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  1. Re:Bitcoin on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    It's not a half life, it can easily go up again. In fact if you want to get into bit-coin now is a pretty good time to be buying.

  2. Re:Bitcoin on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    Right, in fact any single place is a bad place to but your life savings. Spread it out and hedge the risks against each other. And for bit-coin specifically it's still trying to establish a history of value by actually being used in trade, which should smooth things out a bit.

  3. Re:Mr Motti: on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    It's a breach of contract, not rape. A civil case, not a criminal one. If you sell me a laptop on credit, and I never get around to paying you it's a civil issue as a contract dispute. If I just steal your laptop it's a criminal issue, in addition to you having a tort claim against me. IF the consent was actually contingent on being paid, that would mean the prostitute would wait until she had the cash in hand before any sexual activity occurred. Consent granted in expectation of being paid is consent for the purposes of criminal law without regard to the fact of actual payment.

  4. Re:I'm a bit ignorant on this subject I guess on Open Source CPUs Coming To a Club Near You? · · Score: 1

    VHDL description files of the hardware, so you can mask it to an ASIC or "compile" it on any sufficiently large FPGA. IF I remember correctly these make use of an FPGA as the SOC.

  5. Re:Violence on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 1

    SO a 10,000 dollar medical bill and permanent injuries are proportional to a thousand dollar laptop? The old testament allowed an eye for an eye but no more. If you cripple or kill someone over a fucking thousand dollars and there is no immediate danger to you, then you are by and large the bigger criminal.

  6. Re:Violence on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 1

    It's also in natural law that no man should be judge in his own case. (At least according to Hobbes)

  7. Re:same as with everything else on Who Killed Videogames? · · Score: 1

    I call BS. Even if there were zero piracy possible, there would still be people interested in a cheap and engaging way to waste time. Before everyone had broadband it just wasn't possible to capture it in the same way. What you saw instead was goobers and goobers of shareware.

  8. Re:No chair on Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment? · · Score: 1

    Standing is very hard, especially on hard surfaces. Using rubber/foam mats will about double the time you can stand comfortably. Keeping your weight more towards on the balls rather than the heals of the feet help. Good shoes help. Alternating walking and standing is easier than doing either continuously. Even after doing it for years it still hurts.

  9. Re:Not allowed to look closely? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    It's hard to distinguish two laptops and ten feet; two televisions,or two keyboards. A a hundred feet it's difficult to tell many types of sedans apart. Apple didn't invent the tablet form factor. That they have somehow deluded themselves into thinking, and suing people over it, that they did is one of the many reasons I will never buy a device made by Apple.

  10. Re:Was the test done with Lotus Notes? on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    I think folder + search is the way to go.

  11. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    If you find yourself in locked a garden, you're probably going to turn into a giant beetroot. The device becomes a method of having a captive audience serving the interests of Apple at the expense of your own. How can you be affected by the robbery of your neighbor if nothing in your house was stolen? Culture and environment effect everyone. A culture where it viewed as okay and normal not to control you computing devices (tools and instruments that are absolutely indespensible today) is a culture that is much less likely and much less able to assert it's freedom.

  12. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Bonjour is embedded into gaim and pidgin as well, but ya, iTunes is quite restrictive and is meant to lock users in.

  13. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    "Stallman is no longer relevant, and his latest whining just underlines that." You know about once every month for the past five years people have been saying that. Whining about the whining of Stallman seems like the latest geek hobby.

  14. Re:Private property. on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    That's simple, stop paying taxes. Not easy mind you, but simple.

  15. Re:No. on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    No the wording of it is such that it is not actually contingent on weather someone was distressed but weather it was likely to cause distress. I.e would a reasonable person become distressed.

  16. Re:No. on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    No really a fee simple title requires a fuedal lord; an oath of allegiance to a flesh a blood person.. I believe the calvin case is relavent here. In fides non ficta.

  17. Re:No. on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much, it is a publicly accessible area, and as such there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Unless somebody does something against criminal law, the most you can do is ask them to leave. If they don't, well that's trespassing and is against criminal law.

  18. My prediction. on NYTimes Sues US Gov't To Know How It Interprets the PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    My prediction. It will be thrown out for lack of standing.

  19. Yes on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    Aren't there simpler and less-creepy ways to count kids, like looking at empty desks?

    Yes, but it would require teachers to actually give half a shit.

  20. Re:Hope so... on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 2

    DSL is kind of cheating, all the software is frozen to circa 2003. A lot of features and code have been added to packages sense then. Not to say you can't still make a 200 MB distro fairly easily, but anything under a 100 is really hard to do unless you make a lot of sacrifices in usability.

  21. Re:like ksm (linux) on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 1

    Not if you mark pages as read only. I don't see how not merging frequently enough is a security vulnerability. Not doing it correctly could be, but I'd think be somewhat unlikely that could be mistaken for something import and actually contain code that exploits rather than crashes the system. Also it probably excluds the kernel and c library address just to be safe.

  22. Re:FTA on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 0

    It's a factory installed rootkit, we've known that is was coming sooner or later for a long time. I guess now it's leaning more towards the sooner.

  23. Re:Carefull on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    The internet was designed to be p2p.Mesh networks seem bery promising, at least for local traffic and telephony.

  24. Re:next: the lawsuit on Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux · · Score: 1

    Google ran into problems because they didn't want to touch the GPL'ed sun code. If google had just used that code, modified it for their own use and re-named it they would have been protected by the implicit patent license in the GPL code and wouldn't have been sued. It was Andy Rubin's fear of the GPL that put Google in the position of being sued over Java.

  25. Re:I suspect Oracle is trying for a cash grab on Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't think they'll convince anyone at the Linux foundation to maintain their hooks in the kernel, So I only see it as an extra feature you get should you use their long-term kernel release and buy their support.