/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>8996906
let's fuck this shit up comrade
2021 maybe things will recover
dow under 10k

"And then there are the inexplicable pleasures of information itself, the joys of learning, knowing, and teaching; the strange good feeling of information coming into and out of oneself. Playing with ideas is a recreation which people are willing to pay a lot for, given the market for books and elective seminars. We'd likely spend even more money for such pleasures if we didn't have so many opportunities to pay for ideas with other ideas. This explains much of the collective "volunteer" work which fills the archives, newsgroups, and databases of the Internet. Its denizens are not working for "nothing," as is widely believed. Rather they are getting paid in something besides money. It is an economy which consists almost entirely of information."

>>5281387
>>5280957
>>5281003
WE

>>4492884
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Bitcoin, is in fact, Blockstream Coin, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Shitcoin. Blockstream Coin is not Satoshi's vision, but rather another component of Jewish bankers controlling the monetary system.

>>3400530
so it requires a piece of Intel cryptographic hardware to stay secure

dump it.

>>2953233
Skype requires the use of a client program that is not free software; in other words, the users don't control it — it controls them.

A nonfree program denies users freedom, which is unjust in itself. Making the ethical issue sharper, for you to use Skype is to encourage someone else to use Skype, which means you're pressuring someone else to surrender freedom as well. This is plenty of reason to refuse to use Skype, but there are more reasons.

Skype refuses to say whether it can eavesdrop on calls. That almost certainly means it can do so.
Skype gave personal data about a Wikileaks supporter to another company without any legal obligation to do so.
Skype churns the meaning of preference settings, and gives its users a run-around when someone cheats them.
Microsoft has changed Skype to make it easier for states to snoop on users.
Skype messages are not encrypted for the whole trip: Microsoft can read them. And Microsoft does read them.