Very good points you bring up. However I'm not sure it applies to currency. For example, the "intrinsic value" of a 100 dollar bill is far below $100, yet it still retains that value.
With a currency, worth gets computed as a factor of total amount of assets and production over supply of the currency. This, of course, assumes that everyone participating accepts that currency as valid. This is what is driving the price of bitcoin at the moment: pure speculation of wide acceptance of it as a valid currency. And if that happens the gdp of the entire world divided by a maximum of 21 million bitcoins is far above it's current comparative value of $600 per coin.
I've always wanted someone to explain to me why 0.7C matters. I know its a measure of average global temperatures. But still, isn't that a very minor fluctuation?
I'd love an open phone as much as anyone. Unfortunately, the proprietary bits of android aren't our only problem. The baseband firmware is regulated, proprietary, and mysterious in virtually every phone on the market. So, unless you want to use your phone exclusively on WIFI, it's never going to be truly open.
People will bitch no matter what. Given the commercially backed alternatives, Android is by far the best option. Your only other options are completely closed source walled gardens.
I think android using their propriety services to monetize the distribution of an open core for the entire world is genius. It resolves the corporate incentive problem the FOSS ideology has been lacking for decades.
You know what really bothers me? I don't have Facebook for the exact reasons you've mentioned. But under current laws and social norms someone could take a picture of me and give it to Facebook who will keep it forever, use face recognition software on it, etc, etc, all without me even agreeing to their ridiculous EULA. That should be illegal.
DNS needs to be redesigned. The internet can't exist in a neutral state having one organization with control over any critical part of the network. Distributed DNS seems to be the answer.
No. The network will never approve these transactions. My understanding of the problem is that exchange's use custom wallet software that can be fooled before enough confirmations come through potentially allowing an attacker to sell coins that don't exist for dollars. This has temporarily made bitcoin less liquid (as far as exchanging for country backed currencies) which has driven the price down.
The issue will likely be fixed by a combination of exchange software upgrade and, eventually, long term tweaks to the bitcoin protocol that will fix this type of attack.
I'm sure you could develop a scientific test to prove economist's forecasts do no better than chance, yet it is still considered a valid social science. Social sciences can't be held up to the same rigorous proofs that the real sciences can.
I'm no believer in astrology. The idea that human behavior is influenced by some hidden natural cycle that can be measured in conjunction with the rotation of the earth around the sun is certainly far fetched. I'm just saying... let's not get all religious about what can be considered science. Science doesn't only include the topics that the loudest majority agree with.
Of course astrology can never be considered a strict science that can be tested with the scientific method. But I don't see why it couldn't be considered a social science. Social sciences are often a lot of "best guess" postulations about human societies and behaviors. Astrology could certainly fit into this field for some.
Wouldn't that be more likely to get you tracked? Right now most people's data is probably just available, not reviewed. You start trending with search terms like that and you might end up on a list.
It's what I say to refer to people from the USA because the widely accepted term 'American' is ambiguous. It's like referring to people from France as nothing but Europeans, and consequently making that term inaccurate in popular speech for everyone else in Europe. There's around 35 countries in the America's; all residents of which are 'Americans'.
You'd be right except the government doesn't print money, the Federal Reserve does. The government prints T-Bills and the private for profit Federal Reserve isn't going to buy those at a loss.
It's not bad, but it's buggy. I'm using it on my phone right now and every time I try to mod you up it sends me to the home page. It also seems to only load the comments successfully about half the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Until Facebook bought it. I've since switched to BBM. It's a Damn shame too... It was a great app.
What is happening to Slashdot? And what is a Russion?
Now how do I unsubscribe from Google's data mining?
Very good points you bring up. However I'm not sure it applies to currency. For example, the "intrinsic value" of a 100 dollar bill is far below $100, yet it still retains that value.
With a currency, worth gets computed as a factor of total amount of assets and production over supply of the currency. This, of course, assumes that everyone participating accepts that currency as valid. This is what is driving the price of bitcoin at the moment: pure speculation of wide acceptance of it as a valid currency. And if that happens the gdp of the entire world divided by a maximum of 21 million bitcoins is far above it's current comparative value of $600 per coin.
I've always wanted someone to explain to me why 0.7C matters. I know its a measure of average global temperatures. But still, isn't that a very minor fluctuation?
I'd love an open phone as much as anyone. Unfortunately, the proprietary bits of android aren't our only problem. The baseband firmware is regulated, proprietary, and mysterious in virtually every phone on the market. So, unless you want to use your phone exclusively on WIFI, it's never going to be truly open.
People will bitch no matter what. Given the commercially backed alternatives, Android is by far the best option. Your only other options are completely closed source walled gardens.
I think android using their propriety services to monetize the distribution of an open core for the entire world is genius. It resolves the corporate incentive problem the FOSS ideology has been lacking for decades.
You know what really bothers me? I don't have Facebook for the exact reasons you've mentioned. But under current laws and social norms someone could take a picture of me and give it to Facebook who will keep it forever, use face recognition software on it, etc, etc, all without me even agreeing to their ridiculous EULA. That should be illegal.
If I was able to mod this up I would. Very informative. Thank you.
DNS needs to be redesigned. The internet can't exist in a neutral state having one organization with control over any critical part of the network. Distributed DNS seems to be the answer.
No. The network will never approve these transactions. My understanding of the problem is that exchange's use custom wallet software that can be fooled before enough confirmations come through potentially allowing an attacker to sell coins that don't exist for dollars. This has temporarily made bitcoin less liquid (as far as exchanging for country backed currencies) which has driven the price down.
The issue will likely be fixed by a combination of exchange software upgrade and, eventually, long term tweaks to the bitcoin protocol that will fix this type of attack.
I'm sure you could develop a scientific test to prove economist's forecasts do no better than chance, yet it is still considered a valid social science. Social sciences can't be held up to the same rigorous proofs that the real sciences can.
I'm no believer in astrology. The idea that human behavior is influenced by some hidden natural cycle that can be measured in conjunction with the rotation of the earth around the sun is certainly far fetched. I'm just saying... let's not get all religious about what can be considered science. Science doesn't only include the topics that the loudest majority agree with.
Of course astrology can never be considered a strict science that can be tested with the scientific method. But I don't see why it couldn't be considered a social science. Social sciences are often a lot of "best guess" postulations about human societies and behaviors. Astrology could certainly fit into this field for some.
Unfortunately, you're not necessarily safe by using tor.
Wouldn't that be more likely to get you tracked? Right now most people's data is probably just available, not reviewed. You start trending with search terms like that and you might end up on a list.
Aliens.
It's what I say to refer to people from the USA because the widely accepted term 'American' is ambiguous. It's like referring to people from France as nothing but Europeans, and consequently making that term inaccurate in popular speech for everyone else in Europe. There's around 35 countries in the America's; all residents of which are 'Americans'.
How do these articles with multiple spelling mistakes and typos keep making the front page?
You'd be right except the government doesn't print money, the Federal Reserve does. The government prints T-Bills and the private for profit Federal Reserve isn't going to buy those at a loss.
Canada, despite having a population of only 30 million, has the second most athletes competing, and by far the best coverage of any developed nation.
If you're Usian or from the UK i'd recommend getting an unblock subscription and setting your country to Canada.
It's not bad, but it's buggy. I'm using it on my phone right now and every time I try to mod you up it sends me to the home page. It also seems to only load the comments successfully about half the time.
Exactly. Who cares what Apple is doing? People still actually support that cancer?
Pfft.. that's not even a single jiggawatt.
Is it really that difficult to be profitable in the hardware game these days? The only viable American option left these days seems to be Dell.
Idiocracy here we come.