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So it's not exactly as secure as people think. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/australian-cops-tout-arrest-of-man-for-bitcoin-drug-deal/ Two Australian law enforcement agencies are crowing about their arrest of a man who attempted to import illicit drugs into Australia using the online d...

Take the website off the internet? Improbable, since it's hiding behind TOR. (At least not without:) Following the money trail to (most of) everyone who makes money on that site, including the owner? Hard but achievable. BitCoin is not a secure (as in anonymous) form of payment. Every transaction is...

An even better argument for voting for "outsiders" than that it doesn't matter that much is that it DOES matter. By voting for what you believe in, instead of what you think will win the election, you force politicions to gravitate to your point of view. (Well, depending on how many people...

A number of supercomputers used by universities and even for US military research projects were already built using hundreds of Playstation consoles wired in parallel. Pretty serious boost to science coming from that. Course Sony basically killed that off by killing linux support. The same was done...

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PeZook wrote:We had a similar problem at the Euro.

Empty seat is always a problem these events have, due to tickets being reserved for sponsors and officials. It shouldn't shock anybody.

Yeah, there is no shortage of traps that either kill the mice or catch it unharmed. He doens't get any advantage by being randomly cruel.

Why is there an aweful lot of straw lying around all of a sudden?

tim31 wrote:You're talking about scaling for fairness, right?

No. I am talking about there even being a reason for different weapons. I have brought up the point, that nothing in the game matters all that much, before. This change might make you think about what weapon you take with you.

So?

It can also just be an advertisement of capability from the same nation states that did the last rounds. Saying "nope, your security still sucks." But that would be INCREDIBLY, RIDICULOUSLY, ENORMOUSLY idiotic. These operations take years to pull of with teams of dozens or hundreds of ski...

The problem with that is twofold: a) you can't proof that it was you (it's actually very propable that nobody outside Iran will ever know) and b) you wouldn't need to pull such a stupid stunt in the first place.

Simon, you are still missing the point completely. This thread is not about willfully torturing someone, which *cough* is still not ok, either. *cough* This is not about keeping someone alive who would want to die. This is (at least by the way the OP phrased it) about whether a society should decide...

Ghetto edit: Is it your place to decide whether or not that person would rather be dead? No, it isn't. Especially so, since death is very final, while people can be released from prison. Civilized states don't kill people, unless they really really have to in order to save others. I wasn't suggestin...

Soontir C'boath wrote:

Skgoa wrote:You still haven't made your point clear.

Example: Is the United States not a civilized state since there are states (ie. Texas) that still carry out executions?

*points to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib*
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It's still hilariously idiotic to believe that someone would waste a working virus (and thus the vulnerabilities) to pull a childish prank. The only way I could rationalize this is to assume that it was some prfoessional malware agent/firm, who wanted to prove his/their abilities. Though that doesn'...

I like that, the most common rifles used to be just as good as the rarest ones.

As for Skgoa's statements about civilized states not killing people, that would imply civilization was not invented until the late 19th century, and that the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg were run by a bunch of barbarians. Why the late 19th century? What happened in the late 19th cen...

I don't have an english language source but I just read that the government sees this as proof for the original law being sound and remaining in effect.

Is it your place to decide whether or not that person would rather be dead? No, it isn't. Especially so, since death is very final, while people can be released from prison. Civilized states don't kill people, unless they really really have to in order to save others.

So yesterday the federal constitutional court ruled that the new electoral law is just as unconstitutional as the old one. The wording of the ruling made it quite clear that they weren't happy with the government, which is why no transitional period was granted. Last time around (when our old electo...

Um, actually: nope, you are wrong. The reason numbers, camelcase and symbols are used in passwords is to increase the search space. While it is optimal for a single person to use a passphrase right now, it would drastically reduce the number of necessary tries, were it ever common practice. That's w...

Man, DON'T go into towns. Sneak into barns and deer stands at first.