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  1. Re:Hey, let's speculate! on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    Satoshi Nakomoto is Japanese for, you guessed it, Rothschilds 1913. And with middle name Anashi, he's normally referred to as N, S.A. in his publications. They finally got control of all the worlds money. Kudos to China and Norway who see the scam for what it is. While everyone else is using coins minted in difficult mathematical proofs that will be easily stolen by quantum computers as part of the Illuminati's scam to have their octopus tentacles in everyone's pockets, I'll be bartering in tin, foil hats, that is. Don't say I didn't warn you about the dangers of fiat money. Mark of the B east I tell you. End the fed.

  2. Flat like a shell. on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 2

    It's turtles all the way down to turtle prime which is a comic book.

  3. Re:Change logs matter on Ask Slashdot: To Publish Change Logs Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Fads come and go. Some people get rich off the fads, and we all are envious. But at the end of the day, you end up working in a niche where you survive based on the goodwill of the regular customers you develop and your reputation.

    If you're concerned now about the competition, it sounds like your product has gotten successful enough that there is a community that relies on the expectations of what your software will do. If changelogs are making you lose new business, I question who those new businesses are. Are they going to be asking you for questions in a year? Or will they will be looking at the next shiny thing? Are you alienating your base?

  4. Re:eh, Google no eat own dogfood? on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 2

    Instead of ZeroTrust, ZeroWing. Only belief those who speak Engrish.

  5. Seinfeld is Prior Art on Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users · · Score: 1

    How about them Knicks?

    This is a ridiculous patent and should be invalidated. As others have said, this is correlation. Nothing patentable here at all.

    I taught data mining in college. This is a standard example of relating attributes to income. It is not novel.

  6. CBLI Candidates on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    I know Cleveland BioLabs is working on bacteria which impact acute radiation sickness. Would be interesting if they could try it on these thieves if they would turn themselves in.

    *Disclaimer* I own CBLI stock and would obvioiusly like their stock to rise, but more importantly would like them to succeed as risks to radiation exposure from old nuclear power plants grows.

  7. Re:Honest question: Why is a "weak" password so ba on Two Million Passwords Compromised By Keylogger Virus · · Score: 1

    The strong password helps protect people when it is only hashed and not salted. So if the site you use hashes the password but doesn't salt it, then your weak password would be broken more easily than a strong password. This assumes that the hackers somehow were able to access the username password database and would then employ brute force against that.

    Also, a long term brute force attack against an account with a weak password would eventually succeed in less time than one with a strong password, although this does seem impractical.

  8. Re:risky but very useful on Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do? · · Score: 2

    This is a terrible idea. I strongly oppose this approach.

  9. Re:Should be legal, with caveat on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your wife.

  10. Re:Nature Of the Beast on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    TC1100 had no such compromises. It is small, upgradeable, and serviceable. I can see where soldered-in-RAM may improve performance at the cost of upgradeability, but everything else could be smaller without such compromises.

    I haven't found out how to move on from the TC1100 either. I was thinking an ipad mini with VNC-related software and keyboard (forget about upgrading), but the whole itunes gateway is just ridiculously impractical.

  11. Simple Explanation on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 4, Funny

    Years ago, Tesla, or Nicola Tesla as he was known, sent transmissions from the Wardenclyffe tower into the air, forever altering the electrical potential of earth's ionosphere. This potential remained as it had no path to the ground. Until, that is, cars powered by batteries with his namesake appeared. At night, this leftover induction discharges batteries of the Tesla Model S and will continue until the potential is balanced.

  12. Yahoo Dogfood is Bing on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 2

    What is the point of this? When I log in to yahoo email it takes forever to search because the bing search takes forever to load. If you type too quickly, you just see your whole inbox. So they criticize their employees to leave outlook and use Yahoo mail?

    Not that outlook search is any better (can't find parts of a word), but this whole dogfood is serious. Maybe they should stop using Windows at work or using Office while their at it.

  13. Re:If only... on Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Anti-SOPA stance was a good day.

    But by and large, I think these organizations have been too quiet. If they have not normalized relationships with Washington, then why did it take a leak by someone from Washington for some of these organizations to admit what vast information has been shared?

    And it's ludicrous to not-normalize relationships with Washington. That's where the laws are defined. There should be pro-privacy politicians with the backing of these companies. With Citizens United, shouldn't tech organizations have the strong advantage of getting the word out about what kind of society we want to create?

    The stance of burying heads in the sand is no better than those fools who talk of secession, or try to create their own militia societies. The brain drain occurring today in Russia, is likely to reoccur here in the United States due to gerrymandering if we stay disengaged.

