You know this is
important when it gets its own wikipedia page. Let's hope it stops
at that.
What is going on here?
Has my favorite boondoggle agency found new boons to doggle?
TSA
Harasses Traveler After 'Seeing Bitcoin' In His Bag
The TSA attempted to
"screen" airline passenger Davi Barker for the virtual
currency Bitcoin.
Barker
is co-founder of BitcoinNotBombs, a Bitcoin advocacy group that
gets donation-based organizations and social entrepreneurs set up to
handle the currency. He's written a very detailed telling of what
happened right
here. After going through security (he opted out of the body
scanner but was successfully cleared through the checkpoint), two
people stopped him, and it got uncomfortable quickly.
I
was about to ask for my attorney, who happens to be my wife, when
[the person wearing] the orange shirt said, “What about Bitcoin?”
I was flabbergasted. This was above and beyond any scrutiny I had
ever received from the TSA, and a little frightening that they were
looking for Bitcoin. I said I didn’t understand the question. He
continued, “We saw Bitcoin in your bag and need to
check.”
… If this sounds
weird to you, it's because it is. Bitcoin is digital and doesn't
exist in the physical world — to "see Bitcoin" in a bag
would be like seeing email in a bag.
For my wino friends.
I'm not sure how to use
this, yet.
Starting
to Demo the Wolfram Language
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on March 1, 2014
A knowledge based
language: “We’re getting closer to the first official release of
the Wolfram
Language—so I am starting to demo it more publicly. Here’s a
short video demo I just made. It’s amazing to me how much of this
is based on things I hadn’t even thought of just
a few months ago. Knowledge-based programming is going to be
much bigger than I imagined…”
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