How long would it take to eliminate enough bitcoins to make the currency unworkable? If many people with large amounts of BC die without revealing the location and passwords to their cold-storage wallets, a shrinking pool of tradable bitcoins would eventually render it inefficient, yes? Or will BC simply be expanded in subdividion, leading to massive deflation over time (in bitcoin value - an oz of gold = 1BC today, but maybe it would only be worth 0.01BC in ten years, or 0.00001 in a hundred, due to a smaller pool of tradable coin)
So this "fair" tax - it takes all the money we give to corporations and lets them keep it. And in return, for every dollar we give to corporations for private jets, seven and eight figure CxO benefit packages, and lavish corporate offices, we also get to give a percentage extra to the federal government?
How about this: a gross receipts tax. Instead of charging you EXTRA when you SPEND (which hampers spending and, hence, the economy), you kick in a percentage to the general welfare (in the constitutional sense) every time you RECEIVE money.
This whole idea of paying taxes on "profits" is silly. If governments wanted to get taxes, they'd switch to gross receipts tax. Of course, their corporate masters won't let them, but that's a whole different problem.
"I think we are settling for exploring close planets just because we have no technology to go to where we actually do believe life could survive."
You can't expect to successfully run a marathon on Saturday after if you haven't run a single mile in the past decade. Each step in exploration requires a previous step of smaller magnitude. Often it's the things we're not looking for when we explore that allow us to go further or explore deeper in future missions.
I'm amazed that anyone who considers themselves a freedom loving American would sell out to a sleazebag liberal corporate-whore advertising goat-raper* like Facebook. In fact, I'm not even sure why this is on slashdot, since - based on most FB stories - almost nobody here is even signed up for the service.
*not my words, just repeating what I've read about FB on/.
Depends on where you are. My DSL tops out at 7/768k. The latter is wholly unacceptable for VoIP if any other network operations are going on (since outbound slows when inbound is maxed, and fixing it with QOS requires limiting downstream b/w to 3-4Mbps).
My cable provider used to provide uttterly shitty service, but this recent time around the drop-outs have been almost non-existant. My up-to-50Mb service routinely peaks around 60-62Mb, though the upstream is only about 8-10 (vs 15 advertised). And when I say "peaks" I mean for 1+GB of download during daytime hours - it may fluctuate between 50-62Mb during a long download, when it's not limited by the remote site.
It is, right up to the point where the cable from the antenna to the remote location is broken. At that point, it's not a direct lease - you are modifying the signal - combining, splitting, transcoding, retransmitting. 1:1 is the limit.
See, if you'd stopped at the first sentence you'd have been fine. Once you wandered off into processed food land you became either a nut case or wholly redundant. See, there's nothing wrong with sugars of just about any type (though lactose is not digestable properly by a portion of the population, but that's a side discussion), nor salt, nor processed foods.
Once you eat a well balanced diet of proper portion sizes, you never need worry about the rest of the stuff, as it takes care of itself. A diet of Coke, Twinkies, and bacon is not a balanced diet*, so there's really no need to go spouting off about it.
*this, fwiw, is proof that there is either no God at all, or that God hates us. Because in a universe with a benevolent God, those would form the core of a balanced diet.
Why? net traffic stays within the aloft net, uplink/downlink can either through the airborne net to a lower tariff location or via satellite (since only data in/out would be out of area traffic). Caching of popular data (youtube, buzzfeed, whatever) could be done at a ground station.
It's theft of data. An unusual occurrence, as the data is actually gone, rather than just copied. Imagine if Target had all those records stolen and then the thief wiped their server clean with a secure erase. Kind of like that, I believe.
Sure. If it had been data they had stolen and subsequently wiped from the originating server, a court could compel them to restore the data. It's just data.
I've also wondered about this. I read the bitcoin paper, but there was just enough that was above my head for some purposes. If I read it correctly, as soon as a bitcoin is transferred from one wallet to another, the hash effectively changes and can only be transferred from the new wallet using that wallet's private key, so a "backup" is useless after a change of possession is accepted by the chain.
