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  1. Re:Which begs the question... on Central Banks Can't Ignore the Cryptocurrency Boom (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Its not even less hackable unless you have your wallet offline. How many times have we seem sites compromised exchanges or malware looking for wallets?

  2. Re:Ignore? It's a bubble they helped create! on Central Banks Can't Ignore the Cryptocurrency Boom (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Cryptocurrencies are currently the bubble du jour. As central banks have suppressed interest rates for so long, people are desperate for yield in anyway shape or form.

    They should have been in equity then? We've had pretty big growth in equity over the last 10-years on top of recovering from the crash because of low rates. Low rates should only really affect bonds (and savings accounts).

    People looking at cryptocurrencies really need to read The Four Pillars of Investing, particularly the history and psychology of investing.

  3. Re:hard drives from HGST ... far more reliable on BackBlaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they don't. Backblaze takes consumer drives, plonks them in an environment they weren't designed for (servers) and runs them 24/7. Hardly surprising drives have an abnormal failure rate.

  4. Re:So He Could Sue... on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Pointing at Obama is disingenuous, Bush started the policy of spying on everyone, Obama continued it, and Trump is currently running it.

  5. Given Apple is responsible for high ebook prices.

  6. Re:So He Could Sue... on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  7. So He Could Sue... on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the NSA, I recall lawsuits after the Snowden releases were kicked out of court because they couldn't show they had standing. Apparently Satoshi Nakamoto can show he has standing because the NSA has copies of his emails.

  8. If they don't have contract terms I imagine a lot of people will start to cycle through subscriptions.

    While the devil is in the details, I'm not sure anyone other than Disney can run a service people would be willing to subscribe to - most companies don't have the depth of dersirable content. I would argue that Netflix doesn't anymore but since people need to be proactive to cancel it...

  9. Does your box allow you to create a favourites list? I did that for my parents and just added every channel they subscribed to the list.

  10. Re:So how about... on Software Is Eating the Auto Industry (strategyanalytics.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, I find it extremely handy to be able to vent my sunroof from the app on my phone, that needs integration between infotainment and the sunroof. I also like being able to turn on and adjust the climate control remotely, so it needs a tie to the HVAC system. Some of these other features are maybe more "gimmicky" but I can also unlock the doors and enable keyless driving remotely, these are kind of handy, but I could live without them.

    Why are these tied to the head unit? You aren't even in the car.

    The trouble is that manufacturers don't keep your head unit up to date, you're lucky if they even get the system work correctly before they abandon support.

    Nothing dates a car more than its electronics, go play around with a 5-10 year old car. Heck, people are spending $500+ on some of these cars for boxes that add simple bluetooth because the head unit cannot be replaced.

  11. Re:So how about... on Software Is Eating the Auto Industry (strategyanalytics.com) · · Score: 1

    The infotainment system doesn't need to be integrated with a million different things and really shouldn't be since it makes replacing them near impossible.

  12. Why? If you have a SIP phone you plug your LAN into it /shrug.

  13. Re:What would be inappropriate? on FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Iraq war: Rogue dictator threatened the US with WMD after kicking out legally required UN nuclear inspectors for several years. Afterwards we removed 200 tons of yellow cake uranium, multiple mobile bio/chem labs and his chemical weapons were later located being used by Asad, Saddams allies in Syria. The US set up a democratic government and trained an Iraqi army to facilitate the Iraq people having their own governance and sovereignty as well as building billions of dollars of infrastructure.

    You should really do some reading because this doesn't match reality at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You've also entirely skipped the USA attempting and causing regime changes.

  14. How do they Measure? on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    So how exactly do they measure this? I'm not giving some marketing agency my contact information to find out.

  15. Re:Ruby on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 1

    I suspect the real killer feature of Node.js for people coming from Java and C# is the development cycle. Edit, save, hit F5 in the browser. Despite everything ugly about Javascript, that's handy.

    Java has had hot code swapping for as long as I can remember. Since C# was meant to compete with Java I would assume they did too. C/C++ didn't

  16. Re:When WebAssembly gets the DOM: We're fucked. on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think it would be any different than javascript....

  17. Ruby on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ruby was in the same position not that long ago, I wonder how many now legacy ruby apps people regret writing.

  18. Re:They just agree to stop and that's it? on Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed to stop it, 1.5-years after they stopped giving away Windows 10 too. Seems like win-win for Microsoft, drag the case out so long its irrelevant then agree to stop the behaviour.

  19. Re:Competition is good... on Samsung Says It's Working on an Amazon Echo Competitor (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether Samsung makes it harder to use one of their others on their devices. e.g. if their bixby button can't be switched to another assistant.

    Realistically this device isn't going to sell in meaningful numbers outside of South Korea.

  20. Sony is the market leader in this generation of consoles, by blocking cross-platform play they keep the players available for online play on the XboxOne version low which further hurts the perception of the console.

  21. You replied to the wrong person.... I assumed he meant VOIP personally.

  22. Bi-directional? on Sonos Says Users Must Accept New Privacy Policy Or Devices May Cease To Function (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I always wonder when I see these sort of changes, or billing changes whether the user can send their own terms to the company and if they don't respond assume the terms are accepted.

  23. Re:WE've gone about this the wrong way on Energy Firm Slapped With $65,000 Fine For Making 1.5 Million Nuisance Calls (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Meh, all they actually need to do is end spoofing and all dialing problems are solvable.

  24. Re: nO on Android O Is Officially Launching August 21 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I do, but apparently you do not - you aren't going to easily compile ASOP and put it on most devices anymore than you're going to successfully build a linux distro from scratch and put it on an arbitrary device.

  25. Re:Laughable Hype on Microsoft Speech Recognition Now As Accurate As Professional Transcribers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3) How much background noise? Are these from people calling from cell phones. Or a LAN line.

    Why does it matter? If it doesn't function in a standard operating environment then it isn't doing as claimed. What would you say to a watch maker who claimed their product was unscratchable but testing consisted of rubbing it with microfibre cloth?