My bet? Putin. Russia has blown through its savings due to this dumb fucking psychopathic war that Putin chosen to wage. And thanks to burning refineries, destroyed pipelines, blown up and seized tankers, China and even India cutting back on orders, they're running out of money and facing collapse. Putin likely had a huge store of bitcoins, having used it to transact outside of the banking systems that he's been banned from. Liquidating it would be one way to help shore up near term finances.

We use Siri all the time, but for simple things. When cooking, asking her to set a timer when your hands are full is great. Setting reminders or appts works really well, too. Asking Siri to play music by an artist or play list works most of the time. Adding a current song to our library or play list is also handy. These features bring real value to our family.

Siri lacks context of previous interactions, and her voice recognition could be improved. But the former is the real weakness. She also is unable to understand the datasets that she is often asked to receive, instead prompting to send a link instead. So, some degree of context would go along way. And generative AI that can parse web results and formulate a verbal response describing it would also be a huge improvement.

These people are getting tiresome. Woke this. Woke that. Woke, woke, woke. Their sad little cult is withering on the vine.

Way to prove my point.

NFTs are just another technology with bad uses and good. This is supposed to be a technology article aggregator, but the point just made seems to just sail over every poster's head here, time and again.

It should be vastly easier to prevent garbage from being released by the storm drainage system than to intercept it after it's already made its way into the ocean.

What is LA doing about that?

It seems like, more than ever, the people we once looked up to, that enjoyed such stellar success, have chosen this particular time in history to come crashing back down, often in the fires of self-immolation.

I can't believe that Hasbro could possibly be so oblivious to the nature of the community that they sought to monetize. And for what? They're already making billions, and yet they want to make more by taking from the very people who have made this game what it is?

Just stunning.

By the same token, the Fed has caused people's net worth to essentially be halved in the last three years, pricing home ownership out of the realm of possibility for. most people. And, by rights, we should have done this back in 2007, when Lehman Brothers executed massive fraud through CDSs and CDOs. What's the difference between what Lehman did (and quite a few other trading houses), and what FTX did? The net result is the same.

So, let's ban the USD and the Fed.

Sauce for the goose, right?

Some crypto are designed to hide identity. See: Monero.

Otherwise, crypto is highly traceable.

That you were voted to a 4 is a clear indicator of how little Slashdot editors really understand how crypto / blockchain works. This used to be a site that had a better, more educated population of readers for technology and related issues. It used to be a great source to learn new things. Lately, it's just been disappointing.

I'm in my 50's. I cut the cord years ago. I use youtube constantly, in the evenings, etc. Everything you'd ever want to watch from cable is there in limited form. Most of what I watch outside of the networks, etc, is actually higher quality, ranging from news, science, history, etc. I haven't explored sports at all, but I've never been interested in it. What you find is that for any interest, there are dozens, sometime hundreds of content creators who spend much more time taking deeper dives than cable news ever could. From space and rocketry, to computer science, to genetic research, to gaming, to consumer tech, to the entertainment industry, to cooking, there is a remarkable depth of talent and coverage on youtube. Beyond that, if you ever have a question about how to do anything, there's a youtube video showing you how.

If this is all news to you, you have no idea of how that service has matured. It's really an incredible knowledgebase.

From what I've seen, the entire field of cosmology is due for a revolution. And for my money, the really interesting questions have to do with the nature of time.

What is time?

Ask most who are familiar with GR, and they'll tell you that time dilation results from the curvature of spacetime, which tells matter how to move. And matter informs spacetime how to curve.

It's circular.

When you dig in, you find that the GR geodesics that define the path of an object in motion are those that comprise the least time. Dig further, and you'll find that there are explanations for the force of gravity that rely entirely upon time gradients. At first, it took a while to wrap my head around it. But when I realized the elegant simplicity of it, I became a convert.

What is it about matter, then, that brings about these gradients in time?

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that there's no graviton, nor is there a Standard Model field for gravity. Rather, there is a field for time, which regulates the speed of interactions between atoms. And it's likely that we already are familiar with this field, though we know it for its more obvious influences.

Exciting times, indeed.

They'll finally figure out how to crack the limits on the speed of light transmission of data. And with that final, essential plank in place, their system will finally be usable!

Without a hit?

• - Ozark
• - The Witcher
• - Squid Game
• - Lost In Space
• - Breaking Bad

• And where is HBO now that GoT is over? Spending hundreds of millions more to make new content to keep subscribers. They're all playing the game, they're all creating fantastic content, and there's a big enough pie to go around.
  
  It's just that Netflix days as a "growth" tech company may be coming to a close.

No good deed goes unpunished, eh?

Sometimes, dead is bettah...