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Comment #886593
The USA has been able to get away with printing dollars because it sold things people wanted (an had to pay for in $) - the article alleges that this is no longer true.
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Comment #886510
>done just as nice with a properly named function call. So instead of view = projection * model; you would prefer. view.SetVector(Multiply3x3matrixWith3x1Vector(projection.GetMatri…
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Comment #886494
Except that if oil is priced in dollars and you have a dollar printing factory then oil is effectively free to you. If my ISP accepted pictures of my cat rather than insisting on p…
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Comment #885469
Most corporate laptops support it, IBM/Leonova do. The problem is how do you know there isn't a master password (for AMI's bios it used to be "AMIBIOS") how do you know their encry…
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Comment #885380
http://xkcd.com/538/
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Comment #885375
Even easier to get around. Truecrypt uses your passphrase to decrypt the key which is then used to decrypt the disk. With a ID tag it would just match the tag generated number with…
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Comment #885297
So if my car is stolen and used in a terrorist bombing I'm also liable?
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Comment #885280
Some more examples: John Collins, 57, who runs a software company from a room at his home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, received letters saying he needed a licence for the …
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Comment #884514
Austria is in the EU, would you trust Jörg Haider with your gay rights mailing list?
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Comment #884489
They won with musical instrument shops that do have to pay a public performance license in case a customer plays a known tune while testing a new instrument
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Comment #884402
A couple of problems: Iceland is small so although it has an image as a cool sensible safe Scandinavian country it wouldn't take many voters to put in a far right/far left presiden…