Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Self Serving Story? (Score 1) 267

Crypto currencies are ponzi via their nature, the first ones are easy to generate and the starters generate huge numbers of them. The late ones are very hard to generate and the late comers desperate to see free money from their hardware investment are desperate to sell it to everyone else. As soon as the marketing collapses and the run out of people to sell the currency to, the market starts to collapse. The other selling point that it facilitates financial transaction to commit crimes and that is promoted, well, that will cause two problems. One governments will take a dim view of that scheme and two attracting organised crime is never a good idea for a currency that is only as secure as your password and your digits (toes and fingers).

Comment Re:It's not going to work (Score 1) 136

I also kill ad bureau cookies routinely for exactly that reason but hey if they behave themselves there is no problem don't and they have successfully achieved anti-marketing with my loathing of the product/company marketed, the site that hosted the ad and the add bureau that served the ad. Two out of the three immediately lose and the last one eventually loses over the long term.

Comment Re:Self Serving Story? (Score 3, Insightful) 267

One ponzi currency claiming the other ponzi currencies are bad for exactly the same reason the first currency is bad is really rather silly. If you want to play in the ponzi currency field, then go ahead but be warned it is legally and criminally dangerous and at least you are accurate in they "are all doomed".

Comment Re:Too much surplus (Score 1) 264

No you are most emphatically wrong. The police are required by law to use minimum force to undertake an arrest and that arrest leads to further interaction where the law is enforced. The police are not entitled to beat submission out of a person, the police are not entitled to physically punish a person, the police are not entitled to use force in any manner except as minimum force to undertake an arrest. All anti-protest activities are largely illegal and an abuse of constitutional rights, this abuse slides through because it is not challenged often enough in the courts and most often the abuse passes because the government is unwilling to prosecute it's own illegal actions. Forcing all prosecution of wrong doing to be pursed in civil court, so even though the government ends up repeatedly paying out millions upon millions of dollars, they government can still claim it's actions as legal because they were not prosecuted in a criminal court. This is a flagrant and public abuse of the law and shows the level of corruption within government and policing agencies and their willingness to blatantly lie and deceive the public in failing to criminally prosecute individuals where the civil court by making a payout has providing a proof of wrong doing and the need to pursue criminal prosecution. You are horribly wrong and likely should have faced prosecution upon many instances.

Comment Re:serious confusion by the author (Score 1) 235

One thing email does require is 'legal' encryption much the same as the paper envelope that contains snail mail. Nothing really secure but something that most certainly requires end user effort to enable decryption and implies breaking of the law if the decrypt mail that was not meant for them. No more google bullshit about email being postcards.

Comment Re:Well duh (Score 1) 457

You can never be anyone or anything you like that is a lie. The internet fully demonstrates that lie, you can never apply the imagination or intellect you lack, those you are largely born with, hence as broadband reaches those who initially showed no interest the unimaginative Luddites so their unimaginative contributions become apparent on the internet. So broadband broadly speaking was initially largely the place of the >100IQ (likely more like >110 IQ) crowd and now more numbers of the 100IQ crowd are participating and so there is a huge drop in the quality of communications and if they can not compete intellectually or imaginatively then they troll. Never forget 100 IQ is the average so at least fifty percent of the population is below that (actually 98 for the US).

Comment Re:It's not going to work (Score 1) 136

Well, that's no problems as it makes is a mutual repulsion society. That form of advertising earned Washington post a complete script and cookie block https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... from me, and if the page shows up blank from now on that's no problem for me. Now if script blocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... would only add notes that show up for a blocked script so you can remember why you blocked it. I also target advertising companies that are complicit in marketing stupidity and kill their scripts from there on in.

If you adds are not offensive, or false, or too in your face, or bloody quite you survive, I don't mind however in you break those rules I will break your site by killing your scripts and cookies, NO COOKIES FOR YOU or for those who assist you in your malignant advertising.

