This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about millennials.
Most millennials can barely look each other in the eye, have a conversation, or put down their phone long enough to take a piss, how could they possibly manage to meet someone and interact long enough to have sex?
Seriously, this doesn't surprise me one bit. I think a lot of millennials are social misfits, incapable of real-world interaction except under the most dire of circumstances. Ordering a pizza over the phone seems to push many of them to their social-interactivity limits.
Had to destroy a drive that had a lot of student data on it. Used a FN-FAL and 147 grain FMJ bullets at about 2700 feet per second.
Yeah, I used to take them out and shoot them (it's fun) but I got tired of picking up all the little bits and pieces of the hard drive. I don't want to litter my shooting areas with fragments of stuff like that. But it is fun to shoot a hard drive and watch it turn to metallic confetti.:)
If the bank gets robbed, the insurance replaces your money. You pay for this in bank fees.
Except I pay no bank fees. None. In fact, the bank offers me goodies like a free safety deposit box to hopefully prevent me from moving my money to another bank.
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Nothing to stop somebody starting a Bitcoin insurance, so your money will be as safe as in a bank.
LOL! Have you been paying attention? Saying that "your money will be as safe as in a bank" is absolutely untrue, and the fact that we're discussing this in a thread titled "Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen" makes me think you have serious issues with reading comprehension.
If it's such a great idea, feel free to start your Bitcoin insurance company, and do be sure to let us know how that goes.
The problem is that you can rob a dozen Bitcoin exchanges in a day without leaving your house. You just can't rob that many brick-and-mortar banks and get away with it. The FBI will see to that, believe me.
Also, you're never going to net $60 million dollars by robbing banks...you'd need a fleet of trucks to move that much money and the guards are unlikely to stand around as your convoy pulls up to the bank. In addition, NO BANK has $60 million on hand, except maybe Fort Knox.
Starting a Bitcoin insurance company is like starting a "It'll Never Rain On Wednesday" insurance company. Eventually you will get fucked, period.
Actually when banks get robbed you can lose your money.
The FDIC limit here in the US is $250,000 per account. Deposits held in different ownership categories are separately insured, up to at least $250,000, even if held at the same bank. You can rob my bank every day if you like, and I'll still have my money (it's spread across multiple accounts).
Show me a Bitcoin exchange or bank with this level of security or insurance. Until that happens, I'll have no interest in Bitcoin.
Honestly, sometimes I think Bitcoin is just a very clever, long-running scam that acquired a life of its own and a thin patina of legitimacy. There are probably a couple of people sitting in a mansion somewhere laughing their asses off about it, and marveling that the scam is still viable.
"Hey, let's create some untraceable super-money and get people to use it, and then we'll start raiding the "banks" where they store it."
Charles Ponzi would blush with envy if he was still alive.
I'm not sure that I can buy into the "flossing is useless" argument.
I know when I floss I get all sorts of little bits and pieces of food particles coming out, and having that stuff sitting up in your gums for days or weeks DOES contribute to things like gingivitis and other types of gum disease. And I know for a fact that when I started flossing regularly the condition of my gums improved significantly, and I have the dental records to prove it. Maybe I'm atypical in that regard, but I doubt it.
Really it's not even a RISK that you MIGHT lose your money in bitcoin, it is virtually guaranteed if you hold bitcoin long enough. Bitcoin depends on the security of the SHA-2 hash algorithm. Once SHA-2 is broken, everyone can generate all the BTC they want easily, sending the value to zero.
That's a very good point.
I'm curious to know what the Bitcoin enthusiasts have to say about this eventuality, because you're right: sooner or later, SHA-2 will be cracked.
Since we're already using wallet analogies, would you walk around with your life's savings in your wallet?
No, I use a bank (several banks, actually) to store my money. That way if the bank gets robbed, I still have my money.
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If you want a secure wallet, create a cold storage wallet and burn it to a CD and put it in a bank vault, then you'll have the security of a bank vault
I already have a secure wallet- it's called a "bank vault". That's where my "large" money and certain valuables are stored.
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Just make sure that if you ever need it you access it from a secure device
My "secure device" is a bank vault, backed by the FDIC. Works pretty well, to be honest.
Would you keep your money in a bank if they kept getting robbed and YOU where the one who lost?
Exactly.
Basically you have to hope that no one robs the exchange, because then you're screwed. And whether it's a real robbery by an outside entity or it's the owners stealing the coins, you're still screwed either way.
This glaring vulnerability has always made me leery of Bitcoin. You bear ALL the risk with no insurance whatsoever. Why would anyone agree to that?
I feel like I've heard this story before, from other BitCoin exchanges. I'm sure these guys are super honest and trustworthy, though.
