Comment Double idiots (Score 1) 836
100,000 BTC is a big portion of the market available. I bet if they bought it all the price would skyrocket.
Comment Re:Seizure without cause (Score 4, Insightful) 152
What remediation will happen? None. The government has sovereign immunity except under special cases. This would not qualify as you would have to prove they not only did not have a case but could never have reasonably thought they could ever have had a case. That isn't going to happen.
Comment Re:The chocolate game (Score 1) 327
Brilliant - I think this should be part of classroom instruction. It's the only way to get through to people sometimes.
Comment Wrong strategy (Score 1) 120
Except of course that for an attack only one attempt ever need work properly to get the information desired. For a development project the whole thing better work and somebody should even be able to maintain it after whoever slapped the thing together has moved on to ruining something else.
Comment Sure (Score 5, Insightful) 550
What we need is more and richer lawyers and frightened software developers with malpractice costs bigger than doctors. Perhaps we can eventually make sure all code is only developed by giant corporations made up primarily of legal defense teams dedicated to patent exploitation and liability control with tiny development arms tagged on the end.
Comment Wake up CEO (Score 5, Insightful) 615
Perhaps this guy should take a look at how his employees view his company: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Opsware-Reviews-E11055.htm
Doesn't look like those 1:1 meetings are really paying off in "that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life."
Comment Re:What is the point roxy (Score 1) 312
Don't bother. Kickstarter will pull it before you can even boast about it. Do you think they are going to let that gravy train mess with the law one bit?
Comment Re:Not really surprising. (Score 3, Informative) 473
I finally got HoMM VI despite DRM reservations on extreme sale and I have to say it wasn't worth it even for 90% off. They stripped all the strategy from the game and left it an empty advertising husk. Don't bother.
Submission + - Searches for "Adobe Flash" and "crash" up over 250% since release of 11.3 (google.com)
BigSlowTarget writes: Despite claims of stability, many have been having issues with Adobe's recent release of Flash. How many? It's hard to know for sure but here's an indication — since 11.3's late May release Google searches involving "Adobe Flash" and "crash" are up to record levels.
Submission + - Can a regular person repair a damaged hard drive? (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "There's a lot of FUD when it comes to self-repairing a broken hard drive. Does sticking it in the freezer help? The oven? Hitting it with a hammer? Does replacing the PCB actually work? Can you take the platters out and put them in another drive? And failing all that, if you have to send the dead drive off to a professional data recovery company, how much does it cost — and what's their chance of success, anyway? They're notoriously bad at obfuscating their prices, until you contact them directly. Joel Hruska — who recently had an important drive die (without any up-to-date backups!) — tries to answer these questions and strip away the FUD over at ExtremeTech."
Submission + - Average office workers burn as much energy as hunter-gatherers (www.nhs.uk)
gezb writes: The BBC is reporting the findings of an anthropological study published in PloS that found, contrary to received wisdom, members of a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer tribe, burned off the same amount of energy in a day as a typical Western. This lead to some excitable headlines in some UK tabloids, such as ‘ Good news for couch potatoes.
However, the always excellent Behind the Headlines have done a takedown of the story and found that burning energy won’t automatically make you fit."
Other relevant links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18985141
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0040503
However, the always excellent Behind the Headlines have done a takedown of the story and found that burning energy won’t automatically make you fit."
Other relevant links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18985141
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0040503
Comment Next up (Score 1) 96
Tor: now featuring exit nodes that wrap advertising around your browsing.
Comment Re:How about no? (Score 1) 183
All this talk about 'cyberwar' and what do they suggest? The cyber-warfare equivalent of putting air defenses in a hospital near the front. Even with proper SLAs, you paint a giant target on everyone around you.
What can we expect? Probably demanding that the hospital be armored and sealed up which will drive up costs for everyone without accomplishing what they intend.
Comment Re:It's not your speech (Score 1) 430
The lawsuits would be glorious to behold. Everyone sue Verizon for anything online.
Comment Dallas Makerspace (Score 1) 83
Dallas Makerspace has a laser cutter on site. It is almost certainly the most popular tool (outside of the internet connection which is terrible and will be until they put up the tower). Pretty easy to use too though using it does require a class.
