"Bitcoin users" sounds an awful lot like the democratic ideals behind most modern government currencies. Aside from being more globally representative, the question still comes down to how the users of the currency are more representative than, for example, that of USD.
As Ars explained, "RSA's defense seems to be that officials didn't know the NSA-influenced deterministic random bit generator had weaknesses that could be exploited to crack adversaries' cryptographic keys."
Whether bribery was involved or not, RSA used an algorithm without validating the math.
Not everybody feels that a currency backed by violence is an ethical arrangement.
Of course it's not. The question comes down to this: what's the alternative? So far, nobody has come up with a method to protect physical assets that doesn't involve physical security. Bitcoin doesn't solve this (nor does it attempt to.)
Nor do they feel that allowing politicians to destroy the value of a currency is a wise course of action.
How is letting a group of bitcoin power users alter the currency's value any different?
First of all, there is only one issuer of bitcoin: the bitcoin network, acting in aggregate, according to a pre-agreed algorithm.
Which is to say, the number of bitcoin can be changed as long as a sufficient number of people agree to change the algorithm.
Secondly, the value of almost any modern day currency is entirely a perceptual value caused by the notion that people will accept that currency at some approximately-known rate for payment for goods or services.
In theory, sure. In reality, there's a reason that countries with strong currencies have strong militaries to protect those currencies.
Kdenlive is essentially one guy's hobby project. Blender has a number of professional developers working on it full time. Both are open source, but it's really an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Notably, Commander Keen was EGA and released in 1990.
The first series was; the second series was released in 1991 in both EGA and CGA versions (yes, really.) Before DOOM there was Catacomb 3D, which was also released in 1991.
When Jill of the Jungle came out in 1992 with VGA graphics, it poked fun at Apogee for still making EGA games. Which was a bit silly given that Epic had released ZZT in 1991 with only ASCII graphics.
Personally I didn't have a computer powerful enough to run DOOM, Raptor, and many other awesome VGA games until early 1993. Besides, it's not like it's illegal to download and play games that are a year or two old.
The real "nerd angle" on this story has nothing to do with who's president, but rather that it's another one of Oracle's embarrassing failures. You'd have to be pretty desperate to blame anyone in D.C. for this.
Ubuntu is steadily moving away from Gnome and aligning more with Qt. (See: Ubuntu Phone's QML-based UI.) Getting rid of Gnome's system settings is just another small step in that direction.
If you want people to get interested in programming, you have to show them something interesting they can do with it? *gasp*
Personally I didn't get interested in programming because someone showed me how to do a for loop. I got interested because I could build games in ZZT or add my own cheat codes to gorillas.bas. (Those damn gorillas didn't stand a chance against my nuclear bananas.)
It's also a strawman. People don't design missile systems to kill people just because they are brown; that's not why the Iraq war happened. Either one of them.
Speaking of strawmen, you'll note that I never claimed that we were committing some sort of racial genocide on purpose.
Designing a missile system to kill lots of brown people on the other side of the world is not very ethically ambiguous. Thing is, there are plenty of technologies that are.
For example, DARPA has been doing lots of research on robots. They point out how self-driving cars can save lives, robots can find and defuse bombs and rescue victims, etc. But these technologies can be used for war just as easily.
Because Ubuntu Edge cost four times as much? $625 was a lot to spend on a product that hadn't even been built, especially from a company that has no previous record when it comes to hardware.
So this means both Sailfish and Ubuntu Phone can be installed on Android devices. This is an interesting development -- perhaps we're moving toward a PC-like standard for phone and tablet hardware?
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According to the more informative Time article, it's entirely software-based, and the whole shebang has Intel's backing.
This article makes no sense. What the fuck does Facebook's political stance have to do with UX?
Anyone who's ever used Facebook could tell you their UX is terrible, you don't need to bring politics into it.
You mean like the image you get by going to their home page and clicking the download link?
"Bitcoin users" sounds an awful lot like the democratic ideals behind most modern government currencies. Aside from being more globally representative, the question still comes down to how the users of the currency are more representative than, for example, that of USD.
As Ars explained, "RSA's defense seems to be that officials didn't know the NSA-influenced deterministic random bit generator had weaknesses that could be exploited to crack adversaries' cryptographic keys."
Whether bribery was involved or not, RSA used an algorithm without validating the math.
Of course it's not. The question comes down to this: what's the alternative? So far, nobody has come up with a method to protect physical assets that doesn't involve physical security. Bitcoin doesn't solve this (nor does it attempt to.)
How is letting a group of bitcoin power users alter the currency's value any different?
Which is to say, the number of bitcoin can be changed as long as a sufficient number of people agree to change the algorithm.
In theory, sure. In reality, there's a reason that countries with strong currencies have strong militaries to protect those currencies.
That's probably why the Enlightenment home page shows it running on a phone.
Kdenlive is essentially one guy's hobby project. Blender has a number of professional developers working on it full time. Both are open source, but it's really an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Sounds like it's time for Covey to come back to life and write "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Fictional Characters."
The first series was; the second series was released in 1991 in both EGA and CGA versions (yes, really.) Before DOOM there was Catacomb 3D, which was also released in 1991.
When Jill of the Jungle came out in 1992 with VGA graphics, it poked fun at Apogee for still making EGA games. Which was a bit silly given that Epic had released ZZT in 1991 with only ASCII graphics.
Personally I didn't have a computer powerful enough to run DOOM, Raptor, and many other awesome VGA games until early 1993. Besides, it's not like it's illegal to download and play games that are a year or two old.
...like "Made in China."
You seem to be forgetting that in that era, games weren't targeted toward top-spec machines.
Back in my day we had 14.4 kbps modems and it took forever to download games with EGA graphics. And we liked it. So shut up and get off my lawn, kids.
The real "nerd angle" on this story has nothing to do with who's president, but rather that it's another one of Oracle's embarrassing failures. You'd have to be pretty desperate to blame anyone in D.C. for this.
Canonical is moving towards Qt, not KDE.
Ubuntu is steadily moving away from Gnome and aligning more with Qt. (See: Ubuntu Phone's QML-based UI.) Getting rid of Gnome's system settings is just another small step in that direction.
This isn't exactly news, Wired wrote about Kiva's robots in 2009. They specifically mention Kiva's use at Zappos (an Amazon subsidiary.)
Steve Ballmer could model it.
Northrop Grumman style!
If you want people to get interested in programming, you have to show them something interesting they can do with it? *gasp*
Personally I didn't get interested in programming because someone showed me how to do a for loop. I got interested because I could build games in ZZT or add my own cheat codes to gorillas.bas. (Those damn gorillas didn't stand a chance against my nuclear bananas.)
Speaking of strawmen, you'll note that I never claimed that we were committing some sort of racial genocide on purpose.
Designing a missile system to kill lots of brown people on the other side of the world is not very ethically ambiguous. Thing is, there are plenty of technologies that are.
For example, DARPA has been doing lots of research on robots. They point out how self-driving cars can save lives, robots can find and defuse bombs and rescue victims, etc. But these technologies can be used for war just as easily.
Because Ubuntu Edge cost four times as much? $625 was a lot to spend on a product that hadn't even been built, especially from a company that has no previous record when it comes to hardware.
So this means both Sailfish and Ubuntu Phone can be installed on Android devices. This is an interesting development -- perhaps we're moving toward a PC-like standard for phone and tablet hardware?