For BU to go after Apple and others, they would have to prove that they knew that these products were violating patents
Wrong. "Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent."
It seems the President didn't know they had a database of cellphone numbers & IMEAs to identity/names etc. when he said the database is only anonymous metadata not names
The metadata contains telephone numbers. Even Obama can't faithfully claim to be stupid enough to not understand what a telephone number is.
I'm pretty sure that the bitcoin mixing services don't have enough volume to obfuscate any transaction of significant size. At least today; this might change in the future. The mapping from your pseudonyms to your "real" identity can be done as soon as you trade your bitcoins for anything not bitcoin. In theory, bitcoins can be mostly anonymous. In practice - i. e. when they are actually used, they are not.
The spender is never identified in a real-world way.
I misunderstood you there. I thought you meant "authenticated" in the context of the transaction. Thanks for clearing that up.
"The battery lasts 45 minutes when you have high or maximum load on all your components. This happens for example when watching HD videos on youtube or playing modern computer games. With no load on the system, for example when you are just reading an eBook, your battery will last 6 hours." to me seems far more meaningful than "With typical workload and a reasonably battery conservation measures your battery will last 4 hours."
No... the tests are better aimed at a typical workload, or a typical workload being performed in a reasonably battery conservative manner.
I disagree. The value you get with this method is absolutely worthless because you have no idea how your workload differs from a "typical" workload or how your handling differs from "reasonable" handling. These are all meaningless words. There are probably a couple of hundred million portable general purpose computers out there. Lower an upper bounds on how long a charge lasts at least have a well defined meaning.
but if you want to just keep up-to-date on what your friends are doing in life without having to pester them about, it's gotten much harder for the facebook-disconnected to do.
I don't get it. My friends are the group of people that enjoy talking to me about their life. How can you call that "pestering"? Isn't "sharing your life" one of the things you do with friends anymore? It seems that the facebook friend status has become a (poor) surrogate for having friends instead of a way to keep in contact with "real" friends.
Try to legalize drugs and killing and see if the number of occurrences go up or down.
It has been tried with drugs in a couple of European countries. Hard drug (Cocaine, Heroin) use has decreased in all cases I know of (Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands). It has also been tried locally in a couple of European cities with the same effect. The results for soft drugs are inconclusive. What is your point?
I agree, my post was poorly worded. I should have phrased that way better. My point, i. e. the point I was trying to make, still stands, though: The link doesn't state if Google has his phone number or not either. To quote myself: The link only contains an abstract description but no concrete details. The latter is required by law.
No he didn't. The link he provided doesn't even mention me. Does Google have my telephone number stored? The only valid answers, according to law, are either "yes" or "no". The question isn't answered on this page http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. The link only contains an abstract description but no concrete details. The latter is required by law.
My point is that in the big scheme of things we have not injured the Muslim world at all, without us (the West) they would be far poorer, far more backwards and pretty much worse off in every single way.
Except for those that we killed. And except for those have been killed by the dictators we are financing. And except for those we kidnap and torture.
The main mistake you are making however is where you draw the line: it's not the "Muslims" on the one side and the "West" on the other side. Both groups contain a large group of psychopaths who really like to kill "other" people and do it on a regular basis. You should draw the line between the psychopaths and their victims. But instead you side with one group of psychopaths and rationalize that by claiming that "our" psychopaths are not as bad as "their" psychopaths. The relevant question here is: Who killed more people, Osama or Obama? Probably Obama. Bush or Hussein? Probably Hussein. And even if Obama were only 1 milliHitler and Osama were 2 milliHitler you still are morally bankrupt for siding with the "lesser evil" of both.
after all i can ask them anything and they usually give me pages and pages of answers
Try asking them: Which personal information have you stored about me? Where did you get this information from? Whom did you share this information with? You see German law states that everyone owns his own personal information and that any company that stores or processes personal information must answer the questions I mentioned.
Disney dollars are not real currency, they are coupons.
Bitcoins are not a real currency. They actually don't exist at all. There's only the global transaction log.
Try to get disney to convert them back to USD for you.
How about I sell them to a buddy of mine because I have some left from my last trip and don't need them anymore? Do you think that would be illegal? That would be a better comparison. There is no bitcoin company like Disney is for Disney dollars.
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Why not?
Because we are not them.
Oops. I actually didn't know that. Thanks for clearing that up.
Building bombs and putting them in public places is pro-terrorist
Are you talking about drone strikes?
Right now, there are people who will throw acid on girls for going to school or kill their sisters for dancing in the rain
Right now, there are people who will rain hellfire missiles on girls for standing to close to somebody that Obama doesn't like.
For BU to go after Apple and others, they would have to prove that they knew that these products were violating patents
Wrong. "Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent."
It seems the President didn't know they had a database of cellphone numbers & IMEAs to identity/names etc. when he said the database is only anonymous metadata not names
The metadata contains telephone numbers. Even Obama can't faithfully claim to be stupid enough to not understand what a telephone number is.
