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  1. Hoarding, or... on Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used · · Score: 2

    Or there's that many people/computers that grabbed some fraction of bitcoins, and either lost their wallets or never bothered to log in again.

  2. Re:Now people have tags on Verizon Draws Fire For Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits · · Score: 2

    sports fan, shoe fetish, gear head, porn enthusiast

    Not to mention the fascinating combinations that this generates :)

    gear head + porn enthusiast

    Sports fan + shoe fetish

    shoe fetish + porn enthusiast

    I would certainly be labeled a sports porn head gear fetish enthusiast

  3. registries on Zero Errors? Spamhaus Flubs Causing Domain Deletions · · Score: 5, Informative

    Afilias does not have the intrinsic right to blackhole your DNS no matter what Spamhaus does. However, it is in your agreement when using an .info domain. An easy way out of this is to use a domain that is unaffiliated like .com/.net or out of the country like .me/.co/.it/.to
    If you have the time, find better contacts at Afilias and get them to clarify their policy. If you have the money, call a lawyer. If you are really bored and love .info to death, run a persistent check on spamhaus and remove your domains from the list immediately instead of after Afilias finds out.

  4. truth sucks on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Astronomy students don't want reality checks, Romney doesn't want healthcare, and muslims get mad when you draw cartoons of Allah.
    What's next, children don't want Santa?

  5. Re:A religion is just a set of beliefs on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, quite OK to shoot a little girl in the head for asking for an education but really bad if you allow someone to post an opinion that someone else might find offensive.

  6. Re:the maiming and killing must be ok with them on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is your own fault that you have suffered this jihad. Your must be destroyed. It is too bad I cannot learn that killing in the name of God is ultimately killing in the name of Ignorance. But that is because all your oil money doesn't trickle down to me.

  7. Re:Mohammad walks into a bar... on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anonymous Coward writes Mohammad walks into a bar. The explosion kills 9 and injures 23 others. Allah Akbar.

    Infidel. Your joke of The Prophet has caused religious furor. I am on a jihad to expose your Anonymous.
    May Allah forgive me for I must use anti-muslim tools like Facebook and Youtube to look up your profile.
    I have pledged that after I have completed destroying you I will cleanse myself of these demon tools. Until then they are quite useful for you expose yourself to me like a Coward.
    But this does not concern us. I can break my own laws to serve God as long as the ultimate justice is done. I will even drink your liquor and sex your womens to fulfill my destiny but I will always hate it and make it known. And then when I destroy an evil life I will be clean even when my own life is done.

    Because I thought it was all okay in my head, and I found some cool circular reasoning, and then ignored all the facts, suspended reality, lied to my parents, lost all that I cherished, and if there really was a God he would have sent me straight to whatever Hell is for the amount of evil I wrought in His name.

    I will just ignore what all those Christians went through for the past two centuries in realizing that killing in the name of God is always killing in the name of Man.

  8. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 4, Informative

    Something similar to penny stock spiking by spam...

    Continued unregulated algorithmic trading can have only two effects: 1) someone will get rich at everyone else's expense; 2) the NYSE will become the penny stock market.

  9. Re:What went awry about this? on Ad Agency's Bizarre Steve Jobs Tribute Flash Mob Hits Seattle · · Score: 1

    All twelve people, flash mob for sure, and so newsworthy. Yesterday I had 16 people throw rocks at me for not being able to serve them pumpkin spice lattes and you dont see a damn video about it do you?

  10. Re:The only source on Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story · · Score: 1

    Iranian news agency took a story from The Onion. Now we can read about this from The Onion (CNN has the screenshot, but no actual link). I think that fake news websites have a great future. You know, all that Zen technics: sit quietly and wait until the whole world will change according to the news you make.

    This was one that was easy to expose. Enough time and the people of Iran won't even be able to research to find that it was a complete farse and laugh at their fars. Instead they will have to simply accept that it is the truth. Or, probably lose their heads.

  11. wrong arm on United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong · · Score: 1

    I was certain they named this vessel after Lance, the world's most celebrated undecororated, non-ever-having-won the tour-de-france, non-medalist ever.

