It's a bubble! It's a scam! It'll never take off! It doesn't have a ROI! It's blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blather-blother-bloviate...
When it first came out, it cost you fifty cents worth of electricity on your monthly bill. And even when you had to start buying massively powered mining rigs, you were *still* getting coins, even if the ROI wasn't there at the time.
So word to the wise?
The next time something new pops up, that doesn't cost more than fifty cents on your monthly electric bill, don't waste your breath bloviating on the Internet about how it'll never take off, and simply load it on an old machine you were going to scrap anyway, and let it rip.
Right now, it's in the best interests of the corporation to allow the details to be stolen.
Assuming the customer even catches the theft, they're still responsible for the first $50 dollars. And if the company chooses to dispute the customer's claim, they might get more than that.
The seller and processor all file claims with their insurance company, and get their money back.
This is very serious problem in deep diving habitats and environments. The constant moisture, combined with limited mobility and super-saturation of oxygen means that Athlete's Foot grows at a fantastic rate.
Divers living in those habitats have to devote a significant amount of time to scrubbing, cleaning, drying and powdering their feet, or fungal infections will get out of control very rapidly.
Running a VM doesn't take all that much in terms of processor power, but it requires a lot of memory (RAM), usually around 4GB or more. The problem is that 4GB is right at the limit of what XP can use. You want to have at least 8GB of RAM to run smoothly, but that means you have to upgrade to Win7-64 at the very least.
And even if you're running a VM, the machine can still be infected, and act like a vector to spread the virus through the network. So you have to have a firewall and virus scanner, just like a hardware machine.
And since we're dealing with previously unknown zero-days, neither of those are of much use. Indeed, they may be worse than useless, as we're starting to find out.
I've been a customer for 12 years, and I work for their primary competitor. Even with my employee discount, my employer can't coax me over.
But lemme tell you...
Getting 5 miles out of any major metropolitan area, and seeing that little 4G icon vanish? It's annoying. Getting 10 miles outside of an MMA, and seeing no bars at all? It's frustrating.
Being 100 miles into the sticks on a camping trip, and everyone using the competitor network has 5 bars, 4G and is streaming music to the bluetooth speaker?
Yeah. Those are the times I'm tempted to turn to the Dark Side.
Today's current exchange rate is 5.41 coins for $5000.00.
The article doesn't say how long he had the system running. But if it had any serious processing power, and he got 1 coin per month for six months? That's breaking even.
If he managed to do it longer than six months, then that's a profit, especially since he didn't tie up too much time in court trying to plead not guilty.
I would say, "Not bad!", but we don't know how long he was running the software. And he's not likely to say, either.
There are long threads in vehicle forums, dedicated to hacking the OS of the console, so people can add their *own* apps and navigation systems.
Also, there's something very creepy about driving along, and hearing "Caution! Toll booth ahead!" coming out of your speakers, when you aren't using navigation at all.
Which is just one of the many reasons why forum modders work so hard to dump the stock OS.
It took the FAA most of a decade to finally get a ruling regarding all cellphones, and now you want Mongo the Microencephalic TSA Screener to make advanced technical decisions regarding consumer electronics?
Create a "guest access" account on the router and allow that? Absolutely! No problem with that at all, especially since I can log who connects.
Remove all security and just turn my connection (and all liability in a nation not known for being especially scrupulous with it's accusations of wrong-doing) over to the whims of chaos?
"When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery"
It's becoming more and more clear, that Baltimore is going to require a truly massive purge of it's law enforcement ranks. Not just slaps on the wrist, or re-training, but a flat-out "You're fired, and law enforcement credentials revoked" kind of thing.
There won't be any mass riots or anything like that. Those happen because the firings haven't happened when they should.
If anything, it'll become the most peaceful, most pleasant city to live in, until a fresh crop of high-IQ, college-graduates can be convinced to take the job.
"...used a gun to threaten someone outside a convenience store."
The murder victim had been robbed several times, and it was a rough neighborhood. A homeless man came up and asked him for money, but the murder victim declined. When the beggar persisted, and continued to molest the murder victim, they allegedly presented their firearm in a non-threatening manner to warn them off. (Showed the assailant they had a gun in their pocket.)
"... violent offenses..."
Resisting arrest, obstruction of an officer, disturbing the peace. Gosh. Such violence. Wow. Those are like, consolation prizes in the game of Living While Black.
"...possession of a controlled substance."
Weed. A dimebag of weed. Less an ounce, maybe a few grams. But hey, I guess you already know that Louisiana has an absolute zero-tolerance policy to *any* amount of cannabis? At least, prior to 2015, anyway.
So yeah. Take your KKK-brand dogwhistle and head for the door.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a bubble!
It's a scam!
It'll never take off!
It doesn't have a ROI!
It's blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blather-blother-bloviate...
When it first came out, it cost you fifty cents worth of electricity on your monthly bill. And even when you had to start buying massively powered mining rigs, you were *still* getting coins, even if the ROI wasn't there at the time.
So word to the wise?
The next time something new pops up, that doesn't cost more than fifty cents on your monthly electric bill, don't waste your breath bloviating on the Internet about how it'll never take off, and simply load it on an old machine you were going to scrap anyway, and let it rip.
I mean, hey, if Our Fearless Leader can do it and get away with it, why not everyone else?
Robot bee with a thin needle on it's head, coated in saxitoxin. Just crash into the target.
Right now, it's in the best interests of the corporation to allow the details to be stolen.
Assuming the customer even catches the theft, they're still responsible for the first $50 dollars. And if the company chooses to dispute the customer's claim, they might get more than that.
