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Look, wrist watches were replaced by cellphones. There is no reason to introduce a watch again, unless it will replace the cellphone. Then, tell me - how the battery life problems were solved?

Oh, you might say that carrying both a watch AND a phone will be so great, because it will be a smart-watch. This is stupid reasoning, why carry more, if you can carry less?

hey, it took me only 30 minutes to finish slashdot this morning. Now I'm off to work and see you at night.

I'm not watching TV since 2005. Such a waste of time.

oh, and of course the cost of Opening Post would directly go to the website earnings. While of course the OP would recap his initial payment from replies posted by other people.

There are several ways in which a site can gather funding using bitcoins.

First of all, this is exremely easy to use, because no banks are involved. Just a bunch of python scripts. Or a regular bitcoin client.

1) you can let people send donations with bitcoins, but since bitcoin is not too popular yet, that will not be big income, until it gets popular.

2) so make it popular. For example implement a bitcoin-based forum system, in which people can choose to participate. If they choose to participate it works following:
2.1) users pay a tiny amount, like 0.001 BTC to post a comment.
2.1.1) If someone who is participating liked their post, they can choose an amount of BTC they want to tip the poster
2.1.2) if someone replied to it, the poster gets 80% of those 0.001 that the replying perspn paid in order to post
2.2) forum users who did not choose to participate, can post comments for free, but also cannot earn any BTC for being a helpful community member.

the remaining 20% for each posted comment goes to the website.

Now bitcoins get more popular on the website, and the website can earn money without advertisments at all.

bitcoin is in much more aspects like gold, than you would initially expect.

How would you "disable" stolen gold bars? Theoretically there are ways to mark gold using rare gold isotopes, so that even smelting will not destroy the signature. But this is not practical - it would require isotope detector at every place that trades even smallest amounts of gold.

With bitcoin it is similar. In fact all bitcoins are already marked separately, and can be precisely tracked, but tracking only stolen ones (even if we reach an agreement how to decide if they are indeed stolen) is simply not practical - everyone using bitcoins would need to download (and update frequently) a centralized blacklist of stolen bitcoins and refuse to process them. Sounds familiar? So this approach would clearly break one of main strengths of bitcoin: decentralization.

You talk here about theft worth only 300 BTCs or 12 000$

Well, I can only conclude that overall BTC security maybe has improved. Recall previous thefts worth of 25 000 BTC or 500 000$ (at that time) or 18 547 BTC or 87 000$ (at that time).

Why such conclusion? Well, if those evil people started to go after such low-profile target, it *can* mean that all high profile targets have adequate security.

I don't get it, how do you turn Zelda twilight princess into a multiplayer game?

clearly you misunderstand bitcoin, when bitcoin difficulty rises its security increases. There is no such thing as "plentiful" because with faster mining the difficulty self adjusts.

ok, I want to make money by providing storage space to storJ, where do I start? :)

a side note about bitcoin: ASIC mining is starting now. I guess this is why bitcoin price rised recently. asicminer has currently 2TH, and prepares for next 12TH. 2 avalon units have been shipped, and one of them is reviewed by Jeff Garzik (bitcoin developer). Nobody knows when other 298 avalon units will arrive, etc. But slowly asic mining becomes part of the history.

You might be interested in new kind of science, where Stephen Wolfram argues that fluid (and gas) movement is a general pehonomena, which can be replicated using only very basic rules. And therefore must occur in very broad range of materials, regardless of their underlying precise rules. And he is right. I am no surprised that this also applies to heavy metal crowds.

omg, I got modded 2:Troll. C'mon moderate that underrated, and it will end up 5:Troll ;)