I don't buy the theory that TV needs to re-invented and that it is the reason for driving change. The powers that be wan't people to believe that though. I think its probably more about being the first to introduce new technology and whoever does that (as seen by Google and Facebook) will 'control' the new distribution model. That is what its really about.
Send a robot with a test tube baby... No reason to waste gas sending a full grown human when small robots could get to the nearest star and birth test tube babies on the planet after it arrives and takes the time to grow food. While the probe travels to the nearest star, it can be upgraded with better and better firmware. Once at the star, communication with the remote humans is at light speed.
The interesting thing about the divisibility of bitcoins is that the need for divisibility arises from scarcity, or in other words, arises from deflation. So, the currency is not designed to inflate like fractional currency, but rather to DEFLATE . This is a huge difference between Bitcoins and other archaic currency systems.
Also, Bitcoin already has built-in protocols to transfer money if you die and don't respond to deadman switch emails. Also, if you keep a copy of your bitcoin wallet in a safe, then beneficiaries can access your coins. There are probably other ways as well. So, I don't see it as a problem. Whatever future Bitcoin banking service that you use would obviously set up these precautionary measures for you.
For the United States to declare "Bitcoin" as "legal tender" US currency is a little bit like the United States declaring Euros to be "US legal tender" within the United States. It's ridiculous because the US government has no juristiction over that money and it undermines the official currency of the US. Think of Bitcoin as a currency declared "legal tender" by a invisible country; its clear its not a US currency. If every country in the world declared Bitcoin as "legal tender", then that would be interesting, but it would also undermine SDR's which are the current world currency.
No, they are not legal tender. They are simply accepted by their particular trusted institution. The user of the coupon still has to trust the corporation will accept them.
Edison was nothing compared to Tesla. Tesla invented the fricking remote control boat and the idea of the Television and "high frequency Electrotherapy", among many other things! Thomas edison may have created the light bulb but LED lights will render his invention useless after only about 115 years. The alkaline battery is another finite life invension. Teslas inventions will last forever, he was a much more forward thinker, not just looking for a shortcut.
Personally, I think the definition of currency is unclear. If its not "legal tender", or in other words not officially declared as money accepted for paying taxes (by fiat) , then shouldn't it NOT be considered a currency, in the same way that Gold is not considered a currency (unless it is officially stamped as such by fiat). To be a currency, some official government must declare it as official for paying taxes IMHO. So, for a judge to declare Bitcoin as a currency is ridiculous because, for it to be so, he himself would have to be willing to accept it , and then turn around and pay taxes with it.
1. A remote civilization will recognize our planet and send a probe at sub-light speed (3% or less) for a journet of
1000 years, or whatever.
2. Within a few years of arriving at Earth, the probe will download (at light speed) a new Firmware update from
the home planet, which has the newest technologies, innovations, and informations.
3. As the probe nears our solar system , it will begin growing biological versions of test-tube baby aliens.
4. The probe, using robots, will educate the newly born aliens just in time for their arrival at Earth.
Saw that crash coming from a mile away. I think everyone did. Bitcoin was hyped up pretty good by the media over the last few months and this crash was easy to predict.
It is probably that exact experience that gave Marissa Mayer the perspective she needed to make a call on this. She probably experienced first-hand that being at home was more unproductive (towards her job).
Getting a computer science degree is just idea-gathering. To really become a computer scientist you need to practice writing code. The rule of thumb is that it takes 10,000 hours of your life to become really good at something.
Thats a tough question since whatever you choose, you would want integration with online social communities and a nice comment system. Because of that fact, the choices narrow...
Really, when it comes down to it, all of the United States anxiety over Iran originates from banking rather than nuclear weapons. The western world is based around a capitalist system with a core of "interest based lending/banking". Iran represents monetary ideas that show that modern societies can work without interest based banking. The Banksters want to snuff out all evidence of this in order to make sure that all the people of the world are never educated to believe that there is an alternative to "interest based" money systems. But there is! A world money system could exist that "outlaws" interest based "fractional reserve" lending and which requires all lending be backed 100% by an equal amount of reserve money. Dennis Kucinich has presented this as a Bill to Congress. Now Iran is making a move away from risky "fractional based" US money and suggesting an alternative money for world oil transactions. This obviously angers all of the "fractional reserve" banks of the world and so they have to make up this story about Iran being 6 months away from nukes. The problem is that for the last 15 years, the news media has been claiming Iran is 6 months away from nukes and year after year it never happens. IF they say it enough the American people will believe it. I could go on and on about this...
I disagree. CentOS leaves power relatively in the hands of root and doesn't prevent a user from logging in as root. It
is probably able to do this because of SELinux.
I was watching QVC this weekend and they were selling Flips (in a bundle with a at-home media streamer device) for a sale price of $150, down from $250 . Someone is trying to dump lots of product line.
Is this an exploit that Norton Antivirus (for example) is unable to protect you from? So, for persons with antivirus software and internet security software, do they still need to be afraid of injected malware without being detected? I doubt it.
I think it would be cool to put a SmoothWall linux distro on a Wall Wart to act as an impromptu firewall.
Now, if they just made a version of the Wal Wart that had 2 NIC interfaces, then we would be in business!
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Bitcoin will shake out who the stupid people are from the ignorant people.
