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  1. Re:Figured it out yet? on Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet · · Score: 1

    Considering that fraction reserve banking predates fiat currencies, why do you think that fractional reserve banking requires a fiat currency?

  2. Re:Figured it out yet? on Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet · · Score: 1

    "This is why gold has value. Mining gold takes resources (time, transportation, and exposition of which are the most difficult to come by -- merely finding the gold) which you never recover, "

    Productive of unity or less means the Industrial Revolution did not happen. Good luck with that theory.

  3. Re:Thank god we have Ted Cruz on Congress Reaches Agreement ... On Helium · · Score: 1

    Is there a Canadian helium cartel?

  4. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A fraction by weight of a quantity specified by volume? Brilliant...

  5. Re:Don't understand on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    Free markets depend on information symmetry to be efficient. If the trades are faster than any other connection, then the cannot possibly be based on information about the market.

    So the real question is: why do you hate free markets?.

  6. Re:nbc.exe on LexisNexis and Other Major Data Brokers Hacked By ID Theft Service · · Score: 2

    Why do you hate VMS?

  7. Re:A question on New York Turns Rest Stops Into 'Texting Zones' · · Score: 2

    The reason for the more specific case is so that you don't have to reprove for every single case that using a cell phone causes a distraction, by repaying the same expert witnesses to give the same expert testimony.

  8. Re:three? on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    "It didn't take long to learn to press in a certain way"

    You're holding it wrong!

    But seriously, why not just make a device that works well instead of training everyone to work around it's shortcomings?

  9. Re:All I wanna Know Is ... on New Species of Legless Lizard Discovered Near LAX Runway · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like a legless chicken.

  10. Re:So what. on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 1

    HDCP requires end-to-end encryption, and has the entire weight of the MPAA member legal departments behind that restriction. MicroSoft just gave them all the finger.

  11. Re:2 Port HDMI Switch on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 1

    Because it's not a 2-port HDMI switch. It's a fully-decrypting HDCP receiver; note the mentioned usage of grabbing input and inserting it into a game, not just passing it through.

  12. Re:wouldn't be the first time.... on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    Another way is blocking the version for models that you think *should* be able to handle it. Whether that is a "better" way I can't tell.

    It's very convenient that whatever choice Apple makes they get to be flamed for artificially forcing new hardware purchases.

  13. Stupid defaults only allowed in open source on RSA Warns Developers Not To Use RSA Products · · Score: 0

    Shipping with config values that are dangerous if you start open source program before edits: the stupid user gets what they deserve!
    Shipping with config values that are dangerous if you start closed source program before edits: OMG they're in league with $BAD_GUY.

  14. Lets' call a spade a spade on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    It's not FUD article, it's a LYING article.

  15. Re:Wow, they managed to break the idea of a cable! on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    No, Phone Arena managed to break the idea of journalism.

  16. Article lies; no evidence of blocking on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    The article is titles "Apple blocks unauthorized Lightning cables with iOS 7" but presents no evidence of blocking. The last sentence of the first paragraph is "Apple will probably shut the door on the usage of the latter in a future update." which implies that they have not done so already.

    The article plainly LIES.

  17. Only bad when Apple does it on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    Fingerprint unlock on my ThinkPad: Good.
    Fingerprint unlock on my iPhone: Bad.

  18. Re:Ridiculous on GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint · · Score: 1

    USPS screwed up the specs for the machine-sortable mailers. They were *supposed* to be machine sortable, and if Netflix get those specs they were supposed to get the cheaper rate. It turned out that even meeting those specs they still needed hand sorting, but Netflix said that was a problem for the USPS. Since Netflix met the spec they argued that they should get the lower rate for that spec over the current valid term and should only have to revalidate mailers against a corrected spec at the end of that term. See in part the Audit report from USPS Inspector general: http://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2013/MS-AR-08-001.pdf

  19. Re:Information for the hard of thinking judiciary on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    -1. illiterate

  20. Re:Information for the hard of thinking judiciary on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    Why is the ruling ridiculous if it agrees with you?

  21. Re:not compiled, just parsed on Researchers Reverse-Engineer Dropbox, Cracking Heavily Obfuscated Python App · · Score: 1

    You make the baby Alfred Aho cry.

  22. Re:It's a shame, but... on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it would be more efficient to directly fuel a power plant with West Virginians.

  23. How is ABBYY formed? on OmniPage Maker Nuance Loses Patent Trial Over OCR Tech · · Score: 2

    How is ABBYY formed?

  24. Re:Does it do custom folders? on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 5, Informative

    "unless you want to take the time to manually change everything back."

    Preferences -> Saving Books to Disk -> Save template. The default is {author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}
    Select All
    Save to disk

    I don't know the command line equivalent off the top of my head

  25. Re:What is the point? on How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The summary says that there is no state-level clustering shown by the 3 most populous states, not that there is no clustering whatsoever. (I think the main implication is that these states are so large that they behave like they are more than one state.)

    Table 1 shows 4.1% of all workers across the country are in science and engineering, and the spread for NY, CA and TX is 3.6-4.9, so they're pretty close. However, there are other states that stray quite far from this, such as Mississippi at 1.7% to DC at 10.7%.

    The paper then goes on to suggest that there may be clustering at the municipal level or by field, but unfortunately does not show the "intensity" figures for those cases.