This is just another online store using Bitcoin for free advertising. All you need to do is set up a Bitcoin conversion system on your store's front end (they're not going to keep them for more than 2 seconds), announce you accept Bitcoin, and.... bingo! Your store is now being advertised on every tech site in the world as "Bitcoin News!!". That's millions of $$$ of advertising, for free!
Really? How many times are you going to spend years of your life creating something awesome... only to have someone else like Facebook or Zynga copy it, market it, and put you out of business?
They can do that anyway, and there's not much I can do about it unless I've got $250,000 to spend on patent lawyers.
And even then...there's no guarantee I'll win. There's hardly anything which doesn't contain a lot of prior art. Most likely my $250,000 will just be added to my bankruptcy bill.
Error: 25367. Watchdog timer failed. This phone will now self destruct.
With a slight modification, that might work:
"Bleep! Bleep! Watchdog timer failed. Any attempt to use this phone will cause a self destruct. Please contact your nearest phone store for assistance."
(phone shuts down)...
(press power switch)
"Bleep! Bleep! Watchdog timer failed. Any attempt to use this phone will cause a self destruct. Please contact your nearest phone store for assistance."
A death penalty only affects a very small number of people - family and friends of the death-sentenced.
An explosive phone would leave mutilated bodies in the street for everybody to see. Six months of seeing that and people would be afraid to go near stolen phones, let alone carry them around.
If there was a way to guarantee this sort of "instant karma" justice then crime rates _would_ drop through the floor, trust me.
Unfortunately we have to factor in the collateral damage. There's no way to guarantee that only the criminals will be hurt.
a) Bitcoin has lost about a third of its value since you wrote that. b) You can't just press a button and "convert" millions of dollars of bitcoin. There has to be buyers willing to buy them at the price you're asking.
IN a lot of ways, I do not have a problem with a company making a financial decision... it is what companies do. It is up to society to make sure that the cost is so high that companies doing the math come up with the right conclusion.
-- MyLongNickName
...and when they wave their arms and cry "bankrupt" we can bail them out again, right? What's a trillion dollars between taxpayers?
The reason it doesn't change is because the "coding" is the easy part of programming.
No programming language or IDE is ever going to free you from having to express your ideas clearly and break them down into little sequences of instructions. In a big project this overshadows everything else.
Bad foundations? Bad design? The project is doomed no matter how trendy or modern your language/IDE is.
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Huh? http://www.usa.gov/ isn't known for it's prankish of humor....
What society really needs to do is admit that some people are simply unfit to be in control of a vehicle and deny them a license.
Fail the test three times, that's it. No more chances.
PS: I guess this isn't too expensive. By 2018 screens will be standard instead of analog instruments (they're cheaper!) and cameras will cost $0.10.
This should be good....
If you mean "inevitable wave of the future"
This is just another online store using Bitcoin for free advertising. All you need to do is set up a Bitcoin conversion system on your store's front end (they're not going to keep them for more than 2 seconds), announce you accept Bitcoin, and.... bingo! Your store is now being advertised on every tech site in the world as "Bitcoin News!!". That's millions of $$$ of advertising, for free!
You are conveniently forgetting the conversion to and from USD also involves transaction fees.
So does VISA, Paypal, and everything else...
Really? How many times are you going to spend years of your life creating something awesome ... only to have someone else like Facebook or Zynga copy it, market it, and put you out of business?
They can do that anyway, and there's not much I can do about it unless I've got $250,000 to spend on patent lawyers.
And even then...there's no guarantee I'll win. There's hardly anything which doesn't contain a lot of prior art. Most likely my $250,000 will just be added to my bankruptcy bill.
How often do they put out a "We're all going do die" report like this?
As often as it takes until people like you listen?
Citation...?
They think a centralized kill switch would be a FANTASTIC idea! Just brick the phones for anyone who dares challenge the state.
I can really see how this might be useful in the US. Instead of the IRS investigating tea partiers, we could just selectively brick their phones.
Huh? A protestors phone is far more useful to a government if they can listen in and/or use it to track your movements.
PS: If they want to stop you making calls they can already do that, but why would they? See above.
Error: 25367. Watchdog timer failed. This phone will now self destruct.
With a slight modification, that might work:
"Bleep! Bleep! Watchdog timer failed. Any attempt to use this phone will cause a self destruct. Please contact your nearest phone store for assistance."
(phone shuts down) ...
(press power switch)
"Bleep! Bleep! Watchdog timer failed. Any attempt to use this phone will cause a self destruct. Please contact your nearest phone store for assistance."
(phone shuts down)
A death penalty only affects a very small number of people - family and friends of the death-sentenced.
An explosive phone would leave mutilated bodies in the street for everybody to see. Six months of seeing that and people would be afraid to go near stolen phones, let alone carry them around.
If there was a way to guarantee this sort of "instant karma" justice then crime rates _would_ drop through the floor, trust me.
Unfortunately we have to factor in the collateral damage. There's no way to guarantee that only the criminals will be hurt.
Only if insurance isn't a competitive market.
Which it is.
Because....NONE of that could be done at the telephone exchange, right?
PS: Why would a government want to brick your phone? It's more valuable to them if you keep on using it and they can listen in.
iPhone is only a tiny percentage of the market. Not every phone needs upgrading every year and not all of them are locked to a "cloud".
Unless I'm the only one that can activate the kill switch in my phone, which is technically impossible.
Why?
You could have a secret number on a scratch card that needs to be transmitted to the phone for it to "suicide".
In before all the people who say this will never work because:
a) Hackers
b) Government
c) Capitalists who *want* to sell you new phones/insurance.
Plus a number of parents that can't accept that their precious offspring simply may be plain stupid or lazy as any other kid.
This.
Yep. There's a strong correlation between being in a car and having a car accident but we're not trying to ban cars, are we?
PS: http://tallguywrites.livejourn...
Um, no. It wouldn't.
http://tallguywrites.livejourn...
You'll have hard time trying to convince me that "spending more time in front of screens" applies to toddlers.
You need to go outside more...
a) Bitcoin has lost about a third of its value since you wrote that.
b) You can't just press a button and "convert" millions of dollars of bitcoin. There has to be buyers willing to buy them at the price you're asking.
Really? You think the engineers who design them have no idea how long they're going to last?
IN a lot of ways, I do not have a problem with a company making a financial decision... it is what companies do. It is up to society to make sure that the cost is so high that companies doing the math come up with the right conclusion.
-- MyLongNickName
...and when they wave their arms and cry "bankrupt" we can bail them out again, right? What's a trillion dollars between taxpayers?
Judging by this, the speed is about the same as other comparable SATA III SSD's, with a little bit of a boost but nothing dramatic.
Yada yada...
10% more, 10% less, who gives a damn? Only a drooling idiot would buy an SSD because it won this month's benchmark.
Aren't we at the point where we just ignore "speed" and look at what's inside them that's going to make them last a long time and keep our data safe?
The reason it doesn't change is because the "coding" is the easy part of programming.
No programming language or IDE is ever going to free you from having to express your ideas clearly and break them down into little sequences of instructions. In a big project this overshadows everything else.
Bad foundations? Bad design? The project is doomed no matter how trendy or modern your language/IDE is.