Bitcoin is not anonymous and is damn well traceable. In fact, all the transactions are public. The hard thing is to put a name behind an account, and so far the lack of a raidable authority has made this a bit more difficult to identify account owners but bitcoin has not been designed for privacy but for resilience and lack of a central point of failure.
What you can do anonymously is run a bitcoin node over Tor. How, and by the way, it has not failed. A speculation peak and a crash was exactly what was expeced for the seeding phase.
A cashless society would effectively destroy privacy of transactions.
I would also add that fusion reactors that generate more energy than they receive have been done for several years and can entertain such reactions for several seconds. The questions left are engineering questions : how to inject new fuel, how to use the energy to generate enough electricity, how to maintain the reactor's integrity during several years, how to dispose reaction wastes.
None of these questions are impossible to solve at NIF but achieving surgeneration is just a first step toward commercial generation, a step that has been achieved several years ago in tokamaks.
Legally, physically, morally, semantically, theft and copyright infrigement are different. In some context you can use theft as a metaphor but like chen comparing internet to a serie of tube, you can really do that only when you are aware of the differences.
If piracy is okay, obviously, abusing the GPL is ok. The GPL is a reaction to the madness of copyright in the software world, using its rules to design an ecosystem that relies on cooperation rather than competition. The day where copyrights are cancelled, open source will know a boom, as it will integrate, through reverse engineering or downright binary copying, many proprietary features.
Imagine that linux is allowed to ship with DLLs copied from Windows. Imagine that people can ship corrected version of windows. Publishing the source code of GPL-based software would not be mandatory anymore but the benefits far outweight the inconvenients of this.
In some countries, "legal infrigement" is not an offense and anti-counterfeiting laws are used, on shaky legal grounds, to pretend you use a trademark illegally.
They launched the total patent war and honestly pretend to be the only ones to be allowed to sell a rectangle device with a touchscreen and a button.
They are using patents in a way that is counter to the interest of technological progress. They do so to squash competition. I don't know if "patent troll" is the correct word, but Apple is using patents is a non-defensive way and that is to be considered wrong.
The balkanization of internet (or at least DNS space) was inevitable after the seizing of wikileaks domains. That day, US broke the trust in ICANN and caused an irresistible movement. It was one of the dumbest action they ever made : useless, counter-productive and with very harmful side-effects. They have shown a complete misunderstanding of internet and a willingness to sacrifice it if it could serve short term interests.
as you can probably tell from the summary, the linked articles (while factual in nature) discuss subjects that may not be suitable for workplace reading.
We are talking about reading things on the workplace. Reading this from a secular country, this advice sounds like something you would post in Pakistan or Indonesia.
Is your boss really allowed to filter the ideas that are allowed to arrive to your brain ? If so it may be time to, maybe, I don't know, revolt ? Change job ? Organize your life differently ? Emigrate ?
Under the law of every country that has an extradition agreement with the United States. Note that disclosing UK secret files for an American would probably mean him being arrested by American authorities.
Interestingly, the EU countries have extradition agreement with the US but they can't extrade someone who could risk death penalty. Assange case is really a legal minefield.
Seriously consider hiring a professionnal and experienced coder. Several of your requirements are very hard to combine : large data sets, cross-platform, HTML rendering and 3D rendering. You won't find an off-the-shelf library that does all of that directly. You will find pieces of what you need, but making them work coherently together is a hard work.
Know your limits as a coder. You need someone with several years of experience to help you identify the technical limits and guide your design. Someone who can tell you if the size of your datasets mean that you have to do things around a powerful database engine or if you should rather use a game engine and add a standard database, for instance.
Why is it that the only way to get access to this kind of content is through illegal means ? How did this society go so wrong that a product that is technicably feasible since a decade, highly desirable with millions of potential clients, was made impossible to create ?
Shouldn't lawmakers adress this problem ? The ACTA lobbyists tried to find ways to preserve revenue streams that seem frankly unsustainable in today's technology environment but did not wonder how they could make international agreements to make new revenues possible.
I call my European MP and he said he received tons of calls already. He was honest "we didn't do our homework on this yet, but we are already critical of it because of its part on generic drugs."
Protests are not enough to withdraw a law, but they show that the issue is not minor either. There are tons of text being voted. More often than not, representative just vote along their party's line. When they see protests, there is a chance they will investigate a bit further. And when they investigate even a slight bit further, if they just google 'ACTA' they'll find a tone of things to be critical of.
I read the list of scientists, expecting to not know any of them, but I happen to know the first one : Claude Allegre, famous figure in France. More involved in politics (he was minister of Education) than in science, he has been known these last years for being a very staunch opponent of the theory of global warming. And a nutjob. I mean, I have doubts too about global warming, some "against" arguments are really interesting, but Allegre is not doing science. He is dismissing facts to promote his own view, he keeps using obsolete data as arguments.
If all scientists listed are like him, this is more an argument for global warming than against.
Anyway, it is still interesting that we observed no waming during the last decade (that one is a true fact). It is not necessarily statistically significant but shows that predictions on a century scale may also be wildly inaccurate.
I wish I had never had to cancel a project because of these laws. I wish I could just ignore them. I can't. I don't want to look into this insanity but it interferes on my job.
The district of Berlin, Germany, changed its local laws to allow automated vehicles. One model (made by local researchers) has been homologated so far.
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Bitcoin is not anonymous and is damn well traceable. In fact, all the transactions are public. The hard thing is to put a name behind an account, and so far the lack of a raidable authority has made this a bit more difficult to identify account owners but bitcoin has not been designed for privacy but for resilience and lack of a central point of failure.
What you can do anonymously is run a bitcoin node over Tor. How, and by the way, it has not failed. A speculation peak and a crash was exactly what was expeced for the seeding phase.
