He does have a point though, and I don't understand why people haven't seen it before.

If you create a currency that is backed by nothing but knowing a very large number, then you can back a infinitely large number of currencies by an infinitely large number of different large numbers (or even the same large numbers). That means that there are inherently infinitely many alt coins out there, and these things are inherently worthless.

It's not really that alt coins destroy bitcoin's credibility, it's that bitcoin itself has no credibility in the first place, and neither do these alt coins.

It works because slashdot recognised the URL, and automatically made it clickable, rather than because of any design. You need to use html to get it a link to work correctly.

No, not really. In the UK at least, a car that's done over 100,000 miles is considered basically worthless. They sell for £3-500 each, because their engine and transmission is likely to be on its last legs.

Not really, in fact, 125,000 miles is a pretty long way after you'd expect to see major issues with most of the seals on the engine, and quite possibly complete failure on some cars.

Why do people assume that any disease that they can't physically see the scars of isn't actually a disease at all?

And what should they do if they detect the driver leaves? All they're capable of is following a lane, speeding up, and slowing down. The only way to get the driver back in the seat would be to stop, but that would be extremely dangerous in the middle of a freeway.

milibit... damn you autocorrect.

a militia doesn't exist - but a milibit per second does. It's 1 bit transferred every 1000 seconds.

Right, which is why medical treatment in the UK is so much cheaper (yes, even after you take into account taxes), than in the US.

Actually, Curiosity's scheduled mission on Mars was for 668 mars days. It's been there for 724 mars days now.

Just because it hasn't (yet) vastly outlived it's scheduled mission, doesn't mean it's a failure.

Because evacuation doesn't involve carry on, or a dignified exit.

Solution - don't bring oversized bags on as carry on that can only go in overhead bins if no one else has put anything in there yet.

Yep, that's the one. I would give you internet points, but I've commented.

The point he was making wasn't that communism would create a post scarcity society. It was that communism as designed is only possible in a post scarcity society.

No one should ever be keeping your credit card number without your explicit permission.