Actually, they already get tazed as part of their training (at least most of the cops in the Air Force), and they're perfectly non-lethal. Not exactly sure what you're referring to, but the incidences of deaths by tazer are significantly lower than whatever the threshold is for "lethal" weapon description.

There are some people who don't get affected by OC spray as much as others, and it's not too difficult to build a tolerance to tear gas, but they don't really have different effects on different people (not in the sense you imply). OC hits mucus membranes and pores, and makes your nerve endings register as extreme…

Does your Google TV support the cast function? Maybe just switch to using your phone to push a Plex show to the device? I don't know whether or not Google TV can receive casts like Chromecast does, so it kinda depends on that feature.

I don't understand the argument... It's still a one-time payment of $4.99 if you want the full Android app functionality. That's the same model that it was before. The difference is that they'd prefer members to switch to the subscription (with good reason too, since the PlexPass features are far better than the…

Yeah, but I just wanted to make it clear that you CAN print your own money, you just can't print your own dollars/euros/etc.

Nobody can legitimately claim that the twins were the first ones to come up with this idea... It's something that plenty of people have been trying to do for a long time now, including Coinbase!

The twins are behind a completely different project, called the Bitcoin ETF. What Coinbase is doing today has nothing to do with the Winklevoss twins, they are actually losing to Coinbase now, since they've been trying to do the same thing, and have been beat to the punch by Coinbase.

Guess it's a good thing he didn't say internet traffic. It's fairly clear he was referencing torrent traffic...

Well, it's only officially supported in certain countries (not the US or Europe, from most reports). So the only way this will work on your device would be by downloading the APK and installing it directly...

You can make your own physical Bitcoin, but it would just be a proxy to the blockchain-based Bitcoin wallet, which means that if someone transferred the money from that coin, the coin would be worthless. There's nothing against printing your own store of value, you just can't print your own fiat currency (US Dollar,…

This is very beneficial for Bitcoin, because it levels the value of BTC, which will help increase merchant adoption. For example, right now let's say that only 5% of the investment community has access to Bitcoin as a form of investment or exchange. With Bitcoin entering public exchanges and trading environments, it…

Actually, there is a real line of physical security. Coinbase (and Bitstamp, and many other online Bitcoin exchanges) hold the majority of their Bitcoin in "cold storage", which means that it is disconnected from the web and cannot be transferred without pulling those wallets out of cold storage and allowing those…

That's because this exchange has nothing to do with the Winklevoss twins. Get your details right...

There are people that will be held accountable this time, that's the whole point of the article!

You're making the assumption that every video producer will still push all of their content to YouTube, which probably won't be the case for everybody here. It's like saying that Vine is a failure because Vine video producers could just as easily post their 6-second videos to YouTube. It's a different audience,…

If that's how YouTube makes it work. More than likely it would be along the same vein as Play Store apps/content, where the publisher gets 60% of the subscription. This is still plenty, but you're still dealing with getting people to agree to pay $1 per channel that they like, instead of $3 for everything.

k... But 100k views is only 1/10th of 1mil... The equivalent would be getting 40k views on Vessel to match the income from 1mil views on YouTube. Definitely worth a shot for all parties.

I didn't say necessarily, I said likely. Before YouTube could be monetized, there weren't nearly the same big-name folks providing channels worth watching regularly. Now there are... It stands to reason that providers will work to produce better content if their earning would increase as a result.

How isn't it good for the providers? They would receive 25 times more money based on views than they would/do on YouTube?

Then I guess we'll see how effective Vessel ends up being...