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Comment Re:Incentive Bug Finding (Score 1) 331

In most countries both are illegal.

Yes, the criminal stole the car and committed the actual crime.

However, the moron who left the car in a conspicuous place with the keys in the ignition is also guilty of culpable negligence in some places as well, just like the parent who leaves a loaded gun on the coffee table which results in his kid blowing his own head off.

Comment Re:End state and private capitalism. (Score 1) 331

The idea is to break the cultural link between receiving income from the state and being a layabout.

Ah, so its not about solving a problem, its about being Politically Correct and pretending we care about fellow human beings rather than actually doing anything about it.

Much like minimum wage, the only thing you'll accomplish is raising the cost of living until the BI no longer does anything useful.

Comment Re:It isn't only Windows 8 (Score -1, Flamebait) 304

Then you know absolutely nothing about software development, let alone one that affects more desktops than anything else on the planet. Its hard to imagine you've been using a computer for any length of time at all with such an ignorant statement.

Microsoft does not actually have EVERY single PC configuration and software combination on the planet in their test labs.

I can't fathom how slashdot fall to the point where people with ignorance on your level get modded up instead of into oblivion. Whats better is that you're claiming that Windows 8 drivers that don't work on Windows 7 caused the same problem for you. This is an ID10T or PBKAC error I think.

Comment Re:Nah, Bitcoin destroyed their credibility when (Score 1) 267

that assumes that the total real wealth (like mass and energy) of the Earth is constant

Which is also an entirely wrong assumption :)

The Earth gains energy from the Sun, and thus mass. It also loses mass via radiation. I'm not sure which direction the net is moving in, but there is no way its constant.

Comment Re:There a war on (Score 0) 267

Bitcoin is a social movement dedicated to the elimination of central banks by providing a superior alternative.

Except it isn't a superior alternative in any way and it just changes who the 'central banks' are to the ones who buy the most mining power.

(see the transformation of Occupy the Fed into Occupy Wall Street into irrelevance)

Oh, you're one of those morons. The Occupy WhatTheFuckEver failed because it was a bunch of idiots who utterly fail to understand how the world works. The 'movement' was a bunch of 1%ers too stupid to realize they were part of the one percent showing up in with Northface tents and backpacks bought with daddy's money acting all uppity while they shit in sinks in restaurant bathrooms and got in the way of people actually trying to get work done.

Nothing about the 'movement' was useful in any way, it was just a bunch of lazy ignorant fucks complaining that someone who got off their asses and did things with their lives and that they weren't giving it all to them while they sit on the street complaining rather than doing something to actually change their place in the world.

Bums who live on the street have more credibility than any Occupy moron.

Comment Re:ASICs drive out CPUs and GPUs ... (Score 3, Informative) 267

I don't think you understand what an ASIC is, even though you tried to define it.

There is no such thing as an 'ASIC proof algorithm' because you simply design the ASIC to handle that situation. Doesn't matter what you put into it, the ASIC gets designed to deal with that problem and does it more efficiently than any generic circuit can. Theres nothing a GPU or GPCPU can do that an ASIC can't. The term 'ASIC' doesn't define a specific type of circuit. GPUs are ASICs who's application is graphics processing, for example. An Intel CPU is an ASIC who's application is general purpose computing!

If you change the algorithm then you aren't making it 'ASIC proof', you're just making it not work for a specific type of ASIC or making it not work well. Its no different than saying BitCoin is 'ASIC proof' because the routing chips in Cisco routers can't do BitCoin hashes efficiently.

Comment Re:Too much surplus (Score 1) 264

Had we finished the job, we'd have helped stabilize two countries that needed it badly and ended up with a few more with 'ethnic hatred' towards America ... and a whole lot more that were thankful to America.

Instead, people like yourself demanded that an ignorant president rush the exit because ... well I don't have any fucking idea why other than your own ignorance about the way the world works. God forbid we actually stuck around and helped them deal with the fact they've years of hatred against each other that needs to be quelled.

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan need to be in the state they are in, our leaving his why the are, we could have helped them.

But hey, now you get to be a smug asshole, which is way more important, right?

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