You don't get to run Barad-Dur at Redmond by being dim. I'm no fan of MS products (and Win8 gives new meaning to the word 'abomination') - but they're pretty savvy when it comes to marketing. Come to think of it, isn't that how they got to be the giant they are? I know it wasn't in their source code . . .
It is a fantastic way for, say, drug or arms dealers to move money around more or less "off-grid". C'mon, say it with me . . . L - A - U - N - D - R - Y.
As I've pointed out before, it's currency, but it isn't what I'd call money. Money, you see, is that (often colorful, often artistic) representational marker created by a sovereign government for use as legal tender. It's tracked, monitored, regulated . . . all of the things that I for one expect my money to be. Currency on the other hand (if you insist on counting cryptocurrency as currency) is something of value (not necessarily paper or coin, but those will do as well) which is commonly exchanged in a marketplace. Unregulated currency? Okay, but when something goes wrong don't come to your government (including the police and the courts, by the way) for help - they may or may not do you any good, but you have to remember that they have a vested interest in seeing you use their competing product - that is, money. After all, what are you, a tax cheat or worse yet, some kind of criminal?
Now, the government (here in the US) has no problem with seizing and liquidating those assets when they can (and they have - see Silk Road). There's no denying that cryptocurrency has a value and government's worldwide aren't about to overlook that. Protecting you and me when the next BitCoin Exchange goes *pffft* and takes our (offshore, untracked, untaxed) assets with it? I'm not sure how that works (and I doubt that many bitcoin miners are in a hurry to declare their virtual income to the real IRS).
That requires the assumption that the current physical laws and constants were true then. By definition, they weren't - the four fundamental forces did not assert themselves until a finite period of time after the Big Bang, and did so singly, not all at once (or so goes the theory).
If nothing had mass at the instant of the Big Bang, how does Einstein's theory of Relativity apply? Objects become infinitely massless as their speed approaches c?
Record video in public. Perfectly legal. For the most part, socially acceptable under general circumstances. No upskirts or creepy subjects (40 y/o virgin videotaping pre-teen girls in gym class, for example).
Record audio in public. Illegal (wiretap laws). Laws generally not enforced, but kept "in the back pocket" so to speak. You recorded audio in public of your cousin's birthday, I doubt anybody will ever object to hearing what they said there. You recorded audio at a bar, you can count on people taking you to court to learn all about wiretapping laws when they find out they're on tape calling that guy from the place a total effing loser.
People object to Google Glass because it can record video? Well, microphones have been eminently discrete and concealable for years. Why doesn't Google just make a model of Glass that looks more like a pair of Raybans, or Aviators, Blu-blockers?
If the Higgs boson is the particle which gives matter "mass" . . . and if the Higgs boson formed (like all other particles) some time after the Big Bang . . . then the universe was filled with what were then massless particles. I don't think old uncle Al would object to me accelerating a massless particle past c, would he?
...the gravitational ripples might not have been caused by inflation directly, but by another process which happens to be a by-product of inflation...
I got the impression that it was a by product of expansion (which occurred after inflation) not inflation itself (which, while cosmoligists appear to have reached a concensus is still itself a theory, not a fact).
Science - evidence and knowledge of the unseen supported by understanding what is seen.
I notice that faith talks about things unseen, but doesn't mention how they know about these unseen things (heaven, hell, G*d, etc.). Science also talks about things unseen all the time - but only in the context of what we know. Faith quite handily skips that inconvenient reliance on facts.
Equally valid - when we see "evidence" of accelerating expansion at the "edge" of the Universe - when did that expansion actually take place?. For bonus points - how far apart were those distant points in space back when they emitted the light we're observing now?
They become dependent upon feedings and lose their ability to survive in the wild. Ultimately, they become violent when not fed the attention the poor widdle things crave.
Nice try - but it still isn't legal tender. Here in the USA there is a legal definition that US money is legal tender and must be accepted for payment of all debts, public and private. Says it right on the money. Any country on the Earth with a functioning government makes the same assertion about their money within their borders. It's one of the basic sovereign powers which any world government is able to exercise (if they're truly a national government).
So . . . no, Republic Credits are no good here. I can buy stuff at the corner grocery store with money. I can pay my rent with money. I can buy gasoline with money. How's that bitcoin workin' for ya?
I've used Google Voice for several years now and have encountered none of the issues you describe (more correctly - I've experienced all of those issues, and discovered that without exception they all traced back to my cellular provider's efforts to eliminate Google Voice).
The latest salvo was when I upgraded my T-Mobile branded phone. It took me nearly an hour of Googling to find the information on Google which told me how to fix what multiple cellular providers have broken, and I can't find any way around the sim lock which prevents Google Wallet from doing tap-to-pay.
In my experience, SMS/voice mail/TTP are broken by cellular providers attempting to keep Google off of their networks (except as a search provider prioritizing their products and services).
How'd an insensitive clod such as yourself get a four digit slashdot UID? I can already see you have a very low IQ, but it's the low UID that fascinates me. Did you inherit it? I've heard that idiocy can be congenital.
Seriously - my background is mostly with v4. Doesn't v6 incorporate a better name resolution mechanism? I'd always assumed so, since it was going to vastly increase the amount of address space to be tabulated.
Sure. You got me (maybe. Maybe the bitcoins were in memory and were absolutely destroyed when the police seized my computers, I dunno).
About those (maybe existing, maybe not existing) bitcoins - how many have been seized to date? I mean, Silkroad was sure using the hell out of Bitcoin. Was all that money recovered?
