It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 9 rounds in a firearm.
The beauty of our Constitution is the government doesn't have the power to tell citizens what they need. Indeed, it's the other way around. How would you react if the government proposed to ban certain words or phrases because you don't really "need" to use them in everyday speech?
So, let me get this straight: nothing is happening to the beer source water now, and it may well be that nothing will happen to it in the future. And if anything does happen, the magnitude of it could be so small as to be unnoticeable. The only point of the article is somebody's trying to pass or extend the reach of an anti-fracking law/regulation.
This is without a doubt one of the most content-free and pointless articles I've come across on/. in a while...and that's saying something.
he looked at the GI Bill but considering how they have refused to let soldiers leave when their enlistment is up? No thanks
I'd love to see some sort of proof that soldiers, sailors, or Marines are being refused exit at the end of their enlistment terms. I'm a former Marine, and I have lots of friends who are still in the service. Nobody's reported on this. Nobody's even *heard* of this.
Is long term evacuation a large consequence? Contamination of groundwater? Contamination of the ocean food chain?
If you've got some hard evidence that said contamination is statistically dangerous then I'd like to see it. I've heard lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth saying radiation levels are higher than before the incident but not one of them (to my knowledge) has indicated *dangerous* levels of contamination anywhere except in the immediate area of the plant.
And while you're wondering about how many lives will be cut short by radiation, perhaps you might want to consider how many were lost due to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. I believe you'll find the former is statistically unmeasurable compared to the latter.
No can do. You can thank Jimmy Carter for killing off breeder reactors in the US due to proliferation concerns. He didn't want unstable third-world dictatorships like Iran, North Korea, etc. to be able to develop nuclear weapons...oh, wait...
So all in all, the Steam Linux usage is just at about 1% with Windows platforms dominating about 95% of this gaming platform. It takes considerable expense for AMD and nVidia to crank out drivers for these platforms. The economic rewards for satisfying the needs of less than 1% of the gaming market simply don't make any sense. If you want to game in Linux, don't blame the hardware companies for ignoring you and the other five or six people in the world gaming with you.
They don't; they dual boot. Means they tinker with Linux and use Windows when they need to get anything done (or play games).
Which then leads to the question: why do they care of the 3D performance under Linux sucks? If you're tinkering with Linux -- or using it as a server, dev platform, etc. -- and not using it for Linux gaming, it's kinda irrelevant. Use the bundled 2D drivers and be done with it.
...scientists discover how to make fruit fly larvae develop Maximum Armor, Maximum Strength, and Invisibility Cloak powers, just not all at the same time.
Uh, no. Somehow I sleep a little better knowing my money is backed up by the FDIC if I keep it in a real bank.
And, as recently demonstrated by Cyprus, if the government arbitrarily changes the rules ex post facto and decides they're going to take your money "because we need it," how well do you sleep? You sleep well thinking the rules of the game can't be changed. They can. They are. This is a terrifying precedent.
Anything over 100,000 euros was uninsured, just as anything over $250,000 is uninsured in the US. Those depositors were generally not "people in Cyprus" but rather "people in Russia with money in Cyprus".
And this makes the people who were subjected to government-authorized robberies sleep better at night...how exactly? When the government can arbitrarily decide to take your funds, does it really matter where thy put the dollar/euro limit at? This should terrify everyone.
This is semi-old news. Mt.Gox has been under attack for at least a couple of days but they appear to be handling it pretty well. I haven't noticed any problems with using them at least. Trades might be taking a tad longer but nothing big that I can see.
Instawallet, on the other hand, crumbled at least a day or two (I read about it early yesterday morning). Their problem had nothing fundamental to do with BTC but more to do with the unique way Instawallet did business with (I believe) greater anonymity. The whole "we gotta rearchitect this thing" press release was that their fundamental way of doing business made them uniquely targetable by fraudsters, thus they gotta figure out something new.
I'm no sailor, but I've read a good bit about disasters at sea. I frequently come across the maxim that the safest place for a ship to be during a storm is at sea, the logic being a ship in port will be thrown against piers, reefs, etc. and destroyed instead of at sea where, presumably, you can sail away from or around danger. Any sailors care to weigh in on this?
Bitcoin is only valuable so long as people keep giving a shit and buying in to it. If suddenly everyone ignored it, the value would drop to zero.
The same could be said of any fiat currency.
