Comment Re:SEC vs IRS (Score 0) 37
Very true. Per their logic, in game currencies should be either outlawed or declared securities
Comment Shilling for google (Score -1) 274
Who paid for this?
Comment B != M (Score 0) 104
Only off by four orders of magnitude. Not too shabby.
Comment Blame game (Score 1) 119
The energy costs were already on the rise and there needed to be a scapegoat to defer the blame.
Comment How does this relate to Oculus? (Score 0) 84
Being that they are one and the same now.
Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? 231
An anonymous reader writes: Most of us are looking forward to the advent of autonomous vehicles. Not only will they free up a lot of time previously spent staring at the bumper of the car in front of you, they'll also presumably make commuting a lot safer. While that's great news for the 30,000+ people who die in traffic accidents every year in the U.S. alone, it may not be great news for insurance companies. Granted, they'll have to pay out a lot less money with the lower number of claims, but premiums will necessarily drop as well and the overall amount of money within the car insurance system will dwindle.
Analysts are warning these companies that their business is going to shrink. It will be interesting to see if they adapt to the change, or cling desperately to an outdated business model like the entertainment industry did. "One opportunity for the industry could be selling more coverage to carmakers and other companies developing the automated features for cars. ... When the technology fails, manufacturers could get stuck with big liabilities that they will want to cover by buying more insurance. There's also a potential for cars to get hacked as they become more networked."
Analysts are warning these companies that their business is going to shrink. It will be interesting to see if they adapt to the change, or cling desperately to an outdated business model like the entertainment industry did. "One opportunity for the industry could be selling more coverage to carmakers and other companies developing the automated features for cars. ... When the technology fails, manufacturers could get stuck with big liabilities that they will want to cover by buying more insurance. There's also a potential for cars to get hacked as they become more networked."
Comment Re: CA requires commercial licenses for pickup tru (Score 0) 216
No, even an F-150 requires a commercial registration in the state of California. The only exception is if there is a permanently attached camper shell. Permanent meaning welded on or the equivalent.
Comment Time to stop using bitcoin (Score 0) 80
All of its advantages over other currencies are gone anyway.
Comment He meant us right? (Score 0) 68
"the outgoing Senator said that DHS's strategy and programs "are unlikely to protect us from the adversaries that pose the greatest cybersecurity threat."
By that he means American civilians pose the greatest threat, right?
Comment Re:Non-paywalled version (Score 0) 86
Where's the money in that?
Comment Same as deployed in Afghanistan (Score 0) 177
It's the Raytheon JLENS system. It has some impressive spying capabilities and object tracking ability. They have held up fairly well without being shot down in a warzone, how will they fare on American soil?
Comment Save money on life sentences (Score 0) 108
Heightened cancer risk leading to less overall lifespan meaning money saved on life sentences. Do you think prisoners will be given the opportunity to have a rigorous pat-down instead of the scanner?
Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support 575
snydeq (1272828) writes "Microsoft TechNet blog makes clear that Windows 8.1 will not be patched, and that users must get Windows 8.1 Update if they want security patches, InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports. 'In what is surely the most customer-antagonistic move of the new Windows regime, Steve Thomas at Microsoft posted a TechNet article on Saturday stating categorically that Microsoft will no longer issue security patches for Windows 8.1, starting in May,' Leonhard writes. 'Never mind that Windows 8.1 customers are still having multiple problems with errors when trying to install the Update. At this point, there are 300 posts on the Microsoft Answers forum thread 'Windows 8.1 Update 1 Failing to Install with errors 0x80070020, 80073712 and 800F081F.' The Answers forum is peppered with similar complaints and a wide range of errors, from 800F0092 to 80070003, for which there are no solutions from Microsoft. Never mind that Microsoft itself yanked Windows 8.1 Update from the corporate WSUS update server chute almost a week ago and still hasn't offered a replacement.'"
Comment Re:Yet trading goes on (Score -1) 249
They're almost as low as beta.
Comment Re:missiles (Score 0) 365
We can hope.
