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Comment The Treasury (Score 1) 104

But this was about Roman coins with Caesar's likeness on them. I don't see a picture of Obama on the dollar bill.

The ministry of Jesus of Nazareth (29-33 CE) took place during the Tiberius administration (14-37 CE). I imagine that coins in circulation when Tiberius took office would have had a portrait of a past Roman head of state, such as Augustus Caesar. I'm no expert on the history of Roman coinage, and thus I don't know whether Rome recalled old coins after a new emperor took office or whether they were still usable after 20 years. But given the use of the generic "Caesar" rather than "Augustus" or "Tiberius", we can suppose for the moment that the portrait and the scripture refer to the office, not necessarily the person.

All current Federal Reserve Notes carry an engraving of a Founding Father or past President of the United States as well as the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury, who oversees the department that includes the Internal Revenue Service, who had been most recently appointed by the President at the time of printing. The office represented by the portrait of President George Washington is currently occupied by Washington's successor Barack Obama, and these two 1 USD notes in my wallet carry signatures of John W. Snow and Timothy F. Geithner. Together, they represent the U.S. Treasury, and thus a follower of Jesus ought to pay the Treasury's things to the Treasury.

Comment Crash of 1983 (Score 1) 249

There was less curation in the market back then, and by 1983, retail shelves were full of poorly balanced games. In addition, some distributors were doing sleazy business deals where they'd offer a money-back guarantee for returned games but then go bankrupt in order not to have to honor the contract. These led up to the North American video game recession of 1983-1984, which is why consoles to this day have lockout chips.

Comment Where should settings be stored? (Score 1) 517

No apps SHOULD NOT write to the registry ever with the exception of an installation.

Instead of the registry, where should an application write user preferences? I thought it was a requirement at one point that desktop applications with a Windows Logo certification shall save preferences to the registry instead of to INI, JSON, XML, or whatever files in %APPDATA%.

Comment evercookie (Score 1) 152

It would be trivial to write a script that just gave you a new MAC address every hour.

You'd also have to write scripts that clear out all the stored objects used by the evercookie library. Even if you abstain from Flash, Java, and Silverlight, there are plenty of persistence mechanisms in both HTTP itself and JavaScript.

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