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  1. Re:Does it matter? on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    No, they are not made again. What they do is add new coins and bills. The ones they raplace are the old ones they get back.
    If they do not get them back, it is pure profit.

    How do I know? Because this was clearly explained when it happend to valuta that went over to the Euro. They made a shitload of money that way. In Belgium everything up to 50BEF (1.25EUR) that is found now is worthless as money. This includes bill for 20and 50BEF. Bills from 100BEF can still be exchanged if you have them. So if you have a suitcase filled with them, you can still exchange them.
    If they where lost in e.g. a fire, they are lost, not replaced.

    Car comparison: If you have a 1952 Beetle and it is lost, it is not replaced by a 2017 Beetle, no matter that they make a newer model.

  2. Re:Make it stop.... on Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason I went to Chrome is that In stalled a new Debian version and I have Firefox ESR, but way too many plugins did not work and they did not have an alternative.

    So yes, the plugins are what make the experience. If you are unable to guarantee that they will work, I am not interested in your product.

    With Chrome I found all the ones I had and it almost work as I was used to and the difference in some is not that big. e.g. using the middle mouse button instead of the right one in one app and no remembering of passwords on some https sites that I signed myself.
    Solved the last one with the plugin LasPass.com

    That last one shows that developers think they know who I should trust more than I do. Apparently I should not trust myself on my local domain.

  3. I got tiill the end of the first alinea on Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' (cringely.com) · · Score: 2

    Those are some pretty big friends to have on your side -- our side...

    Fuck no. Just because they want the same thing NOW does not mean they are on our side. They are on their side and for NOW it might be that we want the same thing, but do not confuse that for being on the same side.

    The fact that it would make a difference is what is fucked up. The government should be on the side of the people. It should be "Is this good for the people or not? OK, it is not" and that should be the end of it REGARDLESS of wich company want what.

  4. Basically there's a lot of folk who can't grok something they didn't personally experience.

    I did read what you wrote, but I just can't believe that that is true.

  5. That was because 250 years ago, guns COULD help stand against tyranny. Now? Not so much. Please update what is needed at least every 100 years or so.

  6. Accountability on New Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as there is no accountability for anything, there will be no change. Kids do not stop stealing cookies just because their mom so.

  7. Downloading? I went to the store to buy mine.

  8. Not sure how that is marked funny, not insightfull, because that is how it works now with fixed IP.
    The majoprity of the people now how a fixed connection. That means that they have an IP adress all the time. It will be reset over time, because that way when you want a fixed IP, you need to pay extra for it.
    I have an IP adress all the time already, so make it the same one instead of a different one would not change anything.
    It would not change the price the ISP pays for the IPs. It would not change the amount they need. The only thing that would change is the fact they can't charge more.

    Ports open below 1024? Pay extra, because you need a business account. (Well, not me, because my ISP has all ports open, but many don't here in Belgium.)

    So I guess it is rated "Funny, because it is true".

  9. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

    We are also looking for hunters in the area to simulate dropped packages.

  10. Not sure where you are from.
    There is a difference between Unions in the US and in Europe.
    In the US you have trade unions. In Europe we would call that a guild and was popular in the middle ages. It protects the job, not the workers. e.g. you had a nbakers guild and a brewers guild. They where very protective and you had to be a member or you could not do that trade.

    In Europe (OK, Belgium, but the rest will be similar) you can join almost whatever union you desire or not. That means that I can join a union at any moment, regardless of what job I have or even IF I have a job. Nobody will ask or even care if you are a member of the union. In fact when the Unions negotiate an increase in holidays or pay or whatever, I will get it regardless if I am a union member or not.

    Many times these Union bosses who organize the strikes are working members in the companies. So yes, they want to enrich themselves by having better pay and/or better working conditions.

    The communication between union and company is pretty open (no, not 100%, as often things are discussed that could harm the company when discussed in public, like buying another company and what not).

    There are also more than 1 union, so if one would try to do something illegal, they would have to have all of the aboard. Unpossible? No, just that when it happens it is an exception, not a rule.
    So the monthly meetings are held with management and several elected union members from different unions. And from what I know the greater goal is indeed to protect the workers, not the job and not to enrich the union bosses, who are just people who work themselves with cow orkers they ask the same raise for as they wanted. Bit like the 6 on friends who asked for raises for all of them instead of individual talks.

    There are obviously people who are elected as union member to represent others who do it because they will get very protective job security and abuise that. Some people are assholes, news at 11. The most I know are just cow orkers I work with day in day out who have a bit more meetings so it might look as if they work less.

    This was just how it works in Europe. It does not mean that I either agree or disagree with what Unions do or how how they do it partly or as a whole. As with everything, with somethings I agree, with others I absolutely am against it. I am still aware that thanks to them I have 35 days holiday and enough money to do womething when I am on a holiday. It protects me enough from random fireing if the boss is an asshole and not enbough to not get me fired if I am an asshole. That is also good. Yes, people still can get fired, but there will be a cost involved.

    And I am sure that there are union members that take pay illegally for themselves. That is human nature. Does not mean they are all like that. Not by a long shot.

  11. Re:Will they also warn me about TLS CAs? on Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I do trust others more when it comes to CA and TLS, because I have not enough clue to what I am doing and so I might make it worse.

