Hmmmm, those three groups are still from different fields; Politics, business, and technology. All three are forced to dable in each other's territory, but while Page and Brin would have more to say on the tech side, they wouldn't necessarily have anything more to say on politics.
I disagree. They support the Open agenda. That is all about politics, because being Open is a deeply philosophical and political decision.
Assange has fled from the law enforcement over trumped up, politically motivated rape accusations. Like it or not, that is a factual statement.
Provide a guarantee that Sweden won't extradite Assange to the US, and Assange would be in Sweden tomorrow.
Journalists have limited power. That is my argument. Police on the other hand seem to have nearly unlimited power.
The solution isn't the fourth estate or revealing the crimes to the public who can't do anything about it and who if they try may get labeled rapists or sex offenders themselves. The solution is to come up with a legal plan of action to create an international law enforcement organization and make that organization the Wikileaks 2.0. When you can make arrests then people are going to be more likely to want to help you but when you can only release it to the media how does that protect your friends, family, or you from being identified and arrested under false pretenses?
So where are these honest international cops who can arrest the corrupt cops embedded in the most powerful positions in government?
Wikileaks wants to release information to the media under the false assumption that there are some good guy heroes somewhere who can do something about it.
The problem is there aren't any organizations who can do anything about it. First in order to build such an organization you need to go to the UN and find a way to get it funded. When you do that the bad people in the US, China, Russia and other nations will join forces to prevent you from being able to fund your International enforcement organization.
Without that kind of organization Wikileaks is not only defenseless but all it's supporters are defenseless as well. The corrupt local and national police can have any Wikileaks supporter arrested for nearly any reason. It's not hard to make someone look like a sex offender, there are informants everywhere and undercover cops everywhere. Wikileaks releases information to the public and realizes the public is powerless but underestimates how powerless. The public cannot do anything at all to stop corrupt law enforcement if that law enforcement decides to make political arrests, or set people up to look guilty for political law enforcement reasons.
And what International agency can these people go to for protection? What International police exist to arrest corrupt local or national police in countries like the USA, or China, or Russia? You're a journalist in Russia and you're risking your life. You're a journalist in the USA and you're risking your reputation and freedom.
While you might die in Russia, in the USA you might find yourself suddenly accused of rape, or some sex offense. The result is the total destruction of the life of the individual. Journalists are effectively powerless. The only way this will change is through an International organization with the power to arrest people on US soil and that isn't going to be allowed to happen so what exactly can the media do?
...how long it would take before Eric Schmidt said something that made me facepalm. Accidentally referring to TOR as "Thor" in the very first topic he brought up was bad, but not bad enough. Admitting right after that that he doesn't really understand what it is or how it works? In 2011? Just two months after stepping down as the CEO of Google? Facepalm.
Eric is primarily a business man and political insider. But as a businessman he's smart enough to meet with Julian Assange so give him credit for that.
Completed the first half of TFA. It is indeed fascinating.
Fascinating to know Julian Assange...his technical know how and philosophical underpinnings make him one of the foremost thinkers of our world. The way Assange connects geo-political issues, the ideas behind publishing, instant publishing to the basic design of Wikileaks is brilliant. (We have to put aside his issues in Sweden.)
Erich Schmidt comes across as a better version of Steve Ballmer. It would have been interesting if Larry Page / Sergey Brin had a conversation with Assange...they would be more interesting and the conversation would not be completely one sided.
His philosophical views are flawed. He bases his assumptions on assumptions. What has changed since the Cablegate leak? The answer is nothing. If anything they governments have cracked down harder. What good is the media if the media doesn't have any police powers or powers to arrest? So we find out that Silvio Berlusconi is accepting underage prostitution but what exactly was done about it? Governments abuse innocent people all the time and nothing is done about it because there is no police force with the capability to enforce human rights.
Human rights don't exist unless enforced. So instead of giving your documents to Julian Assange a new protocol has to be made which collects the documents and selectively distributes them to organizations with the authority to do something about it. The problem with Assange is he gives it to everyone at once via the media which alerts the bad guys as well as the general population. How exactly is it useful to "Shame" the bad guys by alerting them of the leak? Wouldn't it have been better to build a case against them and arrest them on actual charges? Afterall if they are war criminals, if they broke international laws, if information was so powerful why can't they be arrested for that?
What went wrong with Julian Assange is his implementation and his naive conceptualizations.
The ideals are right, we do need a way to prevent human rights abuses, to save lives, to fight corruption. I just don't think Wikileaks is properly set up to do that. I don't think the media or journalists can do that. I think giving that information to the general public who is completely powerless and can do nothing to stop it doesn't really change a damn thing but it makes governments paranoid and makes them crack down.
