Android is not a desktop OS. Chrome OS is designed for the desktop. I fail to see why a desktop or laptop maker would use Android and not Chromium OS. Anyone who has used an Android device with a keyboard and mouse will tell you it is a very sub-par experience. Whereas Chromium OS is basically just Google Chrome with a thin wrapper around it. I wish more PC makers aside from Google would ship Chromium devices it might drive better hardware support and a cleaner install of the platform.
It does not matter what people intended something for, it matters what it is USED for in actual practice. Until people start actually using BTC as a real currency, it is not a currency.
I can write a bunch of numbers on post-it notes and claim it is a currency as well - it does not make it one.
I wish people would stop calling these "crypto-currencies", because it is a total misrepresentation of what these things are. They are crypto-commodities. BTC is just like gold right now - it is not used to transact, it is used as a value store - except it is much worse as a value store because it is orders of magnitude more volatile. No one can use BTC as a currency because its value fluxuates so wildly. Everyone who is SUPPOSEDLY using it as a currency just has it pegged to the US dollar with a live update.
The answer is to have yellow lights be a reasonable length so that people don't need to make a choice between flooring the accelerator and slamming on the brakes forcing a rear-end collision.
It is indeed interesting because this means that the NSA or CIA or FBI can listen into your phone calls without a wiretap warrant just by grabbing the electrons flying through the air.
One of the primary ingredients in pre-natal vitamins is folate, because it is so important for the fetus. I wonder if this research indicates that fathers trying to conceive should also take pre-natal vitamins.
The solution to Bitrot and reading of old media is very simple and honestly I don't know why it comes up so much. Storage is DIRT CHEAP. 2TB of Data is NOTHING, you can get a 3TB+ external drive for $100 or even less on sale. Buy 3 drives, keep 1 in SAFELOCATION*, Back up to 1 drive every even week, and the second one every odd week, and once a month swap the one in the SAFELOCATION out for a local one and repeat the cycle. Increase or decrease frequency of SAFELOCATION swapping depending on level of paranoia.
There, the problem is simply and very cheaply solved and there is no level of bit rot that is going to cause all 3 of these backups to be destroyed within a 1 month time window.
* where SAFELOCATION is a off-premise location, either a close friend's house or a locked office desk or a family member's house or a safe deposit box
I think you are missing the point. If they can't tie this profile to my Twitter handle then frankly I could care less if they build said profile.
Anonymous profiles do not cause a privacy issue, at least not for me. It's irrelevant to me.
Furthermore - this profile is just based on little more than the plugins I have installed and my resolution. I would be willing to wager quite a large sum that the combination of those things is far from unique to myself.
The correct response by all companies to a request "without any sort of court order." should be to send t directly to/dev/null - I don't care if it is the NSA, FBI, or the London Police issuing the request, unless it is accompanied by a court order, why are companies bending over backwards to help the government - the government sure is not bending over backwards to help them.
(Yes I realize the problem is larger than this with FISA warrants and secret courts, but I don't think the London Police Department can serve a FISA warrant... yet anyway.)
I don't see how. Nothing is retained in Incognito mode. Every time you launch it you have a totally new profile.
The only way they could build said "shadow profile" is based on IP. But they can't tie the IP to a given twitter user name if you never sign into twitter on that device.
This isn't even a permission an App can request on Android. Not sure about iOS.
This is not how Twitter is going to do this anyway. They are doing it via the little "Twitter" links everywhere on the web. These will track your page views, and then the instant you sign into your twitter account on that browser, they will know every page you visited. It is no different than how Google knows the pages you visited.
You can block it in two ways... either a) never sign into twitter in your browser unless in Incognito mode, or b) Block third-party cookies and trackers using Ad Block. I do the latter.
The only innovations eBay has done in the past 2-3 years are innovative ways to charge you more money when you sell things using their service. Amazon is eating their lunch and they know it. I have sold 3x as much random junk from my house on Amazon than on eBay in recent times.
