Me too. Which is why that Windows VM I occasionally use keeps popping up with "No Internet" when the Internet is fine. Just no Microsoft until I turn it on.
Its useless to calculate a dollar price. Tell us the number of bitcoin. Because if you try to sell these amount of bitcoin, the price will drop so you will NOT get $14 billion. So it's just bullshit to quantify it in dollar.
That is not how market cap works. If you try to sell all of the Apple Stock at once it will go down as well.
I'm still waiting for a government or national-bank to issue blockchain-based currency that is backed by a familiar, tangible asset such as gold, silver, or the local fiat currency....
If Bitcoin becomes too much of a nuisance, the Chinese government will either regulate it to death or, if regulation is deemed not effective enough, outright ban it.
No, they were computers which is the point of the story... Sheesh... We went from not reading the article to not reading the summery to not reading the headline...;)
Maybe we should start thinking about ways to mitigate this kind of thing. If putting all your eggs in one basket and watching it isn't working
then maybe it's better to start thinking about ways to break it up. If instead of having companes like google, yahoo, and facebook with
billions of users, we had hundreds of companies each with a million users apiece then the profit potential is greatly reduced. It still takes
the same amount of work to hack into the system but if you only get 1M accounts then your profit is only $300 instead of $300,000.
I would love to have federated social networking the way e-mail works now! Think of how much better the UI (Timeline, home page, whatever...) would be when moving did not mean losing your friends!
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It is totally reasonable to expect a customer to hop a plane to the nearest service center. Absolutely.
Can you stick a TV in carry on?
I can't think any better demonstration of why smart TVs are such a bad idea than this. I hope this story gets as much chatter as possible.
Especially with NUCs and similar becoming so cheap... All I want is a dumb display!
Me too. Which is why that Windows VM I occasionally use keeps popping up with "No Internet" when the Internet is fine. Just no Microsoft until I turn it on.
Well, not a warrant you see or get to protest... It will be served to Amazon.
Someone in command said "Grab everything" and blind compliance is less risk then thinking. Especially if the boss is tech illiterate...
Transportation is not a zero cost. Also, when you fully control the environment, that includes pests like insects and weeds...
It is on a downswing again. I stand corrected.
That was just the first google hit... Not going to bring out the impressive Google-fu for an AC on slashdot. :)
Its useless to calculate a dollar price. Tell us the number of bitcoin. Because if you try to sell these amount of bitcoin, the price will drop so you will NOT get $14 billion. So it's just bullshit to quantify it in dollar.
That is not how market cap works. If you try to sell all of the Apple Stock at once it will go down as well.
I'm still waiting for a government or national-bank to issue blockchain-based currency that is backed by a familiar, tangible asset such as gold, silver, or the local fiat currency....
I was following you right up to the last item.
Perhaps you need a dictionary...
noun, plural currencies. 1. something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
On any topic, that phrase automatically marks you as an idiot.
He also does not know anyone that has had sex with a real girl, so it probably never actually happens... :)
You could say the same thing about a lot of currencies right now...
If Bitcoin becomes too much of a nuisance, the Chinese government will either regulate it to death or, if regulation is deemed not effective enough, outright ban it.
Like they did with prostitution and drugs!
Well, would you trust leaving all your investments in the Yuan?
Fine line between bubble, and demand. Gold is also going up, and trust in currency is going way down. But it is looking awfully bubbly about now...
You mean like this? https://www.shopify.com/blog/1...
How do I make myself a company?
No, they were computers which is the point of the story... Sheesh... We went from not reading the article to not reading the summery to not reading the headline... ;)
I would think "Hang on, I am still loading" would be best...
Steal from my door when I am home and you have a lot more "risk" then getting a bag of rice...
The thief seems to think so if they are stealing in a castle doctrine state.
"usually not installed by default in Linux distros" Really?
The Vanilla Ubuntu 16.04.1 desktop image I have at hand shows that it they are installed by default:
Did you check that box during install to install additional codecs that is unchecked by default?
I only used mine for Ashley Maddison, so no big loss. ;)
Maybe we should start thinking about ways to mitigate this kind of thing. If putting all your eggs in one basket and watching it isn't working then maybe it's better to start thinking about ways to break it up. If instead of having companes like google, yahoo, and facebook with billions of users, we had hundreds of companies each with a million users apiece then the profit potential is greatly reduced. It still takes the same amount of work to hack into the system but if you only get 1M accounts then your profit is only $300 instead of $300,000.
I would love to have federated social networking the way e-mail works now! Think of how much better the UI (Timeline, home page, whatever...) would be when moving did not mean losing your friends!