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  1. Or the governments are trying to find ways to tax the transactions done in Bitcoin.

  2. So... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Just tell your kids that they are ugly (or don't tell your kids they look good) to raise prettier kids? That was easy.

  3. Re:Change.org is just another bulletin board on Latest Wikipedia Uproar Over 'Superprotection' · · Score: 1

    I thought wikipedia pays special attention to tor users, that's why I said proxy. Oh well... mileage varies with tor

  4. Re:Change.org is just another bulletin board on Latest Wikipedia Uproar Over 'Superprotection' · · Score: 1

    A petition with 13 signatures is not worth mentioning. Any idiot can set one up.

    You mean any idiot with 12 idiot friends.

    I think he meant any idiot with access to 13 different IP addresses/proxies and 12 sock puppets

  5. Re:C++ is not the language you start with on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Java the beverage doesn't seem to discourage people by much. Or are people addicted to it to the point that they can't open their eyes without it?

  6. Re:Nobody else seems to want it on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    I think you can get multi-button mice from vendors like logitech that work on a mac out of the box. So I imagine the problem would be better rephrased as "why don't you tell us all about those stupid 1 button mice that apple is still shipping with their stuff"

  7. Re:I give up... on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 1

    We probably should stop using cellphones altogether.

  8. Re:It's not like they've had 5 months to fix it... on Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach · · Score: 2

    FreeBSD patched it back in April; when/whether the sysadmins want to firmware-update their stuff is a separate discussion.

  9. Re:It's not like they've had 5 months to fix it... on Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach · · Score: 1

    Says who they are staffed at all? unless it takes 5 months to investigate I say someone is getting fired.

  10. Re:Access restrictions on Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach · · Score: 1

    Hospitals do run 24/7 so the patching window might be a bit different than most places. But then again, backup and failover is supposed to be a thing.

  11. Re:Good Job NRC on Nuclear Regulator Hacked 3 Times In 3 Years · · Score: 1
  12. Re:It's not annoying on Daimler's Solution For Annoying Out-of-office Email: Delete It · · Score: 1

    "I'm not going to reply promptly" != "I will not be able to reply. Ever."

  13. This sounds oddly disturbing on Google Brings Chrome OS User Management To Chrome · · Score: 1

    Why do I get the feeling that it may somehow open a giant vulnerability on Chrome the browser for every platform?

  14. Re:Trolling is necessary on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    No, I do not. the act of trolling is more or less a sanity check. What do you think people do when they can't take the trolling and also can't swallow it? They lose their civility and do stupid things (and arguably either stir unrest or backfire in most cases) which either tips society into chaos or eliminate themselves in the process. For those who can take or swallow it, lives go on.

  15. Trolling is necessary on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 2

    I would argue that some amount of trolling in society is necessary to keep the sanity of the society as a whole.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    Well, put everyone (just about) on the same email platform and presto, you have no more spam!

    No, the turn comes to the platform [provider] to spam you

  17. Re:Doesn't that come with another problem? on World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    The system is at steady state (photons are already at the lens/detector) by the time you start, so when you do, you are taking the photons that are closest to your detectors first, whether they are in front of the lens or next to your detector. What I am interested in is that at trillions of frames per second where do you get hundreds of TB/s to PB/s of bandwidth between camera and storage? I do not recall stuffs you buy at a store go that fast.

  18. Maybe get monsanto to get involved? on Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene · · Score: 2

    to see if it is possible to get both ends of the world?

  19. Re:Pray BlackBerry sticks around on The Biggest iPhone Security Risk Could Be Connecting One To a Computer · · Score: 1

    Replicant the phone OS?

  20. Re:Oh now Apple joins the team on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    Though Siri now responds to such queries with a "That's very funny", the software at the time actually responded with the following:

    What kind of place are you looking for? Swamps. Reservoirs. Metal Foundries. Dumps.

    I am saying that the fact that they changed it is implicit that they are telling us what not to do. This is in common with what Google and MS (reporting someone to the authorities is a good way to tell them not to do something) do but not identical.
    If you need a more accurate comparison it is probably the censorship of search engine results in this case. And with this precedent the problem will be other places will start the censorship of search engine results in order to tell you not to do something.

  21. Re:Oh now Apple joins the team on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 0

    The idea that the companies are (rightfully) treating us like idiots is disturbing, perhaps not to you though.

  22. Oh now Apple joins the team on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 3, Interesting

    like Google and Microsoft as the moral police and they are trying to tell us what not to do. I suppose if we ask Siri how to avoid taxes now we probably will end up like Wesley Snipes.

  23. Re:Well on Student Bookstores Beware, Amazon Comes To Purdue Campus · · Score: 1

    At least it is better than Aspen where you pay them money and you have to return the case book at the end of the term

  24. Re:Should we really be worried? on Snowden: NSA Working On Autonomous Cyberwarfare Bot · · Score: 1

    Certainly we shouldn't be worried. We are hopeless against skynet. I am surprised you still got hope in you.

  25. So when will the global mesh network be available? on T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P · · Score: 2

    I suppose we probably have to build one giant mesh network instead of begging for the mercy of these providers no? Probably makes us harder to be spied on too if we don't use the same route to get to the same place every time