Bitcoin exchanges seem to be hacked on a regular basis. Whether it's a genuine hack or insider funny-business hardly matters at this point. The take-away is that Bitcoin exchanges just aren't a safe place to keep your virtual money, which means there doesn't seem to be a safe place to store virtual money.
Yes yes, I know, "but banks get robbed every day!" the Bitcoin enthusiasts will say.
And that's true, but when a bank gets robbed you don't lose your money. This, to me, is what keeps me away from doing anything with Bitcoin (or any other virtual currency, for that matter). Go ahead, rob my bank. I won't lose any money. When Bitcoin reaches that level of security, then I'll consider it as a viable medium of exchange.
I tried one at a Home Depot that was used for kitchen visualization of remodel options, and it was underwhelming.
Maybe they didn't use it to its full "coolness" potential or maybe I've been desensitized by all the hype, but overall I wasn't impressed. I can see where it would make for some pretty cool gaming applications, though.
But $3000 a unit? It's not going to be on my shopping list anytime soon at that price.
My old drives I take apart and shatter/melt the platters.
I use a drill press to bore 8 or 10 holes straight through my old drives, then for fun I hit 'em with a hammer a few times while whispering my ex-wife's name. If the CIA/NSA/FBI wants my data bad enough to recover it after that, they're welcome to it.
"...the company saw an annualized failure rate of 19.81 percent with the Seagate ST4000DX000 4TB drive"
A failure rate of almost 20% in a data center? Geez, that's pathetic.
A temperature-controlled environment, clean power, low shock and vibration, and 1 out of 5 still fails? Remind me never to buy Seagate. Oh, wait, I already vowed never to buy another Seagate- about 10 years ago after experiencing their unequaled propensity to die fast and hard.
Maybe other people have had better luck with Seagate than I have, but for me they've always been disappointing.
Fortunately there are a lot of phones available at a variety of price points these days. The Galaxy J3 is only $179.
The J3 looks nice. I see them on Amazon and eBay for ~$130 and up, which seems like a damn good phone at a bargain price.
I use a plain-jane Samsung Rugby Pro ($99) and for what I need it's perfect. More than I need, actually. If I was to upgrade, though, the J3 would probably be at the top of the list.
Lol, "Edge", also known as The Little Browser That Couldn't.
Couldn't load slashdot or yahoo or any moderately complex page without choking and then helpfully informing you that "Edge has stopped and is restarting". Only to crash AGAIN, and again, and again. But who needs a browser that understands CSS, Javascript, or those new-fangled "image" thingys, right?
A curved screen? Fuck that. I'm losing a chunk of resolution and wasting my battery on it. And good luck if you ever want to hold the damned phone without touching that shit. Now on both sides!
This has always puzzled me...how DO you hold a phone that has potentially active edges?
This seems to me to be something that's going to generate a lot of frustration, especially if it can't be turned off. Can the edges be set to be touch-insensitive?
"The unlocked Galaxy Note 7 will retail on AT&T at a price point of $880."
After tax (roughly 10% in WA state), you're within spitting distance of $1000...maybe it's just me, but that seems like a hell of a lot of money for a phone.
Yeah, I know it's got a lot of cool features and is undoubtedly a very capable device...but still, almost $1000 for a phone?
I also understand that most people will get this with a phone plan so they won't just buy it outright, but even so...I guess I'm out of touch with what a new, top-of-the-line phone goes for these days. Personally I couldn't see spending that much on a phone, but that's just me.
This is what happens when you have too much cash and too few ideas.
Bingo.
They're on a desperate quest to find new shit to add to their overloaded platform, and they've been reduced to copying the look and feel of their competitor's interfaces. All that money and no clue as to what to do with it.
Win 10 sucks, and the proof is that people actually took the time to sit down and write utilities that you could use to prevent it from installing itself.
That's a pretty clear sign of unpopularity by any measure.
Name me another OS that has had a free utility written to prevent it from installing. I'll wait.......
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This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about millennials.
Most millennials can barely look each other in the eye, have a conversation, or put down their phone long enough to take a piss, how could they possibly manage to meet someone and interact long enough to have sex?
Seriously, this doesn't surprise me one bit. I think a lot of millennials are social misfits, incapable of real-world interaction except under the most dire of circumstances. Ordering a pizza over the phone seems to push many of them to their social-interactivity limits.
Had to destroy a drive that had a lot of student data on it.
Used a FN-FAL and 147 grain FMJ bullets at about 2700 feet per second.
