I think it is early in the investigation and it likely means the investigation is going to be quite deep, the announcement because http://startbuyingstocks.com/h... it has a huge impact on market value and something that can not be dumped upon an investing public late in the investigation because it would wipe people out. Own Uber, pretty solid advice would be to sell and sell now, likely one or two insiders are looking to pick it up on the super cheap after arranging it's slaughter because nothing done for months even years, now all of a sudden.

The good that will come out of this whole cryptocurrency bubble is a testing of numerous approaches to decentralized transaction processing. There is no mystery about Bitcoin hoarding. It's a direct outcome of the limited money supply, which has transformed what was intended to be a digital currency into an imaginary investment.

Yes, just focusing on decentralized transaction processing with national currencies would be a good idea to explore. Goal: is there a way of handing this which is inexpensive at reasonable transaction volumes? Such a scheme doesn't have to match Visa's 24,000 transactions per second. It just has to be high enough to serve a population interested in anonymous transactions.

So Ripple, then?

https://ripple.com/

Ripple does have a coin, but it's used as 'grease' to help out the transactions. You can transact on the ripple network without the coins being involved at all.

It is all a joke, a currency based upon nothing more than marketing, not based upon any value what so ever. Countries currencies are based upon the capital worth of the country, screw with it to much and you devalue or over value and than collapse a countries worth. Crypto currencies are factually based upon nothing more than marketing and public relations, with zero real worth backing, zero. What has the highest value today, highest real value, useful energy and the ability to generate it, next up land and beyond that not much else, have energy and land and you can create anything, no water, you can create it. How much energy you have and how cheap it is, that is the only 'REAL' capital asset in a modern economy, ain't dollars that make the world turn, it is useful energy.

Want a crypto-currency base it upon deliverable energy futures, that is the only thing that makes sense, all else is a lie.

I'm really curious how you can map a heart without actually touching the endocardium.

Just off the top of my head:

There are a number of non-invasive imaging technologies that can be "strobed" in synchronization with the heart's motion to produce a series of 3-D images which, together, amount to a moving picture of the cyclic activity, complete with various annotation (such as blood velocity maps, electro-chemical activity, etc.).

One stock device for cardiologists is synthetic-aperture doppler ultrasound sonar imaging. A wide hand-held probe, with the junction to the skin joined by a slimy jelly with about the same speed-of-sound as soft tissue, connected to a high-end laptop running appropriate software, can construct such mappings in real-time, in sessions lasting minutes, annotated with blood flow information.

Other possibilities include magnetic resonance imaging (the functional version if you want to visualize the cyclic electrochemical activity) and computer aided tomography scanning.

And that's just for starters.

horribly centralized is a good thing. The reason "cryptocurrency" will never take off is that it can't be easily controlled. Nation states require monetary policy. Also, 1% inflation is "good" for the economy. If the main currency were deflationary, as bitcoin is, the economy would crash. Also, bitcoin burns electricity like a small country. A small country would need 100% of power generation going into a crypto currency to ensure it was stable.

There are thousands of reasons why bitcoin will never be used as a currency replacement. And even more ACs who will complain when any of those massive failures are addressed.

So if you agree that pure research and long-shot investments can be worthwhile, despite no immediate prospect of profits, why do you feel that "sending a bunch of crap into space" is done for no reason?

Apart from the many ancillary benefits of space research (spinoff technologies, entertainment prospects etc), the science we learn in space and on other worlds is often clearly applicable to our own world, or at least could well be in the future.

And for human space travel, there's no denying the enormous inspirational boost that society gets when humans achieve something as epic as travelling to a different world. How many of today's terrestrial scientists and engineers, valuable and productive members of society, were inspired by their childhood memories of Apollo?

Then there's the prospect of vast resources in the asteroid belt, the longer-term objective of habitat redundancy for the species, general ongoing growth and expansion etc etc - all clearly beneficial to society, at least at longer time scales.

It seems like the big problem with Bitcoin is hoarding, which discourages trade. How about a decentralized ledger without a "coin"? If you just had a secure, decentralized record of trades, *and* you could transact in less than a second, *and* you were simply creating a secure record of transaction in pre-existing currency *then* you'd have something that might compete with what the credit card companies and check clearinghouses do. Then you might actually reduce fees for the rest of us, even if we don't use it directly.

The issue isn't "someone's mistake." The issue is some dumb and/or malicious cop's mistake in arresting someone for a crime they didn't commit. There's an issue with people being punished for OTHER people's mistakes (or malice) without trial.

Especially if the record only has a name and DOB, and it can "punish" multiple people who weren't even involved in the incident, but happen to have the same name and DOB.

The internet is no more complex than it was 20 years ago, it is just bigger and moves more data per second...more complex absolutely not. Still just alot of ICMP, TCP, UDP on the same old ports Bit less trusting of BGP announcements yes....not complex. Buffers are repetitively the same size, MTU and MSS have not changed one bit. Data is more encrypted stronger and more of it rides on generic port 443 but the internet is no more complex. Honestly it is simpler that routers are not 6000W 300 pound beasts anymore. That carriers demark/hand off on only about 3 media types at this point. Telex and other vendor have meet-me rooms at every major telecomunications hub in the world. You want an alternative software defined network, it is about 4 clicks and a credit card away. The SKU count in my spares bay is 1/100th of what it was 10 years ago. I never see another media converter or a tap with a wall wart power supply. Inside the corporate firewall is complex, with QOS but everything just works if some thought is given to design and automation. Never had the frustration level with todays networks like I had with faxservers, multilink and dialup.

You have my bow.

No, that's the Latin name for the Sun, though we use that word as base for adjectives. It's just the fucking Sun in English.

Because a lot of American cops are scum who want to punish people without trial, and think they have the right to do so.

Yeah. People still use FriendFace too! ;)

Thanks for the link. Epic. You don't happen to know if there's a video of Christopher Walken reading this on the internets somewhere? Cuz there should be.

Now two other posters, please verify me.

Don't forget the "Affordable Care Act."

That's plumbing, this is electricity. Good predictor for arrythmias: being alive. You are either born with it, or you get old enough to develop it. Sure, there are factors that correlate with getting it sooner, but you still get something eventually whether it's SVT or VT.

Looks like they're going to force me to watch that horrible OnDemand service, instead of getting Netflix or iTunes ... Glad the Repubs can get a few more $ in their pocket. USA! USA!

One quarter of all slashdot stories anymore are about how no one is going to have a job in ten years because of robotics. Why won't the same thing apply to the moon? Are we just going to ship hundreds of people there to consume air as they sit around watching automation do all of the work just as they would be doing if they were sitting on Earth?

I forgot my FTFY. I changed the quoted text. They are both part of 21st Century Fox right now (until this deal is approved).

Or maybe it's pretty quick, now that DOJ is under new management.