The few people who found out about bitcoin back in 2009 were able to mine a very significant percentage of all the bitcoins that will ever be created, just because there was no competition yet (back then you could create a block with on average 4 billion sha-256 hashes; now it's about a quadrillion). If they hold on to their bitcoins, and bitcoin trading becomes big, they'll be filthy rich just because they found the website before slashdot did.

I'll be staying away from doing any bitcoin transactions. Humanity does not need any more undeserving elites.

I care that my tax dollars are going to be used to keep people in this country's expensive prisons just to benefit a select few corporations. You can boycott the RIAA/MPAA all you want, but you can't boycott the IRS.

IP laws basically state that ideas are private property and can be traded just like any other type of private property.

Physical property: If you build a car, you own it. If I independently build my own car, I own that one.
Intellectual property: If you come up with an idea, you can patent it and thus own it. If I independently come up with the same idea, the government lets you sue me.

Yeah, no difference whatsoever.

HTML5 is sooooo the next thing- just a few questions

- then why haven't any large video sites chosen it for video?

YouTube isn't large enough for you?

None that you know about. You can hide a lot in a closed-source binary.

The only "security" iOS has is that you have to shell out $100/year to be a developer. Gives great protection against hobbyist programmers, does absolutely nothing against the Russian mafia.

Nobody is confused. everybody just wants to pretend we can compete with that. We can't.

Either we have to lower standards for our workers, or they have to raise theirs.

Or, we could bring back what we used to have before the globalists took over circa 1970 and the standard of living here stopped growing: tariffs.

Although, I suppose throwing the globalists out to do that would probably require an armed revolution too.

This might have been a good point in 1987, but today most serious malware spreads by exploiting bugs in legitimate software. Why rely on the user to run your evil program manually when buffer overflows and such are so abundant?

Having an "execute bit" doesn't do anything to stop that (unless you mark all your programs non-executable, of course; that'll make sure you're secure ;))

Guess what, America? If someone else is willing to do your job for a quarter of what you are, well, they are going to get the job and you aren't going to.

I would gladly do the job of the CEO of Goldman Sachs for one hundredth of his (8-figure) pay.

But it doesn't work that way, does it? The ruling class doesn't have to worry about losing their own "jobs", simply because they're the ones calling the shots. Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich; that's what we have in this country.

That's what you get for pricing yourselves out of the market.

Yes, clearly it's all our fault that a Chinese or Indian salary won't even pay the rent here. Do you seriously believe that in America, a worker gets to set the price of all the things he needs to live?

America has made it's choice

The tiny portion of Americans who control the country have made their choice. The rest of us get to suffer the consequences.

Of course they're going to make sure the US gets near the top.

The two photos were taken 0.363 seconds apart, and showed an average speed of 35 mph. If you think the tickets, which alleged he hit 50 mph, could still be valid, you're saying his car is capable of accelerating from 20 mph to 50 mph in those 0.363 seconds, which is equivalent to 0 to 60 in 0.726 seconds. Now that's one damn fast car!

Why is it that this is common knowledge on /., yet this seems never to end up on the nightly news shows?

The corporate media isn't going to educate the masses about our system of legalized corruption, because they benefit from it more than anyone. Not only are they giving bribes (and get laws like the DMCA passed in return), but they are also indirectly a beneficiary of them (expensive campaigns = more demand for TV advertising time = more money for the media co.'s)

According to the page that was linked to, 2.5x does have a redesigned GUI. They use an unconventional version number scheme where 2.50-2.52 were alpha versions and 2.53-2.56 were beta, which explains why such a major change seems to have appeared with a minor version number update - it didn't, but you probably never used the 2.50-2.56 versions.

The 80386 and 68020 didn't have any caches to speak of. Put 16,384 of them together and you'll find yourself several orders of magnitude short of the DRAM bandwidth necessary to keep them occupied.

That was a different case (in Austria, not New Hampshire); this guy only made $8M.

we'll have an executive order giving the government the authority to wiretap your brain and read your thoughts at any time. Without needing a warrant. They'll say it's justified by the threat of terrorism, as usual.