I bet there are a lot of lessons there, including not giving your agents too much independence, they could screw things so badly that you will need to hire your enemies to get rid of them.
Paying with cash works pretty well now. Paying with banks (specially if was done via HSBC, but other banks could be in play too) works too with a bit of creativity. And other kind of payments (from information to several kinds of snake oil) will keep working too. Is like banning 3d printers because they can be used to print weapons, when even a stick can be used as one too.
Never considered it, but could be a big problem there. Is not just that is descentralized, but that half of the network must acknowledge that a transaction happened before it is considered valid, even if the transaction was for 0.00000001 bitcoins, even if was for a candy or a single SMS sent. There is enough value in bitcoins to replace all the existing money (it should raise its value to ~ US$20k to have the same "value" of all the dollars around), the amount of wallets is more than enough for all mankind for centuries, but the volume of global transactions that is happening today with normal money is probably too high for the network (as it is today) to handle it.
Start reading Accelerando (printed/kindle version if you prefer it), then you can check more of his work. Maybe is not an authority about how the near future will develop, but at least wrote a lot about that.
If you want science fiction quotes, try picking from Charless Stross ones. If things goes fast enough, any kind of money could be irrelevant in few years.
Try adding all the assesinations and drugs and child pornography that is financed by bitcoins, and compare that with the number (even done by governments) that is financed by the competing fiat currency , is like a drop of water compared with the ocean. I suppose that being descentralized instead of being printed by the Federal Reserve plays against it.
If well deserves some kind of punishment, i wonder how much punishment gets people that do real damage and actual consequences, like drunk drivers (that may have killed several people), rapists, or even people that beat others leaving them maybe permanently injured (and lets not touch the consequences of lying to the congress or stealing trillons). What used to be a practical joke it seem to worth more than things with real life consequences in the actual society.
If well olpc has released tablets already for learning mayor be not the best option, they are mainly content comsumption devices, not so much for creation as school children need (at least, not all kinds, specially if involves writting).
Also, better that they can work for 4+ hours on battery, cheap tablets are not great in that area.
That remembers me of something. If the malware can brick the PC is probably BIOS/manufacturer fault, as it was in that case. And could be something intended by the NSA... when you force manufacturers to put your backdoors in their systems you can be the one responsible for bricking, either because you did it or because you opened the door.
Look at the approval for their programs. Is not what they think, is what they know about how stupid and easily manipulable the average american is. I bet in next "elections" will win one of the 2 parties that bring the current situation on, if you want a further proof of average IQ.
Is not your library if the vendor can take it from you. You didn't buy, just got a limited permission to play it while the real owner is in good mood, and in their own terms.
Clear signal that they are still lying. The director of the NSA had no problem nor consequences for lying to the congress, and Obama had no problem lying to the people multiple times. And you are trusting everything to people that intentionally is lying to you, and trying at all cost to catch the person that could inform you what the truth behind all those lies?
The size and capability of United States don't know what Snowden took, is offering him amnesty because they can't stop him to reveal what he could have, and is reaching that point because probably can't bear with the consequences of what that the knowledge of what they were doing could affect their population, their allies, and the rest of the world.
Even ISP routers are being used to get in our private networks, our VPN and even our Tor connections.
In NSA/GCHQ sources and methods uncovered there are some suggestions to improve things a bit.
In the same vein, you can kill everyone in the planet, so terrorist won't attack and they won't cause any victims.
They are not protecting US from attacks, they are attacking them, and everyone else, stripping every human of a fundamental human right, creating enemies and losing allies.
And this would happen even if the process were done entirely by machines only searching for terrorism. But they are done by men, by for-profit companies, and under orders of politicians that live in a place where money means everything, is guaranteed that it will be used for profit and economic advantage, not for protection.
Good luck with that, this is all the respect that had the NSA workers for the US soldiers in afganistan and their wives/girlfriends in 2008, maybe thet will respect you instead. And it could get muchworse
Port it to a cellphone that sold several millons and still can be found in a lot of markets and your user base can grow a lot in short time.
Of course, that installation is not for the common user, but the ones that will do it probably will be the kind that will ask or program apps for it... not sure if Android apps support is included and will run in the N9, but native and ported ones from meego, BB10 and others probably will.
till some hacker group uses NSA backdoors to cause mayhem in in US computers. Cookies are more or less harmless, as most of the privacy you lost with them is already lost by some other NSA program. But the NSA (and associated groups) backdoors are a bit more versatile, they are prepared to go into offensive mode, and probably a lot of US citizens have them installed (I don't think it is limited to just Tor, or social networks users).
And yes, they can cause mayhem in non-US computers, but how you know that it wasn't intended to happen by the NSA or some related company? The bombs are already in place.
The problem is when what it does is the thing patented, and that patent is used to forbid/request royalties/etc for something with prior art or of common sense. You know, like doing rectangular phones.
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I bet there are a lot of lessons there, including not giving your agents too much independence, they could screw things so badly that you will need to hire your enemies to get rid of them.
