Bitcoin is backed by the stakeholders - those who have invested money into mining and bitcoins. These people are citizens of a variety of countries, many of which offer legal rights for investments. The United States, being the very capitalist nation that it is, has many laws that protect its citizen's property. These citizens will be petitioning the government constantly through every legal avenue possible to insure their bitcoin holdings are not made illegal on a political whim. In Canada for example, the Canada Revenue Agency (Canadian IRS) are going to be passing out rules for reporting the income. It's capital gains once sold on the market, and in Canada that tax rate is quite high, however it is a legal avenue to cash out bitcoins.
There is an emerging marketplace for bitcoins, Baidu probably being the largest name to enter this market at the moment. This list may seem trivial now, but there is enough momentum now that it will likely take off. All it needs is the blessing of a major US political party - and to do that just keep sending them BTC donations. They aren't going to make their own hoard of money illegal.
Is it really now? Why do the Full Disclosure mailing list messages periodically end up in my spam folder? I clearly have hundreds of them in my inbox, yet a percentage of them end up in spam.
I think the spam filtering effectiveness comes down to one basic reason: Spamhaus
"Gedik says that while this experiment was done using bismuth selenide crystals, a basic topological insulator, “what we have done is not specific to topological insulators. It should also be realizable in other materials as well, such as graphene.” "
Yeah I don't understand that either, any MEMs device I've dealt with, like a DLP chip had strong warnings about electro static charge. I imagine an EMP wouldn't be much better.
The jobs just moved over seas - it's as simple as that. The final assembly step of smartphone devices are usually done by hand because really it is just a menial job, probably like most of the jobs when Kodak was at its peak employment.
Instead of Kodak doing the r&d work and assembly now companies like Apple do the product r&d and Foxconn does the assembly - employing more than 500k people with goals to reach over 1 million.
So there are lots of jobs globally, just not here.
What's even more fucked up is that to make this realistic we need models of babies, children, disabled, sick and elderly in game. Then add weapons like napalm and sarin gas.
Like sure I'd love to design a great asymmetric warfare scenario that punishes the player for deliberately murdering non-combatants however I'm also introducing the means to allow someone to carry out fantasies of murdering non-combatants. It's just a matter of modding the code a bit and it could be a realistic game called War Criminals where you commit war crimes as vengeance for the attacks your enemies did on your people.
The Red Cross should really just stay out of this completely. It's straight up mainstream entertainment, just like movies and music.
It takes quite a bit of time and liquid helium just to cool any cryostat not to mention a full body MRI. The larger the thermal mass the more time and helium you'll need. The ideal is to pre-cool with liquid nitrogen, then do a helium fill but even so - you still have probably 100+ kg of rf coils and magnets. I imagine manufacturers of the MRI units also design them to only go through a limited number of cool down / warm up phases considering you have in-vacuum assemblies at low temperatures. So eventually after x number of warm up / cool downs a superconducting coil may no longer be superconducting and a quench will occur. That's a costly repair and serious down time. This isn't my primary field of work but I'm familiar with similar technologies and these are typically the issues I've heard about.
If you have any sources about the number of machines and usage feel free to share I'd be curious to know.
You can probably walk into any major university, find the library and do a scholar.google.com search for a very large percentage of all peer reviewed published research. Then print it off (or save to USB key), and leave, without paying anything.
The library itself might be worth looking at as well, I'd check out the scientific review collections that people hand picked and placed together to provide a coherent, broad overview on a particular subject. I probably should go more often myself.
Sure it's not convenient but it is there available to the public. If you can't do it yourself maybe getting in contact with someone who has access would help. I can login to an old university account and get journal access still.
They can't force anyone into any sort of treatment without a huge legal circus. Just look at the Jehovah Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions even if they will obviously die without one. The closest we get to this right now is vaccinations and even then, people who refuse to have their children get them generally don't receive the vaccination - but it doesn't mean everyone else has to accept their decision and have their children in the same school.
