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Comment Re:Just a Start. (Score 1) 237

Twitter's where I get raw, unfiltered messages from my president. That's the only reason I have it installed and the only reason I'm keeping it. I'm a big DJT critic, but I don't know why every American isn't following him on Twitter.

I actually did start following Trump when he got elected. I stopped after a month because all he ever posted was negative stuff and attacks against anyone that was critical of him. Nothing he ever posts is relevant to anything, and most of it is false,

Comment Re:Pretty easy to work (Score 1) 198

A trailer rig full of mining computers that you can quickly hook to a commercial power outlet should do nicely and keep costs of relocation way down.

I doubt that the amount of electricity needed to run a "trailer rig full of mining computers" is going to require more than just an extension cord that you plug into a wall socket.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 39

Because they can just immediately liquidate it and walk away with several hundred million dollars?

Uber is not a publicly traded company, so they cannot just immediately liquidate. They need to find someone else who is willing to buy it from them. Even if Uber was public, you can't sell that much stock at once.

Comment Re:Uber's ethics will be a problem (Score 1) 25

While this is an interesting scenario, I bet the dollar amount of the custody battle was far, far less than what is at stake in this trial. The lawyers on both sides have a very strong incentive to make sure that the jurors know as little as possible about the details so they cannot be prejudiced.

Comment Re:Move along nothing to see here (Score 1) 60

"Mr Masri removed the code from GitHub, therefore disabling the "attack" unless someone was to replicate the code elsewhere."

It's called Forking, and probably was done by many people before he removed the code. This is rather reckless on his part to make the exploit available before Apple has a chance to patch it.

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