At our workplace almost 40% of machines are now Chromebooks. And you know what? from an IT perspective they are our BEST laptops. Absolutely zero maintenance, zero complaints, the laptops just work. We got the "fancy" ones that flip to become tablets, and people love the touchscreens, and they still cost a third of what a similar Windows/Mac laptop would cost.

I can totally see how in schools a fleet of Chromebooks makes the most sense!

I don't understand your beef with Signal?

Have you ever used Keybase.io? They are a kind of Slack + Signal alternative, plus a file sharing tool, plus a wallet. While Keybase does not have their own currency, a similar tool called Status.im does have its own currency called SNT, and Status lets you chat and create chat rooms, just like Signal.

I mean, how do you expect Signal to make money? We've all been using their platform and servers for a while now, for free. I've never been shown a single ad. It's a free country, let them unveil whatever they want, and let the market decide.

I was actually able to do this with Amcrest cameras. They seem to support a variety of protocols.

What if magnetism is what's pushing things apart? If the magnetic force is stronger than gravity (since like magnetic poles repel each other when they are facing each other), then massive objects will repel each other. When massive objects are closer together such that gravity is stronger than the repelling force of magnetism, they will crash into each other.

Comments like yours are sad. The majority of crime around the world happen over the Euro, the Chinese RMB, and the US Dollar. The rest happens using Gold, Diamonds, and Oil. Only a very tiny fraction of crime committed happens using Crypto.

Also, be glad that those guys at least didn't wipe Travelex's network and just sold the database, they could have! And Travelex certainly deserves it. They deserve to die regardless, for being criminally incompetent. Travelex should pay up and shut up, and then they should revamp their platform (basically write it from scratch!).

And if they can't find someone to write it from scratch with security in mind, I can help them do it ;-)

It's NOT a single IT person, Ever. It is ALWAYS the CEO's fault, period.

The CEO allowed their IT teams to choose Windows based systems, the CEO did not take security seriously, and the CEO may not have allocated a budget for proper security audits, education, maintenance, etc.

The CEO basically failed to understand their company exists in the year 2019 (now 2020), a time in which the internet is a wild west and hacks are not a question of IF, but a question of WHEN.

This is not a pulsar, it's Voltron on its way to save another planet.

Jokes aside: At this distance how do we know this isn't some massive spaceship traveling at nearly the speed of light?

I live literally 2 blocks from Whole Foods and frankly? It's just too damn expensive. I prefer to drive 15 minutes to Costco and buy all of my groceries there. I feed a family, and fruits, vegetables, even eggs and milk, are all super expensive at Whole Foods. I'll only buy there if I am stuck in the middle of the week without a few items.

Amiga was my dream come true, but I simply could not afford it at the time. I imagine this was the case for many others.

That's what Erdogan deserves

Agree 100% with everything you said. It's all true.

Doesn't mean it won't change in the future though. I think it will improve massively, it's a question of demand.

I programmed FPGA years ago. They are still limited, even in 2018. But I imagine in the future as the use case becomes stronger, the technology may improve massively and become cheaper and more common.

Just look at external GPUs for laptops. If you told people 10 years ago it would be a thing, they'd call you mad. Same with Crypto Assets, most people didn't see Bitcoin coming, and even when it was in its first years people still bought a Pizza for 10,000 BTC because even though they knew how the technology worked, even they couldn't fathom how valuable the tech and the currency would become.

Personally, I keep an open mind so nothing is shocking to me. I wasn't even shocked when Trump got elected, even though it was presented as a joke in various media such as The Simpsons and other comedies (or perhaps as a hidden warning ;-)).

I totally expect we'll eventually be able to copy the human brain into a virtual environment, extend the life of our organs (or replace them entirely), and reach planets in other systems, it's just a question of time.

I'm not talking about the kind of tech we have now. Obviously FPGA is not suitable for the stuff I'm talking about, and I wouldn't integrate FPGA into today's CPUs. But just imagine if you could add more "FPGA Style" chips on a bus. Some would be purposed as GPU, some as Crypto chips, some would be purposed for audio processing, some for manipulating large scale 3D scenes (complex interactions, collision detection, physics), some for AI / Neural Net style compute, powerful image recognition, some even for network stack handling...

I think this style of general purpose compute platform could be pretty useful to have! You could even make very powerful routers, or very powerful database servers.

Down the road, this kind of thing might totally happen. I think it makes sense. Even from a fab point of view; it's cheaper to make a fab that produces one standardized silicone which can be repurposed, than to make 20 fabs for 20 types of chips.

then in my opinion, the next generation of CPUs should have re-programmable gate logic. Kinda like how FPGA works, but significantly faster and on a massive scale. Just imagine the kind of power you'd get if the OS switches large areas on the silicon to fit certain tasks. When you play games or do some massive 3D work, the CPU would be reprogrammed for that task. When you want to mine crypto or do some massive encryption/decryption/compression/decompression, the CPU would be reprogrammed accordingly.

I honestly fail to see what's in it for Jews? Seriously. Why would a "people" (and we'll talk about that in a sec) would do something that cause the entire planet to hate them even more than they already do?

And about "people", what on earth makes you think "Jews" are as organized as the Jew haters are trying to make it seem? It so happens that Jews are probably the least organized people on earth. There's hundreds of streams & communities, they all disagree with each other, are spread over the globe, and even in Israel you can see huge disparity in opinions, internal conflict, etc.

I think if you educate yourself on the issue, you'll realize why linking Jews to 9/11 in any way, is simply absurd and stupid (and simply driven by an evil Jew hating agenda).