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  1. No I get it - my point is how can you call this an "autopilot" if it doesn't even read road signs or figure out speed limits from GPS location or something. It's more of a "tries keep the car in your lane" device. I know it's just a detail, but lawyers have won lawsuits for less.

  2. Prove that the wallet is in Panama. This gets real complicated, real fast. I bought some bitcoins online, I didn't like it, and I sold them. Prove me wrong.

  3. But you're assuming - or THEY are assuming - that every place that bitcoin came from is from a wallet in a country subject to their silly law. What can they do if the trail is from a wallet that was created in Panama, for example? Prove that Panama to me is an illegitimate transaction AND that I actually own the wallet in Panama. Trivial to set up with VPN's and/or friends/relatives who are actually outside your country. Again, politicians fail to realize that their laws are limited by geography whereas the internet knows no borders.

  4. Does the autopilot not have control of the speed of the car? Not good for Tesla...

  5. Yeah ok. But you have to catch the guy first.

  6. What exactly is stopping you from sitting on a pile of bitcoins, and creating a new, declared wallet specifically for any particular "withdrawal"... This is about as stupid as politicians get, but then again...

  7. Re:One unsaid goal is to ease confiscation on EU Plans To Create Database of Bitcoin Users With Identities and Wallet Addresses (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    You bet. Because every year we have more and more restrictive bank regulations (to the point where it's now difficult to move your own damned money around from account to account or asset to asset), yet there are more drugs, more laundering and there is more terrorism. Makes you think those laws were never intended to go after criminals in the first place.

  8. And they're going to enforce the "opt in" part of this deal how, again? The whole POINT of virtual currencies is to keep them out of control of the government(s).

  9. Re:Waste of time on Obama Creates a Color-Coded Cyber Threat 'Schema' After the DNC Hack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, now when the color threat level changes you'll know you have to change your password from "1234567" to something completely un-guessable and devious like password1234.

  10. Re: Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you didn't parse it or something,

    Probably. I'm an old fart and I read much too quickly nowadays when it's "mission critical" stuff. Like internet posts on boards. Glad to see we agree :P

  11. Most logins to online servers are acquired through social engineering not keyloggers. Provided you're reasonably cautious with what you're downloading/clicking on the chances of you getting a keylogger installed on your machine are closer to zero than 100 percent. Plus nobody wants your World of Tanks account.

  12. Re: Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one of those words that is usually intended to be offensive

    Nah, it's not words that are offensive. It's people who want an excuse to be offended. When I grew up, the infamous "n" word was a very bad word indeed. You didn't say that word unless you wanted to be seen as racist and probably gutter trash. Conversely - many black people use that word among each other in an almost automatic fashion without meaning any offense. Comedians, also, manage to use that word and get away with it. So apparently the word is polymorphic - sometimes it's offensive, sometimes it's friendly, sometimes it's even funny.

    Wrong. Words are just words. They have no magical properties. It's actions that people should be judged by.

  13. Re:Microsoft sucks on Steam On Windows 10 Will Get 'Progressively Worse': Gears of War Developer (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I hate having to deal with all the sneaky updates.

    If all you use your machine for is games, just turn off Windows Update once you've got SP1 installed on Windows 7. IF (and it's a big IF) your machine gets compromised - who cares. It's a games machine. Wipe. Reinstall. No data to worry about. Heck Steam even keeps most of your save games in the cloud nowadays anyway.

  14. Re: Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Logic fail. The boolean state EITHER OR exists only in your mind.

  15. Re:Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free wor on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember that Chinese kid in your math and physics classes, the one who never spoke to anyone and always got 100% on all the tests while you were busy getting drunk and high in college? Well, there you go.

  16. Re: Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because "cracker" refers to white people and white people are HAPPY to be white. There is no "slur".

  17. Posting pictures of yourself constantly is a silly hobby. If millenials devoted as much time to their career as they do to narcissism and/or their cell phones, they'd be the most successful generation ever.

  18. Even worse nowadays is that a lot of movies are available in both formats, but obviously there are shots which you can tell ONLY exist for the 3D version so that something "coming out of the screen" can impress 4 year olds which would never have made it in a regular movie because they're stupid.

  19. Talk about beating a dead horse. Seriously.

  20. Great study on Can Computerized Brain Training Prevent Dementia? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    those who completed at least some of these booster sessions were 48% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia

    The other 52% simply forgot about the booster sessions.

  21. Re:Why would Putin fear Clinton? on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the part I don't get.

    There's nothing to "get" when pure bullshit is involved.

  22. Re:Encryption on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The government workers needs to follow the constitution even when they are in another country.

    Guantanamo. Discuss.

  23. >as long as turky moves American OIL up from South Sudan, through ISIS protected territory into Europe to fuck the Russians, they can do whatever they want. What the actual fuck? Get a map.

  24. >Got any facts on that?

    He left the facts right next to the evidence on all the Weapons of Mass Destruction....

  25. >You seem to have omitted a few important details, such as Saddam''s funding and support of terrorism, training terrorists, and providing them refuge in Iraq.

    I dunno - there seems to be a hell of a lot more "terrorism" in the world today with Saddam long dead than there ever was before. Barring 9/11 for actual death count, but that was the Saudis not Saddam.