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Submission + - Why is it so difficult to track down the Social-Security scammers ? 1

Submitted by cathector
cathector writes: A solid fifty percent of the people I know in Washington and California have received the social-security scam phone call. I receive it pretty regularly, in three or four different guises so far. This seems like a major operation. Why can't the government just set up a batch of 100 or so phone numbers, wait for the call to come in, play along, and follow where the money goes ?

Comment Re:cough *CAN'T* cough (Score 1) 119

that's how i was reading it as well.

i guess most strictly it should be 'websites can be tried for discriminating against you even if you don't use them',
altho "use" is a slippery word as well since it's a close cousin to "visit" or "consider using", and the distinction appears to be important.

Comment Re:You want to stop climate change? (Score 5, Informative) 136

by cathector (#57906796) Attached to: Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent

How much electricity is required for banks to manage your FIAT money?

I'm guessing you didn't click through to this article with graphs related to that very question.
If one believes those graphs, and i see no reason not to,
here are the number of US Households which could be powered by the current energy consumption of various transaction networks:

bitcoin: 4.2 million
ethereum: 1 million
visa: 0.017 million

so visa is 1/200th as energy-consumptive than bitcoin. that's two orders of magnitude plus a factor of two.

that same page reports that a single bitcoin transaction, just one, consumes enough energy to power a US household for 15 days.

yeah, i think banning should be considered.

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