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  1. Re:A promise only goes so far on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  2. Re:FFS, all I wanted was some delicious sugar wate on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I wanted to. ...
    All I wanted was a Pepsi.

  3. Re:Colour me confused on Congressman Accepts BitCoin For His US Senate Run · · Score: 1

    Just need to figure out how to burn the flag with a gun. Then it will be okay.

  4. Management is never Value Add on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    Good management is good for the organization. But, there is no customer that will pay more to a vendor because they have good management. Irrespective of what the inflated compensation packages of various members of management may suggest.

  5. Re:A scam for the gullible on Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts · · Score: 1

    You know, it occurs to me that we have had the technology to send a one-way mission since about 1998. Though it would be more mass-efficient to just shoot the astronauts on the launch pad. Think of all the savings on food, water, air, and radiation shielding.

  6. Re:64-bit on U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year · · Score: 1

    No no no. That doesn't result in more bits. Each bit is twice as wide. Pretty clever when you think about it.

  7. Re:In other news, the Dutch warn about tulip mania on India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't want a currency with intrinsic value. I want it to have value as a currency only. I do not want the price of my cheeseburger be directly affected by the amount of yellowish (and inedible) metal some guy managed to dig out of the ground this year.

  8. Re:In other news, the Dutch warn about tulip mania on India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies · · Score: 1

    ... the ability to seize bank accounts and the use of the threat of prison and even guns/bodily harm to get their money to pay its debts.

    Slashdot is becoming such an interesting place. The level of ignorance and (perhaps deliberate) misunderstanding I see on a daily basis is difficult to put into words. How are we to have a conversation (to say nothing of debate) with a person who has such a poor understanding of the terms involved?

  9. Re:Is it really an issue on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Humans may need vehicles, but vehicles don't need humans.

  10. Re:As an Android Guy on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 0

    And how long do you think it will be before engineering gets automated?

  11. Re:4 sheets of A4? How much is it in a sane unit? on Fully Autonomous Flapping-wing MAV Is As Light As 4 Sheets of A4 Paper · · Score: 0

    Four sheets of A4 is one sheet of A2. If you are going to go ISO 216, you might as well go whole hog.

  12. The Insulator is Spam on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 5, Funny

    The unnamed insulator is Spam. Not sure if that makes it toxic or non-toxic, though.

  13. Re:Space/Propulsion applications on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    Well, is he using metric skies?

  14. Re:Like the Eveready Rabbit on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I am embarrassed to say that I stared at the screen for some minutes before realizing that "Eveready Rabbit" was not some cutsie release name for the latest Slackware release.

  15. Re:Capitalism. on Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" · · Score: 2

    We casually accept tyranny from our employer that we would never accept from our government. And in this economy, it is not practical to abandon an employer over our rights because (a) other employers are just as bad, and (b) they ain't hiring.

  16. Re:So, does it run Linux? on Last Operating ICT 1301 Mainframe Computer Set To Run Again · · Score: 1

    Of course it runs netBSD.

  17. LabView on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    Leave programming to the programmers. If you want to get science done, use LabView.

  18. Re:You lost me at Houston. on Tour Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 1

    Living in Houston is like living in a dog's mouth. Hot, wet, and smelly.
    It is the armpit of Texas.

  19. Re:In space, no one can hear you laugh maniacally. on NASA Astronaut Talks "Gravity," Spacewalking, ISS · · Score: 1
  20. Re:choosing sides on When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Wake up pspahn. The matrix has you.

  21. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    And that makes it better? Sounds like more rent seeking.

  22. Re:Not Fort Worth on The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) · · Score: 1

    By inspection, Ft. Worth is above and to the left of the centroid of the state. Therefore Northeast Texas.

  23. Re:Keynesian Cognitive Dissonance on Research Finds Link Between Inflation and Laughter In Federal Reserve Meetings · · Score: 1

    Okay. I'll bite. Where is the inflation?

  24. Re:interesting on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide · · Score: 1

    . The key here is not to fight fracking, but to fight to keep all the processes associated with well drilling within the rules of existing environmental regulations.

    Fine. Except fracking has been specifically excluded from the current EPA regulations regarding drilling and contaminated groundwater (thanks, Cheney!).

  25. Re:Ready supply on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 2

    The way I see it, we just need to shave one of those neutrons off. Like, say, with another neutron. What could possibly go wrong?