caveat emptor

Yes and no.
Govt backed fiat money as we know it has been around for a long while and a large set of rules have grown up that attempt to stop people doing $bad_things with other peoples money whilst keeping the cost of transactions low.
The ultimate value of any one currency is the Govts ability to extract taxes from its plus what people believe.

Crypto has been around for a shorter while and a minimal set of rules have grown up that attempt to keeping the cost of transactions low. There is little to stop people doing $bad_things with other peoples money. Destroying the currency through these exploits will mean that over time Crypto that _does_ have rules will survive and grow.
The ultimate value of any one Crypto is the Crypto's ability to extract 'money' from its holders, plus what people believe.

So I expect
- the rules of fiat and crypto to converge
- some cryptocurrencies will persist

You do not get credit for all the times you did not kill someone.

This is a complex area and IANAL.

But generally (and there are exceptions and some tings do not seem to be common sense) the idea is that if you do something in a way that could be foreseen by a reasonable person to end in a fatality, you (the person in control - whoever that is) is possibly guilty of causing death by dangerous driving.

So far the person in control is the driver.

IMNSHO, the only place autonomous driving will ever be allowed is in a controlled environment - like a motorway / autobahn / freeway where pedestrians - and anything that is not a vehicle - are not allowed.

In the _really_ long term, this universe is not sustainable.
in the short term, I look forward to settlements somewhere a bit more stable, like the oort cloud.

Close - you are thinking of
Meta for ?

Because no one knows.

Links that have been followed are red - because the destination has been (in theory) read

Financial dealing screens are blue / red because as other posters have mentioned, most (not all) can tell the difference between blue and read
This has been so since before the internet ... so blue. :)

Asked above, not well answered.
My Attempt:

I can think of three. Remember this is a minimum value. There is no max value.
1
The cost of mining a BTC (like gold mining)
2
The cost of transferring a BTC (otherwise no-one will maintain the blockchain)

if the price drops below that level
3
0.0

At the same time

- the article will appeal to the CIO readers who wonder why that job is so hard and complicated.... surely not really and so will be read
and
- the article is completely wrong as this person is writing for CIO mag and why cant a cookery writer do the same or better for less - indeed why is there a CIO mag at all

We are better off ...
... Unlimited cat videos!

the kb on my x220 is super, colleagues using x230/24/0/250 have the calculator style keyboards and they do suck imo

You are a Walmart supplier using AWS

Walmart asks you to do a thing
chances are you store more data or more frequently or differently

Amazon doesnt need to hack the db or look or anything

Just like the TLAs use metadata, Amazon can use traffic analysis to work out what is happening

Key point:

Completely legally - they will not be peeking at the data at all - just a special case of optimising AWS.

Maybe,

but please do not forget that Uber is a minicab service.

One way of being more efficient is to not pay the same overheads in terms of insurance / safety - and this is what they are doing.
Another is to pay drivers less - and this is what they are doing.

Moving on to real things,

if they operate cabs on a UK ambulance model (you use software to place ambulances near likely calls), they might be more efficient
if they minimise their own costs, they might be more efficient

Wake me up when I can walk to the other side of my display and see the back of the actors heads.

When you can do that it is real 3d.

Pls mod parent up.

On was it a russian ...chances are it was.
was it the russian govt - that is a big step and really hard to prove - don't forget, much like many other private organisations/individuals, these guys are for hire - it could have been my hamster who paid for it.

On Clinton / Trump
It worries me that you Americans - on both sides - seem to lose sight of the fact that someone may disagree with your politics and still be a good person and have genuine and reasonable reasons for holding their opinion.
Personally I think it is at least partly because some of the bad things the other side says are true (on both sides) and to stop thinking about that you hold closer to your chosen man|woman and shout louder at the other woman|man.

There also seems to be a view that if you dont vote trump|clinton you are effectively voting clinton|trump

Personally I think they both have serious issues.
If I had a vote in this election (and I dont) I would not vote for either. I would look for a way of saying that neither of these are good enough for the job.

In the UK they report on the number of spoilt ballots.
if that number got be be something like the margin of victory, in a reasonably democratic country it should give the political classes as a whole pause.

It is a bit like the output from the Enigma machine, if you used the knowledge too much, the Germans would have worked out that they were being 'Hacked' and then start doing something else that could not be 'hacked' in the same way.

however, you can be better placed to pick up the pieces.

US citizens may be able to correct me, but I thought that the CIA was only allowed to snoop outside the US