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  1. Re:You completely miss the point here. on Ethereum Exchange Reimburses Customer Losses After 'Flash Crash' (gdax.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes more sense, although it would be weird for true investors to invest in a market that has a weak transaction log, I can see where that may be useful. The problem is still, the company is inserting x amount of their own coin, either they are devaluing their company or more likely devaluing the money within the exchange.

    I see it more as a regular stock exchange, if the government were to limit losses and reimburse people by simply printing or inserting more money into the market, this would eventually destabilize the exchange as people will come to expect their losses are socialized while the profits remain individualized.

  2. Re:Happens all the time on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    No, simple statistics prove it's untrue. ~36% of people in the US are Black/Latino. This means that if "Driving while $COLOR" is an "offense" and unequivocally get pulled over, you would simply have to see nothing but people pulled over. Given a benign traffic stop takes ~15m, there aren't enough cops in the US to enforce those 'unwritten' rules. Even if half of the cops were "racists", there would still be a significant discrepancy in the amount of work those cops do.

  3. Re: THIS is the danger. on Ethereum Exchange Reimburses Customer Losses After 'Flash Crash' (gdax.com) · · Score: 2

    First of all, this indicates they have the ability to which is a huge hole in any cryptocurrency system. Basically the company behind the currency has full power over the blockchain.

    On the other hand, even if they won't change the records, they have to refund this money somehow, this will require inserting millions of dollars worth of value in the system that isn't backed by the traditional method of obtaining cryptocurrency.

  4. Re:WOW...Are you kidding ????? on Anthem To Pay $115 Million In The Largest Data Breach Settlement Ever (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, this information goes on the black market for ~$10/record in bulk to several $1000/record for celebrities and others. $110M over the last 2 decades and probably another decade in the future (any further hacks for the foreseeable future will just be chalked up with this) is less than the cost of hiring a decent team of IT people.

  5. Re: It's the future on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just about cost and convenience, most companies are finding that between the high costs, the downtime, the poor legal protections from any EULA or SLA and the US governments (as well as Amazon and Google's) invasion into privacy affects their product and/or customers.

    This isn't about a Dropbox-sized entity moving from AWS to something else (which cutting out the middle man would make sense given their scale) but smaller customers that moved to the "cloud" and have experienced too many failures, legal issues or increased scrutiny are scaling back what is effectively "shared hosting" back to self-hosting or at least colocating their own 'cloud'.

    Has anyone honestly ever been happy with the headaches of moving to Office365 or AWS (beyond the higher ups)?

  6. Re: Any STABLE Android-x86 or high-perf ARM boards on Survey Says: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, But X86 SBCs Have Made Gains (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't we should be happy with poor thermal design and crashes. If you give a board certain features, then using them for any period of time should not cause them to overheat and crash.

    You can't expect certain things from an SBC but not crash every 48h because there is some load is one of them.

  7. Re: Solving the wrong problem on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The biggest problems in the US are in Democrat run cities which is the party with the fairest, least discriminatory public policies that run solely on the platform of investing in the poor and underprivileged.

    From the US to Africa though, dumping money into a bad situation doesn't help. The money doesn't get to the right people and if it does it is only used to perpetuate the problem and there are often much deeper roots between (black) privilege and engrained anti-establishment sentiments or outright distrust that cause any efforts to be nullified.

    I've been in this world long enough and have lived under the policies of more than a dozen different governments (including the US-type). The only way in my opinion to end segregation of violence and perpetuation of the status quo like the problems in the US inner cities is forced education and heavy handed enforcement of justice.

    If you make the punishment of crime painful and severe with a heavy social rejection factor where it makes a difference in someone's life as is common in some Asian countries, you will end a lot of crime. This does not mean victimless crimes like smoking pot should have a jail sentence enforced, the laws first of all have to be justified in order for the population to be able to respect the establishment.

  8. Re: Driving while black on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny because I have an extensive black family that doesn't have that problem. You do not get pulled over for being black, you get pulled over because there was cause, if a cop had to pull over 40% of all drivers without cause, they'd never ever write a ticket not to mention it's very hard to see race when someone is speeding past you at 60mph, from an angle in the dark.

    I'm white and I've been pulled over many times, oftentimes without receiving a ticket. One time I was looking for a street and accidentally swerved just a tiny bit and instantly got the flashing lights on me. Other times I was speeding but they couldn't nail down the speed on their radar and were fishing for me to say how fast I was going. A few times it was just a broken head or taillight.

  9. Re: Next in the news... on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: -1

    My city has had this technology for years together with cameras. It cleaned up the worst parts of the city although it also came with heavy police enforcement for drug and other criminal activity. Not that the cameras were useful because trying to get footage after a break in was impossible but it at least kept a check on large groups of people congregating to fight and those corners were also devoid of drug dealers.

    They elected a black mayor a few months ago, she decided the system disproportionately targeted black people (population is 80% black) so tore the camera systems out and decimated the police force after firing the chief of police who vehemently disagreed with the decision. Certain crime rates dropped a stunning 30%... because they stopped enforcing crimes like DUI, street drugs etc.

  10. Re: THIS is the danger. on Ethereum Exchange Reimburses Customer Losses After 'Flash Crash' (gdax.com) · · Score: 0

    The real problem is the company behind it once again (this isn't the first time) rolling back transactions and reimbursing customers that "lost" money on their equivalent of the stock market. This kind of goes against everything a currency and a block chain stands for. If they'll do it for "these poor chaps" how will you find it when they do it for big corporations that are "buying into" the market.

