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Comment: Re:Wrong. (Score 1) 345

by jibjibjib (#42280849) Attached to: Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist

RTFS. He's not claiming that there's an almost perfect spam filter being suppressed by a conspiracy.

He's making the very plausible claim that spam filters naturally err on the side of false positives, to the detriment of the users, because false positives are a less visible problem than false negatives.

Comment: Re:Nothing new here (Score 3, Interesting) 657

by jibjibjib (#42102769) Attached to: Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware

Yes, I'm serious. But if my comment is as moronic as you seem to think it is, maybe you can actually help me. I have a couple of computers here which came with OEM crapware Windows and no clean install media (only the option to create crapware recovery discs). How do I get a free, legal, clean Windows installation?

Comment: Re:Get a signature PC (Score 2, Insightful) 657

by jibjibjib (#42101875) Attached to: Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware

There is hardware and software which is supported on Windows but has less support, or lower performance, or doesn't work at all, on the other operating systems you mentioned.

This means that for some applications, Windows is superior. Even if Windows is crap, it's simply not true to claim that another OS is "far superior to Windows in every way".

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve 600

Posted by samzenpus
from the wage-reduction dept.
First time accepted submitter ASDFnz writes "The reward for successfully completing a block (also called mining) is about to halve from 50 bitcoins to 25. From the article: 'Bitcoin is built so that this reward is halved every 210,000 blocks solved. The idea is as bitcoin grows the transaction fees become the main part of the reward and the introduction of new bitcoins slows down to a trickle. This also means that there will only ever be 21,000,000 bitcoins in circulation.' You can watch the countdown here."

Comment: Re:Barcode reading website? (Score 4, Insightful) 157

by jibjibjib (#41825979) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game?

> What century is this?

It's the 21st century. You know, that century where not every Slashdot reader has a smartphone, and the majority of smartphones don't come with a built-in barcode reader, and reading barcodes is mostly pointless enough that the majority of users haven't installed a barcode reader.

Comment: What about the cost? (Score 0) 253

by jibjibjib (#41825949) Attached to: EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere

I live in one of those parts of the world where data transfer actually costs money. The last time I opened my wireless network, the neighbours pirated more stuff in a day than the amount of data I would transfer in a month.

The reality is that, no matter what nice happy communist policy you put on your open wireless network, people will abuse it to download large torrents, and you'll be the one paying for it.

Comment: Re:Powersuit's good, but why use humans in Fukushi (Score 1) 111

> radiation tends to play bloody havoc with radio signals

Could you provide more details about how that works? I'm surprised, because gamma radiation has a very different wavelength to radio signals, and alpha and beta particles are different things altogether.

Radio signals are used all the time in the relatively radiation-filled environment of outer space, too.

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