The "I before E" exceptions are so many, they needed a poem.

http://nothings.org/writing/tb/ie.html

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"Hardly complicated."

s/Hardly/It's/

There is growing evidence that the dogma of taking all your antibiotics is mistaken. Or at least oversimplified. The theory is essentially that antibiotics kill off healthy flora while leaving antibiotic-resistant microbes to thrive and conquer.

http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2012/11/29/are-we-causing-antibiotic-resistance-by-trying-to-prevent-it/

More likely:

Officer A: "Look, a crash. Let's get all the cell phones of everyone in the nearby area. Law says we can."
Officer B: "OK."

The government probably hired out a lot of this work to contractors who were like, "Yeah, we've got direct feeds from microsoft, google, yahoo... and paypa... umm, pal...talk. That'll be $100M please."

It's true. The game was unplayable without the manual, but actually an OK game with it. It was not great by any means, but it was playable and there was some challenge to finishing in the time allotted.

I got the game on cartridge when it came out. The copy I got came in a box without the manual for some reason. My friend and I tried to play by guessing what you were supposed to do. It seemed a lot like the old Superman cartridge which we liked (and which could be played with no manual). But after falling into pits for about 1/2 hour, we abandoned it since it seemed totally random.

Not long ago, I revisited it just to see if it was as bad as I remembered. And it was just as bad and random... until I downloaded and read the manual. The goals of the game and even some "tactics" might have been deduced by experimentation. But if you couldn't decipher the cryptic mode icon in the corner of the screen that changed as you moved around, you had no chance of understanding what you were doing. Once you could decipher it, the game actually made sense.

Given that relativity is well established, those signs should be unitless. Instead of 55 mph, just have them say 0.000000082.

"In New York alone, eight people hit 2,904 ATMs in 10 hours, withdrawing $2.4 million."

OK, if they split up and worked individually, that means 363 ATMs per person in 10 hours, which is around 36 ATMs per person per hour. Each of those 8 people would have to average under 2 minutes per ATM over the course of 10 full hours without interruption. Even if you had a really well-planned route, that seems like an impossible pace.

I'm not sure you'd call it practical, but there's at least one exchange, http://mpex.co/, where you can apparently trade bitcoin options. A bearish position would involve buying puts and/or writing calls. Options are risky in the best of circumstances, and btc volatility and the lack of a mature market greatly magnifies that risk. Even if you are right about btc going down in value, timing and liquidity issues could easily cause you to lose 100% of the money you risk (or worse in the case of writing naked options).

Which leads to the other way to make money in bitcoin...

5. Create a bitcoin exchange and charge transaction fees.

I fear some people would trust the technology to keep their family safe instead of themselves.

Why fear? People are going to die of avoidable accidents in their homes. Just try not to be be one of them. That's the extent of the power you have over this "problem".

I'm not sure why you think you're correcting me - you said the same thing I did.

Me: "You are billed as if your phone is subsidized even if it is not."
You: "The cost of the plan is a fixed amount, subsidized or not."

And how, exactly, is that not a standard cell service contract?

With a standard cell contract, your recurring charges stay the same indefinitely. You are billed as if your phone is subsidized even if it is not.

It would be a real coup if he managed to get his stupid site linked to on the front page of slashdot.

Ah, yes, there it is.

It's about time someone recognized that stenvar, slashdot user number 2789879, is the aggregation of all American thought. Thanks for noticing.