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moheeb··on Show HN: A Marketing Bot That Sells OpenStack Cloud Instances for Bitcoin
If the "DAC"'s wallet ever got stolen a DOS of epic proportions could take place! You could literally bankrupt the company by buying up their services with their own money.

Using a file hosting DAC as an example - if you kept uploading junk data the DAC would continue to procure server space using the stolen money from its own account. Seems an ideal way to rid yourself of competitors.

moheeb··on How to prevent screenshots in a web browser
The previous poster is talking about personal DRM. You keep misunderstanding what they are saying.

In the personal DRM case it would not be invading "your private digital space", you would be using it to protect your digital space.

It is not like "a police camera placed inside your house." It is the equivalent of the homeowner placing a security camera themselves to protect their property.

moheeb··on How to prevent screenshots in a web browser
"It's evil because it's using police state methodology of treating everyone as potential criminal and employing presumption of guilt"

Isn't that what you're doing when you lock your doors though?

moheeb··on Amazon Zocalo
Yes. Quicktime back then was like having AIDS; you didn't want your friends to find out it was on your box.
moheeb··on Looks by Dr. Dre
You are mixing up the definitions of "premium"; it doesn't have to be about price.

People often pay a premium for something that is not worth the extra money...that is the definition of Beats headphones.

The other definition of premium is analogous to high end. That is the opposite of Beats headphones.

moheeb··on Looks by Dr. Dre
"Next time you roll into a Best Buy, compare the 'shinyness' and 'smoothness' of Beats to any other product"

Yeah...just don't compare the sound.

moheeb··on A Laser Message from Space
My guess is that those lines didn't remind the author of lasers in space.
moheeb··on Becoming Sweetie, The Computer-Generated Girl Who Took On Child Predators
So how do they prove how old the virtual child is?
moheeb··on U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests
I'd like to see a comparison of # of days of sunshine per year vs. test scores. Or perhaps average monthly temperature vs. test scores.

I'm thinking not having anything better to do in the winter might have an effect on scores.

moheeb··on How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux
That is how the internet is supposed to work.
moheeb··on Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project
I'll give this idea away for free...

Bitcoin Lottery. You buy fortune cookies.

moheeb··on Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer
Actually the American Dream includes folks that don't need to "come to America"...i.e. Americans.
moheeb··on Facebook acquires Oculus VR
I can control my Xbox from my Windows PC.
moheeb··on New Linux version will reduce suspend and resume times
Because they invented suspend.
moheeb··on Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected
Eventually somebody gets tired of drawing new borders on maps.
moheeb··on Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity
To me it seems he has basically ranked Larry Page > Elon Musk (or he'd have given the money away already) and Elon Musk > Bill Gates.

I don't agree, but it is his money.

moheeb··on Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected
Istanbul is a city. The 'states' is a country.
moheeb··on The Newsweek Credibility Matrix
Kind of like a tire on ice, huh?
moheeb··on Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
People have been using similar technology to stream football games, which are as 'Prime Time' as things get. I don't see an issue.
moheeb··on Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s
I think it deserves a little more explanation

That is probably why they included the hyperlink.

moheeb··on Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better"
They do do this automatically. You may have been using the wrong type of headphones.

http://www.headphone.com/headphones/in-ear.php?sort=value&di...

moheeb··on How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help
No...more like "leave when the cops show up". What is some drunk yahoo gonna do to help after the call has been made?

I'm sure the cops have all kinds of anecdotes about how helpful the drunks loitering around a scene at 1AM are!

moheeb··on Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen
It is not impossible. Some guy grows weed in his spare room and sells to his friend. No victim there.
moheeb··on Once the full stop meant a sentence was over – now it means you're angry
Right! I think in the future certain folks will be speaking pidgin txt while the rest of us that can afford the nicer phones or keyboards will use real words.
moheeb··on An insider’s story of the global attack on climate science
""crap"" is pretty civil. I pick up my dog's every day just to keep our neighborhood civil.
moheeb··on Coding tip: Leave your code in a broken state
Seems like an improvement to me! And I'm the one doing it, so I'd know.

And for your information...I do have a test, but it doesn't fail, it returns positive. I search for "NotImplementedException()".

moheeb··on What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Café
I've noticed the local news stations have all moved their anchor contact methods to Twitter. So it is not far behind.

A sure sign Twitter's death spiral has begun?

moheeb··on Coding tip: Leave your code in a broken state
In my C# code I like to leave a "throw new NotImplementedException();" behind if I can't finish something. I'm with some of the other posters though in that I like to leave stuff working at the end of the day.
moheeb··on Is Your Product A Vitamin Or A Painkiller?
This article was a waste of electrons.

"Vitamins are "nice to have," but not "need to have." " I'd like for the author to go for several months without Vitamin C.

moheeb··on Readers' tales of extreme commuting
Your link doesn't mention the resources used in the production of either a bike or a car.
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