Crytocoins are designed to be de-centralized in order to not be controlled by any dominant party
I wonder how are they going to "regulate" something that is not supposed to be regulate-able ?
The NSA owns your computer, and the computer you want to trade bitcoins with*. They could enforce any regulations if they were willing to admit to this. Being a cryptocurrency rather than a physical one also means that they can vanish your money with the click of a button instead of having to personally visit you.
* Maybe I'm just paranoid, but there are so many hardware and software components, any of which could have backdoors or keyloggers installed. They could demand any domestic product secretly contain them from manufacture, and "inspect" any imports. Even easier with domestic software, or they could get a few of their agents helping to develop the software (I hear they have lots of talented folks).
Hamas hides military weaponry in schools, hospitals, civilian homes, etc.
Where on the Gaza map are the Palestinians permitted their military bases and installations?
What's stopping them from building military bases away from civilian areas? If they separated their fighters from their civilians like most modern countries, so that their enemies can focus military attacks on military targets (this being the purpose of separating the military from civilians), they'd see a dramatic reduction in civilian casualties.
The only reason that the fighters hide among Gaza's civilians is because Israel values the lives of Gaza's civilians. Conversely, the fighters value their cause as not only worth dying for, but also worth sacrificing civilians for. Not only are the civilians excellent shields, but also every martyred civilian is an excellent tool for recruitment and donations, while also tarnishing Israel's reputation reducing Israel's recruitment and outside assistance, in every way helping the cause.
I know of other groups who would be very interested in being able to print warheads... and might not be able to build anything but primitive warheads with their current technology. I hope they're better at keeping secrets than other branches of government.
Chromebook is perfect for the sort of people who don't understand the difference between a computer and the internet. The lack of ability to install anything you want (aka malware) with just a click is in this case a bonus.
No can do, he was trying to use his l33t tweeting skillz to convince her to let his kids board earlier (rather than himself boarding later with them, or separately). Thus he had to inform her of the tweet. Probably also why he complained about her by name but without mentioning the circumstances (aka he was being denied a favor, presumably after being incredibly rude).
Of course the agent in question will probably lose her job for this, but that would be due to the escalation rather than following policy. I hope that the end result of this won't be that jerks with twitter accounts get special privileges.
Apparently releasing the code could "leave the voting system open to hacking or manipulation."
Maybe they just shouldn't have used code that they know or expect to have vulnerabilities. Open it up to the public; there are plenty of people who will look at it and help fix it.
Every "unique" idea that I thought of turned out to have already been studied exhaustively back in the 70's or earlier. All the favorite students in the grad program were people who ignored this inconvientent fact and managed to get rehashed bullshit accepted into conferences.
I suppose that's one way to accomplish the unglamorous task of checking, or refining, the work of earlier scientists.
I conducted an online poll, and the overwhelming consensus was that the GCHQ was not manipulating poll results. In fact, most of the people commenting said that the GCHQ were the greatest, most honest, and most trustworthy agency on the planet.
I can see policy like this bringing current globalization trend to a screeching halt as companies would split to have daughter companies incorporated and operating only in certain countries to shield them against this kind of abuse.
I'm sorry you misunderstood me. The minor disagreements are about the details of the God of Abraham. Disagreements over land ownership are seldom minor, though at some point one has to wonder how much bloodshed it's worth.
Reproduction in intelligent creatures has always been a hack from lower systems. Very few intelligent creatures have as their mind's objective to reproduce as much as possible, and increasing intelligence means it's that much easier to find loopholes in the lower systems, or exert self-control over them. It probably isn't a simple thing to set as the intelligent creature's objective to propagate its genes, with the requisite math (relatives share your genes to some extent), and the proper mate selection criteria, many of which aren't conscious nor obvious (you probably aren't aware of comparing your potential mate's major histocompatibility complex to your own). I suspect a mind sufficiently advanced to understand all this would be hard to hack to a different objective without a big reduction in intelligence.
It's difficult to find a technological solution to a combination of relatively minor disagreements as to the exact details of the God of Abraham, plus disagreement over land ownership.
