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  1. Re:And .... the AC's have it ! on It Only Took 37 Seconds For Two Bitcoin 'Celebs' To Start Fighting on a Cruise Ship (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we sure it was the real AC? A fat guy in speedos just seem to be more AC's style.

  2. Re:LIke 100B in monopoly money on A Crypto Website Changes Its Data, and $100 Billion in Market Value Vanishes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    and it appears monopoly money is currently running about $0.0555 per bill at Amazon. which is currently higher than dogecoin which i think it is an appropriate comparison since they are both the usual joke currencies.

  3. Re:Wait a minute... on Elon Musk Says He Is Not Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you also might not say owned something you lost.

    such as if a friend gave you a $10 bill.

    "How many dollars do you own?"
    "None"
    "A friend gave me $10 a few years ago, but it fell out of my pocket"

  4. Re: Doesn't believe in science... on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They were the ones that started the round earth conspiracy in order to subjugate us.

  5. Re:Adopt those words and expressions that make sen on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    in midwest US the word "Footpath" may be used occasionally but if it were it would likely refer to a path that is not associated with a road. such as a path between two buildings that is not beside a road.

  6. Re:Adopt those words and expressions that make sen on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    well, concrete is just one really large brick that was formed in place...

  7. it matters when you work across timezones.

    it is 13:00 UTC is it OK to call zzyzx or will they be angry for waking them up?

  8. Re:Great.. on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    you probably wouldn't be able to use the same manufacturing process, which is why they destroyed the molds to begin with. though that was probably a bigger problem back then than it is now.

  9. You pointed out that all the apple articles were only from non-approved sources, so i was just pointing out that the malware from this article is also installed from non-approved sources. i didn't mention anything saying android hadn't had any other malware infections.

    you want only app store apps for apple? how about this one

    and here is a proof of concept showing that apple isn't immune.

    BTW, that took exactly ONE SECOND of Google-ing.

    Research, THEN Post. Otherwise prepare to be outed as the pompous ass you are.

  10. well if you are going that route then it should also be pointed out that this android malware also only comes from non-approved channels

    from the article:

    The malware is disguised as a porn app called Porn ‘O’ Mania. The malicious app is not found on Google Play and may be downloaded from third-party app stores, forums, or torrent sites. Users who have Google Play installed are protected from this app by Verify Apps even when downloading it outside of Google Play.

    sounds like the infection vector for the examples i linked above for apple are quite similar to the one for android in this article.

    i don't hate apple by any means, i just don't like it when people seems to think apple is immune just because it is apple. Both this and the articles above prove that if something stupid you are going to get malware.

  11. AOL is the company that nicely sent out free floppy disks containing the entire internet to everyone back when the internet was small enough to fit on floppy disks. They later upgraded to CD's as the internet grew in size.

    now that the internet has been upgraded to a series of tubes i am not sure what AOL is doing any longer.

  12. Re:Idiocracy on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Cowboy Neal always seems to do well in the Polls around here

  13. Re:We *have* that efficiency now, with LEDs. on Nanotech Could Make Incandescent Light Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Sure, the BULB ITSELF was a quarter instead of $5-$10. But then it used $1 a month more than the replacement. Within 10 months

    that fits well in the current credit based economy. people don't pay up front, they buy on credit and then pay the interest.

  14. Seems fairly straightforward.

    depending on when she sold them the rights, they would need to find a contract that had been written 85 years ago to determine whether they actually had the rights to sell this to someone else.

    this is anything but straight forward.

    this is similar to the happy birthday debacle.

    some of these items are so old that no one even remembers who actually owns the copyright any longer. that alone should help illustrate the problem with such long copyright terms.

  15. Re:By harmonizing to whose term? on CBS, Others Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Soft Kitty" In Big Bang Theory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would view copyright terms as being too long, but it wouldn't bother me quite so much if they just limited the copyright increases to newly created works. The real problem is that they always extend it retroactively to already existing works, and are keeping items out of the public domain that would have landed their long ago under their original copyright terms.

  16. Re:Do Not Want on The Network Revolution Needed For Remote Surgery (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah there probable is value. However, best case scenario there is something like a 30 minute round trip for communications to mars, so for a medical robot to have value in such an environment it would likely need to be able to do most procedures autonomously. with the doctor just checking on the outcome after it has been completed.

  17. Re:Do Not Want on The Network Revolution Needed For Remote Surgery (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    getting 1ms latency to mars to allow this would be quite an amazing feat and would rewrite our knowledge of physics.

  18. Re:That won't last long... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Steve Wozniak spent the night in jail over his device

    even better is this tidbit from the article:

    He taught the other prisoners how to disconnect the wires leading to the ceiling fans and connect them to the bars so people got shocked when touching them.

  19. combine this story about wireless EV charging autonomous cars and a crazy software developer and i wonder how long it will be before someone programs their autonomous car to drive them around in an infinite loop after they die...or at least until the car breaks down.

  20. Re:Very different on How Tesla's Autopilot and Google's Car Are Entirely Different Animals (robohub.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    who cares what googles car looks like now. when google gets the sensors ans software working then someone that has a sense of style will come along and design one that looks good.

  21. Re:16GB on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    what profits? the profits for selling SD cards at least don't go to the phone manufacturers they go to either kingston or sandisk.

  22. Re:A living entity on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    i suggest we give them a grant to buy some red shirts and have them observe this star. if they all die in some horrific accident then we will know for sure.

  23. Re:My IP Address on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 1

    looks like both of you are actively mirroring my files, i guess i don't need to run backups anymore.

  24. Re:Security Clearance on John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    There is nothing the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, Google, or Facebook can discover that cannot be discovered by the general public.

    there fixed it for you!