I'm pretty sure you're talking about the article on how to get your video rental late fees removed from Blockbuster by impersonating a clerk from another store. FWIW, it's the only article I can remember reading from 2600 during that era, and it's a good lesson in how *not* to structure your corporate-wide system between all your stores. :) Sorry it cost you your job, but if that was you I appreciated the article.

Maybe you know how to can food, if you have cans and food available. But do you know how to get the metal in exactly the right tin form to make cans in the first place? Do you know which types of tin you can use for food and which ones to avoid? How do you deal with the corrosion of iron, with poisonous ions from copper, lead and zinc?

Yes, with ROT13. (Twice, to be safer).

AI isn't as scary as biological manipulation: new species, new diseases, ...

Actually you do hear this outcry, certainly in Europe - it's been a recurring theme that there are too few men in primary education, nursing etc.

But dark in this case is completely cromulent, as dark implicitely means no light, and in fact, dark matter (and also dark energy) doesn't emit any light or even interact with light. This matter really is dark in the original sense of the word, all later connotations not withstanding.

Either not realizing it, or being willfully ignorant of it because it doesn't fit in with the "it's W's fault" narrative.

"P.S: Has Slashdot degenerated into a cesspool of women's rights activists? This is a tech blog/forum, so behave like a proper one."

No, it has simply degenerated into a cesspool.

No, that's one of the things a court is for: Clear up legal facts if they are not explicitely stated in the law. The E.U. copyright directive and the laws in different countries don't mention embedding, and thus a court decides when the question comes up. In this case, the system works exactly as it is supposed to be.

That was done in the 1950s and 1960s. I give you the Youth Fitness Song, sent to every school in America in 1960.

Yep! And when your friend shows up with legal team, they will all be subpoena'd to find out where the funds came from. Not many lawyers would be willing to commit perjury to help you out - they'll say "from your Bitcoins". The IRS will simple abscond with the funds (seizure of unreported assets) and again you're SOL...

Regarding bitcoins, there IS a provable trail of when they were used/accessed, right? That's the blockchain and is one of the key features of bitcoins. Assuming he's found guilty and has a large penalty to pay off, any time he accesses those bitcoins he's now made a permanent record of the transaction and if he does NOT use the first XX% of those proceeds to pay off his debt, he's now committed fraud and can be thrown into Federal PMITA prison.

Absolutely. And about 4% of the time, Congress actually overrides a veto. That means, on average, 96% of the time the President's veto will stand. The President has a very strong role in making bills into law. He cannot be absolved of that responsibility.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014...

Of course NASA is used to doing this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Doubled CO2 means under 2 degrees warming

"8th December 2010 13:24 GMT - A group of top NASA and NOAA scientists say that current climate models predicting global warming are far too gloomy, and have failed to properly account for an important cooling factor which will come into play as CO2 levels rise."

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
""Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data. "

Why would a 150 year melt cycle be "right on time" in warming world? Never mind somebody made the headline "Unprecedented melting of Greenland ice".

How can a cyclical even be unprecedented?

I believe Mr. Hansen left shortly after this. I could be wrong but I think it was around that time.

When your credit card is compromised, the bank takes the loss and gives you a new credit card. When your phone is compromised, does Apple take the loss and give you a new phone?