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Comment Re:Not supricing. (Score 1) 40

Free or reduced prices to education has always made big returns. When you grow up using something and learning it all through your education, you continue to use and pay for the same products in your career.

Citation needed. Technology changes too quickly and people move to newer services. Nobody over about 35 uses anything they used during their education. If it were true in my case I'd still be buying WordPerfect and using Pine for email.

Comment Re:Convenient but Risky (Score 1) 64

You don't have to unlock your iPhone to access the Wallet.

But I'd have to look at the phone to choose the driver's license. And with FaceID the phone will unlock automatically. And if by some chance it didn't, the officer could point the phone towards my face whilst "examining" the license and wait until it unlocks.

Comment Re:I use OneDrive (Score 1) 28

And I use OneDrive too... on my iPhone. I could also use Google Drive instead of iCloud if I wanted. Microsoft products are available on the iPhone as well as Android, I use OneDrive, Outlook and synchronize to my MS calendar. Not sure why you think you can't use third-party apps on an iPhone.

Comment Re:Helpful tip for blocking all Windows updates (Score 1, Troll) 140

>> it's not a pretty solution

It's not even a solution. Seriously, it's nearly 2018 and people are still suggesting disabling Windows Update as a viable solution to anything at all?! If your lack of trust or Microsoft is that deep, then how can you trust your operating system at all? Either use Windows and keep the damn thing updated and out of a botnet that will affect others, or switch to an alternative OS that you do trust.

If you have the Pro version of Windows 10, you can trivially delay the installation of major updates for up to six months, which is plenty of time for MS to get the bugs ironed out. With Microsoft in general (and Windows 10 in particular), either you're in and constantly-updated, or you're left behind and unsecured. I can understand people not liking that, but that's the way Windows works these days, so forget bad pseudo-solutions and either sign up or log out and move to MacOS, Linux, BSD, Android...

Submission + - One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week (vice.com)

SlaveToTheGrind writes: Bitcoin's incredible price run to break over $7,000 this year has sent its overall electricity consumption soaring, as people worldwide bring more energy-hungry computers online to mine the digital currency.

An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.

This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes.

Comment Re:I will continue with the old version, Firefox 5 (Score 3, Informative) 148

A much better option is to go with Firefox ESR, currently at version 52.4.1. I've installed it everywhere on all my Windows and Linux machines - it's guaranteed to be stable and supported until June 2018, which hopefully will be enough time for the new Firefox to stabilize (or worst-case scenario, give me enough time to find an alternative).

One warning though - it may be difficult to move your Firefox profile from 56 to 52, as from 54 onward Mozilla messed up some backwards compatibility in preparation for 57.

Comment So what's the problem? (Score 5, Insightful) 92

The Drive app is replaced by the "backup and sync" app which does EXACTLY the same thing (plus you can sync directories other than the "Google Drive" one). It has a different icon and name, but it is basically an update, a version 2.0. The functionality is not "going away", if you install the new program is removes and replaces the old one, you don't even need to login again, everything is carried over.

So, what's the problem?

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