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Comment The shocking idea is... (Score -1, Troll) 168

humans are built to live hundreds of years. The environment we create for ourselves has really worked against our longevity. The corollary is should we live that long? Seems in many ways easier to get contribution equity - and thusly transfer that equity - from individuals over shorter time-spans.

Comment I do not see the point (Score 3, Insightful) 178

by teknopurge (#57302004) Attached to: Cryptocurrency's 80 Percent Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash
This is the 4th or 5th time it's plunged like this(percentage basis) since 2010. Why is the outcome this time different? more participants? more awareness? higher market caps? all of those things also bring along new players, lobbyists, proponents and capability to ensure the cycle repeats at some point.

Comment Re:Marketing Scam (Score 1) 440

by teknopurge (#45408161) Attached to: Soylent: No Food For 30 Days
You missed my point: there are literally thousands of powdered supplement mixes out there that contain all different types of blends/mixtures of various compounds, minerals, vitamins, amino, etc. there are even some that have whey, soy, casein, etc. as part of the blend.

Comment It's pretty simple actually - Do Some Evil. (Score 5, Interesting) 192

by teknopurge (#44829799) Attached to: Facebook Deletes Social Fixer Community Page Without Explanation
As a company providing APIs and encouraging development on your platform is great as long as you maintain control. The problem with APIs is apps can, provided the APIs provide enough of the right data, totally remove your influence in favor of the developer using your APIs. I first saw this Social Fixer app a few weeks back and I immediately thought "finally, someone that will remind us who owns facebook: the users." Facebook will have no revenue if they cannot monetize the marketing of their site, and with free APIs they can't do that. Paid APIs? Devs want free access, so you'll kill your dev community if you start charging.

Comment Re:Say what you will (Score 5, Insightful) 182

by teknopurge (#44672729) Attached to: Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down
That's expensive. "Cloud" hosting services cost about 1.5x traditional hosting. When you want multiple locations("regions" in aws) you need to pay for resources in each additional region, then pay another cost to provide that failover. Cloud hosting is great, but it's nothing it does is new or cheaper than hosting 10 years ago.
Technology

How Oakland Is Turning Into an Art and Maker Mecca 109

Posted by samzenpus from the maker-space-with-an-oakland-duty dept.
First time accepted submitter Kevin Lee writes "The maker scene is taking off in Oakland with towering industrial art, that at times stands 70 feet high, and DIY business that made locally created goods by hand. But while this is a flourishing creative environment is popping off with new ideas, there's a battle in Oakland that could pave over this rich community with new residential housing. The Oakland Makers is a new initiative by artists and makers that hopes revitalize Oakland as a new advanced manufacturing hub and city that thrives on the making culture."
Microsoft

With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall 201

Posted by timothy from the in-the-cloud dept.
curtwoodward writes "Now that President Obama's federal health care reform is past its major political hurdles — and with renewed focus on out-of-control costs in healthcare — companies that sell 'big data' software are licking their chops. The reason: Healthcare has huge piles of information that is being used in new ways, to track patient admissions, spending, and much more. From hospitals to insurance companies, they'll all need new ways of crunching those numbers. It's basically an entirely new field that will dwarf the spending growth in traditional data-heavy industries like finance, retail and marketing, a Microsoft regional sales GM says."
Security

'Old School' Hackers Attack European Governments Using 'MiniDuke' Malware 48

Posted by Soulskill from the you-don't-want-to-go-full-duke dept.
puddingebola writes "The Guardian reports that hackers have been targeting officials from over 20 European governments with a new piece of malware called 'MiniDuke.' 'The cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, which discovered MiniDuke, said the attackers had servers based in Panama and Turkey – but an examination of the code revealed no further clues about its origin (PDF). Goverments targeted include those of Ireland, Romania, Portugal, Belgium and the Czech Republic. The malware also compromised the computers of a prominent research foundation in Hungary, two thinktanks, and an unnamed healthcare provider in the US.' Eugene Kaspersky says it's an unusual piece of malware because it's reminiscent of attacks from two decades ago. 'I remember this style of malicious programming from the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. I wonder if these types of malware writers, who have been in hibernation for more than a decade, have suddenly awoken and joined the sophisticated group of threat actors active in the cyber world.' The computers were corrupted through an Adobe PDF attachment to an email."

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