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South Korea Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading 78

Posted by BeauHD from the time-is-ticking dept.
South Korea's government said on Thursday it plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, sending bitcoin prices plummeting and throwing the virtual coin market into turmoil as the nation's police and tax authorities raided local exchanges on alleged tax evasion. Reuters reports: The clampdown in South Korea, a crucial source of global demand for cryptocurrency, came as policymakers around the world struggled to regulate an asset whose value has skyrocketed over the last year. Justice minister Park Sang-ki said the government was preparing a bill to ban trading of the virtual currency on domestic exchanges. Once a bill is drafted, legislation for an outright ban of virtual coin trading will require a majority vote of the total 297 members of the National Assembly, a process that could take months or even years. The local price of bitcoin plunged as much as 21 percent in midday trade to 18.3 million won (12,730.35 pounds) after the minister's comments. It still trades at around a 30 percent premium compared to other countries.

Comment Clean Code said best: (Score 1) 751

by Saija (#55727029) Attached to: Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable?

Bjarne closes with the assertion that clean code does one thing well. It is no accident that there are so many principles of software design that can be boiled down to this simple admonition. Writer after writer has tried to communicate this thought. Bad code tries to do too much, it has muddled intent and ambiguity of purpose. Clean code is focused. Each function, each class, each module exposes a single-minded attitude that remains entirely undistracted, and unpolluted, by the surrounding details.

PS: Emphasis mine

Comment Re:Can't Log Out? (Score 1) 176

by Saija (#55195181) Attached to: GNOME 3.26 Released

Yeah! recently I'm interested on trying to help KDE, which btw is my preferred desktop environment on Linux, by the way of coding.
When I found that pages that you share which talks about going to IRC I said: WTF?

They should have some basic guidance page where they tell you what its needed to make code contributions to KDE:

  • The tools needed
  • the way to grab the source code
  • the patching

all of this explained to the different distros on which KDE works
but going to a fsckn IRC is not a valid nor useful resource to the newbies trying to made some contributions

Submission + - Linux pioneer SUSE marks 25 years in the field (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23
troublemaker_23 writes: The Germany-based SUSE Linux marked a milestone over the last few days: on Friday, 2 September, the company turned 25, a remarkable achievement in an industry where the remains of software companies litter the landscape around the world. There have been ups and downs over those years, but the company has been on an up ever since it was re-established as an independent business unit in Nuremberg where it began its existence.

Comment Can FreeBSD be used as a developer machine? (Score 1) 219

by Saija (#54900301) Attached to: FreeBSD 11.1 Released
I've used Linux on various incarnations over the years: Debian, Mandrake(Mandriva), Suse/OpenSuse, last is Mint.
I just used to develops mainly on Java and help various FOSS Projects with translating(from English to Spanish, my native language).
Ultimately I've teaching myself Android development using Java and would like to learn Kotlin. Having this in mind: Can I switch my development Operative System to this new one FreeBSD?

Submission + - Massive vim Rewrite Brings Risks, Fewer Platforms, For What? (phoronix.com) 1

Submitted by Freshly Exhumed
Freshly Exhumed writes: Neovim is a new open-source text editor project that advertises itself as "vim's rebirth for the 21st century", a more modern version of the incredibly popular vim editor. Per an announcement to the vim developers, Diego Viola who's interested in Neovim explains it as "to refactor and modernize the [vim] codebase." This was already criticized by vim's Bram Moolenaar who was quick to say, "It's going to be an awful lot of work, with the result that not all systems will be supported, new bugs introduced and what's the gain for the end user exactly? Total refactoring is not a solution. It's much better to improve what we have. Perhaps with some small refactorings specifically aimed at making Vim work better for users." The expressed reason for this big vim rewrite is that the editor is now 20+ years old and has more than 300,000 lines of C89 code.

Submission + - Live PEGA CSA Training (pegagang.com)

Submitted by pega01
pega01 writes: Pega CSA means Certified system Architect, PegaGang designed the course with illustrative examples,by Professional real time experts. Trainers at PegaGang provides each and every participant a diverse amount of help and time to improve their IT skills and will be with the participant from the beginning to the end of the entire course.
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Submission + - Why You Should Fear Russia's Robot Army (vocativ.com)

Submitted by turkeydance
turkeydance writes: These particular technologies pose a unique threat because they complicate the laws of war—which is one of the main reasons that the United Nations is considering banning autonomous weapons. “There’s a bigger worry with the legal and ethical challenges that merge when you have more and more autonomous systems, thinking how they might be used and abused,” Singer said, explaining that, just as drones protect pilots, robot soldiers protect real soldiers from being captured, which allows military powers both to protect human soldiers and to use robots in operations that they can keep secret or later deny. “To give a parallel, Russia recently did a trade of POWs with Ukraine. Russia had been saying, ‘We don’t have troops in Ukraine.’ But then they did a swap. That’s one of the appeals of unmanned systems. It’s why the U.S. uses drones over Pakistan.”

Submission + - World's Longest, Deepest Rail Tunnel Opens In Switzerland (latimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: More than 2,200 years after the commander from the ancient North African civilization of Carthage led his army of elephants and troops over Europe's highest mountain chain, the Swiss have completed another gargantuan task: burrowing the world's longest railway tunnel under the Swiss Alps to improve European trade and travel. European dignitaries on Wednesday inaugurated the 35.4-mile Gotthard Railway Tunnel, a major engineering achievement deep under the Alps' snow-capped peaks. It took 17 years to build at a cost of 12.2 billion Swiss francs ($12 billion) — but workers kept to a key Swiss tradition and brought the massive project in on time and on budget. It also bores deeper than any other tunnel, running about 1.4 miles underground at its maximum depth. The thoroughfare aims to cut travel times, ease roadway traffic and reduce the air pollution spewed from trucks traveling between Europe's north and south. Set to open for commercial service in December, the two-way tunnel can handle up to 260 freight trains and 65 passenger trains per day.

Submission + - Panasonic to stop making LCD panels for TVs

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Japanese electronics maker Panasonic says it will stop making LCD panels for televisions, giving way to fierce price competition. The pullout from TV LCD manufacturing follows the company's withdrawal from plasma TV production 3 years ago. They say they will continue to manufacture LCD panels at the plant for products other than televisions, such as medical equipment and cars. They say the company will keep making Panasonic-brand televisions, using panels supplied by other manufacturers. After Panasonic pulls out, Sharp and its Taiwanese parent firm Hon Hai will be the only producer in Japan.

Submission + - Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by Pikoro
Pikoro writes: Windows 10 has been with us for a little over eight months now, which means there are only about four months remaining to get a free upgrade from an older Windows operating system. As the clock counts down, Microsoft has begun to auto-schedule PCs to upgrade to Windows 10 with or without consent from end users.

Now, as we near the end of the free upgrade period, Microsoft’s malware-like upgrade system is becoming even more intrusive by autoscheduling upgrades to Windows 10. I noticed that the Windows 10 upgrade reminder pop-up on a Windows 7 PC was no longer asking me to upgrade; instead, it’s now informing me that it has already scheduled an update for May 17.

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