Regular glass doesn't contain any ions, in the same way that regular vegetables don't contain any genes.

It's a good thing they value it in dollars, because the value of a dollar never changes, and that's how we know our money is safe in a bank.

FTFY. I hope the video has it all.

Try lip reading the many wives of terr'rists.

IMHO, everything that people do can be explained by the ultimate goal of enjoying. If you do something because it makes rational sense, then perhaps you're the kind of person that enjoys rationality. I certainly get a kick out of doing math and science, and I try not to make the excuse that I'm doing it for some obscure higher purpose. People also tend to feel good when they help others, it's just what has kept mankind alive. If you say you exercise to keep yourself fit for work, then perhaps it's the work/money/status that you just happen to enjoy.

It's a good point about values, though. The question "why" is generally meaningless as it only leads to other questions "why", but the chain can end at some ultimate value -- I do $x because of money/friendship/hookers/blackjack -- but values are personal, and don't necessarily mean anything more than "I happen to enjoy money/friendship/hookers/blackjack, and that's that. In fact, forget the money and the friends."

I guess it depends on when this technique is applied. If you're an old geezer now, chances are you won't enjoy any more years with the 20-year-old-you's physique.

If the boss is more interested in accumulating a set number of hours sitting down, as opposed to getting productive work done, then perhaps it's time to get a new job.

As this wasn't clear from skimming the articles, should I assume this is the old 32-bit x86 or x86-64? Because the latter has been around for 11 years, which is a geological time in computing, and we should really move on. Of course for something really embedded you'd want an ARM or a microcontroller, so there would be little point in keeping the x86 32-bit.

FTFY.

Bitcoin is a technology that solves real-world problems, it's not some fancy collectible. If you don't care to find out and appreciate the tech, then what are you doing on Slashdot?

It depends on what you mean by altcoins. There are several newer cryptocurrencies with a fresh start, instead of cloning the Bitcoin codebase and changing a few parameters/algos, and these take the privacy aspect to a new level. I'm mostly familiar with Boolberry and Monero, both of which share a common Cryptonote ancestry.

However, Bitcoin's cash-like privacy is probably good enough for many people. You can trace the movements of cash via serial numbers, but this in itself is a fair amount of work, and you also need to figure out connections between the serial numbers and specific people. It's pretty much the same with Bitcoin, the hard work is in finding these connections, and if you use something like Tor, or otherwise know what you're doing, you can enjoy a cash-like privacy.

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, released over 5 years ago, and it provides roughly cash-like privacy if you know what you're doing. In the meantime, other cryptocurrency projects have developed the privacy aspect much further, for example Boolberry and Monero.

I was going to buy some of the pet rocks, but I heard the latency really sucks when using them for international money transfer, it was, like, way over 10 minutes to other continents. The privacy and fungibility aspects were also questionable. I wonder if they would be good for beating some clue into people who don't understand Bitcoin...

Good point -- it's been a while since I've had a puff of that, if you know what I mean...

Seriously, though, I'm picturing a scenario where you accidentally drop a CFL or LED. Besides the mercury vapour issue, it's also nice that one of these stays fully functional after a drop.

It's classical newspaper style to omit articles and capitalize words in headlines. Not exactly missing out [by accident].