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  1. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That does not make them 'backed' ... get it: fiat money is not backed.
    http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

  2. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the vascular system does not feel that one G anymore, as it is pumping 'water' through water, however it still feels the mass :)

    In other words: you can hang overhead under water as long as you want, you heart ond veins, won't notice.

  3. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The moment the government changed the rules, the dollar was no longer backed ...
    Fiat money does not make any promises.

  4. they still don't hold anything close to a monopoly
    That was not the topic, or was it?

  5. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the water makes breathing a bit of a challenge :D

  6. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Which part of "experience" don't you get?

    Never mind, you might also once get a clue ...

  7. Re:We will all be dead before then... on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Anti viral medicals prevent/suppress the "reproduction" of a virus in the body of a host. Unfortunately with side effects (probably always unavoidable).
    Obviously they are not suited to "kill a species of virus".

  8. Re:Expect fun malware in the future! on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can not write an algorithm that is GPU or ASIC "resistant", what ever that is supposed to mean in your nomenclatur.

    An ASIC is just an algorithm "burned into hardware" instead of a flow of instructions for a normal CPU. You can put everything into an ASIC.

  9. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    fiat currencies are backed by the corresponding government
    No, they are not. Fiat currencies are backed by nothing, hence the name: "fiat".

    operate under financial laws of the relevant country
    Correct. But that is no "backing".

  10. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are somehow not grasping what the word "backed" means.
    Fiat currencies are backed by nothing, hence the name "fiat".

  11. Re:Wrong Question on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    That was a lucky hit!
    They all were at the same place holding their "ting"!

  12. Re:Wrong Question on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Rising children does not make economic sense.
    People do it anyway ....

  13. Re:They'll be scientific research stations on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Antarctica is not warmer.
    In winter it is around -90C and in summer around -20C.

    Mars has about +20C at the equator ...

  14. Re:We will all be dead before then... on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Having a "bad appendix" already is an infection.
    Surgery would not make it worse.
    Infections can be survived without antibiotics ... mankind did that since millions of years.
    Every fucking "common cold" is an infection ... the fact that you still were able to post is a proof that you don't need antibiotics to survive it.

  15. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Fish in the sea experience ZERO gravity ...
    Just saying.

  16. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked we had submarines around 1890 ... most certainly during WW-I which was around 1914 ... give or take.
    So: what technology are you exactly thinking we are missing?

  17. Apple has a smaller share of the smartphone market than Android
    Never heard about a company called "Android".

    Your sentence makes as much sense as "Porsche has a smaller share of the cars market than all other luxury car makers together"

    I hope you don't invest your money on the stock market with such brain dead thoughts.

  18. On Windows ... the OS, not the thing you look out from.

  19. Re:Is that illegal? on EU Fines Qualcomm $1.2 Billion for Paying Apple To Use Its Microchips (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry,
    Joe can't because McDonalds and Coke went into a mutual agreement.
    That has nothing to do with the /. article, nor if either of them dominates the market.
    No one prevents Joe from selling in the next best super market, via Amazzon, or what ever.

    So, it's all about whether Joe gets a fair shake in the market or not.
    And how does an excclusive deal betwenn C and M prevent that? M is not the market ... it is only one company/partner/customer in the market.

  20. Re:Going to be some resistance to this one on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You said so ... or do I remember wrong?
    As an atheist, I have no religion. And before you start nitpicking again: no, Atheism is no religion.

  21. Re:Tim Cook is deluded... Swift is like Java/C#... on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    They learned the syntax, yes.
    But it takes 10 years or more to transform a procedural programmer into an oo programmer.

    You must be lucky and have only met super smart programmers. And I must have been lucky as well, as I had a big share of class room trainings where I earned a lot of money from people who where to dumb to grasp the core differences between 'procedural' and OO :)

    People who did not bother to learn procedural programming first are TERRIBLE in object-oriented languages.
    That is nonsense ...

    There are FAR more poor OO programmers out there than procedural programmers.
    Because those most likely had learned a pure procedural language first, and still have not bridged the transition to OO.

    In our times people usually start with OO programming in universities, and in my experience the people who started with OO directly are much better than those that switched from languages like C or Pascal to an OO variant.

    But you might have different experiences ...

    Problems with GOF patterns usually only occure when people are new to patterns. They often get force fed them and then they don't really graps when and why to use one. That is completely unrelated to procedural versus OO first, how should a procedural programer know anything better about an oo pattern than an oo programmer that never programmed procedural?

  22. Re:Going to be some resistance to this one on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We nave no CS 101 in my country :) And I doubt CS 101 in your ccountry covers EBCDIC etc.

    And yet again: no, the text filed does not (need to) know if it ASCII or any other format. The interpreter needs to know ...
    And now stop this farce.

  23. Re: Nope. Don't you remember PowerPC? on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to play Diablo 2 in emulated mode. Just don't remember if I played the 68k version on my G4 17"
    Or if I played the PPC version on my first Intel, lol.

  24. Re:Going to be some resistance to this one on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A batch file is a program. That's it's in human readable ASCII text has no bearing on that.
    Comments like this show how much clue you have about the working of computers ...
    A human readable text filed does not (need to) know if the kernal is 32bit or 64bit ... go figure.

  25. Re:Going to be some resistance to this one on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't behave loke an idiot in the internet, the OS version has not much to say.
    My 17" runs happily on 10.6.8.