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Oh! About leaving. If God could change the laws of the universe so that all paths are mobius strips, that'd be just awesome!We're talking major version upgrade here!
-Renegade (January 21, 2016, 05:50 PM)
how do you know they're not already?-Target (January 21, 2016, 06:52 PM)
We're talking major version upgrade here! 
...First, what I'd like is a nice sandbox to run scenarios through with zero real consequences. That would rock~!
________________________-Renegade (January 19, 2016, 09:58 PM)
I think you might be confusing what seems to happen in what we see as "the world around us" with a concept called "reality".
This is the sandbox.-IainB (January 20, 2016, 12:15 AM)
Well living in this world of IT industry, it has become my habit to check if new update of so and so has come up or not. Win10 updates itself and do not even tell me what has become new !!
But the world ! It still has 24 hours in a day. Hey come one we need more time for facebook, twitter, coding etc. and then we have to live also. I think GOD should update the world and add more features to it. What you say ?-anandcoral (January 19, 2016, 10:40 AM)
Well I guess that's where I am living- somewhere, online... 25 years ago
in a galaxy, far far..-n8wachT (January 17, 2016, 12:44 AM)
Poignant short vid using a novel animation technique: The Lost Mariner: A Beautiful Animated Short Film About Memory, Inspired by Oliver Sacks-IainB (December 27, 2015, 07:20 AM)
They likely vote: chicken wing (instead of right/left wing)-Shades (January 16, 2016, 04:02 PM)
^ WTF? I guess the more important question isn't do they exist... do they vote?-wraith808 (January 16, 2016, 09:55 AM)
I want to see what Renegade thinks.-wraith808 (January 15, 2016, 11:44 AM)
Personally I wish the Son-of-a-Bitch would have kept his freaking teeth shut. I was about to do a selloff, but now I can't without screwing myself through the floor.-Stoic Joker (January 15, 2016, 11:30 AM)
And considering where Mr. Comey usually parks his head, I'm sure he knows a thing or two about dark places.-40hz (January 14, 2016, 12:07 AM)
“Encryption threatens to lead us all to a very, very dark place. The place that this is leading us is one that I would suggest we shouldn’t go without careful thought and public debate,” FBI Director James Comey said of the encryption of mobile devices in 2014.
U.S. sponsored report says governments should attack Bitcoin and undermine it
In a world where constant on and offline surveillance by nation states seems to have become the norm, it’s perhaps little wonder that systems aiming to de-centralize services and maintain privacy have become targets.
In a new report, sponsored by the U.S. government, the influential RAND Corporation paints a bleak picture for the future of Bitcoin and other such technologies based around blockchains and encryption. According to this report, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are actually succeeding in their primary goal of offering de-centralized, anonymized and resilient services to users around the world.
While that may sound like good news for many users, the report goes on to explain that this is in fact “agnostic to the national security interests of the United States”. Another big problem that the advancement of these technologies brings to the table is the dissemination of information regarding online encryption. Apparently, spreading knowledge of means of encryption and security among the general populace is a very bad idea.
The think tank then goes on to suggest that nation-states, particularly the U.S., should attack services like Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems, through sophisticated technological means, to undermine their key strengths in the public perception: security, stability and privacy.
So why exactly are these systems, including Bitcoin, “agnostic” to the U.S. and other nation states’ interests? The report focuses on the fact that these technologies could be used by groups, maybe terrorists, to set up persistent communications and currencies that could be almost impossible to disrupt. And that sounds bad.
But there’s another argument which comes up again and again in the original report, and that’s simply the fact that nation-states, again particularly focusing on the U.S., would simply be unable to control or interfere in such systems if they’re developed and widespread.
It’s very doubtful that the debate around encryption and privacy will die down anytime soon, and for good reason, as this is perhaps one of the most important issues for human rights at the beginning of this 21st century.
