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Comment Re:surprised!!!! (Score 1) 704

I'm sorry, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but blaming the gov for this is just tin foil men on too much Jolt soda.

What are we looking at, a whopping half a million stolen in Flexcoin and what, 700k stolen in MtGox?

If a loss of less then 2 mil, or actually, whatever the total amount of bitcoins available is a threat to any government, that government is even flimsier than bitcoin is showing to be. Sorry . . . .

Comment Slashdot is of poor taste/gone to the trolls (Score 1) 111

A white hat does exactly what he is supposed to do (allegedly) and a company takes the proper route and doesnt sue him into oblivion, takes the proper steps to make a timely fix and gives him a reward. And yet everyone here swings and misses on the topic.

Congrats. This place is the officially one rung above 4chan.

Comment Re:Efficiency. (Score 1) 937

You missed the point of his post.

Not all cars, driver agnostic, can go the same speeds due to the mechanical condition of the car. Im not talking about a Ferrari versus a '83 Ford escort in terms of top speed, but stopping time of said car if all moving at the same speed. Or delving further, at speed X, are all cars capable of safely swerving out of the way or braking in time in case of an emergency? Older and lesser quality cars will differ. Or another metric is how tuned up is your car? Is it liable to breakdown mid transit? Regulating speeds of car goes way beyond the driver's wants, but the mechanical capabilities of each car.

Comment Re:So, can it play Crysis at full framerates, or.. (Score 1) 219

The application to normal laptops probably wasnt on their forefront rather than the ability to put stronger computer power in smaller (or new) places.

Which isnt to say its not translatable, but I immediately think of the applications in things such as medical devices, autos, and hand held devices that can better utilize this.

Comment Re:The curve must be monotonic. (Score 1) 109

Everything you exactly described is already what we have in our current working society. The problem is the human variable and the innate ability to abuse any given system.

People want to implement controls, restrictions, checks and balances on things such as Welfare, Medicaid, Food stamps. But there will never be 100% compliance. There are always diminishing returns on systems with such a varying variable as the human. Even a mathematical model without the human element has diminishing returns. There will always be pockets in society content with living in squalor on what welfare checks will provide, but dont let TV talking points fool you, these people are minute when compared to the total population. Few people want to live on bread crumbs and even fewer enjoy a life of nothingness, but those people will always be a part of our society.

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