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  1. Re:the cloud killed hosting providers on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Complete Hosting Providers? · · Score: 1

    Really so I send your email to, yourname@yourhouse.yourpostalcode? I think there might be an overlap there.

  2. Re:Hmmm... on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    I propose using some kind of contracting ring system to slow the landing decent. Are we trying to study what's there or blow up what's there?!??!?!

    Perhaps some kind of retractable hooks or spears? (webs would be AWESOME)... replace the wheels? Just have it haul itself around through the spires?

  3. Super Keen on putting Trees on Mars on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Genetically modified or otherwise. Send seeds, grow teraforming. Obviously there's lots of radiation, but start with something that turns CO2 into C and O2.

    Something kind of pretty so people will want it as a background.

    Get ideas flowing about how to get it done!

  4. Re:How anyone would think it's related to Linux? on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 1

    Since 8.1 is a walled garden, I'm kind of rooting for mac again!

  5. Re: Nobody cares about bitcoin on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Luddites control the media?

    The internet for example, is for porn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

  6. Banks Tried to Shut it down on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Banks made transferring out of MTGOX impossible, MTGOX refunded my $. They are about 8 weeks behind processing withdraws.

    Bad news, banks and government attacking at same time interfered with each other.

    Also, they had this guy, he sold drugs... lots of drugs... but did they bust him? Nope, they did an elaborate sting to bag him for something REALLY REALLY evil... (I hate drugs btw) Why? So he wouldn't be a martyr for free wealth exchange.

    Also the whole BTC aren't totally anonymous thing is a good to know.

  7. Already bad both ways on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    My dad complains about ads getting in his way so he can't do anything on his phone. My AOSP build can't install google apps so I can't buy from the store.

    So casual users and hardcore users getting screwed.

    Android phones aren't much different from iPhone except you can go outside the walled garden, which means you developers will be able to sell their apps even if they compete with "official" offerings. You can disable updates. Etc.

    Android with AOSP is WONDERFUL, with it broken... I'm waiting for the Ubuntu phone.

  8. Beyond us? on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    You mean like "A Canticle for Leibowitz" ... joy.

  9. He would have submitted it to 304 closed journals on Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act · · Score: 1

    But it would have cost him millions of dollars. And there was no chance that the open journals would pay him to discredit their competitors.

    Is there a list of the open journals that caught the fraud?

  10. Re:7ms? less than 3.6ms. on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    Light travels faster than the "speed of light" through a super cooled cesium gas. No quantum entanglement needed

  11. We're what 5 generations beyond NTFS now?! on OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default · · Score: 1

    Is there a comparison somewhere? Reiser, EXT4, at least 3 others I've forgotten. This produces a lot of incompatibility, for how much actual performance?

    What do we need, a fastest one and a fastest with X one?

  12. Re:Would probably be found on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    Agreed, what we need is a rapid enforcement policy. What happens if a hash of a working kernel comes back faulty? How quickly can I escalate to have developers examine a diff of the real kernel?

    Open source is better(purer) than anything else, and we need to keep it that way. I'm not particularly paranoid, but I do feel for those who are... it saddens me when something doesn't work the way it should. I know that I've lost a bit of faith in everything, that the next time something goes wrong I won't look at myself quite as closely.

    I hope there's a rapid response team, this would be a good time for it as Canonicle is on top (Mint being a small derivative and Arch being for crazy people).

  13. Re:Shadow economies on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 1

    True, also this means that banks are bypassing the stock market and money market systems. So for example if you trade Forex or have stocks then this is hurting you. Though only minutely.

    The major effect from this is that these may be undocumented loans of billions of dollars... there may be massive mis-evaluations of the exchange rates for example, cough USD.

  14. Re:Peanuts on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 1

    Derivitives are based around insurance, so yes if absolutely everything went tits up at the same time (and sometimes there are bets that it won't go tits up, so it would have to both GO tits up and Not-Go tits up at the same time) then yes, that number would mean something.

  15. ETFs are where banks dump their shares. So if they expect something to rise say, 2% in a week and it doesn't it goes into the ETF pool for dummy investors to buy.

    This doesn't mean it's a scam, it's just the cast offs from the privileged investors.

