what happens when, say, Google, comes along with their own digital currency and offers lower (or even no) transaction fees?
Outside transaction fees, let look at some of the advantages bitcoin has over this theoretical googlecoin.
Chargebacks. I expect any googlecoin is going to work more like paypal than bitcoin. If transactions are not reversible, why is a vendor going to accept googlecoin over bitcoin? They can already accept credit cards or paypal, which have this feature.
Distributed accounting. Is google going to run the entire accounting system? Why should I trust them any more than the Federal Reserve to not inflate their currency? If the accounting system was truely distributed, why would I participate without compensation?
What happens when google or one of their friends don't like your politics or actions? See wikileaks and how Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and other payment processors stopped processing payments to them.
Do you think you are going to be using googlecoin without providing government issued ID? We already know they are giving your personal data to the US government and cannot tell you about it. Transaction data for googlecoin will be going right along with your email, IM, and text messages.
You might want to spell out the acronym in that context.
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they keep rehashing the same games over and over again
And this doesn't happen with Sony and MS platforms? I'm sure we'll see new incarnations of Madden, Battlefield, Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Need for Speed, Forza, etc soon enough
the coin went from user A to Silk Road and then to a bunch of random wallets and back out to user B, and user C who was the person who sold the item got a different one
Except that Silk Road, or any other user, can create an effectively infinite number of addresses to send and receive the coins. A user doesn't have to give their SSN, drivers license, and proof of residency to get a new address. Knowing how many coins are at any given address is indeed part of the bitcoin protocol. Knowing who controls the keys for that address is not part of the protocol, and it requires additional work to find the data NOT in the blockchain to understand.
So User A sends coins to a unique address at SR, where it gets thrown in the pool, sliced, diced, and chopped, and reconstituted, then goes out from another unique address to User B.
Granted, if you capture a wallet, you now know a group of address and CAN backtrack through the blockchain to understand who some of the players were in previous transactions. Is bitcoin anonymous? No. Does it allow a user to make it difficult to keep track of what they are doing, and with whom? Yes. Does some three-letter agency have a tool that tries to map those associations, I'd bet a bitcoin on yes.
This is what makes money laundering possible...BitCoin is not like this
It can be. Services exist that allow you to put your bitcoins in, have them mixed repeatedly with other users bitcoins, and get back different bitcoins. Silk Road had this feature built in, the user didn't have to ask for or configure it.
Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather-modification
capability: (1) advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, (2) computational capability, (3) information
gathering and transmission, (4) a global sensor array, and (5) weather intervention techniques. Some
intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future.
I would suggest that significant advancements have been made in all of those areas.
I am not a meteorologist, but it seems like the ability to significantly alter any particular weather event could come from the ability to selectively heat a specified area of the atmosphere. That seems right in line with the claims in the patent.
So I'll post a comment instead, Forever a Second-Class Citizen?
Seriously, to add some content to my snark. Until internet speeds reach parity with access to local resources, web apps will always be second class compared to a similar application running locally.
You should have returned Cyanogenmod to the place of purchase and demanded a 100% refund due to in not including the functionality it claimed to include.
You left off the part where he spent his time after retiring from the marines lecturing "against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States"
I think part of the problem is the hierarchical federal bureaucracy, where a few predators up in the higher levels, use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to put those at the lower levels into a "OMG, we have to DO SOMETHING" mentality. The normally rational actors quickly fall into the herd mentality and carry out tasks of the predators. I love the sig that says, "a person can be smart, people are stupid", this is especially true when FUD is used to paint the picture of the unknown, be it muslim, computer hacker, pot smoker, etc.
I personally couldn't stand it when we had granite counter tops. Dish or plate hits it just a little too hard? If you are lucky, it only chips, if not, get the broom out. We must have lost 1-2 pint beer glasses a month.
You? Feel free to to put in whatever type of counters you want.
You might also want to look into the venture capital arm of the CIA, In-Q-Tel, an early funder of google.
Wikipedia has an interesting list of the electronics, software, biotech, video processing, telemetry systems, and data center tech companies they have funded.
As there is no labeling of GMO foods in the US, how would you suggest I avoid them?
