Yeah... with the number of social security numbers that were exposed, a complete social security number reset for everyone in the US is the only practical option.
The fine for this breach also needs to be in the 10 billion range for it to actually make a difference. Basically, you need to make securing your systems LESS expensive than the fine for not doing so before CEO's will start taking security seriously.
Right, because Bitcoin is SUCH a safe alternative. How many Bitcoin exchanges have been shut down at this point because of embezzlement or money laundering schemes? I've lost count. At least your bank account is FDIC insured in the US... with Bitcoin you're basically screwed because it's largely unregulated.
Honestly, I'm not sure where it's headed. Sure, the value will probably crash back down to a three digit value in the short term, but five years from now it might be worth $20,000 each.
This really depends on how willing the world governments will allow the currency to exist, knowing that most of the transactions are being used for less than legal purposes (drug buys, kiddie porn, money laundering, cryptolocker ransoms, etc).
He could also be mentioning BTC-E, Bitinstant, or the dozens of other smaller currency changes that have either gone bust or defrauded users over the past few years.
That's the downside of using a basically unregulated currency. If you lose it, you really have no legal recourse to get it back.
So, yeah... I have no interest in investing my life savings in Bitcoin now or anytime soon, no matter how quickly the perceived value rises.
What I want to know is who is still buying new SPARC servers in 2017? Almost everyone moved off to either commodity Intel hardware or Amazon/Azure/Google/IBM cloud instances years ago.
I only watched a single movie (Dunkirk) this summer, mostly because almost every other major movie release was a:
1) Squeal from a movie franchise that I've lost interest in 2) Reboot of a movie franchise that I've lost interest in, possibly because I'm old enough to have seen the original movie back when it was... well... Original. 3) Was yet another comic book movie (Do we really need more than 3 of these a year?)
There aren't many people crazy enough to pay over $4,000 each for Monopoly dollars, though.
Like it or not, any item (even Bitcoin) is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Whether or not it will still be worth $4,000 a year from now it anyone's guess at this point. It could become the next Mastercard, or the various world governments might outlaw the currency and start prosecuting enough users to make it's value plummet.
Personally, the lack of certainty either way is enough to make me stay away at this point.
To be brutally honest, the types of transactions that most people make with Bitcoin (drug buys, money laundering, etc) aren't exactly the ones you want to report to the government. If they were dumb enough to report those to the IRS, they'll have problems worse than tax evasion to worry about.
I've seen something like six different variations of this story show up on my news feed from about six different technology blogs at this point.
Something tells me that this job posting plan backfired, and now they are getting thousands of resumes from rookie developers who are nowhere near being qualified for that job.
Well... Paypal won't take their money anymore. If the Neo Nazi's are already moving their sites to the dark net, it only makes sense for them to start using cryptocurrency as well.
That's great, except that the founder of Bitcoin is a mysterious shadow figure that goes by a pseudonym. Besides, the real future of Bitcoin is basically in the hands of a few large Chinese mining organizations at this point. I doubt that they give a damn what it's being used for... they just want the newly minted coins and the transaction fees.
It's too bad that there aren't any statistics out there for "legit" Bitcoin transactions versus the ones used for things like ransomware, money laundering, kiddie porn, and illegal drugs.
My hunch is that the latter would greatly outweigh the former.
I know that you're probably kidding, but it would be interesting if events like this cause someone to start a conservative alternative to Google. One doesn't really exist right now, considering that Microsoft and Amazon are just liberal as their silicon valley counterparts.
That 18 core Intel processor will probably cost $600 more than the 16 core Threadripper processor, though. I'm not sure if the 15% performance boost will be worth the price.
Yes, but the headline is misleading. It seems to imply that the AMD chip is "handily outpacing" the Core i9, but it really only does so in select applications.
But, hey... competition is competition. Intel's CPU improvements haven't progressed this quickly for the past 5 years, and we have AMD to thank for that.
