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  1. Re: Auction of bitcoin? on US To Auction $1.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin From Various Cases (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which exchange do they choose? The one who will give them the best exchange rate? How would they determine who would give them the best deal? Maybe they could setup an auction. Plus maybe they could open up the auction to everyone, not just a few exchanges. They could call them "Federal Property Auctions".

  2. Re:Auction of bitcoin? on US To Auction $1.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin From Various Cases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They are liquidating it. All seized property is sold at auction.

  3. Re:Is Hulu still a thing? on Hulu Ends Free Streaming Service, Moves Free Stuff To Yahoo View (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    CNN isn't news. It is info-tainment. By the way, Sky-News is much bigger than CNN is in terms of viewership and revenue.

  4. Re:Auction of bitcoin? on US To Auction $1.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin From Various Cases (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Um, no. Due to the fluctuation of Bitcoin and the extended settlement time of Federal auctions you wouldn't be very smart to bid over 60-70% of value.

  5. Re:The Yahoo name makes me avoid a service entirel on Hulu Ends Free Streaming Service, Moves Free Stuff To Yahoo View (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    What? You didn't know they were a huge force in online video? They bought broadcast.com from Mark Cuban for $5.7 billion. Surely that wasn't $5.7 billion wasted????

  6. Re:What would happen... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this insightful? How do you think Microsofts birds eye view on Bing map works? Did you think they used birds?

  7. Re:Probably a website. on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like? (yourobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    In my city in the US all 19 museums are free and the zoo, all year round. I live in Washington DC. It must suck to live in your country where you have to PAY to see ONLY 16 museums for a single day! See how that works? Stupid Europeans don't know anything about the US.

  8. Re:sure, this and about a dozen other companies. on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This maybe possibly be the best post I have ever read on Slashdot.

  9. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTFA on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Why? You don't think there are data brokers in Europe??? Wow, so naive!

  10. Um no on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Um no. They aren't the first. There are many. Acxiom is the biggest and has been doing it for over 50 years. This sounds like someone new looking to get some VC money.

  11. What could possibly go wrong? on Google's Open YOLO Project Will Remove the Need For Passwords On Android (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    There is absolutely nothing that could possibly go wrong with this idea. Thanks Google! You guys are geniuses.

  12. Re:Is our phone network so insecure... on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The phone companies know who these people are. They are billing them.

  13. Re:Of course it isn't unstoppable. on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.. you just disallow encryption and VPNs unless you are "approved" to have it. It is possible to do.

  14. Re:Of course it isn't unstoppable. on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Try to get alcohol, blowjobs in many muslim majority countries. I said "enough effort". You just proved my point. Given enough will by the "right" people, things can be stopped. Not every country is like the US or like the ones in the EU.

  15. Re:Low cost on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Not every punishment needs to be monetary ;-)

  16. Re:Would love to see something done on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Try this...it works for me: https://www.nomorobo.com/

    I don't work for them, so I don't know how trustworthy they are.

  17. Re:Would love to see something done on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You can do this too with https://www.nomorobo.com/

  18. Re:Low cost on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just make sure the penalty is high enough to offset the money being made.

  19. Re:Of course it's not unstoppable on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't hard at all. You are missing the point. These voip calls aren't free. They are paying someone to make them, they are being billed by the phone companies. The phone companies know exactly who these people are.

  20. Of course it isn't unstoppable. on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Anything can be stopped with enough effort. This includes online piracy, pornography, etc as well. With enough will, there are technological solutions. People think that the Internet and voip will stay the way it is now. It won't: eventually there will be full control over what you can transmit and receive over the Internet. People will scoff and say "this will never happen", but they are shortsighted. It will. There is enough money at stake.

    The fact that the Internet was the "Wild West" is just because the Internet was ignored for a long time by the powers-that-be. My feeling is eventually you won't be able to connect to the Internet without an "approved" network connection device/router and that device will be monitored and encrypted traffic will be either disallowed or the router will do MITM to allow the monitoring to take place. This is all technologically possible today. Secure boot, locked down devices are just the start.
    "Surely you can't be serious!", Slashdotters will say! Well I say "Stop calling me Shirley!"

  21. Beware: that company spies and tracks you and also shares your data with the NSA and corporations. Do not recommend!

  22. That is because people can't trust that Google won't drop their cloud services when they get bored of it and go after the next shiny thing. It has happened too many times.

  23. Re:Just one quick trick ... on Facebook's New Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Buries Bogus Headlines (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Even Gary Johnson says that Trump is insane.

  24. Re:Yes, it will prevent research within the US on Scientists Argue the US Ban on Human Gene Editing Will Leave It Behind (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always wanted to learn German. I didn't know I could learn it through gene modification technology.

  25. Legos on US Judge Dismisses Part of Alibaba Counterfeit Goods Lawsuit (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Alibaba is the best place to buy Legos, I mean building blocks, if you have a kid. They are reasonably priced. Lego sets shouldn't cost $80+. Plus they sell minifigures separately.