This has nothing to do with freedom, taxes, or even money. It is all about getting his name in the paper, and his constituants seeing hime "doing something!"
Since the exchanges offer no transparency and follow no regulations, I don't see it as a free market and view the current price of ~$550 as a result of manipulation by bad actors.
So? Why do you need an exchange? You can pay cash for bitcoins directly to a person. You can sell goods directly for bitcoins, and buy good with the same.
It Houston, we love the years when we have at least two hard freezes separated by at least a week. It drastically cuts down on the mosquitoes the next summer. This year we had three good ones so summer should be much more pleasant at night.
But just to pick up on your point about it being "amusing", I assume you're saying that because Google created Android, and thus if they got screwed over for making a genuinely open platform, this would some how be funny?
Let's be clear here, Google have been playing nice (mostly) all the way through. That's why other people can take that platform and monetise it without paying Google a bean. I'd love to see MS do something like that... because of course, they wouldn't.
I was thinking about how much money was invested in the SEVERAL failed Windows phone operating systems, and to finally have success with the Google free OS would be amusing. It is success, so they should be happy, but with someone else's stuff, so...:)
If you want to find your own supplier for maps, email, calendar, and browser, then you can launch your own Android gizmo; Microsoft has all those things.
Ho ly crap... If Microsoft "forks" android with MS versions of the droid apps, that would be a serious earth shaker. Keep in mind that there are a lot of cheap tablet players making droid devices with no Google apps due to this licensing. Robing Google of Android market-share would be both amusing, and potentially profitable!
At this point if they want you they are going to get you. Use proxies if you want, use VPNs if you want, try TOR or I2P or Freenet or freaking pixies with smoke signals but cracking is easier than securing so just as soon as you make it worthwhile to get you they are going to come.
Funny... They seem to want the pirate bay fairly badly... Perhaps security is possible, but doing things well is hard work.
One mistake by anyone nearby and you're dead. Not merely injured, DEAD.
As someone who has been in three major motorcycle collisions, I can say with total certainty that I am not dead yet... And in one of them, my bike went through the windshield and would have instantly killed any passenger if there had been one. (And yes, they were at fault. and yes they all said OHMYGODIDIDN'TSEEYOU!)
But outright trolls seem to have decreased as a proportion of posts, and the endless complaining about the new interface being testing are mostly gone. Overall the quality seems to be up. I'll call that a win:win.
If a large population likes it the way it is, that is valid feedback. It means don't change. Keeping things the way they are is a perfectly good, and frequently the best design decision.
Now can you just convince Microsoft, the Gnome team, and Canonical of that?
Like a lot of the new UI changes lately, (First rev of KDE4, Win8, Gnome3, Unity) it makes the things I do often more difficult or imposable, and makes nothing I do often easier. "It is a beautiful new hammer, and we removed the head to streamline it."
Carbon monoxide acts like poisonous imitation oxygen.
So do all of these things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... But yet, some of those very things are also food... Hmm... Perhaps because we are life forms based on... Hmmm... I knew what it was... They say it all the time on Star Trek...
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It _is_ anonymous. Until somebody decides to trace back the transaction chain and actually finds weak/strong evidence of a connection to a person.
This is like "A book is a secret until someone reads it." It is trivially easy to trace back an exchange. Unlike, for example, cash.
This has nothing to do with freedom, taxes, or even money. It is all about getting his name in the paper, and his constituants seeing hime "doing something!"
However, it is regulated. Theoretically... (Stop laughing!)
And it is regulated. http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-sec-... So, more political theater...
Since the exchanges offer no transparency and follow no regulations, I don't see it as a free market and view the current price of ~$550 as a result of manipulation by bad actors.
So? Why do you need an exchange? You can pay cash for bitcoins directly to a person. You can sell goods directly for bitcoins, and buy good with the same.
Polar...
Collect massive amounts of power, and beam it towards a planet. What could possibly go wrong?