  16. Hey Slashdot! on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about giving us an update on how you protect Anonymous Cowards? Is the web server a ram disk that erases everything when shut down? You guys are pretty technical... let us know!

  17. Re:Irony on Drone Hunters Lining Up and Paying Out In Colorado · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, "You shoot drone"? Or "You Take Drone Freedom"?

    Has anyone else noticed a bit of an (internet) September effect going on here at /.?

    Maybe the fact that we knew and complained about this NSA stuff first has brought a bunch of people from the web?

  18. This is what emergency warning systems are for on On Eve Of Election, Australia's Conservatives Announce Mandated Filtering Policy · · Score: 1

    How about some accountability? If they say this was part of their mandate they are bloody crazy.

    Poor Aussies, I thought this countries conservative party was bad. They're probably going to get up to the same kind of thing next election. Got voted in on a minor scandal involving some low tier politician at the wrong time. Sad.

  19. Re:Just like IRL on Bitcoin Perfectly Anonymous — Until You Spend It · · Score: 1

    When they empty the tills it's logged and categorized. If they don't resort the bills they know what time you were there.

    So the government know where you shopped, and can find out when.

    Since they're usually interested in: large foreign monies (payoffs to dictators, emptied cayman bank accounts etc.), or local tracking which means you got the money out of another bank machine.

    They have a pretty good idea.

    Comparatively Bitcoin allows the retailer to create as many accounts as they want, anonymously to receive money... which can be pretty anonymous, I generate a random number.... send the number to someone and can verify that money was sent to that random number. Only if I integrate accounts does it get tied to other transactions.

  20. Bitcoin is to money as email is to mail on Bitcoin Perfectly Anonymous — Until You Spend It · · Score: 2

    It's just a bit easier, simpler, convenient and cool.

    But the postal service is cutting deliveries to bi-weekly. And it really didn't take very long.

  21. Re: Smart Criminals on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 1

    The mortgage collapse happened because 1/3 of America doesn't realize that 2/3 of America is in the shitter.

    Politicians pressured banks to get people homes and offered incentives, banks seeking these incentives invented loans that didn't make any sense and hired people unethical or stupid enough to sell them.

    Banks being denied traditional means of income (think small business loans, venture capital, development loans) moved into the financial instruments industry where a whole bunch of people who didn't realize how little they actually understood derivatives (it's a little like insurance for investments coupled with transitional timings) decided they could move ship fulls of money through home loans, when a bunch of overseas investors who DID understand derivatives decided to eat them for lunch.

  22. Re:Smart Criminals on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 1

    Yea, they probably got cheap on security or personnel. This took a lot of skill to pull off, probably someone feeling undervalued.

    If there's a mistake which pisses off one employee a company can probably get away with it (and misunderstandings are bound to happen) but when it chronically mistreats employees it's easy for pissed off employees to find each other.

    My bet though, is that this is IBM or Intel syndrome, no one ever got fired for buying from (big name security) so they bought from them for a few years, (big name security) didn't really care about some specific element of (bank) infrastructure and so it slipped through the cracks.

    Probably mixed with social-itis, friendly comforting guy who reassures gets position while scary crazy guy who constantly talks about potential problems is overlooked. Banks are pretty much the definition of conservative, chances are erring in this direction led to this problem.

    Another option is some poorly implemented additional layer of separation designed to frustrate potential competitors ("We need to run your systems through this alternative implementation, so we can monitor your - entirely different yet, identical needs - yea it'll take a little longer and you'll have to pay us higher fees... are you sure you wouldn't rather open a "BIG BANK" franchise? Together we could really optimize home loan and transfer profits *Wink*!")

  23. A letter is what, 50K? no new law needed. on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1
  24. Raspberry Pi? on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Why isn't anyone recommending the Pi? OpenElec seems to be good and headed in the right direction. Not having a remote (using a website) seems easier... am I missing something?

  25. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    Websites are designed to interface with a short term graphical interface. The idea that you need to be able to load generalizable system code seems like a poor idea in general, since it can't do anything that Flash or JS could do without opening up the OS.

    Not only was the implementation and signing flawed but the underlying paradigm was poor.

    You can say ActiveX sucks and be quite correct.