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Re:Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:46PM (#10189563)
this PDF: http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf ? http://ipfs.io appears to be under heavy load...
Re:Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:26PM (#10189504)
instead of calculating multiple hashes every time, might as well use a better hash?
Re:Philippines to Roll Out Nationwide Free Wi-Fi Service by 2016
on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:22PM (#10189494)
the US government should do that too... to make it easier to do mass surveillance without having to go through hoops ...
Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President
on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:42PM (#10189383)
he might even legalize drugs and end cartels (and end mass spying, of course)
Re:Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
on Saturday September 05, 2015 @12:22PM (#10175223)
one example that come to mind is Trayvon Martin's case [1] ... since he died, he could not say that the shooter was not acting in self defense... no jail time for the shooter.
Re:Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:11PM (#10173789)
it's the same in many states in the US... for example, if you are going to shoot someone, make sure that you kill them, if you don't want to go to jail...
Re:Really Random Number Generator
on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:25PM (#10172053)
the video output of a moving camera mounted on a quadcopter pointing at a crowd might also be a pretty good source for a random number generator
Re:AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is t...
on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:16PM (#10172016)
at the very least, you should double your latency... which is not good for 3dshooter games
Re:AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is t...
on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:12PM (#10171993)
I've seen Google do this a year or 2 ago... don't have the link handy though
Re:The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:01PM (#10171948)
completely agree
Re:Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @10:37PM (#10163105)
the scrolling works fine for me in Firefox 40.0.3 ... might be the extensions that I use that fixed it... NoScript, Adblock Plus or Privacy Badger
Re:The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @07:58PM (#10162679)
I agree that lottery is bad for society but the only reason that the government is doing it, I think, is because it was worst when organized crime had control over it.
But I do think that the government should reinvest all profits in education (not necessarily gambling related), gambling therapy, etc...
Re:Google PDF Search: “not for public release”
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @07:33PM (#10156527)
probably because ext is easier to use and Google will therefore probably discontinue it shortly...
Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App...
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @07:26PM (#10156501)
How many years did it take for Google to react to this?
Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social N...
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @07:15PM (#10156456)
if you plan to use this system instead of democracy, I think that it is very relevant...
Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social N...
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:17AM (#10151115)
Liquid democracy doesn't appear to protect against the "Tyranny of the majority" [1], just like direct democracy.
Re:Government officials in Amherst, VA can now require employers to fi...
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @01:43AM (#10150913)
If you look at it from that perspective, this idea appears to have been sponsored by for-profit prisons.
Re:The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam
on Saturday August 29, 2015 @07:41PM (#10141752)
Send me $10 and I promise that I'll send you back $20 shortly... I might change my mind and only send you back $5 but it's definitely not a scam because I sent something back
Re:Things mimicking other things
on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:33PM (#10120501)
it's almost as if it's a skill game that rewards you with information...