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Comment blockchain based transactions are okay (Score 1) 20

as long as we don't call it currency.

okay...lets do blockchainbarterbits. You can buy blockchainbarterbits for a few bucks then trade those with other people, remember they aren't cryptocurrency, they're just items you can use to trade with other people for their stuff. Its not currency, just good ol bartering.

Comment 2nd life (Score 4, Insightful) 51

Why doesn't anyone know about 2nd life?

companies tried opening buildings there to interact with public; I think IBM had (has?) a recruitment office in there somewhere?

And like 2nd life, this idea shall also fail. Although one can debate if 2nd life has failed..it is one of the current longest running *cough* games *cough* even if not super popular...and the engine is old and clunky.

Facebook

Test Shows Facebook Begins Collecting Data From Several Popular Apps Seconds After Users Start Consuming Them. Company Also Collects Data of Non-Facebook Users. (wsj.com) 111

Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook. [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; here's an alternative source.] The Wall Street Journal reports: The social-media giant collects intensely personal information from many popular smartphone apps just seconds after users enter it, even if the user has no connection to Facebook, according to testing done by The Wall Street Journal. The apps often send the data without any prominent or specific disclosure, the testing showed. [...] In the case of apps, the Journal's testing showed that Facebook software collects data from many apps even if no Facebook account is used to log in and if the end user isn't a Facebook member.

In the Journal's testing, Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor, the most popular heart-rate app on Apple's iOS, made by California-based Azumio, sent a user's heart rate to Facebook immediately after it was recorded. Flo Health's Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker, which claims 25 million active users, told Facebook when a user was having her period or informed the app of an intention to get pregnant, the tests showed. Real-estate app Realtor.com, owned by Move, a subsidiary of Wall Street Journal parent News Corp, sent the social network the location and price of listings that a user viewed, noting which ones were marked as favorites, the tests showed. None of those apps provided users any apparent way to stop that information from being sent to Facebook.
Update: New York Governor Cuomo has ordered probe into Facebook access to personal data.

Comment Re:Should everyone learn to.. (Score 1) 201

The points was that "coding" is not general knowledge that would assist in the fulfillment of ones daily work.

Knowing math, and variables, if/then statements (cause and affect)...that is general knowledge that everyone should know that will assist in the fulfillment of ones daily work. But actually understanding programming languages is a skill and trade that should only be forced on people who want to go into that profession. Much like dentistry, surgery, and cooking

If we want to force those skills onto people, then we should go back to forcing all kids (including boys) to learn how to sew and cook.

that was my point..

Comment Should everyone learn to.. (Score 2) 201

work on their car (besides oil changes)
be a dentist
be a surgeon
be a chef
etc..

Everyone should have exposure to everything and be encouraged to learn to be better at things that interest them. Not everyone is suitable to code, just like not everyone *wants* to be a surgeon. That's whats great about a society that encourages people to do what they want to do..someone else will choose to learn how to change the brake pads on the coder's prius, possibly the same coder that wrote the inventory and biling system that the mechanic used.

Comment webageddon! (Score 1) 1044

"..websites are dropping like flies."

lol people are really trying to hype this govt shut down. A cert expiring is not going to take a website down.

Also:

All essential personnel are working..are we seriously to believe that IT staff are not working?? B.S.
It's very oddly coincidental that certs expire in the 2 weeks the govt is "shutdown."

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