I don't know about police, but these scams have been going on for ages. Of course they are going to be from a conveniently, lets call it, "complicated" country where chances are your laws won't ever touch them.

You can replace "crypto" with "gold" or whatever, and you'll recognize the scam. This has nothing to do with actual crypto, any bait that sounds good will do, and of course they will encourage him to "invest" (give away) more money. It say 2500€ is a pretty good catch per idiot person...

So its like me telling you to give me your money and i will give you back twice, and perhaps even do it once or twice (which these people didn't even bother to do). How big can the stupidity of people be?

A "smartphone app" can be programmed to do display anything, it doesn't make it any less lie.

Oh and by the way, the "come asking" part is supposed to occur before you foolishly give your money to strangers, else why bother, its lost... What, will the UK declare war to Russia over some mafia boys scamming a few British subjects overseas? Doubt it...

This thinking have to change, as bitcoin price increase is slowing down with maturity. Perhaps until now, and perhaps for a little bit further, you could thing of bitcoin as "investment", but in the future, you should rather think of bitcoin as value preserving.

First, think that anything fiat loses value, depending on place from 2% to millions % yearly. So to avoid this, you should move your savings into bitcoin or gold. Then, of course at some point you want to use a bit of your savings, and that is when you can simply spend it directly rather than the inconvenience of exchanging it for fiat first.

Don't expect just buying bitcoin will give you so much profit you can quit your job. That might have been the case in the beginning, but with each passing day it will be less and less true. You will never get the giant returns people who invested early made in the past. Those times are gone.

Even if you don't want to see it as a payment system, look at it as a money (wire) transfer system. For this purpose Bitcoin is perfect as it is, and of course to save your money from induced inflation from the misled ruling governments and institutions following school of Chicago dogma.

Once upon a time, Steam also made the mistake of using Bitpay, then, after the transaction fee craze of early 2018 they suspended the service. Now Bitpay can easily be replaced with btcpay, and you could do it yourself or hire anyone (not just bitpay) to do the processing, but they haven't bothered ever since.

Newegg is peculiar. For long they have only accepted American only credit card (which is why i never got to use them. I have to wonder if, using bitcoin i could send the goods anywhere and not just US addresses?

Purchasing gift cards with bitcoin has been going on and even i managed to do it once, but it had to be an European supplier (America has long denied or purchases long before "sanctions", they simply didn't like our trashy banks or the nearly comprehensible money exchange rules back when that existed.

Where is eBay in all of this? Still refusing bitcoin... Adoption is too slow for certain sites, i guess its time for replacements to come up.

How about ₿.to? I seem to recall unicode being allowed as well for domains. I'm not very confident on this new world, and there is also the thing that goes after the . which can be anything nowdays, goodbye to the good old conventions of .com .org .net .edu .mil .gov...

PS: ₿=BTC in case your system is too old to display unicode from 2017...

Your joke is too old. The young ones are unfamiliar with the concept of a VCR.

Your school example was nearly exactly like mine, but no projectors, that would be luxury. Like yours, they eventually added an optional computer lab, and you had to pay extra to get in, those were Apple ][e clones. And yes, in my time there was still the typewriting class, i still own a pure mechanical typewriter bought back then so i could practice at home. It never got much use, because i already had an Apple //c computer with printer to do actual school work.

There was no Internet, researching things involved physically going to a (school) library, it was limited, tedious and slow, so slow... In this age its a couple of searches away from your pc. For good or bad, you can get the info, and do your homework. But there is also pre-made homework made by others. i don't even know how education coped with current technology, i don't think it did...

I remember some math teachers allowed calculators and some didn't. A similar discussion was going on back then, as it was the pocket calculator era (previous gen had no such thing).

And what is there to come. Implants?

If you deprive your kid from gadgets, he/she will come in contact with those at school. And yes i'm aware of a trend in America about not letting kids go to school at all and instead have home school, but i'm not sure how that even works (its illegal in my country, as primary education at an approved institution is compulsory).

