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  1. Re:Just call up BitConnect's fraud protection numb on Man Sues T-Mobile For Allegedly Failing To Stop Hackers From Stealing His Cryptocurrency (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    https://support.coinbase.com/c...
    "If you are a United States resident, your Coinbase USD Wallet is covered by FDIC insurance, up to a maximum of $250,000"

  2. Re:I agree with the pundits on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Of course they do... on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you have the seed phrase it does not matter. If it dies, you buy another, give it your phrase and you get your wallet back.

  4. Re: Packaging... on Amazon Tries To Figure Out the Packaging Box Problem It Created (t.co) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah because Plastic bubble wrap in a padded envelope is much more planet friendly then a cardboard box.

  5. The point is --------> sorry you missed it. It's not about technology changing it's about them making decisions not in the publics best interest. Once the car is out of the bag there is no getting it back in.

  6. The same way you can still use the headphone jacks? Oh Wait....
    Just because you can today does not mean you will be able to tomorrow. How does this simple fact escape people when it happens every single day?

  7. Nickel and dimed? easier to keep Cable? I have been in Texas for 19 years. I got DirecTV when I moved here and I had the top package. Every premium channel they offered, once the deal wore off I was paying about $100 and there was no DVR back then. Then they let you BUY a DirecTivo, you owned it, no rental and they charged $5 a month for the privilege of using that thing you own. Then came the yearly increases. Package wasn't changing, hardware wasn't changing but soon I was paying over $150 for the exact same channels. I have since got rid of all the premium content and shaved back the service and I am STILL paying $100 for less than I had. Netflix has gone up what, $3 for the streaming service over the years?

    Once you sign up for the content you never have to deal with it again. Get a device that attaches to them all (there are several) and you have a much better choice to cost ratio and that is what cord cutting is all about.

  8. Re:So to solve the health care crisis... on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    So they certify what they know at the time they initially manufacture the drugs.

    There is no requirement for them to go back and do more testing, and no financial incentive (in fact, the incentive is to not do any testing, if they find the drugs loose potency faster, they open themselves up to liabilities, if they find they last longer they loose money on sales)

    Those damn pesky Ethics getting in the way again.

  9. Re:For once on Roadside Cameras Infected with WannaCry Virus Invalidate 8,000 Traffic Tickets (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Speed limits are arbitrary and are in place to make money.
    https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/sp...
    "Despite the general acceptance and wide-spread use of speed limits throughout the world, there has been no consensus among practitioners concerning the methods and techniques that should be used to select the most appropriate speed limit for a particular facility. At the current time, it appears unlikely that any consensus will be achieved in the near future. This leaves practitioners without definitive guidance on this important issue, and in search of information to assist them. This report provides the information necessary for practitioners to make informed decisions in selecting a method for setting speed limits in their jurisdiction."

  10. If you have a better idea, I'd like to hear it. on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? · · Score: 1

    We use JIRA. All items that are believed to require a DEV ticket must get past a team of gatekeepers (Triage Team.)

    Tickets are reviewed for completeness, reproduction details, any logs that may be required and sample user(s) that can be used to reproduce the issue.
    The Triage team searches for duplicates and attempts to replicate and then either promotes the ticket to DEV, sends it back to the requester for more detail or closes it as a dupe and links the original.

    Any support tickets that come in with the same issue are linked to the DEV and once the DEV is closed, tickets are set to Pending Rollout.

    The process sucks. Support hates it because it is often a struggle to get through the obvious bugs and DEV likes it because they get less duplication.

  11. Re:Epipen cost: $30, regulatory costs: $30 mil+ on Hackers Offer a DIY Alternative To The $600 EpiPen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If the nurse was standing over the student when the anaphylaxis sets in, you're good, but what happens when the nurse isn't there? 5 minutes is enough time to die.

  12. Re:In his Mother's basement on Man Builds $1.5 Million Star Trek-Themed Home Theater (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    Except you have no insight into his life so basing the statement on the fact that guy can afford the media room and extrapolating from that that they guy is some how living less of a life is beyond short sighted.

  13. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    I was around before Pac-Man was brand new.
    Where else were you going to play Pac-Man until the Atari 2600 released its abomination? For no one to be playing them the arcades were packed with kids. And how do you know you are older than another AC?

  14. Re:pornview on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 2

    http://antidupl.sourceforge.ne...
    Works great Requires Windows and .NET

  15. Re:Or, we could just be playing a game on Games That Make Players Act Like Psychopaths · · Score: 0

    s/of/or

  16. Or, we could just be playing a game on Games That Make Players Act Like Psychopaths · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But that wouldn't be very interesting of help to fear monger, would it.

  17. But its good for the consumer. on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    But DRM is good for the consumer! Just ask the MAFIAA, they'll tell you whats best for you and you'll like it, no really.

  18. Venues are the problem on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    It cost a family of four close to $100 to sit in a theater with discourteous morons on their cell phones and over priced snacks. I'd rather just go out to dinner with the family where we can, you know, actually talk to one another and people watch rather than be pissed off and uncomfortable.

    Theaters need to fix the problem and more people will go, especially since people now have 100" 3D TV's in their living room. Fix the experience, stop gauging your customers and you might actually fill the seats.

  19. Re:The problem is... on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah because no thief has ever put it into another iPhone box and shrink wrapped it and sold it as new before...

  20. Medical Software on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I have a Doctor as a client and the largest cost for his upgrade is hardware, not software. I just bought a new $7500 server to beat the current system requirements for the EHR software they use. The upgrade cost for them is only about $1200 + services. The hardware requirement is unreasonable but the software is in massive need of a redesign. The vendor is always pointing fingers back at my client when the software fails (its already a decently sized server). Keeping the old server as a TS server to run the client (Windows 2008 R2) and the new server for the DB and the software (32 gigs of RAM, 2 RAID cards with 6 15K drives and 2 Hexcore Processors). If the problems aren't resolved they cant point the finger at me anymore.

    The problem with this type of software is that once a vendor hooks a Doctor for any length of time, they are hooked for life. Migration is near impossible if they wish to retain useable client histories not to mention HIPPA requirements.

  21. Re:I call bullshit on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1

    Call me whatever you want as long as you are paying me. Money heals all wounds. Sticks and stones....

  22. Re:Flashlights? on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    I think you mean 2.5 DAYS, not hours.

  23. Silly, this is the future of ambient social apps on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 1

    Its going this way anyway. Change the app to show everyone and add all sorts of filters like distance, type of establishments shown, by birthday, by sex, interests, etc and this would have snuck past them all. This is what ambient social networking is all about. Giving you a way to find people locally with the same interests and equally willing to share those interests with the world. Already happening within a slightly more limited scope http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4260730&trk=anet_ug_grppro

  24. Re:Why Apple is good on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux mentioned, CHECK. Claiming King Geek in front of a nation of geeks, CHECK. Apple Fanboi posing as a Geek, priceless.

  25. Re:How does it differ from single radar systems? on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 1

    And will they be able to afford having 32 troopers standing by to give the tickets? Did someone do a cost benefit analysis on this or are we due for higher local taxes so the PD in the town BFE population 56 can afford to hire more officers AND afford this device to ticket those menacing speeders?