The seller and processor all file claims with their insurance company, and get their money back.
In short, everyone but the victim wins.
Until that changes, this will continue to happen.
Eh, fair enough, I suppose?
I should have said "...now have additional justification to obtain funding..."
The Good: It drives the "weekend Nazis" away, and they'll simply get bored and go back to being irrelevant.
The Bad: The real Nazis will embrace this, and will gladly slither into the depths.
The Ugly: Government agencies now have a valid excuse to obtain funding for exponentially increasing the number of exit nodes under their control.
Here, let me help you with this. It's called False Equivalence: a logical fallacy in which two opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not.
That's the most common, most plausible, and also most terrifying theory.
Because if for some reason it stops...
1: NEVER STEAL FROM RICH PEOPLE. Only steal from middle-class and below.
2. If you're still going to steal from rich people, make sure they're not white.
3. If you obey rules 1 & 2, don't be such a pulsating rectal cyst that even rich white people hate you.
This is very serious problem in deep diving habitats and environments. The constant moisture, combined with limited mobility and super-saturation of oxygen means that Athlete's Foot grows at a fantastic rate.
Divers living in those habitats have to devote a significant amount of time to scrubbing, cleaning, drying and powdering their feet, or fungal infections will get out of control very rapidly.
I do coke.
So I can work longer.
So I can make more!
So I can do more coke.
Running a VM doesn't take all that much in terms of processor power, but it requires a lot of memory (RAM), usually around 4GB or more. The problem is that 4GB is right at the limit of what XP can use. You want to have at least 8GB of RAM to run smoothly, but that means you have to upgrade to Win7-64 at the very least.
And even if you're running a VM, the machine can still be infected, and act like a vector to spread the virus through the network. So you have to have a firewall and virus scanner, just like a hardware machine.
And since we're dealing with previously unknown zero-days, neither of those are of much use. Indeed, they may be worse than useless, as we're starting to find out.
I've been a customer for 12 years, and I work for their primary competitor. Even with my employee discount, my employer can't coax me over.
But lemme tell you...
Getting 5 miles out of any major metropolitan area, and seeing that little 4G icon vanish? It's annoying. Getting 10 miles outside of an MMA, and seeing no bars at all? It's frustrating.
Being 100 miles into the sticks on a camping trip, and everyone using the competitor network has 5 bars, 4G and is streaming music to the bluetooth speaker?
Yeah. Those are the times I'm tempted to turn to the Dark Side.
Today's current exchange rate is 5.41 coins for $5000.00.
The article doesn't say how long he had the system running. But if it had any serious processing power, and he got 1 coin per month for six months? That's breaking even.
If he managed to do it longer than six months, then that's a profit, especially since he didn't tie up too much time in court trying to plead not guilty.
I would say, "Not bad!", but we don't know how long he was running the software. And he's not likely to say, either.
Norton Spywa...err..."anti-virus" does this. It installs itself into Chrome and Firefox, without permission, and doesn't allow you to remove it.
You can disable it, but not remove it.
The built-in apps on the car don't always give you updates on traffic, and they most certainly don't give you updates on the locations of police.
Waze does.
There are long threads in vehicle forums, dedicated to hacking the OS of the console, so people can add their *own* apps and navigation systems.
Also, there's something very creepy about driving along, and hearing "Caution! Toll booth ahead!" coming out of your speakers, when you aren't using navigation at all.
Which is just one of the many reasons why forum modders work so hard to dump the stock OS.
...I can get a graphics card based on this, and a datajack?
How much you wanna bet most of those people were involved in robo-signing, or some other form of shenanigans OTHER than creating false accounts?
It took the FAA most of a decade to finally get a ruling regarding all cellphones, and now you want Mongo the Microencephalic TSA Screener to make advanced technical decisions regarding consumer electronics?
Oh, this is going to be rich...
Create a "guest access" account on the router and allow that? Absolutely! No problem with that at all, especially since I can log who connects.
Remove all security and just turn my connection (and all liability in a nation not known for being especially scrupulous with it's accusations of wrong-doing) over to the whims of chaos?
No.
Sorry, but better to not expose myself to that kind of risk, than have to fight my way out of kangaroo court.
"When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery"
It's becoming more and more clear, that Baltimore is going to require a truly massive purge of it's law enforcement ranks. Not just slaps on the wrist, or re-training, but a flat-out "You're fired, and law enforcement credentials revoked" kind of thing.
There won't be any mass riots or anything like that. Those happen because the firings haven't happened when they should.
If anything, it'll become the most peaceful, most pleasant city to live in, until a fresh crop of high-IQ, college-graduates can be convinced to take the job.
Hate detected...
How about DarwinCoin: stupidity-based currency that eliminates the wielder from the gene pool.
Oh yes, let's blame the victim. Yay. Whoooo.
"...used a gun to threaten someone outside a convenience store."
The murder victim had been robbed several times, and it was a rough neighborhood. A homeless man came up and asked him for money, but the murder victim declined. When the beggar persisted, and continued to molest the murder victim, they allegedly presented their firearm in a non-threatening manner to warn them off. (Showed the assailant they had a gun in their pocket.)
"... violent offenses..."
Resisting arrest, obstruction of an officer, disturbing the peace. Gosh. Such violence. Wow. Those are like, consolation prizes in the game of Living While Black.
"...possession of a controlled substance."
Weed. A dimebag of weed. Less an ounce, maybe a few grams. But hey, I guess you already know that Louisiana has an absolute zero-tolerance policy to *any* amount of cannabis? At least, prior to 2015, anyway.
So yeah. Take your KKK-brand dogwhistle and head for the door.