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  1. Re:Help! Help! :-) on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Well, you can't wait until after it crashes. I hear the value takes a serious dive at that point.

  2. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    What? You can't find "N" on an automatic?

  3. Re:Your tax dollars hard at work on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 2

    Seriously, though, it sounds like your friends need to give 1/3 of that to a lawyer so they can get the other 2/3 back.

  4. Re:Bitcoin never made cents or sense.... on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    And Satoshi hasn't spent one...well...Satoshi as far as anybody knows.

  5. Re:Bitcoin never made cents or sense.... on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    Really? News to me. I made 1000% so far in a year.

  6. Re:Your tax dollars hard at work on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems like they should have put it in bitcoin and retrieved it when they got to CA.

  7. Re:Google getting all the glory? on Volvo Testing Autonomous Cars On Public Roads · · Score: 1

    Volvo just caught up to what Mercedes has been doing for 5-7 years already.

  8. Re:Won what race? on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    The Leaf is starting to look PRETTY good.

  9. Re:Tesla still wins on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    Wow! You aren't kidding. That's Volkswagen Thing ugly.

  10. Re:Didn't see 1, won't see 2 on Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I've been trying to put my finger on why I hated Amazing so much and you just summed it up.

    Also, everyone is a total dick in the first movie, including Spider-Man. What's the point of a Spider-Man movie like that? It's totally out of character for him.

  11. As a DirecTV subscriber... on WSJ Reports AT&T May Be Eying a $40B DirecTV Acquisition · · Score: 2

    As a happy DirecTV subscriber for over 14 years who has a lifetime ban against AT&T (and really has no desire to work with multiple-time Worst Company in America holder Comcast), these actions will absolutely ensure that I become a cord-cutter.

  12. Bitcoin? on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 1

    How about taking bitcoin online? Make a deal with BitPay or Coinbase.

    No information to steal except for shipping information. And the public fact that it was paid with bitcoin.

  13. Re:If I wandered into the bank.. on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 1

    You can't even get a card for travelling to Europe in the US with a chip and pin. Looking into it recently, most people were saying you could get one from the UN credit union.

  14. Re:Mother of All Retcon Films NOT!!!! on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Lucasfilm actually had a person whose ENTIRE job was maintaining canon through all the properties for over 20 years. MANY novel and comic ideas were turned down because she said no.

    It's really too bad Lucas himself didn't have to listen to her. With those constraints, we might have had a better movie (Boba Fett is just yet another Stormtrooper... Um, OK I guess...(disappointment...))

  15. Re:These are NOT... on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    You KNOW that after 6 movies of declining quality

    Really? I have them like this:

    1. V. Empire

    2. IV. Star Wars

    3. III. Sith

    4. II. Clones

    5. VI. Jedi

    6. I. Phantom Menace

    Hardly declining quality. And who knows? Maybe these will be awesome... The recent Star Trek movies are certainly better than the old ones.

  16. Re:The idea behind it.... on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 1

    But even countries trying to ban bitcoin are having a hard time controlling it. Bitcoin is anonymous if you don't look closely, but if you really dig in and put resources toward investigating, you can track coins. It technologically enforces what the Constitution intended.

  17. Re:A Tax Professional's Dream on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 1

    Dumb people. So probably not too many at MIT.

  18. Re:Security through Antiquity? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Sell them on eBay. You might be surprised.

  19. Re:Novell Killed Themselves on SCOTUS Ends Novell's Anti-Trust Cast Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    But WordPerfect for Windows crashed non-stop. I was in the IT department at a college at the time and my previous roommate was the head PC lab tech. When the college told us we had to switch to WP for Windows officially, our jaws dropped, because everyone knew it was a buggy piece of crap.

  20. Re:Not their fault on Hulu Blocks VPN Users · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One time, my company asked me to write a spam engine. Seven of us developers go together and threatened to quit. And we would have.

    They also tried to get me to write gambling software for an offshore casino. I refused that as well. I told my boss not to take the contract. They got investigated by the FBI shortly thereafter.

  21. Re:Only one way to stop it. on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 2

    And Sprint is still unlimited.

  22. Re:What we would like to know on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I was looking for that.

  23. Re: on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    Because the providers have "packaged" everything together and send C&Ds about carrying their "free" channel if you didn't pay for their "pay" channels. And none of the cable companies have wanted to fight that lately, because dropping the "free" channel is the best way to get 100,000 pissed off residents to flood the channel with complaints.

  24. Re:How many? on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    Well, considering the laws to do this have been on the books forever, Aereo SHOULD win. But since the whole government seems to be bought by big content these days, there's no guarantees.

  25. Re:How many? on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    They are following cable laws that were enacted to allow those with poor reception an option to get their local channels. These laws allowed the cable operators to show free channels for free, which is exactly what Aereo is doing.