It would seem that the coins could not be re-spent if they are flagged by the network as a whole, since they are currently keyed to the thieves wallet, and moving them to a new, "laundered" wallet would require acceptance by the network of the exchange (and hence either rejection of the stolen coin or flagging of the new wallet at tainted).
I hate to break it to you, but Google has shitty maps in areas too. Apple may be worse, but its mostly outlier cases (like yours). And by outlier I mean every rural area in the country and a bunch of populated areas. If I had a dime for every time Google routed me in a shitty, misdirected, or simply impossible way I would be the one paying for dinner when Sergey and I went out. I use Waze, which is somewhere between Google and Apple, but I can at least edit the map when I find a f*ed up area, and when it tells me what time I can expect to arrive, it's usually very, very accurate.
Part of me wonders why this is noticeably better than bluetooth integration. I mean, yes, a steering wheel button is nice, but with my iPhone in the cradle and the head unit set to bt audio, I do just about all this stuff already (though with Waze for mapping, Pandora for streaming music, Google for searching, etc). What would be far better is a stand-alone unit which can pair with your phone to *expand* the car audio - like direct access to mobile device content, embedded tethering for data, and authentication to offer customization of the head unit operations on linking. Now THAT would be actual news.
Of all the really ass-backwards, poorly performing parts of a modern automobile, the head unit has got to be one of the absolute worst. It requires a minimal, simple interface, and the ability to multi-task effectively. Even the aftermarket pieces which try to do a better job end up sucking horribly. Of all things that matter, Apple (I grudgingly admit) probably has the best chance to solve. MS sure isn't going to get it right (they've tried, and failed, no suprise). And most of the current miscarriages of technology are based on linux already.
But instead of taking over and dominating the head unit, they seem content to simply add a couple of buttons and a special BT interface for iPhone users. Shame, really.
I get the computer controlled part, since forward swept wings are inherently unstable, but not how such control was going to be accomplished in 1939. Also, this 500mph historical plane, with modern fabrication and knowledge, is going to be limited to 200mph because they could only manage to fit 400HP of engine in it. And yet the original was supposed to fly 2.5 times as fast with only 2.25x the horsepower? Drag doesn't scale that way.
She didn't, so he violated the agreement the second he told his daughter. Which, when dealing with a normal adult - you say "we won, we got our judgement, and we agreed that we would not talk about it, so we'll use the money to find a job and life goes on." And a normal adult would celebrate in private and never say anything unless asked, or would be cagey about the results (they came to an agreement, and my dad is looking for another position). No harm, no foul - it's like doing 68 in a 65mph zone.
But this adult, his (presumably 18 year old) daughter, decided to crow about it and make a stink in the very community the school wanted to avoid the publicity. So it's his fault for telling her, but her fault for basically ratting him out.
I'm not sure it's really all that harsh. It sounds like this "little" girl (who might be inferred to be over 18 now, God help us all) is a real piece of work. Now, if the settlement included rescinding the $60,000 award to plaintiff's attorneys, which would then cost Mr. Snay real money out of his pocket, that would be a much tougher pill to swallow. As it is, they won't be receiving any money, which is much different than, say, sharing mp3 files and being given a bill for 5-6 figures.
I mean - I get it, we should all be aware on line. But it's not the end of the world to "like" a product manufacturer or service provider. It can be a symbiotic relationship - I like your stuff and want to keep abreast of what you're doing so I "like" your page and get updates. That might be the release of a new octocopter, or a new show opening at Disney World, or casting dates for an indie film, or a coupon for a new makeup product.
This sounds more like false advertising from a sleazy online porn shop. So, yes, we should all be aware; but we shouldn't be paranoid.And, yes, I think Facebook has a role/responsibility in vetting their advertisers and leveraging their data for appropriate marketing targets.