I'm quite confident that genetic analysis will only reveal a link to some generic mental disorder, but environmental factors plus nurturing during childhood are the real reasons for violent personality types. However this will always be a topic of speculation if we as a society refuse to explore certain topics because of our fear of the unknown and the political fallout.
It's like not even trying to cure diseases related to aging because humans have always had a finite existence and must die at some point. How can we tolerate watching loved ones go through a system that inevitably has them frail and in pain, carted around in a wheel chair so they can die high as fuck on morphine without even being in their own home?
If we never bother to explore the question we just don't really know. There very well could be many biomarkers for violence. How we act on that knowledge is the real moral dilemma. I personally think they are too close to the subject and really if they want to help others they would just fund the research. However, we already have one linked biomarker, and that's lead exposure - but we can't just start rounding up everyone with higher blood-lead concentrations and force them into chelation therapy. Obviously the benign solution is to remove lead sources, such as paints and leaded gasoline. If the culprit turns out to be DNA, then obviously this becomes a much larger issue.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I went on vacation...
Oh I'm well aware of all of these facts, and personally I have no investment in any of these wars. I'm not a former soldier, didn't vote for any of these political parties, etc etc. Regarding the Iraq war, I was quite vocally against it because it was clearly the Bush administrations personal conflict based on an obvious lie. However, after meeting Iraqi immigrants over the years, they were unanimously supportive of removing Saddam from power even if it was based on a lie. Obviously the casualties would think otherwise, but many of the people I met were former victims of the Saddam regime (lost a loved one, family member, etc).
I'm not defending any attacks on the civilian population, and quite honestly I wouldn't blame the victims of drone strikes from attacking the American populace, but to be quite honest, their own fellow countrymen formed militant groups to engage in attacks and would always find any excuse to attack Western countries. Osama argued from the very beginning it was American support for Israel. Other groups don't even mention support for Israel and just point the finger at belief in a Christian God or other immorality (porn, alcohol, etc). In any case militants from Afghanistan and Pakistan already declared war on the US years before 9/11, and found the support from nation states to allow them to train and recruit.
So how long do we sit on our hands and not strike back while jihadists keep attacking the US and it's allies?
Well this is of course assuming that the Taliban in Afghanistan were willingly hosting training camps to attack America. Considering that the Taliban disallowed people from even owning a television in Afghanistan, and would beat women in the streets for whatever reason, I think the assumption of collusion with terrorist organizations holds up. It's not pre-emptive whatsoever, you saw those buildings drop just like myself and many other millions of people; it is completely reactionary.
If the Canadian government was actively supporting or providing a training grounds for terrorists to attack America, then willing to expend military effort to defend those terrorists, would you not deem the Canadian government as colluding with terrorists?
Like really, what kind of mental gymnastics are you willing to do to defend the people who flew planes into the WTC buildings and kill 3000 random people? Those buildings went down because of the airplanes colliding into them.
But he was killing people for you and me, people who would try to kill us over something as stupid as our society allowing the drinking of alcohol and having strip clubs. I think I can support someone who fought for titties and booze.
A government program that can spy on any American citizen's internet communications at any time _only_ costs $20M/year to operate? The slides themselves are unbelievable... Just about any government program on this sort of scope has to run into the billions...
We should also remind ourselves that people have given up far more just to get their ideological fix before... ex. any suicide bomber.
Also, where is the rest of the slide presentation? As a sysadmin he would have the basic knowledge to post that file any number of places (mediafire/rapidshare/torrent cloud), make a tweet about it's location, and let it propagate onto the rest of the internet. Instead he goes to only two newspapers, the Washington Post and The Guardian, and provides only them with the presentation where both papers refuse to publish more than 4 slides.
This whole thing seems like a scandal fabricated to generate page hits or to sling political mud at opponents.
