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  1. I'm not sure either amounts to much, guess can go look at the block chain and find out. Wikileaks looks like a few k but I've not analyzed the 1k or so transactions to their donation address. Picking one random gambling site looks like more than a half million BTC have gone through at .5% in favor of the house that's sill 2.5k or so.

  2. Because it make a bunch of early adopters rich. Crypto Mining tends to be a ponzi ish scheme you mine the first realy easy ones then get people to spread the word as it gets harder. It is successful as people have been using it where CC are no longer taken (or they incorrectly think it can not be traced back to them when using a CC to purchase BC) so internet gambling sites, the silk road / it's successors, and the sex trade (advertising) seem to be the primary users.

    I made a decent amount from early sites giving out 1 BC for signing up/GPU mining one a card I already hard and when not paying incrementally for power and cashing out when a BC was over 1k. Right now mining your have to have very cheap power and dedicated hardware to hope to make money at it. I know a few people throwing ASIC rigs into section 8 housing since they get power at a flat rate around here in exchange for putting in a big AC unit and paying the AC upcharge to the occupants.

  3. Re:Crazy. Naval swarm warfare. on Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    At 250k what weapon system will they be using??? If you have a massive swarm coming at you over the horizon, one tactical nuke, or thermobaric weapon takes them all out.

  4. Re:Lets run arbitrary code on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    The code should only need to ready the private key one time during the initial setup. A Cert request is not dated and has no sensitive information and can be reused to get a new cert until the private key changes. Pretty much this is one tool that should be two, one to setup with no need for network access (it creates a priv key a cert request configures other servers) and another that does the every 90 days or more often updates.

  5. When the VA has it right be scared on Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The VA figured out a universal export that others have picked up. But you can not import to most of them.

    Fun issues like well you only see lab work done by x y or z even though that doctors office has the results in there electronic system. For those of us that detest quest it's fun.

    Some you can export calendar events some even have a calendar you can link to. They still insist on robocalling to remind you till you press a button to let them know you got said robocall.

    You can send emails etc, one took more than 30 days to notice the message and get back.

    Healthcare in this country is still working on voicemail and faxes. If the government wants to provide incentives it should be to connect to the provider of the patient's choice for all medical and related scheduling information the existing va blue button XML format is a good basis to start with. Make it clear under the law that all patient records data etc are the patients property and make not be resold etc without explicit consent every time.

  6. Re:Lets run arbitrary code on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    It was supposed to remove the cost of CA signed SSL certs as a roadblock to implementing them.

  7. Re:Lets run arbitrary code on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    If your unable to figure out how to install a SSL cert and are running a web server, you should probably not be running a web server and the lack of SSL is the least of your worries.

  8. Re:Lets run arbitrary code on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    It has automated updates built in and is pretty much required to be fully automated to be useful. So I would have to disable those updates until they break it from working then re audit the code again and hope to catch that break before the SSL cert expires. That is a whole lot of work and risk.

    Now you could just grab a new expiration date cert via the same certificate request and not need to know the private key in the first place ever but that does not look like how this works it expects to have a free reign. Something like this should never be running as root etc etc etc it's a security product it should have the least amount of rights possible required to do it's job and segment those rights when possible. So an initial setup app that might generate a private key etc etc but needs no network access and a maintenance app that handles sending the CSR to be signed and installing the resulting cert that would need network access and to be able to signal the server to reread the cert.

  9. Lets run arbitrary code on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    With access to my server's private keys. Who does this sound like a good idea to?

  10. Re:What's the MTBF? on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's simple, how much data has been written to the drive. Outside of under provisioning tricks etc every drive is rated for a specific amount of writes. With consumer use you pretty much never get close, you need a database pegging the thing with writes 24/7 or similar to wear them out quickly.

  11. Re:Is this really as typical as it seems? on IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed (cybergibbons.com) · · Score: 1

    In general at the home level security is for the discount on your homeowners policy, unless the insurance companies stop giving that for wireless installs not much will change. Reality is the quick smash and grab will be in and out before anybody shows up response times in the 5+ minutes give a lot of leeway.

    Hate to break it to you but wired alarms are easily defeated with stock cellphone jammers and some wire cutters, no internet/landline and no cell phone means no way to alert anybody outside a local siren (which a bb gun can deal with). It even stops anybody in the house from calling for help.

    Personally I use a mix, wired CCTV and wired and wireless sensors. The primary security bits are wired with a traditional panel to make the insurance guy happy. CCTV, HA and Security all feed up to a controller for the home. This way security sensors can be fed back into HA, new HA sensors that are useful but not perfect for security can feed back into security same for CCTV. By not perfect HA motion cares about people in rooms even specific spots in the room security cares about belt and suspenders covering doors, windows, and traffic pinch points when those doors and windows have open/close sensors and glass break sensors. Frankly the CCTV is probably the most useful since once an alarm is triggered I can see what is going on. I average one false alert in a year or so. The security aspects are very much secondary to the HA with the comfort and usability gains that brings but it was a fun project. Mind you it would be very different if I was living in a city apartment vs on acres at the far end of the burbs.

  12. Re:Is this really as typical as it seems? on IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed (cybergibbons.com) · · Score: 1

    Security is new? These security devices fail because they make unacceptable tradeoffs generally from rolling their own implementation. There is a reason for standards. In the move from NO/NC devices these guys are trying to get device lock in. Reality is a pir motion sensor is a few bucks but they realy want to sell one for 50. If they conform to a legit standard like zwave they would have to work with other bits of kit and thus compeat. Zigbee is a cluster because it does not define a high level and require it's use. It's little different from the hard wired days when you needed the master password to program your panel but were beholden on the company that installed it to give it to you (and my favorite charge me to change it since they used the same one on every device they installed).