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How long would it take to eliminate enough bitcoins to make the currency unworkable? If many people with large amounts of BC die without revealing the location and passwords to their cold-storage wallets, a shrinking pool of tradable bitcoins would eventually render it inefficient, yes? Or will BC simply be expanded in subdividion, leading to massive deflation over time (in bitcoin value - an oz of gold = 1BC today, but maybe it would only be worth 0.01BC in ten years, or 0.00001 in a hundred, due to a smaller pool of tradable coin)
So this "fair" tax - it takes all the money we give to corporations and lets them keep it. And in return, for every dollar we give to corporations for private jets, seven and eight figure CxO benefit packages, and lavish corporate offices, we also get to give a percentage extra to the federal government?
How about this: a gross receipts tax. Instead of charging you EXTRA when you SPEND (which hampers spending and, hence, the economy), you kick in a percentage to the general welfare (in the constitutional sense) every time you RECEIVE money.
This whole idea of paying taxes on "profits" is silly. If governments wanted to get taxes, they'd switch to gross receipts tax. Of course, their corporate masters won't let them, but that's a whole different problem.
"I think we are settling for exploring close planets just because we have no technology to go to where we actually do believe life could survive."
You can't expect to successfully run a marathon on Saturday after if you haven't run a single mile in the past decade. Each step in exploration requires a previous step of smaller magnitude. Often it's the things we're not looking for when we explore that allow us to go further or explore deeper in future missions.
I'm amazed that anyone who considers themselves a freedom loving American would sell out to a sleazebag liberal corporate-whore advertising goat-raper* like Facebook. In fact, I'm not even sure why this is on slashdot, since - based on most FB stories - almost nobody here is even signed up for the service.
*not my words, just repeating what I've read about FB on /.
Best of the best of the best, Sir!
Seriously, it's not an "attack"
It's not a violation if the company isn't bound by HIPAA regulations. I this case, for a generic corp, it's just a terminal and internet access.
Depends on where you are. My DSL tops out at 7/768k. The latter is wholly unacceptable for VoIP if any other network operations are going on (since outbound slows when inbound is maxed, and fixing it with QOS requires limiting downstream b/w to 3-4Mbps).
My cable provider used to provide uttterly shitty service, but this recent time around the drop-outs have been almost non-existant. My up-to-50Mb service routinely peaks around 60-62Mb, though the upstream is only about 8-10 (vs 15 advertised). And when I say "peaks" I mean for 1+GB of download during daytime hours - it may fluctuate between 50-62Mb during a long download, when it's not limited by the remote site.
It is, right up to the point where the cable from the antenna to the remote location is broken. At that point, it's not a direct lease - you are modifying the signal - combining, splitting, transcoding, retransmitting. 1:1 is the limit.
See, if you'd stopped at the first sentence you'd have been fine. Once you wandered off into processed food land you became either a nut case or wholly redundant. See, there's nothing wrong with sugars of just about any type (though lactose is not digestable properly by a portion of the population, but that's a side discussion), nor salt, nor processed foods.
Once you eat a well balanced diet of proper portion sizes, you never need worry about the rest of the stuff, as it takes care of itself. A diet of Coke, Twinkies, and bacon is not a balanced diet*, so there's really no need to go spouting off about it.
*this, fwiw, is proof that there is either no God at all, or that God hates us. Because in a universe with a benevolent God, those would form the core of a balanced diet.
Why? net traffic stays within the aloft net, uplink/downlink can either through the airborne net to a lower tariff location or via satellite (since only data in/out would be out of area traffic). Caching of popular data (youtube, buzzfeed, whatever) could be done at a ground station.
It's theft of data. An unusual occurrence, as the data is actually gone, rather than just copied. Imagine if Target had all those records stolen and then the thief wiped their server clean with a secure erase. Kind of like that, I believe.
Sure. If it had been data they had stolen and subsequently wiped from the originating server, a court could compel them to restore the data. It's just data.
I've also wondered about this. I read the bitcoin paper, but there was just enough that was above my head for some purposes. If I read it correctly, as soon as a bitcoin is transferred from one wallet to another, the hash effectively changes and can only be transferred from the new wallet using that wallet's private key, so a "backup" is useless after a change of possession is accepted by the chain.