If you think people are nuts about global warming now...
It Houston, we love the years when we have at least two hard freezes separated by at least a week. It drastically cuts down on the mosquitoes the next summer. This year we had three good ones so summer should be much more pleasant at night.
But just to pick up on your point about it being "amusing", I assume you're saying that because Google created Android, and thus if they got screwed over for making a genuinely open platform, this would some how be funny? Let's be clear here, Google have been playing nice (mostly) all the way through. That's why other people can take that platform and monetise it without paying Google a bean. I'd love to see MS do something like that... because of course, they wouldn't.
I was thinking about how much money was invested in the SEVERAL failed Windows phone operating systems, and to finally have success with the Google free OS would be amusing. It is success, so they should be happy, but with someone else's stuff, so... :)
If you want to find your own supplier for maps, email, calendar, and browser, then you can launch your own Android gizmo; Microsoft has all those things.
Ho ly crap... If Microsoft "forks" android with MS versions of the droid apps, that would be a serious earth shaker. Keep in mind that there are a lot of cheap tablet players making droid devices with no Google apps due to this licensing. Robing Google of Android market-share would be both amusing, and potentially profitable!
Why choose?
I see a shareholder lawsuit in the future. Microsoft did preditory business a bit too well.
At this point if they want you they are going to get you. Use proxies if you want, use VPNs if you want, try TOR or I2P or Freenet or freaking pixies with smoke signals but cracking is easier than securing so just as soon as you make it worthwhile to get you they are going to come.
Funny... They seem to want the pirate bay fairly badly... Perhaps security is possible, but doing things well is hard work.
No, criminals are just that fucking stupid, and you don't need to be that smart to set up a glorified webforum.
Not all criminals... Just the ones you read about. ;)
804 km in any direction in the Netherlands would be a different country.
And? Having jurisdictional issues can only help you.
As someone who has been in three major motorcycle collisions, I can say with total certainty that I am not dead yet...
Granted... but there's a bit of a selection bias at work here.
So you are saying I am only selecting the parts of me that are not dead?
One mistake by anyone nearby and you're dead. Not merely injured, DEAD.
As someone who has been in three major motorcycle collisions, I can say with total certainty that I am not dead yet... And in one of them, my bike went through the windshield and would have instantly killed any passenger if there had been one. (And yes, they were at fault. and yes they all said OHMYGODIDIDN'TSEEYOU!)
We will all die. Not all of us will truly live.
But outright trolls seem to have decreased as a proportion of posts, and the endless complaining about the new interface being testing are mostly gone. Overall the quality seems to be up. I'll call that a win:win.
Kinda reminds me of slashdot 1999... :)
Temperatures are usually reported in degrees Celsius. Please fix this.
This is slashdot... Write a grease monkey script to convert all imperial units to metric, and publish it! Or, in the words of foss, fix it yourself!
oooh yes let's split hairs! while we're at it the Anonymous "hackers" are actually not hackers, they are "crackers"!
Kind of a big hair there... One installs itself, and the other has to be installed by a user.
If a large population likes it the way it is, that is valid feedback. It means don't change. Keeping things the way they are is a perfectly good, and frequently the best design decision.
Now can you just convince Microsoft, the Gnome team, and Canonical of that?
But like heroin addicts we keep coming back for more.
But as it gets worse, that "we" will become a smaller and smaller number.
Like a lot of the new UI changes lately, (First rev of KDE4, Win8, Gnome3, Unity) it makes the things I do often more difficult or imposable, and makes nothing I do often easier. "It is a beautiful new hammer, and we removed the head to streamline it."
I'm sure if all those trees were floating around in the upper atmosphere, they might feel differently.
Are you kidding me? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Carbon monoxide acts like poisonous imitation oxygen.
So do all of these things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... But yet, some of those very things are also food... Hmm... Perhaps because we are life forms based on... Hmmm... I knew what it was... They say it all the time on Star Trek...