With Apple in a bit of a lull in their usually relentless march of "newest 'n shiniest", our Slashdot overlords need to find some fanboy faction to rile up. Bitcoinia is the obvious candidate.
The actual thought process behind the comments would have been more like:
Coder: (And then I'll put it in the comments so that everyone can see what idiots my bosses are)
I have news for you: The geek community laboring in bondage to governmental PHBs lives for the opportunity to secretly sabotage their masters' moronic agendas while looking like the perfect collaborationist stooges to everyone who can't read code. A nerd underground, if you will.
The retail end of the economic food chain is effectively completely pointless in proving whether a currency is valid or not.
Show me a full closed-cycle supply chain, from resource collection to manufacturing to distribution to retail, with all transport and operational overheads, valued and executed entirely in bitcoins, and you'll have an argument.
Until then, the almighty dollar or euro or renminbi will be what matters, and bitcoins will just be a vanity play at the extreme edges of the economy. You know, the same place where you can make financial transactions with WoW gold or Eve Online ISK.
Every scientist is obligated (at gunpoint if necessary... lives are at stake here!) to predict the next earthquake. Time, place, and intensity.
All the ones who predict incorrectly are imprisoned.
Repeat with all the remaining ones.
I figure after two or three rounds you'll have some damn good earthquake predictors out and about. Keep them close and remind them periodically about their former colleagues entertaining "Bubbah" back in the klink, by way of encouragement.
Speak for yourself. My kids' (23, 21) musical taste has two centers of attraction: Thrash and Rat Pack.
It's odd listening to their tracklists: Sinatra followed by Slayer followed by Dean Martin followed by Metallica (with an occaisional side trip to Motown or Black Sabbath).
My kids are weird. I couldn't be more proud of 'em.
And then we'll have a loud, contentious, page-viewing-generating Slashdot topic arguing the true cost of potato mining. Complete with poorly thought out arguments from gold-standardists and bitcoiners and pure-barter survivalists.
Industry needs gold. The average consumer does not.
The overwhelming majority of individual participating entities in a mature economy has no practical use for any "precious metal" material exchange token. In a sense, paper bills is more useful day-to-day than a stack of gold coins. You can wipe your nose or your butt with a $1 bill. You can burn it for kindling or light. You can scribble that cute girl's phone number on it. (Just don't buy the condoms with that bill.)
The entire legal issue of privacy is schizophrenic. Government agencies can now decode almost all encrypted material with ease. So how can they claim no expectation of privacy of emails? After all, some email is encrypted. Now picture a hacker breaking into the servers of a large corporation and simply looking around. What is the difference between a hacker viewing a corporations emails on their servers and a government agency viewing your email on Yahoo's servers?
One of the great architects of current Executive thinking crystallized the philsophy best:
Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
President Richard M. Nixon, Interview with David Frost (19 May 1977)
Zathras: Yes. Yes. Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have... very sad death. But... at least there is Symmetry.
Babylon 5: "War Without End: Part One"
Major Krantz: What if we take you with us? Put you on trial?
Zathras: Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.
"Babylon 5: "Babylon Squared"
[Ivanova is trying to get help from the Great Machine in setting up the Voice of the Resistance.]
Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: I'm trying to put together a facility to broadcast messages back home and to the other colonies. We've got all of the pieces we need, but--
Zathras: But not having enough power to reach far places! Yes, Zathras understand. Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Big responsibility but Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management.
Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: That's great, but--
Zathras: But only Zathras have no one to talk to. No one manages poor Zathras, you see. So Zathras talks to dirt. Or to walls, or talks to ceilings. But dirt is closer. Dirt is used to everyone walking on it. Just like Zathras. But we have come to like it. It is our role. It is our destiny in the universe. So, you see, sometimes dirt has insects in it. And Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much protein for diet. Hmmm, huh, huh, very good! - Zathras fix now. Come, this way.
Babylon 5: "Conflicts of Interest"
I have come to the conclusion that Zathras clearly works in frontline IT support. I can recognize a kindred soul when I see one.
Let me introduce you to my little friend "born secret".
As far as I know, it remains in the arsenal of ideas surrounding extra-special classification of extra-special data, as absurd as it seems: the idea that you can stuff the genie back into the bottle.
I believe the laws involved are still on the books, and the idea was never completely challenged and overturned, so it's lurking out there.
A common misconception (usually harbored by OS geeks) is that the OS kernel needs to be in your face. Apparently, someone has decided that because Windows does it, Linux needs to do it too.
The most successful software in the universe is completely indetectable. The Year of the Linux (set|table|palm)top has arrived. Because it doesn't come with a huge ugly "Linux Inside!" label, it's not a failure. It's succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of anyone with a clue.
That said, these particle detections seem analogous to if Morley and Michelson had detected discrepancies in the speed of light attributable to earth's motion through the universe (and therefore relative to the aether). They didn't and the aether theory began to be disproved
In this case, the theoretical construct (dark matter) is beginning be supported by experimental observations, rather than disproved. So dark matter continues to be a useful concept, even if we're not sure what its tangible form of existence is.
