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  1. Re:"it's also a smart visual explanation of why... on This 1981 BYTE Magazine Cover Explains Why We're So Bad At Tech Predictions · · Score: 1

    I had a watch with a full scientific calculator on it when I was a kid. My fingers were small enough to press the buttons, but an adult likely would have needed a pencil lead to push the buttons.
    It died when we were having squirtgun fights and I dunked my arm in a bucket and forgot I was wearing the watch :(
    I loved that watch.

  2. Re:Attach video in kid's 2026 college application on Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw · · Score: 1

    I lucked out guessing a wifi password once. The neighbor's had put up a network and called it "harunyahya". I googled for it and came up with some wacky creationist conspiracy nut. One of the most common words on the site was 'truth'. So I used that as the password and got in on my first attempt.

    A little bit research and a lot of luck. Pretty satisfying either way :)

  3. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 0

    All boycotting does is remove a portion of the revenue stream, accompanied by statements as to why.
    It was up to them to decide if his value as a CEO was greater than the lost revenue.

    Companies are realizing that it's not in their best interest to affiliate with those people who are against equality for citizens.

  4. Re:Not necessarily hate on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    That argument holds no water in the real world. How many Christians do you see objecting to homosexuality, then going out to tell people not to eat at Red Lobster, not to wear mixed fabrics, and advising farmers not to plant multiple crops in a field.

    They're just using cherry picked content to defend bigotry. Not doing it for "love".

  5. Re:MegaCoin on Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies That He Created Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    There is a megacoin, supposedly unaffiliated.

  6. Re:The point of an exchange on OKCoin Raises $10 Million To Become China's Largest Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 1

    A fraction of every transaction goes to the exchange, which can add up to significant profit.

  7. Re:Interesting parallel on US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO · · Score: 1

    As you can see from the Wikipedia article it was only used for MtG for a short time, then the domain name was repurposed.
    It's been Mt. Gox for a few years.

  8. Re:A new law in not what is needed on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    The second amendment only says that you have the right to bear arms.
    Not which ones you are allowed to bear. There is no enshrined constitutional right for you to own to own a gun or a missile.

    Under the constitution the government is within their rights to limit you to owning a sword and prohibiting your ownership of other weapons.

  9. Re: "...and the bitcoins have disappeared." on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    You created a scenario to justify your own thievery when you "in the real world" wouldn't be able know who those bitcoins belong to.
    So you're a thief who makes excuses for their behavior.

  10. Re: "...and the bitcoins have disappeared." on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 0

    A thief is a thief.

  11. In French... on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Fuck le police.

  12. Re:Can someone explain this theft? on Mt. Gox Shuts Down: Collapse Should Come As No Surprise · · Score: 1

    When you set up a bitcoin wallet it creates a wallet.dat file which contains your private key. This is what you never want anyone else to have.
    The clients present you with an option to encrypt the wallet so transactions can not be made without entering a password, but not everyone does it. So if someone gets their hands on your wallet.dat file they can put it in their own wallet and use it to send your coins to another address.

  13. Re:Time for an ecologically sound cryptocurrency on Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work · · Score: 1

    Gridcoin. You can mine normally with cgminer, but you also earn coins from your BOINC work. They're currently implementing a feature called scrypt-sleep which will rest your transaction mining so that BOINC apps which utilize GPU will earn work credits that way.
    The dev has been working hard on it, and releases updates every day or two for the mining client.

  14. Keepass on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I use KeePass as well. I store the database in a Truecrypt volume which then is propagated across my OSes via one of the cloud backup services.

  15. Re:Editing still going strong, I see on Reporting From the Web's Underbelly · · Score: 1

    On Slashdot? There must be thousands who read Cuckoo's Egg and Hacker Crackdown.

  16. Re:the difference? on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 1

    It's too bad you wrote this anonymous so you can't actually see that there's a follow up post.
    Within OUR transgender community it's considered downright offensive to have transvestites / drag queens included under the term. People tend to bicker over the specificity of the terminology, but applying that as an umbrella term would likely get you chased out of any forums or discussions in the places I've frequented.

  17. Re:So on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    Gabe stated a few years ago that if Steam has to shut down there is a method of releasing all content on an account to the user. A master key or something. And they would give advance notice.
    If they were unable to give advance notice, it's likely that whatever caused it would be impacting your life as well. Alien attack, Godzilla, Roseanne Barr clones...

  18. the difference? on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 4, Informative

    Transgender vs. Transsexual generally refer to someone who hasn't had surgery, and someone who has, respectively.
    An androgynous person doesn't present as one gender or another.
    Gender questioning is pretty obvious, with the individual in the process of working out inner feelings and unsure how they're presenting.
    Bigender, I'm not sure of. Maybe someone who is comfortable switching gender roles in a culture with 2 or more genders. (Some cultures have several)
    Pangender sounds like a lot of work.

  19. Re:Steam Rentals on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 2

    The first amendment refers to government censorship. Valve closing your account because you shared your password would not fall under its purview in the slightest.

  20. Any of the big exchanges (and most of the medium sized ones) offer two step authentication. If someone is storing coins online, whether at an exchange or in an online wallet, then two step auth is mandatory.
    Seeing how sites can vanish overnight I wouldn't advise using an online wallet anyway. Keep a personal encrypted wallet, and only move coins on to exchanges long enough to do transactions.

  21. Layout on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    There's so much whitespace I was starting to see penguins.

  22. Re:R9 290X vs 650 Ti Boost on AMD Catalyst Driver To Enable Mantle, Fix Frame Pacing, Support HSA For Kaveri · · Score: 1

    It mines Gridcoin. I just don't do it 24/7.
    Anyway, it's still marketed as a gaming card, so the lack of performance for the specs is pretty disheartening.
    At least the word is that new drivers should resolve a lot of issues with performance.

  23. R9 290X vs 650 Ti Boost on AMD Catalyst Driver To Enable Mantle, Fix Frame Pacing, Support HSA For Kaveri · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was really disappointed by the comparative performance of the AMD 290x 4GB vs my nVidia 650 Ti Boost 2GB.

    The nVidia let's me run games like Borderlands 2 and Skyrim at max settings on my old Core 2 Duo smoothly, yet the 290X hitches and drags, almost as if it were streaming the gameplay from the hard drive. I expected a card with 2000+ shaders to be faster than that.

    If my processor isn't bottlenecking the 650s performance too badly, at least the 290X should be able to cap out at something reasonable.

  24. Re:Tame and lame on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Scissors are good for cutting pizzas. But as someone who is not working in a clean kitchen environment while driving, if the cooks forgot to cut the pizza and the recipient complained, I'd just suggest their own scissors as a quick fix.

  25. Re:Not here! on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    The first line in the Charter of Rights here in Canada blathers on about recognizing the "supremacy" of "god".
    It's of some comfort that most Canadians have never read it, therefore aren't using it to push their religious agenda.
    And also, most of us aren't religious nutjobs.