Comment: BEER (Score 2) 81
This new method is apparently known as the BEER effect. One wonders what Albert would have felt about that. :)
Comment: Re:Rather obvious isn't it? (Score 2) 334
And if we need more division, we can always update the client software.
Comment: Re: Surely this sort of thing is better than Bitco (Score 1) 196
The problem is that if Bitcoin takes off, banks will still treat it like regular currency. Once you make a deposit, the bank will add it to a pool, and withdrawals will come from that pool. Your account holdings will still be a decimal formatted number in a database somewhere.
Not with Bitcoin. Sure, they could use a pool, but that wouldn't do them any good.
The reason for the pool is called Fractional reserve banking, and that's impossible to do with Bitcoin.
Comment: Re:Evanescent wave (Score 2) 55
This only holds true for single-link connections. When we introduce a hub, it has to be trusted. From TFA:
So as long as the hub is secure, then the network should also be secure.
This destroys the protection from wiretapping that quantum crypto promised.
Comment: BASIC (Score 1) 185
I started with GWBASIC on DOS 3 at about that age. A couple of books with example programs in my native tongue and I was set.
Comment: Re:What a strange world we live in... (Score 2) 86
This is a world where we have finally become rich enough to be able to do these things. Still silly, from the perspective of us who do not care for the frivolous things, but since the majority of the population do care for them, we should not be surprised.
Comment: Idea (Score 1) 341
You know, the Wonderbolts would be a lot cheaper to operate...
Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 2) 99
It was first uploaded yesterday, 2013-04-09 20:12:34 GMT.
Comment: Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 1121
+1 Informative
Comment: No (Score 1) 482
Not without a declaration of war.
Comment: Mecha-Halberd (Score 1) 469
From Tales of Phantasia.
Comment: Re:Encrypted Media Extensions (Score 1) 64
Oh, let them have their fun. Then, when they're done, we can break the DRM in 2 days and have our fun! :)
Comment: Stockholm, Sweden (Score 3, Informative) 573
For the last 5 years, I've had 100 Mbps up & down for 275 SEK/mon. (current eq. 43 USD)
Comment: Re:Ownership (Score 1) 160
by
Meneth
(#42911469)
Attached to: Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene
Your physical molecules, perhaps. But the information they encode cannot be "owned" at all. Get your vocabulary right.
Comment: Iceland? (Score 2) 684
Last time I heard, Iceland was the new haven for free speech online. What happened?