Updated some dead links. 

inheritance from rich parents....

There you go....

Some users need to turn off the computer and step outside.  Living life on a forum can not be good.

First two games are showing odds makers going for The Spurs.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/nba/odds/las-vegas/

Championship Odds

http://www.vegasinsider.com/nba/odds/futures/



I'll take the the Spurs to win it all!

Why do we have two threads?  Maybe a mod can merge or close one?

Yea they do appear to be crazy low from those links you showed.  Good thing we are in Bitcoins! Lol

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for shits and giggles I looked up my credit union.

BofA savings .01%
My Credit union savings .10% - .25%

https://www.cuoftexas.org/rates.php#checking-and-savings-tab

That's a hell of a difference.

I doubt anyone would have rates between 1/2 a percent (0.5%) and six hundredth of a percent (.06%).  That's not even logical.

Do you mean between .5% (.005) and 6% (.06)?

God people are stupid around here.  Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.  What does it matter if you are a block away or 25 light years?  The light still travels at that speed.  You are not seeing the event in "real time", just the time it took for light to travel to you.  In fact we can see star light from 13.5 billion years ago (estimated age of the universe)  And if you had read the thread, I posted a link showing that you can in fact see a star explode with your naked eyes.

http://www.space.com/22453-nova-delphinus-star-explosion-naked-eye.html

Not all stars explode....they also fade away.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16302343/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/instead-bang-some-stars-fade-quietly/#.U4bd4ae9KSM

I imagine it is a typo or someone not knowing the correct punctuation and use of % (like several posters in this thread).  .01 = 1%.    .001% = .00001

He wasn't watching the entire sequence of an exploding star.  Just the final seconds before the light extinguished.   

You can witness a star die "now" even though the event happened millions of years ago.  The light just now reached us and we were able to witness the event.  Scientist witnessed one just recently in January.

http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider/2014/01/a-star-just-exploded-next-door-and-its-a-huge-deal.html

And some are visible with your naked eye.  Here was one from last summer:

http://www.space.com/22453-nova-delphinus-star-explosion-naked-eye.html

In my case there is no way it was anything but a star.  I was staring directly at it for a few minutes before it went.  It was not moving and was definitely a star.  I would nightly go out in the hot tub and watch comets, satellites, and other things in the night sky.  In fact I use to track the orbiting satellites and be able to name them as they flew overhead by reading the computer schedules.  Only other thing it could have been would be a motionless alien spaceship that exploded. 

Way cool!  I saw one die as well about a decade ago.  I was sitting in a hot tub enjoying the night sky's and all of a sudden a star just got a brighter and then disappeared.  It was awesome to actually witness it.  I looked up ever resource on the internet trying to see if there was any logs or other confirmations.  Unfortunately I found nothing.  So the star died with only me (as far as I know) witnessing it.  It is amazing you can see with your own unaided eyes the death of a star.

Not sure what you are looking at, but it is probably 1% (.01) not .01%

Google news is starting to light up with articles now about it.  This one is sorta interesting:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/28/true-mystery-of-the-disappearing-truecrypt-disk-encryption-software/

This is definitely weird.  I googled it to find out more info and this is what PC World had to say:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2241300/truecrypt-now-encouraging-users-to-use-microsofts-bitlocker.html

Assuming Dye's estimate is correct regarding their antivirus detection only has a 45% chance of detecting a virus on a PC, then they are selling a "false sense of security" product to the public.

 I don't know what you would consider good odds, but lets just say you will have better luck playing just-dice.com (49.5%) then detecting a virus.  And even if you stacked 5 or 6 virus detectors on your PC you would likely only improve your odds to 55%-60% because they mostly share the same virus database information.

I suspect the only way to stay somewhat safe is by using a closed architecture platform like Apple IOS or systems that sandbox apps.  It is really easy to disguise viruses so antivirus software doesn't detect their fingerprint/signature so I do believe the industry has a real challenge ahead.

Antivirus is Dead, claims Norton antivirus maker:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2150743/antivirus-is-dead-says-maker-of-norton-antivirus.html.


"Dye told WSJ that he estimates traditional antivirus detects a mere 45 percent of all attacks. That's not good."

About $50 a month.