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Comment Re:Save the children... or make their work easier. (Score 1) 215

by fightersfury on Monday February 13, 2012 @01:57PM (#39021525) Attached to: Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law

What are you hiding on the other side of your bushes? A KIDDIE PORN STUDIO?!?! I demand 24/7 surveillance over your yard by a squadron of drones. Those who want privacy are bound to be criminals. If you have nothing to hide, why worry about the government seeing everything you do, knowing everything about you, and keeping a database on you that incorporates all that information? They're just making sure you are not looking at kiddie porn. They need all that information. I mean it's pretty obvious that political dissenters are kiddie porn addicts, because if you disagree with the political norm you obviously have a sexual attraction towards children. That's the only reason they need the information. I applaud their efforts.

Submission + - Flight 447 "Black Box" Decoded (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by fermion on Friday May 27, 2011 @03:43PM

fermion writes: An initial report has been released by the BEA concerning the details of the last minutes of Flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. According the report the autopilot disengaged and stall warning engaged at 2 hours 10 minutes and 5 seconds into flight. Less than 2 minutes later the recorded speeds became invalid. At 2 hours 14 minutes and 28 seconds, the recording stopped. The final vertical speed was recorded around 10,912 ft/min.

Submission + - An interview with a Bitcoin mind (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by HansonMB on Friday May 27, 2011 @12:59PM

HansonMB writes: Unlike the various virtual currencies that have found traction (and attracted some controversy) in the world of massive multiplayer online games, where they’re used to purchase virtual farms or weapons for slaying Orcs, Bitcoins have a more serious glimmer. They rely on a novel mechanism – developed by a Japanese computer science student – by which value is accumulated through peer-to-peer networks. They can’t be forged or stolen, nor can their value be artificially inflated; transactions based on them are untraceable (cue the bad guy James Bond music).

Some people think it’s a load of nonsense; others say Bitcoin has the capacity to topple governments. Bitcoins are already being accepted by a variety of websites spanning markets like gaming, music, electronics and more. Others, meanwhile, are simply using them to sell drugs and buy prostitutes. Regardless of how they are used, one thing’s certain: Bitcoins have certainly got a lot of nerdy people talking.

To get a better understanding of how these things are made and what they can do, I sat down with a Bitcoin miner. Our subject – a system administrator at a college in the New York area – has turned his school’s computers into a server farm to get more buck for his bang, so to speak. Because of the nebulous legal and ethical nature of his scheme, he asked to remain anonymous.

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