Comment Re:uh the usa designed and built the internet (Score 1) 73
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.
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.
The United States is the reason that Australia doesn't have an army. It's the reason that Israel has not preemptively attacked its neighbors.
Australia has an Army. I've seen them.
Israel would not be in a position to preemptively attack its neighbors if the UK/US alliance didn't create that country in the first place.
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.
If you control 51% of the hashing power in the network, you can modify the block chain while simultaneously self-verifying your version as the one-and-true block chain.
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.
This has happened before will no ill effects. The situation got fixed with no ill effects. The possible effects of one pool having 50%+ of the mining power are significantly less harmful than reported.
People will tell you that you absolutely must use this language or that language like there is no alternative. Ignore those people. There is no one correct answer to this question. It's a matter of taste and choosing the right language for the job.
I get the impression you want quick shell script type programs. If so you might like Perl or Python. Perl has better regular expression support and lets you do more with less typing, Python is easier to master.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