Paying with cash works pretty well now. Paying with banks (specially if was done via HSBC, but other banks could be in play too) works too with a bit of creativity. And other kind of payments (from information to several kinds of snake oil) will keep working too. Is like banning 3d printers because they can be used to print weapons, when even a stick can be used as one too.
Never considered it, but could be a big problem there. Is not just that is descentralized, but that half of the network must acknowledge that a transaction happened before it is considered valid, even if the transaction was for 0.00000001 bitcoins, even if was for a candy or a single SMS sent. There is enough value in bitcoins to replace all the existing money (it should raise its value to ~ US$20k to have the same "value" of all the dollars around), the amount of wallets is more than enough for all mankind for centuries, but the volume of global transactions that is happening today with normal money is probably too high for the network (as it is today) to handle it.
Start reading Accelerando (printed/kindle version if you prefer it), then you can check more of his work. Maybe is not an authority about how the near future will develop, but at least wrote a lot about that.
Or in the wrong country. And, maybe, in the wrong culture too.
If you want science fiction quotes, try picking from Charless Stross ones. If things goes fast enough, any kind of money could be irrelevant in few years.
Try adding all the assesinations and drugs and child pornography that is financed by bitcoins, and compare that with the number (even done by governments) that is financed by the competing fiat currency , is like a drop of water compared with the ocean. I suppose that being descentralized instead of being printed by the Federal Reserve plays against it.
If well deserves some kind of punishment, i wonder how much punishment gets people that do real damage and actual consequences, like drunk drivers (that may have killed several people), rapists, or even people that beat others leaving them maybe permanently injured (and lets not touch the consequences of lying to the congress or stealing trillons). What used to be a practical joke it seem to worth more than things with real life consequences in the actual society.
Also, better that they can work for 4+ hours on battery, cheap tablets are not great in that area.
If we really cared about viruses destroying the US economy, we wouldn't be still running windows in the business world.
FTFY
If the manufacturer was Samsung it was pretty trivial to be exploited, even running windows or by accident.
That remembers me of something. If the malware can brick the PC is probably BIOS/manufacturer fault, as it was in that case. And could be something intended by the NSA... when you force manufacturers to put your backdoors in their systems you can be the one responsible for bricking, either because you did it or because you opened the door.
Look at the approval for their programs. Is not what they think, is what they know about how stupid and easily manipulable the average american is. I bet in next "elections" will win one of the 2 parties that bring the current situation on, if you want a further proof of average IQ.
Is not your library if the vendor can take it from you. You didn't buy, just got a limited permission to play it while the real owner is in good mood, and in their own terms.
Clear signal that they are still lying. The director of the NSA had no problem nor consequences for lying to the congress, and Obama had no problem lying to the people multiple times. And you are trusting everything to people that intentionally is lying to you, and trying at all cost to catch the person that could inform you what the truth behind all those lies?
After the NSA covering the world, whats left? Spying on cows? They must be attacking us farting all the way to global warming.
The size and capability of United States don't know what Snowden took, is offering him amnesty because they can't stop him to reveal what he could have, and is reaching that point because probably can't bear with the consequences of what that the knowledge of what they were doing could affect their population, their allies, and the rest of the world.
Even ISP routers are being used to get in our private networks, our VPN and even our Tor connections. In NSA/GCHQ sources and methods uncovered there are some suggestions to improve things a bit.
Since the start had big problems, but the reasons are the worrysome ones, sometimes for misconfigured network devices, forgetting to update a SSL certificate, dealing with leap years, and even over DNS (this one was last month, and took down other MS services).
There are extra features that could make big differences. Noone can match Azure's 9.99999999999% uptime.
In the same vein, you can kill everyone in the planet, so terrorist won't attack and they won't cause any victims.
They are not protecting US from attacks, they are attacking them, and everyone else, stripping every human of a fundamental human right, creating enemies and losing allies.
And this would happen even if the process were done entirely by machines only searching for terrorism. But they are done by men, by for-profit companies, and under orders of politicians that live in a place where money means everything, is guaranteed that it will be used for profit and economic advantage, not for protection.
Good luck with that, this is all the respect that had the NSA workers for the US soldiers in afganistan and their wives/girlfriends in 2008, maybe thet will respect you instead. And it could get much worse
Port it to a cellphone that sold several millons and still can be found in a lot of markets and your user base can grow a lot in short time.
Of course, that installation is not for the common user, but the ones that will do it probably will be the kind that will ask or program apps for it... not sure if Android apps support is included and will run in the N9, but native and ported ones from meego, BB10 and others probably will.
till some hacker group uses NSA backdoors to cause mayhem in in US computers. Cookies are more or less harmless, as most of the privacy you lost with them is already lost by some other NSA program. But the NSA (and associated groups) backdoors are a bit more versatile, they are prepared to go into offensive mode, and probably a lot of US citizens have them installed (I don't think it is limited to just Tor, or social networks users).
And yes, they can cause mayhem in non-US computers, but how you know that it wasn't intended to happen by the NSA or some related company? The bombs are already in place.
The problem is when what it does is the thing patented, and that patent is used to forbid/request royalties/etc for something with prior art or of common sense. You know, like doing rectangular phones.