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> in a few months time it might be too much of a risk to have an XP machine with internet access. It's been too much of a risk for several years now. If security is truly a deep co…

In order to avoid confusion, I feel it necessary to point out that it is "Joe Gratz, a San Francisco-based patent lawyer who is representing Twitter in a patent dispute" who said t…

My favorite part of the article: >From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-called Riemann sphere, which is where we take a space shuttle …

That's remarkably cheap.

>Mt. Gox login is back In other news: I have a bear trap that is back and ready for anyone to stick their hand in.

The Zimbabwean dollar analogy is appropriate. Throughout its wild swings and hyperinflation, it was backed by a government. Bitcoin is backed by nothing at all. One is a currency, …

Even if Gox didn't lose the money, or at least not as much as we're hearing, who's going to 'bank' with them now? Who would leave their money with someone who will, at any time, cu…

This article was an interesting read. It highlights a lot of the positives of American culture. Sometimes it's good to hear such things. Thank you, I needed that.

Sony also just recently had it featured as a free download for Playstation Plus members. /Sidenote On the PS3, it wasn't worth the bandwidth it took to download. The shoddy texture…

[insert pun exerting parallel between science and teenager on a date] Hay-o!

It saddens me that I feel like every interaction with Comcast is a "process" at best and an outer circle of hell on average.

I thought this was a fairly good explanation of Bitcoins broken down into simple terms so that non-technical people can easily grasp the concepts. The Hawala parallel only helps. T…

But Dogecoin is doing well.

LaTeX was built to typeset documents. You have pages in documents and pagination is of critical importance in LaTeX. In the web you don't have pages, it's evolved to be seamless an…

So they all own one now...?

I'm just not sure about the Oculus. People don't generally like having things strapped to their head (and especially their face) unless absolutely necessary i.e. glasses, goggles, …

Hrm.....I have to say that the technology is really cool, but the video makes it look like nothing more than a gimmick. Notice "makes it look". They picked a tower defense game to …

I know that I use python because of how easy it is to code. I can focus wholly, totally on the logic of my code without ever worrying about if I misplaced a semi-colon or left out …

That paper is about 10 years old, or at least the research is. The most current source cited is from 2003. I like to think we've made significant progress in a decade, but in reali…

This reminds me of the Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be…

>It is also the case that, being 'normal' takes a degree of energy and conscious thought that is instinctive for most, but to me is a significant expenditure of energy. I think it …

>The notion that nation-states are allowed to run rampage and be as anarchic as they please, internationally, is stupid. A world government sounds nice in theory (let's call it 'Th…