A trillion dollars to power the US for patents until they run out is cheap. But stuff doesn't magically appear. Either government pays for research or private people do, and the lion's share of invention is the latter.
So better to have new stuff even if costly for a bit, than have it years later, or never.
I guarantee the US can, too, as it's all computers now.
My dad refused to give up his rotary (a phone company rental bakelite black, at that) because the phone company continued to want to charge extra for "premium" touch tone service, even long after it was actually a drag on them.
Last time I had a land line, around 2010, it was rotary-only, so whenever I had to use a menu, as to pay a bill, after dialing I would switch the phone to touch tone.
"Competitors, who are signing up to move to "Out Of Control Socialist Free Other Peoples' Money State" agree, upon achieving critical mass, to start moving to California 20 years ago."
Back in the day on download.com, I would go to download well-known, legitimate antivirus stuff, and the reviews were always crammed with "this installs a virus itself".
As these were often almost identical reviews across multiple products, I got the feeling they were by competitors, but of actual scamware, or by virus writers themselves.
Legitimate reviews are already laced with the problem people are much more likely to write a review to bitch about something than praise it, leaving everything everywhere with shitty reviews. But antivurus reviews are in a class by themselves because of this additional problem.
What happened to equality before the law? What happened to blind justice? You know, that famous statue at the Supreme Court?
What happened to the concept of inalienable rights, inherent in you by fact of being human, not by being a US citizen. Our constitutional theory declares these rights preceed the formation of any constitution or government.
Docker is so hyped nowadays I'm surprised people reading Slashdot are claiming they never heard of it. Docker is an application container. It essentially creates an advanced chroot which runs ONE application (usually). Now 644MB seems a lot of overhead for running one app, so shrinking this to 29MB is a welcome improvement.
That said, Docker is not for typical users. Use LXC, LXD, or systemd-nspawn if you want containers that can run several apps with their own init.
After 12 seconds of reading the first thing that popped up on Google, this is some kind of virtual machine that runs your app. Is this extra crap standard libraries for that language?
Memeplexes gather cogs, i.e. humans, and with critical mass, spread by force, by convincing the voluntary joiners of their righteousness.
The details of the memes are irrelevant -- the real power of memes is in getting cogs to behave in ways that spread the memes. Force is the final adopted step, be it execution of apostates or merely wielding the modern social mass mechanism methods (twitter, facebook) to enforce ostracism.
On campuses, these memez are struggling to work around the first and fourth amendments to eject students who do not join the memeplex.
Well I will happily take one year of her salary and stocks and whatever, sign to fire 6000 workers to bring it down to 3000, and then retire myself as incompetent.
The worst part is all these business interests she is supposedly beholden to would be less damaging to the economy than the unbridled heavy socialism the complainant no doubt drools over.
We The People are creating these things for convenience's sake, not for government to track our every purchase as part of their growing panopticon.
One of the natural benefits of cash for time immemorial was the ultimate anonymity. We should not give this up for a power grab by government. ISIS, for example, sells millions in oil every day. Go kill them and interrupt this massive physical operation instead of stripping our long-term freedoms.
They will lie and say it is only for terrorists then instantaneously start using it for mundane crime. They have done this before.
In the late 90s under Clinton they requested additional spy power because terrorists! They then used it on drug sellers. When questioned, they did not even bother with the sophistry that drug selling is kinda sorta terrorism. The baldfaced liars stated, "Whelp, the law doesn't actuay say terrorism only."
But these bitcoin guys are the good guys, going for hydroelectric, which, no matter how wasteful, is not wasteful at all in any environmentally-meaningful sense, either damaging via pollution or using up non-replacable resources.
They were accused at the time of pushing needless sign replacement, to the benefit of a handful of sign company employees. And union government employees to go around replacing them.
What to you and me is lose/lose is win/win to a senator or congressman.
Worse, stuff made overseas must be tightly controlled because contracting manufacturers will indeed run off unauthorized units from the official assembly lines, frequently with substandard material. So fraud ones can come off official lines, too.
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A trillion dollars to power the US for patents until they run out is cheap. But stuff doesn't magically appear. Either government pays for research or private people do, and the lion's share of invention is the latter.
So better to have new stuff even if costly for a bit, than have it years later, or never.
Isn't there some patent troll running around suing over fancy font technology on readers or handhelds or something?
I guarantee the US can, too, as it's all computers now.
My dad refused to give up his rotary (a phone company rental bakelite black, at that) because the phone company continued to want to charge extra for "premium" touch tone service, even long after it was actually a drag on them.
