Really, more traditional cryptocurrency is needed, where a bank issues tokens but the tokens can still be transferred anonymously. Sadly, Bitcoin's failure will make it even harder to start a digital cash bank, since everyone will associate digital cash with Bitcoin and think that all digital cash systems suffer the same problems.
The real issue is that a "more traditional cryptocurrency" would need to be issued by a bank, which means some reputable institution would need to guarantee the value of the cryptocurrency. It seems unlikely that any reputable institution will ever do this, since the law enforcement agencies of the world are strongly against allowing anonymous transfers. Any company/bank that started advertising that they allow "truly anonymous transfers" would have more law enforcement on them then white on rice.
No company can survive for very long once it becomes widely believed that they are serving as the clearinghouse/money laundering service for the criminals of the world. Banks would simply stop allowing people to wire their money to the company backing the cryptocurrency, and it would wither and die.
So wait, all I have to do is respond to some douche's ad on craigslist, and he'll start sending me expensive electronics? All I have to do is tell them I'll reship them?
Seems rather amazing to me that nobody is stepping in and just receiving the items without reshipping them. Or shipping boxes filled with junk instead of the electronics.
Disclaimer: I do not suggest doing this, and wish to strongly emphasize that any stolen merchandise received by anyone should be immediately returned to the store it was stolen from.
Unless they're targeting a new market, ie the people who wouldn't buy a console or gaming rig, but to whom an all-in-one device like an Apple TV with beefed up gaming capabilities appeals. It doesn't need to be as fast as a gaming rig, or even old consoles. It just needs to be fast enough to run angry birds.
The point is, they don't have to beat gaming rigs or consoles, since they're targeting a different market that they already have managed to ensnare via iOS.
Give the umpire behind the plate some sort of augmented reality HUD headset that shows the strikezone and highlights the ball as it comes over the plate. The feed from the Umps headset could also be used in broadcasts. Uses technology without removing the human element of the game. I'll start working on it if MLB wants to pony up the cash...most (if not all) of it would just be COTS hardware.
This is exactly what is likely to happen. When they passed the law, it seemed like a no brainer, so everyone voted for it. Now some objections have been raised, mainly by law enforcement lobbies, so it's highly unlikely the vote will be as one-sided.
I hope you're joking... I love liberty and all, but I don't think John Doe should be "free" to take out a 747 flying over his house simply because he's had a bad day and the noise annoyed him.
Yes, I know it would still be illegal to murder people... but why would you want to make mass murder so easy?
"In related news, Mr. Doctorow also emphasized his continued belief that the revolution should have been televised, and the buggy whip industry subsidized".
Indeed, getting the NVIDIA card, CUDA, the trackpad, the usb ports, sound, wireless, ethernet, the screen, and the onboard graphics working on my new Dell XPS 15Z was a fricking nightmare. Each one of those required a custom solution.
dragging the CD to the recycle bin isn't something I (A realitively pro computer user) would concider for trying to eject the disk
I've had a Macbook for like 3 years now, and even though it is the best laptop I've ever owned, this still still bothers me.
How is it "natural" to drag storage you don't want to delete to the "trash"?? It actually took me a while (ie until I googled it) to figure out that's how you were supposed to eject things... fortunately there's also an eject button on the keyboard.
Well, probably because it prevents web services from interacting directly with the OS. But you're right, once you start allowing web services to interact with hardware, the security issue is pretty much a moot point.
And if you look at where things are headed with OSes (Windows 8 and iOS for example), you'll see that's exactly the case. Browsers and OSes are converging...
I know you're being sarcastic, but most if not all revolutions since the French revolution have been about the poor deposing the rich. So yes, government does protect the rich from the poor, in the sense that they maintain order and prevent a revolution. Sure, if you look back further to feudal times you could argue that the rich didn't need government because they could protect themselves with their resources and mercenaries...
The point is, the government protects the rich from the poor just as much (or, in the case of the USA, more) than it protects the poor from the rich. To state otherwise is to argue that popular revolution is no longer a possibility.
... that was my point. The rich depend on the government, the poor, and the middle class much more than the government, poor, and middle class depend on the rich. It's an imbalance that should be fixed.
The truth of the matter is that browsers are just becoming a VM... an OS inside your OS. If that trend continues, I see no reason why developers wouldn't shift to browsers for everything. If you can cache content locally, and hook into hardware acceleration, there's very little reason not to.
If the browser can do pretty much everything the OS can do, why not simply design everything for the browser, and leave the headache of interfacing properly with each OS to the browser developers?
But that's true whenever anybody pays for anything. When you buy, say, a car, you are automatically paying a much higher percentage of your income on the car than Buffet is.
That's exactly my point... The poor pay a higher percentage in sales tax, so the rich pay a higher percentage in income tax. Nothing wrong with that...
And whoever said anything about Buffet having class envy - I'm saying that those who expect people w/ higher incomes to pay more have class envy, regardless of what they're actually earning. It's the attitude that qualifies it.
Read what I wrote again, and read what Buffett wrote. You're saying that Buffett has class envy (because he thinks the rich should pay more in taxes). Regardless, stop with this class warfare nonsense. It's not class warfare, it's not punishing the successful, it's about making everyone pay their share of taxes. When Warren Buffett pays a lower % in taxes than his maid, the system is clearly broken.
The person making $12,000 pays a much higher percentage of their income in sales tax than a rich person does.
And what's with this class envy nonsense? Does Buffett have class envy because he thinks the rich should pay more income tax?
Those making millions make those millions due to their own hard work, sure, but they also make them thanks to the infrastructure, security, and educational system maintained by the government, the poor, and the middle class. They should have to pay their 30+%, since they benefit from the government more then anyone else. Without government to defend them and maintain order, the rich would quickly become very poor.
