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  1. Re:Bit-what? on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 1

    I'm not arguing for bitcoin but against the dollar.

  2. Re:Missing the point? on Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas · · Score: 1

    Must be able to remember a short word or phrase consisting of a word which may or may not be some alteration on a standard english word, may or may not be the name of the product or company it refers to (steampowered, anyone?), an arbitrary extension (.com, .net, .tv?) then possibly some other weird characters and punctuation and words that may or may not be case sensitive. Then if you are mobile, you have to enter it on a crappy keyboard which will have a varying level of ease-of-use.

    Or alternatively, touch "barcode scanner", point at QR code, wait for beep then touch "Go to website".

  3. Re:Bit-what? on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 2

    or dollar bills.

  4. Re:Good luck with that! on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in a bank, sure...

    Good luck with that.

  5. Re:come on! it's 2012 already... move on. on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    HIPAA

  6. Re:not all that different on Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs · · Score: 1

    Trackers and torrent sites are not the same thing.

  7. Re:Botanical abuse on Disney Turns Plants Into Multi-Touch Sensors · · Score: 1

    My touch-sensitive apples have square corners.

  8. Re:More reasont to give up hope on a good dumb pho on Motorola To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Focus On High-End Devices · · Score: 1

    Motofone f3, just about.

  9. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could interleave the files like an 8-track. (OK, not quite like an 8-track. But you could seek between the tracks quickly). If you don't need full bandwidth to play your movie, you could have other, potentially useful data passing under the head.

    Nope, it's still messed up.

  10. Re:History on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 1

    You can have interaction with widgets. The radar one I wrote has zoom in/out and animation buttons.

  11. Re:eInk sucks at displaying non-static data on How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? · · Score: 1

    It's also useless for spreading butter or inflating a flat tire.

  12. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    You are correct. The vast majority do not work hard. And they expect to be paid exceedingly well for not doing so (of which the government helps itself to an excessive degree)

  13. Re:News Flash.... on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Like it or not, it's still a contract.

    No, it's not.

  14. Re:What's available for Bitttorrent clients nowada on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Forgot to include that on those upgrades, the crufty interface was enabled by default, thus breaking a perfectly functional install, not for security reasons or other benefit to myself but purely in an attempt to "monetize" the product.

  15. Re:What's available for Bitttorrent clients nowada on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    I gave up on Vuze when I was still using win2k and the latest update required WinXP for the crufty interface (but not for the classic). The second time it happened, I decided to forego digging through the registry (or wherever it stores it settings) to change it back to classic and switched to transmission (which also happened to have the advantage of running on my DVR) so that I could actually turn my workstation off.

    I've been through XP and 7 since then but never looked back at Vuze. Get a clue and stop ruining good software, idiots.

  16. Re:What's available for Bitttorrent clients nowada on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    My rss feed scripts are 60 lines long and that's with a lot of comments and cruft that should really be removed. For non-technical users that's not much help but it means that transmission is far from useless.

  17. Re:What's available for Bitttorrent clients nowada on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Yep. RSS not built-in? Not a problem with CLI. Want to scrape a web page? Pull links from emails? There's your CLI again.

  18. Re:What's available for Bitttorrent clients nowada on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    My Android does have a terminal and, yes, it does improve it and I install it on each device I obtain. (ConnectBot as it happens but see also ADB shell)

  19. Re:Many questions arise on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    A car is usually used to transport people but often that driver is merely delivering a non-human item. Certainly there's very little requirement for a human to be present when my shirts are going to the dry cleaners.

    This does lead to the possibility of people loading their infants or children into cars on their own with predictably disastrous results.

  20. Re:How open is this "open console"? on With $8.6M In Kickstarter Funds, Ouya Opens Console Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    I plan to corner the market on flashlight apps.

  21. Re:GPU drivers? on With $8.6M In Kickstarter Funds, Ouya Opens Console Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    One day I hope they will be able to put the internet in the cloud.

  22. Re:Rear Ended on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    Consider though that the roads are for transportation and not your personal pleasure. I'm with you on the feeling, I'm an avid motorcyclist but it is what it is. There will be tracks and closed courses (which are generally much safer *and* faster) to fulfill the fun requirement.

  23. Re:Rear Ended on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 2

    Every CO2 emission, [...] is bad.

    I trust you'll be ceasing to make them at the earliest possible opportunity then.

  24. Re:Data only if you're at fault on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    Ah, the "LEO" option.

  25. Re:Breakdown by age? on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    Conversely, it may be that younger, more internet-connected respondents are less adverse to invasions of privacy and, given modern schooling, having their rights trampled on. Older people may also be less inclined to be happy with being bossed around by whipper snappers.

    So breakdown by age would, indeed be interesting.