Yeah, I used to take them out and shoot them (it's fun) but I got tired of picking up all the little bits and pieces of the hard drive. I don't want to litter my shooting areas with fragments of stuff like that. But it is fun to shoot a hard drive and watch it turn to metallic confetti. :)
If the bank gets robbed, the insurance replaces your money. You pay for this in bank fees.
Except I pay no bank fees. None. In fact, the bank offers me goodies like a free safety deposit box to hopefully prevent me from moving my money to another bank.
-
Nothing to stop somebody starting a Bitcoin insurance, so your money will be as safe as in a bank.
LOL! Have you been paying attention? Saying that "your money will be as safe as in a bank" is absolutely untrue, and the fact that we're discussing this in a thread titled "Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen" makes me think you have serious issues with reading comprehension.
If it's such a great idea, feel free to start your Bitcoin insurance company, and do be sure to let us know how that goes.
The problem is that you can rob a dozen Bitcoin exchanges in a day without leaving your house. You just can't rob that many brick-and-mortar banks and get away with it. The FBI will see to that, believe me.
Also, you're never going to net $60 million dollars by robbing banks...you'd need a fleet of trucks to move that much money and the guards are unlikely to stand around as your convoy pulls up to the bank. In addition, NO BANK has $60 million on hand, except maybe Fort Knox.
Starting a Bitcoin insurance company is like starting a "It'll Never Rain On Wednesday" insurance company. Eventually you will get fucked, period.
Actually when banks get robbed you can lose your money.
The FDIC limit here in the US is $250,000 per account. Deposits held in different ownership categories are separately insured, up to at least $250,000, even if held at the same bank. You can rob my bank every day if you like, and I'll still have my money (it's spread across multiple accounts).
Show me a Bitcoin exchange or bank with this level of security or insurance. Until that happens, I'll have no interest in Bitcoin.
Honestly, sometimes I think Bitcoin is just a very clever, long-running scam that acquired a life of its own and a thin patina of legitimacy. There are probably a couple of people sitting in a mansion somewhere laughing their asses off about it, and marveling that the scam is still viable.
"Hey, let's create some untraceable super-money and get people to use it, and then we'll start raiding the "banks" where they store it."
Charles Ponzi would blush with envy if he was still alive.
I'm not sure that I can buy into the "flossing is useless" argument.
I know when I floss I get all sorts of little bits and pieces of food particles coming out, and having that stuff sitting up in your gums for days or weeks DOES contribute to things like gingivitis and other types of gum disease. And I know for a fact that when I started flossing regularly the condition of my gums improved significantly, and I have the dental records to prove it. Maybe I'm atypical in that regard, but I doubt it.
I store my BitCoins on *MY* computer.
What if your computer crashes or gets stolen or is destroyed in a fire?
I know what happens to my money if my bank is robbed or hacked or burns down: nothing. Nothing at all.
I'm no fan of banks, but the way things are structured they seem like a pretty safe place to store your money.
Really it's not even a RISK that you MIGHT lose your money in bitcoin, it is virtually guaranteed if you hold bitcoin long enough. Bitcoin depends on the security of the SHA-2 hash algorithm. Once SHA-2 is broken, everyone can generate all the BTC they want easily, sending the value to zero.
That's a very good point.
I'm curious to know what the Bitcoin enthusiasts have to say about this eventuality, because you're right: sooner or later, SHA-2 will be cracked.
Since we're already using wallet analogies, would you walk around with your life's savings in your wallet?
No, I use a bank (several banks, actually) to store my money. That way if the bank gets robbed, I still have my money.
-
If you want a secure wallet, create a cold storage wallet and burn it to a CD and put it in a bank vault, then you'll have the security of a bank vault
I already have a secure wallet- it's called a "bank vault". That's where my "large" money and certain valuables are stored.
-
Just make sure that if you ever need it you access it from a secure device
My "secure device" is a bank vault, backed by the FDIC. Works pretty well, to be honest.
Would you keep your money in a bank if they kept getting robbed and YOU where the one who lost?
Exactly.
Basically you have to hope that no one robs the exchange, because then you're screwed. And whether it's a real robbery by an outside entity or it's the owners stealing the coins, you're still screwed either way.
This glaring vulnerability has always made me leery of Bitcoin. You bear ALL the risk with no insurance whatsoever. Why would anyone agree to that?
I feel like I've heard this story before, from other BitCoin exchanges. I'm sure these guys are super honest and trustworthy, though.
Bitcoin exchanges seem to be hacked on a regular basis. Whether it's a genuine hack or insider funny-business hardly matters at this point. The take-away is that Bitcoin exchanges just aren't a safe place to keep your virtual money, which means there doesn't seem to be a safe place to store virtual money.
Yes yes, I know, "but banks get robbed every day!" the Bitcoin enthusiasts will say.
