Comment Re:Won't work (Score 4, Insightful) 342
There's no need to set a minimum time; what is needed is a minimum tax or fee. It could be
There's no need to set a minimum time; what is needed is a minimum tax or fee. It could be
No, the point of the difficulty is to make attacks, err, difficult. Nothing to do with creating of bitcoins. If you are misunderstanding things this grievously, sit back and let other people talk for a while.
Somebody please tell me this is an elaborate April fool's joke that someone noticed the groundwork for early?
Yes. I thought that went without saying, under the "privatize the gains, socialize the losses"/expenses rubric.
This: "Maybe cities just don't have the right mix of amenities, price, space, parking, and other factors to make them better places to put certain businesses."
The Director of Sustainability demonstrates the ludicrous line of thought that puts stadiums downtown.
Reading the actual email they sent, it sounds to me like they provide a (javascript) API for doing what "VieraApp" is instead doing with a direct ajax call (and jQuery vs XMLHttpRequest is not the issue; it's not using their wrapper that is the issue).
Oh, bullshit. I bet you use a half a dozen services that quite legally reserve the right to change the terms, give you notice, and interpret your continuing to use the service as acceptance.
Doesn't make it right, just legal.
No, actually it is far from terrifying. Just some brute force generation and application of simple, short, regex fragments. No "AI-like", no "algorithms going to fly".
Eddie's in the space-time continuum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States#PC_era :
"Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive order 13026[7] transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List. "
Isn't that a prerequisite for writing a slashdot poll?
No, I was just confused, it's being willing to be called an asshole that is the prerequisite.
Naughty, naughty, Amazon
What is this "pay phone" you mention?
Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad.