There is also the things they teach at school and its usefulness later in the real world. There are basic things everyone agrees should learn, but some things might seem obsolete or redundant at best. Letting them explore and choose what they feel best with, seems to be getting complicated too.

What is "too much tech"? Is it focused into learning or not? Chalkboard vs e(ink)board is too much? They can both do the same (and in theory the eboard keeps memory so you could copy things you missed later).

What about surveillance, should they have security cameras everywhere so no bullying goes unpunished?

In my days using computers was considered optional. Today is essential to know basic use to get a job.

Do you call a hammer stupid? Or a bicycle? What about your computer? Of course, it won't do anything unless you don't program it to do it. Robots are the same. If you want them to think on their own, and not sit there waiting for your instructions, then we enter the realm of Artificial Intelligence...

I don't think you can use any of the SD flashing guides with the Hydro because its a different controller, you'll have to take it to Bitmain...

Otherwise the procedure was: flash the T9+ firmware and then from the ui of that update to the S9 firmware.

If you own a Hydro, don't mess with the firmware. Hopefully, BraiinsOS might eventually add support to it. And i bet the latest S9se or k might fall in the same camp.

This has been going for long, but lately it is ever a concern, as most sites switched to https anyway, and the exit node can do nothing about that.
HTTPS Everywhere is rather useless at this point in time, because, most sites already are https and there is no need to try force it anymore. Besides, those few sites that still don't have https, won't have it magically only because you have that add on. Thanks the EFF for the push tho.

Getting rid of scripts (i like umatrix more than noscript) is a solid move. Only while list trusted sites and at the same time get rid of the tracking garbage.

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This is utter nonsense and you have no idea what you are talking about. Get informed before writing stuff first...

Seems you didn't read. If the malware was active the time you activate 2fa it copied the key needed to generate the very same answers. When you activate a 2fa, you are given a 16 char string you are supposed to keep backed up, essentially the private key.

Same way malware copies seed words or private keys from wallets, etc. Problem was using an insecure OS in the first place. If you want to be safe, always boot from a secure OS first before handling security related things.

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This is a lie, you simply are picking the wrong distro. Once you find the right distro for you, you don't have to do anything and it runs faster than windows on the same PC by default, without downloading anything or configuring anything. no drivers, guides, activation, updates, nothing. It just works, better.

The same as with gold reserves, but without the incurred costs of custody and storage, or transport...

As long as they learned how to properly make and handle cold wallets its the smart move to do for long term preserving of value.

Indeed this is how we ended with 2 USD monthly salaries, no healthcare, no education and rampant crime.
You can link this in your comments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela

There wasn't such a land reform of late, but many owners where stripped of theirs during Chavez, to be put in the hands of workers, and then... they were all abandoned.

Ironic that, under that flag of socialism, the minimum wage was essentially abolished. And the rest is the result of rampant corruption and crime. Funny thing is, they use the very same arguments you just did jokingly. I once watched the last speech of Ceausescu on youtube, and its almost identical to the typical speechs of Maduro. These people appear to not have a mind, or don't care to repeat the same things endlessly. Replace Kulaks with "American imperialism" and you have nailed "the left" speech of this subcontinent for the past half century.

Then he is a fool (but we already know that). Petro is super simple to "ban", because of its centralized nature. Just block access to the single online wallet server it has. How do you do that to a decentralized coin? You can't.

Heck, he could also end Venezuela's gov, and that is the end of Petro. There is nothing in Bitcoin you can do to stop it, even is Satoshi identity was known, getting rid of him/her/they does nothing to stop Bitcoin. There is no single point of failure, you can remove the core developers, but the network would still remain alive even if development of new features stagnates, its already in working condition.

Petro exists in a single data server, remove that and is gone forever. Same thing with any other centralized altcoin.

Incidentally this is also what gives and takes value from crypto. This is why bitcoin is the most valuable. Centralized coin = garbage.

Well they are being fools. Bitcoin is easier to trace, and at some point the world is going to have some sort of blacklist address database so every time this happens, money involved will likely be frozen the moment it hits some exchange or mixer.