Comment Re:Erm, not so much. (Score 1) 142

The problem with current reactor design is it is all based about getting huge amounts of power out in a short time, resulting in very high complexity and refuelling complications. This instead of pulsing the reaction and working to trickle the power out over the long term and avoiding refuelling and simplifying the design, many low output reactors rather than a few high output reactors.

Comment Re:Absurd assertion, you've never lived with humid (Score 1) 214

No way 85 is lovely weather even with humidity, still goof for a stroll, now when it cracks 110, that's hot. You can even tell whether or not it is humid at 110, a cold drink of what ever description is delightful and a short stroll at that temperature really does make you appreciate of air conditioning. Of course when it comes to grocery shopping and walk ability you have completely the wrong idea, no weekly shopping trip, instead daily shopping trips, buying today what you will be cooking and eating today and tomorrow and regularly replacing what you have run out of. In fact near enough and far enough become desirable, near enough to walk, far enough to achieve exercise (that is subject to dwelling style house versus apartment).

Comment Re:Too much surplus (Score 4, Insightful) 264

There is your biggest problem right there, "LAW ENFORCEMENT". You keep letting that term slide through and your problems will only continue to get worse. They are not law enforcement, their duty is not to force the law, they are not the courts, the place where judge and jury enforce the law upon those that they have proven to have broken it. Police Officer are there to assist the public in upholding the law. When a police officer 'believes' a member of the public has broken the law, they arrest them and arraign them for trial. Where the claim is substantiated and the court enforces the law and applies a penalty.

What you have now is something wildly out of control, where Law Enforcement officers enforce contempt of cop laws by brutalising them or publicly executing them on the spot. What change then start by publicly banning and legislating against the term 'Law Enforcement' because that term direct implies the role of police, judge, jury, execution and is in fact contrary to constitutional laws and is a gross and huge over reach.

Comment Re:Monorail (Score 1) 79

It is not just about work, it is about work, live and play. Creating a community where every service required is in pedestrian access. Where everything required can be delivered by push cart. Where you can walk to go out, to work, to hospital, to the theatre, to a restaurant, to all required government services. Your work office could be within your apartment but some duties but people will still want to get out and about and interact with other people.

Comment Re:Should we really be worried? (Score 1) 194

The more you automate the system, the more you rely on digital technology, the more vulnerable you become. That extreme vulnerability is not to viruses or hacking or anything so complicated. The extreme vulnerability is to something as simple as electromagnetic pulses. Think about it, setting them off, not only disrupts everything about you but is also shuts down all pursuit of you. They can no longer respond, can no longer coordinate, can not longer pursue and in fact they are their stuck waiting, twiddling their thumbs, totally dependent on their devices, idle until repairs are made. Now of course hook one diesel generator that pauses generating between pulses and you could create an exclusion to electronic devices zone until it is manual found and shut down, the more powerful the device the harder to find.

Comment Re:And what they did not publish (Score 1) 227

Unequally distributed in different races is a fallacy. The correct statement is that Intelligence is unequally distributed in different societies. Obviously societies which promote and support intellectual pursuits and research will score higher intellectually then societies that promote and support jock strap douche bags chasing their balls and their bouncing bobbies cheer leaders.

Comment Re:Where do I sign up? (Score 1) 327

Here is what really happened. Instruction come down from the highest level political appointee to basically approve everything unless it has already been patented. This instruction was lobbied for by patent lawyers to ensure the generation of many, many, patent trials. Now the examiners when given this instruction simply complied and as the felt the process how already been corrupted, decided to align with that corruption and allocate the same amount of time to a partial patent check, just to see if some idea has been patented yet to a full and proper check, see if the idea is already being applied publicly, check to make sure it is actually new and novel etc.. So the patent clerks became as corrupt as the US patent process, basically patent everything and let US lawyers sort it out in US courts. So rounded corners it is and I bet that patent clerk spent days checking for the newness and novelty of rounded corners uh huh.

Slashdot Top Deals

Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Working...