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  1. Re:I suspect he's wrong. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 2

    I'm sure the odds of that happening are not impossible.

  2. Re:Badblocks/Shred on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Awesome, thank you!

  3. Re:Badblocks/Shred on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    shred won't do much for you since many of the write errors are silent and will go unnoticed until the drive fails to read the block back. I'd rather spend the time on a second badblocks pass.

    The reason I use shred is because it fills the drive with random data faster than badblocks does. I do this because I do whole disk encryption.

  4. Badblocks/Shred on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    badblocks -t random /dev/sdX && shred /dev/sdX

    Badblocks checks for bad sectors while writting random data to the drive and after all is good, I run shred once or twice to fill the drive with random data. You can probably get by with just badblocks tho.

  5. Re:Why not use another method? on NZBMatrix Closes Their Website · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish I could convey in words how obvious it is that you have no idea what you are talking about.

  6. I trust the Gentoo devs on Gentoo Developers Fork udev · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with the Gentoo devs, udev is getting problematic, for starters, there are a lot of gentoo people using AUFS and squashfs to reduce the size of their /usr. Well if /usr is on a different partition, udev freaks out. It got to the point where I didnt' want to update udev but I ended up reverting my AUFS/squashfs /usr partition because of it. Can't wait to go AUFS/squashfs for /usr again!

  7. Getting one! on Use Google's Nexus 7 Tablet As a VoIP Phone, For Free · · Score: 1

    I might get two...

  8. Seems simple to me on Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential · · Score: 1

    Take your ill-gotten monetary gains and anonymously deposit money into a bitcoin wallet
    (If you have a lot, pay a team of people to just go to Walmarts and banks and deposit money, yes anonymously, for now)
    Tumble/fog your bitcoins a bit. Never use the same address twice and make sure your wallet has the "Use TOR network" checked.
    Buy gold and silver with them (there's a website that takes bitcoins for gold/silver and they are not that much over spot. Comprable to gettting them off Ebay.)
    If you really are chasing the money, take that silver/gold and sell it on Ebay, you'll probably make a small profit.

  9. Amazon is starting to block my reviews.

    Reconsider supporting this author.
    Author had a direct role in having Lendink, a legal ebook lending site shut down for piracy erroneously. If you can't even legally borrow their book using Amazon, why should you support them financially?

  10. No problem. If it's one thing the human race is good at, it's making bigger and better bombs.

  11. Doesn't seem so bad on SUSE Slowly Shows UEFI Secure Boot Plan · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is more of an issue with machines that have Windows pre-installed but I'm upgrading my motherboard and it has UEFI and the gentoo wiki doesn't make it seem so bad.

    http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/UEFI

    Laptops, of course are going to be an issue.

  12. And piracy stll goes on on Legitimate eBook Lending Community Closed After Copyright Complaints · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I bet this didn't make the slightest dent in book piracy either.

  13. Re:Nice Ad Placement or DEA Honeypot on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    Sure but why would you want to?

  14. Re:Nice Ad Placement or DEA Honeypot on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 2

    Cash directly to the wallet addresses from Walmart or 7-11. Wear a hat. Do you really think they are going to canvas every 7-11 and Walmart in North America (assuming that's where you are) for their video logs of who did a moneygram? Walmart at least doesn't require ID. Fake all the info and be on your way.

  15. Re:98% positive feedback on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 2

    Scamming may be common in the, get in your car and hit some street corner for some random dealer mindset but no one I know operates that way. They all have a "guy" who they call and it's usually in the "guys" interest to formulate a good relationship, it benifits both, you know you can trust this person so you'll continue to do business with him, and the seller grows his client base. Same thing here.

  16. Re:Nice Ad Placement or DEA Honeypot on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    You are oversimplifying greatly.

    Following the money. So you are saying that if I go to instawallet.org from a library, a wifi spot or though tor, create a wallet, anonymously send money to that wallet, bitinstant.com, make another, and another and another, series of one time use bitcoin wallet addresses, before it gets sent to SilkRoad, which tumbles that, they are going to track that? How? You can set 6 one time use wallets up and transfer random amounts.

    Intercepting packages. Wow, someone sent me drugs? Why would they do that? Oh, you think I was on SilkRoad? Well, if I were to do so, I would have a truecrypt usb key with portable firefox and tor on it, and I dare you to be able to prove that I was ever on SilkRoad.

    As for the bitcoins on people's computers, personally what I like is the place that converts bitcoins into silver and gold. That would be the payout method I would chose. Besides, you do have to have a certain level of expertise to access and operate here, and most of the community seems to be very well aware of the need for encryption.

  17. Re:IANAL, but, on US Gov't Says They Can Still Freeze Megaupload Assets If the Case Is Dismissed · · Score: 1

    But I thought corporations were people....

  18. Give up on Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    I've personally given up on trying to convert people to linux. If you can't even be bothered to learn how to install it yourself, what's the point?

  19. Re:Pathetic on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    Gravatational force of the planet = 1930s
    Tidal Power = 1970s.

    Get educated.

  20. Re:What is there to turst? on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    Fine, hundred of years, are you saying you think it's ok to produce toxic waste, as long as you bury it somewhere? And what happens when you run out of places to put it? This is one planet, how long do you think it will take for us to places to put it? What happens when there's an earthquake and the container vault cracks? Seeps into groundwater? That's one of our problems, the lack of foresight. Meanwhile, we have solutions that are clean and work but we ignore them.

  21. Re:Pathetic on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 0

    Why is using nuclear fission an option?

    Gravatational rotation of the planet = Tesla tower
    Kinetic energy from the ocean waves = Salter's duck

    Both would/could supply our energy needs but instead, our political process have been subverted by the nuclear lobby, which end results in incidents like Chernobyal and Fukishima

  22. Re:Pathetic on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 2

    Not quite as impressive as using the gravatational force of the planet or tidal power tho.

  23. Re:Well then on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 0

    Well, instead of assuming no better solution exists, perhaps you should educate yourself.

    Google "Tesla Tower"
    Google "Salter's Duck"

    Have a nice day.

  24. Re:What is there to turst? on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    Slight difference being that neither planes nor cars present an ecological disaster for thousands of years when they malfunction.

  25. Pathetic on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    I think it's pathetic that it's the 21st century, and we've harnessed the power of the atom to boil water to make steam to make electricity.