I wasn't thinking you were nutty enough to reject all GMOs, but simply the ones you don't think "taste good". Anyway, while there is no mandatory GMO labeling, but you can certainly find GMO-free foods.
How am I supposed to differentiate between GM and non-GM foods? They aren't labeled, so I can't make a decision based on how they taste. I reject them because I am concerned about the lack of tests on the short and long term affects they have on my body, the environment, and the crops around them. If you want to eat it, go ahead, I'm not here to convince you what to do, I'm just asking that I have the information available to make an informed choice.
If it isn't fresh meat or produce, I have to assume some part is GM.
Yes, you do. And no amount of labeling would change that.
huhwhat? Mandatory labeling of GM ingredients in packaged food would do EXACTLY that.
On the large scale, This doesn't seem to be a realistic way to have a stable, sustainable food supply.
Sustainability is some expression of middle class angst, not a realistic goal. Life and biology is constant change and adaptation.
I'm not using sustainable in the environmentalist, you-shouldnt-hurt-the-mother-earth sense. I'm talking about the ability to grow crops without requiring a high-tech herbicide and pesticide regimen being needed just to bring a crop to harvest when fighting against the resistant breeds of pests and weeds we are indirectly breeding.
If we have to keep upping the pesticide resistance
We don't have to "up" anything, we just periodically have to change pesticides and herbicides.
How many different pesticides and herbicides do you think are out there to discover? Can you imagine the point where it becomes too time consuming and expensive to find that next new thing? Drug companies are running into a similar problem, why do you not believe there are limits in pesticides and herbicides?
You're free not to buy their stuff if you don't like it.
As there is no labeling of GMO foods in the US, how would you suggest I avoid them?
I can and do buy fruits and vegatables from local farmers. I can and do buy locally produced meat as well.
If it's at the grocery store, I have to hope that the store is labeling their meat and produce correctly. If it isn't fresh meat or produce, I have to assume some part is GM.
you need to keep developing new GMOs regularly in order to keep benefiting from them.
On the large scale, This doesn't seem to be a realistic way to have a stable, sustainable food supply. If we have to keep upping the pesticide resistance, and then raising pesticide use in an ever escalating battle against more and more resistant bugs and weeds, where does that lead? More and more pesticide runoff in the water. More pollinators dying from the ever increasing levels of pesticide.
Do you believe I have a right to grow non-GMO crops, and save my own seeds? If so, how do you propose to keep nearby GMO versions from contaminating my crops?
Depending on the crop, nearby could be defined in miles/kilometers.
The only thing that MS can do is specify that all games are leases (which require) you to agree to a EULA.
Great. Maybe we can then get more court cases questioning the validity of EULAs.
In the US, minors cannot enter into a contract, which brings up some other questions.
Will XB1 game sales be limited to adults with proper ID?
What happens if an XB1 game is given to a minor? Or the adult that purchased the game has a minor press the "I agree" button when the EULA is presented on screen? A minor cannot legally agree to, and be bound to the terms of, a EULA.
Will an adult have to sign a contract when a game is purchased? How does that work when making an online purchase?
I believe they have an internal bitcoin mixing service. See here, "Bitcoin wallet that mixes all incoming and outgoing coins so as to obscure their origin".
Or here "Silk Road has a built in coin mixer. When you add coins to your account, they are sent through a bunch of dummy transactions, split up and recombined with the coins of other people."
There is likely more detailed info on the SR forums.
Q: Does the GCA prohibit anyone from making a handgun, shotgun or rifle?
With certain exceptions a firearm may be made by a non-licensee provided it is not for sale and the maker is not prohibited from possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from assembling a non-sporting semi-automatic rifle or non-sporting shotgun from imported parts. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and approval by ATF. An application to make a machine gun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing that the firearm is being made for a Federal or State agency.
[18 U.S.C. 922(o) and (r), 26 U.S.C. 5822, 27 CFR 478.39, 479.62 and 479.105]
When the 3D printer was invented people envisioned a technology that could help, that could make development rapid, that would improve our lives. Now Mr. Wilson has ruined all that and made it a tool to create weapons.
I don't understand how his use of some tool changes your ability to use your own similar tool for some other use. Sure, go ahead and tell me about how 3D printers are going to be outlawed, it's been a busy morning and I need a laugh.
