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  1. Re:Wi-Fi in the store on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    Actually, thinking about it, I suspect you may not know how Bitcoin payments work. You may want to investigate before commenting further.

  2. Re:Wi-Fi in the store on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    I have a Bitcoin wallet on my phone. Wifi not required.

  3. Re:Clash of the Titans on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    I say they should forget the courts and have a huge evil corporate robot battle instead. You know it makes sense.

  4. Re:Customers may benefit... maybe on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    They don't have those stupid loyalty cards either. I still avoid shopping there when I can though.

  5. Re:Customers may benefit... maybe on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    And everyone is a moron. QED.

  6. Re:Customers may benefit... maybe on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    Might have been better not to have that government in assistance in the first place. Of course somewhere like Walmart is going to take advantage.

  7. Re:Instantly fired. on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 1

    I guess there are a lot of companies out there that have the mission statement "Bloat the codebase and add features users don't want".

  8. Re:Tarzan need antecedent on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 1

    Of course you should have a right to strike. And your employer should have the right to no longer require your services.

  9. Re:Problem with Kickstarter on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    If your kickstarter reward is a "VR headset", that's one thing. If it's a "dev-kit", that kind-of implies that if you purchase one, barring the failure of the company, you are planning on developing for a future product. If, before that product is released, you sell-out and leave your developers, who have funded your company, at the whims of the new owners, I'd say that's a pretty shitty thing to do.

  10. Re:So were you a backer? on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    You think you're not either going to have to jump through Facebook hoops or pay a Facebook tax to have your application be available to consumers?

  11. Re:Grab the popcorn! on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    It already has anaglyph 3D. The sad thing is, it's trivial to adapt that to side-by-side or any other 3D mode (I made a patch myself) but they just never made it happen in the base install.

  12. Re:scroogled hypocrisy on They're Reading Your Mail: Microsoft's ToS, Windows 8 Leak, and Snooping · · Score: 1

    End-to-end encryption has been available in several of the clients for a while now. Of course, third parties can still see who is sending to who but the content can be protected.

  13. Re: Bad summary on They're Reading Your Mail: Microsoft's ToS, Windows 8 Leak, and Snooping · · Score: 1

    The phrase used to be "it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission" but I think it should probably be modified to be "It is easier to say 'Screw you, what are you going to do about it?' than seek permission"

  14. Re:You thought things would change? on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    He wanted to change things. He just wanted to change different things from the things he said he was wanting to change.

  15. Re:listening to an audiobook of mein kampf on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    To be fair, in 1940s Germany, rap was still in its infancy. It was only 50 years later when it crossed the Atlantic to settle in the ghettos of New York that it really hit its stride.

  16. Re: I'm still incensed on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer the CIA keep Feinstein.

  17. Re:Wise-up on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    To be fair, he's half white.

  18. Re:"halfway through its second term" ? on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    So you're saying she should have skipped vice president and gone straight for the top spot?

  19. Re: Gambler's Fallacy on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    You know why they handicap horses and the bookmakers make odds? Because if they didn't, analysis would allow the gamblers to beat the house. You clearly have no idea how randomness works.

    Bitcoin will either succeed or it won't. Some might be having a punt but others believe they see structure which affirms one or the other outcome. They may be wrong but that makes it not gambling.

    I'm done with this. Take a course on statistics or something. You didn't even get the right name for what you're describing.

  20. Re:Laughable on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    That just means you could go to where somebody else was.

  21. Re:Good on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 1

    Windows RT, on the other hand, is completely different from WinRT

    What could possibly go wrong?

  22. Re: Gambler's Fallacy on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    Haha. You're funny. I have knowledge of it systems and protocols and what I believe to be a correct view of finances.

    Barring extraordinary outliers, it's possible to well enough predict things. To a man who had never seen an analogue watch before, which way the hands go round would be a 50/50 proposition. To the rest of us, it's a sure thing.

    Just because you think Bitcoin is a gamble doesn't mean it is. It will either succeed or fail based on a myriad things. Chance is a very small part of that.

  23. Re: Gambler's Fallacy on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    Except it isn't just random. Domain knowledge can put you ahead of the odds.

  24. Re: Don't they have to fly that thing around? on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 2

    Having the POTUS' ride carrying a rare, if not unique, flammability potential feels, arrogant.

    Perfect fit then.

  25. Re:Crypto-coin advocates = anarchists or libertari on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    Experience shows that government-regulated structures have their own issues. And when you have trouble with the regulating body, you can pick a better one. Oh, wait. No you can't.