Last time I had a land line, around 2010, it was rotary-only, so whenever I had to use a menu, as to pay a bill, after dialing I would switch the phone to touch tone.
"Competitors, who are signing up to move to "Out Of Control Socialist Free Other Peoples' Money State" agree, upon achieving critical mass, to start moving to California 20 years ago."
Back in the day on download.com, I would go to download well-known, legitimate antivirus stuff, and the reviews were always crammed with "this installs a virus itself".
As these were often almost identical reviews across multiple products, I got the feeling they were by competitors, but of actual scamware, or by virus writers themselves.
Legitimate reviews are already laced with the problem people are much more likely to write a review to bitch about something than praise it, leaving everything everywhere with shitty reviews. But antivurus reviews are in a class by themselves because of this additional problem.
What happened to equality before the law? What happened to blind justice? You know, that famous statue at the Supreme Court?
What happened to the concept of inalienable rights, inherent in you by fact of being human, not by being a US citizen. Our constitutional theory declares these rights preceed the formation of any constitution or government.
Perhaps over-use of the word "troll"?
Never got haiku as an art form. I always imagined it, like fucking prostitutes, was better in the original Japanese.
I would like the "takeaway" from this to be the lesson of not granting exclusive rights to any company to begin with.
Docker is so hyped nowadays I'm surprised people reading Slashdot are claiming they never heard of it. Docker is an application container. It essentially creates an advanced chroot which runs ONE application (usually). Now 644MB seems a lot of overhead for running one app, so shrinking this to 29MB is a welcome improvement.
That said, Docker is not for typical users. Use LXC, LXD, or systemd-nspawn if you want containers that can run several apps with their own init.
After 12 seconds of reading the first thing that popped up on Google, this is some kind of virtual machine that runs your app. Is this extra crap standard libraries for that language?
Memeplexes gather cogs, i.e. humans, and with critical mass, spread by force, by convincing the voluntary joiners of their righteousness.
The details of the memes are irrelevant -- the real power of memes is in getting cogs to behave in ways that spread the memes. Force is the final adopted step, be it execution of apostates or merely wielding the modern social mass mechanism methods (twitter, facebook) to enforce ostracism.
On campuses, these memez are struggling to work around the first and fourth amendments to eject students who do not join the memeplex.
Well I will happily take one year of her salary and stocks and whatever, sign to fire 6000 workers to bring it down to 3000, and then retire myself as incompetent.
Rainbows End, by Vernon Vinge
Doubt it is the first but it's certainly well fleshed-out with what this tech would be capable of when it works.
Hint: You think furries and bronies are annoying now...
Do we know the process that generated this number, and how it didn't include apparently minimal verification?
The worst part is all these business interests she is supposedly beholden to would be less damaging to the economy than the unbridled heavy socialism the complainant no doubt drools over.
We The People are creating these things for convenience's sake, not for government to track our every purchase as part of their growing panopticon.
One of the natural benefits of cash for time immemorial was the ultimate anonymity. We should not give this up for a power grab by government. ISIS, for example, sells millions in oil every day. Go kill them and interrupt this massive physical operation instead of stripping our long-term freedoms.
They will lie and say it is only for terrorists then instantaneously start using it for mundane crime. They have done this before.
In the late 90s under Clinton they requested additional spy power because terrorists! They then used it on drug sellers. When questioned, they did not even bother with the sophistry that drug selling is kinda sorta terrorism. The baldfaced liars stated, "Whelp, the law doesn't actuay say terrorism only."
But these bitcoin guys are the good guys, going for hydroelectric, which, no matter how wasteful, is not wasteful at all in any environmentally-meaningful sense, either damaging via pollution or using up non-replacable resources.
Green cheese, not yellow.
All the haters...
"I have just as much right to that goldmine, now that it's worth something!" -- Charles Foster Kane's drunken, worthless father
Also interesting are the ads.
Will they be censoring old writings that might, umm, trigger the modern sensibility?
Ya know, I've always felt like a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
A beautiful, 5'10" lipstick supermodel lesbian, not one of those linebacker ones.
They were accused at the time of pushing needless sign replacement, to the benefit of a handful of sign company employees. And union government employees to go around replacing them.
What to you and me is lose/lose is win/win to a senator or congressman.
The BBC News threw in the towel over billion a quarter of a century ago. I was watching live.
Worse, stuff made overseas must be tightly controlled because contracting manufacturers will indeed run off unauthorized units from the official assembly lines, frequently with substandard material. So fraud ones can come off official lines, too.
The cake they must make. A gay positive statement with icing, no. That part would be impermissible control over publishing and speech.