Please explain what you mean by "As of KitKat, Google search cannot be disabled". Disabled where? On the home screen? Yes it can. Google now? Yes it can be disabled. In Chrome? How about installing Firefox or Dolphin or one of dozens of other browsers?
I think you have no idea what you are talking about.
I don't know what you are talking about really but no one forces you to use Google services with any android device. Adding a google account is optional, and there are several app stores available.
How about you argue my original points instead of going off on an irrelevant sidetrack?
I could care less if your phone can run Skype or play games. What matters is it is possible for someone to make their phone 100% inoperable by trying to reinstall the OS. This is not true of a PC at all.
The bootloader of the phone lives on the same flash chip as the OS. For a moment let's just put aside the fact that recovering a phone from a bad flash using it's "download mode" is an arcane procedure involving special software that most people won't have. Beyond that, a failed flash of an OS can brick your phone in such a way that even the "download" mode of your phone does not work, and the only way to fix it is to crack open the phone and JTAG the memory directly.
This is not something an average consumer has experience with. You don't want your mom trying to flash a new ROM on her phone.
You know, a lot of people in here are complaining about in-flight cell use being annoying. But we have had in-flight wifi for awhile now, and you can use the phone over that service any number of ways. Is that being abused?
TO me, the solution is simple.. you enable the access, but you disallow people from making or taking voice calls via simple airline policy. Text only. This allows people to use their own text and data plans and keeps the annoyance factor to the same level as wifi.
Without the ability to conduct private cash-only transactions, a money system will never find success.
Aside from this, there are other things that will kill bitcoin in the long run as well, such as it's inability to make more of them to trigger price inflation. What a lot of people uneducated in economics see as a downside of fiat currency (inflation) is actually a much needed and necessary feature of a good currency. Using anything that has a fixed value store as a currency, such as gold or bitcoin, that can not have more printed of them has a lot of downsides that I don't have time to get into here. Suffice it to say it will never be adopted at a national level.
None of those things you put in your list will make using bitcoin anonymous.
They can make it HARDER to track, but with the right warrants and taps, it becomes totally possible to track, and in fact can be quite trivial with the right resources at your disposal. Compared to dollars, it is not even in the same ballpark.
If I walk into Walmart and buy something with a $10 bill, aside from in-store security cameras and other such things, there is ZERO WAY that that purchase can legally be tied to me. That is because my $10 is the same as anyone elses $10. This is not true of bitcoin. My bitcoin is not the same as your bitcoin. It is thus provable traceable. Sure, it will take work. But it is possible. Unlike current currency, where it is not possible, save an outside influence like security cameras.
That is totally irrelevant because of how the bitcoin network works. All of this "mixing" from wallet to wallet is all tracked and traceable. I can see that the coin went from user A to Silk Road and then to a bunch of random wallets and back out to user B, and user C who was the person who sold the item got a different one. It is all traceable. That is how the whole protocol is engineered. Without unique traceable transactions, bitcoin could not exist as a P2P system. The whole thing that makes bitcoin possible is also what makes it totally non-anonymous.
I just pre-ordered a Coin. I live in Canada where 100% of my credit cards and debit cards are Chip & PIN so this is of zero use to me from that angle. The whole reason I am getting it is so I can ditch all the damn loyalty cards. Day to day, I only carry around 1 credit card and 1 debit card - I have no need for more. But I have currently in my wally 4 different loyalty cards AND a gift card that I need to use. If Coin can take 4 loyalty cards and turn them into 1, then it is worth $50 to me. And this whole security discussion is thus a non issue because I really don't care if someone decides to steal my Aeroplan card... more points for me!
