Guess they shouldn't have banned Creative Commons music from their station then? They can lie in the bed they've made. This is exactly what happens when you try to negotiate with these groups.
reminds me of the G20 police saying "go over there!"....only to point the people they were brutally pushing into another wall of advancing policemen saying "go over there!"...
Except a censorship resistant leaking system that is guaranteed to find more data as time goes on.
They didn't get the operating manual to Guantanamo Bay leaked do them once, they had it leaked multiple times from multiple different versions of the document from multiple places within the bureaucracy.
If you have something you feel should be leaked to the world we now have a place that can vet and leak that document. This wasn't the case before wikileaks -- you had to hope that your local news agency wasn't in league with whoever you were leaking about, which wasn't always a good assumption. Plus, if you don't trust wikileaks, there's also openleaks and other competitors as well -- something which will not be the case if wikileaks ever closes shop (as those competitors will be corrupted, but right now have to at least try to compete with wikileaks)
Thanks for the reminder to restart my tor exit node.
Know what's *also* not free? Monopoly rent & wireless data coverage within cities via centralized, heavily controlled & policed networks. 4G networks cost a shit ton, and local to me we're putting them up because, as a continent, we're more or less a bunch of greedy assholes who can't seem to learn to share our very good coverage of 802.11 networks within most cities properly.
You are delusional if you think one private was the only one who compromised that network. At least 100,000 people have access -- the chinese, russians and others know who to bribe to get access. He just made the data available to the general public.
Odd, I find riding my bike costs about 25$/mo, only slightly cheaper than transit, after repair kits and bike cost and whatnot. What kind of bike is this that allows a 0$/mo cost? Do you live in a city with a free bike program?
You can't simply take 2 Generic Projects and deal with them in an intelligent way to make this problem dissappear -- you need to find convergances and synergies to make the multiple high priority problems a subset of a single issue that is tackleable quicker than had you tried to take them each on independently. And that requires domain specific understanding of each problem. Repeat for everything in your queue.
This, by the way is really hard but it is the best way of dealing with this problem and is why the best programmers justify 10,000x the pay of the average ones.
Because Bitcoin is an inherent monopoly - - once the system gets going it will become very, very hard to displace it with something that might even be technically better -- the inertial force of a few 10s of megabucks can actually do wonders.
"That's nice, but if your money supply cannot grow then your economy is going to have problems. Claiming that you can keep dividing money into smaller units does not solve this problem."
The *base* of the money supply cannot grow but the money supply can absolutely grow. I have ripple connections with several people denominated in BTC - - this means that we have by use of debt effectively increased the supply of BTC out there in the same way that banks make dollars they don't have. Sure they could collapse back into unity but there is plenty of means of 'printing' BTC in this manner. Think of it as a M0 - cash which cannot grow but M1, BTC+Ripple which can. It is not clear at all that the narrowest definition being fixed will not merely cause the flexibility of money to occur on a more abstract level.
For starters, opening borders to allow for said workers to come into the developed world, and offering them free transportation to get there would be one step. Giving them free english/other language lessons and healthcare is another. Are these things we can afford? Both of those things would have huge impacts on the availability of labour at slave and low-wage conditions.
For the cost of the global bank bailouts we could have done both of those things. For the cost of the bailouts yet to come, we may be able to do more. Now at this point it might be true that we are spent; in that case it should be a goal put on the immediate horizon that once we are able to, we should do something of this nature.
"If Bitcoin was used at anything close to the number of dollar transactions that happen every day, the technical limitations of Bitcoin would kill it off within a week's time."
This is not clear at all. First of all, there are already designs to deal with this situation for when (not if) this occurs - they have already begun by taking the mining out of the default client (they are moving to a thinner and thinner client, which will and has to some extent culumnated in credit-card like applications for mobile devices). There are proposals for securely pruning the existing block chain and for dealing with the higher load all the way up to the size of the world economy.
2) "...The demand for Bitcoin will never exceed the demand for national currencies..."
The black market already holds its own to the deman for national currency and the black market is growing with time - it is very likely that within the next decade or two it may outpace the regulated one. With half the world's population already employed in the black market it is not much of a stretch to think that you don't need a government to back a currency, if the incentives are right for the market to protect it itself.
3) "credit is a necessary component of any economy; "
And you could say by the same metric that trade in physical goods, whether coins or paper bills have been a 'necessary' component...until the digital banking started to take over in the 80's or so. Just because something has always been part of the economy does not mean that it is necessary. That is a correlation vs. causation error in thinking.