Maybe I've got it wrong. Maybe troves of bitcoin have been seized worldwide. Could somebody site an example? To date, I haven't heard of any sizeable seizures of bitcoin.
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You don't get to run Barad-Dur at Redmond by being dim. I'm no fan of MS products (and Win8 gives new meaning to the word 'abomination') - but they're pretty savvy when it comes to marketing. Come to think of it, isn't that how they got to be the giant they are? I know it wasn't in their source code . . .
Five times, usually.
It is a fantastic way for, say, drug or arms dealers to move money around more or less "off-grid". C'mon, say it with me . . . L - A - U - N - D - R - Y.
As I've pointed out before, it's currency, but it isn't what I'd call money. Money, you see, is that (often colorful, often artistic) representational marker created by a sovereign government for use as legal tender. It's tracked, monitored, regulated . . . all of the things that I for one expect my money to be. Currency on the other hand (if you insist on counting cryptocurrency as currency) is something of value (not necessarily paper or coin, but those will do as well) which is commonly exchanged in a marketplace. Unregulated currency? Okay, but when something goes wrong don't come to your government (including the police and the courts, by the way) for help - they may or may not do you any good, but you have to remember that they have a vested interest in seeing you use their competing product - that is, money . After all, what are you, a tax cheat or worse yet, some kind of criminal?
Now, the government (here in the US) has no problem with seizing and liquidating those assets when they can (and they have - see Silk Road). There's no denying that cryptocurrency has a value and government's worldwide aren't about to overlook that. Protecting you and me when the next BitCoin Exchange goes *pffft* and takes our (offshore, untracked, untaxed) assets with it? I'm not sure how that works (and I doubt that many bitcoin miners are in a hurry to declare their virtual income to the real IRS).
Sounds to me like he just took a bath (financially speaking).
If nothing had mass at the instant of the Big Bang, how does Einstein's theory of Relativity apply? Objects become infinitely massless as their speed approaches c?
(oi vey)
Record audio in public. Illegal (wiretap laws). Laws generally not enforced, but kept "in the back pocket" so to speak. You recorded audio in public of your cousin's birthday, I doubt anybody will ever object to hearing what they said there. You recorded audio at a bar, you can count on people taking you to court to learn all about wiretapping laws when they find out they're on tape calling that guy from the place a total effing loser.
People object to Google Glass because it can record video? Well, microphones have been eminently discrete and concealable for years. Why doesn't Google just make a model of Glass that looks more like a pair of Raybans, or Aviators, Blu-blockers?
If the Higgs boson is the particle which gives matter "mass" . . . and if the Higgs boson formed (like all other particles) some time after the Big Bang . . . then the universe was filled with what were then massless particles. I don't think old uncle Al would object to me accelerating a massless particle past c, would he?
I got the impression that it was a by product of expansion (which occurred after inflation) not inflation itself (which, while cosmoligists appear to have reached a concensus is still itself a theory, not a fact).
Still here. *Whew*
Science - evidence and knowledge of the unseen supported by understanding what is seen.
I notice that faith talks about things unseen, but doesn't mention how they know about these unseen things (heaven, hell, G*d, etc.). Science also talks about things unseen all the time - but only in the context of what we know. Faith quite handily skips that inconvenient reliance on facts.
Equally valid - when we see "evidence" of accelerating expansion at the "edge" of the Universe - when did that expansion actually take place?. For bonus points - how far apart were those distant points in space back when they emitted the light we're observing now?
It makes them reliant upon human feeding to survive.
So what you're saying is . . . those news organs (MSNBC, Fox, NPR) don't share your world view?
I suspect it's the latter, and I note that Melinda isn't giving so much away that her lifestyle is being impacted.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of philanthropy - but giving away something you don't even have a use for is different from sacrificing to help others.
They become dependent upon feedings and lose their ability to survive in the wild. Ultimately, they become violent when not fed the attention the poor widdle things crave.
So . . . no, Republic Credits are no good here. I can buy stuff at the corner grocery store with money. I can pay my rent with money. I can buy gasoline with money. How's that bitcoin workin' for ya?
The latest salvo was when I upgraded my T-Mobile branded phone. It took me nearly an hour of Googling to find the information on Google which told me how to fix what multiple cellular providers have broken, and I can't find any way around the sim lock which prevents Google Wallet from doing tap-to-pay.
In my experience, SMS/voice mail/TTP are broken by cellular providers attempting to keep Google off of their networks (except as a search provider prioritizing their products and services).
How'd an insensitive clod such as yourself get a four digit slashdot UID? I can already see you have a very low IQ, but it's the low UID that fascinates me. Did you inherit it? I've heard that idiocy can be congenital.
And . . . thank you for saying what I was going to say before I said it.
I don't need a link to LMGTFY, TYVM. Although after what I've learned in under thirty seconds, I do need a drink.
Seriously - my background is mostly with v4. Doesn't v6 incorporate a better name resolution mechanism? I'd always assumed so, since it was going to vastly increase the amount of address space to be tabulated.
Does it have a monetary value to the FBI? If so, bitcoin is fundamentally flawed.
About those (maybe existing, maybe not existing) bitcoins - how many have been seized to date? I mean, Silkroad was sure using the hell out of Bitcoin. Was all that money recovered?
Maybe I've got it wrong. Maybe troves of bitcoin have been seized worldwide. Could somebody site an example? To date, I haven't heard of any sizeable seizures of bitcoin.
What cryptocoin?