Posts by Don Jefe

Re: Why do they bite the coins?

Then you really don't want to think about where else some of your coins might have been. Haven't you ever heard of someone getting a 'toll booth'.

Re: Typical government response

They don't have to outlaw Bitcoin. It is a self resolving issue & will go away if left to its own devices.

Re: $224,000??

Lawyers have different rates for procedural issues. If a judge is in involved costs skyrocket, ostensibly because of more paperwork. $500 per hour is not that high for a lawyer and there are often multiple specialty lawyers from the firm working simultaneously on a case, so it is easy to hit several thousand an hour in collection cases.

Re: The tax laws are open to all...

No. The laws are open to ultra wealthy companies.

Re: Tired of the lies @cybersaur

Lowering labor costs at the expense of your product/service does not make the least bit of sense: That's a losing proposition all the way around. Unless, the job can be done by 'anyone' in which case the job doesn't justify higher wages.

I know some companies with truly bizarre hiring practices and nobody targets recent grads because they will 'screw up' negotiations, the additional screening expenses alone would offset any savings of a few thousand dollars; recent grads aren't going to qualify for positions where tens of thousands of dollars and benefits are on the line anyway.

Re: CO2 is not a pollutant

If you'd care to do just one iota of research before you put your foot in your mouth it would serve you well.

CO2 is terribly destructive, it is in the top five sources of degradation of concrete (roads) and brick structures (buildings) and way up there as a source of degradation for protective coatings (paint) of metal structures, leading to rust. There are many, many reasons that excess CO2 is bad beyond AGW.

Re: Re "famous Neil Gaiman"

I actually have no idea who he is. I'm going to look him up though.

Re: Moore's Law and the Fermi Paradox.

One issue is that a proper scientific paper should not say 'Moore's "Law"': It is a shameful misuse of the term 'law' to apply it to a market forecast. 'Moore's Rule' or 'Moore's Best Guess' or 'Gordon Hopes & Dreams' would be an appropriate name for the observation and a scientific paper would have some title like "Correlation of Silicate Density In Compute Processors to Observable Probabilities of Recognizable Extra Terrestrial Life", or something.

Don't let pseudo science or marketeers fool you with their misuse of terms. It is a nasty practice and it is the responsibility of the reader to see through their bullshit and know the correct meaning of the words.

Re: Toys and Oil

It is hugely relevant, especially in medium and long term views. Investing in petrochemicals still makes me money and will continue to do so long after Apple is part of someone else's portfolio. There was never any reason in the insanely high Apple valuations & it only benefited those who make their money through manipulating stock markets for short term gain as opposed to investing for long term gain/safety.

I suppose it depends on how you manage your money. I prefer to put mine in places where I don't have to screw with it all the time with the knowledge my money is secure. Others take a different path but I'm too lazy and not excessively greedy :)

Re: 25 billion won (£14.6m/$22.3m)

Because all the euros are in Germany and the Germans aren't big Reg readers.

Re: Mainstream

That's what people told Henry Ford too: "Nobody is going to buy your cars. There's nowhere to buy fuel but you can feed a horse anywhere". We all know how that ended...

Besides, the grid is already in place. Building the interface to that grid is the challenge.

Re: Good to see all the "heuristic malware scanners" are doing their job

If we knew how many others were under the radar they would no longer be under the radar.

Re: *Protracted Yawn*

Gaping illogical holes... That's the problem right there. Many business problems aren't logical & can't be explained easily without a solid understanding of both the business itself and business in general. For some reason many executives don't appreciate that most IT people are capable of understanding business but at the same time IT people don't want to embrace the 'buzzword' culture of business (everything is illogical or stupid)

Both sides generally have poor attitudes when it comes to communication and both sides find frustration with the jargon and acronyms. At the end of the day it takes people on both sides to communicate in in terms that both sides understand and with attitudes that don't demean others. That was originally supposed to be the role of the CIO but too many companies just promote (or hire) someone who is too grounded in one world or the other. The best CIO's I know aren't great coders or architects and they aren't the greatest business minds either: They are terrific interpreters and diplomats who can speak both 'languages' and still look good in a suit or in a T-shirt & boots.

Re: Reality TV fail

It is for a TV show so you don't want mentally stable people, you want the crazy asshole that will open the airlock. Besides, there are huge chances that anyone young enough & sad enough to sign up for a one way trip to Mars will (hopefully) have found happiness 15 years from now and will not want to leave all that behind.

Re: Did I read that right??

That really is funny! I missed it on my first read but had to go back after you pointed it out.

Re: Errm

As public companies they only have to list them under license royalties/payments (depending on if you're paying or receiving). They are not required to drill down to specific payments/revenue sources: "Super Secret Payment Shit" isn't secret, it just doesn't have to be disclosed.

Re: 640x360?

HD in one eye? What's the point?

Re: Rats don't drink?

There are several sources out there. I learned about it in university. They are common test subjects in alcohol addiction studies because they don't drink unless they've been modified.

The basic premise is that the researchers overload the rat neuoreceptors with the same neurotransmitters found in alcoholic brains (making them alcoholics) then attempt to unlock those transmitters with drugs. In alcoholic brains the transmitters in question remain stuck in the receptors and the hypothesis is that if you can dislodge or destroy the transmitters you can cure alcoholism. So far they've only managed to create rats with insanely high tolerances who die from alcohol poisoning without getting drunk or terminally disabled rats with brains fried from exotic chemicals.

Re: Smartphones are for yesterday's cool kids.

Yes. You will look intriguing wearing it too...