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  1. The same apply for paid games that are not working well because of authenticated while the pirate game works better. Is it Netflix fault or the whole industry to blame for that?

  2. Re:I would miss the Taxi driver on Google, Ford, Volvo, Lyft and Uber Join Coalition To Further Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact I'm pretty you will be in contact with an operation who will monitor multiple taxis. So you can ask question but you are right on that the experience will not be the same as your dedicated driver.

  3. UBER with no drivers? Sound like a crazy business! on Google, Ford, Volvo, Lyft and Uber Join Coalition To Further Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think UBER without the driver could a very interesting business.

  4. Re:Bitcoin do that with unique address on Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the bitcoin world you track payer with addresses. If you sell song for 99, you give each user a unique address with all the same amount and you know who paid by checking the addresses. Unlike banking, there is unlimited number of addresses you can hold on a single wallet.

  5. As suggest in the above comment, your should seek replacement.

  6. AI could with by cheating with insane micro on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    For instance, micro marine so they never stay closer than their maximum range... or any unit in fact. I'm also looking at tank and medivac drop... I would see a deadly combination here. But overall strategy, I don't think AI is ready to be human... yet.

  7. I've managed to listen to it until the end! on Why Movie Trailers Now Begin With Five-Second Ads For Themselves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've managed to listen to it until the end!

  8. Re:How about a choice... on Changes Are Coming To the EU's Cookie Directive, But It's Not Going Away (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Choice is obviously the right thing but can or should the law FORCE website to behave like that? What if you don't have the resource to make it working without cookie? What if you need them really? I think the cookie blocking feature is already implemented in the "privacy mode" from all browsers. If you don't want them to track you... use the privacy mode!

  9. Re:Guarantees? Banking secrecy, anyone? on Can Switzerland Become a Safe Haven For the World's Data? (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    there is no guarantee. Even if they say so (they can lie), even if they pass a low (then can remove or change the law later).

  10. Yes, I don't expect them to read the reason... on Joking About Giving Money To ISIS Can Cost You Money (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would they read and analysed the reason of the transfer... I guess this will drive people using other technique such as Bitcoin.

  11. Re:What about banks? on Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Add all the employees who got to works, they burn fuel too... Bitcoin security is not involving as much people. Most mining farm have a 1-2 guys watching a lots of computer.

  12. I think so, as a long time C# dev, I was stuck to use Xamarin to port my code to other os. Now have it for free, built-in my dev environment it just get better.

  13. Re:Wait a minute! on Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet To Close Down Web Service · · Score: 1

    DDOS are not solve by only blocking an IP address... the whole connection is saturated even if you block them...

  14. Ethereum will have similar issues as it grow on Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet To Close Down Web Service · · Score: 0

    I don't see how Ethereum would be immune to any problem related to fiat to crypto conversion. Right now there is none because most everyone buy bitcoin first then convert to Ethereum...

  15. Re:Testing the purity of gold coins was relatively on Why We Should Fear A Cashless World (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    wow so you are suggesting that for the next century we test for density and purity with acid test on every single transaction with something pretty expensive and very hard to count small unit? I will stick with bitcoin I think...

  16. Re:credit card details in plain text? on Hackers Completely Shut Down DDoS Protection Firm Staminus (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    you could say the same for you cash or gold or anything you can hold. The problem with credit card transaction is the global cast. All those millions transactions reverted do charge fees to users, banks and merchants... that's why you have an almost 3% fees to accept it. With new payment solution like Apple Pay it get even worst. Bitcoin is far for perfect, but at least the concept that nobody can pull money from you and you have to push it is the right direction. You can setup you money to have 2 or more signature, for instance your computer, your cell, a website or a even a physical device. Having both steal make it much more unlikely.

  17. credit card details in plain text? on Hackers Completely Shut Down DDoS Protection Firm Staminus (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm surprise a security firm go away with that... best time to plug the fact that it's time to user payment like PayPal or even better bitcoin so you can get your money stolen if a service you use get hacked.

  18. Step 1 anonynous transactions, Step 2 paper please on Bank of England Looks Into 'Centralized' Bitcoin Alternative, RSCoin (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I can predit that years in advance. They will allow anonymous transaction. Then they will required paper to withdraw money. They can change the rule since they are the central authority. They can also emit as many as they want! They could probably have build that using mysql and simple public API in json!

  19. Re:Microsoft also owns microsoftsucks.com... on Microsoft To Acquire Xamarin (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The C# implementation of the whole .NET framework is fully open source. https://github.com/dotnet/core... Xamarin was chargin to use it and it was one of the few possibility to be able to write app that work on iOS. My best guess it will be free with Microsoft so dev can write app that works everywhere.

  20. Re:Why not two factor? on MasterCard Rolls Out 'Selfie' Verification For Mobile Payments (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not just an app on your phone that you click accept or denied? No need to enter a pin...

  21. The telemetry goes right back to themselves. on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this is mostly correct. :)

  22. you can't limit the number of retry on Researchers Discover a Cheap Method of Breaking Bitcoin Wallet Passwords (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Breaking the wallet has nothing to do with the blockchain or any online service. It's a local encryption stuff. If the software had a stupid limit, the hacker can just recompile it without the stupid limit so it's pointless (open source software remember). The password should be 12 to 20 words from the dictionary. Make it a billion times harder, thus a billions times more expensive to craft. The law of number make it not cost-effective. Remember brain wallet is something created to recreate your wallet, it's not the bitcoin protocol itself.

  23. Re:alt-coins on Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher · · Score: 1

    Most of them use the same cypher with a few change. You can fork Bitcoin or Litecoin, change a single number such as the time between each block or block reward and you just created your own alt-coin. But very few on few really worked on something different.

  24. Anonymous transactions are done by politicians on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I think politicians and friends are doing a lots of dirty stuff too, so I guess they will keep some way to transfer wealth. Blocking bitcoin is like blocking email or torrent, you can't because it's decentralized. They can try, good luck!

  25. French? Uk? US? China? on French Conservatives Push Law To Ban Strong Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets assume the French get the phone manufacturer to put a backdoor, the UK will surely want that. So is the US. I assume control-freak China will want that too. After that all countries will have their own backdoor with their thousands of operator who have access to that.