thanks to Microsoft's open-source Kinect platform for Windows

This was done using https://code.google.com/p/simple-kinect-touch/ not the microsoft SDK.

Anybody who actually knows Amir would find that hilarious.

He isn't in this for the money, he has given away all of his bitcoins (and I mean ALL).

You're talking about a country that has to import refined oil because they lack the technical ability to refine crude oil.

There is no way in hell they're going to clone a stealth drone.

This would effectively make unions the only options for such workers.

Fucking scam artists.

eGold failed because they were engaged in fraud and straight up money laundering

I can get dedicated 100mbit server with unlimited bandwidth for around 60-70 dollars a month

No actually you cant.

The reason the federal student loan program exists is because it ISN'T profitable to make that loan. Most kids are going to default, and the banks will be left holding the bag.

you can default on student loans, but you can never be absolved of them.

The only risk in making a student loan is that the beneficiary dies before they can pay it back, which is generally speaking a sound bet.

The movie played at various film festivals and was released in italy, then they soft launched in the US. At this point there was huge demand to watch the movie but absolutely no legal way for 99% of the people to watch it.

I would guess that it's probably one of the most pirated movies of all time.

They actually made an excellent movie.

However it was not available for purchase for 99% of the people who wanted to watch it, so people pirated it.

Shocking right?

The questions they ask and the available answers are fucking bullshit.

When you think about America’s energy needs, which of the following solutions come closest to your opinion?

• Strong investment in renewable energy like wind and solar
• More drilling than investment in renewables (mix of both solutions)
• More investment in renewable than drilling (mix of both solutions)
• Strong focus on offshore drilling and allowing drilling in federal lands including wildlife reserves
• Unsure

That is highly inaccurate, the price has dropped by order of magnitude more in the past relative to it's price at the time.

The cause of this is actually extremely simple, dwolla withdrawals from mtgox were down on mtgox for a few days, so nobody had any reason to sell BTC.

As soon as it came back up the volume of asks exploded.