The Canadian government isn't really accepting it as a currency at all, that's why they are applying barter law to trade with it. However, 50% of capital gains in Canada are taxable and depending on your income bracket the percentage of that 50% is owed to the government, so ultimately if you cash out those bitcoins at some exchange when that money hits your bank account you'll have to account for it somehow. You can attempt to play stupid for a long time - the government is a slow beast when it comes to these things, however if you made any sizable gains the bankers will notice it and eventually the government. They'll just make you pay back what you owe plus interest if you "forgot" to report it. If this happens multiple times, then you'd likely get charged with tax evasion.
They need to add a second factor to the statistics, like weighing it against the number of lines of code or number of contributors to make this meaningful.
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And it would be damn expensive to do that.
Bitcoin is backed by the stakeholders - those who have invested money into mining and bitcoins. These people are citizens of a variety of countries, many of which offer legal rights for investments. The United States, being the very capitalist nation that it is, has many laws that protect its citizen's property. These citizens will be petitioning the government constantly through every legal avenue possible to insure their bitcoin holdings are not made illegal on a political whim. In Canada for example, the Canada Revenue Agency (Canadian IRS) are going to be passing out rules for reporting the income. It's capital gains once sold on the market, and in Canada that tax rate is quite high, however it is a legal avenue to cash out bitcoins.
There is an emerging marketplace for bitcoins, Baidu probably being the largest name to enter this market at the moment. This list may seem trivial now, but there is enough momentum now that it will likely take off. All it needs is the blessing of a major US political party - and to do that just keep sending them BTC donations. They aren't going to make their own hoard of money illegal.
Well he wrote that comment using language very reminiscent of Communist propaganda.
Is it really now? Why do the Full Disclosure mailing list messages periodically end up in my spam folder? I clearly have hundreds of them in my inbox, yet a percentage of them end up in spam.
I think the spam filtering effectiveness comes down to one basic reason: Spamhaus
le sigh
From TFA:
"Gedik says that while this experiment was done using bismuth selenide crystals, a basic topological insulator, “what we have done is not specific to topological insulators. It should also be realizable in other materials as well, such as graphene.” "
Yeah I don't understand that either, any MEMs device I've dealt with, like a DLP chip had strong warnings about electro static charge. I imagine an EMP wouldn't be much better.
The jobs just moved over seas - it's as simple as that. The final assembly step of smartphone devices are usually done by hand because really it is just a menial job, probably like most of the jobs when Kodak was at its peak employment.
Instead of Kodak doing the r&d work and assembly now companies like Apple do the product r&d and Foxconn does the assembly - employing more than 500k people with goals to reach over 1 million.
So there are lots of jobs globally, just not here.
What's even more fucked up is that to make this realistic we need models of babies, children, disabled, sick and elderly in game. Then add weapons like napalm and sarin gas.
Like sure I'd love to design a great asymmetric warfare scenario that punishes the player for deliberately murdering non-combatants however I'm also introducing the means to allow someone to carry out fantasies of murdering non-combatants. It's just a matter of modding the code a bit and it could be a realistic game called War Criminals where you commit war crimes as vengeance for the attacks your enemies did on your people.
The Red Cross should really just stay out of this completely. It's straight up mainstream entertainment, just like movies and music.
It takes quite a bit of time and liquid helium just to cool any cryostat not to mention a full body MRI. The larger the thermal mass the more time and helium you'll need. The ideal is to pre-cool with liquid nitrogen, then do a helium fill but even so - you still have probably 100+ kg of rf coils and magnets. I imagine manufacturers of the MRI units also design them to only go through a limited number of cool down / warm up phases considering you have in-vacuum assemblies at low temperatures. So eventually after x number of warm up / cool downs a superconducting coil may no longer be superconducting and a quench will occur. That's a costly repair and serious down time. This isn't my primary field of work but I'm familiar with similar technologies and these are typically the issues I've heard about.
If you have any sources about the number of machines and usage feel free to share I'd be curious to know.
