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  1. Re: The guy is a moron. on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No relation as far as I can determine from a Google search.

  2. Re: bitcoin address is not equal person on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How many of those 4% are exchanges? Or is that not how exchanges work?

  3. Re: Tulips... on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Initially, perhaps those stocks would crash. However, make it a requirement that businesses clean up after themselves and the market will equalize. It will become a cost of doing business, like taxes or medical insurance.

    As long as we focus on growing our economy to raise the quality of life for all, and not reducing the livelihood of our fellow man to generate a difference in economic value, our economy will bounce back from becoming sustainable and environmentally friendly. Such requires a long term focus and commitment.

    This also brings up the matter of globalization. There has to be a united effort to achieve this goal across the entire market. Globalization widens that requirement to the entire globe. Certain markets not regulated by the same government can execute a form of economic warfare by under bidding domestic companies. The foreign agent can acquire all the jobs by narrowing their goals to simple profit, and paying no heed to the damage of greed. Short term gains, long term losses.

  4. Re: The Bitcoin challenge on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Protecting I.T. jobs and countering age discrimination isn't an investment strategy, it is a career.

    Outside of bubbles, which gains and losses are entirely unpredictable, growth from investments typically do not happen overnight. Which means that a person has to be able to hold onto their job long enough to win big in the stock market. Which is essentially what a 401k plan is.

    Bitcoin only has one thing going for it, and that is low and limited supply. In 2020 the supply of Bitcoins is expected to be cut in half. This will either ensure high "stock" proces for another decade, or it will jar and stall the market leading to a crash. So if you want to gamble on how people will react, or gamble on how long people will be fooled by Bitcoin, be my guest. Play chicken with your money. Speculate on speculation.

  5. Re: The guy is a moron. on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    #Confusing Jimmy Buffett, country music artist, with Warren Buffett, famed investor and said to be the 2nd richest man in the world.

  6. Re: Inquiring minds want to know on Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    The house has multiple walls, and a larger surface area to absorb the damage. It is also more likely to stay in place. Aside from a direct hit, or radiation fallout, or a chemical or biological weapon, you should survive inside the house.

    The automobile has little to maintain its position, just four tires. It wasn't designed to withstand extreme conditions. The windows can be shattered, and the frame can crumple on top of you. Few vehicles are strong enough to survive such extre conditions.

  7. Re: Still just using jQuery/UI on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like good a good thing, with those edge cases. We don't want to end up with a bunch of magical machines that nobody knows how to maintain.

  8. Re: State Exercise? on Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Purely a state exercise" is disavowing all knowledge and responsibility at the Federal level. Translation: "We're staying out of this one."

  9. Uhm, yes.

    The FBI is an intelligence agency. It is their job to collect intel.

    It is also a domestic focused agency. Which means the intel they are tasked with collecting is for US citizens, and matters which happen on US soil. This is why we want trusted and vetted individuals handling this information, and not outsourcing it to other intelligence agencies abroad.

  10. Re: Fair use doesn't work like TFA thinks... on 'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy (sfwa.org) · · Score: 2

    Something worth researching. Even if that is the case, we need to discuss the intent and consequences.

    The purpose of copyright is to encourage new works. To enhance the public domain, by having content creators benefit from those works for a limited time after their creation.

    A library's purpose is to make available those works to the general public, to enrich and advance our society. However, Libraries have been geographically limited, which limited the impact of profit on content creators, and likely serves more to increase the reach and audience of a particular author.

    By making the works available to to broader geographic range, essentially everybody, thr Internet Archive potentially works against the spirit and agenda of copyright law.

  11. Re: Recent change on 'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy (sfwa.org) · · Score: 1

    The copy the internet archive licensed is likely not licensed to be reproduced. Thus this is a copyright violation.

    There is a huge difference between accessing a digital copied stored locally on a library's computer, or computer network, and accessing that copy remotely from any machine in the world.

    The Internet Archive is in violation of copyright.

  12. Re: It's just a Library service on 'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy (sfwa.org) · · Score: 1

    Physical books carry an inherent license within the book itself, and are accounted for as they were printed. Due to the nature of the physical copy, the quantities are also limited. Digital copies are less accounted for, and are much more easily obtained. There need only be one digital copy legally obtained to saturate the market with unlicensed copies, in unlimited quantities, destroying the market for the work itself.

  13. Not sure how the book archives work, but the "Wayback Machine" is a more common name for its primary resource. Have a URL to an abandoned or closed website that you needed something off of, but didn't get before the site went down? Do a search for a backup of the site in the archive.

