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Copyleft (e.g. the GPL, or CC-SA) maximizes the freedom of the creative work itself.
Public domain, or weak copyright (e.g. BSD, MIT, CC Attribution) maximizes the freedom of the users of the creative work.
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hands definitely need more work =)
I quite liked the hands in version 34, because one of them looks quite masculine, which just adds to the ambiguity of the whole situation. |
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Are you running greasemonkey, or some other extension that might mess with the page?
The easiest thing to do here is to try a different browser and confirm that the problem goes away. Then you can disable extensions one by one until the problem disappears.
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Oh, so when I got work from coordinator which leads to winning hash, I cannot send it to bitcoin network as "my own" hash? In a pooled mining situation, the winning hash cannot be used as "your own". The hash incorporates all of the transactions in the block, including the one that pays 50 BTC to the generator. If you are hashing for pooled generation, the winning hash is only useful to the pool. If you are hashing for yourself, then obviously the winning hash is useful to you. But in that case the "low-difficulty" hashes that you generate are useless to the pool, so the pool will not pay you a share of the generated 50 BTC. It is a solved problem to prevent cheating with pooled generation. |
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Just access them by IP address, not domain name.
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The cheating problem has a trivial solution.
The distributed miners work to find a hash at a difficulty level that is considerably lower than the network requires. Whenever they find one, they send it back. When one of those hashes is difficult enough to meet the needs of the network, it generates 50 bitcoins which are distributed to those who have been sending in hashes at the easier level.
There's no way to look for easy hashes without also having a chance to find the occasional difficult hash. And when you find a difficult hash, there's nothing better to do with it than to send it back to the mining co-ordinator (because it's a hash that pays them 50 bitcoins, not one that pays you 50 bitcoins).
With this scheme there is no incentive to cheat, and no need for "banning".
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... liability can be a huge issue by itself even if you give something away ... I think you're unintentionally spreading FUD here. If you give something away into the public domain (in jurisdictions where that can be done) you can't be sued for it. If you think that's not the case, show me a link to a counterexample. Disclaimers, yes, you need them when you license something to someone. But releasing into the public domain is not licensing. I've seen far too often where something put into the public domain was simply "appropriated" and then a copyright assertion was claimed on that public domain content where the original author or developer had to go to court simply to use stuff that they wrote themselves. This can and does happen, but it's not because it's public domain. Exactly the same thing can and does happen where the original author or developer licenses a work under the GPL, a CC license, or a proprietary license. |
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6. Rule 34  That already happened between steps 2 and 3. You did see Kiba's art thread, didn't you? |
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...on this page i see a single mail-link, it's the same for all users, the hover-text is ok/different though. Where exactly are you seeing "a single mail-link"? The hover text just shows what is in the "mailto:" link underneath, so if the hover text is different then the the email address is different. If you select an envelope icon, then right-click and choose "View Selection Source", you should see a different "mailto:" link for each envelope. Do you? |
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Two separate CPUs with 1000khash/s isn't the same as one 2000khash/s machine! Actually, they are equal. The low-power machines aren't "racing" against the high power machines. For any given difficulty level, it doesn't even matter how many other machines are generating. If all the other machines dropped off the network, it wouldn't increase the number of blocks you generate (until the next difficulty level adjustment). The only thing that counts significantly is the difficulty level and your khash/s. There are some relatively minor effects due to network latency, but they're not a big deal. |
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From here: BRITISH BANKERS' ASSOCIATION WARNS OF CANTONA-INSPIRED CRISIS!
Tuesday 23 November 2010 – by Will Henley
A plan hatched by ex-footballer Eric Cantona for a mass run on the banks could cause a financial “crisis”, the British Bankers’ Association has admitted.
The UK trade body warned that the direct action revolution promoted by the French former Manchester United striker risked a new Northern Rock “if enough people” withdraw their savings.
“I don’t understand what benefit there would be in trying to crash the banking system,” a BBA spokeswoman said.
“You would very quickly get into a Northern Rock situation if everybody wanted their money at once. It wouldn’t take very long before you get queues and then you would get camera crews.
“Once something looks like a crisis it becomes a crisis... |
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It works properly for me (Firefox). Try with a different browser.
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I like his notion that those who control the spambots might find it more profitable to generate bitcoins instead, thereby solving the world's spam problem.
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We could buy a piece of the sahara desert Im sure the land is going cheaply.  Perhaps Hutt River Province in West Australia would be interested. Come to think of it, they're inviting nominations for their New Years Honours List: "Nominees need not be someone famous or distinguished ... we are looking to recognize people from all walks of life who contribute in some way to a cause ... almost any activity of benefit to all. There are also those who work quietly behind the scenes on a personal level ... One need not be a citizen of the Principality of Hutt River" Nominations close December 17. Are we going to put Satoshi's name forward? Of course, the Australian Govt considers Hutt River Province to be part of Australia, so you can't get out of paying tax by living there. |
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unlimited time costs unlimited bitcoins =)) Fair enough, but how about "every download extends the file hosting by another day". Not by one day from now, but by one day more than it currently is. That way, you're averaging at least one paid download per 24 hours of storage. |
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4. Win the Nobel Prize for Economics.
5. Visit the Bernanke in his local soup kitchen.
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"Oops! This link appears to be broken." -I guess the download expired  Yes, a longer expiry (e.g. 1 month rather than 6 hours) would work better at the Ubitious site. Anyway, thanks to the three people who downloaded: it means that I made 0.01 BTC profit per file! I hope I can post a complete movie soon. |
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Creative Commons already has what it attempts at a Public Domain License, but unfortunately copyright laws are sooo messed up and different from country to country that licensing for public isn't practical Creative Commons replaced their first attempt at PD with their "CC-ZERO" license, which works like public domain but is free of the legal hiccups that PD causes in some countries. But anyway, the legal "problems" around public domain are not problems for the content creator. Just put your work on the internet and mark it "public domain", and don't sue anyone. Then everyone gets all the benefits of public domain, without needing to invoke lawyers. |
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Other possible keywords: "paypal", "inflation", "gold"
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I don't understand the voting. There's a slider from 1 to 100. Does that represent a number of bitcoins, or the percentage of agreement with the vote?
So I slide the button from 1 to 10, just in case it represents bitcoins. Now the slider is labelled 10 to 55, and the little bug icon has moved to the middle of the line and the button has moved a little way from the left.
I have absolutely no idea what any of this means.
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