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  1. Re:Credit Cards Existed Long Before CC Terminals on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    no problem. only do business with your known customers, all the cashiers at the stores I visit regulary recognize me, even the assistants at the hardware store. if you want to be a little more generous and risky, have unknown people show multiple ID, take down their address and drivers license number.

  2. Re:You can't use cash with no power on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    kids today are amazing, aren't they? as in clueless. you can take cash, checks, credit card...all without power. of course, there is the problem of not being able to verify whether card or account is valid and can take the charge, but in a neighborhood busniess where you know most your customers that largely wouldn't be problem. and of course you could ask for ID and take down address

  3. Re:You can't use cash with no power on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    amazing news for all you young-un's, most credit cards can be used as payment with no power! when I was a kid that's the only way they were taken. number, security code on back, customer's signature...you're good to go and get your money from the payment processor

  4. Re:Very Accurate on 8.5-Ton Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth In a Few Months (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    let's see, each human is about one square meter (2 x 0.5) of target area so 7.5E9 square meters of humans divided by 5.1E14 square meters of surface area = 0.0015% chance of someone getting hit which actually sounds rather high to me.

  5. obligatory on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Leela, knocking on bathroom door: "Bender..... are you jacking on in there?"

  6. open source is empowering our local branch of the western banking cartel, with governments in its pocket to war and maim and commit genocide for power and profit!

  7. Re:*BSDs are rendering Linux irrelevant. on OpenBSD 6.2 Released (openbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    yes that was point, won't see that realm in the normal job search a developer would do, it's in EE land.

  8. Re: What I'm waiting for on Toshiba's Fast-Charging Battery Could Triple the Range of Electric Vehicles (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    would be a foolish thing to do *now*, as electric grid couldn't support it. in 5-7 years, nation as a whole should beef up the grid and do it. solar collection high sunlight areas, with ultra high voltage D.C. lines to distribute and the new battery tech to store

  9. Re:human smokers will be trained on Startup Plans To Clean Up Cigarette Butts Using Crows (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    crows can actually be taught to do that, even to peck the smokers faces as it wrests the cigarettes away. the ad campaign can feature excerpts from Hitchcock's "The Birds"

  10. human smokers will be trained on Startup Plans To Clean Up Cigarette Butts Using Crows (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "it's okay for me to throw my butts into the street, because a crow will pick it up and get fed. I'm thinking of the crows"

    how about robots that pick up smoldering butts and use them to burn the faces of the smokers that throw them. I think this kind of negative reinforcement is a better solution and doesn't involve enslaving animals.

  11. Re: What I'm waiting for on Toshiba's Fast-Charging Battery Could Triple the Range of Electric Vehicles (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    absolutely false assertion, what California is doing makes no difference to level of pollution in the world. for that matter solar is less than 2% of U.S. electricity production. My state's nuclear plants have bigger impact on reducing carbon emissions

  12. Re:What I'm waiting for on Toshiba's Fast-Charging Battery Could Triple the Range of Electric Vehicles (newatlas.com) · · Score: 0

    they cost me money. why should I pay for some californian's solar roof?
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  13. Re:Not a big deal on Pirate Bay is Mining Cryptocurrency Again, No Opt Out (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    or we opt out by blocking the crypto sites.

    you're funny with all your prattle about "don't take the product without paying" since they're a torrent file distribution site. my sides.

  14. Re:huge bitcoin bubble right now, crashing soon on Russian Central Bank To Ban Websites Offering Crypto-currencies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    you're confused, the bubble is real and it will burst.

    of course, that's a time when smart people can then buy low.

    sorry the intricacies of having market smarts is beyond you

  15. the point remains, Linux has enterprise level features (mostly thanks to IBM and HP) because of multi-billion dollar corporations and is now a product of multi-billion dollar corporations.

  16. Re:Huh on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    my android tablet does everything I'd want an ipad to do, at 1/4 the price. nothing shitty about it and quite frankly apple's UI jumped the shark a few years back

  17. Re:"laptop-level keyboard" on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I use a keyboard with my android tablet at times for certain tasks for convenience, no problem

  18. Re:Understanding on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    actually i'm pretty sure they got where they are by having a deeper understanding of people than typical slashdotter has

  19. Re: who pays the shills? on OxygenOS Telemetry Lets OnePlus Tie Phones To Individual Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    you are a false prophet and not the true anon, for in only mentioning the goat hole you have not mentioned the complete holy trinity which also includes tub girl and two girls & 1 cup,

  20. er, no Linux has fared well with multi-billion dollar corporations contributing, the top kernel contributors are:

    1.Intel
    2. Red Hat
    3. Linaro
    4. Samsung
    5. SUSE
    6. IBM

  21. Re:See, it's a hoax/ on 'Sooty Birds' Reveal Hidden US Air Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "just"? that's a lot. the big cities and suburbs had it, lots of it. and the phone lines went coast to coast

  22. huge bitcoin bubble right now, crashing soon on Russian Central Bank To Ban Websites Offering Crypto-currencies (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    bitcoin is overvalued on hype, serious economists say crash of the non-currency (electronic poker chips) coming soon

  23. Re:Bring it on on Russian Central Bank To Ban Websites Offering Crypto-currencies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    false, the USA is weighty enough to kill crypto currency if it wishes.

  24. Re:See, it's a hoax/ on 'Sooty Birds' Reveal Hidden US Air Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    most the birds might have been captures near cities / suburbs. I have family pics of the time, can tell you chicago area had a buttload of electrification. heck, the first electric train line was in 1880s.

  25. Re:Why target nonexistent system on Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers (cio-today.com) · · Score: 1

    invoking the guts from a whale dropped through twin rotors of a sky crane, aka Perl 6, doesn't lend weight to any point you are making. Perl 6 is going straight to the ash can of history without significant use.

    your cousin likely is spewing B.S. unless his name is Normal Woodland or Bernard Silver, who invented barcode in the 1940s. the first protoypes used concentric circles of varying thickness by the same, so much for lines by fingers in the sand.

    don't need lasers to read a barcode, m'boy.