You're not "wasting" electricity. Those calculations are what makes bitcoins secure. In order to cheat and double spend an amount that was spend three days ago, you would have to redo all the calculations that has been done in the bitcoin "universe" since you spent it the first time. This is also why it's a good habit to wait a while until you can trust a transaction. You can pay people for mining your transaction in particular, to make this trust happen faster.

So... you managed to read far enough to find that it's going to be shot on film, but not far enough to read that it's going to get edited digitally.

I have a feeling that the world would be a nicer place if only those who could stay awake for 24 hours a day, seven days a week would have children.

Maybe it's just me being a misanthrope again...

Not sure if they have lived in isolation long enough to have diverged and formed their own race yet..

And that is sort of ok. You should always assume that your ISP can and will listen in on the traffic, and take measures to make sure this is not a problem. If not your ISP directly, someone can easily make them or on of their employees do it.

Browse on sites with HTTPS, make sure your other protocols are using SSL or some other published, open and scrutinized encryption. If you really need to hide your destination, use Tor.

I don't think Google is any worse than the other ISPs in this respect, and I think Google has other reasons to become an ISP.

• 1) The other ISPs in the US seem to fucking suck with regards to bandwidth and arbitrary data caps, hurting Google's drive to make everything happen online on their own servers. More players are needed, players who like the internet, not players who actually hates it because it cuts in to their own profits.
• 2) They are afraid that in a not-so-distant future, the ISP who for example is also a telco will start demanding that Google pays for all google voice chats over the telco's data lines. The ISP who's also a cable company will demand that Google pays for all youtube streaming, etc. This won't be a problem if Google is their own ISP.

The difference between internet access and clean potable water is that one can be had wireless with a handset that's not much more expensive than a large bucket. The other requires expensive infrastructure.

I think this is much more a PR move than it is a financial move.

They want to show that they have "solved" the problem and that it will not happen again, by letting a manager walk. I'm pretty sure the full board of directors knew perfectly well what was going on with Sim City, and it is not likely that the CEO was the only one driving this through.

In Soviet Russia, American grammar... does not apply. Or something like that.

I think this would just move them over to more secure means of communication, not less. A stupid move. It won't be fun for them when the crooks all route their communication through a couple of global Tor nodes.

Why massage and hack a program like blender when you can use the venerable POV-Ray, open source raytracer since 25 years back, first raytracer in space, etc.

You can already do all of this directly in its scene description language, and you will get exact results instead of interpolated meshes.

Actually, the video shows him rooting the box with a custom compiled program as a normal user without entering any password, so it's likely not updated.

Yeah, this is pretty insane. Tor already does this FAR MORE SAFE. Not only does it give governments a nice list of server IPs, it gives governments a nice way to catch offenders.

Ahhh... the piracy argument. Which has hit the game industry hard since the early 80ies. I have magazines here from 1981 where the publishers whine about piracy and how it will make sure that there will be no computer games in the future.

And it's the same, every year. The business just grows and grows, people spend more and more money on computer games. But no, the piracy will kill the industry, look at the evil pirates, forcing us to make half-finished games with mandatory DLC.

The Free Software Foundation campaign about this all the time, and have for some time now. They do have the organisational structure to do this.

But nobody listens, because they also care about linux and free software in general, and that's eww hairy nerds, don't take my capitalism! Maybe if angry gamers would join up, they would get the manpower to actually get heard.