Parity accounts for roughly 5,000 of all Ethereum nodes (of which there is no "official" "1st-party" implementation) [0]. As a result of being so popular, Parity users were collectively robbed of $30,000,000 of Ether due to the multisignature (typically used to secure funds versus single-signature-required transacting) smart contract bug.
I tried out a FreedomPop phone once and they ended up taking my credit card number and began billing me at the end of some term they had. I tried to cancel the service using their online service and got an email confirmation that it was canceled, but they billed me for months and I had to keep filing disputes with my credit card company. I won't touch or recommend FreedomPop.
This is because when I go to the start menu and start typing the name of the application I'm looking for, a large percentage of the time the Cortana search process is corrupted and my start menu is not searched, instead, I get an Edge window opened with a Bing search for "Photoshop"
I recently learned this is possible to turn off from the settings as something like "search Internet for results".
Probably the most annoying feature of windows 10, hit enter quickly enough and its always a bing search because it's too fast for local..
This is so true. It's so polluted and smoggy, there's a constant fog about when you walk around that never goes away. India and China are driving the climate change disaster, not the USA.
The governments of the world will allow decentralization only to the point where it starts to cut into the tax proceeds of centralized energy. In the U.S., solar isn't going to move to rooftops, it's going to move to panel arrays on large swaths of government-owned land out west where it can still be metered and taxed.
This is reminiscent of the argument that marijuana could never be legalized because no one could figure out how to tax it. Different angle of attack, I suppose, but just as inapplicable to reality.
