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  1. Re:Value of Gold on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 1

    OK, switch gold with Google stocks. Or savings bonds. They're not pretty and don't serve any pupose other than being tradable with cash, and nobody accepts them for payment in lieu of cash.

  2. Re:Not a cell on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 1

    Why would the need to self-replicate define a cell? Are you no longer alive if you get a vasectomy? Is a mule not alive because it can't have viable offspring?

  3. Re:nerdgasm on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope not, given that it's written at a 6th grade level and it's only two sentences. But hey, if you're a 5th grader that's probably pretty good!

  4. Re:Killing two birds with one stone? on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't buy groceries with BTC

    Can you use gold to buy groceries? What, they don't accept gold at the supermarket? I guess it doesn't have any value, other than being able to exchange it for cash. What a waste!

  5. Re:Another Day, Another Slashvertisement on CES 2014: HAL© is a Voice- and Gesture-Operated Remote (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ah, but how many worse submissions were downmodded and never ended up on the main page?

  6. Re:Why the ©? on CES 2014: HAL© is a Voice- and Gesture-Operated Remote (Video) · · Score: 2

    Looking at the website, the company doesn't style the product name that way.

    It sure as hell does, on the about page.

  7. Re:Another Day, Another Slashvertisement on CES 2014: HAL© is a Voice- and Gesture-Operated Remote (Video) · · Score: 2

    You can, or rather, you could have. Click on Submissions. Vote them up or down. It's not hard.

  8. Re:Almost. there. on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    Uh, the LED would be there as a *security* feature, not sneaking in as a friggin' flashlight.

    I was referring to the LED that already exists next to the camera, which is used as a flash for taking pictures and as a separate flashlight. I was not assuming an additional LED of much lower brightness put next to that one.

    Shutters don't stop microphones from listening.

    LEDs on microphones don't stop them from listening either though, do they? And unless you're always looking at your phone, 24/7, it's not really a solution. When your phone is in your pocket, purse, etc or when you're sleeping, in another room etc the LED being on wouldn't be of much use. A physical block over the microphone, a small shutter with a seal, would obscure enough of the sound to make listening in much harder. Yes it would be a part that could break, but given that phones aren't typically used more than a year or two, it's not an insurmountable problem.

  9. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    So? The conversation was what would happen in the US, and I said, "I would consider", refering to the hypothetical statement of being in the US.

  10. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 0

    I would consider it his fifth amendment right not to be forced to self incriminate. It's the prosection's duty to prove his guilt, so make them do their job. I don't care if he's guilty of other charges; he still has the same rights as everyone else.

  11. Re:More garbage on Programmer Privilege · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will the never ending garbage ever cease?

    Um, by definition, I guess that's a no.

  12. Re:Almost. there. on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    It could be, but it isn't if you want to use the LED as a flashlight without the camera being on. I'd prefer them to be separate with a physical shutter, personally, but then again I have brain dammage.

  13. Re:Almost. there. on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 2

    The LED is on the right track, but if someone can hack your phone to turn the camera on, they can also turn the LED off. How about a physical shutter over the camera? I'd like a neon orange small plastic shutter to close over the cameras on my phone. I'd be able to quickly check that they're still on and not worry about someone hacking my phone.

  14. Re:Gravity is not constant... on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 1

    If you're joking, I think that's hysterical. I'm just not sure you're joking.

  15. Re:Gravity is not constant... on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 0

    Um, no. When the force of gravity is different on one from day to the next, then what the balance equals will change. As in, one day the slug balances to 1.000001kg of another weight, and another day it eauals 1.000002kg of another weight. Each day the balance is balanced, but to different weights.

  16. Re:Gravity is not constant... on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 2

    No shit. And measuring the mass of the slug in question involves weighing it. Or do you have another method involved for determining the mass of an object used as the constant for measuring mass?

  17. Re:It's about time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    How is getting the manager any different as far as self defense is concerned? If he was in fear for his life, he shouldn't have come back after leaving.

  18. Re:About time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Well, I think being arrogant is worthy of the death penalty, and who's to say your opinion is any more valuable than mine? Or are you so self absorbed, you think yours is the only opinion worth considering?

  19. Re:It's about time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Just curious, are there other annoying habits you think deserve the death penalty?

  20. Re:It's about time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 0

    It's hardly self defense when you go out to your car to get a gun and come back. If he was in fear for his life, then leave and don't come back.

  21. Re:About time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    How many other annoying habits deserve the death penalty, and how many do you exhibit?

  22. Re:Isn't this the ultimate goal? on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 1

    taking into account that maintaining them would be essentially free? (as no salaries have to be paid to produce food, shelter, etc...

    Why would feeding unemployed people suddenly become free? Is the plant that automated its workforce still going to pay its former workers to eat?

  23. Re:Real article behind paywall on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll take it with cream and sugar, thanks for asking.

  24. Re:Real article behind paywall on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 1

    The fantastic article links to the orginal paper. Maybe you should get another cup yourself.

  25. Re:Feel small? on Hubble Telescope Snaps Images of Tarantula Nebula · · Score: 2

    Maybe you should try one of those pumps.