"I think the only types of people who will bother learning how to use bitcoin would be, in decreasing order of value to society: privacy nuts, criminals, or economists."
And trojan writers who'll get millions of zombies around the world generating coins for them.
Which is quite evident when people are comparing prices in the steam forums. Its one price for the US where they apparently are poor, and another easily 2 or 3 times that amount for Europe where they are apparently rich. So how about the same price for all eh, you greedy capitalist?
"By 2011, it should be considered "web 101" to not run javascripts unless you have a reason TO run them. "
I tried the noscript crap for a moment, every single page has tons of javascript, most of them don't work if its disabled. Its possibly you just browse to your homepage made in notepad, but for the rest of the world YOU MUST HAVE JAVASCRIPT ON.
A car is not a weapon. Its a vehicle. Can someone be killed by it sure, but thats not the primary objective, and you can kill with almost all items (if you are clever enough)
Stop spewing crap when you know nothing of the case!
"Using an online service for something like your passwords is just incredibly stupid. It's a really well known place to hack for someone who wants lots of passwords. Backup your encrypted password container to your own place, but never something like this."
Hey, retardo, don't you think the people who made it know this? All of your password are stored on their system ENCRYPTED. They are encrypted on YOUR computer, with a password only YOU (not them) before being stored in the cloud. When you retrieve the password you get the encrypted blob, and it is decoded on your system.
*IF* and I stress *IF* the last pass servers were hacked (and nobody knows if they were, so the slashdot headline is pure tabloid) then all they got was encrypted blobs of material for a very small number of users.
IF something was actually taken, and your master password was "ignorant" then you might be bruteforced in short time, if you picked something long and non dictionary then not this decade.
The lastpass people run a very tight ship and because they noticed a slightly anomaly on their network they couldn't immediately explain they warned everybody within 24 hours! (as opposed to some sites who waits weeks)
You wanna know how Lastpass works? Listen to this review from Leo Laports 'twit' network:
The first way of course being sending in military and bombing the place. The second way is of course this, spreading their greedy imperialism to all countries - or as the Borg would say ASSIMILATE
Haven't you paid attention to trends and news? All the industry have changed their belief - they all believe that the way for them to make more money is to implement market places. Because "normal" people don't get the hunting around, but they get going to one specific place. One day the only way to buy software for some platforms (like Apple for instance?) will be from a marketplace. Unless there is a huge backlash, and of course most people just follow their leaders.
There are several more tabs out now with market, and all those coming in the next few months have the market. And Asus's Transformer has a better screen than that the IPad, and is cheaper. And you are the one who should remove your head from your ass. They are selling around 10 million Android phones a month at the moment and still going up. All of those people are going to ask if their phone apps work on their tablet - and the answer is only going to be "yes" if they get Android.
And comparing Ipad with Android is like comparing apples to spaceships - the IPad is one product from one company. Android is a free operating system tablets from a multitude of companies every expanding. And money matters, you can get really cheap Android tablets from Asia already - sure they are clearly of bad quality - but whilst everybody might want to own a Bugatti Veyron but most can afford a Ford Fiesta, there is a market for less than sterling quality.
Regularly, for the last oh 10 years or so, every time there has been an announcement of a new version - I've been asking if you could have a 'master' window in which all other windows opened - and always the reply was attacks on me, my current OS of choice and possibly a passing reference to my parentage. And so i didn't try GIMP again.
However this time I'm going to try it again, see if what you said means what i think it means.
What the document says is "there is this guy who says he saw flying saucers" - that doesn't really prove anything. Hell there are constantly people who say they've seen flying saucers.
"In large metropolitan areas, police chiefs are elected. To be elected they need money. To get money(legally), they need to be connected. Money and influence are gained by staying in the good graces of people with disposable income to donate."
And that is why the US is a big banana republic. In the advanced countries of your police chiefs are NOT elected.
Slashdot Mirror
"How is that different from cash? If I give you a $20, no one will know it happened except for us"
Your 20 dollars have been taxed, unless you got them illegally.
"I think the only types of people who will bother learning how to use bitcoin would be, in decreasing order of value to society: privacy nuts, criminals, or economists."
And trojan writers who'll get millions of zombies around the world generating coins for them.
This is an interesting point that people have raised, even if you are too stupid to see it.
And this WILL escalate over time
Which is quite evident when people are comparing prices in the steam forums. Its one price for the US where they apparently are poor, and another easily 2 or 3 times that amount for Europe where they are apparently rich.
So how about the same price for all eh, you greedy capitalist?
It will be licensed under a license, when it hasn't been released, it hasn't been released under a license.
