Your argument is a common one and flawed. Any currency is invented and agreed to have value by some subset of humanity for some subset of time. States can fall, gold can be mined, Bitcoinâ(TM)s cryptography can (and will) be broken. What matters is what is useful for the world we live in, and speculating, going to live in. Bitcoinâ(TM)s increase in value is that bet. In the future we are going to have AI agents doing pretty much everything and they will need to transact value. What currency will they use? I doubt it will be USD. If they use Bitcoin, Bitcoin is arguably undervalued. Personally, while Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies may serve as an intermediary, I believe energy is the ultimate currency. It is just a case of how practical it can be sent and received.

what a great post. As my imagination was running wild alongside, it occurred to me that perhaps if we are in âThe Matrixâ(TM), then instead of feeding machines, we could in fact be a spare body for our identical twin living in the real world!

If you're paranoid about Man-In-The-Middle attacks or would just like to know whether your own corporation surveils your HTTPS browsing, you can use this checker: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grc.com%2Ffingerprints.htm to confirm whether your certificate fingerprints are the same.

I get regular pains from typing at work and sometimes the situation flares up for me when I'm typing more regularly. My symptoms are weak grip, dull wrist pain and when it gets worse, tingly fingers. Sometimes the problem was enough to cause worry. Using a Powerball (the plastic versions) has really helped. So much, I'd say that it definitely cures it for me. I only have to use it a few consecutive days for about 5 minutes, doing about 5-9,000 on the little counter (just enough to warm the wrist muscles up), and that, is honestly enough for a few weeks. The benefits are felt almost immediately. I believe it helps with the blood flow to the fingers. My recommendation to anyone with these symptoms is to get one!

Many thanks

Seriously, it has been by far the best purchase to date out of the money I've spent trying to cure my RSI.

It comes and goes for me, particularly bad when I'm not using my split keyboard for any long period of time. My wrists would feel tingly which became especially noticeable at night. I even bought an Evoluent vertical mouse and that made little to no difference.

People may frown at people like us on this forum and indeed I've known people with terrible setups to have no problems whatsoever, but some of us are just more prone to it than others. I type a lot at work and as a fast touch typist I generally type far more than my colleagues.

I got myself a Powerball and within just 2 days I noticed a big difference! I couldn't believe how effective it is. All it takes is a few minutes each day at 5000-7000 rpm, a few times a week to maintain the strength and now I never notice my wrists tingling even after a long day at work.

http://www.powerballs.com/

You're right. I learnt the other day that the Great Wall Of China - famed for the fact that you can see it from space - can't actually be seen! Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_great_wall_of_china#Visibility_from_space I'm seriously doubting whether you can see this damn from space either!

But those are only half-lives! Our readers should be reminded that that's time for half of the material to decay and not 100% of the material. One or two of those half-lives are quite long also, so although it's only going to be a little radioactive, it is certainly not 100% stable. Of course, whether that level of radiation is enough to cause problems in circuits, I'm not sure and I'm certainly no scientist.

You suspect humour? I suspect that Americans do not understand it at all! I was laughing all the way! But maybe that's because I'm British and I understand that this is really just a complete piss take on the rest of the world. If I had wanted to read a serious comparison, I would have read Wikipedia

1. Force Microsoft to uncouple IE with Windows, allowing the user to uninstall it.
2. Vendors like Dell are then free to sell an alternative browser if they wish.

Perhaps at first manufacturers will just stick with IE, but once they realise the potential of others (e.g. Firefox has more features, Safarai is faster on netbooks etc.), they'll sell machines with alternatives. Then it's all about market forces.

As one commenter on here put it, if you try and make people choose, then you are trying to force people to not be sheep! This will never work!

You've got the wrong end of the stick entirely. I wasn't suggesting that she reveal her identity. I was merely outlining an alternative truth. Personally, I can choose and decide for myself what to believe and I'm nothing like a "conspiracy nut" as you so delicately put it. The fact of the matter is Groklaw is quite an extensive source when it comes to the SCO case details. Perhaps it's just a blog, but some people might see it as more than that.

Let's suppose for a moment that she was/is under some kind of financial agreement with IBM, then that changes things entirely. I am by no means suggesting this is the case but regarding it as a possibility - especially given the bias in her posts.

Maybe my post was trolling, but it's something I have the right to do and you should not undermine. Something more constructive towards the debate would have been appreciated rather than contempt and mockery.

Doesn't this lend credit to the idea that perhaps PJ was hired solely to cover the SCO trial?

Was her mysterious identity ever uncovered?

I'm sorry buddy, but it ain't a myth. What do you think runs the Windows shell? IE is explorer + html rendering engine.

Wrong. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7#Features_and_changes. This seems to be a change in IE7, although I thought the entire process had been decoupled within IE6... Anyhow, I'm referring to memory usage and as the graphs show, IE has no memory advantage over rival browsers.