And that's true, but when a bank gets robbed you don't lose your money. This, to me, is what keeps me away from doing anything with Bitcoin (or any other virtual currency, for that matter). Go ahead, rob my bank. I won't lose any money. When Bitcoin reaches that level of security, then I'll consider it as a viable medium of exchange.
I tried one at a Home Depot that was used for kitchen visualization of remodel options, and it was underwhelming.
Maybe they didn't use it to its full "coolness" potential or maybe I've been desensitized by all the hype, but overall I wasn't impressed. I can see where it would make for some pretty cool gaming applications, though.
But $3000 a unit? It's not going to be on my shopping list anytime soon at that price.
Perhaps they don't keep the temperature as cool as they should in order to save a few bucks?
That could be, but the other brands were failing at a much lower rate so it does make you wonder about the overall longevity of Seagate drives.
My old drives I take apart and shatter/melt the platters.
I use a drill press to bore 8 or 10 holes straight through my old drives, then for fun I hit 'em with a hammer a few times while whispering my ex-wife's name. If the CIA/NSA/FBI wants my data bad enough to recover it after that, they're welcome to it.
"...the company saw an annualized failure rate of 19.81 percent with the Seagate ST4000DX000 4TB drive"
A failure rate of almost 20% in a data center? Geez, that's pathetic.
A temperature-controlled environment, clean power, low shock and vibration, and 1 out of 5 still fails? Remind me never to buy Seagate. Oh, wait, I already vowed never to buy another Seagate- about 10 years ago after experiencing their unequaled propensity to die fast and hard.
Maybe other people have had better luck with Seagate than I have, but for me they've always been disappointing.
Fortunately there are a lot of phones available at a variety of price points these days. The Galaxy J3 is only $179.
The J3 looks nice. I see them on Amazon and eBay for ~$130 and up, which seems like a damn good phone at a bargain price.
I use a plain-jane Samsung Rugby Pro ($99) and for what I need it's perfect. More than I need, actually. If I was to upgrade, though, the J3 would probably be at the top of the list.
Oh please. We've had this discussion everytime a new high end phone comes out since the iPhone 3G.
Relax, bud. I never said people shouldn't buy one, I just said it seemed like a lot to spend on a phone.
If you want one, by all means go get one, and I hope it's a great phone.
Download and install Linux Mint 18. Done.
Bingo. That was my solution.
So what do you use? Edge?
Lol, "Edge", also known as The Little Browser That Couldn't.
Couldn't load slashdot or yahoo or any moderately complex page without choking and then helpfully informing you that "Edge has stopped and is restarting". Only to crash AGAIN, and again, and again. But who needs a browser that understands CSS, Javascript, or those new-fangled "image" thingys, right?
A curved screen? Fuck that. I'm losing a chunk of resolution and wasting my battery on it. And good luck if you ever want to hold the damned phone without touching that shit. Now on both sides!
This has always puzzled me...how DO you hold a phone that has potentially active edges?
This seems to me to be something that's going to generate a lot of frustration, especially if it can't be turned off. Can the edges be set to be touch-insensitive?
"The unlocked Galaxy Note 7 will retail on AT&T at a price point of $880."
After tax (roughly 10% in WA state), you're within spitting distance of $1000...maybe it's just me, but that seems like a hell of a lot of money for a phone.
Yeah, I know it's got a lot of cool features and is undoubtedly a very capable device...but still, almost $1000 for a phone?
I also understand that most people will get this with a phone plan so they won't just buy it outright, but even so...I guess I'm out of touch with what a new, top-of-the-line phone goes for these days. Personally I couldn't see spending that much on a phone, but that's just me.
This is what happens when you have too much cash and too few ideas.
Bingo.
They're on a desperate quest to find new shit to add to their overloaded platform, and they've been reduced to copying the look and feel of their competitor's interfaces. All that money and no clue as to what to do with it.
I just can't believe that Facebook would copy something from another company in hopes of increasing their market share.
For the love of all that is holy.. consolidate some of these logins, Microsoft!
They did that with Microsoft Passport (also known as .NET Passport, Microsoft Passport Network, and Windows Live ID).
I'm not sure how it fared or what the overall success rate of the consolidation was.
Yes, the use of the word "share" can be misconstrued in this context.
Think of it in the context of heroin users "sharing" a needle, or when a child coughs directly into your face to "share" his cold with you.
Win 10 sucks, and the proof is that people actually took the time to sit down and write utilities that you could use to prevent it from installing itself.
That's a pretty clear sign of unpopularity by any measure.
Name me another OS that has had a free utility written to prevent it from installing. I'll wait.......