It takes about 1-3 days to take money from the legacy currency system and put it into one of these exchanges...so even if the price suddenly drops those who know it's a good deal have a bit of a delay, hence a lot of the 20% bounces.
Between around 1934-1945+ the British had a preoccupation to take their resources: Nazi Germany. While there were doubtless many things done to India in colonization, not paying upkeep cost should be understandable because of this fact. As is they just barely kept from losing the whole world to german style inhumanity.
that those numbers are mostly cooked. Sony uses hollywood accounting tactics, LG likely does the same. And also that engaget is pure marketing, designed to get you to buy into more things you don't need.
Our international copyright regime specifically incentivizes *against* this happening. If the whole purpose of copyright is to ensure the artist is able to no longer make new art but live off of the old stuff, this is exactly the result you'll see.
Locking the doors to the campus at night. Discouraging students from working together and forming friendships based around learning. Emphasis on short-term pleasurable activities 'drink and spend your money at the local establishment' rather than, you know, learning. Advertisements EVERYWHERE. Classes that become more and more standardized with less leeway for profs to venture into
a) politically sensitive
b) scientifically adventerous
c) anything risky
No investment into R&D for the sake of R&D, only research that benefits (ie free subsidy to) large businesses and military. Pricing university as high as possible, and encouraging an elitist attitude in the students(I got mine, screw you). Forcing students to only use computer resources they have permission to use, and denying permission to practically everything. Not standing up for students when they are in trouble. Outright censorship when professors want to present talks about certain things. Being OK with dictatorships offering free classes on campus with the condition that if you talk about certain subjects you're kicked out. Replacing access to healthy food with junk food and vending machines. Replacing libraries with rooms with TVs in them. Emphasizing standardized testing and standard lessons. Not embracing the internet *whatsoever*, and investing in walled gardens when that's not possible.
That is my personal experience, anyway. I'm not an american, mind you.
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How many states does the cloud have?
Did it do multiple input sensing?
Even the recent touchscreens seemed unable to do that. Were the MS tablets of 2002-2005 capable of multitouch??
Guess they shouldn't have banned Creative Commons music from their station then? They can lie in the bed they've made. This is exactly what happens when you try to negotiate with these groups.
reminds me of the G20 police saying "go over there!" ....only to point the people they were brutally pushing into another wall of advancing policemen saying "go over there!" ...
Except a censorship resistant leaking system that is guaranteed to find more data as time goes on.
They didn't get the operating manual to Guantanamo Bay leaked do them once, they had it leaked multiple times from multiple different versions of the document from multiple places within the bureaucracy.
If you have something you feel should be leaked to the world we now have a place that can vet and leak that document. This wasn't the case before wikileaks -- you had to hope that your local news agency wasn't in league with whoever you were leaking about, which wasn't always a good assumption. Plus, if you don't trust wikileaks, there's also openleaks and other competitors as well -- something which will not be the case if wikileaks ever closes shop (as those competitors will be corrupted, but right now have to at least try to compete with wikileaks)
Thanks for the reminder to restart my tor exit node.
Know what's *also* not free? Monopoly rent & wireless data coverage within cities via centralized, heavily controlled & policed networks. 4G networks cost a shit ton, and local to me we're putting them up because, as a continent, we're more or less a bunch of greedy assholes who can't seem to learn to share our very good coverage of 802.11 networks within most cities properly.
To be fair, some of us probably use 99%+ of our bandwidth. wooo 5000ms ping time!
You are delusional if you think one private was the only one who compromised that network. At least 100,000 people have access -- the chinese, russians and others know who to bribe to get access. He just made the data available to the general public.
Who maintains the M-x spook list? Perhaps it's time for an update
Odd, I find riding my bike costs about 25$/mo, only slightly cheaper than transit, after repair kits and bike cost and whatnot. What kind of bike is this that allows a 0$/mo cost? Do you live in a city with a free bike program?
You can't simply take 2 Generic Projects and deal with them in an intelligent way to make this problem dissappear -- you need to find convergances and synergies to make the multiple high priority problems a subset of a single issue that is tackleable quicker than had you tried to take them each on independently. And that requires domain specific understanding of each problem. Repeat for everything in your queue.
This, by the way is really hard but it is the best way of dealing with this problem and is why the best programmers justify 10,000x the pay of the average ones.
"Hacking" like that is probably enough to get you expelled.
Because Bitcoin is an inherent monopoly - - once the system gets going it will become very, very hard to displace it with something that might even be technically better -- the inertial force of a few 10s of megabucks can actually do wonders.
"That's nice, but if your money supply cannot grow then your economy is going to have problems. Claiming that you can keep dividing money into smaller units does not solve this problem."