It would seem that the coins could not be re-spent if they are flagged by the network as a whole, since they are currently keyed to the thieves wallet, and moving them to a new, "laundered" wallet would require acceptance by the network of the exchange (and hence either rejection of the stolen coin or flagging of the new wallet at tainted).
SCOTUS would never let that stand, no matter how appropriate a punishment.
I hate to break it to you, but Google has shitty maps in areas too. Apple may be worse, but its mostly outlier cases (like yours). And by outlier I mean every rural area in the country and a bunch of populated areas. If I had a dime for every time Google routed me in a shitty, misdirected, or simply impossible way I would be the one paying for dinner when Sergey and I went out. I use Waze, which is somewhere between Google and Apple, but I can at least edit the map when I find a f*ed up area, and when it tells me what time I can expect to arrive, it's usually very, very accurate.
Part of me wonders why this is noticeably better than bluetooth integration. I mean, yes, a steering wheel button is nice, but with my iPhone in the cradle and the head unit set to bt audio, I do just about all this stuff already (though with Waze for mapping, Pandora for streaming music, Google for searching, etc). What would be far better is a stand-alone unit which can pair with your phone to *expand* the car audio - like direct access to mobile device content, embedded tethering for data, and authentication to offer customization of the head unit operations on linking. Now THAT would be actual news.
Of all the really ass-backwards, poorly performing parts of a modern automobile, the head unit has got to be one of the absolute worst. It requires a minimal, simple interface, and the ability to multi-task effectively. Even the aftermarket pieces which try to do a better job end up sucking horribly. Of all things that matter, Apple (I grudgingly admit) probably has the best chance to solve. MS sure isn't going to get it right (they've tried, and failed, no suprise). And most of the current miscarriages of technology are based on linux already.
But instead of taking over and dominating the head unit, they seem content to simply add a couple of buttons and a special BT interface for iPhone users. Shame, really.
I get the computer controlled part, since forward swept wings are inherently unstable, but not how such control was going to be accomplished in 1939. Also, this 500mph historical plane, with modern fabrication and knowledge, is going to be limited to 200mph because they could only manage to fit 400HP of engine in it. And yet the original was supposed to fly 2.5 times as fast with only 2.25x the horsepower? Drag doesn't scale that way.
You just count the number of fingers/toes >10, number of arms/legs/eyes >2, and note which super powers are emerging.
That movie was so bad it was good. Or, at the least, fun to watch.
She didn't, so he violated the agreement the second he told his daughter. Which, when dealing with a normal adult - you say "we won, we got our judgement, and we agreed that we would not talk about it, so we'll use the money to find a job and life goes on." And a normal adult would celebrate in private and never say anything unless asked, or would be cagey about the results (they came to an agreement, and my dad is looking for another position). No harm, no foul - it's like doing 68 in a 65mph zone.
But this adult, his (presumably 18 year old) daughter, decided to crow about it and make a stink in the very community the school wanted to avoid the publicity. So it's his fault for telling her, but her fault for basically ratting him out.
I'm not sure it's really all that harsh. It sounds like this "little" girl (who might be inferred to be over 18 now, God help us all) is a real piece of work. Now, if the settlement included rescinding the $60,000 award to plaintiff's attorneys, which would then cost Mr. Snay real money out of his pocket, that would be a much tougher pill to swallow. As it is, they won't be receiving any money, which is much different than, say, sharing mp3 files and being given a bill for 5-6 figures.
I mean - I get it, we should all be aware on line. But it's not the end of the world to "like" a product manufacturer or service provider. It can be a symbiotic relationship - I like your stuff and want to keep abreast of what you're doing so I "like" your page and get updates. That might be the release of a new octocopter, or a new show opening at Disney World, or casting dates for an indie film, or a coupon for a new makeup product.
This sounds more like false advertising from a sleazy online porn shop. So, yes, we should all be aware; but we shouldn't be paranoid.And, yes, I think Facebook has a role/responsibility in vetting their advertisers and leveraging their data for appropriate marketing targets.