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  1. Re:A real alternative on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    If the president drove around on a bike, he would be the target of terrorists on bikes

  2. Re:Don't they have to fly that thing around? on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    You don't need much armour plating if the driver is sitting in an office hundreds or thousands of kilometers away and the drones are fighting in space or at least at the top of very high mountains.

  3. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that word is the same in french but has a different meaning for the same syntax in english. My mistake.

  4. Re:Slashvertisement? on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're being paid in GoogleCoins? (coming soon)

  5. Re:Encryption? on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm worst than that, I make randomly-written files, compress them to ZIP, compress them again in RAR, put that inside a GZ, ROT13 the whole thing and then encrypt it.

    And for the cherry on top, I name the file "confidential_data.dmg" before uploading it.

  6. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you take a photo of your own nude baby child and upload it to your Google Drive, I'm sure the law is badly written enough to the point that you were "uploading child porn on the Internet".

    The morale of this story is: don't have children, the government will use them against you one day.

  7. Re:Good on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    But the topic here was a government-backed crypto currency. You wouldn't need to buy and resell it, it would be the new currency itself.

  8. Re:How to Falsify Evolution on NVIDIA Unveils Lineup of GeForce 800M Series Mobile GPUs, Many With Maxwell · · Score: 2

    TL;DR

  9. Re:Is that so? on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    Yeah... with a value of only 1 satoshi, I think I'll pass on those MoonCoins.

  10. Re:Good on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    If it's government-controlled currencies just like Bitcoins, they'll be easy to track. I'm against delays, high fees and troubles. I don't care if big brother USA knows that I bought a small stepper motor from Hong Kong, there's already a trace of that on eBay itself. But the credit card company takes a cut, eBay takes a cut, PayPal takes a cut. A small 5.00$ motor ends up costing me nearly 6.00$ instead of 5.05$

  11. Re:Good on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    I was talking mostly about the high PayPal fees. Never had a trouble with PayPal myself, then again I think they're more regulated in Canada.

  12. Good on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 2

    Anything that makes it easy to transfer funds to anyone in the world without going through PayPal is a good thing.

  13. Re:imagine the upkeep? on Monster Hypergiant Star Discovered · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Talking of Heroes, NBC is bringing it back in 2015. Share and enjoy!

  14. Re:Plans to? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    This is from 2009, which means it was already done in 2004.

  15. Re:Are the encryption keys for rpms and debs safe? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    How do you know the current Linux is safe? How about last month? Last year? Five years ago? One hundred years ago?

    I'm not saying aliens wrote Linux, but... aliens created Linus.

  16. Re:What you should hate Apple for.... on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 1

    All the tech companies moved their manufacturing to China, stop pointing Apple as if they're the only ones. Almost all computers, phones, game consoles, TVs, etc are made in China.

    But have you seen the new Apple Mac Pro? That could be the beginning of a "Made in U.S.A." comeback for high-tech items and Apple is the first big company to do it, AFAIK.

    And Dell assembling computers from parts made in China only qualifies as "Assembled in U.S.A."

  17. Re:Let's just kill all the lawyers on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Let's nuke the patent office from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  18. Crypto currencies on Ask Slashdot: College Club Fundraising On the Fly? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Set up wallets to accept Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin donations.

  19. Re:Stop on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tell that to people who still enter "Google" into their browser search box/URL bar so that they can go to the Google home page in order to enter what they're searching for.

  20. As a venture capitalist on Interviews: Ask Larry Augustin What You Will · · Score: 1

    What's your opinion on crypto-currencies? Do you think SHA-256 currencies have no future because only the big guys can afford mining rigs? Do you think there's way too many Scrypt currencies?

  21. Re:yayy flappy birds coming to linux on Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer · · Score: 1

    In the meantime you can always play FlappyCoin instead.

  22. Re:Why not put them out in schools ? on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 1

    Same goes for clothes, music, movies, TV shows, videogames.

    I can't wait to play BurgerTime 2014: Revenge of the Pickles for the Playstation 5.

  23. Re:http://www.foldscope.com/ on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 1

    If all you're going to do is cut paper, then a simple home-made laser cutter made from old inkjet printers and fitted with a Blu-ray diode would be more than enough.

  24. Re:Concentrate on the optics, forget about the pap on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 1

    But then again, I could just be a random stranger on the Internet talking out of my ass.

    You know who else talked out of his ass? Ace Ventura, pet detective.

  25. Re:Also time to stop on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian, I want to apologize for my fellow Canadian for making such an outrageous request on your part, unless of course it's not too much trouble.