Comment Re:Even things as improbable... (Score 1, Informative) 191
Posting the first post as an "Anonymous Coward" has never been considered improbable.
Submission + - Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.? (businessweek.com) 1
SomePgmr writes: "Michael Hajduk had sunk one year and about $20,000 into developing his online poker site, Infiniti Poker, when the U.S. online gambling market imploded. On April 15, 2011, a day now known in the industry as Black Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down the three biggest poker sites accessible to players in the U.S., indicting 11 people on charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling.
Hajduk, though, was barely fazed. Calgary-based Infiniti Poker, like several other new online gambling sites, plans to accept Bitcoin when it launches later this month. The online currency may allow American gamblers to avoid running afoul of complex U.S. laws that prevent businesses from knowingly accepting money transfers for Internet gambling purposes. “Because we’re using Bitcoin, we’re not using U.S. banks—it’s all peer-to-peer,” Hajduk says. “I don’t believe we’ll be doing anything wrong.”"
Hajduk, though, was barely fazed. Calgary-based Infiniti Poker, like several other new online gambling sites, plans to accept Bitcoin when it launches later this month. The online currency may allow American gamblers to avoid running afoul of complex U.S. laws that prevent businesses from knowingly accepting money transfers for Internet gambling purposes. “Because we’re using Bitcoin, we’re not using U.S. banks—it’s all peer-to-peer,” Hajduk says. “I don’t believe we’ll be doing anything wrong.”"
Submission + - Scientists Sequence a Person's Entire Genome With Just a Single Cell
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists are now able to reproduce a person's entire genome using only a single cell. The breakthrough technique could lead to the development of early cancer treatment in the future by giving doctors to ability to obtain a genetic "fingerprint" of a person's cancer from circulating tumor cells.
Submission + - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? GM opens its Dashboards to Outside Developers (wired.com)
Dr Herbert West writes: LAS VEGAS — Automakers, hoping to get ahead of the technology curve for once, are opening their dashboards and APIs to outside developers in a bid to ramp up the number of apps you can use behind the wheel.
Each automaker is providing developers with an SDK through an online portal. As part of the Ford Developer Program, the Dearborn-based automaker is offering support from its own mobile app development house as well as other app testing vendors.
The API guidelines are an interesting read, in that GM will “instantly deny” apps that incorporate video, excessive text and gaming in a bid to reduce the risk of distracted driving.
Each automaker is providing developers with an SDK through an online portal. As part of the Ford Developer Program, the Dearborn-based automaker is offering support from its own mobile app development house as well as other app testing vendors.
The API guidelines are an interesting read, in that GM will “instantly deny” apps that incorporate video, excessive text and gaming in a bid to reduce the risk of distracted driving.
Submission + - Asteroid Apophis Just Got Supersized (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "As the potentially hazardous asteroid makes closest approach to Earth today, astronomers using the European Herschel Space Observatory have announced something a little unsettling: asteroid 99942 Apophis is actually bigger than we thought. Herschel astronomers have deduced that Apophis is 1,066 feet (325 meters) wide. That's 20 percent larger than the previous estimate of 885 feet (270 meters). "The 20 percent increase in diameter, from 270 to 325 m, translates into a 75 percent increase in our estimates of the asteroid's volume or mass," said Thomas Müller of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and lead scientist of the study. In addition, the space telescope has re-analyzed the albedo of the space rock, providing a valuable heat map of the object's surface — data that will improve orbital trajectory models."
Comment Re:Working with his father... (Score 4, Funny) 247
You weren't the first to do it though.
Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 75
Yes. Because amino acids inevitably evolve into green photosynthesising plants. The original comment made a bad assumption, but so did you.
Comment Best Idea Ever (Score 1) 189
Guys guys! I have the best idea to fool the internet into giving her even MORE fame! Let's get on the front page of Slashdot!! So everyone googles her name!!!!!
Comment Re:Such a wonderful person (Score 1) 243
You're trying to compare this guy to a gutter user. He has money. I have little doubt that he's guilty and his toying with MDPV has played a role, but drugs are not all the same. Different chemicals affect your brain in different ways, and violent behaviour is quite often created by extreme amphetamine abuse.
Comment Re:So (Score 2, Informative) 358
Some are like that, but please don't generalise and say it's everyone. There are plenty of people who use it the way others use alcohol and live normal lives. Dumb people aren't made any smarter by pot, so they still have equally dumb ideas... Pot just happens to be what they talk about. The neuronal connections were never there in the first place.
Comment Re:Fahrenheit? (Score 1) 230
Comment Moderation: +1 "Oh Snap"
Comment Re:Jealous much? (Score 1) 271
Hmm. Fair enough to some extent, but I know a lot of single women who are equally pessimistic about their hopes due to appearance. The ratio of men:women is pretty close, and polygyny is rare, so statistically speaking the situation shouldn't be hopeless.
Comment Re:Jealous much? (Score 0) 271
So, apparently having a human girlfriend is a top-notch achievement? Sorry to say this, but, it's actually a whole lot easier than you think... But here, have a gold star.
Comment Re:Carl Sagan Use To Drop Acid (Score 0) 206
Sagan & Skrillex would go well together.
Submission + - Poll: Have you ever dropped a mobile phone in the toilet?
jimmetry writes: "- Yes, and I got it out
- Yes, and I left it there
- No, I have not
- I ain't gonna be part of this system, maaaan"
- Yes, and I left it there
- No, I have not
- I ain't gonna be part of this system, maaaan"
