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Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines (bloomberg.com) 174

Posted by BeauHD on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:30PM from the downward-spiral dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The cryptocurrency bear market plumbed a fresh 10-month low on Monday as Bitcoin's biggest rival tumbled and U.S. regulators suspended trading in two securities linked to digital assets. Ether, the second-largest virtual currency, slumped 11 percent from its level at 5 p.m. New York time on Friday, according to Bloomberg composite pricing. Bitcoin declined 2.4 percent, while the market capitalization of digital assets tracked by CoinMarketCap.com shrank to about $197 billion -- down almost $640 billion from its January peak. Cryptocurrencies have declined for five of the past six weeks amid concern that a broader adoption of digital assets will take longer than some had anticipated. That worry was underscored over the weekend after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission temporarily suspended trading in two exchange-traded notes linked to cryptocurrencies and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin told Bloomberg that the days of explosive growth in the blockchain industry have likely come and gone.

Comment Work of fiction about sovereign immunity (Score 4, Informative) 150

by CHiRd on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:18AM (#57011624) Attached to: Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court

If you're interested in the relation between native american tribes and misuse of sovereign immunity, I can recommend The Whistler by John Grisham, a nice read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:It's great for productivity (Score 1) 149

by CHiRd on Thursday June 12, 2008 @11:33AM (#23764743) Attached to: Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity

Have you ever tried to - politely - suggest to them that you prefer verbal communication, and then try to come to a workable solution for everyone?
Only complaining on ./ will probably not improve your situation.
Talking to them could.
(or at least they get a chance to explain to you why they work the way they do)

Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves 202

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 05, 2008 @07:08PM from the at-this-rate-one-will-soon-be-enough dept.

Bryan writes "The number of moves necessary to solve an arbitrary Rubik's cube configuration has been cut down to 23 moves, according to an update on Tomas Rokicki's homepage (and here). As reported in March, Rokicki developed a very efficient strategy for studying cube solvability, which he used it to show that 25 moves are sufficient to solve any (solvable) Rubik's cube. Since then, he's upgraded from 8GB of memory and a Q6600 CPU, to the supercomputers at Sony Pictures Imageworks (his latest result was produced during idle-time between productions). Combined with some of Rokicki's earlier work, this new result implies that for any arbitrary cube configuration, a solution exists in either 21, 22, or 23 moves. This is in agreement with informal group-theoretic arguments (see Hofstadter 1996, ch. 14) suggesting that the necessary and sufficient number of moves should be in the low 20s. From the producers of Spiderman 3 and Surf's Up, we bring you: 2 steps closer to God's Algorithm!"

Tracking Traffic Jams With Cell Phones 130

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 05, 2006 @08:23PM from the eye-in-the-tower dept.

kaufmanmoore writes, "Companies and governments are looking to alternatives to expensive radars and road sensors to track traffic jams. Two Atlanta-based companies are aiming to use data from wireless carriers to mark how fast phones are moving and overlaying that with maps to calculate traffic conditions. One of the companies, AirStage, has already partnered with Sprint-Nextel and the Georgia DOT to cover Atlanta's notorious traffic. The plans raise obvious privacy concerns over the usage of the data of your cell phone's location and the accuracy of this data." From the article: "[The] systems rely on wireless companies allowing them to process the data from their towers that calculate the position of each phone about twice a second when it's being used and once every 30 seconds when it's not. [One company's technology] can track vehicles to within 330 feet without using Global Positioning System satellites. Its software is designed to weed out the difference between pedestrians and drivers, then crunch it into detailed color-coded maps that show average speeds along roadways."

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