I don't like their website design, I find it annoying to navigate. :P
http://solaptop.com/en/products/laptops/
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CPU: Intel Atom D2500 1.86 GHz Duo Core, Intel 945GSE + ICH7M
HDD: Seagate 2.5” SATA HDD 320GB
RAM: Kingston 2-4GB DDRIII SDRAM (Options Available)
Graphics: 1080p HD Vide, Built-In Intel GMA3600 Graphics
Battery Operating Time: 8 - 10 hours
I/O
Display: 13.3" LCD, WXGA, 1366 x 768
Camera: 3MP
Audio: Realtek ALC661 HD Audio, Built-in 2 Speakers | Internal mic + 1/8” input
3 USB2.0, Headphone jack, HDMI, LAN(10/100), Card reader (SD/MS/MMC)
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Modem: 3G/4G World/multimode LTE
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WiFi: MIMO 802.11b/gn (2.4/5GHz)
Bluetooth: Integrated Digital Core BT4.0
Yes it was exactly what Aaron Schwartz did, except with a computer hidden in a closet automatically retrieving every document on the system.
You can probably walk into any major university, find the library and do a scholar.google.com search for a very large percentage of all peer reviewed published research. Then print it off (or save to USB key), and leave, without paying anything.
The library itself might be worth looking at as well, I'd check out the scientific review collections that people hand picked and placed together to provide a coherent, broad overview on a particular subject. I probably should go more often myself.
Sure it's not convenient but it is there available to the public. If you can't do it yourself maybe getting in contact with someone who has access would help. I can login to an old university account and get journal access still.
I think the man deserves a break already. So what if he wasn't been charitable like this all his life, he's doing good shit now. Just get over it.
They can't force anyone into any sort of treatment without a huge legal circus. Just look at the Jehovah Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions even if they will obviously die without one. The closest we get to this right now is vaccinations and even then, people who refuse to have their children get them generally don't receive the vaccination - but it doesn't mean everyone else has to accept their decision and have their children in the same school.
I'm quite confident that genetic analysis will only reveal a link to some generic mental disorder, but environmental factors plus nurturing during childhood are the real reasons for violent personality types. However this will always be a topic of speculation if we as a society refuse to explore certain topics because of our fear of the unknown and the political fallout.
It's like not even trying to cure diseases related to aging because humans have always had a finite existence and must die at some point. How can we tolerate watching loved ones go through a system that inevitably has them frail and in pain, carted around in a wheel chair so they can die high as fuck on morphine without even being in their own home?
If we never bother to explore the question we just don't really know. There very well could be many biomarkers for violence. How we act on that knowledge is the real moral dilemma. I personally think they are too close to the subject and really if they want to help others they would just fund the research. However, we already have one linked biomarker, and that's lead exposure - but we can't just start rounding up everyone with higher blood-lead concentrations and force them into chelation therapy. Obviously the benign solution is to remove lead sources, such as paints and leaded gasoline. If the culprit turns out to be DNA, then obviously this becomes a much larger issue.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I went on vacation ...
Oh I'm well aware of all of these facts, and personally I have no investment in any of these wars. I'm not a former soldier, didn't vote for any of these political parties, etc etc. Regarding the Iraq war, I was quite vocally against it because it was clearly the Bush administrations personal conflict based on an obvious lie. However, after meeting Iraqi immigrants over the years, they were unanimously supportive of removing Saddam from power even if it was based on a lie. Obviously the casualties would think otherwise, but many of the people I met were former victims of the Saddam regime (lost a loved one, family member, etc).
I'm not defending any attacks on the civilian population, and quite honestly I wouldn't blame the victims of drone strikes from attacking the American populace, but to be quite honest, their own fellow countrymen formed militant groups to engage in attacks and would always find any excuse to attack Western countries. Osama argued from the very beginning it was American support for Israel. Other groups don't even mention support for Israel and just point the finger at belief in a Christian God or other immorality (porn, alcohol, etc). In any case militants from Afghanistan and Pakistan already declared war on the US years before 9/11, and found the support from nation states to allow them to train and recruit.
