And 'Names' make it worse than 'Numbers.'

Trying to pretend the words on your account somehow mean that's who you are is the problem. This idea that if someone has "Michael Jackson" next to their post then its the actual famous person talking isn't something that can work.

It's better if that name next to people's posts is known to be just 'self-selected words.' Nobody will be fooled into thinking it's Michael Jackson, if there are 5000 different accounts claiming they are Michael Jackson.

Actual 'authentication' shouldn't be done based on your username or any other 'self-selected words.' Instead, there's a 'behind the scenes' unique identifier, and you keep track of the ones you care about.

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The problem becomes, not one of 'identification', but one of 'discovery.' How do you find the real one? You go to the official source, and they tell you who they are. Then you only care about that one particular "Michael Jackson" and ignore the rest.

That was true back in 2006. Every disc bought since then would not actually let you play the game, you had to connect to the internet and download gigabytes more.

I was in the middle of nowhere, had a PS3 and an unopened copy of Need for Speed. I popped the disc in and was excited to play the new game. Yeah, that didn't happen. It insisted that I connect to the internet and download gigabytes of data. I couldn't download because I was in the middle of nowhere. I did not ever purchase another console after that experience.

Long story short, the current status is not really a change. At least they are not misleading you anymore.

It is a good thing that the second law of thermodynamics doesn't exist.

I advocate for Linux; however, I also have to be realistic. Try patching Ubuntu 24 LTS and then check what vulnerabilities are still left with the note "no patch available". It is currently over 100. That will not fly in any organization that cares about security.

What country do you live in? I live in the USA and have been working for 45 years and I will not be able to stop until I die.

Peaceful protesting gets zero attention. Recall this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Did even the slightest change happen after that?

The people who have all of the money do not care about anything other than their own money. You could have every single person in the USA outside protesting and absolutely nothing would change until infrastructure started getting destroyed or the wealthy families actually felt threatened.

And you dare to insult "smart" people with guns from joining protests? WTF is wrong with you?

Flock is a private company. I think you need to change how your argument is worded because it does not address how the government and Flock are colluding.

Ok, I am willing to play this game: How exactly do I determine which candidate will actually put money in my pocket? Every single one promises they will do that, but absolutely none have in the past 50 years that I have been observing. Some are worse than others, but ALL of them appear to be bad. I wonder if that has to do with political parties and "first past the post" type of elections that we have... but if that were the case, then it wouldn't REALLY matter how I vote as the general outcome is already determined even if the details and specifics take more time to pass.

An example: Social Security. The "elites" have wanted to plunder Social Security since it was first established. Back in 1978, they finally passed a law that both Democrats and Republicans voted into law which allowed them to plunder Social Security. Essentially what happened was that this law in 1978 allowed the administration to take all 300 billion of surplus cash within the Social Security ecosystem and replace it with IOUs. That allowed all of the existing cash and all future payments to be used for the General Fund. Unsurprisingly, within 10 years, there were already cries from the government about Social Security would be insolvent soon.

Fuck you. Fuck your voting system. Fuck putting this on the voters. The outcome was predetermined and there was nothing the average person could have done about it. The system is completely and totally corrupt. Might makes right.

Yeah, I had the eagle toy as a kid and there's vertical thrusters on the underside. What do you think blew out all that "dust" from the landing pad when they launched? The whole design was really well thought out and my only issue, as another poster here made, was there doesn't appear to be a place where the fuel was kept at.

As if you live an in real Democracy. LOL. That tax money will be spent on Whitehouse renovations or Reflecting pools, all contracted out to the sycophants of whomever is in charge in order to receive kickbacks. The country is cooked and will inevitably become as full-fledged dictatorship.

I love your optimism; however, government spending grows to whatever amount is available and then shortly thereafter exceeds it. Taxes will grow until it is no longer possible to tax anymore.We will never get quite that far because the system itself will collapse before it can take everything.

Hmm, the Summary does mention Offline payments. So I guess I need to read better.

(Not European, and not a banker.)

If the problem is American companies doing the transactions, why is the solution a 'Digital Euro' and not use an EU backed transaction processor? Why don't you keep using 'normal Euros' in 'debit-card like transactions' but have the processing be done by a more acceptable organization?

In short...what's the difference between a 'digital Euro' and any sort of 'digital monetary transaction?'

Is it the 'wallet?' Instead of having your money in a bank, it's in a 'wallet' (where it can get tossed in the rubbish and make you dig about a landfill?)

Do these wallets support 'offline transactions?' Can I walk up to the guy in the middle of a forest and give him 5 Bucks? (5 quid?) Or, do I have to have access to the network to authenticate the transaction? If these 'digital Euro' had support for offline transactions, that might be a way they are different from normal electronic banking.

Who will they sell their widgets to if everyone is starving or dead? Nobody needs widgets when they are starving.

What is there to be prepared for? A lack of food means the body dies. The body is ready for this even if the passenger ridding along is not. Starving to death happens all the time, just not normally in the numbers we are about to see.

Fuck the people about to die (including me). They should have been more prepared/stronger. If they were, they wouldn't die. Darwinism in action and enforced by society. It is merely coincidence that those born to wealthier families starve at a slower rate.