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  1. Re:Refund how? on Bitcoin Exchange BitFloor Says It Will Replace Stolen Coins · · Score: 2

    They left a large amount of bitcoins in an unencrypted wallet (to my understanding). What makes you think they'd have that level of sophistication in their contract?

  2. Re:Control differences on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 2

    Hmm. Wiimote perhaps?

  3. Re:Mouse versus touchscreen on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 1

    Two mice. Duh

  4. Re:Wrong answer. on Can Foursquare Data Predict Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    At least you'll know someone has taken your TV from the pile of broken glass by the window?

  5. Re:Libre Office on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    I hate having to fiddle with all that emm386 stuff and having to type win.com to boot my GUI.

    Wait, it's 2012?

    Ah OK, the manufacturer of my perfectly-good scanner doesn't make drivers for Windows 7. If only the source from the old drivers was available for someone to bring current...

    YMMV.

  6. Re:I'm sick of these articles on UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale · · Score: 1

    Except it's not really a problem which is why no one is particularly rushing to fix it.

    Quit wanting the government to force other to do what you think is best. It's antisocial.

  7. Re:Oh no! Regulation! on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    Would you like to pay for your power that way?

    Perhaps I would. Perhaps a lot of people would. Know why they can't?

  8. Re:Oh no! Regulation! on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    When did we try the free market? I must have been out of the country that week.

  9. Re:Let's Just Hope They Leave Well Enough Alone on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 1

    "Well enough"? That's a laugh. I can't leave a Slashdot story open on my netbook without it bringing it to its knees a couple of hours later. This site needs a code enema.

  10. Re:Not conservative on Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails · · Score: 1

    A lot of the problem is that the primary process selects bad candidates. McCain? Obama? Bush? And a bucket full of other names from history.

    In part, this is because for some reason, states have seen fit to interpose themselves into the primary process. By what authority, I have no clue. Surely, as groups of freely associating individuals, it should be up to the parties how they select their candidates. Just another of those American oddities like school zones and the pledge of allegiance.

  11. Re:Not conservative on Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails · · Score: 1

    That makes the assumption that you would want one of the two major parties to win. It also is based on the assumption that your vote has a good chance of making a difference (in many states, it doesn't).

    "Tactical voting" or not, if you hate both major parties or your state is going trend one way strong enough that effectively your vote probably won't matter, you should vote your conscience.

    Truthfully though, you should vote your conscience anyway. Not using your vote as your voice really is throwing it away.

  12. Re:Not conservative on Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails · · Score: 1

    Any vote that isn't for a candidate capable of beating the incumbent allows the incumbent to stay in office. It is effectively voting for them.

    So in a state in which always votes heavily one way and there is no realistic chance of ousting the incumbent, any vote is a vote for the incumbent. Nice logic.

  13. Re:Perspective on Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    su

  14. Re:Perspective on Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Not $648.99 and $599.99? Careful or Apple will be suing Samsung for rounded prices.

  15. Re:Wow. on Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Not only that but often, even when I have my DSLR with me, I'll often take a picture with my phone just because it's insanely trivial to share the resulting picture.

  16. Re:Technology on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    And look what happened when Prometheus violated IP rights on that. Just don't tell the **AA, they'll be citing it as precedent.

  17. Re:Technology on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    A map is simply a schematic of the lay of the land at the time it was printed.

    Which is why they are not generally marked according to magnetic north (other than maps which also include correction factors).

  18. Re:They shouldn't abandon it on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 1

    Nuclear waste is pretty much a non-issue (except politically) as is and in the next 100,000 years would certainly have become a non-issue due to improved disposal methods or techniques to extract even more energy from it.

  19. Re:Helium shortage on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 1

    It's one of the most plentiful elements in the universe. If there is a market for it, it will be obtained somehow. The threatened shortage is what happens when government gets involved with things.

  20. Re:Disaster on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 2

    Oh the humanity(-student level understanding of science)

  21. Re:WTF? on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    And there goes the anonymity of cash. Time to load up on gold and bitcoins ;)

  22. Re:Security and lifetime of your typical car on BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack · · Score: 1

    It's impossible, barring extreme methods, period. All you can do is make the next car along look like a better prospect.

  23. Gamecube games on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    It's what's stopping me simply buying a new Wii to replace my black-screened Wii. For some reason, Nintendo took this feature out.

  24. Re:Batshit Crazy? Movie was a cover... on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 2

    The insinuation being that he would want to stop the cycle?

  25. Re:Deaf community will hate this on Stem Cells Turn Hearing Back On · · Score: 2

    I understand the need to rationalize things that way but "The Fox Without a Tail" springs to mind.