    These kinds of stunts is exactly why there are now multiple branches of the Ethereum network and why big companies and banks are buying into the "commercial" Ethereum and not into the "Ethereum Classic" or Bitcoin networks even though they're more promising and stable. Within a few years it will be BoA and Microsoft being reimbursed for an otherwise technically legitimate transaction.

    How will they reimburse people? Either insert fixes into the ledger or devaluing the currency by inserting zero-worth values.

  11. Re: Any STABLE Android-x86 or high-perf ARM boards on Survey Says: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, But X86 SBCs Have Made Gains (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    If they come with an HDMI output you would expect it to be able to compose a display at 1080p beyond a single stream movie.

  12. Betteridge law says... on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    No. You shouldn't. Devops is for companies that want to automate pushing dev-branch to stable without as much as a code review. Microservices are great to preview a piece of software or develop against a consistent reusable base but I've never seen good things from Docker and co in production.

  13. Re: It's the future on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a bit late. The public cloud fad is over. It's all about in-house private "clouds" that integrate with customers' "cloud services" (think Twitter and Dropbox) without exposing the proprietary data outside of your own Software Defined Network.

  14. Any STABLE Android-x86 or high-perf ARM boards? on Survey Says: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, But X86 SBCs Have Made Gains (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Pi is great and all but its woefully underpowered. I've tried a number of different boards, the ODROID has way better specs and in the same price class.

    But every other x86 and even ARM boards I've tried are unstable. UDOO, Intel Compute Stick, UP Board all worthless as they crash from overheating within 48h of operation. And on ARM boards I can find little under $200 that has anything better than a Mali 450 GPU which is already nearing a half a decade old.

  15. Yes, minimum wage in 1997 was ~$5. Now it's $15 in NY. It's well above $10 anywhere else.

  16. I find the kiosks incredibly efficient. I can scan and bag faster than any of the "live" cashiers, I don't have to wait for them to fiddle with the thing so it takes my credit cards and there are never any lines at the automated cashier, especially the ones that don't accept cash.

  17. In the last 20 years minimum wage has tripled from 5 to 15. Money has not devalued at that rate, at the very worst people at minimum wage are now making twice as much as they were 20 years ago.

    Where else in the economy have you seen someone's effective income double over 20 years?

  18. Re: Teleporting intelligence is easy on Stephen Hawking Says He Is Convinced That Humans Need To Leave Earth (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    We have gone in a few hundred years from steam engine to very fast electric calculators, we are nowhere near any form of intelligence yet, most likely because we haven't even defined it yet. Computers take over the world in the next 100 is highly unlikely, we will get more and more "helping hands" but true intelligence and "life" won't be programmed in the foreseeable future.

    You may see more life-like simulations perhaps in supercomputers and robots will be able to help design robots but they're still going to be strongly guided and when they're not, they won't be able to nor have the drive to perpetuate themselves.

    Life evolves on geological scales, even if we can accelerate that hundreds of times, we are still at hundreds if not thousands of years.

  19. Re:Hopefully not too late on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    When you fill a datacenter with machines, the price and performance per unit does matter. The internals of the CPU and how it connects to the systems don't quite work the same (last few iterations Intel has had more bandwidth between CPUs as well as between CPU and high-speed peripherals). AES for example is about twice as fast on Intel as AMD and the virtualization set isn't exactly the same leading to Intel support being earlier and better supported.

  20. Re:Hopefully not too late on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD may be competing on cost but it hasn't caught up on performance, power consumption nor compatibility. Intel is still king when it comes to servers, it might be good for gamers where interconnects between CPU's, memory and massively parallel IO is not as important but I guess I'll have to see what the current crop of AMD processors brings.

  21. Murray knows this is going nowhere on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only reason to file these lawsuits is for the chilling effect on smaller players. This is high profile, him and his lawyers know this won't go anywhere even if he takes it to the SCOTUS but it gets him the advertising for his policy that his C&D letter promised would happen.

    This is only chilling the free speech of smaller YouTube channels that don't have the $8-10k it will cost to defend this in court.

  22. Re:The interesting thing on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The BSD subsystem would be part of all that, basically the "OS" and everything that falls under it would be 'protected'. It's already the case, you can't just write to eg. /usr/bin even in current versions of OS X when SIP is enabled, with the new APFS those portions would simply go read-only from a file system perspective.

  23. Re:The interesting thing on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    developer.apple.com -> Download the APFS Beta or view the WWDC workshops on it. This is not yet implemented in the current beta and most of the information is 'confidential' but your Apple Enterprise rep has a slide on the end of monolithic imaging. They want enterprises to start using DEP (where your device gets bound to your organization during ANY (re)install), Apple Store and MDM for any releases after High Sierra.

  24. Re: Two Things on Driver Killed In a Tesla Crash Using Autopilot Ignored At Least 7 Safety Warnings (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are various assumptions to make before pulling over the side of the road which may or may not be safer than simply having the car continue. You have to make sure there is an unobstructed emergency strip and you're not just careening the vehicle down a cliff. If your car makes the decision to go on a shoulder and something happens (or the shoulder doesn't exist), at that point the liability shifts because you've gone from passive "cruise control with intelligent lane following" to active intervention in a situation.

  25. Re:The interesting thing on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's stated goal is to have /System reside on a different volume than /User and mount /System read-only and the only way in would be through a signed boot loader and/or update. They will also take out disabling SIP and remove the root user completely (no more daemons running as root or sudo).