In fact I guess most virtual currency schemes are inherently less pyramidal and electricity wasting than bitcoin.
OTOH those things I perceive as shortcomings make bitcoin more popular (at present) for "opportunity driven" people.

> No, it's either sad or pathetic (depending on ones point of view) that one person should be so tethered to technology rather than reality.

Sure but it's quite myopic that you look at that one person and forget the masses so tethered to far more fascist things like mainstream TV, cinema, magazines and books, music... Media and arts have always been versatile vehicles of propaganda and I have no evidence of the huge paradigm shift in society that made that documented trend disappear.

I don't defend the buying choices of the multiplatform guy, I have issues with your dualism technology/reality.

> This of course will be designed in such a way that you will have to 're-stock' your nanobots at certain determined intervals, because Big Pharma isn't going to design any permanent solution...

What a conspiracy nut nonsense!
I mean, it's like we always needed to buy an up to date antivirus to avoid our PCs being attacked... oh wait...

The property is the domain databases and name servers the ICANN or whoever it is uses, and charges you annually for. They can either have a legitimate client (MS legitimate for once, LOL) or make a subcontractor have money off squatting, which would make sense commercially but it's not in the mission, I HOPE.

For contribution or inspiration, there is already Sahana - IIRC there was a php version and a rewrite using the very well thought out python framework web2py.

Your data is their ASSET.
Business exploit assets in whatever possible way.
Your assumption that they will be only be used for targeted ads is naive.
Your naivety has been noted.
As my paranoid convoluted thinking has.
Have a nice day.

As much as I hate trivial patents in any field, I must admit that when I wipe windows off a pc and put debian on it, it sure feels like a new machine...

or wagn.

Well if they win, then everybody should be able to do anything with the content they access from the net using whatsoever api (http protocol included) no matter what the TOS of the sites are. Or I am missing something...

I don't have the link for MS tech but if you surf long enough you'll find some others already offering to make your avatar photo cartoonish with a pretty animated demo.

What if this is the expected behavior? IMHO the climate change debate is basically a diversion.

They ARE making this planet inhabitable (I say They, not We because nobody's ever been asked to make informed choices since the start of the industrial revolution), by pollution, and the reasons are very rational. Once you need treatments just to stay alive in a fscked up world, who owns treatments owns you.

Insisting on a single aspect, CO emissions, and linking it to climate change, and most of all, approaching it with taxes (srsly?), means that the debate is chained to specific aspects, and forgets about the rest.
After all the same system that taxes you for CO2 has no problems in introducing untested substances and organisms, and does not raise hell when unsafe toys or food are imported in your country. Strange, no?

especially this: Rootless GoboLinux

>First, surveillance is not about prevention, it is ALWAYS about catching people after the fact.

so it is irrelevant for terrorism, suicide missions.

widespread data gathering + law systems so convoluted that everybody is violating something = widespread control.

Welcome to the present planet earth.

In the 80s people reasoned like:
"car phone: 3000000 Lit. (italian lira)
antenna for car phone (it was different from the one used by the car stereo) : 750000 Lit.
Ergo, I'll just buy and mount the antenna"

They see me rolling, they wandering.

By allowing only trademark you will give a strong incentive to creative guys not to share. Worst idea ever.

Anyway you're derailing.
A media company caught violating copyright under current law should be fined a lot more than all the others. Not because they're more or less evil. Because

1. they know these laws better than anybody, they might have even paid for them.
2. they bother LEGITIMATE PAYING CUSTOMERS with their hubbub about piracy at the beginning of DVD, games, ads... and then, they proceed to take advantage of others' creativity? Awful.