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Android is not a desktop OS. Chrome OS is designed for the desktop. I fail to see why a desktop or laptop maker would use Android and not Chromium OS. Anyone who has used an Android device with a keyboard and mouse will tell you it is a very sub-par experience. Whereas Chromium OS is basically just Google Chrome with a thin wrapper around it. I wish more PC makers aside from Google would ship Chromium devices it might drive better hardware support and a cleaner install of the platform.
It does not matter what people intended something for, it matters what it is USED for in actual practice. Until people start actually using BTC as a real currency, it is not a currency.
I can write a bunch of numbers on post-it notes and claim it is a currency as well - it does not make it one.
I wish people would stop calling these "crypto-currencies", because it is a total misrepresentation of what these things are. They are crypto-commodities. BTC is just like gold right now - it is not used to transact, it is used as a value store - except it is much worse as a value store because it is orders of magnitude more volatile. No one can use BTC as a currency because its value fluxuates so wildly. Everyone who is SUPPOSEDLY using it as a currency just has it pegged to the US dollar with a live update.
The answer is to have yellow lights be a reasonable length so that people don't need to make a choice between flooring the accelerator and slamming on the brakes forcing a rear-end collision.
It is indeed interesting because this means that the NSA or CIA or FBI can listen into your phone calls without a wiretap warrant just by grabbing the electrons flying through the air.
I did read the summary, and every single linked article. None of the above has a recommendation in it for men to take pre-natal vitamins.
Thanks for the snarky response though, it was very helpful... not.
One of the primary ingredients in pre-natal vitamins is folate, because it is so important for the fetus. I wonder if this research indicates that fathers trying to conceive should also take pre-natal vitamins.
The solution to Bitrot and reading of old media is very simple and honestly I don't know why it comes up so much. Storage is DIRT CHEAP. 2TB of Data is NOTHING, you can get a 3TB+ external drive for $100 or even less on sale. Buy 3 drives, keep 1 in SAFELOCATION*, Back up to 1 drive every even week, and the second one every odd week, and once a month swap the one in the SAFELOCATION out for a local one and repeat the cycle. Increase or decrease frequency of SAFELOCATION swapping depending on level of paranoia.
There, the problem is simply and very cheaply solved and there is no level of bit rot that is going to cause all 3 of these backups to be destroyed within a 1 month time window.
* where SAFELOCATION is a off-premise location, either a close friend's house or a locked office desk or a family member's house or a safe deposit box
I think you are missing the point. If they can't tie this profile to my Twitter handle then frankly I could care less if they build said profile.
Anonymous profiles do not cause a privacy issue, at least not for me. It's irrelevant to me.
Furthermore - this profile is just based on little more than the plugins I have installed and my resolution. I would be willing to wager quite a large sum that the combination of those things is far from unique to myself.
The correct response by all companies to a request "without any sort of court order." should be to send t directly to /dev/null - I don't care if it is the NSA, FBI, or the London Police issuing the request, unless it is accompanied by a court order, why are companies bending over backwards to help the government - the government sure is not bending over backwards to help them.
(Yes I realize the problem is larger than this with FISA warrants and secret courts, but I don't think the London Police Department can serve a FISA warrant... yet anyway.)
I don't see how. Nothing is retained in Incognito mode. Every time you launch it you have a totally new profile.
The only way they could build said "shadow profile" is based on IP. But they can't tie the IP to a given twitter user name if you never sign into twitter on that device.
This isn't even a permission an App can request on Android. Not sure about iOS.
This is not how Twitter is going to do this anyway. They are doing it via the little "Twitter" links everywhere on the web. These will track your page views, and then the instant you sign into your twitter account on that browser, they will know every page you visited. It is no different than how Google knows the pages you visited.
You can block it in two ways... either a) never sign into twitter in your browser unless in Incognito mode, or b) Block third-party cookies and trackers using Ad Block. I do the latter.
The only innovations eBay has done in the past 2-3 years are innovative ways to charge you more money when you sell things using their service. Amazon is eating their lunch and they know it. I have sold 3x as much random junk from my house on Amazon than on eBay in recent times.
