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  1. Re:It's not the *coin dealers that are profiting on Target Hackers Have More Data Than They Can Sell · · Score: 1

    Even if the "service charge" is only $50 per card,

    Hmmmm...

    (a) Limits on liability
    (1) A cardholder shall be liable for the unauthorized use of a credit card only if—
    (A) the card is an accepted credit card;
    (B) the liability is not in excess of $50;

    So, do I pay $50 to the bank right now, or do I risk possibly, maybe being liable for up to $50 later on? I can't decide.

  2. Um, duh... on Engineers: Traffic Studies Use Simulation Software, Not Lane Closings · · Score: 1

    If you believed for one moment that it was an actual traffic study, I have a closed bridge to sell you.

  3. Re:can at best be approximated on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 1

    (Addendum: wait, never mind, that's basically their proposal with an additional step via Coulomb.)

  4. can at best be approximated on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 1

    Huh? You don't have two infinite lengths of wire lying around? They're fairly easy to get; you just take one infinitely long wire and cut it in half.

    More seriously though, what's wrong with just reversing the definition (1 A := 1C/s rather than 1C := 1As), and then redefining 1 Coulomb as a precise number of electrons?

  5. Re:Linux sorely needs a decent media player on Media Player Nightingale Reaches 1.12.1; First Release Since Songbird · · Score: 1

    I never looked back at Songbird after switching from XP to Ubuntu. Songbird was indeed a sorely needed decent media manager* on Windows (where the choices at the time were WMP, iTunes and a few other, moderately usable open-source programs). On Linux, it wouldn't have matched Rhythmbox and Amarok at the time.

    But I haven't had occasion to try Nightingale again since then; since you mention having tried several programs, I guess you have a more up-to-date basis to say which is better. But Rhythmbox is still a decent program in my opinion.

    (*For players without library management, I'd stick with VLC on any system.)

  6. Funny how that works on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    It's amazing, really. You take away someone's food and they get sick.

  7. This is a horrible idea. on Researchers Develop "Narrative Authentication" System · · Score: 1

    The NSA monitors everything everybody ever does. They would know the answer to every single one of those questions, and they could use them to break into your accounts and read all your emai----

    oh wait.

  8. .... the reassuring part on NSA Trying To Build Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    The reassuring part is that public key infrastructure is still OK when done properly, since the NSA is still working so hard to defeat it

    Indeed, that sounds reassuring. But reassuring you would easily be worth 80 million to the NSA.

  9. Yo bitcoin on There's Kanye West-Themed Crypto-Currency On the Way · · Score: 2

    I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but dogecoin is the BEST CURRENCY OF ALL TIME.

  10. Re:Amongst our weaponry... on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 1

    fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Torvalds, and stuffed Penguin plushies!

  11. Much worse on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    About a quarter claim to believe in evolution, but say it is divinely controlled. The whole point of the theory of evolution is that speciation and adaptation result from natural selection rather than design. So "divinely controlled evolution" is really a longer way of saying "creationism".

  12. Re:Wait, let me get this straight on Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, when it comes to IP law we can rely on being screwed over by both parties. The DMCA and the Sonny Bono act both passed unanimously in the senate.

    (Of course that was 15 years ago, and the current administration appears somewhat more reasonable.)

  13. Sounds like that prison needs a better on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 5, Funny

    *sunglasses*

    spammer filter

    YEEEEEEAH

  14. Wait, let me get this straight on Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US · · Score: 2

    A judge in the United States of America ruled against an unreasonable extension of copyright law?

  15. Sure, let's give it back to him on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    It's not as if he'd use it for anything bad like having people killed or anything. He's never done that before.

  16. Re:Yeah. on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Assault someone in view of a wirelessly connected camera. That's a genius plan.

  17. Wow, they're screwed on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Accused of Faking Trade Data · · Score: 1

    If this is true and the Bitcoin regulatory authority gets wind of it...

    oh wait

  18. "robots are immoral" on How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam · · Score: 2

    You appear to be confused about the word "immoral".

  19. Dear World on Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math · · Score: 3, Funny

    You now owe us royalties on every digital computer built in the last century. Please pay the total of one gazillion dollars to the following bank account.

    -Signed, Polynesia

  20. Not an accomplishment on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    Having gathered enough experience with school shootings to know how to handle them is not a good thing.

    That's like praising the textbook nuclear fallout response plan you've managed to come up with based on a hundred nuclear reactors melting down.

  21. Re:It also beefs up security. on Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data · · Score: 1

    Did you accidentally a URL?

  22. Wait, images? on Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data · · Score: 1

    You mean, like, attachments? Those are part of the email anyway.

    Or are we talking about this weird new HTML-email thing I've been hearing so much about? Who even uses that crap. :P

  23. "Compare it to the Sokal affair" on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Alan Sokal wrote a parody piece that was actually accepted by the people it parodied. Their inability to distinguish it from a serious work was the whole point of the parody. Meanwhile, these idiots just came up with a deliberately ridiculous strawman.

  24. The internet belongs to machines on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 1

    We're just visiting. :P

  25. and to think... on Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End · · Score: 4, Funny

    the us spent almost fifty years worried by the prospect of russian nukes lighting up their cities