There has to be a global currency and Bitcoin accomplishes that. There has to be a global policing authority and that is the part which is missing from all this. All the policing authorities are run by corrupt nationalists. They are all nationalists so there is no police to go to for enforcement with this information. The media and the civilians might care about human rights and care about solving these problems but the local police aren't capable of dealing with it and the national police such as the FBI or whatever aren't motivated or capable of dealing with this. In fact the FBI would probably be directly opposed to it.
So where exactly can this information be given where there is a reasonable guarantee that actions will be taken? Just putting it out there for public record or to give people a trove of information to gawk at is not exactly solving anything. It's making things worse because embarrassment leads to paranoia which leads to more crackdowns and nothing changes for the people who suffer. Julian Assange simply cannot help, and Wikileaks cannot help, at least not in any of the highly technological nations like the US. The only thing which could help in the US is for an international agency to start arresting people based on leaked information.
He assumes that journalism and the media can solve problems. This is a flaw because just revealing problems doesn't solve it and sometimes revealing problems causes only more problems.
He assumes everyone can do something about the problems once they are revealed when in actuality only certain people can do anything about these sorts of problems.
He assumes that information should be used to create just behavior but just behavior is subjective, and we cannot always agree on that.
So perhaps he has the right intentions but the implementation of Wikileaks is a flawed design. It's not decentralized enough because he's the center of it which is why he was so easily shut down. There is no international authority to bring war crimes or human rights abuse to who can do much about it. Do we give the documents to Interpol or what? Don't we need some International enforcement authority or police agency who can actually bring justice or consequences?
Just releasing information to the media often does not help. It encourages terrorism, vigilantism, and unorganized acts of violence in some instances and in other instances it merely causes a greater crack down on civil liberties. Cablegate accomplished nothing other than embarrassing the US government from what I can see. It did not reveal any human rights abuses, it did not save any lives, it did not prevent any wars. Had there been human rights abuses then releasing the information to the media would not have stopped it. The media had images of torture and we've all seen those images but torture hasn't been stopped has it?
We have seen war images going back to Vietnam but that hasn't stopped Iraq did it? The media or fourth estate actually has very limited power in the USA for example. You can go to the media about something, millions of people can know it's happening, and they can't do a damn thing about it.
It would be better to take that information to an International force that can fight corruption using police powers and the ability to arrest war criminals. Why isn't this possible? Could it be that the USA has already corrupted the UN? And we can't take it to the FBI because the FBI is a nationalist organization which cares more about protecting the status quo and which is certainly corrupt as is proven by cases like Robert Hanssen.
A new organization seeking to replace Wikileaks has to be completely decentralized and it needs an International enforcement mechanism connected to the UN who can enforce and defend the human rights of anyone anywhere in any nation. When that happens then it will make sense to give information about human rights abuses, war crimes and other particulars to that organization. Stuff like Cablegate does not protect any human rights or prevent war crimes or do anything from what I can see. Maybe the Wikileaks supporters are seeing something in it that I can't see.
Photos of Salah Eddin Barhoum, 17, and friend Yassine Zaime were posted on websites whose users have been scouring marathon finish line photos for suspects. The two were also on the [New York] Post's front Thursday with the headline: "Bag men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon." The Post reported later Thursday that the pair weren't considered suspects. But Barhoum, a track runner at Revere High School, said he is convinced some will blame him for the bombings, no matter what.
He said he was so fearful on Thursday that he ran back to the high school after a track meet when he saw a man in a car staring at him, talking into a phone. He said he won't feel safe until the bombers are caught. "I'm going to be scared going to school," Barhoum said. "Workwise, my family, everything is going to be scary."
What is the difference between secondary terrorism and counter terrorism?
It's so it's much harder for those that join in the pyramid late and to give the early adopters a deliberately designed very major advantage so long as the pyramid grows.
How is that different from any other economy? Slave owner descendants have early adopter advantage in America.
Not a baby nuke, that wouldn't have left so many people alive in the area, but a dirty bomb, maybe. It's going to happen one day and people need to be ready.
Would North Korea do such a thing? Who knows if they would or not. Who can tell what a madman is going to do. But, someone will and they should add a radiation protocol to the response of these events.
Even North Korea isn't that crazy. It was probably domestic terrorists. North Korea would immediately be nuked into oblivion and they don't want that. Iran wouldn't do that either for similar reasons.
PaySwarm is currency agnostic and is designed to support both national currencies and alternative currencies like Bitcoin and Ven.
