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  1. Re:You're too late to make money on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 1

    Dogecoin literally doubled in value the other week.

  2. Re:Missed the Boat? on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 1

    Among other inaccuracies which others have corrected, you have the blockchain size wrong. It's currently about 64GB on my node.

  3. Re:Hey New Zealand... on NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect · · Score: 1

    Oh America, when will you ever learn the difference between "your" and "you're"?

  4. Re:fixes? on So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts · · Score: 1

    Please, when are you going to fix this cutoff? It's so annoying. Firefox 6 on latest Ubuntu.

  5. Re:Dedicated to: on KDE 4.6.3 Released · · Score: 2

    It's happened before, but very rarely. Notably it happened for KDE 4.1.

  6. Re:John Boehner: Solved on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an Orange-American, I find that highly offensive.

  7. Re:h-t-t-p colon slash slash on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    Even today, people force themselves through the painful pronunciation of "double you double you double you dot" when it's completely unnecessary for almost all sites.

  8. Re:Best /. yet! on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Can you help a poor guy out? What were the suggestions?

  9. Re:You Gonna Do the Job Yourself Sarah? on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 2

    This would have been a decent post without all the "sweetheart" bullshit. Hard to take a sexist seriously.

  10. God-father of the web on Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if Berners-Lee cringes when he sees Cerf described as "the Godfather of the web" :-)

  11. Re:Just how slow are perl, ruby and python? on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 1

    Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_performance#Comparison_to_other_languages:

    • 1-4 times slower than compiled languages such as C or C++
    • close to other Just-in-time compiled languages such as C#
    • much higher than languages without an effective native-code compiler (JIT or AOT), such as Perl, Ruby, PHP and Python.
  12. Re:Copyright © 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its a on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Oracle still owns the copyright.

  13. Re:The best argument against democracy... on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 3, Funny

    He then later followed up with "SHABOOM!" and slapped his wife on the ass, before immediately pounding a 40.

  14. Re:Scala on Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles · · Score: 2, Informative

    Scala is multiparadigmal; you can use the functional features when you want, and ignore them and program Java-style when you want.

  15. Re:Paying for Oracle Java? on Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles · · Score: 1

    How could you "corner the market" like that? Java has an incredibly strong free software culture around it; making the compiler proprietary (it's free software today) and then even charging for it, would be Oracle Java's death knell and a free fork would take over.

  16. Re:Wtf is xxx? on ICANN Approves .xxx Suffix For Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Heck, Amsterdam even has it in their flag.

  17. Re:Neglect the benefits & tablets win... on Prices Slashed For Nook, Kindle E-Readers · · Score: 1

    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1910868 is a little apropos, perhaps.

  18. Re:Oh yeah. on The PalmPilots That Never Were · · Score: 1

    Ah! I had an M100 as well. It was great for its time. I later got a Tungsten, which was even better. Have both of them around here somewhere.

  19. Re:Are you sure about that? on Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America · · Score: 1
  20. Re:In related news ... on Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter · · Score: 1

    I suspect and hope that your post is a hoax. I have not been able to find any news coverage.

  21. Re:They need to do something more radically differ on Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail · · Score: 1

    I see what you mean, thanks for the link. So it's a scale between features/convenience/usefulness and privacy. Personally I value privacy higher, and I'm glad I can "opt-out" so to speak.

  22. Re:They need to do something more radically differ on Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail · · Score: 1

    That's not true in my experience. I have switched from Google to Scroogle (.org) which doesn't track me. I lose the geolocation (hits from my own country first), but everything else is fine.

  23. Re:They need to do something more radically differ on Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a difference between keeping track of who has subscribed and keeping track of what subscribers search for. Of course, in this scenario, subscribers would have to blindly trust Microsoft.

  24. Re:C# and F# on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    Properties are more than syntactic sugar. They enforce the uniform access principle, which is handy. When the caller don't know if foo.fraction is a method or a value, the class implementer is free to change between the two without changing the API.

  25. Re:Fox Sunday/Friday victims of the early 2000s on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 1

    I remember in Norway, many episodes were aired in the afternoon, HALF an episode a day, and only on a quarter of the screen. The rest of the screen real-estate was mindless SMS chat and polls and whatever. Impossible to enjoy.