  13. Re:Americans...why ? on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    We dont, outside of some crackpots nobody is going to believe it's spying on them etc. Outside of landing and takeoff it's not loitering around. They should be nearly fully automated no human is looking at any video feed. Rather different than your neighbor flying a drone and peeping over your fence.

  14. And when US law conflicts with CIL which one wins, Would hazed to guess US law in a US court.

  15. Re:BUILD on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    While I can not make money building PC's, its rare that I can not throw together a desktop that's similar prices hardware wise. You also avoid nonstandard/weird bits like all the major manufacturers love of cases that barely fit whats in them to start and/or use slightly nonstandard parts (Dell with power supplies with an ATX connector but non standard pinouts/voltages). Also if your not a complete idiot your primary drive will be a SSD that tends to be a massively expensive high end option. In the long run you're better off, I have ATX cases that were bought in the 90's it's not like sheet metal wears out.

  16. Re:Not replaced: serial and parallel ports. on What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Pin count since yea you can do serial over 1-2 pins USB needs only 2 and with those two you can program it, get debugging out, emulate a plethora of devices including ethernet all while getting 500ma at 5v.

  17. Re:Displays on What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    USB-C Because hell now your fixed display can power your laptop, for low res like 1080p you can even chain multiple ports together.

  18. Re: so, open season on American civilians now? on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You are not at war with the school bully or the drunk. You might have to defend yourself from them you might have to kill them when you reasonably believe to not means they would kill you. In war you kill them in the safest way possible, civilian casualties are acceptable as long as your kill your enemy. You kill from a distance you kill with technology you kill them till they submit or there is nobody left to kill. There are reasons why in war you have to treat a captured enemy humanly they did nothing wrong. I would hazard to say if you think getting beaten up is war you have never actually been in one or even a life threatening altercation.

  19. Re:so, open season on American civilians now? on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be at war requires you have a nation state and declared war. No nation state is willing to openly declare war so we end up with nation state sponsored or at least ignored terrorism/asymmetric warfare.

  20. Re:Make no mistake on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    No they do not, it's regulations against reprocessing that leave lots of high level waste around. The boogeyman is weapons grade plutonium that is a waste product.

    Look at modern designs like the EC6 it's variable fuel and is being used by the UK to dispose of it's plutonium stocks. It's refueling process is heavily automated and designed for inspections for perforations issues. When the US stopped needing lots of weapons grade plutonium we got this issue, it's not a design flaw rather a market that dried up with the end of the cold war. EC6 reactors literally use the spent fuel of the previous gen reactors at worst we have a much smaller amount of high level waste to figure out what to do with in 60 years but FUD like yours is being used to stop any progress. They are also inherently safer designs not relying on 1960's tech. Mine you that just current design tech with a decade or more under it's belt, the US is becoming fission luddites sticking with it's 60's era designs and all of their problems.

  21. Re:TV's in state of flux on What Is the Future of the Television? (ben-evans.com) · · Score: 1

    SmartTV are useless they are abandonware and they try to lock you into some ecosystem. I'm saying open functional standards. Motion is cheap pennies cheap and general useful outside of the TV. I dont want a stream of cam/mic going to apple/google I might no mind it going to my own gear, I do want vid conferencing and in home paging. Lux to get ambient lighting so internal or external controls can make adjustments. Network based controls allow for things like real time video overlay say a doorbell or baby monitor. Networking lets IR commands trickle back to other devices,

    In many ways my voip desk phone has it nearly right but form factor wise it fits in on an office desk not a family room coffee table. Android powered TV's sound great but I dont seem the lasting 20 years like a TV should. So it's far better to keep the brains and the visible parts separate since the brains might get swapped out in the 3-7 years range while the TV lasts far longer than that.

  22. TV's in state of flux on What Is the Future of the Television? (ben-evans.com) · · Score: 1

    4k just starting to stream, 8k on the horizon and most content compressed so much it does not matter.

    Were at the saturation point for flat panels so they are struggling to try and keep the market up.

    Now that's not to say they do not need work.

    CEC needs to work far better.
    TV's need wifi and ethernet so they can be controlled/automated/integrated.
    TV's need sensors, motion, camera, mic, and lux at least. They need to be exposed in a standard way.

  23. Re:"Clock parts" wired together in an adhoc fashio on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    If they had no intention of prosecuting they should have never talked to the child forget removing him from the school, if that were the case (which I do not think it is) they should be arrested and convicted for kidnapping. In any case a police officer should never talk to a child without a parents permission to get more than basic info (name address parents contact info). A large civil penalty could help impress this on the police, I rather wish it were on the individual officers involved but we have thrown up far to many protections for that to be the case.

  24. Re:"Clock parts" wired together in an adhoc fashio on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    The correct response from the teacher would have been give that to me you can get it back at the end of the day or make the parents pick it up.

    Police should never question a child without a parent or attorney. Booking etc fine but a child can not reasonably waive their rights to an attorney / have not reached the majority to be able to waive their rights.

  25. Good for Yahoo on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It will help get those people who refuse to move off yahoo. They are about on par with people still using aol addresses.