If it supports Bitcoin then I think your idea will be a major success. Bitcoin is the only way micropayments could work for the mainstream because it's deflationary. I suggest you also take a look at Devcoin as well because it seems to be important for what you're working on.
How do you intend to compete with Bitcoin technologically? Bitcoin seems to have every technological advantage over your product. This is a serious question because lately Slashdot has become very much pro-Bitcoin and for something like micropayments Bitcoin makes more sense than dividing pennies into a fraction of a penny which would be pretty much worthless to most users.
Bitcoin will surely come down from current levels. That's because, there is a constant downward pressure on price, due to mining.
Energy spent on mining is probably the biggest part of total costs of running Bitcoin network. Also, this energy is easy to predict, because energy spent on mining is a simple function of Bitcoin price and average total block awards. This is because mining has very low barrier of entry, and this ensures that as long as it is profitable, new miners will join, until the most inefficient miners are at the break-even point. And the most profitable miners will try to expand their operation.
This makes it that each block costs somewhere around (0.5 * block award * price) to (0.75 * block award * price). And since awards are paid in Bitcoins and electricity is paid in local currencies, this makes the situation that all mining costs hit the exchanges every day, and push the price down.
This can currently be estimated to be $150.000 to $250.000 each day (using price of $90), and this amount of fresh money must enter the exchanges every day, or the price will go down. Currently, this money comes in from "suckers".
At this point we have a temporary delay in the "mining difficulty follows price" process , because of the change in technology and delays in deliveries of ASIC miners, so mining is very profitable at this point, and this reduces the selling pressure on exchanges. This, plus block award halving is why we have this current Bitcoin bubble.
And this bubble will end soon, because of the process described above.
If the bubble pops you'd be prudent to buy not sell.
If you wait for it to pop this time you'll miss out. It will never be $2 a coin again. In fact it's going to reach $1000 a coin by the end of the year.
They said that about the housing market....
And that dotcom thing....
And the tulips.
Bitcoins aren't housing, they aren't stocks, they aren't Enron and they aren't Dollars.
No, I'm just being honest. There is no reason to expect it to ever get that low again. The market is bigger now and there are sites which accept bitcoins which didn't back then.
No but I wish I did. I would be rich right now. Don't be jealous because some people are getting rich off speculation. Just buy while you can and catch the wave up to $1000.
Slashdot Mirror
Does the Internet sales tax only apply to those who use USD?
Hmmmm, those three groups are still from different fields; Politics, business, and technology. All three are forced to dable in each other's territory, but while Page and Brin would have more to say on the tech side, they wouldn't necessarily have anything more to say on politics.
I disagree. They support the Open agenda. That is all about politics, because being Open is a deeply philosophical and political decision.
Assange has fled from the law enforcement over trumped up, politically motivated rape accusations. Like it or not, that is a factual statement.
Provide a guarantee that Sweden won't extradite Assange to the US, and Assange would be in Sweden tomorrow.
Journalists have limited power. That is my argument. Police on the other hand seem to have nearly unlimited power.
The solution isn't the fourth estate or revealing the crimes to the public who can't do anything about it and who if they try may get labeled rapists or sex offenders themselves. The solution is to come up with a legal plan of action to create an international law enforcement organization and make that organization the Wikileaks 2.0. When you can make arrests then people are going to be more likely to want to help you but when you can only release it to the media how does that protect your friends, family, or you from being identified and arrested under false pretenses?
So where are these honest international cops who can arrest the corrupt cops embedded in the most powerful positions in government?
Both are excellent. Google drive is excellent too.
Wikileaks wants to release information to the media under the false assumption that there are some good guy heroes somewhere who can do something about it.
The problem is there aren't any organizations who can do anything about it. First in order to build such an organization you need to go to the UN and find a way to get it funded. When you do that the bad people in the US, China, Russia and other nations will join forces to prevent you from being able to fund your International enforcement organization.
Without that kind of organization Wikileaks is not only defenseless but all it's supporters are defenseless as well. The corrupt local and national police can have any Wikileaks supporter arrested for nearly any reason. It's not hard to make someone look like a sex offender, there are informants everywhere and undercover cops everywhere. Wikileaks releases information to the public and realizes the public is powerless but underestimates how powerless. The public cannot do anything at all to stop corrupt law enforcement if that law enforcement decides to make political arrests, or set people up to look guilty for political law enforcement reasons.
And what International agency can these people go to for protection? What International police exist to arrest corrupt local or national police in countries like the USA, or China, or Russia? You're a journalist in Russia and you're risking your life. You're a journalist in the USA and you're risking your reputation and freedom.