It has no national economy behind it
Since when does any currency require this in order to function? The very nature of a fiat currency means it doesn't require any such support.
there are no taxes you can pay with it
If you mean you can't pay US or European (or whatever nation is collecting your taxes) with Bitcoins then you're right. However, I fail to see how that matters in the slightest. You can convert your BC to USD or EUR easily and pay taxes on it the same as if you sold stock.
there is no reason to hold it unless you are playing the bubble game with it.
Which, given the recent rapid rise in BC value, isn't such a bad game to be in right now. But I digress. I will grant there aren't a lot of businesses accepting BC right now. However, to say there is "no reason" to hold it is kind of ridiculous given that at least *some* places take it. Silk Road does a lot of business with it, and regardless of what your stance is on drugs, it *is* a business.
While "billionaire" is a bit beyond me, I did just cash in a bunch of bitcoins I've mined over the last several months using several of my PC's with dual AMD video cards. Compared to the cost in power to generate those bitcoins, I made quite a handsome profit. And I cashed out just three USD below the current high water mark of bitcoins, so I timed it pretty good. Hard to argue with the moneymaking aspect of it, at least if you've been mining since bitcoins were $5 each like I have.
OK, so you have a worker occupying workspace, using power, air conditioning, network/wifi, phones, insurance liability...all the trappings of a typical office worker in any typical company anywhere. Except they're not working for Microsoft. So, to recoup these costs, Microsoft charges them rent. And this is a problem...why?
The only thing unusual here is that/. thought this was story-worthy. And $25M is a pittance compared to the company's bottom line so it's not like they're making out like bandits here.
Are you referring to official CM ROM's or one-offs? Because I've never seen *any* CM ROM with the TMOUS WiFi Calling app included. How could they when it's a proprietary app owned and controlled by TMOUS?
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And when I read this, I hear it in Brad Dourif's voice LOL
For anyone who hasn't seen the film "Dune":
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed,
the lips acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
You don't need a 30 round magazine
and
There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 9 rounds in a firearm.
The beauty of our Constitution is the government doesn't have the power to tell citizens what they need. Indeed, it's the other way around. How would you react if the government proposed to ban certain words or phrases because you don't really "need" to use them in everyday speech?
So, let me get this straight: nothing is happening to the beer source water now, and it may well be that nothing will happen to it in the future. And if anything does happen, the magnitude of it could be so small as to be unnoticeable. The only point of the article is somebody's trying to pass or extend the reach of an anti-fracking law/regulation.
This is without a doubt one of the most content-free and pointless articles I've come across on /. in a while...and that's saying something.
he looked at the GI Bill but considering how they have refused to let soldiers leave when their enlistment is up? No thanks
I'd love to see some sort of proof that soldiers, sailors, or Marines are being refused exit at the end of their enlistment terms. I'm a former Marine, and I have lots of friends who are still in the service. Nobody's reported on this. Nobody's even *heard* of this.
Is long term evacuation a large consequence? Contamination of groundwater? Contamination of the ocean food chain?
If you've got some hard evidence that said contamination is statistically dangerous then I'd like to see it. I've heard lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth saying radiation levels are higher than before the incident but not one of them (to my knowledge) has indicated *dangerous* levels of contamination anywhere except in the immediate area of the plant.
And while you're wondering about how many lives will be cut short by radiation, perhaps you might want to consider how many were lost due to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. I believe you'll find the former is statistically unmeasurable compared to the latter.
No can do. You can thank Jimmy Carter for killing off breeder reactors in the US due to proliferation concerns. He didn't want unstable third-world dictatorships like Iran, North Korea, etc. to be able to develop nuclear weapons...oh, wait...
+100 Funny points for you, sir!
And then imagine your spherical cow on a frictionless surface...
Believe it or not, some folks do game on Linux.
Here's the results of a recent Steam hardware survey from December 2012:
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit - 0.29%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit - 0.26%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS - 0.13%
Ubuntu 12.10 - 0.12%
So all in all, the Steam Linux usage is just at about 1% with Windows platforms dominating about 95% of this gaming platform. It takes considerable expense for AMD and nVidia to crank out drivers for these platforms. The economic rewards for satisfying the needs of less than 1% of the gaming market simply don't make any sense. If you want to game in Linux, don't blame the hardware companies for ignoring you and the other five or six people in the world gaming with you.
They don't; they dual boot. Means they tinker with Linux and use Windows when they need to get anything done (or play games).
Which then leads to the question: why do they care of the 3D performance under Linux sucks? If you're tinkering with Linux -- or using it as a server, dev platform, etc. -- and not using it for Linux gaming, it's kinda irrelevant. Use the bundled 2D drivers and be done with it.
