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  1. Re:Huge Security Hole Has Been there all Along on Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices · · Score: 1

    Damn that was vague. Could you maybe explain what kind of bad things they can do without permission?

    And what kind of monitoring do you want? A debugger?

  2. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Converting to 24 fps is just a matter of removing half the frames. No interpolation needed.

  3. Re:Why not both? on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    So, if you leave/enter the US, do you reprogram all your contacts?

  4. Re:Automation and Unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    Then why don't they just raise the price by $50? $500?
    If manufacturers always pocket the savings, why doesn't a present-day microwave oven cost as much as much as the first ones?

    Because competition.

  5. Re:Research your articles /. on Bitcoins Join Global Bank Network · · Score: 3, Informative

    Source, from the horse's mouth: https://bitcoin-central.net/s/aqoba-partnership

  6. Re:One of the rare cases where... on Google Axes Free Google Apps For Businesses · · Score: 1

    The problem with ABP is that it doesn't filter all those ABP ads^H endorsements

  7. Re:Industrial espionage on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    My dog can't formulate a sentence without grammatical errors. Has he been educated in the US?

  8. Re:Conspiracy to Censor on The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Check the URL on NASA: Curiosity Has Found Plastic On Mars · · Score: 2

    Xavier Jenks
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
    admin@nasaupdatecenter.us

    NEWS RELEASE: 2012-420

  10. Re:Clean Operating System CD? on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can still do that, and you don't need a cd key to download.
    It's kind of hard to find a link, but it's there. For the record, digitalrivercontent.net is an official MS CDN:
    http://www.w7forums.com/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads-t12325.html

  11. Re:Seems like the limit is too low for a viable on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    We have left the gold standard. Gold still exists and is still in limited supply, but is no longer disastrous.

  12. Re:Seems like the limit is too low for a viable on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    Meant to use a mu-sign, as in uBTC. Slashdot didn't want me to.

  13. Re:Seems like the limit is too low for a viable on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    It was disastrous because the economies were pegged to the gold prices. Nobody wants to peg the dollar to bitcoin, because Bitcoin is simply a commodity, just like gold (today), oil, Apple stock or minerals.

  14. Re:Seems like the limit is too low for a viable on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    And Nobody* suggests linking Bitcoin to any currency.

  15. Re:What does it calculate? on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 3, Informative

    People already pay mining fees, typically 0.0005BTC / transaction. Right now you get about 0.1 BTC in mining fees from a block, and 50 BTC from the built-in reward (which functions a a way of distributing bitcoin initially). As the reward halves every 4th year and number of transactions supposedly rises, a higher percentage of a miners income will stem from tx fees.

    You can make a transaction without paying a fee, but not all miners will include your transaction in their block, and thus your transaction may take a long time to be confirmed.

  16. Re:Seems like the limit is too low for a viable on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    Sure, you could, but it is less than one per person, the initial complaint.

    I still don't see why it matters. Why can't we use BTC?

  17. Re:Seems like the limit is too low for a viable on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    Gold is finite in supply, too. Why isn't that disasterous?

    Nobody* is suggesting we get rid of the dollar, just use Bitcoin as any other trade-able commodity.

  18. Re:No silly on Gameplay: the Missing Ingredient In Most Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Completed" means doing all achievements, not "playing through the story". To me it seems quite natural that if it's the story that carries a game, people are not going to play through it multiple times to unlock every achievement.

  19. Re:maybe... on WordPress To Accept Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't you lose most of whatever you used to take down the market?

  20. Re:maybe... on WordPress To Accept Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    You still need someone to sell it TO. Also, why doesn't this apply to any other valuable?

  21. Re:Seems like a no-brainer on WordPress To Accept Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Intersango

  22. Re:Futile on Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach · · Score: 1

    It was a joke.

    Like a venomless king snake beating its tail to copy the unmistakable warning of a rattlesnake[...]

    It's unmistakable, yet copyable. Does not compute.

  23. Re:Not a bad deal on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 1

    And now he goes to the next company, still not expecting to be screwed over.

  24. Re:Good reason for it to be illegal on Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot · · Score: 1

    Blind people are supposedly able to use smartphones. It must therefore be possible for them to use a touch screen.

    Note: I did not say it was a good idea; a paper ballot with a picture and braille (available on request, to keep costs down) is way better.

  25. Re:Good reason for it to be illegal on Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot · · Score: 1

    Voice: "Press the button when your candidate's name is read"

    "Click on the picture of your candidate"