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Comment Re:Bitcoin features (Score 1) 535

Those are all good points however what really convinced me was your highlighting that the term "bit" sounds like "butt" and therefore bitcoin should not be utilized. Also based on the "buttcoin" insight you provided, I can infer that the proponents of bitcoin all have stupid faces and additionally smell like poo. +1 insightful

Science

Submission + - Wasps Battle Ants by Dropping Them (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: If the yellow jacket wasp wants to bully something small, it eschews the stinger for something more creative. When it comes upon a swarm of ants on food it wants, the wasp will simply pick the pests up and fling them away: a previously undocumented way of dealing with a competitor. (Two videos included of wasp vs. ant "cage matches")
Android

Submission + - New Android Spyware Uploads Photos, Logs and Messa (securityweek.com)

wiredmikey writes: Following reports earlier this week of multiple variants ofHong Tou Tou, two additional spyware programs targeting Android devices have been reported this week.

Android SpywareDubbed "SW.SecurePhone", when installed, will run in secretly in the background and monitor the phone and collect data to save on the SD card. The data, including messages, call log, location of the phone, recorded sounds around the phone and pictures in the phone, will then be uploaded to a remote server every 20 minutes.

While the threats reported earlier this week were mainly surfacing in China, this spyware is mainly spreading in the U.S via Internet download, though its not clear the impact it has had so far and is likely not a large number of users.

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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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