Yeah... we had people mining World Of Warcraft gold and Second Life Linden Dollars for profit long before Bitcoin and it's clones arrived. If you give people an easy way to make money with their computer in their spare time, people will try it no matter how pathetic the daily returns are.
Knowing Reddit, any comments badmouthing the sponsored posts will also quickly be down voted to a -20 rating, or whatever else it takes to make the post disappear from the main page.
Well, if you were smart enough to mine a few hundred Bitcoin back in 2010 and held onto them, you would be a millionaire now.
As an actual currency, though, it kind of sucks. The transaction fees are high, the confirmation time takes way too long, and the value of your "currency" can swing in value by over 30% in a week. That last statement alone is enough to prevent most "real" transactions being done with the before converting it to something like USD first.
Personally, I think that Google is more worried about the sites forgoing advertising and using a crypto miner running in the background instead. That kind of kills their ad based revenue model.
I can still see this being a problem, though, as it will make scanning other "free" software on the Mac App Store for embedded crypto miners more difficult.
Basically, they just made "Oh, yeah, that's a feature" a valid excuse for failing that part of the malware scan.
Considering that I was responding to an obvious troll post, I left OK being a bit snarky about it.
Of course, there are a lot of thin skinned people around here, so I figured that I'd lose a bit of karma by posting that. That's just what happens when you protest the groupthink around here.
I'm not sure how many people it's actually going to "kill" in the SF area. If it's really only going up 2 millimeters a year on average, I'm sure that San Francisco can build flood walls fast enough to mitigate that for decades if not centuries. Sure, you'll need a scuba license to visit Alcatraz and the city is eventually going to look like a walled fortress a few centuries from now, but they'll likely be OK.
Considering the property taxes they must be raking in from their 2 million dollar 3 bedroom houses and $4,000 a month studio apartment buildings, I'm sure that they can afford those flood walls as well. I'd be more worried about our Mexican neighbors to the south of us.
Last I heard, you don't need to fill out an instant background check form for a box of nails. That said, I live in a "Blue" state, so it wouldn't surprise me if they started requiring one.
Maybe they'll start calling the extra pointy black nails "assault nails", and put us on a waiting list for those.
On a site this old, I wouldn't be surprised if they had some old PHP code with a hardcoded IP address in there that messed up the works during the migration. I see that stuff all the time when moving legacy crap to a newer platform.
That wouldn't explain why the migration took days, though. An outage that bad usually involves database corruption and/or a full restore from a backup.
Yeah, it's not that Google failed... it's that they didn't really try all that hard to begin with. They basically rolled out 4 or 5 test markets, realized that "Gee, this broadband stuff is hard!", and then took their ball and went home.
We really need municipalities to try harder at rolling out faster broadband, since they are more vested in it's overall success.
Can you still get security updates for the S5? It seems that Samsung cuts you off after three years after the product was originally released, which kinda sucks for those people who buy it on clearance after the new model comes out.
My workplace doesn't have an open guest Wi-Fi access point because they are paranoid about security, and they also have a strict "no devices from home on our network" policy as well. In that case, having a smartphone with a good data plan comes in handy.
I would gladly upgrade from my iPhone 6 to an iPhone X if the damn thing didn't cost $1,000. Maybe they'll have a reasonably priced model available next year.
Funny, I figured that Microsoft will do the same "OS Version 10 Forever" strategy that Apple is doing.
I wouldn't expect a major UI revamp from either Apple or Microsoft without a major technology breakthrough like 3D holographic displays. After the Windows 8 debacle, I think that most of their customers are afraid of change.
I'm personally more worried about the people who don't take their prescribed medication and then decide that it's a good idea to go shoot up a school. We seem to be having a lot of those incidents lately.
If someone is hell bent on killing a bunch of people, blocking their access to an AR-15 isn't really going to stop them. Instead, they'll just rent a truck and mow down a crowd of people with that. Sadly, it seems like that's becoming the preferred way of doing mass killings in places where guns are restricted.
Now, now... I doubt that anyone in Washington actually wants to fix the problem. They just want move it from an anti-gun story (that Republicans hate) to an anti-Hollywood story (that Democrats hate).
Haven't people already confirmed that Alexa and Google Home do NOT transmit any information to the WAN unless they are activated by their keyword? People plugged these things into packet sniffers a long time ago, and found that these privacy warnings are totally overblown.
You would be better off worrying about your Smart TV, or your older Smartphones and tablets that aren't getting security updates. If someone is going hack your home and plant listening device malware, that's the route they are going to take.
Google Home already has an app for ordering stuff from Walmart now, right? Perhaps they need to team up with someone like Albertsons or PeaPod to get voice activated grocery ordering working on that platform as well.
Actually, I hope that they don't let most people actually drive/fly these flying cars when they finally come out. Many of us can't even drive the ground based ones correctly, even less so after a few drinks or with a cell phone in our hands.
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Yeah... we had people mining World Of Warcraft gold and Second Life Linden Dollars for profit long before Bitcoin and it's clones arrived. If you give people an easy way to make money with their computer in their spare time, people will try it no matter how pathetic the daily returns are.
Knowing Reddit, any comments badmouthing the sponsored posts will also quickly be down voted to a -20 rating, or whatever else it takes to make the post disappear from the main page.