The *base* of the money supply cannot grow but the money supply can absolutely grow. I have ripple connections with several people denominated in BTC - - this means that we have by use of debt effectively increased the supply of BTC out there in the same way that banks make dollars they don't have. Sure they could collapse back into unity but there is plenty of means of 'printing' BTC in this manner. Think of it as a M0 - cash which cannot grow but M1, BTC+Ripple which can. It is not clear at all that the narrowest definition being fixed will not merely cause the flexibility of money to occur on a more abstract level.
There is nothing necessary about human affairs.
For starters, opening borders to allow for said workers to come into the developed world, and offering them free transportation to get there would be one step. Giving them free english/other language lessons and healthcare is another. Are these things we can afford? Both of those things would have huge impacts on the availability of labour at slave and low-wage conditions.
For the cost of the global bank bailouts we could have done both of those things. For the cost of the bailouts yet to come, we may be able to do more. Now at this point it might be true that we are spent; in that case it should be a goal put on the immediate horizon that once we are able to, we should do something of this nature.
No it does not : its creator has abandoned the project due to its limitations and it has a central point of failure, something bitcoin lacks.
"If Bitcoin was used at anything close to the number of dollar transactions that happen every day, the technical limitations of Bitcoin would kill it off within a week's time."
...until the digital banking started to take over in the 80's or so. Just because something has always been part of the economy does not mean that it is necessary. That is a correlation vs. causation error in thinking.
This is not clear at all. First of all, there are already designs to deal with this situation for when (not if) this occurs - they have already begun by taking the mining out of the default client (they are moving to a thinner and thinner client, which will and has to some extent culumnated in credit-card like applications for mobile devices). There are proposals for securely pruning the existing block chain and for dealing with the higher load all the way up to the size of the world economy.
2) "...The demand for Bitcoin will never exceed the demand for national currencies..."
The black market already holds its own to the deman for national currency and the black market is growing with time - it is very likely that within the next decade or two it may outpace the regulated one. With half the world's population already employed in the black market it is not much of a stretch to think that you don't need a government to back a currency, if the incentives are right for the market to protect it itself.
3) "credit is a necessary component of any economy; "
And you could say by the same metric that trade in physical goods, whether coins or paper bills have been a 'necessary' component
It takes about 1-3 days to take money from the legacy currency system and put it into one of these exchanges...so even if the price suddenly drops those who know it's a good deal have a bit of a delay, hence a lot of the 20% bounces.
When will bitcoin be supported as a payment mechanism? Seems to be an obviously more "secure" payment system than this PoundPay system.
Between around 1934-1945+ the British had a preoccupation to take their resources: Nazi Germany. While there were doubtless many things done to India in colonization, not paying upkeep cost should be understandable because of this fact. As is they just barely kept from losing the whole world to german style inhumanity.
"I can quit google any time I feel like. I'm not addicted at all. In fact I could google 'google rehab' and start on quitting right now."
that those numbers are mostly cooked. Sony uses hollywood accounting tactics, LG likely does the same. And also that engaget is pure marketing, designed to get you to buy into more things you don't need.
Our international copyright regime specifically incentivizes *against* this happening. If the whole purpose of copyright is to ensure the artist is able to no longer make new art but live off of the old stuff, this is exactly the result you'll see.
what actual effect has this had on colleges?
Off the top of my head...
Locking the doors to the campus at night. Discouraging students from working together and forming friendships based around learning. Emphasis on short-term pleasurable activities 'drink and spend your money at the local establishment' rather than, you know, learning. Advertisements EVERYWHERE. Classes that become more and more standardized with less leeway for profs to venture into
a) politically sensitive
b) scientifically adventerous
c) anything risky
No investment into R&D for the sake of R&D, only research that benefits (ie free subsidy to) large businesses and military. Pricing university as high as possible, and encouraging an elitist attitude in the students(I got mine, screw you). Forcing students to only use computer resources they have permission to use, and denying permission to practically everything. Not standing up for students when they are in trouble. Outright censorship when professors want to present talks about certain things. Being OK with dictatorships offering free classes on campus with the condition that if you talk about certain subjects you're kicked out. Replacing access to healthy food with junk food and vending machines. Replacing libraries with rooms with TVs in them. Emphasizing standardized testing and standard lessons. Not embracing the internet *whatsoever*, and investing in walled gardens when that's not possible.
That is my personal experience, anyway. I'm not an american, mind you.
All it does it tax the US consumers and gives that money to the government.
You mean, so that the government could have a chance at hell at paying down its obscene debt? When you describe it that way, it sounds win:win.