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  1. Re: Value? on Energy Riches Fuel Bitcoin Craze For Speculation-shy Iceland (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.

    Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.

    Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.

    There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers

  2. Re: American businesses chose 1 in the 90s, why 3 on Foxconn Unit To Cut Over 10,000 Jobs As Robotics Take Over (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only are they better today but also more widely dispersed, as well as increased availability.

  3. Re: Stop flogging a dead horse (PWA) on Windows 10 Will Soon Get Progressive Web Apps To Boost the Microsoft Store (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Service workers are meaningless since app data and files will be forced to be stored in the vendors cloud.

  4. Re: Sounds fun on Windows 10 Will Soon Get Progressive Web Apps To Boost the Microsoft Store (techradar.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It gets better, they reinvented ActiveX. And everyone knows ActiveX was always secure trustworthy, and never crashed windows.

  5. Found it. Apple has a patent application in 2009 and Samsung has one in 2015 to add a pixel into the LED pixels that captures light. It is one way they are doing fingerprint reader in the screen approaches.

    So keep your eyes out they have been working g on tech like this for 9 years plus.

  6. I thought someone was doing that. Adding a pixel lens with every pixel in the display. So your monitor was the camera.

    I haven't heard much about it in years though.

  7. Re: Creepy Zuck wants Fried Chickin an' Cone Bread on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I never signed up ever. Though I bet like linked I. They have my name, addresses and a picture.

    It isn't enough to not ever to have an account you can't ever have a photo taken and posted to Facebook either.

    Only linked-in is worse

  8. Re: This is a BS article.. on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The fed is trying to cool the economy down. If it heats up to fast because of a tax cut there is zero the fed can do yo recover except for negative interest rates. All other tools have been expended.

    The good news is that Europe is growing faster, and Trump's anti imigrantion stance kills manufacturing and farming, so that should drag down the economy.

  9. Re: Used? on Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Even better OnStar, uconnect and all others operate on cell phones. Cell phones that don't function if you don't pay the monthly subscription fee. So after a year or so that gets disconnected and that data no longer gets uploaded.

    If you buy used odds are that it is disconnected after the bill stops bieng paid.

    Don't pay for the service and they can't upload data.

  10. 40 years old
    Just two days ago I laid on stomach on the floor in front of my fireplace and did my taxes.

    Nice warm fire. Of course I am still skinny enough I can lay on the floor.

    Also contray to popular belief you can file your taxes in Feb and not pay any amount due until April 15th.

  11. Re: They still don't fucking get it. on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    Um bullshit. In the 60's we had roving bands of kids, breaking and entering causing mayham, and getting into trouble.

    Heck one group tried to convince me it was okay to take anything as long as you intended to return it.

    No going back to roving bands of gangs isn't a good idea. Gangs are slowly being driven out not by police but by ideas and new things to keep the kids off the street and from getting bored.

  12. Re: Only a very short term risk. Accepting like Pa on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just it. You can't always convert it right away. The transaction fees means you only want to do conversions when you have $2000 or so to convert otherwise a business is losing money.
    Remember there are two fees for a business to deal with in accepting Bitcoin. The first transaction fee which gets covered by the payer most of the time. The second is converting it back to cash. With high fees and long transaction times . The day in and day voltiity is much much to high.

    You want to keep your feed at 1 to 2%

    That is how you maximize revenue. Bit in is too unstable to use as a transaction medium. The majority of current trading is speculator's looking for a quick buck.

    Going around and saying you should invest, instead of gamble is meaningless.

  13. Re: Naked time! on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that another issue. It means you can't maintain your weight. That is a diet health issue you should address.

    Start a sustainable plan for losing weight. (Diet, exercise, ) and aim to lose just 1 pound weekly. By the time you are small again you should be able to maintain the weight off.

  14. Re: Naked time! on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually men have some vanity sizing too.

    However it is smaller and less noticable.

    Try buying jeans and dress slacks in the same size. The dress slacks are normal size the jeans all come in comfort size in which a 36 is really a 38.

