Now that I know this from reading TFA, the next time I find myself in the position of kidnapping someone for their Bitcoin, the first thing I'm gonna do is knock their teeth out with a pipe wrench.

Thanks, Slashdot. You've made my career of being a terrible person that much easier. :)

At that time, Vegas was a place where millions of suckers flew in every year on their own nickel and left behind about a billion dollars. But at night, you couldn't see
the desert that surrounds Las Vegas. But it's in the desert where lots of the town's problems are solved.

Got a lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. Except you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half hour or 45 minutes of diggin'. And who knows who's gonna be comin' along in that time? Before you know it, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fkn night.

That's racist too. Do better than that.

Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article "a" dildo, never . . . "your" dildo.

Found the Microsoft Surface user. :)

How private is any of this, though? Not too long ago, anyone could have my name and address by simply opening a phone book.

I'm going to do a research project and get it published in Nature, and include a hash of the banned image in the metadata.

No. The people who imprisoned the embryos in the freezer without adequate fail-safes in case of a foreseeable power outage are.

He made you and me. He rules us, and no amount of priest-strangling or prince-eviscerating will change that.

Na.

> "The company is now advising customers . . . never share their credentials with third-party platforms"

What, like Google Passwords or LastPass? No way am I remembering unique and totally-not reused passwords for thousands of websites without some sort of assistance.

So then what happens when a member of San Francisco's beloved homeless drug addict community pees on the windshield?

If you owe $6.7 million dollars, the banker has you by the throat.

If you owe $670 million dollars, you have the banker by the throat.

I do not predict this ending well for Voyager Digital.

Which leads to the classical Irishman's dilemma. Do I eat the potato now, or let it ferment it so I can drink it later?