, but during Tricky Dick's era, the sense of morality was _still_ intact, or Richard Nixon wouldn't have to move out of the White House
Burning millions of Vietnamese people with napalm and poisoning them with agent orange was morally OK?
I'm glad we had all that illegal surveillance going to prevent this attack.
But practically speaking, they can be mostly so.
I'm pretty sure that the bitcoin mixing services don't have enough volume to obfuscate any transaction of significant size. At least today; this might change in the future. The mapping from your pseudonyms to your "real" identity can be done as soon as you trade your bitcoins for anything not bitcoin. In theory, bitcoins can be mostly anonymous. In practice - i. e. when they are actually used, they are not.
The spender is never identified in a real-world way.
I misunderstood you there. I thought you meant "authenticated" in the context of the transaction. Thanks for clearing that up.
Let's say that Bitcoin continues to be the leading cryptocurrency -- anonymous and decentralized.
bitcoins are not anonymous.
However, if you want to insure deposits in it, you have to submit to some kind of identity proof through a central authority.
No. Pseudonyms with private keys can achieve the same thing.
For example, what if merchants could only accept coin if it was authenticated to its identified spender
This is done in bitcoin today without any centralized authority.
Are you sure you're qualified to comment on this subject?
"The battery lasts 45 minutes when you have high or maximum load on all your components. This happens for example when watching HD videos on youtube or playing modern computer games. With no load on the system, for example when you are just reading an eBook, your battery will last 6 hours." to me seems far more meaningful than "With typical workload and a reasonably battery conservation measures your battery will last 4 hours."
No... the tests are better aimed at a typical workload, or a typical workload being performed in a reasonably battery conservative manner.
I disagree. The value you get with this method is absolutely worthless because you have no idea how your workload differs from a "typical" workload or how your handling differs from "reasonable" handling. These are all meaningless words. There are probably a couple of hundred million portable general purpose computers out there. Lower an upper bounds on how long a charge lasts at least have a well defined meaning.
The only responsible disclosure is full public disclosure.
but if you want to just keep up-to-date on what your friends are doing in life without having to pester them about, it's gotten much harder for the facebook-disconnected to do.
I don't get it. My friends are the group of people that enjoy talking to me about their life. How can you call that "pestering"? Isn't "sharing your life" one of the things you do with friends anymore? It seems that the facebook friend status has become a (poor) surrogate for having friends instead of a way to keep in contact with "real" friends.
Guess where the human trafficking capital of the world is?
It's in the middle east. What is your point?
Try to legalize drugs and killing and see if the number of occurrences go up or down.
It has been tried with drugs in a couple of European countries. Hard drug (Cocaine, Heroin) use has decreased in all cases I know of (Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands). It has also been tried locally in a couple of European cities with the same effect. The results for soft drugs are inconclusive. What is your point?
Something must be horribly wrong if website can access your video card.
It's called WebGL.
I know dashboard. It at best answers one of the three questions I asked.
The Bundesdatenschutzgesetz.
I agree, my post was poorly worded. I should have phrased that way better. My point, i. e. the point I was trying to make, still stands, though: The link doesn't state if Google has his phone number or not either. To quote myself: The link only contains an abstract description but no concrete details. The latter is required by law.
No he didn't. The link he provided doesn't even mention me. Does Google have my telephone number stored? The only valid answers, according to law, are either "yes" or "no". The question isn't answered on this page http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. The link only contains an abstract description but no concrete details. The latter is required by law.
My point is that in the big scheme of things we have not injured the Muslim world at all, without us (the West) they would be far poorer, far more backwards and pretty much worse off in every single way.
Except for those that we killed. And except for those have been killed by the dictators we are financing. And except for those we kidnap and torture.
The main mistake you are making however is where you draw the line: it's not the "Muslims" on the one side and the "West" on the other side. Both groups contain a large group of psychopaths who really like to kill "other" people and do it on a regular basis. You should draw the line between the psychopaths and their victims. But instead you side with one group of psychopaths and rationalize that by claiming that "our" psychopaths are not as bad as "their" psychopaths. The relevant question here is: Who killed more people, Osama or Obama? Probably Obama. Bush or Hussein? Probably Hussein. And even if Obama were only 1 milliHitler and Osama were 2 milliHitler you still are morally bankrupt for siding with the "lesser evil" of both.
after all i can ask them anything and they usually give me pages and pages of answers
Try asking them: Which personal information have you stored about me? Where did you get this information from? Whom did you share this information with? You see German law states that everyone owns his own personal information and that any company that stores or processes personal information must answer the questions I mentioned.
You are missing the point. Google wants their users to be the product. German law states otherwise. Guess who's opinion will prevail in court.
Disney dollars are not real currency, they are coupons.
Bitcoins are not a real currency. They actually don't exist at all. There's only the global transaction log.
Try to get disney to convert them back to USD for you.
How about I sell them to a buddy of mine because I have some left from my last trip and don't need them anymore? Do you think that would be illegal? That would be a better comparison. There is no bitcoin company like Disney is for Disney dollars.