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  1. Half of what it was December 2017. Or about 1000% more than December 2016. Pick your time-frame to suit your argument.

  2. Re:Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air on Hacker Uses Exploit To Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Which *currency* isn't generated out of "Thin Air"?

  3. Aquarius on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Made by Mattel and with built-in BASIC by Microsoft! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Speculators on Bitcoin Breaks $1,000 Level, Highest in More Than 3 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You might be surprised by the little volatility in Bitcoin price over the past couple of years. Extrapolating from past volatility, some believe it will be on the same levels as "traditional" currencies in two to three years: http://woobull.com/bitcoin-vol...

  5. Re:How will you tell? on Samsung to Customers: Stop Using Note 7, Then Wait For Replacements (samsung.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You guessed it! It will actually have a big S (for safe) on it, on the sticker on the box. http://www.gsmarena.com/how_to...

  6. Encryption for "good guys" only on Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She's asking how to crack encryption so that only "good guys" can listen in on conversations; she's making it sound like a technical problem when it is a political decision.

  7. BBS on Debian Founder: How I Came To Find Linux · · Score: 1

    I was active on the BBS scene, found the very first Linux release, tried to install it, but it couldn't handle the bad sectors on my hard drive, so I never returned to Linux until about 10 years later.

  8. Have they tried... on Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up · · Score: 2

    turning it off and on again?

  9. Re:Bring back my old Nokia on Surface Pro 2 Gets Significant Battery Boost · · Score: 1

    To take my comparing apples to oranges even further, I have an HP calculator that's 25 years old and I've never had to change the batteries.

  10. Bring back my old Nokia on Surface Pro 2 Gets Significant Battery Boost · · Score: 2

    I remember when I would go 8 days without charging my mobile. Now people get excited about 8 hours.

  11. Auction mode on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Many exchanges use an auction mechanism to prevent this from happening. When a trade is made that is more than x% different from the previous trade, the security goes into "auction mode" for a period of time. During this period all the bids and offers are taken, but only at the end of the auction, using an "uncrossing" algorithm, is a fair price determined for the security. The auction can of course also be manipulated, but you'll need a lot more money to influence the price.

  12. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 2

    I worked as a HFT programmer. You don't understand how orders and trades work. You start going wrong when you say "Eve has just learned that Alice will sell for less"... There is no such mechanism. If your bid is lower than the offer, no trade happens.

  13. Re:Africans... on Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam · · Score: 1

    Not really. Check out South Africa. 3% made it to round 3, while say, US, about 1%.

  14. HTML on Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? · · Score: 1

    HTML is the way to go for the web. It allows hyperlinks and such fancy stuff.

  15. Re:Beautiful pictures on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: 1

    Just visit his web site. It's all there. http://www.astropix.co.uk/equipment.html

  16. What about Google? on 75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So why isn't Google more involved in kernel development? I assume they use Linux extensively and hence make billions from using it. Do no evil, do no good?

  17. Fidonet on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Blah, this new AOL thing, I'll stick to my Fidonet address thanks.