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  1. Re:Strange indeed on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    "in exchange for religeous theology in public schools"

    Ha ha ha ha ha. Religious theology was removed from public schools in the 1960s. And your hero Thomas Jefferson had a non-denominational Christian chapel built in the capital building.

  2. Re:How did they prove intent? on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    It is against federal law to check arrest records unless you are going into law enforcement or the military.

  3. Re:How did they prove intent? on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    Can he prove that someone else previously owned the car?

  4. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    Or The Matrix.

  5. Re:Special Characters on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    When my credit union first went online, they only allowed you to use your 4-digit PIN to login. And your account number was the number printed on the bottom of your check!

    I called them up and had a long conversation with them about this, but it still took months to be fixed.

  6. Re:Complexity != Security on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    If this phrase appears anywhere online, it will take only a couple hours.

  7. Re:What about red headed women with beards? on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    You mean dwarvish. Get it right. Jeez.

  8. Re:Already done in Bitcoin on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    And when it got shut down, the feds seized ALL the money, because they couldn't differentiate the innocent accounts from the guilty ones (they even said so in their statement, so they claim they would have separated them if they could have).

  9. Re:As valuable as gold on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    And what makes 1 BTC equivalent to 1 oz?

    The current prices?

  10. Re:I have a thought about where this all came from on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Threatening? There's a guy on the Bitcoin forums that had over €200,000 taken from him out of his account in Cyprus.

  11. Re:I don't understand on Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops · · Score: 1

    I think you are missing that they have to maintain expensive 2-way meters only for the solar customers. And now they want to charge a $5 fee as being fair for the monthly rental of that box.

  12. Yeah, like when they represented one of their customers' killers in a lawsuit:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/comedian-matt-fishers-tum_n_1775191.html

    Guess what they are going to do with all that data they collected on you?

    "Your honor and members of the jury, we have proof that so-and-so has a history of being a negligent driver. In November of 2013, they exceeded the speed limit by 20 mph, and drove on the shoulder (you were going around an accident and were directed by a police officer)."

  13. Re:Might actually be the case on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I have. It's very simple. Because of JIT, a Java or .Net compiler can optimize more easily for multiple CPUs or additional instruction sets (such as 3DNow/MMX) and also to use all the registers in 64 bit automatically but store in the heap or stack on 32-bit. All of that would be difficult to do in a single C program and could easily lead to the Java or .NET program outperforming C.

  14. Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, you might be surprised, since Borland Delphi is often the most efficient high-level compiler for PCs. It's not that useful anymore (because Pascal has fallen out of favor), but it has unbelievably good optimizers.

  15. Re:I wonder... on WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter · · Score: 1

    The whole point is to slow the government down until they come up with solutions that benefit everyone, not only the rich.

  16. Re:Intellectual property is a hoax. on WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter · · Score: 5, Informative

    They did.

    You had speed limits of 9 mph, requirements to have a guy waving a lantern in front of you, etc., etc., etc.

  17. Re:Who's next? on How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix · · Score: 1

    Considering the volume of bitcoin articles on here, you'd have to think it was PayPal, Western Union and MoneyGram.

  18. Re:Yes, but... on AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor · · Score: 1

    It won't. There are custom chips for that now. And you're right, online wallets aren't safe.

  19. Re:Such a deal on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 2

    Clearly the submitter doesn't understand the culture of the south island of New Zealand. When I was there recently, there were bags of apples in a barn with an "honesty box" where you paid the amount listed on the bag. Could I have stolen all the apples and got them "free"? I guess. But that's not the culture there. People pay for things because it's the right thing to do, not because the card "makes" them.

  20. Re:Swipe? on Square Is Discontinuing Monthly Pricing On February 1, 2014 · · Score: 1

    My brother runs a small booth that sells superhero t-shirts and memorabilia on the weekends. Do you think that he shouldn't take credit cards? Or that his taking of credit cards would be more "legitimate" if it didn't go through his cell phone? Utter nonsense.

    And if he's wrong about the legitimacy of the transaction the company will just reverse it on him and he loses the money, not you. And that's happened all of once for $80 over a 2 year period.

  21. Re:Didn't work for me. on Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able · · Score: 1

    American Express is 3.

  22. Re:Video-on-Demand... on Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations · · Score: 1

    Because something might come up and I might have to pause the video more than 24 hours. I haven't done paid VOD since they implemented this change. I can wait for Netflix to get it on streaming or Blu-Ray.

  23. Re:Heard this before on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 1

    And there was a DailyWTF article where he couldn't publish because you could literally put people on a state's Megan's Law sex offender database list by changing the query used on the site.

  24. Re:clemency? on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    Nixon was a Republican. The media are liberal.

  25. Re:clemency? on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 2

    Exactly. He would go to Feinstein because she has proven herself to be SOOOO trustworthy.