Sociopathic editors pick and choose rules as they see fit, everyone else gets their edits buried and endless warnings for things they never did wrong. Any information sources the sociopaths don't like they call a 'minority view' or pretend it violates any one of the many contradictory rules. I've not seen actual good faith on Wikipedia for years, only people pulling nasty tricks to enforce their own story whilst pretending good faith was involved.

I'd trust the court system about as much as Wikipedia these days.

If this man can prove in court that these editors are making libelous comments the Wikipedia foundation isn't going to raise a finger to help them. The wikilawyers abuse wikipedia's rules to get their biased viewpoints accepted, but they can't pull that nonsense with the court system.

This could be a good thing for wikipedia. For too long the loudest mouths and the sneakiest abuse of rules has been rewarded and truth has been treated with contempt.

So if I buy hardware from China and use an open source OS created worldwide somehow you own that?

If DARPA didn't develop IP someone else would have. Your argument makes no sense.

You know the top level domains are generic don't you? The US is domain squatting ".mil" and ".gov".

".us" is the correct domain for country specific domains in the US.

The Americans I know always complain about having little or no disposable income. The Europeans I know seem to have enough disposable income to live comfortable lives. Both groups are mostly educated professional types.

Americans often repeat that they have the most freedom and the best of everything but that's not my experience. It's just different stuff, not better stuff.

The NSA was then end of the open Internet. What we really need is a distributed DNS system that can't be screwed by IANA, ICANN, the UN, or any world government. And encryption everywhere.

Right, something distributed and secure is badly needed.

Namecoin didn't solve the domain squatting issue though. I'm not sure it's solvable.

That's understating it. What the NSA did was more like setting up spy camera's in every room.

Read the 2008 paper. The idea was never that everyone would mine, it's that mining was going to be taken over by specialized equipment and that the difficulty adjustment system and the free market would compensate for the ever increasing mining power. It worked out exactly like that.

Err, no. It's going almost exactly as the 2008 plan said it would.

No you can't. You still have to output valid blocks or every node will reject it. Every node validates every block and rejects anything that breaks the rules.

A 51% attack can't steal coins, generate more coins, or change the past in any way other than by generating a parallel blockchain. It's considerably less harmful than people seem to think.

Slashdot. Where someone picks a random rule or law and claims it explains whatever the current story is about.

There were no 80's or 20's in this story. Only a 50.

Just like USD is a fantasy. All money but gold is pretend computer numbers, yet somehow money is still useful.

It's so doomed to failure that major companies are taking it. That's not very doomed at all.