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  1. Re:Ha ha on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    "This time it's different!"

  2. Re:Ha ha on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And we need growth because? Growth is sustainable forever right? How about you think about things instead of just parroting them? Those who benefit from growth are governments and monopolies, because then they can increase their budgets or offset future losses without having to do anything at all. It's the low hanging fruit and that is all it is. One day, you run out of easy fruit and have to do work. Debauching the entire system in order to fool yourself that there is more easy fruit will soon bring the whole tree down on top of you. We are fast approaching population sizes and technological levels where exponential growth is no longer possible (or even desired). Why should our economics not reflect this?

  3. Debut on Thief Debuts To Mediocre Reviews · · Score: 1

    Should review the meaning of the word. A re-release is hardly a "debut".

  4. Re:Sad on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    That's not what I mean - I mean about the fact that nothing changes (people pool their resources into 3rd parties giving them power when they really don't have to). Look at google. Google probably isn't the best search engine anymore. It certainly isn't the only one. But absolutely everyone uses Google because they're too lazy to stay on top of research and search engine trends. And when Google brings out a new service, it is instantly adopted (good or bad), because, well, it's google. For example why the hell do I keep coming back to slashdot? Inertia. It's the same shit.

  5. Re:Sad on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    Because the problem never was the currency, the problem is with human beings and their behavior.

  6. Re:Mt.Gox has a long history of problems, Bitcoin on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 2

    He obviously thinks a "currency" whose actual value against other currencies regularly swings 100% or more in a day is useful. Frankly I want to hear about the guy who sank money into Bitcoin ATMs and how he's doing at the moment...

  7. Re:Where's the bailout? on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    Both safe and anonymous! lol

  8. Re:If you can't win. on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    How about you review what ad hominem actually means and then get back to us? I'll be glad to teach you but we first need a formal agreement as my daily rates are quite expensive.

  9. Re:spam or scam on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    I use it to keep in touch with my daughters overseas - free SMS. That's all going to change now though Zuckerberg can go fuck himself.

  10. Re:Newsworthy? on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why should I respect stupidity and willful ignorance? Because that is what religion is. ALL religion.

  11. Irony on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    the religious leaders argue that making the trip would be tantamount to committing suicide, which all religions tend to frown upon."

    Brought to you by the religion that also endorses suicide bombers, because some suicides are actually ok.

  12. Re:Outlaw Recursion on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 4, Funny

    Recursion is fine if recursion is fine if recursion is fine if recursion is fine if recursion is fine if you do it right.

  13. Re:Heat is the limiting factor in our muscles, too on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 0

    Which is false.

  14. Re:Heat is the limiting factor in our muscles, too on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    [citation needed] I'm calling BS on this one. Heat is certainly not the limiting factor in human muscle contraction.

  15. Re:so they invented the spring on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    Not reinventing - modifying. Like sticking a pneumatic rubber tube on that wooden wagon wheel and noticing its better.

  16. Re:NSA radar on Sochi Drones Are Shooting the Olympics, Not Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Like /. isn't already on the radar

  17. Re: attuned to their owners' feelings on Dogs' Brains Have Human-like "Voice Area" · · Score: 1

    Wait you think politics is about the constituents?

  18. Re:Organisational mandates on EFF Reports GHCQ and NSA Keeping Tabs On Wikileaks Visitors and Reporters · · Score: 2

    Terrorism is just the latest incarnation of the boogeyman, it's always about "defending you" and "protecting you" from (Nazis/Japs/Commies/Soviets/Terrorists/Pedophiles/Eastasia).

  19. Withdrawn on ICE License-Plate Tracking Plan Withdrawn Amid Outcry About Privacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah right, withdrawn. To be resubmitted covertly as something else, hopefully covered by "national security". Go on, celebrate your "victory".

  20. Re:Organisational mandates on EFF Reports GHCQ and NSA Keeping Tabs On Wikileaks Visitors and Reporters · · Score: 3, Informative

    it may form a large part of their activities,

    No, it forms a large part of the political excuse to create and fund these entities.

  21. There you go on Facebook To Buy WhatsApp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Time to delete my WhatsApp app.

  22. Re:I don't on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    A floppy what? DISC? Oh. Thanks for playing.

  23. Re:I don't on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    You're grasping at straws now. Hell I can play almost any game "discless" too, all I need is an ISO. AC obviously confused Warcraft with WoW. You're just being pedantic.

  24. Hearts of Iron III TFH on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    This is an awesome WW2 grand strategy and I still play it regularly when I'm not playing EVE Online. Fairly bug free, realistically balanced but sandboxy enough to permit almost any outcome, this is the WW2 game for me until hopefully Paradox out-do themselves with HOI4...

  25. Re:I don't on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    He said Warcraft. Not World of Warcraft. Noob.