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  1. Re:Well, that’s a trick question. on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    I agree, must of been 900 years.

  2. Re:Awesome prime minister on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    whether she goes to heaven or hell. She'll

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    Bitch would privatise both of them.

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    Polltax

  3. Re:here's my prediction on Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they throw him to the wolves, he'd cause less trouble if dead. The CIA has a history of backing assassinations and assassination attempts.

  4. Re:Distillation on Leak Found In Fukushima Tank Holding Radioactive Water · · Score: 1

    Read a bit further because plain strontium is not the same as the isotope strontium-90

    Effect on the human body

    The human body absorbs strontium as if it were calcium. Due to the chemical similarity of the elements, the stable forms of strontium might not pose a significant health threat â" in fact, the levels found naturally may actually be beneficial (see below) â" but the radioactive 90Sr can lead to various bone disorders and diseases, including bone cancer. The strontium unit is used in measuring radioactivity from absorbed 90Sr.

  5. Re:here's my prediction on Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight · · Score: 1

    If this were true, there would be no reason for Kim to trust the CIA, if the regime falls, they'd deny all knowledge / feed him to the wolves.

  6. Re:Distillation on Leak Found In Fukushima Tank Holding Radioactive Water · · Score: 2

    90Sr in Fallout

    Strontium-90 is not quite as likely as caesium-137 to be released as a part of a nuclear reactor accident because it is much less volatile, but is probably the most dangerous component of the radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon.[1]

    Sounds pretty fucking dangerous to me, and if you're saying heavy metals are not poisonous then again you are full of it, Or are you you going to tell me that nothing lives on the sea floor and it won't get passed up the food chain.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90#Dispersal_hazards

  7. Re:Nerdcoin Apologists on New Skype Malware Uses Victims' Machines To Mine Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    Butterflylabs offer ASIC miners

    They offer them, but they don't ever seem to ship them, and if they did ship all of the orders, the difficulty rate would go 4 to 16 times harder because of the sudden massive increase in mining.

  8. Re:Confused on Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't take long before ASICs mine out most of the remaining Bitcoins and then mining will only be needed for transactions, not sure how that works but apparently a transaction fee should be paid to a miner for computational work done.

    Why can't the client just do a little bit of processing each time it makes a transaction? I don't mean calculate for it's own transaction but a bit of distributed computing equal to the transaction processing needed.

    It's as clear as mud how all of this scales, how much energy does it take to work out if a transaction is legit when millions of transactions start to happen daily? How much of the transaction history is actually needed (in GigaBytes) to determine if a transaction is kosher and how big will that transaction history be if there are millions of transactions per day?

  9. Re:The bubble is bad on Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    Inflationary push will make bitcoins worth less and then what?

    Care to explain how there's going to be inflation when no new coins can be added? (or perhaps you mean deflation - where the coins become worth more which would supply any demand)

  10. Re:That's completely arbitrary on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    And then the Irish lost all the potatoes and the British stole all the gold from the Spanish via piracy!!!

  11. Re:You're not kidding on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    I haven't analyzed it but I bet a lot of people have.

    I bet there hasn't been a lot of people analyzing it, there was already a problem with miners all having to agree to revert back to a previous version of bitcoin, so there's versioning issues for starters.

    Scalability looks like a problem:
    http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098

    I like bitcoin but there are a lot of unanswered questions like what happens if the bitchain split happens again and some people stick with the wrong client version?

    Also how well will bitcoin work if bitcoins become worth $10,000 dollars each and everyone starts trading 0.0001 bitcoins.

    And if someone trys to cash in a few million dollars worth all at once that'd probably crash the value back down to a dollar.

    I don't think it's been well thought out at all, a billion dollars riding on a beta bit of software. It won't last forever.

  12. Re:You're not kidding on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    I'm not a crypto expert but Bitcoin does seem to have scalability issues with regards to transactions, see:
    http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098 referencing:
    https://bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability

    And the transaction history which the main client keeps is mushrooming approx' 1GB per month but that can apparently be pruned, but how much I don't know.

    What the Bitcoin wiki says is acceptable is actually absurd, most people do not want their broadband connection saturated 24/7 or even 1% of that to keep Bitcoin going.

  13. Re:Hmm... on Fantastic js1k Submissions · · Score: 1

    That is the best demo ever, another link : http://archive.org/details/Fr-041Debris

    That they fitted the demo into 177KB is mind-boggling.

  14. The Commision on UK Privacy Watchdog: 'Right To Be Forgotten' On the Web Unworkable · · Score: 1

    Who the hell voted these people in, oh wait, no-one - these Commissioners, who consistently put forward pro-corporate anti-citizen laws need to be removed from EU's political system and the people who choose the laws need to be elected, anyone disagree?

  15. Re:Only because people are dumb on Another Way Carriers Screw Customers: Premium SMS 'Errors' · · Score: 1

    About once a quarter, sometimes once a month

    then I walk into the physical brick and mortar store,

    with minimal time and effort spent by me

    So which is it? And who, in five years I've had two issues between landline, broadband and mobile - and that was me trying to cancel the service because of broadband throttling (virgin media). And the other issue was caused by wear and tear / weather and was fixed promptly.

  16. How much more likely? on Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are More Likely To Re-offend · · Score: 1

    FTA: Had to read the article to get this:

    Men who were in the lower half of the ACC activity ranking had a 2.6-fold higher rate of rearrest for all crimes and a 4.3-fold higher rate for nonviolent crimes.

  17. Re: Even for nonprofits on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Each chair makes more than $300,000.00 per year

    Absolutely disgusting, taking peoples charitable donations and living like lords.

    I decided to check your facts, the president of red cross US gets $1million a year!! Some people have no shame.

  18. Re:Rare earth refining on Major Find By Japanese Scientists May Threaten Chinese Rare Earth Hegemony · · Score: 1

    problem here is competing with China's willingness to pollute the absolute living fuck out of their own back yard

    or they could just set standards, for the minerals they Import, except they can't because they're signed up to wto which bars them from using trade barriers even when they are justified

  19. Re:*Yawn* on If You're a Foreigner Using GPS In China, You Could Be a Spy · · Score: 1

    This.

    And every modern phone has GPS in it and many of those will 'geo-tag' by default when taking snaps.

    And they're only applying the law to foreigners, so stop being such stupid racist paranoid fucks Chinese Govt.

  20. Re:What a waste of money on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    It's trolling, disease it mentions is black death / bubonic plague.

  21. Re:What a waste of money on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    Try walking through Italy and see if you can't find someone infested with yersinia pestis. It's destroying the EU

    Hi, bubonic plague - wrong century, EU + black death don't go together, try again.

  22. Re:Conviction for stealing bitcoins on DNS Hijack Leads To Bitcoin Heist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the court got it wrong, The value inherent in virtual goods is in the price that people are willing to pay for them or would be willing were they on the market. Supply and demand dictates value.

  23. Stengthen your security. on DNS Hijack Leads To Bitcoin Heist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mothers maiden name: 9zimu8sj4q99uf
    Place of birth: wj9awitkj4girc

    If you use real details, you're a fool.

  24. That's a great idea.

  25. If you had a truck and the wheels fell off because the truck company had not built it sufficiently well and the truck then killed someone as a result, why would you blame the driver?

    It is the responsibility of software creators to ensure their software does not have vulnerabilities and that those vulnerabilities are fixed quickly when found (all internet facing software should auto-update by default).

    Spam is not harmful anyway, it is simply a nuisance and good Bayesian filters etc can deal with the vast bulk of it.