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  1. Re:Credit Where Credit Is Due on Groupon Deal of the Day: 300,000 Customer Accounts · · Score: 1

    how about storing a hash of the client generated hash? Hash both ends?

  2. Re:Let those words run by your ears... on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    Why send their mental states? Teach them via educational software, and we cannot be killed by a single planetary event. That proviso is too attached to individuality. Let it go.

  3. Re:User's fault for not reading app description on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    why are they charging for "pranks" hmmm?!

  4. Re:RTFA, PEOPLE. on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    concur - this is an important story to get so wrong. you know, google news results include slashdot. People that never, ever thought of slashdot will be reading about this "failed business model". This needs to be redacted now. /not involved with tesla, just don't like lies.

  5. Re:Jesus on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    good enough, we agree to disagree. I think you should consider, though, that most commerce is already digital. What you just said makes perfect sense for someone 100 year ago to say about credit cards versus cash -- "it'll never happen, they're just all numbers!". Sounds foolish to deny it will happen when I say it that way.

  6. Re:Bitcoin explained on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    YOU aren't. Every business owner IS. Think about how that affects you, I know indirect costs are just so hard for most people to fathom. (huge per-use fees?? fees based on percentage when the network cost is fixed?)

  7. Re:Bitcoin explained on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    grow up. You act like you think this isn't going to happen, one way or the other. You honestly LIKE how credit cards work?

  8. Re:Jesus on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    you are very short sighted. Ask yourself, is this type of system inevitable? If not with Bitcoin, do you really, really think this is NOT going to happen in my lifetime? You are nuts not to express general interest.

  9. Re:The question remains: WHY? on Practical "Smell-o-Vision" System Being Developed · · Score: 1

    if you could duplicate the smell from the device, why buy the perfume? This has no point for TV.. but if you could dial-a-perfume, well, now you're talking!

  10. Re:That Anonymous reader works for the RIAA? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    exactly, what the OP said -- it could start over a broad range, given scratches or other errors. Gee, maybe the RIAA should not have made such a cheap and susceptible product that they charge the same licensing fee for each time you buy it...... (BARF)

  11. Re:The laser on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Light moves faster then sound. That's why some AC's seem informed until you hear them speak. Down boy!

  12. Re:The laser on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    you're wrong on all counts AC.
    1) missiles aren't cheap
    2) ordinance moves very slow compared to lasers, even given recharge
    3) reflective surfaces are only reflective for a given RANGE of wavelength, definitely NOT all of them. That's why they mentioned it can fire at any wavelength, duh.

  13. Re:The laser on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    mirrors only reflect specific frequencies! this laser can produce ANY wavelength, did you catch that? It means they dial-a-hole in what ever they'd like (it's why they even mentioned the ability!)

  14. Re:It's not just Bitcoin. on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 1

    nobody's confusing anything. You sound like a campus health packet. His statement is true, and there are outliers on all sides - by that I mean - people that will freak out when you take away their TV - much less any drug you care to mention. On the whole of it, heroin and nicotine are on par. (and nicotine will kill you MUCH faster, dose for dose, OD for OD.)

  15. Re:Implicated? Yeah, and then what. on Research Suggests Tobacco Companies Add Weight Loss Drugs · · Score: 0

    NOTE; chantix was a damned miracle and 99% of the haters are lobbyist shills. Try it out, do EXACTLY what the instructions say, and get off it as *soon* as possible (not 12 weeks, but only 4 if you can). It positively worked in my case not just to make me quit, but to change the fact I ever wanted one.

  16. Re:Implicated? Yeah, and then what. on Research Suggests Tobacco Companies Add Weight Loss Drugs · · Score: 2

    your pack a day habit will always be MUCH worse then any of the things you listed. FOR YOU. hey, my mother said it true; you can't die with dignity if you can't breathe!

  17. Re:Police have no expectation of privacy on Court Case To Test Legality of Recording the Police With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no it doesnt! you are a fool. If the guy is down or restrained he is down or restrained. If the freakin' video shows the guy was restrained or incapacitated and they KEPT GOING, then no "context" is needed. This is obvious, and the cops want to justify their use of force... they are trained and paid to know how to deal with this. Not act like a scared granma with a shotgun.

  18. PR-Wise, on Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid · · Score: 2

    This is horrendously bad for apple, cause if I think it's not cool, then I stop recommending it. I stop recommending it, they don't get sold. It took a lot of nerds to make apple get where it is today, IMSHO.

  19. Re:Hypocritical on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    that's the thing about driving, it takes TWO people to mess up usually. It's a stable system, which is what I finally understood to be the reason we're not all dead. It's pretty damned amazing isn't it? That we get into these things and impart so many newtons of force all bent on a person with, most likely, only a finger on the device that could with an idle flick cause all that energy to release at once, always only a few seconds away.

    Drunk Drivers cause the system to only require ONE person to mess up. It makes the system rather more unreliable. Because if you swerve and avoid any issues, power to you. When you mess up though.. there's no buffer. The drunk driver is not going to flinch away. That's the problem man, kinda obvious really.

  20. Re:Application of heat doesn't sound too hot... on Phase Change Memory Points To Future of Storage · · Score: 2

    It sounds a lot like magneto optical drives, like MiniDisc. It probably takes very high heat (good for room temp stability, i doubt your hairdryer would do it) in a *very* small place for a *very* short time. Probably, the stability is very good or they uh, wouldn't be excited about it. I don't think the dynamics of the room would be affected any more (probably less) then a typical HD. Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive it's fascinating

  21. Re:Less Successful than Other Reboots on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    lol, i'll spare the ultramath but good answer :)

  22. Re:I lost count... on Windows 8 Previewed At D9 · · Score: 1

    Well i'll tell you swiping from off screen on to the screen (as much as I can think of ways that it could work well with *SOME* chrome) is really, really unintuitive and nobody is going to get it at first or know that it works in all ways, or maybe sometimes in some ways.. who the hell know because they won't show it!

    It's like the opposite of razor blade. Apple made a one button device so MS is saying "funk it -- we're going to ZERO!". Childish, and probably looked great to out-of-touch execs so the designers could keep their jobs. Real world? No man i don't like it.

  23. Re:Ran out of ideas? on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    ^^Like, +5 interesting.

  24. Re:Less Successful than Other Reboots on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    er... really? your comment imagines that a ship in space should take the stress of a deep gravity well. I'd believe cobbwebs over scrith anyday, for what the future will bring.

  25. Re:Looking forward to Lion on Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS · · Score: 1

    The apple configuration is useful because it uses both the condition RAM sleep - which is MUCH faster to wake up from - in addition to hibernate. When they detect RAM sleep is about to exhaust the battery it starts the computer just enough to go into hibernation so no matter how you slice it you have your state stored.

    It's best of both worlds approach. Most computers merely go to hibernate, when instructed by the user and not automatically upon need, just fine.