The burden for accuracy should be on the data broker, and they should be liable if they sell incorrect data.
Oh, I agree with you on principle. However, that proposal moves the solution space into the realm of converting our entire industrial energy base to consuming unicorn farts as a counter to anthropogenic global warming. I generally don't get excited about flatly impossible solutions, and anything that shifts liability to a business and away from a consumer is pretty much the legal definition of "impossible" in the current U.S. legislative and judicial environment.
As far as advertising is concerned, I see your point, and largely agree. They can tailor their advertising as much as the please, since they can't make me see it (unopened junk mail, AdBlockPlus).
But some of this data can affect other real-life interactions, like credit and employment opportunities.
This would the reason I'd want some visibility and input into this data, the same we have (now) with credit bureau informatino.
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It's awesome to praise the Revolution and the wise leadership of the Party in the best, most eloquent, heart-touching prose and poetry possible.
Oh, what good is universal literacy to express oppostion and discontent? Not so much.
While the Avian Carriers RFC can be a model for lossy channels with long latency periods, I cannot guess what use super-luminal communications protocols will be.
FTL pigeons, of course. Superliminal carrier pigeons* with warp or jump or space-fold drives. Implanted, or maybe genetically engineered in.
I for one worry about what happens when a jump-pigeon misnavigates and materializes inside of a wall. "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" indeed!
-------- *OK, I don't know about you, but I actually heard the phrase "superluminal carrier pigeon" in the voice of the Protoss carrier commander. "Carrier pigeon has arrived."
There's a problem, feathers iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pullies
Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
(chorus)
Fall on me (what is it up in the air for) (it's gonna fall)
Fall on me (if it's there for long) (it's gonna fall)
Fall on me (it's over it's over me) (it's gonna fall)
There's the progress we have found (when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)
Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)
Isn't anything at all (melt the statues in the park)
Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky
(repeat chorus)
Fall on me
Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky
(repeat chorus 2x)
-- Fall on Me by R.E.M., who apparently understand outsourcing and supply chains
If the feds stick "lawful intercept" on World of Warcraft, they'll have intercept analysists stabbing out their own eyes after 5 minutes of Trade Channel transcripts. That place makes 4chan look like bingo night at the local old folks' home.
And tigers are fuzzy and they can be cute like a big kitty cat.
C'mon, who wants a biiiiig hug from a cute fuzzy stripey big kitty cat? Never mind the claws. And the fangs. And the blood. He doesn't know his own strength.
So, who wants to tell me about the conspiracy? Looks like big stripey kitty cat wants to hug someone else!
Slashdot Mirror
You gotta admit... it's good for pageviews.
With Apple in a bit of a lull in their usually relentless march of "newest 'n shiniest", our Slashdot overlords need to find some fanboy faction to rile up. Bitcoinia is the obvious candidate.
Hey, PRMan, allow me to introduce you to my friend Passive A. G. Gressive.
The actual thought process behind the comments would have been more like:
I have news for you: The geek community laboring in bondage to governmental PHBs lives for the opportunity to secretly sabotage their masters' moronic agendas while looking like the perfect collaborationist stooges to everyone who can't read code. A nerd underground, if you will.
Long live the geek resistance!
The retail end of the economic food chain is effectively completely pointless in proving whether a currency is valid or not.
Show me a full closed-cycle supply chain, from resource collection to manufacturing to distribution to retail, with all transport and operational overheads, valued and executed entirely in bitcoins, and you'll have an argument.
Until then, the almighty dollar or euro or renminbi will be what matters, and bitcoins will just be a vanity play at the extreme edges of the economy. You know, the same place where you can make financial transactions with WoW gold or Eve Online ISK.
Look, if you're trying to be pedantic, you have to at least be on-point.
Consumers need products which contain gold. They don't need the gold itself, only the functional attributes that the gold fulfills in a product.
Try not to intentionally miss the point so obviously next time.
And we have the answer: Darwinian Reduction.
Every scientist is obligated (at gunpoint if necessary... lives are at stake here!) to predict the next earthquake. Time, place, and intensity.
All the ones who predict incorrectly are imprisoned.
Repeat with all the remaining ones.
I figure after two or three rounds you'll have some damn good earthquake predictors out and about. Keep them close and remind them periodically about their former colleagues entertaining "Bubbah" back in the klink, by way of encouragement.
Voila! Reliable earthquake prediction.
Speak for yourself. My kids' (23, 21) musical taste has two centers of attraction: Thrash and Rat Pack.
It's odd listening to their tracklists: Sinatra followed by Slayer followed by Dean Martin followed by Metallica (with an occaisional side trip to Motown or Black Sabbath).
My kids are weird. I couldn't be more proud of 'em.
And then we'll have a loud, contentious, page-viewing-generating Slashdot topic arguing the true cost of potato mining. Complete with poorly thought out arguments from gold-standardists and bitcoiners and pure-barter survivalists.
