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  1. professionalism 101 on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 0

    You dress for the job you want, not the job you have. I'd say unless you're at a College, you should wear a nice buttoned down shirt tucked into nice slacks with a belt and a decent pair of shoes.

  2. Re:Why? on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    'decentralized digital currency' There is no such thing, and there never will be. Anything digital has to be backed by something, somewhere. After the US Dollar collapses, the one world government types will push a new global currency. It will not be decentralized or anonymous. After that there will be a global revolution and we'll return to using precious metals as currency along with the good ol' barter system.

  3. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    Dollars used to be backed by gold, and coins were minted out of silver. The dollar had the same value as the gold, but was easy to transport and anonymous. The coins had (and still have if they're pre-65) inherent value because they are precious metals, they're easy to transport for small amounts, and they're totally anonymous. There's nothing wrong with cash except the fact that it loses value, because it's not backed by precious metals. Has anyone here even heard of Bretton Woods? Jeesh... That and the free market economy is the reason that the USA became the worlds superpower. We broke the Bretton Woods agreement and we no longer have a free market economy, which is why we're 16 trillion (100+ trillion when you include unfunded liabilities) in debt and on the verge of a currency collapse, which will lead to social unrest the likes of which the world has never seen.

  4. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    World GDP is up to 60 trillion dollars BECAUSE the dollar is not backed by gold anymore. The money supply has been inflated, which devalues the currency. Devaluing the currency removes the incentive to save, and forces people to 'invest'. This is a scheme perpetrated by politicians and bankers. The banks get everyone's money which allows them to control the wealth. If gold was still used by everyone as money, politicians couldn't promise things they can't afford, and bankers couldn't endlessly inflate the money supply, forcing everyone to 'invest' with them.

  5. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    Those 'owners' don't own gold, they own paper.

  6. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    Gold and silver are still accepted by most world governments. It's just that they make you trade it for whatever fiat currency they are pushing at the time.

  7. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The US Dollar is the bubble. Gold can only be seen as being 'in a bubble' when compared to fiat currencies. The value of precious metals is static, it's the value of the fiat currency against which they are measured that changes.

  8. Re:Avoid the 4 gig model in general on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 0

    Spend $10 on a 16GB USB drive and plug it in. That's what I did and Forza3 runs great...

  9. Re:Multiple consoles on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 0

    You don't really NEED all that much storage. You can also use two 16GB USB drives for 36GB total storage, and those cost about $10 each. I'm not a heavy gamer, just play most stuff from the disk and install a couple games that I like to play a lot, so it works for me.

  10. Re:Short answer... on Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions? · · Score: -1

    It's a matter of perspective. 'Worker friendly conditions' is subjective by nature. I'd say that if you're family is hungry, you have no wealth nor any means to acquire any, and you're able to get a job that puts food on the table, whatever conditions you work in are pretty friendly. If you have money, and food, then maybe you can start wishing for an employee arcade or room full of saunas or something.

  11. Re:Not soon on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 0

    That's any VM, not any host. There aren't going to be too many VMs out there with 96GB allocated to them.

  12. Re:Christ on a bike, this again? on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 0

    Sure, if it prevents someone from burning fossil fuels instead! lol

  13. Re:Different thing on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 0

    Consensus does not make something true or scientifically accurate. If that were the case, the earth would indeed have been flat for many centuries. Most of the people I talk to (not scientists) do indeed believe in climate change. In fact, we witness a significant amount of climate change at least 4 times every year.

  14. Re:Paul has a point, but he also misses a larger o on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    The way to reduce subsidies till they no longer distort the market, is to remove them completely. Otherwise it's like saying, I'll just do a little heroin, till it no longer distorts my sense of reality.

  15. Re:Great on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 0

    Why is our government in the loan-making business in the first place? Ridiculous no matter how they spin it.

  16. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I can't wait to see Kansas science in action.

    With a brainless statement like that, it will be good for you to remain an anonymous coward. You must not be aware that Overland Park, Kansas is the rated as the second highest educated city in America, right behind Irvine, CA. The real difference between the coasts and the rest of America is that the ignorant masses crowd the shorelines, and most of us don't want to live near most of you.

  17. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 0

    Right, because the private sector has never participated in research, recreation, education, housing, or infrastructure. Try thinking for yourself for a change, instead of living within the confines of what the government and television feeds you.

  18. Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame on Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas · · Score: 0

    Yea, all you'd have to do is throw it into a bunker, then go into said bunker to retrieve the ball, come back out of the bunker, plug the ball into a computer and look at the pictures. Then you'll know exactly what was in that bunker you were just in. Revolutionary I tell ya.

    Yup, no way they could put a wireless transmitter that shot the image instantly back to a handheld device... absolutely no way that technology exists. Just like how NASA had to fly someone out to Mars to retrieve the images from the rovers they landed there. Man, you are smart.

  19. cheaper than makeup on Company Offers Creepily-Realistic Masks of Clients · · Score: 0

    I know some chicks who could definitely use one of these.

  20. Re:Trust is required on Trust Is For Suckers: Lessons From the RSA Breach · · Score: 0

    Trust but verify, means don't trust otherwise you would not have to verify. Non-thinking people like the phrase because their idol said it. Why middle class folks idolize someone who sold out the middle class I do not understand.

    Sounds to me like there is a whole lot you do not understand.

  21. This must have been written by a communist on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, standards for everything! We should have a standard car to drive, and a standard house to live in, and standards regarding how many kids you can have and how much money you can make! Great fucking idea man. Now go back to your hole and read a fucking history book moron.

  22. Re:Follow the money on Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot? · · Score: 1

    Yep - look at all the great features that were developed for phones after ma bell was broken up. Competition is good for consumers.

  23. Re:Facebook is a good tool on More Users Are Shunning Facebook · · Score: 1

    Hmm, wonder if the recent outbreaks of hacking by lulzsec and others has anything to do with it. Probably not as most people are probably unaware, but it may explain a correlation if there is one. Oh, and I'm sure that FB would have no reason to claim these numbers are inaccurate. It's not like they're about to go public or anything...

  24. Re:Software patch for "Easy Fix" on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 1

    How would you tell the difference (in software) between "no infrared signal because I'm not in a movie theater" and "no infrared signal because I am in a movie theater and someone put tape over the sensor"?

    Or, no infrared signal because my finger is in the way...

  25. Re:Old Idea + "do it online" != innovation on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 1

    Nothing against Linus, but I think it's a little silly to take a normal idea, apply "do it online", and then call it a new idea.

    Collaboration has been around long before Linus. Perhaps Linus is one of the first to collaborate online... ok, that's great. Comparing this "accomplishment" along side Linux and Git is a little silly. Linux and Git are genuine accomplishments which Linus should be very proud of.

    Agreed, was thinking the same thing when I saw this story...