Well, if you were smart enough to mine a few hundred Bitcoin back in 2010 and held onto them, you would be a millionaire now.
As an actual currency, though, it kind of sucks. The transaction fees are high, the confirmation time takes way too long, and the value of your "currency" can swing in value by over 30% in a week. That last statement alone is enough to prevent most "real" transactions being done with the before converting it to something like USD first.
Personally, I think that Google is more worried about the sites forgoing advertising and using a crypto miner running in the background instead. That kind of kills their ad based revenue model.
I can still see this being a problem, though, as it will make scanning other "free" software on the Mac App Store for embedded crypto miners more difficult.
Basically, they just made "Oh, yeah, that's a feature" a valid excuse for failing that part of the malware scan.
Considering that I was responding to an obvious troll post, I left OK being a bit snarky about it.
Of course, there are a lot of thin skinned people around here, so I figured that I'd lose a bit of karma by posting that. That's just what happens when you protest the groupthink around here.
I'm not sure how many people it's actually going to "kill" in the SF area. If it's really only going up 2 millimeters a year on average, I'm sure that San Francisco can build flood walls fast enough to mitigate that for decades if not centuries. Sure, you'll need a scuba license to visit Alcatraz and the city is eventually going to look like a walled fortress a few centuries from now, but they'll likely be OK.
Considering the property taxes they must be raking in from their 2 million dollar 3 bedroom houses and $4,000 a month studio apartment buildings, I'm sure that they can afford those flood walls as well. I'd be more worried about our Mexican neighbors to the south of us.
Last I heard, you don't need to fill out an instant background check form for a box of nails. That said, I live in a "Blue" state, so it wouldn't surprise me if they started requiring one.
Maybe they'll start calling the extra pointy black nails "assault nails", and put us on a waiting list for those.
On a site this old, I wouldn't be surprised if they had some old PHP code with a hardcoded IP address in there that messed up the works during the migration. I see that stuff all the time when moving legacy crap to a newer platform.
That wouldn't explain why the migration took days, though. An outage that bad usually involves database corruption and/or a full restore from a backup.
Yeah, it's not that Google failed... it's that they didn't really try all that hard to begin with. They basically rolled out 4 or 5 test markets, realized that "Gee, this broadband stuff is hard!", and then took their ball and went home.
We really need municipalities to try harder at rolling out faster broadband, since they are more vested in it's overall success.
Can you still get security updates for the S5? It seems that Samsung cuts you off after three years after the product was originally released, which kinda sucks for those people who buy it on clearance after the new model comes out.
My workplace doesn't have an open guest Wi-Fi access point because they are paranoid about security, and they also have a strict "no devices from home on our network" policy as well. In that case, having a smartphone with a good data plan comes in handy.
I would gladly upgrade from my iPhone 6 to an iPhone X if the damn thing didn't cost $1,000. Maybe they'll have a reasonably priced model available next year.
Funny, I figured that Microsoft will do the same "OS Version 10 Forever" strategy that Apple is doing.
I wouldn't expect a major UI revamp from either Apple or Microsoft without a major technology breakthrough like 3D holographic displays. After the Windows 8 debacle, I think that most of their customers are afraid of change.
It also means that I can get to the Slashdot SSL error pages faster. Yay!
You got to hand it to Tesla's PR department, though. If this was ANY other solar sell or battery manufacturer, this wouldn't be front page news.
Elon pretty much has the tech press trained to track his every bowel movement at this point.
You know that's not legal, right? The FCC has rules against restricting the erection of antenna on your property:
https://www.groundedreason.com...
I'm personally more worried about the people who don't take their prescribed medication and then decide that it's a good idea to go shoot up a school. We seem to be having a lot of those incidents lately.
If someone is hell bent on killing a bunch of people, blocking their access to an AR-15 isn't really going to stop them. Instead, they'll just rent a truck and mow down a crowd of people with that. Sadly, it seems like that's becoming the preferred way of doing mass killings in places where guns are restricted.
Now, now... I doubt that anyone in Washington actually wants to fix the problem. They just want move it from an anti-gun story (that Republicans hate) to an anti-Hollywood story (that Democrats hate).
I don't think that your typical Apple user really cares about such technical things. They just want the cool looking phone or watch that Beyonce has.
Sure, us people in IT get screwed by these technical decisions, but we usually aren't the ones who approve the purchase orders for this stuff.
I want to see what happens when you give AI a sales job that requires smoozing customers. That oughta be fun to watch with modern AI technology.
On the flip side, it's a good time to learn how to be a robot repair person. These things are going to break, frequently.
Haven't people already confirmed that Alexa and Google Home do NOT transmit any information to the WAN unless they are activated by their keyword? People plugged these things into packet sniffers a long time ago, and found that these privacy warnings are totally overblown.
You would be better off worrying about your Smart TV, or your older Smartphones and tablets that aren't getting security updates. If someone is going hack your home and plant listening device malware, that's the route they are going to take.
Google Home already has an app for ordering stuff from Walmart now, right? Perhaps they need to team up with someone like Albertsons or PeaPod to get voice activated grocery ordering working on that platform as well.
Actually, I hope that they don't let most people actually drive/fly these flying cars when they finally come out. Many of us can't even drive the ground based ones correctly, even less so after a few drinks or with a cell phone in our hands.