So fiat makes bitcoin unstable. That doesn't change the fact that it is an unstable currency that's worse than fiat. Commodity currency is backed by goods. Fiat currency is backed by a government. Bitcoin is backed by nothing. And its unstable value reflects that.

That's a solved problem. I've used speech to text, text to speech and translate to do the same thing. Rolling it into a popular program is the "new" thing. But there are some very basic things it can't do that should be higher on the list than solving an already solved problem.

Skype was never P2P, it was always connected through a central server. And the voice to text was always there, and will likely be how the NSA spies, as it's easier to search a transcript for "shiny bomb" than searching unindexed audio for the same thing.

The "new" thing here is reading the transcript real-time (well, real, after the translation is done).Voice to text is solved (not perfect). Translation is solved (not perfect), text to voice is solved (not perfect). This may be the first one to tie them all together, but doesn't break new ground.

Call me when Skype supports P2P connections, or IPv6.

It's a reverse tachyon pulse from the main deflector that does it.

DOMA was passing a law to invalidate the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit clause. The pro-constitution small government Republicans passed more laws to cause more bureaucracy to invalidate the Constitution, doing the opposite of what they say they are. Yet again.

So the people that actually use it don't care that the amount of [whatever] it buys varies wildly? I think you are wrong. I think the people that use t care greatly about how much of [whatever] they can buy with it.

The authoritarian Nazis are pushing for "states rights" unless the states decide something they don't like, in which case they introduce DOMA. They claim to be for states rights, until they aren't.

Because your family is dumb? There's no answer I could give. If I gave a correct and satisfactory answer, you could just move the goalposts. That's what always happens before, where the zealots support an unsupportable position.

Like how Nancy Pelosi was responsibly for everything bad that happened while Bush was in office? I remember there being a long list of problems with Clinton, at the time. Democrats have never done anything right, according to the Religious Conservatives.

Is that the "states rights" wing pushing to ban gay marriage on the national level to remove the rights for states?

Ah yes, no true Scotsman. Republicans are authoritarian thugs. You can't tell them the Teabaggers are Libertarian, or Democrat. They want to authoritatively tell people how to live, and enforce that with law. The Libertarians in the US are anti-democracy and for big government.

Hosts would work today.

And I'd see "shadow DNS" as being DNS hosted by registrars and ISPs. I don't see why there'd be such a problem if the US was removed from the Internet. example.co.uk would still survive on the (presumably) UK-based nameserver of authority for that domain. Or do all the domains in the world get served from the US and only the US?

If I BGP peered with my ISP (and they did no verification of ownership of IPs, or other basic security), and I advertised 12.32.111.0/24, and nobody else was advertising that /24 then what would happen?

What, so when the hotrodder hits 70 mph, the child magnet turns on?

Can we script a takedown of all of the members of the MPAA?