  14. Re: Fair use doesn't work like TFA thinks... on 'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy (sfwa.org) · · Score: 2

    Not entirely. We must first establish what is knowedge to be protected, and haggle over the rest.

    This is part of the haggling process. This IS the discussion. There are merits and complications and things to consider for both sides of the argument.

    Moreover, does protecting previously written works allow for the creation of new works? The copyright extensions issue is of a similar nature as this. It is one thing for an item to enter the public domain, but do we have a right to preserve and maintain accessibility of something until such a time as it enters the public domain?

  15. You're overcomplicating it. We already know Facebook does real time audio survelliance.

    We also know that people typically keep their phones on them.

    What we don't know is how many of the people we interact with daily have "always on" apps on their digitial devices.

  16. An important system being controlled by a smartphone app isn't dumb. It is an option as long as the process is locked down and secure. If there is any desire to improve manageability and access then a smartphone app is a good thing. Now, important systems which contain sensitive financial/health/etc information or which affect risk to a persons health or life should not be accessible outside of trusted on-site users. Smart phone apps should not be allowed for these systems to avoid creating a bridge between the internal (company) and external (cellular) networks.

  17. If ease of access and remote accessibility takes priority over safety when the dangers are to life and limb of employees, well whoever is pitching that needs to be talked down to. Bring proof and we'll get whoever is hosting these conferences shut down, and shut out of whatever business they are in entirely.

  18. Re: Why the hell would anyone want or need this? on Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Double-whoosh. Jokes not funny anymore.

    IPv4, is IPv4. But IPv4 isn't sustainable long term, and is on its way out. Eventually IPv4 won't even be included in the local TCP/IP stack on a networked machine. Then IPv6 will be IPv6, and "::1" will be the way to ping a loopback interface.

    TL:DR: "::1" IS "127.0.0.1". It is also less typing, and just as easy to remember.

  19. Re: Microsoft's problem? on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that I am agreeing with the AC here.

    Ubuntu may be a "free" OS, built around what was once a hobby for a bunch of nerds. That doesn't excuse where it is strategically positioned. Ubuntu is now included with Microsoft Windows. It is a part of a truly commercial desktop system. They are backed by a commercial entity in Canonical, which provides enterprise level support to compete with RedHat, etc.

    In my experience, kernel updates, which deploy as part of the normal update process, are not trivial. I stopped using, and eventually deleted Ubuntu from my PC altogether, due to non-trivial kernel updates b0rking my system every single time I updated from one release to the next. Literally, every single time. At work I'm running into the other problem of inodes and/or disk space filling up on volumes containing the kernels or kernel sources, resulting in failed kernel upgrades and non-booting servers. I put up with it because Microsoft needs some competition, but I'm burned out on Ubuntu.

  20. Re: More bricking... on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Swap HDD, install a copy of the OS with the kernel that boots, then copy the kernel files from the new hdd to the old one running the b0rked OS. Correct the links in the root of the drive, and it boots.

    Or you could just boot the new HDD, and pull the data off the old drive into the new install. Presto! Laptop works again.

  21. Re: Bricked!!?!?! Oh wow! on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That requires advanced knowledge. Selecting a previous kernel is fairly intuitive, and fairly simple. The menus are usually displayed or otherwise made apparent to even the more novice users. Grub boot parameters, particularly those which resulted from changes to the kernel, and this are either new, or their impact is new, are typically not presented nor explained to a user by a b0rked machine.

  22. Re: Why the hell would anyone want or need this? on Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    He's asking if your computer is up to date. "127.0.0.1" is old school, ancient, obsolete. All the l33t kids use "::1" these days.

  23. Re: Failed reboot is not "bricking" on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    What I understood the word "brick" to originally mean, was that a device had been rendered so completely unusable that it had no more value or functionality than a brick, as there was no means for anyone other than the manufacturer to restore the device to any form of operation. Usually this was in spite of the fact that the hardware itself was fully functional.

    As most of these devices were locked down regarding firmware and encryption, to limit rooting the device, etc., most of the causes were software related, corrupt operating systems and firmware, etc. The manufacturer's design choices made them impossible for a third party to repair. Rarely was it a hardware malfuction or failure.

  24. Or you can use an AV scanner to be a second set of eyes on your network. If you notice a virus on a machine, submit it to your AV vendor, and then check your administration console to see who opens attachments or clicks on links without identifying the source.

  25. After dealing with yet another rash of viruses, I can attest that an antivirus is not purely FUD.

    Any time I can avoid spending mopping up after the average joe is a good thing.

    Furthermore, a subscription expiring does not automatically mean that the anti-virus will no longer recieve updates. When AVG's subscription expires it switches to the free mode, and receives the same updates as the free version.