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  1. Like outperform has ever been a thing for bitcoin. my dead grandmother could outperform bitcoin, it is a turd when it comes to performance and every cryptocurrency since has made it look terrible, doesn't seem to have hurt its popularity though.

  2. why is that half assed? yes they are clearly scumbags, but you are under no obligation to tell journalists anything and they can happily lie their asses off to them.

  3. Re:Why do this to her? on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ummmm you do realise Jerusalem existed for centuries prior to David's invasion of Jerusalem. regardless it is fucked up that anybody considers events that occurred thousands of years before anyone alive today was born as relavent.

  4. poor investment mindset on Bitcoin Fees Are Skyrocketing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The mentality I don't understand around some of this are people that gambled and won big time (kudos to you), but they still remain invested up to the teeth in bitcoin (fucking moron). I see the same thing in stock market or real estate etc. for fucks sake you made a fortune, get the fuck out, diversify. What sort of mentality is it where someone is rich enough that they are set for life yet continue to risk it all in order to make more. I had friends that went from having 10+ million net worth in 99 to having nothing in 2001 except for a large pile of debt. Same in real estate crash.

    bitcoin is due for a major correction, wonder how many are leveraged to the hilt to turn their 10 million into 100 million.

  5. Any company that can convince people to put the control of their lives into the hands of the public has to be pretty fucking smart, at least smarter than the actual purchaser.

  6. Re:Huge IT Failure on Amazon Finally Launches In Australia (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    you seem ignorant of how the Australian watch dog works. They enforce the rules that retailers can DISCOUNT AS MUCH AS THEY LIKE, RRP cannot be enforced here and deals that artificially keep prices high are illegal and the only restriction is you can't do predatory pricing (i.e. pricing designed specifically to send competitors broke so that they can then lift prices)

  7. abject failure of a launch on Amazon Finally Launches In Australia (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    and what a fucking dismal launch it was, prices are at best average, many of them even more expensive than the local retailers they were claiming they would be 30% cheaper than them. I guess I will continue to use online retailers in the US/Singapore/UK/Germany as even with shipping, duty and fees they are a shit load cheaper than buying locally or being ripped off by amazon.

  8. poor editing on Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    someone needs to learn the meaning of irony! hint there is nothing ironic about the merchandising restriction for action figures as Musk isn't doing them either.

  9. Re:I see a major disconnect here on Mozilla Revenue Jump Fuels Its Firefox Overhaul Plan (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    google don't give a shit about what you use, as long as it presents their ads and allows them to mine your data for onselling.

  10. Re:Translation: They have a LAW program nearly rea on Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 2

    seems more like they have looked at the ridiculousness of what was proposed and said... yeah no, count us out! Seems about as well thought out as Elon Musks comments on AI or that the planet Nibiru will crash into the earth. they don't even have a proper definition of what constitutes LAWS, but whatever definition the UN comes up with you can also guarantee it will exclude all current autonomous or remote weapons systems as neither the US nor any major power is going to start dismantling cruise missles, UAV's etc etc.

  11. Re: IT'S A TRAP! on Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    perhaps learning to read a chart might be a good first step for you. Hint OSX is NOT only 3.34%

  12. Re: IT'S A TRAP! on Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is hardly proof of anything, they develop for platforms based on popularity. Desktop Linux is a fraction of the audience of any of the OS's they support and of those on Linux that use it as a desktop only a fraction of those would be willing to pay for an office product. support for a distro has to make sense and I doubt the support cost for Ubuntu or Mint would make financial sense.

  13. Re:make them deal with SCIF rules on White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The president can do what he wants, SCIF or not..

    The rest of the staff need to follow the rules.

    NO he can't, the president is subject to many of the same rules as everyone else, yes he may get a pass for some shit but he doesn't exist outside the law and yes their are LAWS when dealing with classified information.

  14. each to there own. personally he was by far the best for me. Capaldi had a chance to top him but he was given dog turds for scripts.

  15. If after running up hundreds of instances boot time is anything but pocket change in the process you have completed fucked up your systems.

  16. someone doesn't know the meaning of enterprise on Clear Linux Beats CentOS, openSUSE, and Ubuntu in (Enterprise) Benchmark Tests (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    sounds to me someone doesn't know what the meaning of the word enterprise is if the highlighted comparison in the summary is it "booted fastest"

  17. Re:Between fuel and maintenance savings... on Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    trucking companies swap drivers and no 10 hours is not the maximum at all, it can be upto 16 hours for the driver, a truck though is not limited to only one driver. while it is measured in distance that will obviously depend heavily on load and traffic conditions.

  18. Re:Between fuel and maintenance savings... on Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    500 mile range is way to short, that means the truck is spending way to much valuable time plugged into a charger, even with the fuel saving I doubt it could come close to recovering the losses from not being on the road.

  19. confused by lighting? on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if it was confused by lighting does that mean apple outright lied how it works? or is that just fanboys trying to make up excuses? if you have something that operates by infrared dots on your face that supposedly works in dark or light how the fuck do you get confused by lighting conditions.

  20. Re:buy now or regret it later on Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you don't understand how bitcoin works if you think this takes money away from banks and governments.

  21. Re:This makes no sense on Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    why feel sorry for them? their own stupidity put them in that position in the first place, if they have decided to double down on their stupidity by paying the ransom then they deserve everything it costs them.

  22. same old same old on Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    basically all the old reasons everyone claimed as a need to ditch taxis for something like Uber are now the exact same trustworthy issues faced with Uber.

  23. Re:Make tickets have a person name on Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    you mean problem created. Now you have events where for that to be of any value you have to hire a massive set of people to check ID on the way in, raising ticket costs and massively increasing the time taken to get into events.

  24. there own fault on DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access To Is 'Unreasonable' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Authorities have no one to blame but themselves. They have proven beyond any doubt time and time again that they cannot be trusted to have such access without abusing it, so why would anyone ever trust them.

  25. like anything else in phones and hardware. It is a leapfrog situation that is dependent on when it is released, the IPhone X is the newest device so will have the latest iteration, I would expect the Samsung phone due in feb/march will be as good or better.