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  1. Re:Make mining useful on Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage · · Score: 1

    SETICoin? However that would collapse the very moment extraterrestrial life is found. :-)

  2. Re:Dogecoin overtook litecoin twice last night on Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the absolute value of any particular coin?

    Anyopne speculating with them, I guess. And anyone using it as a payment system.

    What matters is the ratio of its value to mining difficulty

    That matters to miners. To others it only matters very little.

  3. Re:Bitcoin, Litecoin... what next? on Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage · · Score: 1

    Third option: Your employer can simply decide not to be your employer (that is, not employ you, or fire you if you are already employed) unless you accept your payment in legal tender. And every court in the world would approve that.

  4. Re:An Honest Question on Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage · · Score: 2

    Indeed, the best way to get rich with cryptocurrency is to create your own version, mine an initial amount for yourself, get enough people to join, and then sell yours before the bubble bursts. ;-)

  5. Re:Cell phones in planes on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    A plane is a bus with wings.

    Not every plane is an Airbus. ;-)

  6. Re:News? on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    The news is that North Korea has an internet from which it can erase that information.

  7. Re:Easy solution on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    I've been looking for one?

    How should we know if you have been looking for one?

    Here's a hint for you: A question mark marks a sentence as question (therefore the name "question mark"). If it is not meant as a question, don't put a question mark at the end.

  8. Re:Written in a biased way on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know it's fun to bitch about corporate power, but corporations won't be shooting a pregnant wife in her own house (ruby ridge),

    If there were not a government making sure that such an action would be punished, I'd not be sure about that. After all, illegal corporations (also known as organized crime) are known to have no qualms to do such things.

    putting you in a cage for taking pictures,

    They don't need to because they know they can just call a government agency to do it for them. Otherwise, see my previous point.

    or forcibly taking everything you own because they decided they have the power.

    Oh, they do so as much as they can (see statuatory copyright infringement). Also, see my first point.

  9. Re:ODF on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    Yes, sometimes documents are required in DOC format only. But fortunately in my experience that's rare (YMMV, of course). Quite often PDF is accepted as well.

    It was more frequent in the past. That it no longer is probably is to a good part due to those people who just can't stop educating others about the problems of demanding (or passing around) DOC files.

    Otherwise you're just manufacturing stress and effort when there doesn't need to be any.

    Those people who demand DOC for no good reason are those who create unnecessary stress and effort where there does not need to be any. It's only fair if they get some of that back.

    It's not as if reading PDFs would require installation of any non-widespread or expensive software, or would take a lot of effort in any other way.

  10. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network? on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 5, Funny

    So if it is named "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network", then obviously its aim is to enforce financial crimes. So, not only does it not fight crime, nor does it simply ignore crime, it isn't even just promoting crime, no, it enforces crime! :-)

  11. Re:It only took... on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    What other offerings?

    Windows Phone, and the Xbox operating system. ;-)

  12. Re:ODF on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    ODF, like DOC/DOCX is a format for editable documents. I consider neither appropriate for finished documents. Use PDF (ideally, PDF/A) for that.

  13. Re:good for them! on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 2

    Well, that was due to a misunderstanding. They delivered pounds dynamite instead of pounds sterling.

  14. Re:Other Motives on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    Idiot.

    That's an alternative I've not yet encountered. Could you tell something about its features? Is it free? And where do you get it?

  15. I guess the part of star trek which fascinated them most was the captain asking: "Computer, where's Riker?" and getting an accurate response immediately ...

  16. Re:Unless... on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 1

    Maybe his new book would have been about intelligence agencies threatening science fiction authors who come too close to reality. The NSA read his manuscript from his computer and thought: "Great idea, let's test it on him."

  17. Re:In America... on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's why wireless power is pushed these days ...

  18. Re:See what you have done, NSA ? on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 1

    Considering your decision to discontinue your series, we would appreciate any notes you have to be emailed.

    With this sentence you've given away the fake. Of course the NSA already knows his notes in detail. Better than he himself, in fact.

  19. Re:But NOT des(des(des())). Don't do that! on OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein · · Score: 2

    Repeated iteration of functions certainly is relevant for the des(des(des())) situation mentioned in the title and the first paragraph of raymorris' post. I didn't question that part. I did question the part where he claimed that layering different types of encryption on top of each other makes the encrytion as weak as the weakest one. It is true for hashes (which I explicitly acknowledged), but I strongly doubt that I have to fear that data I'm sending through an SSH link is highly insecure just because I've run a rot13 on it before sending.

  20. Re:But NOT des(des(des())). Don't do that! on OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein · · Score: 1

    You calculated hashes. I said for hashes it is clear.

    But the statement for encryption basically states that if I encrypt my text with rot13 (weak encryption) and then send it through ssh (thus applying strong encryption on top of the weak rot13), the ssh data stream (which is now encrypted with two different algorithms) would be no harder to crack than the weaker of the two encryptions (which clearly is rot13). That is what I don't buy.

  21. Re:Flat like a shell. on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    No. But they can be programmed in Logo.

  22. Re:Wise on FreeBSD Developers Will Not Trust Chip-Based Encryption · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it phones to this place. However some developers don't trust that random number generator and instead opt for this implementation.

  23. Re:If the universe is just a simulation on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but on this system, we don't allow self-modifying code.

  24. Re:2 D projection? on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    No, because the projection is on the inside of the hollow earth. ;-)

  25. Re:wow on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Don't you understand? There's a hologram which contains everything about the world. Including how to cure cancer. And those scientists are just starting to understand how to read it.