Financial analysts LOVE Excel for their financial models. Junior analysts spend so much time using it that their bosses often take away their mice and force them to learn all of the keyboard shortcuts to improve their productivity.
Yeah... SJW's tend to be the kind of people who are complaining that there weren't enough blacks, women, and transgendered people represented in the new Dunkirk movie.
Umm... it's a military movie based in the 1940's. There weren't many blacks, women, and transgendered people stranded on that beach that needed saving from the Germans.
The OP kinda covered this in his original post when they mentioned "recruiter spam". Microsoft needs the app to collect as much personal information that it can to provide to job placement sites and job recruiters. That's how the app pays for itself, and it another good reason why you should just use the web site instead.
Or they could have lost it all, depending on which Bitcoin exchange they used.
What's even scarier is that the price of Bitcoin can STILL swing as much as 25% in a day even now. Anybody who's treating their Bitcoin as a serious investment is smoking crack.
Don't forget the rule that the "best" camera is the one you have on you. For that reason (and that reason alone), your smartphone is the best camera available in many cases.
Also don't forget that the "best" camera is the one that you actually know how to use. A DSLR that's always set in Auto mode (because the owner doesn't know/remember how the other options work) isn't going to really take better pictures than an iPhone in many instances.
The infamous quad GPU 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 required so much power that it needed an external power adapter called the "Voodoo Volts". This was back when we only had AGP graphics card slots, so the idea of having dual PCI-E power connections on a single card was unheard of at the time.
Nowadays, one of these watercooled Radeon Vega cards can draw up to 400 watts when it's overclocked. And there will be people who will run 2 of them in Crossfire. Crazy.
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Yeah... with the number of social security numbers that were exposed, a complete social security number reset for everyone in the US is the only practical option.
The fine for this breach also needs to be in the 10 billion range for it to actually make a difference. Basically, you need to make securing your systems LESS expensive than the fine for not doing so before CEO's will start taking security seriously.
Right, because Bitcoin is SUCH a safe alternative. How many Bitcoin exchanges have been shut down at this point because of embezzlement or money laundering schemes? I've lost count. At least your bank account is FDIC insured in the US... with Bitcoin you're basically screwed because it's largely unregulated.
Wait a minute... he's expecting Google to HELP him advertise a competing browser that's based off of Google's open source offerings?
LOL... good luck with that, buddy. Maybe he should give his ad money to Bing or Duck Duck Go instead.
Honestly, I'm not sure where it's headed. Sure, the value will probably crash back down to a three digit value in the short term, but five years from now it might be worth $20,000 each.
This really depends on how willing the world governments will allow the currency to exist, knowing that most of the transactions are being used for less than legal purposes (drug buys, kiddie porn, money laundering, cryptolocker ransoms, etc).
He could also be mentioning BTC-E, Bitinstant, or the dozens of other smaller currency changes that have either gone bust or defrauded users over the past few years.
That's the downside of using a basically unregulated currency. If you lose it, you really have no legal recourse to get it back.
So, yeah... I have no interest in investing my life savings in Bitcoin now or anytime soon, no matter how quickly the perceived value rises.
What I want to know is who is still buying new SPARC servers in 2017? Almost everyone moved off to either commodity Intel hardware or Amazon/Azure/Google/IBM cloud instances years ago.
I only watched a single movie (Dunkirk) this summer, mostly because almost every other major movie release was a:
1) Squeal from a movie franchise that I've lost interest in
2) Reboot of a movie franchise that I've lost interest in, possibly because I'm old enough to have seen the original movie back when it was... well... Original.
3) Was yet another comic book movie (Do we really need more than 3 of these a year?)
There aren't many people crazy enough to pay over $4,000 each for Monopoly dollars, though.
Like it or not, any item (even Bitcoin) is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Whether or not it will still be worth $4,000 a year from now it anyone's guess at this point. It could become the next Mastercard, or the various world governments might outlaw the currency and start prosecuting enough users to make it's value plummet.
