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  1. Re:bitcoin value on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    I think if you use it for short enough times it works. Just like any other very volatile currency. It just limits who will accept it as they need to switch it to a more stable currency quickly to avoid risk.

  2. Re:bitcoin value on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, you can trade them for other currencies or use them to send money to people for anything. This means you could buy my chair in bitcoins if you wanted and I could then change those bitcoins to USD if I wanted.

    No different than any other currency. I am 100% sure more drugs and murders are purchased with USD and EURO than bitcoins.

  3. Re:Misunderstanding what trust is on Security After the Death of Trust · · Score: 2

    Not when you hold the same keys the real CA does. The NSA may well have their own copies of these keys.

  4. Re:Minimal Trust: on Security After the Death of Trust · · Score: 1

    This is because most people don't care, most of the time.
    For the same reason they use credit cards instead of cash. Now go stand around your local headshop and see how many people suddenly switch to cash.

  5. Re:Billion ... with a B on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 2

    Or to make the drugs legal thus ending the War.

  6. Re:Most "shutdowns" are completely unnecessary on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 1

    I agree, that executive order should go away. No one should be exempt.

  7. Re:Tor compromised on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 2

    Yeah, getting that big is not good.
      Shut it down and start a new one. Heck, start several. Just don't keep going once Forbes and other not in the know folks start talking about it.

  8. Re:Low Power on Japanese Start-up Plans Hydrogen Fuel Cell For 2014 · · Score: 1

    And I would like a pony.

    What you are talking about would cost a lot more. Unless they have some magic you can't get around using platinum series metals and they are not cheap.

  9. Re:...Aisle 7, right next to the plutonium. on Japanese Start-up Plans Hydrogen Fuel Cell For 2014 · · Score: 1

    Well in both cases I think you will want cartridges. For safety and usability.

    Fuel cells don't much care for commonly available methanol or ethanol. They are poisoned very easily and the commonly available stuff is not pure enough.

  10. Re:Doomed to failure on Japanese Start-up Plans Hydrogen Fuel Cell For 2014 · · Score: 2

    Also they are disposable fuel carts. Making this a non-starter. There is a reason I have not bought disposable batteries in more than a decade.

  11. Re:Myers-Briggs on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    Can you elaborate?

    I don't believe these groups are that useful for psychology purposes. I don't think you can say all men are big hunters and the introverts hunt smaller game.

    You surely can say people over the age of 80 are more likely to be old than the general population. Attempting to speculate about these groups is generally pointless.

  12. Re:Sigh ... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    You mean secret police state like no fly list?

    Is that what you are calling garden variety, comrade?

  13. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    I can find a single appealing modern desktop.

    Samsung reinvented tiling windows for android! In 2013 they are selling this as a big new feature!

  14. Re:Chromebook on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 0

    I think so. I think Chrome OS will be used for that. Mostly because it is sold in stores.

  15. Re:Myers-Briggs on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    Yup, and it is equally silly.

  16. Re:Tea Party / Republicans must love it. on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 1

    They have not. They refuse to concede on the ACA. The republicans have wanted a shutdown for years, they were crowing about it in 2010.

    The democrats have a history of appeasing the republicans no matter what. That needs to end. The GOP needs to boot out the tea party folks or die. This is not something to let them just have. If they wanted a reasonable approach, unlike just defunding it or giving an alternative that would be something.

  17. Then you simply don't want to live in a first world nation. I would prefer too. Not negotiating is what terrorists and ideologues do.

  18. Re:Myers-Briggs on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    By taking a pseudo-scientific survey. Now you want another test that confirms this. What if we had a test that was better in all measurable ways but classified you as an extrovert?

    These classifications are about as realistic as breaking people up by age group or any other random thing. It cannot cope with people who are more fluid or do not fit its artificial categories.

  19. Re:Start a classroom war on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 2

    Yeah, sometimes they weigh 3.5 grams, sometimes 3.7 or even 4.0.

  20. Re:Myers-Briggs on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    Just because we do not have a better test does not make this tests results anymore valid.

    If you want evidence you are an introvert, you don't need a test you are already convinced. THAT IS NOT HOW SCIENCE WORKS.

  21. Re:X is X on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    What they should do is simply get rid of it.

    It also breaks focus follows mouse. It is not elegant with multiple work spaces, it makes it a pain to use multiple windows at the same time.

  22. Re:X is X on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    Which adds another step! and obscures my view of my current desktop!
    What wonderful progress.

  23. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not everything newer is progress. Being able to only use one window at a time is not progress.

  24. Re:Christ... on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    Even in 10.7 you can't extend a single wallpaper across two monitors. You can cut to images from one larger picture yourself and make it look like one wallpaper, or have the same one twice. Both of which would be fine in 1999, but not in 2013.

  25. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They should do that then.

    Something will need to replace ubuntu soon as the easy to use grandma friendly linux desktop. They are hell bent on killing that distribution.