You have been excluded. I haven't done that to a /. editor in years. But this is NOT news for nerds that matters.

Linux is not an operating system, it is a kernel.

Just so you know, if you try this they will kill you.

You weren't going to RTFA anyway.

The whole damn thing.

Also, even in the maximalist US, Copyright isn't property. You don't pay property tax on it.

As a mining system/wealth distribution system, sure. But mining on bitcoin is pretty much completely insignificant compared to the rest of its uses these days. It is the trade value, not the storage value, where the interestingness of bitcoin truly lies.

The whole point of this thread is not that the prosecutor shouldn't have, but that the system is broken if it causes this situation to arise in the first place, which it has, dozens of times if not more.

I would argue #1 isn't either of those...it's to form emotional, intellectual and social bonds with people who are going into your field. To know who knows and thinks what and why. To understand not just the problems of your field, but who's working on them and how far they've gotten, and the motivations for all of it. Science occurs in a context, and we go to school to take part in that context. Of course you have to be capable of the above, too, but this is an example of a higher level goal.

Watson will be able to outpace us in this area, someday, too. All it needs is to marry Siri or Google and all our motivations and social bonds become compromised to it.

On the contrary -- it's us who gets it wrong

Really, under any sane interpretation of north american politics, Toronto *is* under the sphere of influence, militarily(wasn't US force used during G20?), culturally(American TV & movies, etc) and so on of the centres of power in the US. For all intents other than taxes and other relatively insignificant matters, Watson was *right*.

People in Toronto are basically US subjects, with taxation(Canada giving the US government handouts for softwood lumber, etc) but no representation.

And ask him what you can do to improve yourself? Do so in a way that gives him work to do in correcting you. But either way...offer to buy bad code offsets

You can always learn, and the world can always stand to benefit from more people offsetting their Bad Code.

That is not how 1 block, 1 vote works.

Way to completely miss his point. Of course you can. It's not about whether an individual is naturally immune to Tuberculosis or not, it's whether the herd is. There is value in a highly educated society that emerges only when you've got enough of them. When your friends and family aren't killing themselves over the latest suicide cult because they have enough education to understand the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, you're better off.

To what 'depth' are you suspecting bitcoin transactions are going, if not one-level deep? While I'll admit that its' in principle possible to have non-final transactions, have you ever actually heard of any?

GDP measures flow. Transaction volume measures flow. Where's the stock?

That's been done, it's not profitable