InXorWeTrust

Some gas stations allow you to pay for Diesel with cash at a discount. As a side note, Flash Foods has a card you can get that uses ACH with your debit account (I'm probably not saying that right). You get a flat $0.05 off of gas. They claim it's because of credit card charges (and because ACH doesn't cost them anything).

It's really a matter of personal preference. I haven't been able to find much on the Moto 360 (they seem to be keeping a bunch under wraps(I could be looking in the wrong places though)). But I assume it has a LCD screen. Which is potentially hell for battery life. The Pebble has around a 4-5 day battery life for me. This isn't constant text messages though.

Another thing you might want to keep in mind: Moto 360 will only work on Android. This isn't a negative for most people, except for those that might want to get an iPhone in the future. Pebble works with both (for the most part (from what I've heard, I have only actually experienced the Android side)).

There is a similar version that I know a friend plays at a large university. It's Humans vs. Zombies. If you get "bit", you are a zombie and have to wear something that identifies you as such (normally a bandanna tied around an arm). If you're a human, you carry a nerf gun with you. If you hit a zombie with a nerf bullet, they can't bite you for a while (next time you see them, or such).

Also known as the vocal minority.

I doubt they will expand it to every book. It might be a while before it expands to a sizable portion of their library.

Netflix wasn't what it is on it's first day.

No, I don't really see that. When I hear Kindle, I think more of nurturing, or beginning a fire. A fire needs to begin somewhere, just as an idea must. And must also be nurtured, and built upon, something that books do. That's what I see when I see "Kindle". Matchbook just goes along with the fire theme of Kindle, as publicfig said.

> Anyone know if they tally calls for people calling to say thanks or good job or whatever?

Probably wouldn't hurt. In fact, it might inspire similar bills on issues such as this.

Happy voters are repeat voters after all!

They already have OCR for the Google Book project (I assume). And they have this project, would it be difficult to combine the two?

> a lot of this rise is coming from new money.

Speculation, but could some of the new money be coming from CryptoLocker[0]?

[0] http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/cryptolocker-r...

You're right, there is a spectrum of preference. But just because some are ok with it, doesn't mean all of us. Why encapsulate everyone under the same policy of track everything?

On the Do Not Track, I think turning it on by default is a bad idea. It gives companies no incentive to follow it and abide by it. (Yes, they have no reason to abide by it right now either). There is no law that says they have to abide by it, but it seems to me they might be more willing to abide by DNT if those that are tracking conscious were to turn it on, rather than it to be turned on by itself. They wouldn't lose as many people to track if it was opt in instead of opt out.

Most likely not. If the bots were to suddenly turn into nodes, then there is a good chance that a large percentage of users could have their anonymity compromised.

Tor anonymity relies on the fact it is difficult to tie in where you entered the system, and where you exited the system. If someone where to control a large amount of nodes, they could (in theory) tie a large amount identities together. But this requires a large amount of entry and exit nodes.

My American Government put a definition of democracy in a way that I feel is important here:

Democracy is government for the people, by the people, held accountable by the people.

This is not democracy. There is no due process, there is seemingly no way to appeal, and nobody is held accountable for any decisions for this list, right or wrong.

> places like a noisy restaurant or cafe.

This is an opinion, but it seems this can make it easier for some. Because it's a constant noise that doesn't often change much, you eventually tune it out. It feels like it's the sudden change in ambient noise that causes a break in concentration. I use white noise, or a rain noise generator (they both do well for me) to get this same effect while studying.

> To me, this seems inefficient, since not everyone wants your message.

I would like to point out BitMessage uses streams. Streams are a collection of nodes that have a particular part of their address in common. If you have an address that is part of one of these streams, your computer will listen into that stream. So you won't download all streams keys and messages, only those that pertain to you.

> Every message is retained forever by every BM client.

That is not true.

From the white paper [0] under section 6:

> We propose that nodes store all objects for two days and then delete them.

It's also on the FAQ[1]:

> Yes. However, if you go offline then they must come back online within 2 days of the message being sent. Nodes delete data, and do not accept data, older than 2 days.

The sender will not delete the message until it's received an acknowledge from the receiver. It instead will recompute the proof of work and resend in an exponential growing interval. This is also in section 6 of [0].

> If a node is offline for more than two days, the sending node will notice that it never received an acknowledgement and rebroadcasts the message after an additional two days. It will continue to rebroadcast the message, with exponential backoff, forever.

[0] https://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf

[1] https://bitmessage.org/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_send_a_message_to_some...