A cashless society would effectively destroy privacy of transactions.
I would also add that fusion reactors that generate more energy than they receive have been done for several years and can entertain such reactions for several seconds. The questions left are engineering questions : how to inject new fuel, how to use the energy to generate enough electricity, how to maintain the reactor's integrity during several years, how to dispose reaction wastes.
None of these questions are impossible to solve at NIF but achieving surgeneration is just a first step toward commercial generation, a step that has been achieved several years ago in tokamaks.
Also known as the Ballmer routine
Legally, physically, morally, semantically, theft and copyright infrigement are different. In some context you can use theft as a metaphor but like chen comparing internet to a serie of tube, you can really do that only when you are aware of the differences.
If piracy is okay, obviously, abusing the GPL is ok. The GPL is a reaction to the madness of copyright in the software world, using its rules to design an ecosystem that relies on cooperation rather than competition. The day where copyrights are cancelled, open source will know a boom, as it will integrate, through reverse engineering or downright binary copying, many proprietary features.
Imagine that linux is allowed to ship with DLLs copied from Windows. Imagine that people can ship corrected version of windows. Publishing the source code of GPL-based software would not be mandatory anymore but the benefits far outweight the inconvenients of this.
In some countries, "legal infrigement" is not an offense and anti-counterfeiting laws are used, on shaky legal grounds, to pretend you use a trademark illegally.
Ok, it falls in the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami on all the west coast of N & S America and on Asia.
The question is, can we deflect it for a lesser cost than the evacuation of all these zones ?
They launched the total patent war and honestly pretend to be the only ones to be allowed to sell a rectangle device with a touchscreen and a button.
They are using patents in a way that is counter to the interest of technological progress. They do so to squash competition. I don't know if "patent troll" is the correct word, but Apple is using patents is a non-defensive way and that is to be considered wrong.
I use Chromium on linux because I think it is reasonnable to not trust Google totally.
On Windows, I use firefox unless I need fast HTML5 rendering.
The balkanization of internet (or at least DNS space) was inevitable after the seizing of wikileaks domains. That day, US broke the trust in ICANN and caused an irresistible movement. It was one of the dumbest action they ever made : useless, counter-productive and with very harmful side-effects. They have shown a complete misunderstanding of internet and a willingness to sacrifice it if it could serve short term interests.
as you can probably tell from the summary, the linked articles (while factual in nature) discuss subjects that may not be suitable for workplace reading.
We are talking about reading things on the workplace. Reading this from a secular country, this advice sounds like something you would post in Pakistan or Indonesia.
Is your boss really allowed to filter the ideas that are allowed to arrive to your brain ? If so it may be time to, maybe, I don't know, revolt ? Change job ? Organize your life differently ? Emigrate ?
Under the law of every country that has an extradition agreement with the United States. Note that disclosing UK secret files for an American would probably mean him being arrested by American authorities.
Interestingly, the EU countries have extradition agreement with the US but they can't extrade someone who could risk death penalty. Assange case is really a legal minefield.
Seriously consider hiring a professionnal and experienced coder. Several of your requirements are very hard to combine : large data sets, cross-platform, HTML rendering and 3D rendering. You won't find an off-the-shelf library that does all of that directly. You will find pieces of what you need, but making them work coherently together is a hard work.
Know your limits as a coder. You need someone with several years of experience to help you identify the technical limits and guide your design. Someone who can tell you if the size of your datasets mean that you have to do things around a powerful database engine or if you should rather use a game engine and add a standard database, for instance.
And what about chromium ? It was made especially to prevent this kind of concerns.
"Who can use Crowdtilt?
Anybody in the United States!"
Insensitive clods...
Coming from the man who said that privacy was a thing of the past, I find this title highly ironic.
Self defense is so over-rated....
It is too bad that you are modded funny.
Why is it that the only way to get access to this kind of content is through illegal means ? How did this society go so wrong that a product that is technicably feasible since a decade, highly desirable with millions of potential clients, was made impossible to create ?
Shouldn't lawmakers adress this problem ? The ACTA lobbyists tried to find ways to preserve revenue streams that seem frankly unsustainable in today's technology environment but did not wonder how they could make international agreements to make new revenues possible.
I call my European MP and he said he received tons of calls already. He was honest "we didn't do our homework on this yet, but we are already critical of it because of its part on generic drugs."
Protests are not enough to withdraw a law, but they show that the issue is not minor either. There are tons of text being voted. More often than not, representative just vote along their party's line. When they see protests, there is a chance they will investigate a bit further. And when they investigate even a slight bit further, if they just google 'ACTA' they'll find a tone of things to be critical of.
I read the list of scientists, expecting to not know any of them, but I happen to know the first one : Claude Allegre, famous figure in France. More involved in politics (he was minister of Education) than in science, he has been known these last years for being a very staunch opponent of the theory of global warming. And a nutjob. I mean, I have doubts too about global warming, some "against" arguments are really interesting, but Allegre is not doing science. He is dismissing facts to promote his own view, he keeps using obsolete data as arguments.
If all scientists listed are like him, this is more an argument for global warming than against.
Anyway, it is still interesting that we observed no waming during the last decade (that one is a true fact). It is not necessarily statistically significant but shows that predictions on a century scale may also be wildly inaccurate.
I wish I had never had to cancel a project because of these laws. I wish I could just ignore them. I can't. I don't want to look into this insanity but it interferes on my job.
The district of Berlin, Germany, changed its local laws to allow automated vehicles. One model (made by local researchers) has been homologated so far.
You can clearly see it is more than 8 fps. At least twice that.
The "mainstream media" in question is RT, the Kremlin-funded TV. I kid you not.
That seems fundamentally wrong to put a -nc there.
"Nope" - The Public