But i guess they are taking the chance now when none of this currently exists, at least not formally in the clear. Tho i don't know what exactly happens with things such as the stolen money from Binance, how do they inform the other exchanges etc.

In any case yes, crime has used all sorts of valuables in the past, and that is not the fault of the valuable. Fiat (cash) is still the preferred method used for crime, and yet fiat doesn't get abolished.

Or the app is really mining using the pitiful cpu/gpu the poor phone/tablet has, probably melting the thing in the process (hot and battery always running out).

Some cheap altcoins can be mined that way, and there is malware that does the exact same thing.

Yes its "optional", but use it...

And yes, given two identical serial ports, to connect to each other you have to swap tx and rx, this used to be called "null modem". AND, until gigabit LAN, to connect two nics together you were supposed to do the same thing with the two pairs it uses 12, 36, also called "crossover".

(The thing with gigabit lan is that it auto swaps the pairs, and in addition 45 and 78 are also used and swapped when needed, and it even corrects mistakes).

I just checked, those are wifi directional antennas. Wifi uses unregulated band worldwide, this is because the band used is considered garbage. It happens to be the same used in satellite tv among other things, like wireless phones, and microwave ovens. Yes, the infamous water resonance 2.4ghz band and all its harmonics (5.8, 11, etc). Also they are narrow beam, especially the higher frequencies. Pointing the things to each other sounds like fun (which reminds me of pointing satellite dishes, same thing only farther lol).

Well yeah, if i were to do it here i would need to rent a middle point to get internet here, meaning at least 4 antennas for 2k USD... OR get a real tall (few stories high) pole, which might be doable but pointing the thing would be... challenging. The hill is close and rather small, but enough to obstruct line of sight.

But who knows, maybe in the future i might end using one of these solutions. Hmm i think i could do the last leg far more cheaply, given how close the hill is... Unidirectional wifi isn't something new, after all... Oh i see they have a cheap 99$ antenna, that might be enough.

Its tested that it doesn't work. Please wait for future development. With the cgminer replacement (bOSminer), support for new hardware is expected to come.

What do you do with a brand new phishing site that is not in the antivirus database yet? See the problem with that thinking? You are not safe at all because you pay an antivirus license, quite the opposite, since you are lowering your guard thinking you are now safe...

Same thing was said about the industrial revolution. All those poor women would lose their sewing jobs... And yet it happened.

As for laziness, that shouldn't be a problem. People can get exercise, without the stress. In fact many people get exercise to get rid of the job induced stress.

Indeed little things like using bicycles, as done in many European and Asian countries would keep you both fit and healthy. American habits are, well, American. Try to balance your lifestyle, exercise is something like water and food, your body needs it even if you don't want to. You don't have to go pro sport player or anything, again little things like walking or climbing stairs when you can make a difference.

Automation is coming regardless of our opinions. I know some people are scared of driver-less cars, but that is coming. Ships and planes are driving on their own for the most part with humans being mere operators supervising operations.

When people mention robot, i don't think anthropomorphic human like beings, there are many robots in use in the industry, doing repetitive endless tasks, such as welding or painting cars. And yes, that replaced a bunch of human work, but advances in technology cannot be undone. Its like trying to undo Bitcoin, its already here, you cannot go back to a world without it anymore.

People will have to adapt, as always.

A robot is a machine that follows instructions. Basically a computer with movable parts. Remember that this is not necessarily tied to AI or even sentience, that is a whole different matter. but yes, that is also coming.

Oh, did you know the work computer meant actually females doing math? Pre-WWII computer meant, a room filled with women doing math, computing trajectories and such... Because the men were in the front killing each other. Which is why there were so many women involved in early (machine) computer projects. Oh and they were employed in crypto too, blame the British and their secret project involving Turing and others.

I guess nobody misses those lost jobs. Oh did you know phones had to be connected manually by, a human operator too? Oh and letters wouldn't be "printed" by themselves, in the past someone had to either write or typewrite those...

Doctor Who

I bet you didn't watch the whole thing since the 50ies