God gave you free will so you could voluntarily do as He wants you to do. Don't abuse the free will God gave you to do something God disapproves of, otherwise you will burn in Hell forever.
I'm somewhat pleasantly surprised at the number of posts suggesting that we send living things to Mars, but also concerned that no one is suggesting some caution. Those who know a little about the history of bacterial discovery should know that it is fiendishly difficult to test for the presence of life, even here on Earth with organisms we are rather familiar with. Some bacteria we only know about because they showed up on DNA fishing expeditions, even though they've been under our feet the whole time. There could be bacteria under our feet we don't know about, if it either wasn't DNA/RNA based, or if it had sufficiently aggressive DNA/RNA hydrolysis enzymes, or had a sufficiently small geographic distribution.
As I understand it, we're still at the point that if Mars can sustain life we can't ascertain whether it has any. (And if it can't sustain life, there's no point in sending some to die.) Even if there's no life on Mars, there's still the fact that we don't know much about what an abiotic planet looks like. Studying a properly dead planet will help us in our future search for life.
Furthermore, I'm not certain we want to send photosynthetic organisms there for terraforming purposes, given that we need to increase greenhouse gasses like CO2 there to warm the place. (Also, we don't think the surface is survivable, and the sub-surface has less light -- so if we want surviving life, we should send chemotrophs).
This must indicate the average Chinese citizen is better off than before. They're starting to get First World concerns, such as being replaced with something cheaper.
Then why do I keep getting (very good paying) work to fix things that were outsourced? And typically a dozen of us high payed workers cost less to completely rework the unusable results of outsourcing...
Because the boss is an idiot, and hired idiot foreigners, instead of hiring competent foreigners.
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Crytocoins are designed to be de-centralized in order to not be controlled by any dominant party
I wonder how are they going to "regulate" something that is not supposed to be regulate-able ?
The NSA owns your computer, and the computer you want to trade bitcoins with*. They could enforce any regulations if they were willing to admit to this. Being a cryptocurrency rather than a physical one also means that they can vanish your money with the click of a button instead of having to personally visit you.
* Maybe I'm just paranoid, but there are so many hardware and software components, any of which could have backdoors or keyloggers installed. They could demand any domestic product secretly contain them from manufacture, and "inspect" any imports. Even easier with domestic software, or they could get a few of their agents helping to develop the software (I hear they have lots of talented folks).
Are there government regulations that you think would actually make sense for **anything**?
No.
Yes.
If you don't like it, go start your own anarchist country.
The laws should be identical to the extent possible, between different forms of currency.
Hamas hides military weaponry in schools, hospitals, civilian homes, etc.
Where on the Gaza map are the Palestinians permitted their military bases and installations?
What's stopping them from building military bases away from civilian areas? If they separated their fighters from their civilians like most modern countries, so that their enemies can focus military attacks on military targets (this being the purpose of separating the military from civilians), they'd see a dramatic reduction in civilian casualties.
The only reason that the fighters hide among Gaza's civilians is because Israel values the lives of Gaza's civilians. Conversely, the fighters value their cause as not only worth dying for, but also worth sacrificing civilians for. Not only are the civilians excellent shields, but also every martyred civilian is an excellent tool for recruitment and donations, while also tarnishing Israel's reputation reducing Israel's recruitment and outside assistance, in every way helping the cause.
It's funny because "fire" and "coal". /sarcasm
I know of other groups who would be very interested in being able to print warheads... and might not be able to build anything but primitive warheads with their current technology. I hope they're better at keeping secrets than other branches of government.
Chromebook is perfect for the sort of people who don't understand the difference between a computer and the internet. The lack of ability to install anything you want (aka malware) with just a click is in this case a bonus.
to tweet her rudeness after you land.
No can do, he was trying to use his l33t tweeting skillz to convince her to let his kids board earlier (rather than himself boarding later with them, or separately). Thus he had to inform her of the tweet. Probably also why he complained about her by name but without mentioning the circumstances (aka he was being denied a favor, presumably after being incredibly rude).
Of course the agent in question will probably lose her job for this, but that would be due to the escalation rather than following policy. I hope that the end result of this won't be that jerks with twitter accounts get special privileges.