Actually, its ~3.7 liters to a gallon, which means gas here in Germany is ~5.92EU per gallon, or ~$8 per gallon.
In any case though, I was referring specifically to the booze prices up north being ridiculous. Here in Germany booze is very cheap (about the same as in the US).
On the other hand, I tore my ACL here in Germany (Im an American expat), and I had my ACL reconstruction surgery here within 3 weeks. All of it (including 5 months of rehab) cost me about 50 euros. That's including a 3 night hospital stay for the surgery; in the US, it is an out patient procedure.
Sure, socialized medicine can be bad, but it seems to me that the German model works quite well.
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Really, more traditional cryptocurrency is needed, where a bank issues tokens but the tokens can still be transferred anonymously. Sadly, Bitcoin's failure will make it even harder to start a digital cash bank, since everyone will associate digital cash with Bitcoin and think that all digital cash systems suffer the same problems.
The real issue is that a "more traditional cryptocurrency" would need to be issued by a bank, which means some reputable institution would need to guarantee the value of the cryptocurrency. It seems unlikely that any reputable institution will ever do this, since the law enforcement agencies of the world are strongly against allowing anonymous transfers. Any company/bank that started advertising that they allow "truly anonymous transfers" would have more law enforcement on them then white on rice.
No company can survive for very long once it becomes widely believed that they are serving as the clearinghouse/money laundering service for the criminals of the world. Banks would simply stop allowing people to wire their money to the company backing the cryptocurrency, and it would wither and die.
They're actors, they're supposed to act the role, not actually be the role.
Not to mention, if you used an abandoned house, they would have nothing to come after.
Seems rather amazing to me that nobody is stepping in and just receiving the items without reshipping them. Or shipping boxes filled with junk instead of the electronics.
Disclaimer: I do not suggest doing this, and wish to strongly emphasize that any stolen merchandise received by anyone should be immediately returned to the store it was stolen from.
So you're saying causality is a creation of the human mind?
The point is, they don't have to beat gaming rigs or consoles, since they're targeting a different market that they already have managed to ensnare via iOS.
Perhaps they didn't make their employer public information, but did enter it at some point.
Give the umpire behind the plate some sort of augmented reality HUD headset that shows the strikezone and highlights the ball as it comes over the plate. The feed from the Umps headset could also be used in broadcasts. Uses technology without removing the human element of the game. I'll start working on it if MLB wants to pony up the cash...most (if not all) of it would just be COTS hardware.
This is exactly what is likely to happen. When they passed the law, it seemed like a no brainer, so everyone voted for it. Now some objections have been raised, mainly by law enforcement lobbies, so it's highly unlikely the vote will be as one-sided.
Yes, I know it would still be illegal to murder people... but why would you want to make mass murder so easy?
"In related news, Mr. Doctorow also emphasized his continued belief that the revolution should have been televised, and the buggy whip industry subsidized".
Because they're American
Indeed, getting the NVIDIA card, CUDA, the trackpad, the usb ports, sound, wireless, ethernet, the screen, and the onboard graphics working on my new Dell XPS 15Z was a fricking nightmare. Each one of those required a custom solution.
dragging the CD to the recycle bin isn't something I (A realitively pro computer user) would concider for trying to eject the disk
I've had a Macbook for like 3 years now, and even though it is the best laptop I've ever owned, this still still bothers me.
How is it "natural" to drag storage you don't want to delete to the "trash"?? It actually took me a while (ie until I googled it) to figure out that's how you were supposed to eject things... fortunately there's also an eject button on the keyboard.
Even more so if it was a laptop!
And if you look at where things are headed with OSes (Windows 8 and iOS for example), you'll see that's exactly the case. Browsers and OSes are converging...
You could do all of those in a browser... like I said, browsers are becoming more and more like an OS.
The point is, the government protects the rich from the poor just as much (or, in the case of the USA, more) than it protects the poor from the rich. To state otherwise is to argue that popular revolution is no longer a possibility.
... that was my point. The rich depend on the government, the poor, and the middle class much more than the government, poor, and middle class depend on the rich. It's an imbalance that should be fixed.
If the browser can do pretty much everything the OS can do, why not simply design everything for the browser, and leave the headache of interfacing properly with each OS to the browser developers?
But that's true whenever anybody pays for anything. When you buy, say, a car, you are automatically paying a much higher percentage of your income on the car than Buffet is.
That's exactly my point... The poor pay a higher percentage in sales tax, so the rich pay a higher percentage in income tax. Nothing wrong with that...
And whoever said anything about Buffet having class envy - I'm saying that those who expect people w/ higher incomes to pay more have class envy, regardless of what they're actually earning. It's the attitude that qualifies it.
Read what I wrote again, and read what Buffett wrote. You're saying that Buffett has class envy (because he thinks the rich should pay more in taxes). Regardless, stop with this class warfare nonsense. It's not class warfare, it's not punishing the successful, it's about making everyone pay their share of taxes. When Warren Buffett pays a lower % in taxes than his maid, the system is clearly broken.
Well, they're not taxed as income.
And what's with this class envy nonsense? Does Buffett have class envy because he thinks the rich should pay more income tax?
Those making millions make those millions due to their own hard work, sure, but they also make them thanks to the infrastructure, security, and educational system maintained by the government, the poor, and the middle class. They should have to pay their 30+%, since they benefit from the government more then anyone else. Without government to defend them and maintain order, the rich would quickly become very poor.
In any case though, I was referring specifically to the booze prices up north being ridiculous. Here in Germany booze is very cheap (about the same as in the US).
Sure, socialized medicine can be bad, but it seems to me that the German model works quite well.