Please explain what you mean by "As of KitKat, Google search cannot be disabled". Disabled where? On the home screen? Yes it can. Google now? Yes it can be disabled. In Chrome? How about installing Firefox or Dolphin or one of dozens of other browsers?
I think you have no idea what you are talking about.
I don't know what you are talking about really but no one forces you to use Google services with any android device. Adding a google account is optional, and there are several app stores available.
How about you argue my original points instead of going off on an irrelevant sidetrack?
I could care less if your phone can run Skype or play games. What matters is it is possible for someone to make their phone 100% inoperable by trying to reinstall the OS. This is not true of a PC at all.
Because a phone is not a PC, that's why.
The bootloader of the phone lives on the same flash chip as the OS. For a moment let's just put aside the fact that recovering a phone from a bad flash using it's "download mode" is an arcane procedure involving special software that most people won't have. Beyond that, a failed flash of an OS can brick your phone in such a way that even the "download" mode of your phone does not work, and the only way to fix it is to crack open the phone and JTAG the memory directly.
This is not something an average consumer has experience with. You don't want your mom trying to flash a new ROM on her phone.
If it is legal in Washington couldn't Adams just have had his father transferred there? What could stop this legally?
Speak for yourself. I bought a vita for the SOLE PURPOSE of using it with Ps4 remote play. And thus far I find it amazing.
You know, a lot of people in here are complaining about in-flight cell use being annoying. But we have had in-flight wifi for awhile now, and you can use the phone over that service any number of ways. Is that being abused?
TO me, the solution is simple.. you enable the access, but you disallow people from making or taking voice calls via simple airline policy. Text only. This allows people to use their own text and data plans and keeps the annoyance factor to the same level as wifi.
Without the ability to conduct private cash-only transactions, a money system will never find success.
Aside from this, there are other things that will kill bitcoin in the long run as well, such as it's inability to make more of them to trigger price inflation. What a lot of people uneducated in economics see as a downside of fiat currency (inflation) is actually a much needed and necessary feature of a good currency. Using anything that has a fixed value store as a currency, such as gold or bitcoin, that can not have more printed of them has a lot of downsides that I don't have time to get into here. Suffice it to say it will never be adopted at a national level.
None of those things you put in your list will make using bitcoin anonymous.
They can make it HARDER to track, but with the right warrants and taps, it becomes totally possible to track, and in fact can be quite trivial with the right resources at your disposal. Compared to dollars, it is not even in the same ballpark.
If I walk into Walmart and buy something with a $10 bill, aside from in-store security cameras and other such things, there is ZERO WAY that that purchase can legally be tied to me. That is because my $10 is the same as anyone elses $10. This is not true of bitcoin. My bitcoin is not the same as your bitcoin. It is thus provable traceable. Sure, it will take work. But it is possible. Unlike current currency, where it is not possible, save an outside influence like security cameras.
That is totally irrelevant because of how the bitcoin network works. All of this "mixing" from wallet to wallet is all tracked and traceable. I can see that the coin went from user A to Silk Road and then to a bunch of random wallets and back out to user B, and user C who was the person who sold the item got a different one. It is all traceable. That is how the whole protocol is engineered. Without unique traceable transactions, bitcoin could not exist as a P2P system. The whole thing that makes bitcoin possible is also what makes it totally non-anonymous.
I just pre-ordered a Coin. I live in Canada where 100% of my credit cards and debit cards are Chip & PIN so this is of zero use to me from that angle. The whole reason I am getting it is so I can ditch all the damn loyalty cards. Day to day, I only carry around 1 credit card and 1 debit card - I have no need for more. But I have currently in my wally 4 different loyalty cards AND a gift card that I need to use. If Coin can take 4 loyalty cards and turn them into 1, then it is worth $50 to me. And this whole security discussion is thus a non issue because I really don't care if someone decides to steal my Aeroplan card... more points for me!