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  • On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 26 May, 2021 @ 12:30pm

    Re: More socially useful cryptocurrencies?

    Given the amount of pump and dump scams in Crypto, the fake trading back and forth to make the price look higher then it should be, and the nature that 99% of a limited pool of tokens are more or less not in use. This alone is a good reason to stay the fuck out of the market. BUT! You also have issues with 20% of China's power going to it, criminal ganges using it as a way to launder money and at least a few other scams going around. I can see why the government would at some point end it. The other side of the coin, the coin itself is actully meaningless Its a stand in for a store of value and could easily be replaced by anything that could not be reproduced easily, or could easily be traded for cash.

  • On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 26 May, 2021 @ 12:24pm

    Re: Re: Ban cash as well

    Today you Don't mug the person, you steal his identity, open credit cards, max them out, and leave the poor person with the bill. Mugging the person opens you up to normal cops going after you, kidnapping the person today would work better, but again, normal cops go after that crime. ID theft, even better if done from outside the US, is mostly very hard to prevent and can net a lot more money.

  • On the post: Stadia Exodus Continues As Product Head For Stadia Exits

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 08 May, 2021 @ 08:14pm

    Re: Latency

    This leap "Could" Happen the same way netflix handled lag on its network. Once Traffic grows to some size you start installing your backbone inside the last mile data centers. This solution also addresses lag for online game design as you have a much easier time creating dedicated bandwidth for your gaming boxes in the data center to each other or allowing "Local" peer to peer gaming with your neighbors and having a single central gaming box pull double duty as the game server as well. But of course (as a former Google Employee) I can say that Google thinks it's smarter than everyone else and refuses to play by any existing industry rules. This of course is fine when you invent an industry but fails badly with a product like this.

  • On the post: Trump Shows Why He Doesn't Need Twitter Or Facebook, As He Launches His Own Twitter-Like Microblog

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 05 May, 2021 @ 01:40pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Assuming he makes an actual statement that can be understood as such. Mostly he just goes around saying stuff like "Them people, we dont wanna have em here" with out actully saying who they are, where here is, or anything else that can be validated.

  • On the post: Trump Shows Why He Doesn't Need Twitter Or Facebook, As He Launches His Own Twitter-Like Microblog

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 05 May, 2021 @ 08:36am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Koby? Koby? Koby?

    An Argument could be made if somehow all land was privatized (wow something the GOP wants to do BTW). So one could argue that they have the right to free speech on private property in the event that they can show that there is no public space left. Heck unions have the right to speak on private farmland based on the argument that no public land exists in a geographic area. This of course by no means guarantees an audience now or ever.

  • On the post: Trump Shows Why He Doesn't Need Twitter Or Facebook, As He Launches His Own Twitter-Like Microblog

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 05 May, 2021 @ 08:26am

    Re:

    Technically, if enough internet backbones block you, you are effectively blocked from the internet. We do not give "Common Carrier" status to internet backbones yet. Thus Charter or Comcast or whatever could block you if you hosted your content personally. All the major platforms have blocked Trump but last I checked, dump pipes (ISPs) and quasi government groups (ICANN) will still allow him to get an IP address, register a domain, and host for now. I could see a constitutional issue if every avenue to get on the internet was blocked AND the effective result was banishment from the Internet due to a blacklist.

  • On the post: PlayStation Y2K-Like Battery Bug About To Become A Problem As Sony Shuts Down Check In Servers

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2021 @ 05:03pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Mainframes are one of the few systems that are quite poor for VMs. They are built with extreme amounts of data IO, redundancy, and specialized hardware that allows checksums for every calculation. The point of this technology (which is still made and sold today) is that a given calculation will be made correctly even when taking into account things like cosmic rays and other random bit flips. VMs are often at the other end of the computing spectrum, shared load and trust that the message you get from system A will be accepted by all the other systems down the line. Caught errors are pushed backwards for correction in Error handling instead of being fixed by simply calculating the checksum. TLDR: Use mainframes for banking or stocks and bonds when you have LOTS of data, calculations, and need them to be very accurate. While VMs are used for distributed load networking.

  • On the post: PlayStation Y2K-Like Battery Bug About To Become A Problem As Sony Shuts Down Check In Servers

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2021 @ 10:14am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Hate to say it but we have more versions of the Y2K bug coming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Other programs are going to wrap around dates in 2038 (or so) to 1938 as systems could not upgrade to 4 digits and they are still being used today (bank mainframes, C&C software, embedded stuff as well). I expect fixes to be almost as painful as Y2K or even more so since the people building this stuff wont be found at all.

  • On the post: Court Says Two Cops Who Deployed Deadly Force Can Use Florida's Victims' Rights Law To Hide Their Names From The Public

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2021 @ 09:41pm

    Re: And I might win the lottery while struck by lighting too...

    This kind of law follows the same logic as 13 and 14 year olds getting charged with CP laws for pictures they took of themselves. The victim and the criminal are the same person and somehow the law still allows this outcome.

