How does this differ to the key-value Berkeley DB key-value store which is around 10 years old, free software, widely used and tested, full ACID compliance AND it's owned by Oracle.
The Internet, Wikipedia, Linux, Bittorrent, Firefox, Wikileaks, Bitcoin, Creative Commons, Netbooks, LAMP,
That's it. Keep fanning the flames of the internet hate machine. Test our boundaries before we inevitably snap. Don't let yourselves be boxed and pushed around like the cattle they want you to be! This is our time, our future when for the first time we have found a way to define ourselves as artisans, industrialists, scientists and visionaries. For when the time has come and greed has taken over, dictators will die and people live. A sick machine that you have to throw yourself under the wheels and get ground up in the gears because unless you are free you are just raw material for a rube goldberg machine, an apparatus of silly superstition and institutions that function without knowing why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bERAf5KAg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
Why do they keep trying to pull this shit. Fuck off the internet. You didn't build it, stop trying to legislate it. People that don't know how it works are trying to make the rules for the world's most incredible tool. A liberating, intense network of peoples worldwide with their own world, monetary system, machines and customs.
Pirate! Don't buy or pay a single cent. Pirate everything and give everyone stacks of free copies as presents for big occasions. Rip movies, burn CDs, spread the wealth about. Fact is the big content industries are totally corrupt. Anything to punish or hurt them is good. Shout about computer freedom. Smoke weed. Be disruptive. Boycott retarded laws. Let them know they aren't welcome. Consign them to irrelevancy by civil disobedience and online sit-ins.
The term mining comes from the fact that bitcoins are analogous to gold. When creating a new bitcoin, it isn't something you can mint out of the air- it's more apt to say you're searching for the bitcoin that already exists from a mathematical problem set (i.e you're mining for a bitcoin that already exists).
Another term is coinbase generation. Unfortunately these terms give a lot of confusion wrt mining and are a misnomer. It's more apt to call it validation. These validators (miners) are processing and confirming transactions. For this valuable service of securing the network they are awarded a reward- the generated/mined bitcoins.
This has been around since the time of Carl Sagan. For a much better explanation of what is happening (and the science behind it), see this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeS_U9qFg7Y&feature=player_embedded
They haven't invented anything new so don't get excited about wipeout ships and hoverboards just yet. The problem is the immense amount of energy to keep the superconductor cooled.
OK, I hold an Iranian passport and have been in and out of Iran many times.
People in Iran do not like Ahmadinejad. One of the many insults is to call him a monkey because he is a half-wit. Same as how George Bush got the monkey insults.
Nothing to do with race. Just that he's a simple fool in charge of an entire country.
g++ 4.5
C++0x is getting there slowly.
>Greedy misanthropist that sold shiny gadgets with sweatshop labor dies and is praised by millions.
>Creator of the most widely used programming language of all time and pioneer of Unix, both arguably a significant contributing factor to the success of every modern tech company, dies and not a single newspaper cares.
Inventor of C and UNIX. 4chan has a sticky for him. That's the extent of media coverage I could find.
A real legend of technology has died and nobody will even understand what he did.
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>Greedy misanthropist that sold shiny gadgets with sweatshop labor dies and is praised by millions.
>Creator of the most widely used programming language of all time and pioneer of Unix, both arguably a significant contributing factor to the success of every modern tech company, dies and not a single newspaper cares.
And here we have an example of why dumb regulations make everyone suffer. The poker market basically consists of 4 major companies- PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker, and Cake Poker. Together they control 90% of the market, charge huge fees (rake - a high stakes pro friend of mine earned $100k last year and paid $50k in rake to the sites), are marred by scandals and have crappy software that is years old with terrible security flaws (like using xor encryption for traffic).
There's a market for an online poker site, but because of shoddy laws regulating a game of skill between consenting parties, it is near impossible to setup a poker site. We were going to do this before by making a bitcoin poker site but the lawyer wanted a $20 million retainer. The scandals are due to the huge initial cost to opening a poker site that enables these 4 sites to retain a cartel with artificially high prices in the poker world.
Don't blame the bazaar. Blame the regulations on your social life and freedom to choose how to spend your cash.
And this is why we need bitcoin. All hail the bitcoin and the wonderous things people will create. Imagine all those people playing counterstrike or World of Warcraft all day long for nothing. Now imagine is they could compete with each other for cash. A new digital economy with professional video game players. Or imagine funding your favourite free software projects, artists or Wikileaks.
The Internet, Wikileaks, Linux, Wikipedia, Bitcoin,
Blaa blaa and if women dress provocatively then they are to blame for getting raped.
Nice one shifting the blame away from the perpetrator.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