    Of course that is better than women's were you get a size 2 pants. Or dress, etc.

    Of course this is only true in the lying States of America we're it is legal for advertisers to lie about their products. European clothing sizes are muchore consistent.

  15. Re:Always recording? on Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    nope, google home, and chromecast use multicastDNS like apple bojour to locate devices on the same access point.

    a quiet side effect is chromecasts, don't work well in multi wireless access point networks. (ie a computer connecting to you AP can't reach devices connected to another AP)

    the issue is some update is basically spamming mdns requests across all nodes which is causeing network congestion.

    some routers are going so far as to limit udp trafffic from google products to prevent network congestion issues.

    Why google hasn't issued an update is anyone's guess.

  16. Re: How do some people use so much? on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My family of two uses 1000 gal per 6 months. Or 3 gals per person per day.

    How do you use so much?

  17. Condoms aren't free, and birth control is only free when liberals are in charge. As they dismantle the ACA and health insurance standards out goes birth control too.

  18. Re: I use this thing called Cash on Google Rebrands All Its Payment Solutions As 'Google Pay' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    No cash isn't cheaper unless the store has a policy of cash getting discounts(some gas stations due).

    If the price of good is x then you pay x whether or not you pay by cash, credit or debit. Each has its own fees and cash is still higher than credit cards.

    Don't believe cash has a fee well you need to pay someone to watch, manage count and deposit cash. Someone who is getting paid more than minimum wage and two three hours daily That you are open.

    That's a continuous expense that online only stores don't have. And is one of several reasons why they are cheaper to operate.

  19. Re: this will not be a popular opinion on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you don't have kids or family staying? At Thanksgiving at my sister's house there are 6 kids and 10 adults. One TV and dozens of laptops and tablets. Being able to stream 2-4 streams at a time is normal.

    My house only has 50mbs but I can watch things stutter when we have a large party

  20. Re: USRobotic modem on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true 14400 is a standard speed. And for a long time was the speed of fax machines.

  21. Re: Finally! on Asus Is Turning Its Old Routers Into Mesh Wi-Fi Networks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    $30 for an extender isn't cheap?

    I spent $500 on 2 access points, a controller, a Poe router, and gateway.
      For my home.

    Of course I can now stream 50-250mbs across my house and half of my back yard without blinking.

    The range is distance. I can be 200 feet into the back yard and still stream 50mbs via WiFi. Inside the house it doesn't drop below 200mbs.

    Now if only my isp could provide me with the bandwidth to back that up to the net. However it is worth it. As I have great coverage inside and outside without affecting my neighbors.

  22. Re: Nobody wants to work for authoritarian oligarc on NSA's Top Talent is Leaving Because of Low Pay, Slumping Morale and Unpopular Reorganization (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The low pay and low morale take a while to set in. So it existed with Obama too. The trick is now Trump is calling them liars and unamerican on a daily basis on top of everything else.

    I expect in the next year to see higher turnover at the FBI too.

  23. Re: Theaters shouldn't care... on MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren't Sold on It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite that bad, but movie pass once they get subscribers up can. Then negotaite with theaters to $7.99 a ticket and while one person may go 3 times a month on average over a year the average person will only go once every two months and the whole thing breaks even.

    Very small percentage of people stay on top of their monthly subscriptions well enough to get full value from them.

    Me I pay for Amazon prime, and I probably barely just break even on it over the course of a year. Bonus since I signed my fiancee onto the family share plan she gets my prime account too. So it is slowly moving into solid black for us.

  24. Re: May I suggest we add a few things? on The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Caffeine addiction is going to work itself out. Every year the harvest for coffee is less while at the same time more people are drinking it.

    The coffee wars will make the oil wars look boring .

  25. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize all Mormon comes from 1870's ( year is slightly off) Rochester NY were a guy claimed to find a whole new book of the Bible. (book of Mormon). He found it there waiting for him.

    I knew the full story once as I lived near the site. Still it is pretty Shakey.