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Submission + - Kim Dotcom offers $5m bounty to defeat extradition

heretic108 writes: Internet mega-entrepreneur, uber-gamer and now NZ political corruption-buster and king-maker Kim DotCom has posted a bounty of $5m to anyone who can dig up any dirt which saves him from extradition to the US on his trumped-up "racketeering", "piracy" and "money-laundering" charges.

Conceivably this bounty would be payable not only to government department employees, but also to anyone able to access government servers in the US, New Zealand or elsewhere, or servers of any companies or organisations working with these governments, who can retrieve documents clearly proving corruption in the whole prosecution process, and these documents help materially to derail Kim Dotcom's prosecution, this would most certainly qualify for the bounty.

Submission + - Uber is now worth nearly as much as Hertz and Avis combined (slate.com)

Taco Cowboy writes: The San Francisco startup Uber, which bills itself in offering " everyone's private driver " is now worth, according to venture capitals which has invested in the startup (which includes but not limited to Fidelity, BlackRock, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and Google Ventures) as much as $17 billion

Astonishingly, Uber’s valuation is also more than the market capitalization of rental-car giants Hertz Global Holdings ($12.5 billion) or Avis Budget Group ($6.32 billion). It’s closer to the market cap of those two companies combined

Comment Re:My mother just called a couple hours ago (Score 0) 345

I told her the Automatic Updates will keep her safe.

Yeah, ummm... I tend to leave on Auto Updates for my Dad, too, and he's even got a god-awful antivirus product, but that's only because I think they might be slightly better than the alternatives, for him. I've seen more machines bricked by Automatic Updates and by McAfee/Norton products than by viruses.

Comment wimp (Score 2) 278

Wimp working for an excessively-large company with rules that might allow "casual Fridays" with strict dress codes. He's whining about corporate culture, not programming. The "Neo" problem that first gave you the hint that he wasn't an actual hacker, just some script kiddy in a minimum-wage cubicle farm.

Comment Re:WHAT? (Score 1) 737

Not computer scientists or programmers. They wouldn't have the faintest clue how to produce regulated 120 VAC @ 60Hz.

Bub, I was taught computer science back when punched cards were barely out of fashion. I can build you a computer out of sticks and water or spheres. Granted, it wouldn't be playing HalfLife3, but it might have a few conceivable uses. Meantime, perhaps the carpenter could use a hand.

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