Also, renting out a botnet means sales pitches to unsavory people (Q: who'd want to rent out a botnet? A: someone who's probably not trustworthy in paying his bills).
For a botnet herder, bitcoin mining means they don't have to work or pay for sales or collections.
Better yet, an experiment you can actually do. Take your laser pointer and sweep it across the sky when the moon's out. That dot moves across the surface of the moon at well over the speed of light. Voila, you've actually caused something to move faster than c.
(I started doing this in March 2059 and I've been doing it ever since with no ill effects.)
I prefer the iPod model for the same reason I finance (purchase) all my cars. At the end of the day, when the payments stop, I want to have something to show for my money, er, lack of bank account.
Sweet! Car metaphors are awesome!
To really follow through on the buy vs. lease car metaphor when comparing it to music, a leasing or subscription service would be like picking what kind of car you want to drive today. "It's Friday, I'll take the convertable" or "I'm taking a group of people out on the town, I'll use a nice SUV".
Yeah a lease sucks when your three years is up and you have "nothing" to show for it, but if that lease is the choice of an infinite number of cars every day, well that adds another dimension to the subscription vs. purchase decision.
Whether it's music or this increasingly-strained car metaphor, just saying "rent vs. own" unfortunately oversimplifies the situation.
funny you should bring up the concept of the 'Just'-- perhaps you should acquaint yourself with the writings of Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobedience
basically, he said citizens have a duty to oppose unjust laws by breaking them...
I'm gonna sneak around and get something for nothing! I'm just like Henry David Thoreau and Ghandi!
Also, the DoS will be instituing a strict policy of comment appropriateness. All developer comments will be checked for offensive words or slogans. The following are strictly off-limits:
There are reasonable explanations for the DoS to disallow these. Here are some notable clarifications:
Rush Limbaugh
Simply trying to avoid bloat, is all.
Christian
"Love your neighbor" is a liberal policy that has no place in today's government.
Fox News
"Defense Intelligence Agency" filled the administration's 2003 oxymoron quota.
Republican
We're using "Patriot" instead, now.
Corporation
Oops, misspoke on this one: we're forbidding cooperation, not corporation. Sorry about the misunderestimate.
Liberty
Only allowed as in "Liberation"; forbidden as in "civil".
Moderators: If the above ON TOPIC SARCASM offends your sensibilities, go ahead and mark me as Flamebait or Offtopic. The meta moderators will get you...
I've seen karma whores appeal to the moderators for special treatment, but appealing to the meta-moderators is a first.
Kudos to you, Mr. AC, for pioneering the frontier of meta-whoring.
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Also, renting out a botnet means sales pitches to unsavory people (Q: who'd want to rent out a botnet? A: someone who's probably not trustworthy in paying his bills).
For a botnet herder, bitcoin mining means they don't have to work or pay for sales or collections.
Well (and here we start to approach spoilers) it turns out the phenomenon of made-up words are relevant to the plot.
Looks to me like an App Store success story! A $32,000 success story for his contractors.
Like the California gold rush, the folks selling shovels are the ones getting rich.
Better yet, an experiment you can actually do. Take your laser pointer and sweep it across the sky when the moon's out. That dot moves across the surface of the moon at well over the speed of light. Voila, you've actually caused something to move faster than c.
(I started doing this in March 2059 and I've been doing it ever since with no ill effects.)
Sweet! Car metaphors are awesome!
To really follow through on the buy vs. lease car metaphor when comparing it to music, a leasing or subscription service would be like picking what kind of car you want to drive today. "It's Friday, I'll take the convertable" or "I'm taking a group of people out on the town, I'll use a nice SUV".
Yeah a lease sucks when your three years is up and you have "nothing" to show for it, but if that lease is the choice of an infinite number of cars every day, well that adds another dimension to the subscription vs. purchase decision.
Whether it's music or this increasingly-strained car metaphor, just saying "rent vs. own" unfortunately oversimplifies the situation.
--Santa Claus
I'm gonna sneak around and get something for nothing! I'm just like Henry David Thoreau and Ghandi!
(fwiw, I vote Libetarian, and no, GW doesn't get my vote in 04 either)
Unless you vote on a Diebold machine!
Also, the DoS will be instituing a strict policy of comment appropriateness. All developer comments will be checked for offensive words or slogans. The following are strictly off-limits:
There are reasonable explanations for the DoS to disallow these. Here are some notable clarifications:
Rush Limbaugh
Simply trying to avoid bloat, is all.
Christian
"Love your neighbor" is a liberal policy that has no place in today's government.
Fox News
"Defense Intelligence Agency" filled the administration's 2003 oxymoron quota.
Republican
We're using "Patriot" instead, now.
Corporation
Oops, misspoke on this one: we're forbidding cooperation, not corporation. Sorry about the misunderestimate.
Liberty
Only allowed as in "Liberation"; forbidden as in "civil".
I've seen karma whores appeal to the moderators for special treatment, but appealing to the meta-moderators is a first.
Kudos to you, Mr. AC, for pioneering the frontier of meta-whoring.
And thus, I leave slashdot.
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