  12. or just on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe the motherf***cker is just telling it like it is? I mean, yes, most religions are batsh*t crazy and in America, anything except Catholic, Protestant, or a direct, Jesus-wrote that sh*t his-self, fer sure, is just not going to fly.

  13. more info on Sean 'Vile Rat' Smith Fundraiser Campaign Reaches $100,000 · · Score: 5, Informative
  14. Re:300 million miles on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    You only need 1,000 cars to meet the milestone in 1 year, Driving at 30mph is the mean but 24 hours a day is plausible. And you don't need humans.

  15. Re:Spent less on mapping license didn't they? on Teardown Finds iPhone 5 Costs Apple About the Same As Did 4S · · Score: 1

    What other costs are there for Apple? 300% markup on list price seems a bit drastic.

  16. Re:Finally! on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is obvious based on the geolocation data that Greenland is behind all of this.

  17. Re:Message to the intolerant on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You can't legislate respect.

    Tell that to the many Education panels in the US that have removed Evolution from curriculum. The stupidity never ends.

  18. time to do... something on RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will soon run out of underwear (I have been told this since 2009). I still have not done anything about it despite holes in them. Count on my continued responsiveness to this problem.

  19. Re:Incorrect abstract. on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 2

    The abstract is incorrect. Standard and Datacenter are now the same release with exactly the same functionality. The only difference is in the licensing. From the referenced article:

    Functionally, Standard and Datacenter are the same. Even things like clustering, which used to be the sole preserve of the higher-end Windows Server SKUs, are found in Standard. The only difference is the number of Windows Server virtual machines supported per license.

    So again: The only difference between the Standard and Datacenter is the licensing. Same software, two licenses.

    Or more specifically, Standard = 2 copies of Windows per proc pair, Datacenter = Unlimited copies of Windows per physical server
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2012#Editions

  20. Re:WHAT!? on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Each copy of Windows Standard includes TWO virtual instances for $800. Under the old agreement it was 1 License = 1 Copy.
    Each copy of Datacenter includes UNLIMITED copies of Windows for $4800.
    Or buy Essentials with NO virtualization for $500 (you can still run it on a virtual machine, but only ONE copy)

  21. pointless links on Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested In Cambodia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On a related note, the domain freeanakata.... seems to have been registered today although it currently isn't resolving."

    Linking to a domain that any goon could have registered for profit is somewhere between spammy and stupid.

  22. Re:It's About the Unique Features of BitCoin on Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't protect idiots, then idiots can't use your currency. Since much of the population is idiots, you need to protect them from the really bad stuff that comes along with capitalism -- otherwise your system starts to look really shitty and third world really fast.

    So, there's no way to fix this with BitCoin because that's the great thing about BitCoin: no government regulation or government backing. I suspect you're going to start to hear more and more stories like: lack of security in major BitCoin trading systems (with no repercussions), more ponzi-like activity (with no repercussions) and more child porn/drugs/etc bought with BitCoin (with no repercussions).

    So you're now going to argue the SEC protects citizens and catches ponzi crooks before all is lost? Wrong century!
    The useless government isn't going to do squat for real money or anything else. If your BC community is about helping each other and someone blatantly steals your virtual cash, you now know that you can't trust your fellow man without some virtual credibility. In this case the scammer had none, but people went for it anyway.

  23. Re:One other thing a Space Elevator needs... on LiftPort Wants To Build Space Elevator On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1

    They're forgetting the single most important part of a space elevator: It needs to actually be useful.

    But we can use the ribbon to hurl the moon at Melancholia and save ourselves!

  24. oddly enough on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I had a client do this to his machine. He called an 800 number thinking they were the Yahoo help desk and they performed a similar routine. Oddly enough, they left no traces of their activity and there is no reasonable way to tell if there is an inactive trojan waiting to be launched in the future. Best bet is to copy off the data, wipe, reinstall OS.

  25. Re:This is what you get... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spaghetti monster says I think not!
    R'amen