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  1. Re:Good representation of bitcoin users on IRS Now Has a Tool To Unmask Bitcoin Tax Evaders (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    IRS: Where did that 500K in your bitcoin account come from?
    Me: Selling WoW goods.
    IRS: Do you have any records to back that up?
    Me: Yes. But they are cloaked by an invisibility spell.

  2. Re:BitCoin never was anonymous on IRS Now Has a Tool To Unmask Bitcoin Tax Evaders (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how long it will take for governments to start trying to make anonymous currencies illegal.

    Benjamin Franklins are next.

  3. Germans complain about Microsoft and come back proclaiming "Peace for our time".

  4. Those who do not learn from history .... on Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    ... are doomed to repeat it. Too much time spent at drinking parties at Annapolis.

  5. Re:never attribute to malice that which is incompe on Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    a crew member entered a 0 into a field in a network database

    The first time the Navy has had a ship disabled by a zero since WWII.

  6. Re:never attribute to malice that which is incompe on Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet the Navy is really pissed about that.

    We'll show them! We'll get some airplanes!

  7. Re:the ball based ones are harder to rig and easie on Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam (desmoinesregister.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't rig the drawing. You find a way to insert a record of the winning number being sold after the drawing. You get some blank lottery ticket paper and print yourself that winning ticket.

  8. We deliver whatever the content provider gives us.

    Just not fast enough to be of any use.

  9. Re: "a painful labour shortage"?! Bollocks! on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I too like to find a grammar mistake

    There is a robot that can do that job.

  10. Cheaper yet on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Put up an antenna.

  11. Re:Cum grano salis on FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Kaspersky could just point to the actual backdoor in the US products

    Using this same logic, the FBI could point to the actual backdoor in Kaspersky's products.

  12. the car owner couldn't simply replace the car key without risking the car battery to overcharge and catch fire

    Lennart Poettering builds a car.

  13. Reminds me of the beater I used to drive.

    (Oblig. bad car analogy)

  14. Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle on FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 0

    claiming to show that the Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is an unacceptable threat to national security

  15. and three pedals.

  16. Are they paying their own way to provide spinning reserve?

    Because all other energy suppliers are responsible for providing that as a part of their costs. Wind and solar (notoriously fickle sources) have just lobbied for 'smart grids' and load shedding to accommodate their variability. But they push the expense for those onto grid operators and customers. And then boast about how low their costs are dropping.

  17. Re:Dumb on How Hackers Are Targeting the Shipping Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Key management and encryption standards. Too many people are positioned to make their platform/product THE industry standard (for a small per transaction fee, of course). Rather than getting behind a distributed peer-to-peer solution. And when the industry or government puts together a working group to propose an open solution, the leading providers just send Goober to sit on the committee and mess things up.

    Back in the old days, things happened on the Internet before the big players caught on. Now they have people everywhere watching.

  18. Re:When I was in school on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Those that had extreme allergies in those sorts of place probably die in infancy.

    There was a project to develop an easily transportable food to alleviate starvation in some parts of Africa. The result was a squeeze tube of a peanut-butter fortified with some nutrients and other stuff that didn't require refrigeration. Kids, even babies could eat it.

    When asked about the possibility of triggering peanut allergies, an epidemiologist (part of the development team) said that they didn't see significant rates of peanut allergies in Africa. I think people in this sort of profession knows the difference between low rates of occurrence and counting the survivors that the substance didn't kill.

  19. Re:When I was in school on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was in grade school in the early 1960's, I was in one class where the teacher announced that one student had a peanut allergy. So we should not trade or share the contents of our lunches. Evidently not a serious enough allergy to warrant banning peanuts. Also, the sensitive student wasn't identified. Probably to avoid teasing.

    I'm guessing that by high school, kids are responsible enough to avoid peanuts on their own, unless the allergy is so severe that proximity might trigger it.

  20. Re:Guardian reporting is going downhill on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Do these people even english?

    Well, this IS The Grauniad. What did you expect?

  21. Are you certain ... on 'Surkus' App Pays Users To Line Up Outside New Restaurants (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... this app isn't called Sukurs?

  22. Simple DIY formula on Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Just mix ammonia and bleach.

  23. Re:Guilt adds to the burden on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Not so much feeling good about feeling bad. But accepting that your moods change and sometimes you are going to feel down. It's normal and you'll get over it.

  24. Pay up, Google on Google Pays Apple $3 Billion Per Year To Remain On the iPhone, Analyst Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or we will switch our users to Apple Maps. And you will never see any of us again.