  14. Advertiser targets Slashdot on Longtime Linux Advocate Don Marti Tells Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 1

    Says targeting is harmful. Have to agree with Bill Hicks here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

  15. I had a dream last night on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1

    where an apple was eating me!

    (adapted from Seinfeld)

  16. I once used a printer and a camera on Austrian Professor Creates Kindle E-Book Copier With Lego Mindstorms · · Score: 1

    One day I was looking at a pile of papers from school I was thinking about saving digitally and recycling. But I didn't have a scanner, and I sure wasn't about to go buy one. But I did have a printer. So I used some DOS command to print a blank document, and I put my papers in the feed. And then I had a Canon camera which I aimed at the output of the printer. I then wrote a script that would print, and then sleep, and then take a picture. The only trouble was that it took about 30 seconds to get everything situated. And at that rate, it would probably take 2 years to scan all that I had. So ultimately, I threw away those papers.

  17. Re:As always... on The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades · · Score: 1

    If only it wasn't conceived as a communications network designed to survive a nuclear attack!

  18. Unbelievable on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    Can the man really be that dense as to criticize Google with its plans for wifi blimps? What higher purpose is served when you lock code up so that when it's broken, it can't be fixed? How much time and money is spent on formatting documents to ask the government for money in the first place thanks to the random Times New Roman font changes that popup and weird indents that just take place on half the document?

    I mean, I always felt like it was jealousy that motivated me to harbor these "make the world a better place" kind of criticisms of Microsoft and Bill Gates in particular. To see Gates make the same criticism of Google is very surreal for me.

  19. Not Sure What To Say on Lenovo "Rips and Flips" the ThinkPad With New Convertible Helix Design · · Score: 2

    As I sit here typing this post with my TC1100, the computer which got me to use Windows XP as my primary operating system, the computer which runs Windows 7 decently enough, which I purchased used for $850 about 8 years ago. It works like a boss. It has 1 problem with hardware overheating which can be resolved by tilting the screen towards you as far as it will go, and then it just works. Just works. Originally priced at $2400 back in 2001/2002. It has a trackpoint, and enough space for all the keys in all the right places except for page up and page down. The only form of laptop which doesn't burn your legs because the battery floats in space (a battery you can replace without shutting down completely). The only laptop with a proper trackpoint and excellent stylus support. A beautiful 8.9 inch screen over 180 degree viewing angle which has the option of VGA-outing to some big screen you want to use at the same time. In that same time I've worn out a Vaio laptop and a brand new Lenovo laptop (which stopped working in 1 month). HP the company is bleeding revenue seeking to redefine itself, when it had the quality answer 10 years ago. I know this Lenovo in comparison is trackpointless and will only last just past the warranty period if you're lucky. I don't know what to say really.

  20. Re:Robohand on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 1

    And I learned about this from Slashdot:
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/01/1427226/public-domain-prosthetic-hand

    So this is not a bad place to ask.

  21. Robohand on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 2

    I saw some things here:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/5-year-old-gets-3-d-printed-robohand-internet-collaborators-1B8242915

    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44150

    I'm not sure if it would work for an artist, but it is supposed to be low-cost.

  22. Twitter Contest on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Hi Bdking,

    That's the idea I posted on twitter for the Google glass competition; going to a house and scanning all the relevant information. I never got any notice that I won the opportunity to purchase a developer's copy or anything; maybe a lot of people posted the same idea.

  23. Sense of Accomplishment on Ask Nathan Myhrvold What You Will, Live Q&A April 3 · · Score: 1

    As a software engineer, I produce solutions to different problems every day which are then implemented and used by people. If my resulting software was not used by anyone, I would not gain much fulfillment in my work. Considering that much of the work done by Intellectual Ventures does not result in actual tangible products, do you still get a sense of accomplishment? Are you prouder of the ideas which actually get implemented? Or are you satisfied with the ideas that are developed, independent of whether they result in viable products or not?

  24. Re:Why I never bought a netbook... on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    You should have purchased a second hand TC1100. Of course, that was around $2000 when it came out, but now it is around $200. Excellent viewing angles and you can run linux on it. Battery life was not great, but there is a way to swap batteries without powering off.

    Oh, and it has a trackpoint. That was a reason I never got a netbook.

    The fastest speed was 1.2 GHz, but I didn't have too much trouble context switching. And *knocks on wood* I've had one of mine since 2004 and it still works, although the battery life is about 2 hours now.

    Did I mention it comes with a modem in case you're in some middle of nowhere place? I haven't ever tried that though. *shakes head* They don't make machines like this anymore.

  25. Jammin on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...

    We're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin';
    Hope you like jammin', too.

    ...
    Credits to Bob Marley