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  1. Re:What an opportunity! on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Even in if everyone else decides to sell you stuff Bitcoin = Even if everyone else decides to sell you stuff in Bitcoin

  2. Re:What an opportunity! on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using Bitcoin to trade doesn't make any more sense than using Google or Apple stocks to trade (with the difference that Google and Apple stocks fluctuate less rapidly in value). Oh, and the state-controlled water companies and the mostly state-controlled electricity company of Greece () accept payment only in Euros. And the special tax on all fuels (heating diesel, vehicle diesel, gasoline, LPG and CNG), which is seperate from VAT, is paid in Euro only, so gas stations have to charge in Euro. Even in if everyone else decides to sell you stuff Bitcoin, you still have to use Euros to live. BTW, if a country's currency become worthless (like a new Drachma will be), people typically use US dollars (see Zimbabwe), not obscure libertarian cryptocurrencies. Sorry.

  3. Re:I can't wait. on New Leaked Build Is Evidence That Windows 10 Will Be Ready By July 29 · · Score: 1

    In Linuxland, the product is released from the very first alpha versions. So indeed, there is no need to wait. A totally different aproach.

  4. Re:Oblig. Musk stroking on Aiming To Beat Tesla's "3", Chevy Tests and Teases a Cheaper 200-Mile Electric Car · · Score: 2

    Tesla was a pioneer in the field of "electric cards that are not grocery getters", so it's reasonable that every other company is compared to them. BTW, the article doesn't mention whether the new GM vehicle can use Tesla's network of "superchargers". And if they can, will the pricing scheme be the same for GM owners (compared to Tesla owners). Musk built an infrastructure advantage for Tesla, which traditional carmakers will struggle to beat.

  5. Re:Demographics on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    Your post is the definition of gender and racial discrimination. Why would females, blacks and hispanisc receive preferencial treatment because they are a minority during recruitment? Do men whine about the over-representation of women in the fashion industry?

  6. Re:Manufacturing buisness supported by government. on How Elon Musk's Growing Empire is Fueled By Government Subsidies · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, much less than the incentives oil companies get. They buy a scarce resource (crude oil reserves) from the government for a fixed cost, instead of a "percentage of sales to customers" cost (as it would certainly happen if the government acted as a seller looking after the bottom line). But this scheme is so well hidden most people have no idea it even exists.

  7. Re:not all dialups accounts are in use on Closing This Summer: Verizon To Scoop Up AOL For $4.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    I am not from the US = Also, I am not from the US

  8. Re:not all dialups accounts are in use on Closing This Summer: Verizon To Scoop Up AOL For $4.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    THIS. And this is why I 've never used any of the email address my ISPs gave me over time. Sure, there is some way to cancel the service and still have emails sent to the old address forwarded, but if I can't bother enough to find out how it's done, novice users won't either. I am not from the US, so I don't know if there are places that have telephone (PSTN) but can't have DSL because they are too far away from the closest DSLAM.

  9. Re:only i3/i5 on Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips · · Score: 1

    Most (sane) people have already. I think still using Facebook tells a lot about you, none of it positive.

    The reason I use Facebook is because it's clear off privacy-crazy "i know better than you" neckbeards. Not using Facebook while being computer literate tells a lot about you, none of it positive. Let me be clear: No, I don't care if my software is free. No, I don't care if Facebook sells the data I upload. Because the benefit of having software that works and connecting with friends respectively is higher than any small price.

  10. Re:UK ISPs cause DoS on Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers · · Score: 1

    It's all fun and games untill the flawed technology that blacklists those server IP-addresses is used to flag as pirates people trying to access those addresses, and it's accepted as "evidence" in court.

  11. Re:"The World" on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 1

    It would be trivial for developed countries to write laws that prevent the import or manufacture of products made from raw materials that came from "dirty" factories. But that's crazy talk. Because bribes err... I mean free market, efficiency, lower prices for "consumers", the invisible hand will fix this.

  12. Re:It was inevitible on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 0

    As if it's ever going to happen. One engineer made a "maybe" comment, slashdot goes bonkers.

  13. Re: on Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? · · Score: 1

    The future is on whitelisting, which assumes the removal of anoynymity for websites and advertisers, and certificates for executables. Freedom fighters will whine and moan, but that's what will happen.

