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  1. Re:Time to go .bit on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 1

    good thing i decidded to scan the page for namecoin yea, my thought exactly ... namecoins anyone ? i dont know what to do with them but xchange for litecoins anyway

  2. Re:Google, eh? on Google's Idea of Productivity Is a Bad Fit For Many Other Workplaces · · Score: 1

    maybe it works both ways and their profitability is partly derived from happy employees just as well, keeping morale as high as possible at all times to prevent routing or desertion, so the grunts hold the general in high regard and will fight to the death if necessary ? (somewhat, i see sun tzu everywhere sometimes)

  3. Re:makes me think of the belgian constitution on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    that's secrecy not -t in case of gremmar nazis i always miss the review button but i think my point should be clear enough

  4. makes me think of the belgian constitution on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    which states that
    Art. 29.
    Het briefgeheim is onschendbaar.
    De wet bepaalt welke agenten verantwoordelijk zijn voor de schending van het geheim der aan de post toevertrouwde brieven.

    roughly : secrety of a letter can't be violated, the law dictates what agents can be allowed to 'violate' the secret (privacy) of letters who were delivered to the post office
    any creative lawyer would see there's nothing about letters deliverd to the hotmail or google servers in there .. and not all judges are known to rule by the spirit but rather by the literal word of the law so ...
    i have my doubts there

  5. Re:Get your numbers right on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    get your latest news on bitcoinsocially.com (no im not affiliated but it IS like the facebook of bitcoin with everyone revolving around that) but i was saying euh ...
    ah, yea, the price is down under $60 by now which is still 50% up from last month and what i hear is someone exploited something on mtgox cleaning out accounts by inviting users to a java chat applet
    here is the link to that
    as to the coward above, its not all that unregulated imo, some people seem to be regulating it quite well, this whole anarcho crypto thing is something i never hear anyone sitting on a zillion coins talk about (not that i know anyone but they must be there, the first ones who mined it from the start)
    my biggest fear is big government intervening because a few would be making a lot of money without paying their share in taxes, and that could fk up more than some smart speculation and creative use of d-dos No matter what, it's still quite the phenomenon but until my baker and butcher accepts my usb-stick with some coins on it it's not really replacing anything
    so governments shouldnt be scaredd since who sits on it makes no difference and who uses it to buy stuff provided vendors with cash and is actually making the flow flow (which this crazy idea of unlimited growth in limited space with limited resources they call economy is all about right), its actually new input from the bottom up, like colonizing africa, only without exploitation of human beings, just fresh input from scratch (does that make sense, i know i can come over like nostradamus on acid sometimes)

  6. Re:Yuh huh on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 1

    i hardly dare comment here since it's way out of my comprehension but the advantage here would be the reduction in mass as a whole then so with the same amount of fuel (in volume) a rocket could go a lot further (or deeper) into space instead of achieving greater speeds to get further faster or is it a little bit of both ? I suppose its not quite jumpgate technology yet ?

  7. Re:Ask the (ABC) Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    there's solar panels on the top of this house so i suppose that cancels the energy cost here since it's not my house and i didnt pay for them

  8. on a subconscious level they saw the threat he posed to their own position and how hard it would be to control someone like that

  9. Re:Ask the (ABC) Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    uhuh, i was kinda hoping it came with some ultranifty silent cooling tek but i suppose they have to press the price. I can't stand the noise of the ati mining bitcoins so i only turn it on when i'm not near
    If you're that much into it you might wanna check litecoin, i dont know if it's going anywhere but the price tripled from 40 cents to $1.20 in less than three weeks. It's not generally accepted but can be mined still (albeit slowly) off a cpu. If it hits, same as for btc those on it from the start will benefit most since the difficulty was lower.
    I suppose installing an airco wouldd solve your problem with the asic maybe but that would probably defy its purpose due to the extra cost in electricity. Your explanations have been very helpful thanks a lot and good luck with the mining

  10. Re:Ask the (ABC) Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    thanks a lot, that was clear, useful first hand info. I suppose you have let that box run 24/7 then before it collapsed. How's the noiselevels on those things ?

  11. Re:Confused on Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    which makes the elitist basterdz the government of bitcoinland then?

