I suspect any time a company/Richard Branson makes a press release validating Bitcoin, they are actually invested in Bitcoin at that moment and hoping to ride the bump of their own news before dumping the stuff. This might also apply to the press.

But.. I have cookies disabled :(

Not if the NSA/FBI can legally backdoor in ways they don't know about.

You can already get tacos from an octorotor, so what makes you think this model won't be scalable to delivering other goods in a decade and a half?

Move out of the ocean.

I'm of the impression that if something was a problem but is fixed, the changelog pointing out the potentially "ridiculous" problem should be more of a badge of pride for resolving it. That said, there's no reason everything has to be included in a changelog, and even fixes that are included can be carefully stated so as to work around anything capable of being ridiculed or revealing additional holes in security or quality.

It's worth noting that any data sent in plaintext (including non-encrypted chat for any online service or game) is readable by anyone monitoring the traffic directly, potentially including your ISP and the NSA.

There are some amazing evangelists for global trade because there are some that truly believe this to be the path to world peace (If we all have things we want to trade, we should all be able to get along). Unfortunately, many simply see it as a new means for greater wealth, and it's often hard to distinguish between these different proponents. Since WWII imperialism has been passeé, so now taking foreign countries for all their worth has become a bureaucratic process.

Signed the petition yesterday! Wouldn't it make the most sense to extend the protections of the 4th amendment to include electronic communication, as it was extended in the 40s or 50s to include telephonic communication, or is that goal too lofty?

They may have just been flexing their legal muscle to achieve a better bargaining position, allowing them to settle for less than they would have had to pay.

If you agree to EULAs without at least skimming them for privacy-infringing conditions, I hope you aren't seriously surprised when your privacy is thereby infringed.

I think it's from South Park.

If freed, chimpanzees would be unable to follow basic laws and would likely need to be locked up in imprisonment anyway.

Practice. A coworker once boggled at the brain's ability to calculate the physics necessary to toss a wad of garbage into a wastebasket, but it doesn't really work like that. Neuroplasticity allows the architecture of the brain to strengthen along the most frequently used pathways, so experience shapes your ability to predict the effects of your actions without having to understand the underlying mechanics.

It sounds like the "professional" is sick of his job.