Yes. Explain to me how embedded programmers need to know about web security?

Rereading your post, it looks like you weren't implying the link between a person and a bitcoin userid like I thought. But still, part of the value of bitcoins is that there is no central authority to revoke your currency. Hence the use in black market applications etc.

Well, until that one group that has 50%+1 of the coins decides it wants to become that authority, I suppose.

Or maybe they started out with good intentions but got corrupted like everything else in this world.

Or stay uncorrupted and then get stomped on by all the people who went to the Dark Side I suppose.

Maybe they were just threatening not to return the money at some indeterminate point in the future unless they took it down :)

Second Law: We're apparently counting in zero-indexed binary so this law doesn't exist.

Wasn't the whole objective of Bitcoin to create a system where you *couldn't* do that?

Bullshit. The Mongol Empire was not the Chinese Empire. Maybe one or more of the chunks it disintegrated into can have some lineage traced down to China, but no.

Not like Mao was doing his best to eradicate that culture or anything...

Egypt is still around. How much closer together are Traditional China and Communist China than Pharaonic Egypt and Egypt Now?

Where did I say that China was the only one doing it? In fact, I was showing Luckyo that China wasn't somehow unique in having never conquered anyone. I was being the exact opposite of hypocritical.

Try to actually read my argument before jerking off another random Slashdot argument like hypocrisy onto the page, please. "Hypocrisy" is not a synonym for "idiot."

I'm not saying them making ICBMs is any more or less wrong than anyone else. Luckyo just made it sound like China should be the only country on Earth who doesn't get called out for having conquered their land from someone else.

I never said I supported the argument, and saying "China has always been here" sounds eminently like an argument that only a native Chinese person would ever use.

Cf. invading Tibet and those other western provinces. Or "those people were Chinese, too," I expect?

Generally anybody who tells you that something is "perfectly safe" can be safely assumed to be lying through their teeth. Nothing is ever perfect.

Or how they say it can be transmitted by talking to someone who's less than 3 feet away.

Less profanity and more logging in if you please.

Rogue! Not the French for 'red'!

I get so tired of the arguments ad absurdum around here. The few nuclear powers we have now have--for the MOST part--proven themselves to be relatively sane and unlikely to actually use them. But no, let's just publish complete designs for The Bomb on the Internet and let every country with the raw material build their own. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm not a fan of anybody having nukes either, but they do, and your argument sounds to me like, "Wah! This other country has nukes and we don't! *I* want nukes!!"

You can be a hypocrite without necessarily being wrong. Jerkass Has A Point.