Sarah Kerrigan doesn't shop at Victoria's Secret
But OMG, if she did...
...scientists discover how to make fruit fly larvae develop Maximum Armor, Maximum Strength, and Invisibility Cloak powers, just not all at the same time.
'"It's Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent,"
Said every dictator, thug, and authoritarian ever...
Seriously, how can someone say this with a straight face? Oh, wait, I forget...this is a college campus.
Uh, no. Somehow I sleep a little better knowing my money is backed up by the FDIC if I keep it in a real bank.
And, as recently demonstrated by Cyprus, if the government arbitrarily changes the rules ex post facto and decides they're going to take your money "because we need it," how well do you sleep? You sleep well thinking the rules of the game can't be changed. They can. They are. This is a terrifying precedent.
Anything over 100,000 euros was uninsured, just as anything over $250,000 is uninsured in the US. Those depositors were generally not "people in Cyprus" but rather "people in Russia with money in Cyprus".
And this makes the people who were subjected to government-authorized robberies sleep better at night...how exactly? When the government can arbitrarily decide to take your funds, does it really matter where thy put the dollar/euro limit at? This should terrify everyone.
This is semi-old news. Mt.Gox has been under attack for at least a couple of days but they appear to be handling it pretty well. I haven't noticed any problems with using them at least. Trades might be taking a tad longer but nothing big that I can see.
Instawallet, on the other hand, crumbled at least a day or two (I read about it early yesterday morning). Their problem had nothing fundamental to do with BTC but more to do with the unique way Instawallet did business with (I believe) greater anonymity. The whole "we gotta rearchitect this thing" press release was that their fundamental way of doing business made them uniquely targetable by fraudsters, thus they gotta figure out something new.
I'm no sailor, but I've read a good bit about disasters at sea. I frequently come across the maxim that the safest place for a ship to be during a storm is at sea, the logic being a ship in port will be thrown against piers, reefs, etc. and destroyed instead of at sea where, presumably, you can sail away from or around danger. Any sailors care to weigh in on this?
Its quite easy to regulate- make it illegal to accept it as payment, and arrest anyone who takes payment in it.
Care to cite what law and/or provision of the U.S. Constitution (assuming you're a citizen) that would allow the government to do this?
Bitcoin is only valuable so long as people keep giving a shit and buying in to it. If suddenly everyone ignored it, the value would drop to zero.
The same could be said of any fiat currency.
It has no national economy behind it
Since when does any currency require this in order to function? The very nature of a fiat currency means it doesn't require any such support.
there are no taxes you can pay with it
If you mean you can't pay US or European (or whatever nation is collecting your taxes) with Bitcoins then you're right. However, I fail to see how that matters in the slightest. You can convert your BC to USD or EUR easily and pay taxes on it the same as if you sold stock.
there is no reason to hold it unless you are playing the bubble game with it.
Which, given the recent rapid rise in BC value, isn't such a bad game to be in right now. But I digress. I will grant there aren't a lot of businesses accepting BC right now. However, to say there is "no reason" to hold it is kind of ridiculous given that at least *some* places take it. Silk Road does a lot of business with it, and regardless of what your stance is on drugs, it *is* a business.
In fairness to /., bitcoin value has risen dramatically in the last few weeks, so the attention isn't entirely unwarranted.
While "billionaire" is a bit beyond me, I did just cash in a bunch of bitcoins I've mined over the last several months using several of my PC's with dual AMD video cards. Compared to the cost in power to generate those bitcoins, I made quite a handsome profit. And I cashed out just three USD below the current high water mark of bitcoins, so I timed it pretty good. Hard to argue with the moneymaking aspect of it, at least if you've been mining since bitcoins were $5 each like I have.
OK, so you have a worker occupying workspace, using power, air conditioning, network/wifi, phones, insurance liability...all the trappings of a typical office worker in any typical company anywhere. Except they're not working for Microsoft. So, to recoup these costs, Microsoft charges them rent. And this is a problem...why?
The only thing unusual here is that /. thought this was story-worthy. And $25M is a pittance compared to the company's bottom line so it's not like they're making out like bandits here.
Are you referring to official CM ROM's or one-offs? Because I've never seen *any* CM ROM with the TMOUS WiFi Calling app included. How could they when it's a proprietary app owned and controlled by TMOUS?
Unless, of course, they know who (or what) The Stig is ;-)