Personally, the lack of certainty either way is enough to make me stay away at this point.
It's probably more like Samsung being too damn cheap to provide updates to "Smart" TV's that are more than 12 months old.
So, yeah... your TV isn't crashing right now, but it's probably full of security holes and will probably become part of an IoT botnet someday.
To be brutally honest, the types of transactions that most people make with Bitcoin (drug buys, money laundering, etc) aren't exactly the ones you want to report to the government. If they were dumb enough to report those to the IRS, they'll have problems worse than tax evasion to worry about.
I've seen something like six different variations of this story show up on my news feed from about six different technology blogs at this point.
Something tells me that this job posting plan backfired, and now they are getting thousands of resumes from rookie developers who are nowhere near being qualified for that job.
I'm still waiting for Slashdotcoin! Maybe the trolls can exchange them for karma points!
Well... Paypal won't take their money anymore. If the Neo Nazi's are already moving their sites to the dark net, it only makes sense for them to start using cryptocurrency as well.
That's great, except that the founder of Bitcoin is a mysterious shadow figure that goes by a pseudonym. Besides, the real future of Bitcoin is basically in the hands of a few large Chinese mining organizations at this point. I doubt that they give a damn what it's being used for... they just want the newly minted coins and the transaction fees.
It's too bad that there aren't any statistics out there for "legit" Bitcoin transactions versus the ones used for things like ransomware, money laundering, kiddie porn, and illegal drugs.
My hunch is that the latter would greatly outweigh the former.
I know that you're probably kidding, but it would be interesting if events like this cause someone to start a conservative alternative to Google. One doesn't really exist right now, considering that Microsoft and Amazon are just liberal as their silicon valley counterparts.
That 18 core Intel processor will probably cost $600 more than the 16 core Threadripper processor, though. I'm not sure if the 15% performance boost will be worth the price.
Yes, but the headline is misleading. It seems to imply that the AMD chip is "handily outpacing" the Core i9, but it really only does so in select applications.
But, hey... competition is competition. Intel's CPU improvements haven't progressed this quickly for the past 5 years, and we have AMD to thank for that.
No, we had those in the states as well. They just stopped selling once the iPod and it's various clones came down to a reasonable price point.
Financial analysts LOVE Excel for their financial models. Junior analysts spend so much time using it that their bosses often take away their mice and force them to learn all of the keyboard shortcuts to improve their productivity.
Yeah... SJW's tend to be the kind of people who are complaining that there weren't enough blacks, women, and transgendered people represented in the new Dunkirk movie.
Umm... it's a military movie based in the 1940's. There weren't many blacks, women, and transgendered people stranded on that beach that needed saving from the Germans.
The OP kinda covered this in his original post when they mentioned "recruiter spam". Microsoft needs the app to collect as much personal information that it can to provide to job placement sites and job recruiters. That's how the app pays for itself, and it another good reason why you should just use the web site instead.
Or they could have lost it all, depending on which Bitcoin exchange they used.
What's even scarier is that the price of Bitcoin can STILL swing as much as 25% in a day even now. Anybody who's treating their Bitcoin as a serious investment is smoking crack.
Don't forget the rule that the "best" camera is the one you have on you. For that reason (and that reason alone), your smartphone is the best camera available in many cases.
Also don't forget that the "best" camera is the one that you actually know how to use. A DSLR that's always set in Auto mode (because the owner doesn't know/remember how the other options work) isn't going to really take better pictures than an iPhone in many instances.
The infamous quad GPU 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 required so much power that it needed an external power adapter called the "Voodoo Volts". This was back when we only had AGP graphics card slots, so the idea of having dual PCI-E power connections on a single card was unheard of at the time.
Nowadays, one of these watercooled Radeon Vega cards can draw up to 400 watts when it's overclocked. And there will be people who will run 2 of them in Crossfire. Crazy.