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  1. We have a lot of respect for Facebook and the value they've placed on messaging capabilities, some of which were invented by BlackBerry.

    Which capabilities? Using a mobile's phone number as user ID? I agree it was innovative, but I don't think you can patent it.

  2. Re:This may cause the price of it to go up on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not always the case, say you're a farmer. You purchased a cheap piece of land.
    The land gets revaluation, but you are a farmer, you are not in the real state business, why should you pay rising property-taxes for the value the market assigns to my property?
    The same logic applies to stock.

  3. Re: Banks already have to report this on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The "Art" in question is usually worthless.

  4. Re:WTF is "Coinbase"? on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I can think of a reason: There is no international money transfer method that is simultaneously affordable, fast and secure:
    Paypal Is affordable and fast, but is not secure. They can freeze your founds for whatever reason they want to.
    Swift transactions and wire transfer services like western union are expensive and bothersome.
    CC are expensive and insecure, and not accessible to everybody qualifies for them

    Maybe there are other alternatives I don't know of, but cryptocurrencies as a means of exchange, if successful, should introduce competition and lower the CC tax.

  5. Re:So... Android. on Chrome OS Could Be Getting Containers for Running Linux VMs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Android apps are surprisingly good on ChromeOS now.

    Dude, do you own a Chromebook?
    I have a samsung chromebook 3 and IMHO APK's on chromebook suck, at least on the graphic support, and that's the only thing you'd care about running an android application. It feels like running an android VM.

  6. Re:Many kinds of regulation on We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The transaction fee, at least on bitcoins, is intrinsic to the system. If you want a say on it, you need 50% of the mining pool. Not that a government couldn't possibly reach that mining power, but at that point they would be, effectively, endorsing the currencies.

  7. An ARM chromebook is viable. The same niche could be competed by Microsoft.

    The issue is the public expectations. The same people that blame linux for not running their <token program>, will blame windows for the same thing.
    Somehow, people don't expect their mobile phones be able to do the same as their PCs. The apple phenomenon is seems to suggest that people really don't need their <token programgt;.

  8. Re:This is what happens... on Microsoft Finally Documents the Limitations of Windows 10 on ARM (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    ARM is a more efficient architecture on for applications.
    Even if you consider single core applications peak computing power, the benchmarks show that AMD64 isn't more than 20% faster than ARM64.

    The real issue are, as always, preexisting closed software ecosystems. An ARM linux box is perfectly viable.

  9. Re:so I RTF proposition (in Swedish) on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    2 years of prison for a civil case of copyright infringement. Awesome!

  10. Re:Best Linux Distribution? on Best Linux Distribution (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Better liked than the alternatives (tizen, sailfish, windows, symbian and qnx).
    Pre-existing ecosystem is not a valid argument, all those flavors were concurrent to android, and the ecosystem argument is used for favouring windows over GNU/Linux

  11. Wikipedia has a history, so you're able to cite an specific version of an article. Traceability is not the issue, authority is.

  12. Re:Wikipedia just serves as an intermediary. on Wikipedia Has Become a Science Reference Source Even Though Scientists Don't Cite it (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia. By definition it musn't have original content.

  13. Re:What a shame on 36 Indicted in Global Cybercrime Ring That Stole $530M (go.com) · · Score: 1

    And 11000 was, probably, the number of accounts. Ie, not every ebay user has done at least one transaction,

  14. Re:What a shame on 36 Indicted in Global Cybercrime Ring That Stole $530M (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Those 11000 were "clients" purchasing the CC numbers, not the one suppliers.

  15. Re:Learn for it! on 36 Indicted in Global Cybercrime Ring That Stole $530M (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the need for punishment?
    As long as the CC companies take the burden of fraud losses, they can keep the shitty system if it makes financial sense for them.

  16. Re:The FDA has zero credibility on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, Cocaine can be used for experimentation as a scheduled 2 drug.
    The reason marijuana is not type 2 is that the FDA doesn't admit valid use case for marijuana for wich is not already covered by another superior drug. Or maybe it's bigotry and war on drugs.

  17. Copyright infringement is not theft.
    There are valid reasons for Intelectual Property Laws in capitalist societies, but the current terms are neither fair, nor up to the information age.

  18. Re:true champions of open source on Microsoft Releases Skype As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Just not true. Linux support was stalled for years until Microsoft bought them and released an updated version. It receives frequent updates since then.

  19. 'Inappropriate Content' on Messaging App Telegram Pulled From Apple's App Store Due To 'Inappropriate Content' (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What can be inappropriate about a messenger app?

  20. Good looking people don't need the extra services, and with the free subscription they have more matches than they can handle.

  21. Re: Multiple execs had to agree to this on Tinder Must Stop Charging Its Older Users More For 'Plus' Features, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can filter the viable matches by ages, so the price has no impact on "fewer" desirable candidates for women.
    The differences is that paid users have unlimited requests, and the less appealing men need those request to make a match, because of the 80/20 rule https://medium.com/@worstonlin...

  22. copyright-encumbered DOCX format

    What do you mean by that? wasn't that issue solved?

  23. I'd think this was a stupid story on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Until I purchased a Sony DPT-RP1.
    It comes with a stylus that imitates "real writing experience", including replaceable tips that wear down like pencils, and brake when falling like fountain pens.

  24. So, to make a google competitor, he should all put up with sub par search engines for the sake of what?

  25. WhatsApp is facebook's. Your point still stands.