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what happens when, say, Google, comes along with their own digital currency and offers lower (or even no) transaction fees?
Outside transaction fees, let look at some of the advantages bitcoin has over this theoretical googlecoin.
I do ATM
You might want to spell out the acronym in that context.
they keep rehashing the same games over and over again
And this doesn't happen with Sony and MS platforms? I'm sure we'll see new incarnations of Madden, Battlefield, Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Need for Speed, Forza, etc soon enough
the coin went from user A to Silk Road and then to a bunch of random wallets and back out to user B, and user C who was the person who sold the item got a different one
Except that Silk Road, or any other user, can create an effectively infinite number of addresses to send and receive the coins. A user doesn't have to give their SSN, drivers license, and proof of residency to get a new address. Knowing how many coins are at any given address is indeed part of the bitcoin protocol. Knowing who controls the keys for that address is not part of the protocol, and it requires additional work to find the data NOT in the blockchain to understand.
So User A sends coins to a unique address at SR, where it gets thrown in the pool, sliced, diced, and chopped, and reconstituted, then goes out from another unique address to User B.
Granted, if you capture a wallet, you now know a group of address and CAN backtrack through the blockchain to understand who some of the players were in previous transactions. Is bitcoin anonymous? No. Does it allow a user to make it difficult to keep track of what they are doing, and with whom? Yes. Does some three-letter agency have a tool that tries to map those associations, I'd bet a bitcoin on yes.
This is what makes money laundering possible...BitCoin is not like this
It can be. Services exist that allow you to put your bitcoins in, have them mixed repeatedly with other users bitcoins, and get back different bitcoins. Silk Road had this feature built in, the user didn't have to ask for or configure it.
what IP address owned that wallet at the time
What is the IP address of a piece of paper?
The plural of anecdote is not data. 4+ years on my Panasonic 42" with absolutely no problems.
All the ranting of Theo de Raadt doesn't seem so paranoid anymore.
I see what you did there.
Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather-modification capability: (1) advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, (2) computational capability, (3) information gathering and transmission, (4) a global sensor array, and (5) weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future.
I would suggest that significant advancements have been made in all of those areas.
I am not a meteorologist, but it seems like the ability to significantly alter any particular weather event could come from the ability to selectively heat a specified area of the atmosphere. That seems right in line with the claims in the patent.
Seriously, to add some content to my snark. Until internet speeds reach parity with access to local resources, web apps will always be second class compared to a similar application running locally.
You should have returned Cyanogenmod to the place of purchase and demanded a 100% refund due to in not including the functionality it claimed to include.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
my skype
Microsoft already gave that up for you
You left off the part where he spent his time after retiring from the marines lecturing "against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States"
I think part of the problem is the hierarchical federal bureaucracy, where a few predators up in the higher levels, use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to put those at the lower levels into a "OMG, we have to DO SOMETHING" mentality. The normally rational actors quickly fall into the herd mentality and carry out tasks of the predators. I love the sig that says, "a person can be smart, people are stupid", this is especially true when FUD is used to paint the picture of the unknown, be it muslim, computer hacker, pot smoker, etc.
You? Feel free to to put in whatever type of counters you want.
Wikipedia has an interesting list of the electronics, software, biotech, video processing, telemetry systems, and data center tech companies they have funded.
As there is no labeling of GMO foods in the US, how would you suggest I avoid them?
I wasn't thinking you were nutty enough to reject all GMOs, but simply the ones you don't think "taste good". Anyway, while there is no mandatory GMO labeling, but you can certainly find GMO-free foods.
How am I supposed to differentiate between GM and non-GM foods? They aren't labeled, so I can't make a decision based on how they taste. I reject them because I am concerned about the lack of tests on the short and long term affects they have on my body, the environment, and the crops around them. If you want to eat it, go ahead, I'm not here to convince you what to do, I'm just asking that I have the information available to make an informed choice.
If it isn't fresh meat or produce, I have to assume some part is GM.
Yes, you do. And no amount of labeling would change that.
huhwhat? Mandatory labeling of GM ingredients in packaged food would do EXACTLY that.