While you might die in Russia, in the USA you might find yourself suddenly accused of rape, or some sex offense. The result is the total destruction of the life of the individual. Journalists are effectively powerless. The only way this will change is through an International organization with the power to arrest people on US soil and that isn't going to be allowed to happen so what exactly can the media do?
...how long it would take before Eric Schmidt said something that made me facepalm. Accidentally referring to TOR as "Thor" in the very first topic he brought up was bad, but not bad enough. Admitting right after that that he doesn't really understand what it is or how it works? In 2011? Just two months after stepping down as the CEO of Google? Facepalm.
Eric is primarily a business man and political insider. But as a businessman he's smart enough to meet with Julian Assange so give him credit for that.
Completed the first half of TFA. It is indeed fascinating.
Fascinating to know Julian Assange...his technical know how and philosophical underpinnings make him one of the foremost thinkers of our world. The way Assange connects geo-political issues, the ideas behind publishing, instant publishing to the basic design of Wikileaks is brilliant. (We have to put aside his issues in Sweden.)
Erich Schmidt comes across as a better version of Steve Ballmer. It would have been interesting if Larry Page / Sergey Brin had a conversation with Assange...they would be more interesting and the conversation would not be completely one sided.
His philosophical views are flawed. He bases his assumptions on assumptions. What has changed since the Cablegate leak? The answer is nothing. If anything they governments have cracked down harder. What good is the media if the media doesn't have any police powers or powers to arrest? So we find out that Silvio Berlusconi is accepting underage prostitution but what exactly was done about it? Governments abuse innocent people all the time and nothing is done about it because there is no police force with the capability to enforce human rights.
Human rights don't exist unless enforced. So instead of giving your documents to Julian Assange a new protocol has to be made which collects the documents and selectively distributes them to organizations with the authority to do something about it. The problem with Assange is he gives it to everyone at once via the media which alerts the bad guys as well as the general population. How exactly is it useful to "Shame" the bad guys by alerting them of the leak? Wouldn't it have been better to build a case against them and arrest them on actual charges? Afterall if they are war criminals, if they broke international laws, if information was so powerful why can't they be arrested for that?
What went wrong with Julian Assange is his implementation and his naive conceptualizations.
The ideals are right, we do need a way to prevent human rights abuses, to save lives, to fight corruption. I just don't think Wikileaks is properly set up to do that.
I don't think the media or journalists can do that. I think giving that information to the general public who is completely powerless and can do nothing to stop it doesn't really change a damn thing but it makes governments paranoid and makes them crack down.
There has to be a global currency and Bitcoin accomplishes that. There has to be a global policing authority and that is the part which is missing from all this. All the policing authorities are run by corrupt nationalists. They are all nationalists so there is no police to go to for enforcement with this information. The media and the civilians might care about human rights and care about solving these problems but the local police aren't capable of dealing with it and the national police such as the FBI or whatever aren't motivated or capable of dealing with this. In fact the FBI would probably be directly opposed to it.
So where exactly can this information be given where there is a reasonable guarantee that actions will be taken? Just putting it out there for public record or to give people a trove of information to gawk at is not exactly solving anything. It's making things worse because embarrassment leads to paranoia which leads to more crackdowns and nothing changes for the people who suffer. Julian Assange simply cannot help, and Wikileaks cannot help, at least not in any of the highly technological nations like the US. The only thing which could help in the US is for an international agency to start arresting people based on leaked information.
He assumes that journalism and the media can solve problems. This is a flaw because just revealing problems doesn't solve it and sometimes revealing problems causes only more problems.
He assumes everyone can do something about the problems once they are revealed when in actuality only certain people can do anything about these sorts of problems.
He assumes that information should be used to create just behavior but just behavior is subjective, and we cannot always agree on that.
So perhaps he has the right intentions but the implementation of Wikileaks is a flawed design. It's not decentralized enough because he's the center of it which is why he was so easily shut down. There is no international authority to bring war crimes or human rights abuse to who can do much about it. Do we give the documents to Interpol or what? Don't we need some International enforcement authority or police agency who can actually bring justice or consequences?
Just releasing information to the media often does not help. It encourages terrorism, vigilantism, and unorganized acts of violence in some instances and in other instances it merely causes a greater crack down on civil liberties. Cablegate accomplished nothing other than embarrassing the US government from what I can see. It did not reveal any human rights abuses, it did not save any lives, it did not prevent any wars. Had there been human rights abuses then releasing the information to the media would not have stopped it. The media had images of torture and we've all seen those images but torture hasn't been stopped has it?
We have seen war images going back to Vietnam but that hasn't stopped Iraq did it? The media or fourth estate actually has very limited power in the USA for example. You can go to the media about something, millions of people can know it's happening, and they can't do a damn thing about it.
