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  1. Re:In Solar System?! Oh no... on NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Thank you.

    Our star is Sol. Our star system is the Solar System.

  2. Re:About bloody time on Amazon Will Resume Selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the reason is malice, not incompetence.

  3. Re:These are the companies that have the gall on Fortinet VPN Client Exposes VPN Creds; Palo Alto Firewalls Allow Remote Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    $80,000? We just dropped $17 million on a device and service contract (for 3 years?)...

  4. Re:California the most racist state in all of Amer on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone using words you don't like doesn't make their opinion or argument incorrect.

  5. Re:Watch out for this one on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the media blitz that was absolutely the case. In the actual movie, I don't recall too much being made of Rey's gender.

    The main issue with her character within the movie was the fact that she was some bum who became aware of her powers and did impossible shit in the span of about 14 seconds.

  6. Re: Meh on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Aliens is worse than Alien. It's a dumb action movie.

    Terminator 2 is a better example. Even though it's more of an action movie, and it's got some dumb cheesy moments with the stupid kid, I'd say it's a better movie than the first overall.

  7. Re: More franchise bullshit. on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you just assume AC's gender?

  8. Nope. Not the case at all.

  9. Ventura on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The big fire is in Ventura County, not Los Angeles and not Los Angeles County. There are other fires in Los Angeles County, but the biggin is north west of LA County.

    Next you'll tell me JPL is in Pasadena or that the Statue of Liberty is in New York. (And then you'll fucking redraw the map to make it so.)

  10. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    True.

    As we're seeing with Bitcoin, the "inefficiency" has done absolutely nothing to affect its value.
    Further, Bitcoin is very divisible (and can be made more divisible if needed in the future). Bitcoin is a commodity (there is a fixed amount, approximately 21 million), and in practice deflationary (coins are lost over time).

    The only people who complain that Bitcoin is inefficient are the speculators who want to run millions of transactions for high frequency trading. By design, Bitcoin if pegged to mine a block every 10 minutes on average. This is important because it ensures that the whole world can sync the block chain and wait for verifications. If you want to cram your transactions into these blocks and get them processed ASAP you'll pay a fee to the miners doing the work.

    The difficulty of Bitcoin scales automatically to keep the 10 minute (average) time fixed. In effect, this means that Bitcoin will always be as "efficient" or "inefficient" as it needs to be to keep the 10 minute (average) block time. And that is driven by the hashing power of the network, whish is driven directly by the incentive miners have to mine. When we hit 21 million BTC, that incentive will come entirely from the transaction fees.

    Thus Bitcoin's fees and efficiency are determined automatically, dynamically, and directly by its users and miners. Just like other currencies, but without manipulation by governments, central banks, etc.

  11. Re:Let me be the first but not the last to say... on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't put cash in a bank. You give cash to a bank and they issue you an increment on your account balance.
    If you put cash in a safety deposit box like in the movies to hide it for when you need to bug out / go on an international crime spree, you're a fucking retard.

  12. Re:Let me be the first but not the last to say... on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Learn what? Not to trust others with your Bitcoin? That's been the #1 rule since day 1. Treat Bitcoin like cash.
    Putting any appreciable amount in an online wallet or exchange is just asking for it to be taken.

  13. Re:Inside job on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Guaranteed inside job.

  14. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    The "proof of work" concept is a fundamentally bad idea. A basic requirement of a currency is that it is efficient. A transaction should require as little overhead as possible.

    Currency has no need to be "efficient". Bitcoin transactions have far less overhead than conventional currency transactions.
    "Proof of work" is the onlyw ay to keep miners mining (and the blockchain running and decentralized). Ethereum's push to switch to "proof of stake" will kill it in the long run. It's effectively rent seeking.

  15. Start league in California or another state that has (correctly) ruled that non compete agreements are illegal.

  16. "Legally", no. Factually, yes. You can't broadcast something and expect to control it.

  17. Re:Free TV on Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the fact remains, "Any reproduction of this broadcast in whole or in part without the expressed written consent of the NFL is strictly prohibited". So no, you shouldn't be able to stream it in that way.

    If it's an actual broadcast, they lose all expectation to stop distribution once they put it out there. It's the equivalent of shouting from a mountain top (and in many cases it is literally that) and expecting all those who hear you to not repeat what you said. Even if copyright law is on their side, common sense says "fuck you".

  18. This is good, because I don't plan on watching it.

    Everything JayJay touches is shit. Everything Quentin touches is over the top and ridiculous not for any point, not for any stylistic effect, and not even for the sake of being over the top or gratuitous, but simply so you will know Quentin is behind it.

  19. Re:Brain scan? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They absofuckinglutely are. See Bengie's post above.

    These are the people driving the western world into idiocy.

  20. Re:Brain scan? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    No you can't. You're just remembering similar things (or things you associate with the thing you're experiencing, regardless of similarity). Or you're bullshitting.

    Millennials have been told their entire lives that their special and unique, so they seek to validate those beliefs by jumping at the chance to be weird. Likely because so few can actually achieve anything of significance on their own to get the attention they crave. This isn't a judgment, it's just the truth of the 99.99% who aren't celebrities, pro athletes, etc., and a result of an increasingly "social" and shallow culture.

    So many kids today get into masturbatory fights over who is the most special snowflake. You yearn for shit like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, OCD, autism, synesthesia, Tourette’s, self-diagnosed Asperger's, and whatever other mental quirks you think would qualify you as being unique (as long as there's no actual significant stigma attached) despite the fact that the vast majority of you are imagining that shit (or making it up).

    You absolutely do not visualize 10-dimensional shapes, nor do you hear or feel "packet micro-bursts and other packet stream interactions". You should have stopped after the first 3, because those are somewhat plausible / sensical.

    (Are you going to come back and tell me how your brain just works in a weird way and it's hard for others to understand?)

  21. Re:Two Network Neutrality supporters? on Google Is Pulling YouTube Off the Fire TV and Echo Show as Feud With Amazon Grows (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    They are not a telecom providing access to the internet, but they provide major services on the internet and sell devices with which to access services (theirs and others). This would be like ATT refusing to connect your calls if you're using a Verizon/Sprint/MCI/whatever phone line.

  22. Re:"Disabled", not disabled. on Dell Begins Offering Laptops With Intel's 'Management Engine' Disabled (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck you, shill. Physically present is physically enabled.

  23. Re:"Disabled", not disabled. on Dell Begins Offering Laptops With Intel's 'Management Engine' Disabled (liliputing.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it won't be disabled. It'll just be hidden, as usual. It'll still be in the silicon and they'll still be able to reenable it at will.
    I've also never seen it used. For servers, OEMs add in their own controller chip to implement IPMI and their custom shit, and that's all you need. Dell's DRAC/iDRAC, HP's iLO, etc. They don't live in the CPU have ring negative 9999 access, and you can turn them off!

  24. Re:bottleneck vunerability? on Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If you trust the bank's published public key, then you're not getting anything beyond the current method of trusting their SSL cert.
    Having a one time challenge presented is pointless within the context of an SSL-encrypted session.

    There's simply no benefit to such a scheme over creating a username and password for each site and using a password manager.

    The most impact you could have is the authenticating system's database not having to keep a copy of your hashed password for someone to eventually steal and try to crack. But the core problem there is someone using shitty passwords (and sites not using salts or key stretching), which is fixed by using a password manager.

  25. Re: So 2 factor authentication? on Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's 1 factor. It relies on 1 thing you know (your private key) presented over a single channel (the internet).