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  1. Re:Bitcoin valuation on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But not sans a transfer fee and waiting days for the transfer to clear if you didn't pick a high enough number.

  2. Re:tulpenmanie on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this like were you can auction off a $20 for more than $20?

    The way that works is the two highest bidders have to pay, but only the highest bidder gets the money. People will bid up to the value of $20 because why not it's free money. But the 2nd place bidder will keep driving up the price in an attempt to lose less money.

  3. Re:Call it what it really is on WSJ: There's An 'Inexorable' Trend Towards Working Remotely (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh... My.. God...

  4. Re:Call it what it really is on WSJ: There's An 'Inexorable' Trend Towards Working Remotely (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    Really, I found the biggest benefit being not having to wear pants. You don't realize how much time you waste dealing with pants until you stop wearing them all together.

  5. A six pack of what? Curing cancer is great, but I might still think twice if I'm stuck with a six pack of natty light.

  6. Re:Why not just a single standard on LG Joins NFC Payment Party With LG Pay (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of the others, but ya Google Wallet used to do the proxy thing.

    Android Pay on the other hand contacts the credit card issuer and generates a new unique credit card number per card and device. Charges are made directly against the credit card without a proxy.

    Google Wallet used to just show the changes as from them. With Android Pay it shows the actual business and rewards points for different categories work the same as if you were paying directly with your card.

  7. Re: Delusional on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad Slashdot doesn't support Unicode to avoid using that.

    Just look at that -> ®

  8. Re:The airlines don't want to take liability for l on US and EU Reject Expanding Laptop Ban To Flights From Europe (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not doing the old starter pistol in the checked camera bag trick? It's legally a gun and needs to be inspected and then locked, it's carefully monitored until it gets back in your hands and unlocked.

  9. Re:eSports scene? on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Compared to curling, there are way less drunk Canadians competing.

  10. SD2SNES if you want to play X3, the SNES Everdrive won't run X2 and X3. The MPU chip in the SD2SNES that allows CD quality music to be hacked into games is also sweet and shows what the SNES CD might have brought about since it was just more storage without any additional processing power unlike the Sega CD.

  11. Re:Reminds me of the Pico Brewer on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on which one. The original Zymatic is what you described, and was interesting in that you could easily control temperature at the different stages so it was reproducible and you could try small tweaks and see what happens.

    They also make a different machine that use a pod like system. I'm not sure how easy it is to run your own recipes with it as I didn't bother following it.

  12. It wasn't a programmed maximum kill count, it was a kill count buffer overflow.

  13. Re: I only use 'cash back' credit cards on Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats (expressnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it's different outside the US, but the Amazon Visa is through Chase not Citi. On Chase's site you can apply the cash as a credit against your statement, though I think you can also get a check if you really wanted to.

    If you have Prime the Amazon Rewards, becomes an Amazon Prime Rewards card and gives you 5% back on Amazon purchases.

    The recent changes to the card also make it the only no annual fee card that also doesn't charge a foreign transaction fee that I could find.

  14. Re: I only use 'cash back' credit cards on Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats (expressnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Citi Double Cash. No annual fee, 2% back on everything.

    Store cards will give better deals, just only use each card at the store it's from.

  15. Re:Exactly that on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? · · Score: 1

    How is it a no win scenario? If the company wishes for the developer to be able to actually work they will either relax the 9-5 so a developer can work when others aren't there to bug them, or to allow some work from home time.

    Either way the developer isn't working 16 hours days and can actually live a normal life with time to spend with their families. Unless you are getting paid overtime, working 16 hours a day is just cutting your hourly pay in half.

  16. Re:Exactly that on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? · · Score: 1

    The solution is to just follow their policy and not work extra hours. When they start questioning why your productivity has dropped you bring up the issues.

    They either change or relax some of the requirements, or you just continue to be less productive.

  17. Gamers Club Unlocked beats Prime's only get the 20% off discount within the first two weeks of release.

    Amazon does occasionally have a Prime exclusive sale price now and then. But wait a week or two and it will be that price at Best Buy and GCU will make it even lower.

  18. Re:If on Amazon Wins $1.5 Billion Tax Dispute Over IRS (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Jesus was very much anti taxes.

    There was an article about times Jesus was a passive aggressive dick. One of the stories had tax collectors being forced to wait around all day as Jesus performed a miracle. As the fishermen would clean fish they would find a coin in each one. So at the end of the day the tax men were paid, but all of the money reeked of fish that was out in the sun all day.

  19. Re:Want good Internet? Move to a city. on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The area isn't that much, you're thinking too flat. You need to build up.

  20. Re:Q: How many Austinites... on America's Most Affordable Cities For Tech Workers: Seattle, Austin, and Pittsburgh (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    You also don't want to mess with them as they can carry leprosy.

  21. Re:And now a Rant from all the Vista Supporters... on Microsoft To End Support For Windows Vista In Less Than a Month (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue was this was the move for the majority of people from the 9x to NT kernel which impacted drivers.

    Vista had the exact same issue as 64-bit was now a thing and new drivers for old hardware had to be written. The drivers were created and working when Windows 7 was released so suddenly all the issues with Vista went away even though 7 was mostly just a reskinned service pack.

  22. Re:Only? on Panasonic Wants Employees To Relax, Limits Work Days To 11 hours (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bunch of slackers, not even working half days (12 hours).

  23. Re:Oh for Pete's Sake! on Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    It was shipped from Europe, so it was handed off to the USPS when it entered the US. The postal service may only allow up to $1,000 in insurance.

  24. Re: Let's Face the Facts... on Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the house that's expensive in the Bay Area. It's the land.

  25. Re:Too Late on GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I do this all the time in MS SQL to troubleshoot application bugs by creating a DEV copy to a specific point in time.

    RESTORE DATABASE SomeDatabase_20170202
      FROM DISK = 'd:\Backups\SomeDatabase_20170202041500.BAK'
      WITH REPLACE, NORECOVERY,
      MOVE 'Data' TO 'D:\SQL\SomeDatabase_20170202.mdf',
      MOVE 'Log' TO 'L:\Log\SomeDatabase_20170202.ldf';
    GO
     
    RESTORE LOG SomeDatabase_20170202
      FROM DISK = 'd:\Backups\SomeDatabase_20170202050500.TRN'
      WITH NORECOVERY, STOPAT = '02/02/2017 4:48';
    GO
     
    RESTORE DATABASE SomeDatabase_20170202 WITH RECOVERY;
    GO

    Now PiT recovery for some tables, while not overwriting other tables in the database. Or even across multiple database can make things get interesting really fast.