It would be better to take that information to an International force that can fight corruption using police powers and the ability to arrest war criminals. Why isn't this possible? Could it be that the USA has already corrupted the UN? And we can't take it to the FBI because the FBI is a nationalist organization which cares more about protecting the status quo and which is certainly corrupt as is proven by cases like Robert Hanssen.
A new organization seeking to replace Wikileaks has to be completely decentralized and it needs an International enforcement mechanism connected to the UN who can enforce and defend the human rights of anyone anywhere in any nation. When that happens then it will make sense to give information about human rights abuses, war crimes and other particulars to that organization. Stuff like Cablegate does not protect any human rights or prevent war crimes or do anything from what I can see. Maybe the Wikileaks supporters are seeing something in it that I can't see.
This sort of thing causes secondary terrorism of those falsely accused.
What is the difference between secondary terrorism and counter terrorism?
Basically just like America. Didn't early adopters of America get the same advantages complete with slave fortunes?
It's so it's much harder for those that join in the pyramid late and to give the early adopters a deliberately designed very major advantage so long as the pyramid grows.
How is that different from any other economy? Slave owner descendants have early adopter advantage in America.
Not a baby nuke, that wouldn't have left so many people alive in the area, but a dirty bomb, maybe. It's going to happen one day and people need to be ready.
Would North Korea do such a thing? Who knows if they would or not. Who can tell what a madman is going to do. But, someone will and they should add a radiation protocol to the response of these events.
Even North Korea isn't that crazy. It was probably domestic terrorists. North Korea would immediately be nuked into oblivion and they don't want that. Iran wouldn't do that either for similar reasons.
The timing is precisely when the world would be watching, and the location is precise as well at the finish line.
PaySwarm is currency agnostic and is designed to support both national currencies and alternative currencies like Bitcoin and Ven.
If it supports Bitcoin then I think your idea will be a major success. Bitcoin is the only way micropayments could work for the mainstream because it's deflationary. I suggest you also take a look at Devcoin as well because it seems to be important for what you're working on.
How do you intend to compete with Bitcoin technologically? Bitcoin seems to have every technological advantage over your product.
This is a serious question because lately Slashdot has become very much pro-Bitcoin and for something like micropayments Bitcoin makes more sense than dividing pennies into a fraction of a penny which would be pretty much worthless to most users.
If you lookup Bitcoin it seems to be all about making micropayments possible. I think Bitcoin might ultimately resolve this problem.
It's only bad when it's called genocide.
Bitcoin will surely come down from current levels. That's because, there is a constant downward pressure on price, due to mining.
Energy spent on mining is probably the biggest part of total costs of running Bitcoin network. Also, this energy is easy to predict, because energy spent on mining is a simple function of Bitcoin price and average total block awards. This is because mining has very low barrier of entry, and this ensures that as long as it is profitable, new miners will join, until the most inefficient miners are at the break-even point. And the most profitable miners will try to expand their operation.
This makes it that each block costs somewhere around (0.5 * block award * price) to (0.75 * block award * price). And since awards are paid in Bitcoins and electricity is paid in local currencies, this makes the situation that all mining costs hit the exchanges every day, and push the price down.
This can currently be estimated to be $150.000 to $250.000 each day (using price of $90), and this amount of fresh money must enter the exchanges every day, or the price will go down. Currently, this money comes in from "suckers".
At this point we have a temporary delay in the "mining difficulty follows price" process , because of the change in technology and delays in deliveries of ASIC miners, so mining is very profitable at this point, and this reduces the selling pressure on exchanges. This, plus block award halving is why we have this current Bitcoin bubble.
And this bubble will end soon, because of the process described above.
If the bubble pops you'd be prudent to buy not sell.
Who defines it? What about the uncommon good?
It's about time the entire desktop go 3d. It's 2013 and video cards can do it easily. Instead of windows why not just use rotating cubes?
If you wait for it to pop this time you'll miss out. It will never be $2 a coin again. In fact it's going to reach $1000 a coin by the end of the year.
They said that about the housing market. ...
And that dotcom thing. ...
And the tulips.
Bitcoins aren't housing, they aren't stocks, they aren't Enron and they aren't Dollars.
No, I'm just being honest. There is no reason to expect it to ever get that low again. The market is bigger now and there are sites which accept bitcoins which didn't back then.
No but I wish I did. I would be rich right now. Don't be jealous because some people are getting rich off speculation. Just buy while you can and catch the wave up to $1000.
Bitcoin is not stock. Once the fundamentals are in place (and they are), it will not pop.