Yes but the difficulty is so high (and Monero the coin so stagnant) thats not really worth it. Theres always newer and fresher coins to mine tho, but most crypts are going Prof-of-stake instead of prof-of-work. The value of bitcoins being given by the electricity used to create them was always a meme.

This JS would have been a killer 3-4 years ago, today? And with the SEC preparing to come after so many scammers in the crypto scene? Meh.

When you have the Chaina© and the US (and even JPM) working together to destabilize something...

Thats... thats not how it works. Theres no fractional gain in mining unless you are part of a mining pool. AFAIK you only get your share if you find one block, if you are mining alone all the block reward goes to you, if it's found by a pool its shared across the participants relative to the amount of work they provided.

But as far as I've been reading, crypto mining is dead, its been dead for months only profitable for the mining farms in Asia.

Latest ASIC miners are not reaching ROI within 2 years, for example, it used to be weeks/months.

Went from DU 56K > DSL 1M > DSL 5M to Fiber 60M. The best service in reliability have been the fiber and I know for a fact it is not oversubscribed, I usually get download speeds in the 80/90M range if the source is good and the latency while gaming keeps the same even at full dl speed, no caps, no issues on peak hours, pretty good service.

The hike in latency started around 2013 so Im mostly blaming that on some "magical hop" right before entering to the US in FL (Im across the pond to the south) This does not happen when I connect to servers in TX, for example. Another example, I could get 170ms to Japan with 1M but now it does not go lower than 230 with fiber. What you say is right, it must be some bad configuration upstream or simply the internet got "too fat" and more monitored. Im not complaining though.

Am I? Do they? It does not look that way since every single time someone brings the topic the answers are long lists of comments dickwaving about who has the most blockers and ridiculous privacy set ups.

Most people in here act as if the ad networks target them specifically or personally as if this demographic was worth the effort. Millenials on the other hand... see Snapchat.

The same arguments come every time electric cars are discussed:

They will bitch about the rare earth mining ecological disasters when they get their 1000 Mile SUV.

I bet lots of people cursed at Ford "but my horse only needs water and carrots!" "what will this fucking petroleum ever do for us!?"

+1

Al in all, the chances of being personally tracked increase by the more unique you try to be in your browsing habits. Should be common sense.

Would these communities get higher bandwidth by using 3G or 4G? Sounds like an opportunity to do some mesh networking if ATT could care to spin this, at least, for the PR value.

My first broadband was 1M/100Kb and I could study and do lots of things, even start a small business, then again this was 2006 and the web was lighter and simpler. It was worth the time to leave most videos buffer for a bit on Youtube, you could get content!

Now I have 60/40 Mb fiber and while I really appreciate the upload speed, the reality is that it has only served me to download games and ISOs faster than I could possibly need, also my latency increased 30%. I'd say 5/2Mb should be the very minimum for the web today.

I read about the MAC tracking in the story about the garbage cans in London. https://www.howtogeek.com/1969...

How about IP address?. How about screen size and density? How about GPU fingerprint? Your adblocker and script blocker combination is enough to identify you. Also, you know most adblockers (looking at you ghostery) aggregate the user behavior data? how do you know what they do with that behind doors.

Please share with us the host list for all the tracking servers active and the ones popping every day. Maybe you can create an app for that and... oh wait.

At the very least you are 100% sure the NSA knows everything and everywhere related to your device. Do you trust them not to share the information with the great advertisers in exchange for their data? One can only be so naive.

It would be hipster if only YOU use it. You are not a hipsterhater, YOU ARE A HIPSTER, because bragging about not doing what the masses do is what defines a hipster. #Failing

Penetration is a fancy word to say "out of the totality of smartphone and tablet users (N) in America 81% has installed Facebook" It does not necessarily means they use it, in some cases.

Advertisers wish that could be true. Easiest way to know, dear submitter, create a throwaway account in Adsense or Facebook Ads and look for yourself is not a great deal, everything is aggregated. Fellow nerds like to think that you can pick individual people to advertise to, that might happen on Facebook, you can spam with ADs your friends but thats about it.

You are not an individual on the ad systems, you are part of a lot of groups of people based mostly on demographics, locations, and lastly, your browsing habits. You are not seeing ads because someone paid to show the ad to nerd#1, it just happens that nerd#1 in between ages 40 and 50, lives in nerd town, has college education and, yeah its looking for some tool.

Now if you are asking what the AD SERVERS (the system) knows, they know enough to put you in these groups. Now if they share the data or use another provider to correlate their info with someone's else they might have a bigger picture about you.

Oh and it does not matter how much you block scripts of use hostiles and whatnot, unless you are spoffing your device and modem MACs each time you open a new tab, theres ways to track you.

But please, don't let that stop you from doing it, make it hard for them to track you, so more companies can pop up to address your specific way of anti tracking. You might end up on one special list where no Ads are delivered but is instead sold to the ones that like and can take a detailed look on your browsing habits Then and only then your are tracked because you are you. Otherwise you are just a rounding error in some db.

Sorry to burst so many bubbles.

You can BUY optical media based on gold substrates, this is not new tech at all. Try finding a working DVD player in a billion years tho.

If you focus on the ends (intention); Send LOTS more with enough initial acceleration and better gravity assist tricks as to cover more destinations faster. This is, taking the proverbial message in a bottle but dropped in mass from an airplane all over the world's oceans.

Now if you focus on the means (tech), not long ago /. had an article on a way to store information etched in the structure of some special crystals. Cant find it right now but I doubt it was spaceproff in any way.

Maybe we cant really do it any better 50 years later, same as with music :)

... but now they might have the bulk of processing power for the next big thing, scary shit. Maybe the "Meanwhile in America" meme is in order here.

Can anyone in the know point to what tools and/or open resources can an empiricist use to get started on the AI field? What are the must reads on this field? Do we really need all that processing power to do anything meaningful in/with AI?

Waiting for someone to somehow spin this piece of tech news over the wannabenazisafespace gate. I give it 30 minutes, cause its late.