Aren't they working on robotic replacements already?
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There are people working to eliminate that entire field. But its probably a safe job for at least a couple of decades.
Apparently releasing the code could "leave the voting system open to hacking or manipulation."
Maybe they just shouldn't have used code that they know or expect to have vulnerabilities. Open it up to the public; there are plenty of people who will look at it and help fix it.
Every "unique" idea that I thought of turned out to have already been studied exhaustively back in the 70's or earlier. All the favorite students in the grad program were people who ignored this inconvientent fact and managed to get rehashed bullshit accepted into conferences.
I suppose that's one way to accomplish the unglamorous task of checking, or refining, the work of earlier scientists.
I conducted an online poll, and the overwhelming consensus was that the GCHQ was not manipulating poll results. In fact, most of the people commenting said that the GCHQ were the greatest, most honest, and most trustworthy agency on the planet.
I can see policy like this bringing current globalization trend to a screeching halt as companies would split to have daughter companies incorporated and operating only in certain countries to shield them against this kind of abuse.
What, and give up their tax havens?
10 days ago, I wondered how long it would take someone to make a website to anti-censor google. I guess I got my answer.
In other news, people who were most worried about the government misusing their taxes, tended to pay the most taxes.
I'm sorry you misunderstood me. The minor disagreements are about the details of the God of Abraham. Disagreements over land ownership are seldom minor, though at some point one has to wonder how much bloodshed it's worth.
Reproduction in intelligent creatures has always been a hack from lower systems. Very few intelligent creatures have as their mind's objective to reproduce as much as possible, and increasing intelligence means it's that much easier to find loopholes in the lower systems, or exert self-control over them. It probably isn't a simple thing to set as the intelligent creature's objective to propagate its genes, with the requisite math (relatives share your genes to some extent), and the proper mate selection criteria, many of which aren't conscious nor obvious (you probably aren't aware of comparing your potential mate's major histocompatibility complex to your own). I suspect a mind sufficiently advanced to understand all this would be hard to hack to a different objective without a big reduction in intelligence.
It's difficult to find a technological solution to a combination of relatively minor disagreements as to the exact details of the God of Abraham, plus disagreement over land ownership.
God gave you free will so you could voluntarily do as He wants you to do. Don't abuse the free will God gave you to do something God disapproves of, otherwise you will burn in Hell forever.
I'm somewhat pleasantly surprised at the number of posts suggesting that we send living things to Mars, but also concerned that no one is suggesting some caution. Those who know a little about the history of bacterial discovery should know that it is fiendishly difficult to test for the presence of life, even here on Earth with organisms we are rather familiar with. Some bacteria we only know about because they showed up on DNA fishing expeditions, even though they've been under our feet the whole time. There could be bacteria under our feet we don't know about, if it either wasn't DNA/RNA based, or if it had sufficiently aggressive DNA/RNA hydrolysis enzymes, or had a sufficiently small geographic distribution.
As I understand it, we're still at the point that if Mars can sustain life we can't ascertain whether it has any. (And if it can't sustain life, there's no point in sending some to die.) Even if there's no life on Mars, there's still the fact that we don't know much about what an abiotic planet looks like. Studying a properly dead planet will help us in our future search for life.
Furthermore, I'm not certain we want to send photosynthetic organisms there for terraforming purposes, given that we need to increase greenhouse gasses like CO2 there to warm the place. (Also, we don't think the surface is survivable, and the sub-surface has less light -- so if we want surviving life, we should send chemotrophs).
This must indicate the average Chinese citizen is better off than before. They're starting to get First World concerns, such as being replaced with something cheaper.
Air pollution stinks.
Then why do I keep getting (very good paying) work to fix things that were outsourced? And typically a dozen of us high payed workers cost less to completely rework the unusable results of outsourcing...
Because the boss is an idiot, and hired idiot foreigners, instead of hiring competent foreigners.
Other sources report that up to 90% of the company's reported revenue came from "undisclosed related parties" (in other words, from Gowex itself)
I hear the NSA likes to invest in internet infrastructure and technology, and not even take the credit. Maybe they're the undisclosed party.