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  1. Re:The scammer's dream. on US States Edge Toward Cryptocoin Regulation · · Score: 2

    >Over half the Bitcoin exchanges have gone bust.

    Gee, reminds me of the 1999 .COM bubble, where >50% of every *regulated* tech company went bust.
    Or should we make an analogy to the *regulated* housing market in 2007/2008?

    Regulation has little to do with it. The fed blows bubbles, by printing vast sums of 'dollars', including the current bitcoin and stock market bubbles. Excess credit has to flow speculatively somewhere when negative real interest rates are the norm in ZIRP capital.

  2. Re:Actually makes good sense on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    "If you can't power the things up there is no way to tell what they actually are."

    Umm yeah, no. All this does is force the terrorists to implement their bombs in smaller areas of the electronic device, or produce fake screens, so the untech saavy TSA employees are mislead to think the device is real.

    I guess I'm wondering why X-raying the laptop, cell phone etc isn't enough to find the bombs or whatever it is the terrorists are supposed to be hiding in there.

  3. Solution: Register .IO + Bullet Proof hosting on Ask Slashdot: Hosting Services That Don't Overreact To DMCA Requests? · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian, I'm finding the USA's over reach getting more and more excessive, to the point that my next online business will avoid have anything hosted, purchased, programmed, owned or registered in the USA. It's getting to the point that in some circumstances, avoiding selling anything to USA customers saves tonnes of money and time with expensive lawyers... at the cost of 330 Million potential customers... but hey... there's over a 1 billion other internet users out there and growing.

    Solution: Register .IO out of some Luxemburg or Monaco or other offshore registrar, then get bullet proof hosting and lastly apply a filter that throws out all DMCA emails. Problem solved?

  4. *** QUICK! Migrate to IPV6... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    .... So I can get your IPV4 addresses!

    IPV4 is like the fax machine... it will never go away :-D

  5. Can't find aliens? Take head out of sand! on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1) 2011 "Out of the Blue" - Best researched UFO documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    2) 2001 Disclosure Project - Dozens of high ranking goverment+military officials testify publicly of aliens+UFOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    3) 2013 Citizen's Hearing - 40 researchers and military/agency/political witnesses testify for 30 hours before 6 former congress members: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (part 1)
    4) Bob Lazar Area51/S4 whistleblower - 10.5 hours of testimony : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    5) Ex CIA death bed confession on reality of aliens/ufos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    6) List of countries that have disclosed UFO files: (loooong list) - http://www.disclosureproject.o...

    I could go on, but there's already week's worth of material here alone.

  6. Re:8.1 !=Start Menu.. Why Win8 was doomed... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Fair enough.... although from an NSA perspective, every single OS is hugely insecure.

  7. Re:8.1 !=Start Menu.. Why Win8 was doomed... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 2

    Before people say I forgot the server stuff... They did a little better here:

    Windows NT 3.5 - Crap
    Windows NT 3.51 - Useable
    Windows NT 4 -- Good
    Windows 2000 --- crap
    Windows 2003 --- Good
    Windows 2008 -- Good (after R2)
    Windows 2012 -- judgement still out

  8. 8.1 !=Start Menu.. Why Win8 was doomed... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Start Menu in 8.1 is crap. Most of the features that were in Win7's start menu don't exist in 8.1. Typical Microsoft, screwed up their "second" OS release:

    Windows 3.1x (1992) - Good
    Windows 95 (1995) - Mixed bag, at the beginning it sucked
    Windows 98 (1998) - Good
    Windows ME (2000) - Sucked (hard)
    Windows XP (2001) - Good
    Windows Vista (2006) - Sucked although not as hard as ME
    Windows 7 (2009) - Good
    Windows 8.x 2013 - FAIL
    Windows 9 - ???

  9. Re:The answer is simple on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    Or she can just stay at my place... I certainly wouldn't mind. I'll even let her eat crackers in bed.

  10. LISTEN TO YOUR USERBASE OR .... on Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else) · · Score: 1

    .... die a death of ZERO clicks

  11. Don't care - Screw BETA on Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You cannot ignore us forever... soon enough we will ignore you.

  12. I protest! BETA sucks! on Got Malware? The FBI Wants It · · Score: 1

    I've emailed them... they ignore... the more they ignore the quicker their downfall.

    Ignore your userbase, and you shall have none. If I am ignored much longer, I will leave. Just like I left mashable after their AOL'ed it.

    PS. I've been a slashdotter for 7+ years.

  13. I protest BETA on QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks · · Score: 1

    I've emailed them... they ignore... the more they ignore the quicker their downfall.

    Ignore your userbase, and you shall have none. If I am ignored much longer, I will leave. Just like I left mashable after their AOL'ed it.

    PS. I've been a slashdotter for 7+ years.

