kuiken - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Well the ultimate value of Bitcoin is (Score 2) 605

by kuiken on Thursday April 11, 2013 @03:06AM (#43420075) Attached to: BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS

To be honest, people can argue till their face is blue if Bitcoin has an intrinsic value or not it all boils down to this :
Anything is worth as much as somebody is willing to pay for it at the moment in time you want to sell. All the rest comes out of the rear end of a bull.
Yesterday people made some nice money speculating on bitcoins (including me).

They peaked at 200 Euro's so i thing this might not only had have something to do with the DDOS but also the psychological barrier, I had an order in to sell everything at 199 Euros/BTC and used half of that money to buy at 100Euros/BTC.

Clearly for someone bitcoins had a real value yesterday

I have been to auctions and seen things sell at triple and more of their valuation, and I have seen things sold at 10% of their valuation.

Comment: Green ? (Score 1) 312

by kuiken on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @11:05AM (#43292147) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives?

Using more CPU = using more power
So this is not really green

Comment: Re:Cars produce more (Score 2) 976

by kuiken on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:36AM (#43067333) Attached to: State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2

you got it all wrong : soylent green

Comment: Is charity an option (Score 1) 356

by kuiken on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:57AM (#42934693) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need?

Why not contact some (local) charity's and see what you can do for them?
You get your project, you help a good cause and it looks good on your resume.

Comment: RPN (Score 1) 170

by kuiken on Friday November 30, 2012 @06:59AM (#42140037) Attached to: In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad

Do these support RPN, I am still using my old HP 32SII and while I have been looking for an upgrade no RPN is a deal breaker.
I just can not get used anymore to a 'normal' calculator

Comment: Re:Slackware on floppies (Score 1) 867

by kuiken on Thursday September 27, 2012 @03:31AM (#41474979) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order?

First there was slackware
Then I used SuSE for home useage and at work we used redhat.
I switched to freeBSD/openBSD for a while at home
then I used mainly LFS en aLFS but found it a bit to labour intensive so i switched to gentoo and centOs

Comment: Re:And this is different...??? (Score 1) 285

by kuiken on Thursday July 19, 2012 @10:46AM (#40698561) Attached to: JavaScript For the Rest of Us

Not to mention that you'll have to learn English to use any library or are they going to translate all those as well.

As a non-native English speaker that has had the torture of seeing dutch and french VB/excel I can only hope that this never takes off.
Even localized EDI's are a silly idea.

If you want to learn to program learn English, you can do both at the same time and have access to so much more information.

Comment: Re:YAY the cracked the passwords (Score 1) 198

by kuiken on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:39AM (#40283369) Attached to: Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords

Except the guy who released the hashes most probably does have the usernames as well.

+ - E.U. Proposal: Give Farming Funds to Science-> 0

Submitted by smitty777 on Thursday July 07, 2011 @08:25AM

smitty777 writes "There is a proposal in the EU budget which would provide a 45% increase in technology and innovation spending for the 2014-2020 time period. Interestingly,some of the increase from $79 B to $114B would come from the controversial farm subsides program, the Common Agricultural Policy. The article states that the proposal will focus on "excellence in science, meeting 'grand challenges' such as food security, and improving competitiveness.", with a special focus on "healthy aging". While some scientists and observers feel optimistic that the proposal will pass, one stated that "it is extremely unlikely that the member states will agree to anything exceeding this, so we should regard it as a ceiling" on the eventual research budget."
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+ - Virtual Schengen Border - Great Firewall of Europe-> 0

Submitted by

webhat

on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:17AM

webhat writes "During a meeting in February 2011 of the Council of the European Union's Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP), a forum for cooperation on issues such as counter terrorism, customs and fraud, a disturbing proposal was tabled to create a "Great Firewall of Europe" by blocking "illicit" web material at the borders of the bloc with the intention to "to propose concrete measures towards creating a single secure European cyberspace.""
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Comment: Re:The solution is simple: (Score 1) 185

by kuiken on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @10:58AM (#36093948) Attached to: Ugly Truth of Space Junk

Space sharks with lasers. Duh.

On a serious note, if I was Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic, I'd start looking at clean-up contracts. While ground-based lasers may lose too much energy trying to make it out of the atmosphere, an airborne system might have a bit more punch....

Forget the sharks, Nuke 'em from orbit !