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  1. poluting to mine money ... on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 0

    so, to get that bitcoin money, you let a program run in the background on your system. My question is, how much electricity will be spoiled to "create" the 21 million bitcoins?
    It's bad enough that thousands are spoiling electricity to run seti@home
    Or maybe the whole thing is just a spambot (after all, you have lots of machines around the world pretending to be creating money, but they may just as well be sending spam).

  2. Re:purge on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    you're an exception I can tell you. and so am I

  3. Re:Did I miss something? on Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo · · Score: 1

    one thing's for sure, it's too early for April Fool ;)

  4. Re:purge on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    If your house burns down, your backup burns with it, so you end up buying your CDS back, AND ALSO buy new HDDs ;)

  5. Re:Physicists on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    Now I see the light. Thank you!

  6. Re:Physicists on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    wake me up when the universe folds again, giving us a 5th dimension

  7. Re:RISC was wrong on 'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient · · Score: 1

    I'll have to disagree. Risc cpus were much faster on real programs than Cisc cpus, at least in the 90s, in the workstation world.

  8. Re:Hm on 'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient · · Score: 1

    It dates back to 1964, it's called RISC architecture.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computer#Early_RISC

  9. Re:resentment for people with more rights than me on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    if one of them was both Jewish and a Muslim, let me know. Good luck!!!

  10. Re:resentment for people with more rights than me on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    Now you're the one acting daft!!!
    That Wikipedia page merely says that some Jews (as in religion) believe that Jesus existed, etc ...
    Of course Christian religion has links with Jewish religion, that does not prove that "Jewish" is an ethnicity.
    Like I said, find me a clear reference of people claiming to be both Jewish AND Muslim, and I'll start believing you.
    And please, do not cite Wikipedia as a source, it's supposed to be a secondary source, not a primary source!

  11. Re:resentment for people with more rights than me on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    would you care to cite your sources on this please?

  12. Re:"Most" doesn't mean "very". on Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies · · Score: 1

    and micro ones ;)

  13. Re:resentment for people with more rights than me on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    When you show me someone that is Jewish and Muslim, and sees no contradiction in that, then I'll start believing you
    Amen!

  14. Re:We appreciate your support! on The Quake Through Eyes of Slashdot Japan · · Score: 2

    why do you get all excited?
    it's not Heian-794's fault if he was in Tokyo and did not get killed.
    He can and does feel close to the people affected. Please respect that!

  15. Re:Ludicrous on US Ed Dept Demanding Principals Censor More · · Score: 1

    Are you serious???
    Each year tens of thousands of kids get bullied by hundreds of thousands of other kids.
    So of course it's something that should be dealt with very seriously.
    You don't just let the strongest survive in these scenarios.
    Some kids happen to not be able to defend themselves against a large group of bullies, and that should not be a surprise to anyone.
    Society must act to help. It may mean that that a few bullies will be denied the possibility to bully, I don't this this as a problem, which ever point of view I try to look at it!

  16. Re:resentment for people with more rights than me on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    "Jewish" as in ethnicity. Don't be daft on purpose so obviously.

    Nope, to refer to ethnicity, you should use Semitic, not Jewish.
    I'm not saying no one uses Jewish to refer to the ethnicity, but they're wrong, and Semitic is a better term.
    And regarding Cuba and the US in this case, I think they care more about the religion of that guy than his ethnicity, and I also think it should be irrelevant

  17. big sign above your head on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 1

    suppose you walk around town with a big sign above you saying:
    - I carry 10 000 dollars in cash
    - I don't do any sport
    - I don't carry any weapon
    Now imagine what happens next ...

  18. Re:If your government isn't strong enough on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    Phil Zimmerman was investigated for 3 years and the case got dismissed in the end. How does this compare with being sentenced for 15 years in prison???

  19. Re:resentment for people with more rights than me on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    But this guy isn't Cuban (he's Jewish)

    What has religion got to do with this??? Or has Castro banned Judaism on his island? I'm always unhappy to see people mixing Hebrew, Israeli and Judaism. They are as different as French language, France, and, say, Catholicism.

  20. Re:Firefox/Linux on Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011 · · Score: 2

    sure, who would want to pwn Firefox or Linux, and get to own a free download ;) ...

  21. Re:Xcode no longer free on IOS 4.3 Now Available For Download · · Score: 1

    Let me just add that I was a Mac developer in 1984. At the time Apple asked developers to buy a Lisa computer to do code development for the Mac. Around 15 000 $ ...

  22. Re:Tales of old. on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    A colleague did something similar:
    He created an email account named something like to-all-customers. He then created an email group called to-all-customers too, and put the 10 000 email addresses of our customers in it.
    Then from the to-all-customers account he sent an email to the to-all-customers group.
    Of the 10 000 customers a few did a reply, and it started the most furious email storm the company had seen. Customers did not need to even use reply-all for the fun to continue!
    10 days later that colleague got transferred to a job without customer contact, and I got his job. That was 13 years ago, I still giggle when I think about it!

  23. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    How about People's Republic of America?

  24. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    The USA is a Union of States in the north American continent.

  25. Re:What? on Can You Beat a Computer At Rock-Paper-Scissors? · · Score: 1

    Here you are: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rock-paper-scissors Seriously, the answer is in wikipedia, but you may like the lmgtfy thing. No offense!