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  1. Re:The ultimate in Cold War madness on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you are joking? The Soviets actually did that in WWII, "Scorched Earth." There have been many other cases of countries destroying their own resources before the enemy can steal them.

  2. Re:Just as war on terrorism! on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 2

    You are a moron. You are completely glossing over the fact that the experiment worked.

  3. Re:Sooo.... on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    No. First of all, half a million in assets does not make you a billionaire. Second, if all of your assets are illiquid, you are either terrible with money, or you think your assets are worth far more than they are. "Someone will pay $500 million for this SOME day, but today, I can only get $200 million."

  4. reassure.apes.mercy on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 1

    Some people may have a problem with this one.

  5. Re:If the question is: on Computer Trading and Dark Pools · · Score: 1

    They don't minimize it, they delay it. If someone offloads 100k shares of IBM into a dark pool, that pool is going to eventually want to remedy the sudden glut of IBM shares, and minimize their exposure to the level necessary to provide liquidity their clients demand. The converse is also true.

  6. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Loss of reputation. Also, he probably violated laws in the process. Lastly, there's a risk he screws up enough that the US Gov't not only disavows any association with him, but also prosecutes him to prove even more that he's not a co-conspirator.

  7. Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $5,000? Seems like quite a bit of work and risk for just $5,000.

  8. Re:taking the rap for child pron, hacking, uploadi on Comcast To Expand Public WiFi Using Home Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Of all of these, the most dangerous is "uploading files," assuming you mean music or movies.

  9. Re:Comcast Router? I think not on Comcast To Expand Public WiFi Using Home Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Even if you can't get separate ones, you can disable the router part and use the modem as a bridge. I have a combo modem/router from my provider, and I disabled the router part to use my own.

  10. Re:as opposed to the 300 trillion on Internet Payment Processor Liberty Reserve Accused of Laundering $6 Billion · · Score: 1

    Maybe not if you adjust for inflation, but it is certainly more than could have possibly been laundered. Even at a 1% fee for laundering it, which I imagine is on the low end, HSBC would be the largest organization in the world, by far.

  11. Re:Safety? on Ask Slashdot: Safe Learning Environment For VMs? · · Score: 1

    Considering these are probably VMs that have their own machine to play on, you'll need one hell of an exploit to have a fork bomb impact the performance of another VM.

  12. OP

    I was not replying to the "OP" I was replying to the parent post referencing "some companies already require this kind of software to be installed by employees". (Quoted from memory, not source)
    Also this isn't 4chan.
    /Or Fark.

  13. Re:Europe again on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    Not a problem, should have made it more clear that my "fact-check" comment was meant to be taken as gentle ribbing. Now that I re-read it, it looks angrier than I intended.

  14. Re:Arrogant maintainers... on Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why assign a hotkey to such a rare task? Make it a checkbox, two tabs away from the password field. Default: Mask the damn password.

  15. Re:Sounds handled fairly well on E-Sports League Stuffed Bitcoin Mining Code Inside Client Software · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin mining is not efficient. The cost of the mining was more than $3,600, therefore it was a reduction in the wealth of players of more than was gained. A reasonable user would not have agreed to the mining.

  16. I have a separate hard drive on my personal computer to boot from when I work from home, and I would love to be able to seamlessly use my phone to connect to work as well. Given the choice between my employer's giving me a non-android device (Given that my current phone is android based) and my bringing my own device, I would much rather bring my own device.

  17. Re:Europe again on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    Was it really necessary to fact-check that joke?

  18. Re:Interesting comparissons on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    The important bit is that it doesn't ask you, it checks your browser user agent, then asks you to confirm. The path of least resistance is "Yeah sure, whatever."

  19. Re:Europe again on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    Hey, we already got Tang, everything else is just lagniappe.

  20. Re:Seriously? on Six Retailers Announce Recall of Buckyballs and Buckycubes · · Score: 1

    Oh, he's not dead yet? Well, then, I take back everything I said.

  21. Re:Seriously? on Six Retailers Announce Recall of Buckyballs and Buckycubes · · Score: 1

    If you swallowed them all, you would die. Peristalsis in the small intestine would separate them, then potentially create a pinch. You should not be letting your 5 year old play with them, especially if you are having conversations with your wife on "safe magnet eating" that a 5 year old could overhear.

  22. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ on Blink! Google Is Forking WebKit · · Score: 1

    You appear not to understand the extent of my laziness. I didn't use code tags at all, I picked "Code" from the drop down. (Yes, I understand this cause code tags to be used)

  23. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    That was an interesting conversation you just had there.

  24. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    I'd lean more toward using W5922XA.

  25. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ on Blink! Google Is Forking WebKit · · Score: 1

    This is not a forum. Also, using "code" as the format is the easiest way to avoid having to escape HTML to prevent it from being parsed as HTML. If you so loathe fixed width font, there's not much I can do for you.