  14. Re:Liability on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 1

    Someone really needs to cast the first lawsuit, and see how those "disclaimers" and "terms of use" hold up.

  15. Re:No one cares on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 1

    "Reliable ad agency? Yeah, I gotta agree, that's kinda funny." If you can just sit back and be a middleman collecting his sweet cut (while pretending to care about user's security), why bother caring about who your advertisers are and expend effort to make sure they are non anonymous? After all, you have the disclaimer. Thank (insert name of deity here), users have adblock.

  16. Re:Anonymous advertisers on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Host your own ads" is something only big sites can implement obviously. An ad agency is reliable if all the advertisers are non-anonymous, and hence responsible for the content they push through the ad agency. And don't tell me "it's not possible", there is this thing called HTTPS. Instead, as of now, anyone with a computer and internet connection can be an "advertizer". No eponymity or responsibilities, yay! This was good enough for the first years of the internet. "Freedom", easy, cheap blah blah, now it's not good enough, because there is lots of money to be made for malvertizing, and ad agencies can't keep up with preventing and blacklisting anonymous mal-ads. Unreliable ad agencies that don't care about my security will simply get Ad Blocked and lose my ad impressions (I don't care). Mutual non-caring.

  17. Anonymous advertisers on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ahh... The joys of having anonymous advertisers, even on well-known sites: Not only some of the ads are of questionable legality, but some of them may actually hurt you. THIS is why AdBlock Edge is a security policy, not an adblocking policy. Don't give me the "freeloader" talk. Either host your own ads and be responsible for them, or partner with reliable ad agencies (and maybe I will unblock them).

  18. Re:Why uTorrent? on uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner · · Score: 1

    And you can get it from the oldversion site.

  19. Re:Breakthrough? on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    It's called lock-in (Play Apps, Games, Movies, Music and Hangouts messages). Being on the other side is a bitch, right Microsoft?

  20. The truth is... on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    The truth is that when digital data are modulated with some "dense" QAM scheme, then the amount of noise the cable introduces IS important. The 1s and 0s will get distorted if noise is too high. BUT, the other truth is that, all you have to do is buy a cable that is compliant conductivity-wise. All those fancy Monster cables are an ordinary cable, just upmakerd. And you should NEVER exceed the distances recommended by the standard. You should not build a 100m link even if it's consisted of monster cables. Better save the money for repeaters.

  21. Nope, there will be limits on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    I can tell you the government is not going to give "unlimited" electricity for free. There is going to be some Kwh limit defined as "more than enough to power a household". Because, otherwise everyone will allow the neighbouring MiniMarket to connect their fridges to the appartment's outlets, for a small amount of money paid to the appartment owner. Also, the new PM also promised free food (aka food stamps) for the poor people, but this doesn't mean they will be able to park a truck outside and start loading as much food they want.

  22. All hail anonymous sites and advertisers on Adobe's Latest Zero-Day Exploit Repurposed, Targeting Adult Websites · · Score: 1

    Microsoft tried to implement a system where sites and advertisers are NOT anonymous and hence responsible for their content, as a subset of the web, the world went crazy and MS abandoned the idea. IMO users should be anonymous, but sites and advertisers should not be. Also, the site doesn't mention you should have 16.0.0.296 to be safe, the linked article does.

  23. Re: on Adobe Patches One Flash Zero Day, Another Still Unfixed · · Score: 1

    What it means "investigating"? An exploit kit exist, they can download it and see how it works and have people working on it round the clock. The fact there is no commitment on when the bug is going to be fixed is absurd.

  24. Re:qwerty? on The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" · · Score: 5, Funny

    My password is 'incorrect". So if I ever forget it, the computer will helpfully remind me that "password is incorrect"

  25. Re: on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    This thing is ridiculous. A website subcontracts ads to an ad-service, and the ad-service allows ads from anoynymous people to be shown in the website. If the ad is a virus, only the anonymous guy is legally responsible, but he is anonymous so you can't get to him. I absolutely loathe the fact there is no "guaranteed eponymous" area of the internet, and a switch to block all sites that are behind anynoymous registrars or serve ads by anonymous ad peddlers. As long as we have anoynymous websites, anonymous advertizers and anonymous everything, creating a web inside the web which no site or ad peddler is anoynymous and hence is responsible for his actions is the only way clueless people can surf.