  • On the post: Wall Street Analysts Say Musk's Starlink Poses No Real Threat To Traditional Broadband

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2021 @ 08:28am

    Re: Re: Yeah, right

    starlink uses lower earth orbit to specifically address this. At LEO, with very narrow attuned antenna, along with overlapping frequency ranges, they can have something like 5 satellites overlap the same physical space and effectively create a grid. Some technology's can improve this even more like distributed MIMO for inbound communication and polarization for downstream (adding spin and filtering it out on the ground).

  • On the post: Nike Sues MSCHF Over Its High Profile Satan Shoes, Claiming Unsafe Blood May Dilute The Exalted Nike Swoosh

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2021 @ 01:28pm

    Re: Unsafe Blood?

    A small argument can be made for linking Bio Hazards with Nike's Shoes. Blood is known bio hazard and by adding it to a shoe you have opened up the shoes sellers to liability for blood borne illness in the event that the shoe is damaged. The re-seller in this case may not have deep pockets, Nike has very deep pockets so really this case exists because of the choice of using a drop of blood (perhaps only in marketing) creating liability to Nike (or assumed they could be liable)

  • On the post: Appeals Court Judge Attacks Fundamental Principle Of 1st Amendment Law, Because He Thinks The Media Likes Democrats Too Much

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2021 @ 11:17am

    Re: Re:

    The President of the United States, Also the leader of the Republican Party, clearly said "I want to open up libel laws." One party clearly wants to use libel as a means to attack people when called out on lies. This is not a tactic used by the other side at all.

  • On the post: Maryland Legislators Pass Bill That Would Keep Most Teens From Being Prosecuted For Sexting

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2021 @ 09:57am

    Re:

    As long as the law rewards based on number of convictions, they will go after low hanging fruit like kids taking photos of themselves since posession of your own naked photo is illegal if your 17. Why do you think cops want access to phones so badly?

  • On the post: Deepfake Of Tom Cruise Has Everyone Freaking Out Prematurely

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2021 @ 08:58am

    Re: Re: Danger is not in the best, but in surveillance quality.

    Honestly at this point they scan your face, get a bunch of random audio from you, and can make a video confession of any crime they want. Video evidence is not gonna be valid soon, and I kinda think they want it that way since everyone has a camera today.

  • On the post: Kentucky Senators Pass Bill That Would Make It A Crime To Say Mean Things To Cops

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2021 @ 10:31am

    What is a Riot

    Personally I love how it fails to define what a Riot is. So let's look at that for a moment...

    KRS 525.010(5) defines riot as a public disturbance involving an assemblage of five or more persons which by tumultuous and violent conduct creates grave danger of damage or injury to property or persons or substantially obstructs law enforcement or other government function.

    5 guys holding flags someplace in town or the Portland Riots that lasted a month give cover to charge you with rioting if you Jwalk now. Way to go!

  • On the post: Oregon Court: A Stop So Pretexual Cops Forgot About The Pretext Is A Rights Violation

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2021 @ 08:18am

    Re:

    Traffic stops are only a detainment, generally civil, and are meant to correct a driving infraction. This was not that, they simply pulled the car over and immediately assumed the driver and passenger were doing illegal things with out any known reason.

  • On the post: Monster Energy Goes After Autobody Shop Because Of It's 'M' Logo And Use Of Green Color

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2021 @ 05:49am

    Re:

    Your honor, there logo clearly has 2 parallel lines, with a V shape between them just like our logo and it's in a green color. We clearly own anything, in any industry, that might look like a green M. Next lawsuit Monster V. Green M&M's

  • On the post: Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2021 @ 11:06pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    What policies are causing the problem, because I could easily see some fairly common sense ones like, electrical producers need to be rated for weather down to 10 degrees. This of course is not the case as no one has the authority to tell power producers how to run there business, and instead of punishing them for not meeting the needs of the people, in the storm they passed rate hikes. So far it seems like deregulated power producers are building the minimum product and demanding premium prices. Then going to the bank with our money when they fail us.

  • On the post: Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2021 @ 06:29am

    Re:

    Not only is disaster proofing not profitable, but choosing to only disaster proof your most profitable equipment is insanely profitable since any emergency means you get to make huge windfalls while people suffer. This is a manufactured crisis caused by business people who only care about money.

  • On the post: Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward

    pyrosflam ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2021 @ 08:16pm

    Re:

    The Texas power grid issues are bigger then people think, a ton of generating capacity is idle because it only goes online if it makes a profit, demand is currently artificially low because we have rolling blackouts all over the place to the tune of about 25%. So plants won't fire up since they can't see network demand and the real price for their power. The other end of this is the ENRON stuff going on, by limiting generation in a situation where you would pay or freeze you push up the price of power sky high. Why is this all happening? Texas is both small in market size compared to the 2 national grids, and uses an instant price auction system for buying power from producers in real time. Firing up a new plant with out a change in the blackout policy just dumps the price, while doing nothing means your current plants make bank till the grid changes the blackout policy. In the end we have a perfect storm of unlimited demand, very limited production, and a regulator who by design cant tell power producers what to do, only provide current demand and network load information.

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