The first half of Greg Egan's Permutation City is set in a future where computation is a commodity. Storage and bandwidth, the more important parts of today's cloud services, are ignored in the novel.
TFA doesn't say anything about laws that help FOSS, except for trademarks. Because they don't help. TFA only mentions a few cases where they don't hinder.
Remember when some blogger replaced Facebook as the first search result for "facebook"? He got tons of comments asking why they couldn't log in anymore.
At the conclusion of the meeting senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets the following Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand:
Buying Bitcoins
Selling Bitcoins
Buying any goods or services in exchange for Bitcoins
Selling any goods or services for Bitcoins
Sending Bitcoins to anyone located outside of Thailand
Receiving Bitcoins from anyone located outside of Thailand
Based on such a broad and encompassing advisement, Bitcoin Co. Ltd. therefore has no choice but to suspend operations until such as time that the laws in Thailand are updated to account for the existance of Bitcoin. The Bank of Thailand has said they will further consider the issue, but did not give any specific timeline.
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Yeah. "Sophisticated". :)
Looks SCIMP does not prevent an attacker from seeing when, to/from whom, and how much is beeing sent. I2P-Bote seems a lot better.
Perhaps the pushing effect of solar radiation and solar wind keeps it from falling into the star.
Looks like the old question finally gets an answer. :)
Every program that is created must have a purpose. If it does not, it is deleted... except for the exiles. ;)
The first half of Greg Egan's Permutation City is set in a future where computation is a commodity. Storage and bandwidth, the more important parts of today's cloud services, are ignored in the novel.
Wikileaks has been over for some time now. Let's start ignoring it already. Other leakers can handle the future.
Yeah! Where's my OGV file?
TFA doesn't say anything about laws that help FOSS, except for trademarks. Because they don't help. TFA only mentions a few cases where they don't hinder.
Open-source game "inspired by 0x10c: http://trillek.org/
Remember when some blogger replaced Facebook as the first search result for "facebook"? He got tons of comments asking why they couldn't log in anymore.
The traffic doesn't have to be meaningless. Join Freenet or another onion-routing network, and let your traffic be useful!
Sure it is. For example: design a fusion reactor.
I didn't need anti-aliasing on 320x240 VGA screens, and I don't need it now.
Aye, it's easy to construct an encryption scheme that you yourself can't break.
Probably because it's so very valuable, and fairly easy to extract. That means a concentration of wealth and power, and power corrupts.
At the conclusion of the meeting senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets the following Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand:
Based on such a broad and encompassing advisement, Bitcoin Co. Ltd. therefore has no choice but to suspend operations until such as time that the laws in Thailand are updated to account for the existance of Bitcoin. The Bank of Thailand has said they will further consider the issue, but did not give any specific timeline.
Laws affect everyone. So, can they receive any money at all?
What kind of law would allow a court to do this? I can't find any mention in TFA.
Also, can we get a copy of the court's decision document?
Attack is best defense.
Mod parent +1 Insightful.
Original 1972 paper here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P4874.pdf
And speech. And sign language. Might as well repeal all of humanity, while we're at it. We'll be dead, but at least the Earth will be safe. :)
Can't they just use the already-signed blob?
What, if anything, compels Apple and the others to be truthful about these numbers?