That's not quite true. Several of the exchanges let you pay the fees in cryptocurrency.

I think you're missing the point. The point is that facebook would need to store more than just a hash to accomplish their goal -- they need ways to deal with the image being scaled, rotated, run through a filter, etc. In other words... they need to keep a likeness of the original image.

Until employees begin to insist on the ability to work from home, employers are probably not going to ubiquitously offer the option. I've worked roughly 90% from home for about two years, but as a rather extroverted/social person, I honestly preferred working in an office. Working from home won't be an absolute requirement the next time I'm searching for a job. As for discussions about productivity -- I personally think it's a total wash. For types of work that require sustained focus -- I find working from home to be clearly superior. No distracting conversations because a friend walked past on their way to the coffee pot. Nobody prairie-dogging their head over the cubicle wall to ask a question. On the flip side, any work that requires access to specialized equipment requires a special trip, potentially requiring airplane tickets. One of the other commenters mentioned difficulty working with large files... I certainly share that issue, but can usually work around the problem with some creative use of remote servers.

No doubt the same contracting firms that built healthcare.gov created the payment system.

As far as I'm concerned, the commenter whose posting was broken apart line-by-line knows exactly what he/she is talking about, and their engineering judgment should not be questioned.

In the medical device arena, an obvious two line of code change can easily take 3-4 days to complete the necessary reviews and documentation updates; the testing can take a week or two. Now imagine that a patch was made in the networking subsystem of a real-time operating system to deal with a security hole. Completing the relevant documentation/testing turns into a three to six month process. By the time the patch has gone through the necessary regulatory rigmarole, it's arriving so late in the field that any malware that targets the exploit will have long-ago infected the device. Medical device manufacturers are still scrambling to complete the paperwork/testing required to authorize patching their devices for eternalblue/Wannacry, in spite of the fact that it's truly a top priority for both hospitals and the manufacturers.

Without a question of a doubt, generating paperwork that will withstand FDA audit is at least as big of a challenge as engineering the device itself.

If you think nothing can ever change with political parties in the United States, go ahead and cast your vote for your choice of a Federalist or a Whig.

Next year they'll announce they're going back to LibreOffice due to the 15 minutes being spent every day for 300 employees to repaginate documents as they move to Microsoft Office

I don't think that's a cut-and-dry sort of thing. As a developer, I hate the fact that Ubuntu is changing so quickly that I can't keep up. Leading edge is fine, but bleeding edge gets blood everywhere.

I wonder if Verizon's lobbying budget is big enough to bring about any changes... maybe AT&T will help out on this one to keep the same from happening to them in other countries?

What this entire concept fails to acknowledge is that when everyone learns the same thing, you lose the benefits of everyone having a different educational experience. If we all learn exactly the same things, we take the risk that everyone fails. Why not do things differently in every state to see what works? Somebody needs to learn from basic experimental design...

One of my teachers in high school gave me relatively unfettered access to a mac clones that had been booted from the computer lab. My experiments in getting mklinux working on it directly tie to my current career. I have relatively little doubt that my current career stems from having unstructured access to a computer and an internet connection. Sadly, our educational institutions are addicted to structure -- I would probably be doing something much less interesting if it weren't for a teacher that bent the rules and let me do something that might today be viewed as potentially dangerous.

The government doesn't want any metadata surrounding their requests to be released to the public.