  14. Slashdot Beta SUCKS on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 1

    I've emailed them... they ignore... the more they ignore the quicker their downfall.

    Ignore your userbase, and you shall have none. If I am ignored much longer, I will leave. Just like I left mashable after their AOL'ed it.

    PS. I've been a slashdotter for 7+ years.

  15. Slashdot Beta sucks on Target's Data Breach Started With an HVAC Account · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've emailed them... they ignore... the more they ignore the quicker their downfall.

    Ignore your userbase, and you shall have none. If I am ignored much longer, I will leave. Just like I left mashable after their AOL'ed it.

    PS. I've been a slashdotter for 7+ years.

  16. Slashdot Beta Sucks! on Major Internet Censorship Bill Passes In Turkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've emailed them... they ignore... the more they ignore the quicker their downfall.

    Ignore your userbase, and you shall have none. If I am ignored much longer, I will leave. Just like I left mashable after their AOL'ed it.

    PS. I've been a slashdotter for 7+ years.

  17. Let me be the first to say... on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 3, Funny

    .... I quit. I for one, do not welcome our Orwellian overlords.

  18. Stop Ejaculating (I'm serious) on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 0

    Contrary to popular belief, sex, or more correctly, ejaculation isn't good for you. Sure it might feel like the best thing in the world for all of 10 seconds, but afterwards you will feel far more tired and emotionally distant and negative. For each subsequent ejaculation you will feel even more tired and even more emotionally negative. Depending on how old and healthy you are, excessive ejaculation can lead to excessive tiredness and emotional depression (although the effect is usually temporary).

    How does this relate to your concern? Ejaculation has a direct effect on your energy levels and thus has the same effect as sleep deprevation, again depending on frequency of ejaculation and your age/health.

    If you don't believe me try ejaculating 3 times what you normally do in 1 day, then tell me I'm wrong. For further proof, try the exact opposite. Stop ejaculating for at least 2-4 weeks, then tell me your energy, sleep and memory haven't improved significantly.

  19. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: -1, Troll

    *Some* of this vaccination stuff is overrated. Seriously, I've had like 5 diseases (measles, mumps, varicella, rubella and influenzaa) as a child that people get vaccinated for here in North America. I remember having a wonderful childhood, and I'm still alive and quite healthy with ZERO side effects of having had those diseases.

    I find it even more ridiculous people get vaccinated for the flu these days. Pretty soon they'll come out with a vaccine against carbon dioxide.... LOL.

    Big pharma marketing has apparently been successful in creating a nation of hypocondiracs.

    Yes, get your children vaccinated, but for serious stuff only, and only with vaccines that have proven themselves after at least a decade.

  20. Re:Some brief points on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    "BitCoin will become a game-changer (oh, that phrase!) simply because nothing can stop it."

    Except a Tier1 ISP router edge firewall rule to block TCP port 8333.

    *POOF* all bitcoin transactions in USA go to ZERO, and price soon follows.

  21. NASA is not psychic... like this guy... on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 1

    Have y'all seen the French Psychic from 1980 with 85% prediction accuracy confirmed for us we'd have an Alien Invasion before 2013!? He predicted 9/11, war on terror, chernobyl, Obama, and end of the Soviet Union. With over 1 million views (when you add up all the copy cat videos), it must be true! Nobody has been able to credibly debunk this guy... yet, although there's been several debunking theories, all of which have thus far been debunked.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAIQJmE75vg

    PS. Try not to lose too much sleep over this, you can sleep as much as you want after the aliens get you.

  22. Re:NASA did not mention... on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 1

    Yeah come on, even this famous French Psychic with 85% prediction accuracy confirmed for us we'd have an Alien Invasion before 2013. With over 1 million views (when you add up all the copy cat videos), it must be true! Nobody has been able to credibly debunk this guy... yet.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAIQJmE75vg

    PS. Try not to lose too much sleep over this, you can sleep as much as you want after the aliens get you.

  23. Re:Asterix and Obelix on Earth Avoids Collisions With Pair of Asteroids · · Score: 1

    WOW! 25 years after reading the entire book series (several times over)... you point out this astonishing fact I had never before realized!

  24. Re:Happens all the time, just not usually to Googl on Why Google Went Offline Today · · Score: 1

    It's just that the link is right above the "Reply to This [comment]" link. Easy to click by accident. Somebody slashdoting from work may get in trouble or worse. And as for some other comment in this thread, no obviously I haven't clicked on it... I'm at work. Wait let me fix that... I'm at "work". Ok.

  25. Re:Happens all the time, just not usually to Googl on Why Google Went Offline Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously, a porn link in your sig?

    Anyway... clearly Anonymous hasn't learned how to delete BGP filters and inject fake routes yet.