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  1. Re: Massive conspiracy on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any suffieciently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

  2. Or we could just stop starting wars... on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    and use technology for accomplishing things like ending hunger.

  3. Bitcoin fees... on Square Is Discontinuing Monthly Pricing On February 1, 2014 · · Score: 0

    unchanged.

  4. I liked this story better... on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when it was called The Scene

  5. See... this is why I torrent cracked versions. on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's too risky to give your credit card number to a company like Adobe.

  6. Re: Same as any other potential fraud. on Germany: Bitcoin Is "Private Money" · · Score: 1

    You win the Internet!

  7. Re: Do not want on Experiences and Realities of an Homesourced IT Worker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly backwards. Working for yourself you have the hardest boss. Working as TFA article describes you can log out of chat and set your phone on DND when your workday ends.

  8. IFTTT on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    You can set up recipes on ifttt.com to send new feed items to different platforms. I tried sending to gmail and setting up tags and filters to keep feeds organized and out of my inbox. This worked ok. Ultimately I ended up making an unpublished Facebook page and sending feed items to it as link posts. This is working out pretty well.

  9. Probabilities on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    Studies havefound that if you have emotional problems, the probability that you will be well in 1 year if you go to see a psychoanalyst is 44%; psychotherapist is 53%; Psychiatrist is 61%; no one at all is 73%

  10. Re:There is a way they could escape the harassment on Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    They already established they were losers.

  11. There is a way they could escape the harassment. on Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment · · Score: 5, Informative

    It involves a noose.

  12. Biological Computer? on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife and I have created 4 of those.

  13. $10,000 is pretty cheap for a marketing budget. on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 0

    Thanks for volunteering the ad space, Slashdot.

  14. You're doing it wrong. on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this is your "Go Green" initiative, you either don't understand Bitcoin mining or "Go Green" means something different than most would assume.

  15. Re:quit whining over loss of free services on Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die? · · Score: 1
    "most people doesn't use RSS, it's obscure geeky thing"

    Seriously, only "geeks" read blogs.

    smh

  16. In other news... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    The European Parliament also decided not to rescind gravity.

  17. But who would build the desks? on Can Valve's 'Bossless' Company Model Work Elsewhere? · · Score: 0

    There must be bosses or no one will have a place to sit and work.

  18. Re:And the Steamroller begins on US Wins Appeal In Battle To Extradite Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Due process doesn't necessarily mean judicial process. h/t AG Eric Holder

  19. I don't always make predictions... on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1
    But when I do, I predict things billions of years in the future.

    Stay sub-atomically stable, my friends.

  20. Background audio on iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users · · Score: 1

    It seems background audio from Safari and other browsers is broken as well.

  21. Re:Patents are by definition not the free market on Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods · · Score: 1
    Of course the free market is a social construct. No one claims it is an entity. But it doesn't require government force for the protection of property rights and God help us if government gets to define property rights. Individuals can defend their property rights without government force.

    I can easily lock my car to keep valuables inside it safe without the government's involvement. And the government is completely powerless to stop someone from smashing the window to get in and take my valuables.

    For the record, I'm not speaking strictly of capitalism, but rather free markets. There is a difference. Adam Smith didn't write "The Wealth of Individuals." So if he is the basis of your capitalism then, yeah, there is a governmental role and it is not, strictly speaking, a basis for a free market.

  22. Patents are by definition not the free market on Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Patents are a monopoly issued by government. They are the antithesis of the free market. This government intervention in the free market leads to ridiculous patents like this.

    Many patents are filed defensively since someone else could use the force of government to prevent Amazon from conducting free market business in the future by getting this patent.

    The patent, copyright and entire IP systems is not a construct of the free market and we could be so much further advanced without these government interventions.

  23. Re:Fundamentally... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    POMO and interest on reserve holdings are indeed bailouts for the primary dealer banks. Not to mention the 16 trillion in undisclosed loans by the Fed to banks. LIBOR is just the bankers following the lead of the Central Bankers. It doesn't excuse RBS et al but you can see where their inspiration came from.

  24. Fundamentally... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... this is no different than what Central Banks like the Federal Reserve, do every day.

  25. Wouldn't a better name be Skynet? on DRONENET: An Internet of Drones · · Score: 1

    The drones fly in the sky and when they decide to kill us all, we'll at least be expecting it.