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  1. Re:Does it support unicode... on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    I don't need no stinking unicode to post goatse links.

    But what will you do if you want to post göätsë links? ;-)

  2. Re:RMS needs to get over the GPL on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would they have BSD-licensed clang if there had not been the competing GPLed GCC? Who knows ...

  3. Re:Open borders... one way? on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another thing would be to harmonize the representation of fundamental classes like std::string and std::vector, so those classes can be passed between codes compiled with both compilers, even though the implementation code for those classes might otherwise differ.

  4. Link to past Slashdot story on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why does the link to the last Slashdot story link to beta.slashdot.org?

    Here's a better link:

    http://fuckbeta.slashdot.org/s...

  5. Re:Bitcoins are the future. Betacoins are here! on Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering · · Score: 1

    Oops, the link went away. The "over there" should have linked to http://slashdot.org/firehose.p...

  6. Re:Bitcoins are the future. Betacoins are here! on Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering · · Score: 1

    How do you implement Slashdot's moderation system on Usenet?

    Otherwise, creating alt.slashdot should be easy.

    But maybe we should borrow ideas from Slashdot's current darling, Bitcoin: Make a distributed cryptographic Karma system!

    Anyway, this discussion is better done over there. That submission has too few comments anyway.

  7. Re:Matter of time on Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering · · Score: 2

    No, Bitcoin is actually very close to their wet dream; they just need a little additional legislation:

    * Require that each bitcoin wallet is registered with the owner's name at some government agency and make it a crime to use unregistered bitcoin wallets
    * Make it a crime to use or provide mixing services (possibly already covered by money laundering laws)

    That way, they'll have what they dream of: A complete record of every single transaction a person makes. The bitcoin protocol gives them the wallet numbers involved in the transaction, and the government database gives them the owner of the wallet.

  8. Re:Am I the only person that likes Beta? on Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Make bulleted lists work again.

    Dice won't give us bullets, for fearing that they'll end up in the heads of those who decided to create beta. ;-)

  9. Re:Who gives a shit? on 25% of Charter Schools Owe Their Soul To the Walmart Store · · Score: 1, Informative

    At least I know a place to discuss this question. And I guess a lot of activity in that specific discussion would be taken much more seriously by Dice than the Fuck Beta posts.

  10. Re:Enough with this "fuck beta" nonsense. on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    I forgot to add: Thanks for your explanation.

  11. Re:Enough with this "fuck beta" nonsense. on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    OK, I now notice that I mistyped it in the search field (the same window is still open, and I didn't do another search yet, so it's still in there). So that explains why I got no results ... correcting the typo indeed gives about 18 results.

  12. Re:Interesting read on Snowden Docs Show UK's Digital Spies Using Viruses, Honey Traps · · Score: 1

    Beta = British extra-territorial attack?

    But I can assure you: The proof is not in the pudding. Just try to eat it.

  13. Re:I've got a Nokia lumia 1020 on Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? · · Score: 2

    and this site design still runs horribly on this phone despite it being the latest designer phone!

    I've got news for you: Whether a phone is a designer phone or not has zero effect on how well or how badly it renders a web page. What matters is the hardware and software inside the device.

  14. Re:Enough with this "fuck beta" nonsense. on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    No, it's more equivalent to stuffing the store with protest writings to a level that it's hard to get at the actual products. Which is a whole level above just standing there and shouting. (Alternatively, it's like shouting during a concert, where you make it hard to listen to the music.)

    Anyway, this is the first time I hear of "Slashcott" (whatever that is, I got zero search results both from Slashdot's internal search and from web search). Probably hidden somewhere in between all those pointless "fuck beta" posts, there's also one that would tell me what it is. But you see, those posts don't just make it hard to get to the actual comments fot the articles, they even make it hard to find relevant information for your own cause! Ineffective campaigning at its "best".

  15. Re:amazing on How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've heard you can hack the tires to no longer hold air, by using a tool as simple as a knife! And what's worse, you need not even access to the inner parts of the car. The vulnerable part is right on the surface!

    I've also heard that cars get regularly hacked by martens. This includes quite dangerous hacks like killing the brakes.

  16. Re:Here you go spaz retard on How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap · · Score: 0

    Slashcode is open source, ya? Can't we just "fork" the site?

    This is discussed over there.

  17. Re:Magic the Gathering Online Exchange on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    Do you think iron is destroyed when it rusts?

  18. Re:Where is the opinion survey ? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    What I can tell you is that website designs need to continue updating.

    Why?

    That's a honest question, I'm honestly puzzled why there should be an inherent need to constantly update webpage designs.

  19. Re:Magic the Gathering Online Exchange on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 2

    The gold atoms remained, but the metal known as gold (consisting of a gold atoms in a metallic lattice) vanished. The dissolved gold atoms don't any more have any of the properties associated with gold. Of course, it is not that hard to make new gold from those atoms provided you can get them in sufficient concentration, but that doesn't mean the old gold is not gone.

    Anyway, if you go to that level of nitpicking, you also have to note that bitcoins consist of nothing but information, and according to quantum mechanics, information is never destroyed (OK, for black holes, it's still debated, but here on earth there are no black holes). Therefore bitcoins cannot be destroyed either.

  20. Re:So it has, not, been written on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    God obviously demanded binary encoding for everything:

    "But let your statement be, 'Yes, yes ' or 'No, no '; anything beyond these is of evil."

  21. Re:This is a reasonable requirement on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    Well, one would have to read in detail how they define "transparent" and "reproducible" ... you can declare pretty much all science "unscientific" by just defining those terms in an "appropriate" way.

  22. Re:Magic the Gathering Online Exchange on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    What has expense to do with it? Anyway, after dissolving the gold, you can easily pour it into the ocean. So even moving the goalpost doesn't help you.

  23. Re:SLASHDOT AS YOU KNEW IT IS FINISHED on Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones · · Score: 1

    Yeah sure, we need several million Slashdot clones ... ;-)

  24. Re:Code is like math on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    It would help if you were using the words with their correct meaning. What you apparently mean is either that it is not as convenient or that it is not not as efficient to do graphical programming.

  25. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    It's never actually been about "amateur sports" in anything other than name and some niceties to dress the illusion.

    It was in the beginning. No, those beginnings were not in the 60s. The first games were 1896. Before 1906, they didn't even have national teams.