I thought the DPR that got busted was also the founder, the whole it was someone else was just trying to cover his tracks. I haven't been keeping up with the story enough to know if there is any evidence other than DPR saying he didn't start the site.

Many old houses had only the kitchen stove and the kids took a brick heated on the stove to bed with them.

you speak common sense and that's why it will go overlooked. Health care is pricey and the way the medical industry wrote the law ("We'll televise the health care meetings on CSPAN" never did happen since it would have looked bad with the insurance and medical companies writing everything) there is no chance it will get cheaper. I've been seeing my local area have lots of people hired under 30 hours for awhile now. I know people who work at places like Walmart, other retail and Casinos who can not get 30 hours.

The law also doesn't require coverage for employees unless the company has more than 50 employees. The small businesses out there are already stretched and if they haven't been offering health insurance they sure won't start now. Means more out of pocket for the working schmuck,a new tax with the IRS in charge of enforcement.

But this used augmented reality and a cell phone so it's just like the real thing. It's a good thing he didn't virtually teabag anyone he "shot" or he'd be charged with rape also.

The various online wallets like blockchain.info allow you to bypass the wait and are secure enough for new users to get quickly involved with.

That was my first thought in reading the ruling.The ideas behind bitcoins - or any digital currency - have to annoy the established banking industry so the best way to destroy a new disruptive technology is to regulate it with regulators that are from the industry or will become part of the industry once their government stint is over. Corporate banking is working hard to destroy bitcoin or anything that bypasses banks.

It's all about scale. HSBC money laundered trillions of dollars and had to pay a few billion bucks in a fine with no criminal charges. Liberty Reserve laundered a few billion and the guys running it got arrested. If this guy had charged more so it was 380 million then perhaps he'd be better off? Wasn't there just a story about the pentagon paying 1 billion for rewriting a payroll system that they didn't use? I doubt anyone went to jail for that one (Yes, different country, but scale is important)

There are very few free market lovers in politics. There are maybe a half dozen on the federal level that have any sort of real free market / libertarian leaning beliefs and voting records. My local congressman was R and head of the house subcommittee on telecommunications. His largest donors were in the telco industry. He also was in favor of allowing the telcos to regain their monopoly position after the 1996 telco act forced them to allow competition. As various reliable studies show the US really is in the pits for broadband speed even in large metro areas compared to western countries.

I agree with the single owner method. As the universal access fee was a tax the citizens paid to roll out telco infrastructure, and the "200 billion broadband scandal" showed we all overpaid for nothing, I'd be alright with that being spun off into a USPS style entity. At that point anyone could tie into the infrastructure. Won't happen but it'd be nice.

Rainbow's End had a lot of automated systems. Cars could be called for a quick ride auto dispatched to the nearest available. UPS delivered using automated drones that were shot into the sky and glided to delivery - even if you weren't home it would hone in on your signal. I have no idea what book the guy is writing but I think Vinge is on to something. And I do want to have augmented reality pratchett space.

Wasn't this in demolition man? I vaguely recall wesley snipes destroying a bunch of robots with human faces having a meeting.

I agree. Real geeks should know that bitcoins aren't worth doing CPU mining. Litecoin is the place for that until all the GPU bitcoin miners move over to LTC.

I doubt you'll see a flood of GPUs. Anyone who is technically minded enough to be mining will simply move to Litecoin for GPU mining.

A business client had his household computers taken by the police, with warrants, because they had IP logs showing he was downloading child porn. They returned all of them except one saying those had been cleared but the one definitely had child porn on it. His lawyer requested a copy of the drive, more information about the files, anything to help them figure out what was going on themselves as he was adamant he did nothing wrong. The police kept delaying but they did keep threatening to go public with their current status unless he plea bargained. He stood his ground. Finally the police admitted they found nothing on the drive, returned the last computer and closed the case.

I was talked to a few times during the ongoing thing, poor guy had a month of insane stress. He figured the guest open WIFI along the major roadway he lives on was no longer a good idea. He's a business owner and decided it was best to not complain or it'd hurt his business. I can understand your fears of finding evidence.

I've been playing far too many FPS. I was reading #2 "See if the rabbit is owned by a small child" and before finishing the sentence started wondering why a little kid would be out there teabagging a dead rabbit corpse.

I think Microsoft is starting a trend that Sony and Nintendo will continue as the market is ready for this. As consumers we've been programmed to accept that you can't trade anything digital. Buying anything on itunes, google play, or steam is a one time purchase, can't trade or even give away. Kindle lets you loan books - if the publisher allows - for a single short period. Get a book loaned to you but something comes up and can't read it in that window? Oh well out of luck!