No, I'm not channeling Donald Rumsfeld, its just the license isn't relevant when the software hasn't been released.
"By 2011, it should be considered "web 101" to not run javascripts unless you have a reason TO run them. "
I tried the noscript crap for a moment, every single page has tons of javascript, most of them don't work if its disabled. Its possibly you just browse to your homepage made in notepad, but for the rest of the world YOU MUST HAVE JAVASCRIPT ON.
"with physicians making diagnoses in individuals who wouldn't have been considered sick in the past,"
Ie, people who suffered but nobody could be bothered to help in the past (and still can't because its too expensive to be humane)
A car is not a weapon. Its a vehicle. Can someone be killed by it sure, but thats not the primary objective, and you can kill with almost all items (if you are clever enough)
Stop spewing crap when you know nothing of the case!
"Using an online service for something like your passwords is just incredibly stupid. It's a really well known place to hack for someone who wants lots of passwords. Backup your encrypted password container to your own place, but never something like this."
Hey, retardo, don't you think the people who made it know this? All of your password are stored on their system ENCRYPTED. They are encrypted on YOUR computer, with a password only YOU (not them) before being stored in the cloud. When you retrieve the password you get the encrypted blob, and it is decoded on your system.
*IF* and I stress *IF* the last pass servers were hacked (and nobody knows if they were, so the slashdot headline is pure tabloid) then all they got was encrypted blobs of material for a very small number of users.
IF something was actually taken, and your master password was "ignorant" then you might be bruteforced in short time, if you picked something long and non dictionary then not this decade.
The lastpass people run a very tight ship and because they noticed a slightly anomaly on their network they couldn't immediately explain they warned everybody within 24 hours! (as opposed to some sites who waits weeks)
You wanna know how Lastpass works? Listen to this review from Leo Laports 'twit' network:
http://twit.tv/sn256
He has every reason to be humble, since he has almost nothing to do with it.
The first way of course being sending in military and bombing the place.
The second way is of course this, spreading their greedy imperialism to all countries - or as the Borg would say ASSIMILATE
"Not advocating for one side or the other (I own a couple of both platforms), just laying out the facts."
No, you are laying out your opinion.
Buy a new Asus Transformer for 399$ instead.
Immature rubbish, its not the same people saying it - its just you trolling.
Haven't you paid attention to trends and news?
All the industry have changed their belief - they all believe that the way for them to make more money is to implement market places.
Because "normal" people don't get the hunting around, but they get going to one specific place.
One day the only way to buy software for some platforms (like Apple for instance?) will be from a marketplace.
Unless there is a huge backlash, and of course most people just follow their leaders.
There are several more tabs out now with market, and all those coming in the next few months have the market.
And Asus's Transformer has a better screen than that the IPad, and is cheaper.
And you are the one who should remove your head from your ass. They are selling around 10 million Android phones a month at the moment and still going up. All of those people are going to ask if their phone apps work on their tablet - and the answer is only going to be "yes" if they get Android.
And comparing Ipad with Android is like comparing apples to spaceships - the IPad is one product from one company. Android is a free operating system tablets from a multitude of companies every expanding. And money matters, you can get really cheap Android tablets from Asia already - sure they are clearly of bad quality - but whilst everybody might want to own a Bugatti Veyron but most can afford a Ford Fiesta, there is a market for less than sterling quality.
"Are you sure you wanna leave this page?"
Yes! Why the fuck can't I disable that crap?
Shitty browser. And you still can't zoom the font size, only the whole damn page as an image.
Trump? Is that you?
What's wrong with a cheap Android from the east, save the taxpayer some money.
Regularly, for the last oh 10 years or so, every time there has been an announcement of a new version - I've been asking if you could have a 'master' window in which all other windows opened - and always the reply was attacks on me, my current OS of choice and possibly a passing reference to my parentage.
And so i didn't try GIMP again.
However this time I'm going to try it again, see if what you said means what i think it means.
What the document says is "there is this guy who says he saw flying saucers" - that doesn't really prove anything.
Hell there are constantly people who say they've seen flying saucers.
Yeah, that was an aprils fool guys.
"In large metropolitan areas, police chiefs are elected. To be elected they need money. To get money(legally), they need to be connected. Money and influence are gained by staying in the good graces of people with disposable income to donate."
And that is why the US is a big banana republic. In the advanced countries of your police chiefs are NOT elected.
The world needs inept sites which still uses people to remove copyright violations.
Yes, THIS is a real problem with android, not all that faux "fragmentation" rubbish the supposed journalists go on about.