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  1. Re:Bitcoin is it just a scheme? on Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations · · Score: 1

    "Why someone can just say a bitcoin is worth X dollars"

    That's how it works. Everyone buying and selling has a different value for X in mind and when trades take place these values converge to a real number, a number that has been rising rapidly lately.

  2. Re:Great on Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations · · Score: 1

    No you need to keep your wallet encrypted on your own computer with a backup in a strongbox off site and remember to never entrust your valuables to random clowns on the internet.

  3. Secure Online Wallet on Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pick any two.

  4. Re:It shouldn't have to be pointed out on Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans · · Score: 2

    I think this is what's called emergent behavior.
    The good news is that the robot gets it right after several tries so each unit is expected to operate flawlessly after disemboweling at most five grad students.

  5. Re:Ah, yet another Slashdot meme on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    Little over nine years between those posts. Those heels don't look so hot to me.

  6. Re:SEED in Flash, Java, JS, NPAPI, or PPAPI on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 2

    One of the most technologically advanced countries on the planet with over 50 million inhabitants is too small to re-implement some crypto? Doesn't sound like a plausible reason to me.

  7. Re:For the record on Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally · · Score: 1

    Stop treating your constitution like it is the Bible. Constitutions get amended all the time. When the world changes, laws need to follow.

  8. Re:Deceased owners on Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds · · Score: 1

    Food shelter and heat are very strong reasons to spend money, at least they are to me.

  9. Re:SR-71 needed replacing on Skunk Works Reveals Proposed SR-71 Successor: the Hypersonic SR-72 · · Score: 1

    That picture does indeed fit the descriptions in reports of alleged sightings of the Project Aurora plane. Disappointed that they don't call it F19 though,

  10. Re:Llamasoft announced THEY were approached on TxK, Tempest 2000 Remake for PS Vita Demoed · · Score: 1

    Good for them.
    I've enjoyed Minter's work ever since playing Revenge of the Mutant Camels back in the '80s. Glad to see Llamasoft is still going strong.

  11. Llamasoft announced THEY were approached on TxK, Tempest 2000 Remake for PS Vita Demoed · · Score: 1

    So they approached both Jeff Minter and his sheep Flossie?

  12. Re:Yes, and? on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard that Frank Lloyd Wright couldn't grout a wall to save his life.

  13. Re:so tell me again... on Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android · · Score: 1

    Every summary wishing me happy Halloween from the Golden Girls with the odd link to goatse every second post would make me positively yearn for the current crop of misspelled dupes.

  14. Re:Why is Obamacare failing so badly? on Panasonic Announces an End To Plasma TVs In March · · Score: 1

    What happened with Reagan wasn't fatigue but Altzheimers.

  15. Re:There are other applications on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 2

    Silly rabbit. GPUs are for mining bitcoins.

  16. Re:I suspect the reason they're self-published on Self-Published Zombie Titles Have Doubled Since 2012 · · Score: 1

    Quoting from a future edition of Wikipedia.

    Zombie Apocalypse: the time when you can't open up your webbrowser without being bombarded by a deluge of inane zombie fanfic.
    ex. "before the Zombie Apocalypse, browsing the web was a whole lot less tedious." anon. 2034

  17. Re:Summary is contradictory. on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what coding in Prolog is like? You define the problem and the system figures it out for you.
    Oh and you get assimilated by the Borg in the process.

  18. Summary is contradictory. on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Giving the C64 Datasette as an example of reliable data transfer has to be the most ridiculous thing I have even read.

    LOAD
    PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
    ?LOAD ERROR
    READY.

    Was an all familiar message for C64 users. Hell I managed to type it from memory after 30 years.

  19. Re:Nope on Drone-Mounted Laser Weapons Are On the Way · · Score: 1
  20. Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No texting while driving and no checking Wikipedia.

  21. Re: Don;t worry about the NSA - stop Obamacare! on Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA · · Score: 1

    "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

    I don't think so.

  22. Re:I see plenty of people reading on France Moves To Protect Independent Booksellers From Amazon · · Score: 1

    DRM laden books do need all that. Uncrippled books do fine without.

  23. Re:Boycott of US & UK products on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I use their services with an ad-blocker in place thereby wasting precious resources. We're taking your whole evil system down. One lost ad click at a time.

  24. Re:Mod whole thread -99, Flamebait on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    What about those of us who think that death is too good for them? I gladly pay to let the fuckers suffer for the next 50 or so miserable years of their lives.
    But if you insist on state sanctioned murder, don't pussyfoot around the nasty business by medicalising the problem and go for shooting or beheading.