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No, not at all. My statement was only related to who subsidizes who's car insurance. Anything more was in your mind.

I welecome the change. Bitcoin makes othewise smart people stupid. The arguements with uber are a thousand times more palatible.

For young and invincible drivers, its usually the older more mature drivers without that attitude that end up subsidizing them.

Yes it is. Becuase it was.

Its like trying to tell me how Target's POS systems were not necissarily insecure prior to the breach.

No, in this case it really *did* try changes that they thought might upset customers. Show more negative stuff and see if the users post more negative stuff. That was the whole freaking goal of the experiment.

It might work against hyper inflation. But other than, that its kind of worthless. And when you have hyper inflation, governments usually crack down on any kind of currency movement out of the weak currency to try and prop up the local currency.

So this is great, if you think that your currency is going hyper inflationary in a short period of time. I don't think there are many cases in which that would be useful.

Otherwise, if Bitcoin can be called a currency, then its also suceptible to variance in value as we've seen over its lifetime. Teh Mahts don't protect against it losing value.

You misspelled "yet".

Because In my circles, its the people that understand that trust isn't absolute that are the smart people.

Of course, that had nothing to do with anything.

These didn't even make it to market, due to lack luster funding and enthusiasim. Looks like aprox: $200,000 was spent. That's not nearly enought to get volumes of good parts. The proposed tablet was old when it was announced, as was the dev board.

It depends on what they were looking at, and why. Their surveillance and investigation of our military was not a bad thing during the cold war. I'd argue that even during the recent Ukraine crisis, its not a bad thing.

If I were a defense contractor (I'm not), I'd kind of expect to be a target. I'd do my best to prevent them, but I'd understand that they'd try anyways.

Now, if they have a camera in my shower ( regardless of my Job)... That sucks, and I'd kind of be pissed. If they were using my financial data to ruin me, I'd be pissed.

That's absolutely right. In a very real way, our collective spy networks both US/Nato and Soviet/Warsaw allowed us to see what the other was doing and have some confidence about their immediate intentions. Spying kept the cold war from being a hot war.

In a perfect world would spying exist? No.
Should spying continue to exist in this un-perfect world? Absolutely.
Should there be restrictions to spying? Absolutely.

Like much in this world, the right answer is not an absolute answer. The world lives in complicated shades of grey.

I don't think they care about software upgrades. I do think they care about hardware OEM's shipping old versions of their OS.

Versions 1& 2 were not good. NT 4 was, Windows 2000 was.

I'm not sure if windows ME , XP or Vista were prime or not, more of a NaN.

Interesting. I thought it was just the practicality of it. But maybe there was some odd elitism there too. Like: sports cars are for dumb jocks. Luxury cars are for the trust fund crowd. Every one in the English department loves Keats and drives volvos at Harvard. We must too!