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  1. Re:No not so much on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    Basically wrong, you could check the total maximum amount of coins on wikipedia - a total of 2.1 × 1015 or 2.1 quadrillion units. I think that is around 10 000 coins for every human on the planet at 2030, which is plenty due to the fact we survived up until now with far less units-per-person of money in our lives.

  2. Re:Sucker born every minute. on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    You pay for the "service costs" yourself when you use bitcoins, using your own computer. You don't need to convert bitcoins into "real money" if you can pay your bills in bitcoins (if that ever happens) - that is the goal, every large investment is one step closer.

    If you lived in a country which is in decline and you wanted to invest in a reliable currency, bitcoin might become a viable choice once it becomes unbreakably stable (which it will due to design, unless some country assassinates all the major bitcoin users and dumps all their bitcoins into a blackhole to inflate values).

  3. Re:Server cannot see the data? on Anonymous, People's Liberation Front Build Anonymous Data-Sharing Site · · Score: 1

    why wouldn't the # part of the URL be stored in logs? anyone with the URL and anyone looking at the URL history/logs etc can therefore unencrypt the text, this makes no sense to me.

  4. Re:I hope he realizes he did more harm than good on Foxconn "Glad That Mike Daisey's Lies Were Exposed" · · Score: 1

    So the chinese employees don't attempt suicide at Foxconn?, hate to image what it is like at worse employers.

  5. Re:Weather forecasters on The Blistering Hot Exoplanet Where It Snows · · Score: 2

    more like, we can hardly predict the surface conditions of Mars until we go there with a probe - further planets are mostly a guess, and planets lightyears away?.. hahahah.. super guestimate based on guesses based on earth. 1% chance of being correct.

  6. Re:Is google's image format ICC capable? on Google Upgrades WebP To Challenge PNG Image Format · · Score: 2

    Just because you've applied a 500kb colour profile to your image and your image program can understand it, does not mean a web browser needs to support such pointless user desires. The internet does not want to waste 50-500kb per image on colour profiles just so the image can print out a tiny bit more evenly on expensive high end printers. If it ever happens you can be happy living in a world where agenda driven lobby groups can make life more annoying for everyone just to make a few bucks. Should Chrome support 48bit, masked, live effects layered PSD too? but they look better on my computer...

  7. Re:Is google's image format ICC capable? on Google Upgrades WebP To Challenge PNG Image Format · · Score: 1

    It means extra features that are useless to everyone, including the print design which it is designed for. Color management is a huge waste of time and yes I do use it a lot because people (lazily) ask me to use it.

  8. Re:PNG8 is here on Google Upgrades WebP To Challenge PNG Image Format · · Score: 1

    is that real??

  9. d'oh on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    and I just joined Steam recently.. damn.

  10. Re:Reputation system on SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives · · Score: 1

    True, but he means "rip off a customer" I think.

  11. Re:He should have returned to Sweden a long time a on Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    And risk being executed by the USA? Not worth it.

  12. Re:Watch out on Google Street View Moves Indoors · · Score: 1

    "photographs will 'capture nothing different to what a customer would see" - which is what they'd say about visitors to your home and it is obviously way too far. The Google stance is dangerous direction, "why not" doesn't apply to everything in life and I can think of tons of reasons why not. More like, "we're creepy and we will push you until you break, then back off, then push again once you're not looking".

  13. no on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 0

    Ubuntu still using the arcane titles chosen by the coders for it's applications? Fail. e.g. Totem should be called "Video Player". Ubuntu is never going to be as good as it can be until all of the un-intuitive app names are changed to normal ones (an Alias is fine, keep it's original name in the About menu). Then it doesn't matter what apps are swapped in the back end, people don't care as long as "Video Player" is still there and it works. How long has this gone on for? yeah really.

  14. Re:An unchallenged gameplay cancer on First Person Dungeon Crawlers Making a Return · · Score: 0

    Might & Magic RPGs were mostly inventory lists.

  15. Re:Why a web browser? on Team Fortress 2 Running In a Web Browser Using WebGL · · Score: 0

    iPad has flash?

  16. Re:Cool on India Launches $35 Tablet · · Score: 0

    Government funded social programs are not meant to make a profit, that would go against the whole point of subsidy. You know, giving money to something that can not afford to exist - human decency, paying a few bucks in tax to avoid seeing people die on the street on your way to work.

  17. Re:FFMPEG To The Rescue on The Looming Video Codec Fight · · Score: 0

    patent. and no it isn't possible to just bypass the issue.

  18. Re:woah! so jealous. on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer · · Score: 0

    the article answers that.

  19. weird I did this but didn't think the same way on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 0

    I did the same thing on some of my sites but I didn't think about facebook tracking, I just loaded my "like" stuff into a div using jQuery so it didn't bog the users down with all the facebook bloat stuff and I didn't need to show their ugly icons until the user wanted to see them - same mechanics, different goal.

  20. Re:Oooo.. check in deals! Binspam! on Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products · · Score: 0

    You could say the same about the Hurricane story (0024206) on Slashdot. It isn't techy or nerdy, it's only relevant to one city, it's everywhere in the news, why post it?

  21. Re:Just Giving on Kickstarter-Like Service For Charities? · · Score: 1

    .com is not a US domain extension, it is a global extension for any country. It means "commercial". There is a .us

  22. free-as-in-beer is not an explanation on Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware · · Score: 0

    Average people do not understand free-as-in-beer until someone explains it to them, so it is a useless term.

  23. Re:I guess I won't be using it then. on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 0

    Borgle. claimed.

  24. Re:Youth is wasted on the young on Belgrade Hosts First Public Solar-Powered Cell Charging Station · · Score: -1

    "than" not "then". you just said that you get a feel good vibe after $1500+USD
    basically, then means after while than means instead (basically)... Lesson over, let us never see this error again.

  25. Re:Common Number on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 0

    "than" not "then"