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Comment Re:It will never fly in the US (Score 1) 914

Intentionally driving people mad is torture. Rearranging people's brains to make them docile servants of the state is Stalinist.

Anybody who thinks this kind of torture would be limited to time dilation is a moron. Think pain dilation. Anybody who thinks this would be limited to child rapists is an even bigger moron. Think dissidents.

Everything about this stinks. The author would have made a sweet servant of Henry VIII....

Comment Instruction (Type A) and Instruction (Type B) (Score 1) 105

Person A independently devises a set of computer instructions that make it possible for any person with a cheap 3D printer to create a unique and specific product that, if created, would be patentable. The product is not created.

Person B independently does exactly the same thing--except that the instructions are written in English.

B is not patentable under patent law (and it shouldn't be). A shouldn't be patentable, either. Otherwise, we'll get people who'll write instructions for making old, patent-expired stuff and expect to get a patent for their instructions.

Software patents are garbage.

Comment Bitcoin is Nuts. (Score 5, Insightful) 232

To play Bitcoin, you have to trust your Bitcoin exchanges. Those are BANKS, people. UNREGULATED banks!!! Banks have a history of really screwing depositors over when they're unregulated. Bank panics?? Why we have the FDIC?? Think about this for half a fucking second.

How do you know where "your" Bitcoins are right now?

One of the benefits of money is that it's backed up by a social superstructure (police, judiciary, the army, etc.). Bitcoin has none of that. You are on your own.

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