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  1. Re:Blockchain on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it might be possible to "page out" sections of the blockchain once they're verified. Checksum them and delete them from disk. If they're needed for a calculation, re-download and verify them. There should be enough redundancy out there that this wouldn't badly affect things.

  2. Re:Blockchain on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Although it is similar in not having a backing, Bitcoin does not fit the definition of a fiat currency. If anything, it's a concordant currency.

  3. Re:What RMS has in mind ? on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    When it comes to organized crime, governments don't like competition.

  4. Re:Are they fatter? on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 2

    The people born into socialized healthcare are beginning to come to the end of their lifespans.

    I don't think that's it but it's an avenue to explore.

  5. Re:Since, pre-existing conditions are covered ... on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    Whoosh?

  6. Re:Win win situation... on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    Yes. Cause almost nobody's heard of global warming...

  7. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    And the rear compartment is neither a trunk nor a boot, the front compartment neither a hood nor a bonnet. What do you call them? Do you keep gloves in the passenger-side storage compartment?

  8. Re:The law should be for everyone on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    Judging by all the cops on I-40 in TN who sit on the money side rather than the drug side, yup.

  9. Re:Do you actially understand what science is? on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    And yet it is the left pushing for "equal time" legislation for the media.

    Funny that.

  10. Re:What happens when... on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    Yes, what happens when...? Do all the airplanes suddenly disappear?

  11. Re:Wilco on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    Measurements from 33,231 BC: None recorded.

    That's a doubling every decade.

  12. Re:understandable on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    Increasing population also means people starting to live in areas that were previously avoided. Y'know, cause of the floods and mudslides and shit.

  13. Re:Is it science? on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    Were you not paying attention? The Communists lost because Communism (particularly as practiced by the Soviet Union) is an utterly shitty political system and results in a weak state. Eventually they just couldn't fake anymore and collapsed under their own weight. A divided US would not have been appreciably less strong than a united one (possibly stronger) as both/all parts would likely have continued with a similar amount of economic freedom.

  14. Re:In the USA on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    I'm skipping straight to "Climate change - or not"

  15. Re:In the USA on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    During the last ice-age, we were pretty much not beyond "pointy sticks" in terms of technology. Now we can build houses that in the coldest environments can be heated by the body heat of the occupants alone.

  16. Re:Oh that's bad on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry, I mean "suicide"

  17. Re:Oh that's bad on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 1

    Don't forget suicide.

  18. Re:I call bull on Single-Atom Layer of Tin May Be a New Wonder Conductor · · Score: 1

    It's an expensive way to asphyxiate though.

  19. Re:'Officializes' on Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense · · Score: 2

    It's "keeping mum" too. Idioms should be used properly.

  20. Re:Does the kit consist of food or drugs? on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But you miss his point.

  21. Re:Fixed-point arithmetic on Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    Why buy one computer and wait a thousand hours for the result when you can rent a thousand computers and have the result in an hour?

    (assuming your calculation can be scaled that way, of course).

  22. Re:False? on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 1

    Just because there is a safety test doesn't mean it's definitive on how safe a car is. It may incorrectly test some safety aspects or miss other aspects completely. Some of the tests may need to be weighted differently or may not even be able to be weighted in a rational manner. It's an approximation, an educated guess at how safe a vehicle is and as such, you can't really claim that one car is safer than another based on the score, particularly if the scores are close.

  23. Re: Ellipsis mayhem on US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer someone used the square brackets than me reading the article expecting them to do a shoulder roll at any second.

  24. Re:Please remove this article at once. on Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It · · Score: 2

    Also to avoid prudish filters. Something the writer often has no control over.

  25. Only one thing. on Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Paragraph 1 of RFC:

    User SHALL register for Google Plus