  12. Re:Ask the (ABC) Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    with the cpu i have installed i get about nothing, maybe 500Khps, my ati card can get to about 400Mhps which, according to the estimate on the client should net an average .03 BTC a day, that's like somewhere up or under $2 at current prices if i let it blaze 24/7, not really worth it unless 1 BTC would grow to $500 or more i suppose. Litecoin seems a bit more viable but is hardly accepted yet so that might maybe die out still.
    what made me curious however is your Asic machines, you actually have them? All the ads i see are talking about pre-order. If you do so, would you say they're worth the investment atm (not asking you to speak exact numbers or anything) while one block nets 25 btc still (no idea when it will go down again). I've been dying for some real info on this, i almost thought they're somewhat of a scam where the company will disappear before delivering.

  13. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    mh, the 99.9999% of people playing video games since youth and never shooting anyone are as usual left out of the comparison. I can personally say i've been gaming since that atari gamed yars revenge, there have always been guns in the house since i was a kid (not mine ofcourse, i dont need that even if i can appreciate the beauty of some pieces) and i have never, ever even when pissed off and scorned, insulted and deep-down hurt taken one out to shoot anyone at all. Add me to the 99.9999999998% others who never did and the arguments are nil but i'm afraid that's not how these moral knights of the crooked table work these days. Everything going awry today can more or less be brought back to generation conflict. Something to do with time going its usual pace but society progressing or at least moving in different directions in some kind of exponential way as technology gives the opportunity to advance faster all the time (not mentally thought) and people stuck in the sixties (as i like to call it) don't get it anymore. A bit of a crude way of explaining, maybe kurzweil could voice it better than i do since he make a living from prophecies like that but i'm drifting. The point was the point about all those gamers who never shoot someone

  14. Re:That's the price you pay on Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    imo whenever 'the' state meddles in something they can't actually control they create a black market where it flourishes. I'd love to see figures say for example on weed in american states where it is legal 'for medical purposes' (i hear you can get it for writer's block even some places). By figures i mean the connection to what's commonly known as organized crime. I havent seen any studies on that, nor on what the world could be like if government was open-source and crowdsourced, the difference in cost not the least of changes. I understand why people in power wouldn't want that ofcourse.
    As for BTC or other future cryptocurrency that might or might not succeed in the future. I feel the only thing they could do here is regulate official traders who exchange it, dropping so much legislation on their ass it becomes unprofitable, which would (imo) again lead to a black market because in any case no matter how much governmental pressure you get, homeostasis (or supply and demand as it's called in economic terms) in the broad sense of the word is a basic law of nature as we know it. The arguments will ofcourse be the same : 1st) what about the children, 2nd) criminals use it
    the counterarguments are solid as ever : 1st) there were no pedophiles before the tor browser, 2nd) al capone used bitcoins to grow his empire
    and so on ... instead of regulatin they might wanna thinks fixing things in lasting durable ways i.o. applying patches that need to last only as the current legislative period lasts but who am i or you or even all of us if we were the many (thats a Caliban song, nothing to do with loose collectives

  15. Re:This was proven years ago... on Study: Piracy Doesn't Harm Digital Media Sales · · Score: 1

    uhuh, i think most people with an eye on the world already knew that but maybe it's nice to see an official governmental organization come to an official governmental conclusion on it so the bought out judges stuck in the past might get a chance to get their head straight about some things before condemning downloadmom or uploadson to a life of crime with excessive fines

  16. hippies... on Why Earth Hour Is a Waste of Time and Energy · · Score: 1

    more harm than in the end like so many pointless ludicrous actions, i suppose it raises awareness but with general apathy as the norm i dont think it will make much of a difference. People really need to be brainwashed into new routines, social stigma and guilt always seems to help for long term campaings (eg the crusade against cigarettes a.o. now makes you some kind of irresponsible, stinking lowlife for just smoking one almost)

  17. Re:30 years for a non violent crime. on Reuters' Matthew Keys Accused of Anonymous Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    i'll second that sigh with a puff, maybe the , euh, system is out of balance if there's such a thing as consecutive life sentences, or maybe the whole judiciary worldwide in western democracy needs a serious tad of revising, preferably open and crowdsourced, as all government and governmental book-keeping should be

