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Comment I sold (Score 1) 461

For me, it was primarily 3 things. 1. LiteCoin was already declining throughout the past couple days. It started to lose a lot more value yesterday around noon PST. We all know they are overvalued and everyone is looking for the spark to sell. I was on edge and didn't want to lose the last 3 outstanding month's profits. 2. The adoption of BitcoinCash by Coinbase - this is like just another alt coin being placed on coinbase, so why not add ripple and doge to coinbase? When will it end? What happens with the next bitcoin fork? The money from the 3 coins on coinbase from the last year that had been doing so well because of their exclusivityu (etherium/litecoin/bitcoin) were essentially washed out and diluted by the mad rush of everyone to dump ether/LiteCoin/bitcoin for the FOMO of bccash. 3. The investigation of insider trading by coinbase. This left a lot of distrust with people about coinbase's motives.

Comment Purely selfish intentions (Score 1) 139

I wonder what these tunnels will do? Perhaps he's just tired of sitting in traffic in LA like everyone else - in his 100k Tesla - with fanboys gawking at him and he is tired of the lookie-loos? He's more important than everyone else so, hey he's a billionaire, why not just build a tunnel so he doesn't have to share the road with other common folk? 10 to 1 these tunnels will have gates on each end with a pass-code available to only a handful of 1%'ers.

Comment moderately difficult to setup timings (Score 2) 80

I spun up 4 vm's on my LAN and tried to get it to work reliably but it seems a lot of how this database maintains cohesion and consistency depends on ensuring your servers have highly accurate times. It works and it's a great database for 'free' but it's not a non-trivial setup either. Anyone else have setup problems and maintaining the cluster due to time issues? https://jasoncoltrin.com/2017/...

Comment source (Score 5, Informative) 239

Paper here http://nature.com/articles/doi... also, would not be surprised if humanoids made it to North America several times prior to 130,000 years considering they've been around since about a million years - that's a lot of time to find your way out of Africa to a different continent by one means or another.

Comment Java (Score 1) 312

Not saying it is the best language to get started with but it definately gave me a good understanding of the fundamental concepts of programming, loops, arrays, statements, functions. I got started by taking Stanford's free online Java classes, and then took an actual class at a City College at night. I blogged about my experience getting started with Java here: https://jasoncoltrin.com/2013/... , but I suggest you do the same and write about the things you learn as it will help you retain the info.

Comment Just keep innovating Qualcomm (Score 1) 54

Apple is no longer innovating and creating unique products that consumers want. If Qualcomm keeps doing what it does best, they can hopefully outpace the deluge of lawsuits & IP thefts from every side. Unfortunately, this seems to be the trend for any new technology from arduino kits to Raptors.

Comment Safety first? (Score 0) 164

The primary reason for banning the devices is interference with the airplane's systems. Another story today on /. say that malware was found on 25 new/cheap android devices. Isn't there a possibility that hacked phones could send out interference on their radios and cause electrical interference with an airplane's navigation and/or communication systems?

Comment Dead-drop email accounts (Score 1) 45

I recall reading an article where they described daesh methods of communicating with potential recruits. The recruiters would create a new email account on yahoo then create a draft email with instructions on where to go, who to meet, etc. They would never actually send the message, nor use the account for emailing. They would then only give the username/password to the recruits for the account, the recruit would log in, and then just read the message in the drafts folder. So the 'rootkit' probably only looked for 1. New accounts created and were only logged into 1 or 2 times 2. Look at the origin IP of the new account. 3. Look for login access of an account who's origin is wildly different than where it came from when created. Just a theory...

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