On the large scale, This doesn't seem to be a realistic way to have a stable, sustainable food supply.
Sustainability is some expression of middle class angst, not a realistic goal. Life and biology is constant change and adaptation.
I'm not using sustainable in the environmentalist, you-shouldnt-hurt-the-mother-earth sense. I'm talking about the ability to grow crops without requiring a high-tech herbicide and pesticide regimen being needed just to bring a crop to harvest when fighting against the resistant breeds of pests and weeds we are indirectly breeding.
If we have to keep upping the pesticide resistance
We don't have to "up" anything, we just periodically have to change pesticides and herbicides.
How many different pesticides and herbicides do you think are out there to discover? Can you imagine the point where it becomes too time consuming and expensive to find that next new thing? Drug companies are running into a similar problem, why do you not believe there are limits in pesticides and herbicides?
You're free not to buy their stuff if you don't like it.
As there is no labeling of GMO foods in the US, how would you suggest I avoid them?
I can and do buy fruits and vegatables from local farmers. I can and do buy locally produced meat as well.
If it's at the grocery store, I have to hope that the store is labeling their meat and produce correctly. If it isn't fresh meat or produce, I have to assume some part is GM.
you need to keep developing new GMOs regularly in order to keep benefiting from them.
On the large scale, This doesn't seem to be a realistic way to have a stable, sustainable food supply. If we have to keep upping the pesticide resistance, and then raising pesticide use in an ever escalating battle against more and more resistant bugs and weeds, where does that lead? More and more pesticide runoff in the water. More pollinators dying from the ever increasing levels of pesticide.
make better crops, increase productivity
Possibly by some definitions of "better". Higher yield, longer storage life, possibly. Better tasting, more nutritious, that's arguable.
reduce pesticide use
That doesn't seem to be the case. Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires
Depending on the crop, nearby could be defined in miles/kilometers.
The only thing that MS can do is specify that all games are leases (which require) you to agree to a EULA.
Great. Maybe we can then get more court cases questioning the validity of EULAs.
In the US, minors cannot enter into a contract, which brings up some other questions.
Will XB1 game sales be limited to adults with proper ID?
What happens if an XB1 game is given to a minor? Or the adult that purchased the game has a minor press the "I agree" button when the EULA is presented on screen? A minor cannot legally agree to, and be bound to the terms of, a EULA.
Will an adult have to sign a contract when a game is purchased? How does that work when making an online purchase?
Silk Road run a mixing service?
I believe they have an internal bitcoin mixing service. See here, "Bitcoin wallet that mixes all incoming and outgoing coins so as to obscure their origin".
Or here "Silk Road has a built in coin mixer. When you add coins to your account, they are sent through a bunch of dummy transactions, split up and recombined with the coins of other people."
There is likely more detailed info on the SR forums.
he's afraid of his rights being taken away
I don't see your suggestion of some other way for him to defend himself.
in violation of the law.
[citation needed]
Nevermind, I gotcha here. The United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives doesn't agree with you.
Q: Does the GCA prohibit anyone from making a handgun, shotgun or rifle?
With certain exceptions a firearm may be made by a non-licensee provided it is not for sale and the maker is not prohibited from possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from assembling a non-sporting semi-automatic rifle or non-sporting shotgun from imported parts. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and approval by ATF. An application to make a machine gun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing that the firearm is being made for a Federal or State agency.
[18 U.S.C. 922(o) and (r), 26 U.S.C. 5822, 27 CFR 478.39, 479.62 and 479.105]
My emphasis added. NFA would be the National Firearms Act, and it applies to machine guns, machine gun parts, short barreled shotguns/rifles, silencers, etc. It doesn't apply to your standard handgun, rifle, or shotgun.
When the 3D printer was invented people envisioned a technology that could help, that could make development rapid, that would improve our lives. Now Mr. Wilson has ruined all that and made it a tool to create weapons.
I don't understand how his use of some tool changes your ability to use your own similar tool for some other use. Sure, go ahead and tell me about how 3D printers are going to be outlawed, it's been a busy morning and I need a laugh.
there is a set amount of gold on earth
I wonder what those guys are digging up on shows like Gold Rush, and Bering Sea Gold. Must be fools gold.