    At some point you need to do a trade off between being able to do everything yourself and trusting other people. As long as you want to have a sane life.
    This does not stop with IT security. Does not mean I trust anything blindly, but I often trust them more than myself.

    The fact that you say "Yes, if it is your own CA, then TLS might be OK." and not that it is means you have the same idea and are just moaning about nothing.

  12. Re:An unpopular opinion on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So you like it that smaller states set the agenda for the big, heavily-populated states. Because it goes both ways.

    Having or removing the Electoral College will not solve the issues that are there now. It just moves them from Rep-Dem to City-Country
    What you need to do is first remove the "first past the post" as that will remove the Bi-party system and all the problems it has.

  13. Re:It also sets a dngerous precedent on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently they never heard of TPB or that is not a torrent site.

  14. Re:Helpless Without Google on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Try this over the phone and point them to a site that has robots.txt

  15. filetype:torrent still works on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Some random words placed in the right order to show it still works. Good way to learn about other torrent sites.

  16. Re:Questionable conclusions on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a reason for the sizes of drinks you should get. Each glass has about the same amount of alcohol. So a (real, not light) beer will have about the same as a glas of wiskey and a glass of wine or port.
    The thing is that if you drink stronger drinks; you are most likely to order sooner, this drinking more.
    That is often also the intention that you start to order short drinks.
    And for the English: A pint counts as two.
    For the Bavarians: A Mass iss Fia (4).

  17. Re:Psychological effect on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Causation is not Correlation.Alcohol enhances emotions.
    The way people feel will determine what you drink. That is enhanced.

  18. My greatest success is that I do not need it. The one program, I need to run on Windows once a year I use an old laptop. I have also configured it that I can connect remotely to it.
    I could use a VM, but having a remotely accessible box is much easier.

    With the prices that hardware are, having a dedicated machine that you connect to remotely is so much easier.

  19. Re:Excel is separated from other systems on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Worked at a company several years ago that produced and sold printers and scanners. They once asked in genral why their scanning system for larger companies was not selling.
    I asked them if it was any good. If the hardware was good. If it worked. If it was flexible and I got the whole sales pitch of how great it was, Then I asked if it was so good, why are WE not using it.

  20. Sounds familiar on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked at a company that had several hundred stores. The Helpdesk needed often contact the store manager. However these changed as lot and the stores where devided by districts and the district manager each had their own spreadsheet,

    So somehow I got them to sewnd me an updated version each Monday. I mmade a database with the information and put that online on my personal database, just secured by IP adress verification. (That is good enough, right?)

    That way Helpdesk people had updated data. Once that was up, I started to add other genral information. Once they saw this, they said "We want that as well" and so the closed source intranet was thrown out, new server orderd and a new intranet was build. Just before I left I said "The easy part was building it. The hard part will be keeping it up to date."

    At an other company the managers asked all possible data (In excell that came out of BO where they had access) and just to see what would happen, I once said random data.Nobody cared.

    So it is not only important to gather data and put it in a database, but also keep it up to date and see what you actually want to do with it.

    The best boss was the one that asked me for data, I asked me what he wanted to do (Increase budget, lower FTE count, proof that the last semester was going in the right direction, ...) and that way I knew how to present the data to help him, without giving false numbers. He was the nest, because he actually understood that the numbers where a means, not an end.
    Same for the CEO. Presented some numbers and he just said "I have no idea what those mean, but apparently you do and that is why you have the job. Here is what you asked for in your budget."

    And now I work at a company where people get BO mails in PDF that they put in Excell sheets together with other numbers that that people wrote down on paper during the day and run some formula's over it to have pie charts to show every day t other people who show it to their meeting with their N+1 and all the way to the top (Man, I wish I were kidding)
    For three people I know they spend 50% of their time doing numbers instead of their actual job. And that are the three I know of. There will be many, many others.

  21. Re:Indeed. "Nazi" is short for "National SOCIALIST on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    You might as well try to categorize apples, grapes, and watermelons into right/left fruits.

    I will give it a go with a European mind:
    Grapes are used to make wine. That is more for the rich, thus the right.
    Apples are used to make cider, more a drink of the common man, thus left.

    I leave out the watermelon, because that would become racist.

    (It's a joke: laugh!)

  22. You are Funny, because it is true. Try to light a cigarette on TV and the world collapses, but a kid eating sugar and getting a lot of energy? Now that is cute:funny (and not true).
    Try to cut on sugar for a week. That means reading and understanding the labels. Harder than you think.

  23. Re:PUD/County-Level solutions work on To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've said this multiple times on slashdot, but in my experience, the best option is to resolve this issue at the County/PUD leve

    They know. Somebody was listening to you.

  24. Re:Your interests aren't necessarily mine on To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You change the background of you Facebook photo. That is how we prostest now.

  25. These where things that teens did to make a little extra pocket money. Mow the lawn, do groceries for the elderly lady, newspaper delivery.
    That kind of thing.

    The fact that this is now a job where people should be making a living is rather telling of the economic situation.

    Unemployment is low, but what is also low is the number of people who can live of just one job. Having two people work 1/2 FTE makes for 2 jobs, but still one income.