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  1. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

  2. Re:Questions on Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    A block occurs every 20 minutes,

    10 minutes

    SegWit also allows some sort of Lightning Network, which is basically a service that will confirm transaction off of the block chain faster for a higher fee

    Lower fee

    I am not sure what Bitcoin Cash did, but as stated they rejected SegWit, and must have increased the block size, but they are handling the increased transaction volume fine.

    What increase in transaction volume? People are only selling

  3. Re:How is this supposed to work? on PHP Now Supports Argon2 Next-Generation Password Hashing Algorithm (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't just about a client authenticating, but you have to consider if someone wanted to build a rainbow table or just bruteforce a list of hashes they got a hold of. For an embedded system, doing one hash and verify won't be too heavy

  4. Re:Why celebrate? on HDMI 2.1 Is Here With 10K and Dynamic HDR Support (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't make any sense. You want a standard to be upgraded only when it has to be, rather than BEFORE we need it upgraded? That is simply stupid.

  5. Re:Slashdot censorship on HDMI 2.1 Is Here With 10K and Dynamic HDR Support (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    That happens when you get a post downvoted a significant amount. It has *always* been that way.

  6. Re:Seems like you can use it as currency on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no incentive to ever spend it

    Sure there is. I need food *now*, and these might not be valuable enough in the future to sacrifice starving right now.

  7. Re: IT'S A TRAP! on Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, "Linux" is a bajillion different things. You can't just create one binary/package and be done with it. Every distro will have its own nuances, configurations, libraries, etc

  8. Re: Incorrect subject on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think so, because then the implication would be stronger that this is just all a scam for him to make money

    That posits that Satoshi ever thought this project would ever get this far and ever be worth this much (or anything at all). Pretty much no one in the beginning did. It was an experiment.

  9. Re:Just Finance? on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What *exactly* is wrong with VBA?

  10. Re:The highs and lows on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Because people in general don't want to die

  11. Re:Extensions matter on Firefox vs Chrome: Speed and Memory (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 2

    XUL was a bad design. It is that simple.

  12. Re:Extensions matter on Firefox vs Chrome: Speed and Memory (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 2

    XUL wasn't multi-process compatible.

  13. Re:Article is a little late on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 2

    They shouldn't have been exposed to the internet in the first place. Have anyone who wants to connect to a machine on the lan/wan connect to the network via VPN first

  14. Re:Good way to keep the loonies under control on FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works. Medication doesn't fix everything. Hell, sometime it barely fixes anything... or even make things worse.

  15. Re:Doesn't this continutally come up for Munich? on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    probably getting paid by Microsoft (nothing as obvious as cash, more like items of tangible value) to do the switch.

    Or they were sick and tired dealing with the constant compromises in getting Linux to work how they needed/wanted. And, believe it or not, more than just some of us like the OS, the platforms, the backward compatibility, the development environments.

  16. Clearance at Walmart on 'Starcraft II' Goes Free-to-Play on Tuesday (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought these two on clearance at Walmart not but a couple of months ago. I wonder if this is the reason. Of course Legacy of the void was full price, so I haven't bought that one yet

  17. What? No. They will just have you sign some contract saying you agree to the terms or they won't hire you/you won't be employed any longer.

  18. Re:Playlists on Pandora Loses 7 Million Listeners (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    I left Pandora *BECAUSE* their playlist algorithm was just terrible. I can't have an all-in-one favorite music station because its focus is too narrow. An example, if you create a station, say, with Skrillex and Stone Temple Pilots as the seeds, you will have two different drivers for the station and it doesn't freely move between the two. It may start off with Skrillex/Dubstep music and it will stay on that path until you skip 5 or 6 songs, when it jumps over to playing SilverChair/SoundGarden/Alice in Chains and stay in that genre until you skip another chunk of songs.

  19. Re:Blu-Ray yes, Smart TV no on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 0

    Having compared DVD and Blu-Ray side by side, Blu-Ray's improvements are merely marginal at the best of times, and completely insignificant the rest of the time.

    You are either trolling, have bad eyes, or never actually looked at both a DVD/Bluray source on a 1080P screen.

    A DVD is going to look like a VHS, but instead of fuzz and blur, you have huge J/MPEG artifacts as plain as daylight. Those almost never exist on a Bluray

  20. Re:Be sure to get the right motherboard... on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Platinum Micro, Inc salesperson. How many times are you going to post this?

  21. Free Market.... pshhhhh on Verizon Wants To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Free market ideology only works when the playing field is level... not when monopolies exist

  22. A middle finger to Mozilla

  23. Re:"approval from federal regulators" on Can Science Make Alcohol Safer? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Any more vitamin C that your body can absorb will be urinated out. Take large amounts of it, and it makes your stomach hurt and gives you diarrhea. I see no benefit to adding it to alcohol, other than taste.

  24. Re:What if growth stops on Software Developer Creates Personal Cryptocurrency (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    To keep it simple, Evan create Evancoin and probably starts out as the only miner and client (node) on the network. A miners job is to do the math to make a valid block out of transactions. A nodes job is to transmit potential transactions (I want to send x to y) to a miner, or validate the blocks produced by the miners. As soon as another miner and/or node joins the network, Evan loses exclusive control of it. More join and the headless beast has a life of its own.

  25. Re:What if growth stops on Software Developer Creates Personal Cryptocurrency (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The value will fall since there will be no growth, unless he is able to cede control to some other organization

    Are you sure you know how this game works?