Industry needs gold. The average consumer does not.
The overwhelming majority of individual participating entities in a mature economy has no practical use for any "precious metal" material exchange token. In a sense, paper bills is more useful day-to-day than a stack of gold coins. You can wipe your nose or your butt with a $1 bill. You can burn it for kindling or light. You can scribble that cute girl's phone number on it. (Just don't buy the condoms with that bill.)
Only on Slashdot can someone point out the probate advantages of serfdom over freehold. Even if in jest. In the "Ha, ha, only serious" sense.
Well, that explains why their plumbing supply department sucks so bad. They can't sell at least one very useful type of part without that word.
The entire legal issue of privacy is schizophrenic. Government agencies can now decode almost all encrypted material with ease. So how can they claim no expectation of privacy of emails? After all, some email is encrypted. Now picture a hacker breaking into the servers of a large corporation and simply looking around. What is the difference between a hacker viewing a corporations emails on their servers and a government agency viewing your email on Yahoo's servers?
One of the great architects of current Executive thinking crystallized the philsophy best:
President Richard M. Nixon, Interview with David Frost (19 May 1977)
And also Zathras:
Babylon 5: "War Without End: Part One"
"Babylon 5: "Babylon Squared"
Babylon 5: "Conflicts of Interest"
I have come to the conclusion that Zathras clearly works in frontline IT support. I can recognize a kindred soul when I see one.
Let me introduce you to my little friend "born secret".
As far as I know, it remains in the arsenal of ideas surrounding extra-special classification of extra-special data, as absurd as it seems: the idea that you can stuff the genie back into the bottle.
I believe the laws involved are still on the books, and the idea was never completely challenged and overturned, so it's lurking out there.
A common misconception (usually harbored by OS geeks) is that the OS kernel needs to be in your face. Apparently, someone has decided that because Windows does it, Linux needs to do it too.
The most successful software in the universe is completely indetectable. The Year of the Linux (set|table|palm)top has arrived. Because it doesn't come with a huge ugly "Linux Inside!" label, it's not a failure. It's succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of anyone with a clue.
Like luminiferous aether existed until it didn't.
That said, these particle detections seem analogous to if Morley and Michelson had detected discrepancies in the speed of light attributable to earth's motion through the universe (and therefore relative to the aether). They didn't and the aether theory began to be disproved
In this case, the theoretical construct (dark matter) is beginning be supported by experimental observations, rather than disproved. So dark matter continues to be a useful concept, even if we're not sure what its tangible form of existence is.
Unicode. We've heard of it.
The burden for accuracy should be on the data broker, and they should be liable if they sell incorrect data.
Oh, I agree with you on principle. However, that proposal moves the solution space into the realm of converting our entire industrial energy base to consuming unicorn farts as a counter to anthropogenic global warming. I generally don't get excited about flatly impossible solutions, and anything that shifts liability to a business and away from a consumer is pretty much the legal definition of "impossible" in the current U.S. legislative and judicial environment.
As far as advertising is concerned, I see your point, and largely agree. They can tailor their advertising as much as the please, since they can't make me see it (unopened junk mail, AdBlockPlus).
But some of this data can affect other real-life interactions, like credit and employment opportunities.
This would the reason I'd want some visibility and input into this data, the same we have (now) with credit bureau informatino.
It's awesome to praise the Revolution and the wise leadership of the Party in the best, most eloquent, heart-touching prose and poetry possible.
Oh, what good is universal literacy to express oppostion and discontent? Not so much.
Sure.
This is just a particularly malignant version of "If you're not doing anything wrong, why are you hiding it?"
Remember this the next time crypto is outlawed.
While the Avian Carriers RFC can be a model for lossy channels with long latency periods, I cannot guess what use super-luminal communications protocols will be.
FTL pigeons, of course. Superliminal carrier pigeons* with warp or jump or space-fold drives. Implanted, or maybe genetically engineered in.
I for one worry about what happens when a jump-pigeon misnavigates and materializes inside of a wall. "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" indeed!
--------
*OK, I don't know about you, but I actually heard the phrase "superluminal carrier pigeon" in the voice of the Protoss carrier commander. "Carrier pigeon has arrived."
Quality navigation systems don't make a ship's crew give a damn. If clueless douchebags wanna drop anchor, the drop it.
To paraphrase Calvin, "You can present the coordinates, but you can't make me care."
-- Fall on Me by R.E.M., who apparently understand outsourcing and supply chains
If the feds stick "lawful intercept" on World of Warcraft, they'll have intercept analysists stabbing out their own eyes after 5 minutes of Trade Channel transcripts. That place makes 4chan look like bingo night at the local old folks' home.
And tigers are fuzzy and they can be cute like a big kitty cat.
C'mon, who wants a biiiiig hug from a cute fuzzy stripey big kitty cat? Never mind the claws. And the fangs. And the blood. He doesn't know his own strength.
So, who wants to tell me about the conspiracy? Looks like big stripey kitty cat wants to hug someone else!