  18. Re:No actual money is involved on Testing an Ad-Free Microtransaction Utopia · · Score: 1

    i think the point he's trying to make is that any experiment always teaches something even if it's not directly related to the original goal, but i dont like speaking for others unsollicited so i'll just stop talking after having said too much again

  19. Re:same as Hadopi... on European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal · · Score: 1

    ah, the EU is clearly the most sold out governmental institution in the world by now, or maybe it has always been. I think its inadaptability is the main reason why europe is and will continue to be lagging behind all the others by now. Corruption and lobbies not backed by a huge military force like the states, in the long run this can never work and in my darkest of opinions they're paving the way for external organisations i will not name to take over because the rats in the gutter will be left with nothing to eat.

  20. Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    umhum, i think the intent of even the most enlightened gamer (what's that supposed to mean anyway) is still to have fun during dead hours of spare time, some more than others.
    i personally could see the use for a limitation-by-law of end-user agreements. I wonder if any real research has done to how many people actuall read more than the part where it says : checkbox here and click here to start playing
    A bit like a landlord could put in a contract whatever he wants but if it's not legal the tenant who signs it still does not have to abide by paragraph this and that, customer protection so to speak in case some people might need an explanation on a plastic bag that you're not supposed to tie it over your kids head or something and what you say about servers my man, indeed, maybe they should be, and i don't like this word but i cant find another one, forced by law, to at least provide the necessary server software to the public once they themselves decide to no longer support it. That should be somewhat of a compromise hardly anyone could object to with good reason.
    i bought bfbc2 because it's like the most funny dialogue between characters in a modern fps imo and i bought bf3 because of the hype over the new engine. Single player i was not disappointed but i yet have to play my first mp match. I also have Alice madness returns. I wonder if those three are games for enlightened gamers so i can classify myself a bit more on the scale of lame to l33t here. I wonder if i would go for battlefield 4 considering the fact i spent about four to six hours cleaning the single player campaign and that's it. Compared to a dark souls which i bought anew for pc once i had all achievements on the xbox and sold it off (another mortal sin to EA probably, but that's capcom if i'm not mistaken) where i got like over 200 hours on pc version already (yea, too much time) the server free when not supported i think is about the best thing i read here (in my narcist opinion that means a lot ofcourse) and should definitely be pushed somewhere. Maybe after the piratpartit now the leetpartit ?

  21. Re:It's a flawed way to keep a site up. on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    mh yea, a bit of a code of conduct and restraint for marketsers might be in order but i have seen sites where the video's wouldnt even start when adblocker is up so i guess it must be possible to counter it
    i have however no clue how or what and am not inclined to mention the site in question so my info might be
    irrelevant

  22. Re:First strike! on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    how about a fanatic scuba-diver, i dont know what size a device needs to be to pose a real threat other than radiation pollution like dirty bombs but a missile is not the only way to deliver something into the heart of the zone 'behind enemy lines'. I think both sides are acting pretty lame about it for lack of a better word. Sanctions on sanctions on a starving country wont help a lot and threatening to nuke someones back yard will ofcourse not go down well with the space marines.
    I don't think this is going the right way , either way, some serious smart-ass diplomacy might be bettter than endless threats both ways. I dont like the idea of someone nuking anyone for any reason at all.

  23. Re:First strike! on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    new sanctions to counter the reaction to the old sanctions ... a form of dialogue we have all grown to love, from the pits of europe to the olympic mount of the united gods of etcetera ... this might turn pretty fucking sour

  24. Re:His mansion on Dotcom Wins Right To Sue NZ Government · · Score: 1

    when was it ever not like that ? It all depends on who you point your middle finger at in what they, or you and i would call demo cracy ... something i hear is invented by george washington according to some, which explains why it's a bit crooked then i suppose ...

  25. Re:I wonder if New Zealand can do other tricks too on US Wins Appeal In Battle To Extradite Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    umh ... yea i thought that little trolling game was over already, not then... does this mean i will have to re-stuck my 50gb of data i uploaded to mega.co.nz ?