When a central authority is involved, the blockchain can still provide some benefits such as transfers without the central authority's involvement. That's a massive cost savings in time and money. Imagine not needing to go to the DMV and waiting in line for hours because you're buying a car from someone. The central authority only comes into play during conflicts or situations where the owner is incapable of signing transactions.

The DMV will have control over the smart contract and will only get involved in rare situations like you've described and all ownership transfers will be open to be verified by the public so if anyone corrupt from the DMV decides to get involved into some funny business, it'll all be transparent and public.

It removes the government's involvement from the transfer of ownership.

This is only true if think the government must be involved in all of your transactions.

Disappointing to see such an ignorant comment with a score of 5, insightful. Looks like the moderation system needs some work. It ain't like the old days and yes, I've been around for a while. Look at my UID.

A blockchain gives the car owners the ability to transfer ownership securely *without* the DMV's involvement or the DMV's app, which is not possible with an SQL db.

A great craftsman makes his own tools.

What DE are you running on FreeBSD that you can't on Linux?

Vendors will be forced to only accept payments from a whitelist of BTC addresses and you'll need to identify yourself to be on that list.

I'll take the blue pill now.

I wish I had mod points to mod you up. Much more accurate then parent. Rust is alive and well. Check this out this app written in Rust: https://ethcore.io/parity.html and I can't wait for Servo, it's going to leapfrog all the other browsers in performance and reliability and security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

First Java and now Oracle? Hmmm, I wonder how that happened.

It's not a matter of laziness, it's a matter of funding.

Adopting.... yeah right. More like embracing and extending. According to the handy dandy MS handbook, the next step is extinguish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... I'm not sure what the real agenda is yet but TypeScript and .NET seem to be their weapons of choice. Hey, if they can develop some great products and compete without reaching for the monopoly hammer, I'm all for it. However, history has shown that MS uses their monopolistic position to eliminate competition and then sit on a the sub-par product for years.

This debate only happened because some programmers stopped thinking about the indentation abstraction. You shouldn't be thinking in terms of spaces vs tabs. Instead you should be thinking in levels of indentation for blocks. Indentation is not some technique to make your code look pretty, it's there to show a clear separation of logic, loops, blocks etc. Code is art, just not Ascii art. One keystroke per indentation is the simplest and most efficient.