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  1. Re:Say what? on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    I invent a solar powered car that grows from modified hemp seeds. You just need to feed and water them. Once a year, my car drops more seeds that others can grow into cars.
    The auto industry can no longer make money.

    SeedCar is banned. It would have been close to unstoppable without end-user persecution.

  2. Re:Huh? on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 2

    Enter Bitcoin, in which the transactions are stored in a block chain on multiple computers.
    "Miners" are incentivised to process and store the transactions by small transaction fees and by the issuance of BTC itself.

    You can indeed confirm the signatures belong to thee public key to which the Bitcoin had been assigned, as this is just a long alphanumeric string, with no necessary personal data.

  3. Re:What's funny is on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

    If drugs were legalised and taxed, the revenue may end up being being distributed across the population. This is undesirable to our owners, the banks, who would rather that revenue were distributed to the small number of people with influence.

  4. Re:Which is what it's good for. on 50% of Tweets Consumed Come From .05% of Users · · Score: 1

    Odd.
    They're not usually self-aware enough to call themselves something like "r. stallman".

    Incompetent shill is troll shill?

  5. Re:Why Nokia Why? on Nokia - No More Symbian Phones After 2012 · · Score: 1

    You may also have to pay Microsoft's protection fee when you use Android.

  6. Re:avoiding paradox? on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1

    I don't want a paradox. I want a radio.

    If I keep receiving data with the message "resend at time t", I think it's worth it.

  7. Re:avoiding paradox? on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 2

    No, because if you keep doing it, eventually some future will hit YOUR timeline, and you get a message from a different future?

  8. Re:Privacy on Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden · · Score: 1

    If I particularly want privacy, I won't fill the from address, or will fill it with false data.

  9. Re:apologists on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Excuse my delay in answering.
    I live in Ireland and am not a teacher. I know several.
    School principles have a strong influence on a teachers career paths, and teachers who improve their students marks more will generally be assigned higher stream classes. Their accomplishment with these is a significant factor in their advancement to, for instance, a deputy principle post.

    This isn't official advancement-based-on-results, but a truism of our educational system. YMMV, apparently.

  10. Re:apologists on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 2

    While I agree with the tone of your post, teachers are being paid to do a job, and their students' performances effect a teacher's career.

    Many students will go through periods of non-cooperation for very valid reasons, but the economic ramifications of allowing them to doss are potentially significant.
    Maybe educational reform would allow students who have zero interest in public school eduction to engage in learning more suitable to their needs, but no one is currently incentivised to allow slackness.

  11. Re:Worldwide death toll on Oxford University Tests Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    People aren't going to calm down on having babies until they can be reasonably certain that they can maintain one or two through to adulthood.
    Any natural controls, excluding a world-shaking disaster, aren't going to halt the population increase significantly, but making life good enough that the breeders have something better to do might slow it down for a while.

    At least until evolution kicks in.

  12. Re:Let's put it up on Wikileaks on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 2

    I certainly believe that people should be able to grow and consume coca and poppies, so long as they harm no other.

    If they choose to refine that to a potentially dangerous substance and sell it, I agree that society needs to get involved. Similarly, I believe that you are within your rights to grow castor beans or curare, but should you use them harmfully or negligently, problems will arise.

  13. Equipment on Equipping a Small Hackerspace? · · Score: 1

    I'm in a hackerspace.

    I find the oscilloscopes, and multimeters useful. Include a solder iron, some prototyping board, hot glue gun, various screwdrivers, wrenches, bubble level, measuring tape, battery charger and some electricians pliers and you'll have a very useful space.

    Also a bench with a vice and some helping hands.

  14. Re:Some scientific pursuits we should refrain from on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    Or an entire preserve of human-body bonobo-brained animals. You could charge admission.

  15. For a good reason on With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger · · Score: 2

    Words on paper can be made secure because they're fucking worthless for replication and transfer.
    They'd be even more secure if chipped into clay tablets in cuneiform.

  16. Re:protecting from what? on British MP Calls For Pornography 'Opt-In' · · Score: 1

    Maybe, maybe.
    I'm lucky enough to have found a dumpster with a full range of porn when I was a kid, but I worry for those who grow up thinking women look like the cartoons in Playboy. I had to get used to spots and scars and imperfect bodies; they're probably going to throw up when they get a real woman in bed.

  17. Re:Sugarless gum??!? on US Army Develops Tooth Cleaning Gum · · Score: 1

    Your glaring pearl whites may introduce priaprisms of envy?

  18. This is violation... on Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 · · Score: 1

    Of many, many patents.
    We'll see you in court, USSR!

  19. Re:Ah , self-absolution on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    If the building-owner realised that a significant percentage of the population would like to bomb said building, and accepted bomb-sized packages without security screening, yes; I would blame them.

  20. Re:No proof the accounts are spamming on Truthy Project Uncovers Political Astroturfing On Twitter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The fake accounts can give weight to a shill statement which is available in the search for aggregators and analysts.

  21. Re:so when will we be getting this? on Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they will.
    Would that bother you?

  22. Re:Scary on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    Viruses and hosts co-evolve toward NOT killing the hosts. Many peoples and species have been ravaged by viruses toward which they have no immunity
    A human being has access to huge amounts information about the target, and is not operating by selective pressure. They can copy and paste large segments of human DNA and have access to modern immunosuppression knowledge.
    A biocracker is also not limited to natural processes. Normally, specialty DNA (targeting, tracking proteins, toxins) might be sufficiently disadvantageous to prevent spread, but the release of a large culture of modified influenza in a shopping centre fountain or neubilised in near air outlets, for instance, could be disastrous.

  23. I do a little of this on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I get loads of old lab equipment from the 80s that's being thrown out now, but still work pretty well or require minor repair. Many are more of a hassle than modern equipment, but some of it what I was using when I was in college.
    I don't GM organisms, but selectively breed fungi.

    I believe that it is only a matter of little time until someone releases a harmless virus into the population that contains the first 13 primes or an ASCII message. When this is discovered, the population will correctly be concerned about home-made bioweapons.
    Even if the Biocracker isn't smart enough to engineer a new, virulent plague (and they will eventually, hopefully after targeted anti-virals are practically synthesized quickly) they could impair an old deadly virus to only be effective on specific immunodeficiencies in a cell line of an enermy.
    The Biotech world of the future will be a world of wonders and horrors.

  24. Re:Phone Theft. on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 1

    What if you have to prepend the first character of your password to the temporary one.
    Doesn't help the malware all that much, if you're the kind who cares enough about security to use this and have a good password.

  25. Re:Bandwidth hogs should pay more.... on House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hulu and Youtube pay for their own bandwidth and the ISP sells bandwidth to its customers.

    There's no justification to charge a company that is providing the value you sell. If customers want a higher percentage of your network traffic, charge them for it.