutcases who thinks the US is implanting tracking devices in people? If so, why do they want those devices (which are already so well hidden that they've never been found) to dissolve? If not, how exactly are they going to surreptitiously get these scary tracking devices into people?
"You're just saying Obama isn't a good candidate because he's black, and you are a racist!"
No one ever said those words to you, you lying piece of shit. But lots of people (like you!) accused black voters of being racist for voting for him, and nevermind the fact that black people have supported the Democratic candidate by 90+% margins in each of the last several elections, ever since the Republicans openly announced that they were pursuing a "Southern Strategy" to take advantage of racial hatred following the passage of the Civil Rights Acts.
So you bitch about imaginary people accusing you of racism while simultaneously accusing others of racism. What a great person you are.
You are so full of shit. Here's the story on CNN. And here it is in the NY Times.
Not that it even fucking matters. This is the most trivial little "flaw" you could possibly imagine. Some intern putting together a glorified powerpoint went to Google Image Search, typed in "battleships" and picked the coolest looking picture.
As for the embassy hit, fuck you for trying to politicize that. They reacted quickly, based on what appeared to be the case, and then revised their understanding when more details came to light, just like any sane person would do. If they refused to issue an initial statement, you'd criticize them for that. If they refused to change their statement when new facts came to light, you'd (justifiably) criticize them for that too.
As for ACTUAL screwups, how about their mistaken belief that they could keep unemployment under 8% with the stimulus? Are you gonna claim that the media hasn't covered that?
Hence the GP wondering how Einstein "would feel" rather than how he "feels".
Wouldn't calling a religion "batshit crazy" qualify as both vulgar and profane? Or is "profanity" specific to using religious words (e.g. damn, hell, etc.) as curses?
I would vote for him in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, no sane, intelligent person would try to be President. You have to either be a naive Pollyanna thinking you'll somehow rise above the partisanship, a Machiavellian sociopath willing to put up with anything for power, or a blithering idiot who's simply unaware of the hell you'll be dragged through every day of the campaign, and the further torments that await when everyone uses you as the scapegoat for every single thing that goes wrong.
Sounds much like Occupy Wall Street in the USA. Didn't like the status quo, but doomed with no clear platform or list of achievable goals.
Sounds like the American revolutionaries. Did you know they didn't come up with the Constitution until over a DECADE after declaring independence? And that their Declaration of Independence had no clear platform or list of achievable goals, containing instead a paragraph of platitudes like "the right to pursue happiness" followed a laundry list of bitching about the status quo?
I guess that must be why their revolution failed, right?
There will be tweets (or weibos as the case may be), until the government gets around to blocking them. For example this one and these.
It's pretty clear that this wasn't just a little fight, but it seems to be under control at this point. The cops were out in force, and there appear to have been military personnel on the scene as well.
You need to stop basing your views on sitcom caricatures.
The number that believe in creationism has been pretty much constant for the past thirty years, according to the survey you cite. What makes you think that it's going to go up? And even if it does, what makes you so sure that belief in creationism correlates so closely to a desire to lock down the internet?
What exactly are you even getting at? That would should be afraid of "others"? Sounds like run-of-the-mill hate-mongering to me. No different from Rush Limbaugh moaning about how the US is on track to become majority-minority.
Wasn't Stuxnet transmitted by the good old fashioned "dropped" flash drive trick? I'm pretty sure these two events are unrelated. The Iranian theocracy wants control. This is just another vector by which to achieve it.
So 8k students out of 1.3M have formed study groups? While that's good for those students, I'd hardly call it scaling well. That's a rate of 0.6%. Far, far lower than what you get in traditional universities.
Do students really need to resort to a third party site to meet each other? If so, that's probably part of the problem right there. It seems like integrating social networking features right into Coursera would help to tremendously increase the rate at which students interact.
Maybe it has something to do with Android users treating their phones are tools, while iPhone users treat them as spouses.
My phone works. I'm in no more rush to download updates for it than I am to download the latest updates for Windows or Firefox. The only people who seem to get really worked up over software updates are the Applephiles.
You know what would be even nicer than acknowledging the problem? Allowing their users to choose which map program they want to use, instead of forcing them to be pawns in Apple's war on Google.
No, wrong. And frankly, evil.
1) You need insurance because healthcare is legitimately expensive, and only the top 10% or so can afford to self-insure. Insurance in the US is more expensive than it ought to be because our system is a mess, with dozens of insurers and thousands of plans.
2) Your doctor needs insurance because he might make a mistake that literally costs you a limb, or worse. My friend lost his arm because the surgeon forgot to take the gauze out. Are you really going to argue that the doctor shouldn't have to make that up to him?
3) Pharmaceutical companies need insurance because when they make a mistake, it can ruin countless lives. Are you again gonna claim that people who's lives are destroyed do not deserve any recourse?
And so on...
Your attitude seems to be that society should leave the unlucky to die, so that costs can be lower for the rest of us. That's a tempting argument, if you're a self-centered, short-sighted monster. But someday, someone you care about will be the unlucky one. Maybe even you.
There aren't 171k common-use words in the English language. The number is closer to 50k, and for words that people would pick "randomly", I'd be surprised if it's even 5k. By the time you get anywhere near 171k you're including words like "adactylous" and "grugrus" that no one is going to think of using in a password. Source.