So how long do we sit on our hands and not strike back while jihadists keep attacking the US and it's allies?
Well this is of course assuming that the Taliban in Afghanistan were willingly hosting training camps to attack America. Considering that the Taliban disallowed people from even owning a television in Afghanistan, and would beat women in the streets for whatever reason, I think the assumption of collusion with terrorist organizations holds up. It's not pre-emptive whatsoever, you saw those buildings drop just like myself and many other millions of people; it is completely reactionary.
If the Canadian government was actively supporting or providing a training grounds for terrorists to attack America, then willing to expend military effort to defend those terrorists, would you not deem the Canadian government as colluding with terrorists?
Like really, what kind of mental gymnastics are you willing to do to defend the people who flew planes into the WTC buildings and kill 3000 random people? Those buildings went down because of the airplanes colliding into them.
But he was killing people for you and me, people who would try to kill us over something as stupid as our society allowing the drinking of alcohol and having strip clubs. I think I can support someone who fought for titties and booze.
Dude, this guy built a DIY oxygen plasma etcher using his home microwave oven.
I guess by heating it's not likely, the electric field strength in the center of the microwave has no problem however.
Other news articles cite that he demanded the Washington Post and The Guardian publish the whole thing.
“Snowden asked for a guarantee that the Washington Post would publish — within 72 hours — the full text of [the] PowerPoint presentation,” Gellman wrote Sunday, in a fascinating account of his interactions with the whistleblower. “I told him we would not make any guarantee about what we published or when.”
At this point Snowden should have been implementing a plan to publish the whole document.
Why didn't our brilliant hero sysadmin publish the rest of the powerpoint slide deck independent of the newspapers?
What excuse is there really for not putting a torrent up somewhere or a mediafire/rapidshare download?
A government program that can spy on any American citizen's internet communications at any time _only_ costs $20M/year to operate? The slides themselves are unbelievable ... Just about any government program on this sort of scope has to run into the billions ...
Gulf War 2 was sold to the Bush administration on information fabricated by an unconfirmed source to get America to topple Saddam. Why not fabricate information about a surveillance program to slander the current federal government so someone like Ron Paul can be ushered in as the saviour of America? Snowden made quite clear his political leaning after donating to Ron Paul's campaign.
We should also remind ourselves that people have given up far more just to get their ideological fix before ... ex. any suicide bomber.
Also, where is the rest of the slide presentation? As a sysadmin he would have the basic knowledge to post that file any number of places (mediafire/rapidshare/torrent cloud), make a tweet about it's location, and let it propagate onto the rest of the internet. Instead he goes to only two newspapers, the Washington Post and The Guardian, and provides only them with the presentation where both papers refuse to publish more than 4 slides.
This whole thing seems like a scandal fabricated to generate page hits or to sling political mud at opponents.
To me it looks like the photographer took multiple layers of the same image and did a multiply effect on the stack to increase the contrast.
Of course the accusations of manipulation or even the nomination itself would have nothing to do with any other political issues.
The Canadian government isn't really accepting it as a currency at all, that's why they are applying barter law to trade with it. However, 50% of capital gains in Canada are taxable and depending on your income bracket the percentage of that 50% is owed to the government, so ultimately if you cash out those bitcoins at some exchange when that money hits your bank account you'll have to account for it somehow. You can attempt to play stupid for a long time - the government is a slow beast when it comes to these things, however if you made any sizable gains the bankers will notice it and eventually the government. They'll just make you pay back what you owe plus interest if you "forgot" to report it. If this happens multiple times, then you'd likely get charged with tax evasion.
They need to add a second factor to the statistics, like weighing it against the number of lines of code or number of contributors to make this meaningful.