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  1. By the time regulation passes the fad will be over on US Regulators To Back More Oversight of Virtual Currencies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Regulating virtual currency makes about as much sense as regulating Flooz Dollars.

  2. New dept name: US Protection Against the Consumer on US Consumer Protection Official Puts Equifax Probe on Ice (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those pesky consumers have been running roughshod over our sacred corporations for too long.

  3. Windows always excelled at backward compatibility on NSA Exploits Ported To Work on All Windows Versions Released Since Windows 2000 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's called taking care of your installed base.

  4. Glasses even have predictive execution on A Look at Vaunt, Intel's Smart Glasses That Use Retinal Projection To Put a Display in Your Eyeball (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can tell where your vision is directed and automatically bring up search engine results using advanced machine learning. The only problem is this predictive execution can occur across protection domains, which means its vulnerable to Meltdown attacks that would allow someone to read your inner thoughts every time you stare at a cup of coffee.

  5. 30 seconds of dead time best commercial of game on Hulu, NBC Experience Glitches During Super Bowl Telecast (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was a nice reprieve from what was otherwise a pretty underwhelming set of commercials this Super Bowl.

  6. Encryption doesn't really solve this on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're a photojournalist leaving a dangerous field assignment then there's a high likelihood you will be stopped and searched. If you hand over your camera and it comes up with a prompt for an encryption password then your camera and its media will be confiscated or destroyed in front of you. There go your photos.

    As for protecting sources, why would you photograph them if you didn't intend to publish the photos anyway, which would still put them in danger?

  7. Re:On what logic? on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think that with ownership so concentrated -- 1,000 accounts hold 40% of all value -- with another 30-50% estimated to be lost and out of circulation, I question a psychological model based off of so few possible sample sets. That's just crazy.

    The short-term price movements of a financial instrument is usually determined "at the margins", which is a fancy way of saying it's determined by the most recent (and active) set of buyers and sellers.

  8. Re:Seems to all revolve around Andy McCabe on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, political incest is irrelevant Not as relevant as getting the facts correct in the first place.

  9. Re:Seems to all revolve around Andy McCabe on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    You know - the guy whose wife got almost $1 million from Hillary! cronies - while he was "investigating" Hillary!'s illegal email server.

    That's outrageous. Too bad it's not true. McCabe was assigned to the Hillary investigation four months after his wife lost her election, well before she received those contributions. And nobody had foreknowledge that McCabe would actually be assigned to Hillary's investigation either.

  10. Change doesn't stop snooping of where you've been on Firefox 59 Will Stop Websites Snooping on Where You've Just Been (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The headline implies this change will prevent sites from knowing what site you linked from. That's incorrect. From the article:

    To prevent this type of data leakage, from Firefox 59, the private browsing option will remove path information from referrer values sent to third parties, effectively stripping out additional data and only leaving the web domain.

  11. Re: On what logic? on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to make the case BTC has any intrinsic value - IMO its intrinsic value is $0. But technical analysis is fare more than random patterns and luck, and doesn't require the underlying instrument to have intrinsic value to predict short-term movements of that instrument.

  12. Re:On what logic? on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably based on technical analysis, which studies the trend of trading for an instrument to pick out the psychological buy/sell levels. For example, if the trading history indicates many people entered BTC at $10k and the price has been trading consistently below that for some time, the expectation is that when/if it reaches $10k again there will be a lot of selling pressure by some holders who want to get out to break even. That creates what's called a resistance level. The same thing happens on the other end of the price, where buyers who held out on the sidelines and missed out on a run will buy when BTC drops to a level it was at before a recent run. That creates what's called the support level.

  13. "Machine learning" is no match for market learning on Google Flights Will Now Predict Airline Delays -- Before the Airlines Do (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    As in learning to come up with as many bullshit buzzwords they can fit into a sentence to describe what would otherwise be a pedestrian algorithm.

  14. Re:JoeyRox = fake name massive human fail on Samsung Surpasses Intel To Become the World's Largest Chipmaker (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, you got me. My real name is StinkySox.

  15. That's spectreacular for Samsung on Samsung Surpasses Intel To Become the World's Largest Chipmaker (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    And a meltdown for Intel.

  16. Even crazier, all 2,900 people are a single family on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's all relative in West Virginia.

  17. Hopefully the cars were in VW "smog test" mode on Volkswagen Admits To Testing Diesel Fumes On Monkeys (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That way the monkeys got a much smaller does of carbon monoxide, as in much less than us human's got from the thousands of VW cars on the road.

  18. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm grasping fine - you're putting misplaced confidence in the term "backed", as if it's some type of self-enacting guarantee. Let's say the US Government still said the USD was backed by gold. Then a currency crisis of confidence happened and everyone rushes to exchange their dollars for gold, after which the Government changes their mind and says "sorry, we're no longer going to allow you to exchange your dollars for gold". Now what? You see, "backing" is just a promise, the same as how fiat is just a promise.

  19. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fiat currency is backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government, which includes but is not limited to it's power to levy taxes on the income and productive capacity of the economy to recover the wealth lost in that currency.

    Now tell me, who and what backs cryptocurrency?

  20. If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If so I'd like to report $15,140 stolen from a Monopoly game I own that's gone missing.

  21. Or it's proof people don't have taste on Netflix Executives Say 'Bright' Success Proves Film Critics Are 'Disconnected From Mass Appeal' (indiewire.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which is also why McDonalds sells 6.5 million hamburgers every day.

  22. Casey's original statement (from deleted video) on CNN Shutters Casey Neistat's Video Company Beme, Which It Bought 14 Months Ago For $25 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
  23. CNN suffered from FOMO - Fear of Missing Out on CNN Shutters Casey Neistat's Video Company Beme, Which It Bought 14 Months Ago For $25 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    CNN saw Casey's 8.7 million youtube subscribers and thought buying him out was a sure way transfer a chunk of those eyeballs to CNN, provided he was the front-man for whatever media content they came up with. CNN was so sure of this strategy that they feared someone else would execute it first, which prompted them to not only buy Casey but also his entire Beme company, to bail it out of the hole it dug itself and its investors into from that failing first-person video app of theirs.

    Proof again that making hasty decisions based on FOMO rather than common sense are usually wrong and very expensive mistakes.

  24. Re:Intel will have to revise it's deployment % fig on Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A patch that causes systems to reboot or otherwise be unstable is not a viable patch, so my comment stands.

  25. Re:How is this different than a customer discount? on EU Fines Qualcomm $1.2 Billion for Paying Apple To Use Its Microchips (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Qualcomm's provision for exclusivity in exchange for the discount is what is anti-competitive, not the discount itself.