I don't buy the theory that TV needs to re-invented and that it is the reason for driving change. The powers that be wan't people to believe that though. I think its probably more about being the first to introduce new technology and whoever does that (as seen by Google and Facebook) will 'control' the new distribution model. That is what its really about.
Send a robot with a test tube baby... No reason to waste gas sending a full grown human when small robots could get to the nearest star and birth test tube babies on the planet after it arrives and takes the time to grow food. While the probe travels to the nearest star, it can be upgraded with better and better firmware. Once at the star, communication with the remote humans is at light speed.
In my opinion, the one that is easiest, requiring the "fewest clicks" by the enduser is http://join.me/
The interesting thing about the divisibility of bitcoins is that the need for divisibility arises from scarcity, or in other words, arises from deflation. So, the currency is not designed to inflate like fractional currency, but rather to DEFLATE . This is a huge difference between Bitcoins and other archaic currency systems. Also, Bitcoin already has built-in protocols to transfer money if you die and don't respond to deadman switch emails. Also, if you keep a copy of your bitcoin wallet in a safe, then beneficiaries can access your coins. There are probably other ways as well. So, I don't see it as a problem. Whatever future Bitcoin banking service that you use would obviously set up these precautionary measures for you.
For the United States to declare "Bitcoin" as "legal tender" US currency is a little bit like the United States declaring Euros to be "US legal tender" within the United States. It's ridiculous because the US government has no juristiction over that money and it undermines the official currency of the US. Think of Bitcoin as a currency declared "legal tender" by a invisible country; its clear its not a US currency. If every country in the world declared Bitcoin as "legal tender", then that would be interesting, but it would also undermine SDR's which are the current world currency.
No, they are not legal tender. They are simply accepted by their particular trusted institution. The user of the coupon still has to trust the corporation will accept them.
Edison was nothing compared to Tesla. Tesla invented the fricking remote control boat and the idea of the Television and "high frequency Electrotherapy", among many other things! Thomas edison may have created the light bulb but LED lights will render his invention useless after only about 115 years. The alkaline battery is another finite life invension. Teslas inventions will last forever, he was a much more forward thinker, not just looking for a shortcut.
Personally, I think the definition of currency is unclear. If its not "legal tender", or in other words not officially declared as money accepted for paying taxes (by fiat) , then shouldn't it NOT be considered a currency, in the same way that Gold is not considered a currency (unless it is officially stamped as such by fiat). To be a currency, some official government must declare it as official for paying taxes IMHO. So, for a judge to declare Bitcoin as a currency is ridiculous because, for it to be so, he himself would have to be willing to accept it , and then turn around and pay taxes with it.
Saw that crash coming from a mile away. I think everyone did. Bitcoin was hyped up pretty good by the media over the last few months and this crash was easy to predict.
That's no problem. They use platics for that.
It is probably that exact experience that gave Marissa Mayer the perspective she needed to make a call on this. She probably experienced first-hand that being at home was more unproductive (towards her job).
Getting a computer science degree is just idea-gathering. To really become a computer scientist you need to practice writing code. The rule of thumb is that it takes 10,000 hours of your life to become really good at something.
What I want is a FreeDOS shell for Linux: FreeDOSH . If that existed, it would be exciting to write DOS batch scripts on linux. LOL
At the end of James Mitcher's book "Space" , he does a calculation for estimating the number of planets.
Thats a tough question since whatever you choose, you would want integration with online social communities and a nice comment system. Because of that fact, the choices narrow...
Doesn't work on Windows Server however...
Really, when it comes down to it, all of the United States anxiety over Iran originates from banking rather than nuclear weapons. The western world is based around a capitalist system with a core of "interest based lending/banking". Iran represents monetary ideas that show that modern societies can work without interest based banking. The Banksters want to snuff out all evidence of this in order to make sure that all the people of the world are never educated to believe that there is an alternative to "interest based" money systems. But there is! A world money system could exist that "outlaws" interest based "fractional reserve" lending and which requires all lending be backed 100% by an equal amount of reserve money. Dennis Kucinich has presented this as a Bill to Congress. Now Iran is making a move away from risky "fractional based" US money and suggesting an alternative money for world oil transactions. This obviously angers all of the "fractional reserve" banks of the world and so they have to make up this story about Iran being 6 months away from nukes. The problem is that for the last 15 years, the news media has been claiming Iran is 6 months away from nukes and year after year it never happens. IF they say it enough the American people will believe it. I could go on and on about this...
I disagree. CentOS leaves power relatively in the hands of root and doesn't prevent a user from logging in as root. It is probably able to do this because of SELinux.
I was watching QVC this weekend and they were selling Flips (in a bundle with a at-home media streamer device) for a sale price of $150, down from $250 . Someone is trying to dump lots of product line.
Sounds sorta like the "nuclear Iran" theory. Since 2003, they have been 1 year away from Fission.
3D fab is the first step for the eventual singularity intelligence to be able to generate its own robots.
Is this an exploit that Norton Antivirus (for example) is unable to protect you from? So, for persons with antivirus software and internet security software, do they still need to be afraid of injected malware without being detected? I doubt it.
I think it would be cool to put a SmoothWall linux distro on a Wall Wart to act as an impromptu firewall. Now, if they just made a version of the Wal Wart that had 2 NIC interfaces, then we would be in business!