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  1. Re:That's a big gap in time on Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 (servethehome.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft didn't remove telnet, they just made it optional.

    Which makes it completely useless for remote TCP troubleshooting - which is all I ever really used it for. If some random computer is going to have to load the Add/Remove Windows Components screen and take upwards of 5 minutes, it's no longer the quick and dirty tool it once was.

  2. Re:Bad Title on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty obscure nerdy reference - I get why the mainstream didn't pick up on it, but I did - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:Is 'Halt and catch fire' about US auto industry on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If you've been around tech long, you may have heard the phrase.

  4. Re:The show never cracked a million live viewers on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah - literally started HCF this week. Now that all four seasons are on Netflix.

  5. Re:The IT crowds on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Two failed pilots. Joel McHale was a TERRIBLE choice for Roy.

  6. Re:HCF was not about working in tech on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Just started it this week for the first time (now that it's Netflix-complete). Episode two is way better than episode one. It gets soapy here and there, but most of season 1 is fairly solid. I'm not sure it will hold up, though - on the beginning of season 2 now and it's hard to say.

  7. Re:You're a fool if you don't hedge investments on Bitcoin Jumps Another 10% in 24 Hours, Sets New Record at $19,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How is that different from the stock market?

    Not much different at all, which is why everyone knows what a bubble looks like.

  8. Re:You're a fool if you don't hedge investments on Bitcoin Jumps Another 10% in 24 Hours, Sets New Record at $19,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only important part is that it will be very little and that it's best not to hold the currency for much longer. Same as for any bubble stock.

  9. Re:don't be an autist on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Why not a Back to the Future analogy with alternate timelines and dystopian edits that must be reverted?

  10. Re:It's always best put in terms of cats... on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 1

    So you're into quantum computing, then?

  11. Re:"privacy-conscious users" on Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares about privacy, or really even about security, as long as they get their new fresh modern stuff.

    These more or less have to go hand in hand. Things are changing so fast and so broadly that the only way to keep up is to make that trade off. Of course the smart move might be to not keep up.

  12. Re: When browsers jump the shark on Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    So if it was just a browser update with the same code it's fine, but as an add-on it's illegal. Sure...

    Look, the outcry is real and fair. But let's not call it illegal, because it's their software and you clicked to agree to updates.

  13. If they had seized US Dollars that could have been invested, they'll only return the same amount of US Dollars and probably without interest. By that theory, Bitcoin should be returned as-is, coin for coin - regardless of its relative value to some other standard.

  14. Re: Yeah this will work out great. on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if they tried to sell that much now they would single-handedly tank its value. Investors would panic, not knowing why so much is being sold.

  15. since that profit would naturally have accrued to the owner if they hadn't interfered.

    We don't know that the owner would have made the same choices. Wait till BTC crashes and re-buy 513 BTC / 512 BCH and return the same that was taken if he was proven innocent. Make a nice profit for the American people.

  16. Re:It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    if for some reason the government's unable to return his property in the same condition as they found it, or if it DECREASES in value, then the guy could claim he intended to sell and thus demand PROPERTY + Compensation for his loss caused by the government interfering with his rights to direct regarding the disposition of his property.

    And if that's the gamble, I'm pretty sure they picked correctly.

  17. Re:yup - hasn't even been found guilty yet on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    If anything, they did him a favor. Sell it off before the value crashes. Then if he's innocent, he gets a lot more money than if it was kept in BTC/BCH.

  18. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If that's really what you think why waste so much time arguing about something you think is unimportant?

  19. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "Law's the law" is an ignorant sheep's argument.

    Not if the debate is whether it's legal or not. Which it was. Stop moving goalposts.

  20. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for contact lenses: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/t...

  21. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's the law. There doesn't need to be another reason. If you don't like the law, get it changed.

  22. Re:One needs a prescription for contact lenses? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    We would likely be better served with these things being tested for every X years

    Well, sure. But I've never been to an ophthalmologist or optometrist. However, I doubt it's solely profit-driven. A proper diagnosis only makes sense. Practicing medicine while skipping diagnosis is generally a bad thing.

  23. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They definitely do: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/t...

    Whether you think it's worth their time or not is a separate matter.

  24. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    8 business hours. But if the medical office doesn't exist (e.g. you get the voicemail greeting of some guy named Steve), then that doesn't count as an attempt.

  25. Re:And that's Hubbles fault? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I should mention that this rule is specific to contact lenses: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/t...