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    • black3dynamiteB
      black3dynamite
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      Florida Christian School in Miami is offering bulletproof backpack inserts in case of a mass shooting
      https://twitter.com/i/moments/928780879723339776

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      • mlnewsM
        mlnews
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        https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/harvey-scale-rains-could-hit-texas-18x-more-often-by-the-end-of-the-century/

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre @RojoLoco
          last edited by

          @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @mlnews Good maybe AMD cards will actually be in stock in the near future.

          All the other currencies are taking off, though 🙂

          I'm mining Litecoin in my web browser on like 5 computers... After a week, I'm up $3 bucks, lol.

          What software / plugin are you using? I might as well give it a try, my electric costs have finally dropped off after summertime (gas heat ftw).

          CoinPot.co Get set up and then pick one of the crypto coins to mine and turn it loose. You will likely have to disable uBlock on the mining page since uBlock got smart and blocks that by default now, lol.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

              Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

              Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @dafyre
                last edited by

                @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

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                • dafyreD
                  dafyre @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                  Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                  Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

                  Yeah, is running in Chrome, but it's not using my GPU. Hmm... Maybe if I tell it to run on the NVIDIA Adapter... Food for thought, ha ha.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @dafyre
                    last edited by

                    @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                    Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                    Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

                    Yeah, is running in Chrome, but it's not using my GPU. Hmm... Maybe if I tell it to run on the NVIDIA Adapter... Food for thought, ha ha.

                    Yeah, if it isn't using the GPU, it seems like it must be super slow.

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                    • mlnewsM
                      mlnews
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                      https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/amazon-music-app-for-android-quietly-gets-chromecast-support/

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                      • mlnewsM
                        mlnews
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                        https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/11/geely-gets-into-flying-cars-completes-purchase-of-terrafugia/

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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                          Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                          Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

                          Yeah, is running in Chrome, but it's not using my GPU. Hmm... Maybe if I tell it to run on the NVIDIA Adapter... Food for thought, ha ha.

                          Yeah, if it isn't using the GPU, it seems like it must be super slow.

                          I'll cash it out today and see how much it's actually making me. I've been piddling with it since the beginning of November and I'm up to $3 and change. Not to shabby for not having to do anything but keep a web page open.

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @dafyre
                            last edited by

                            @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                            Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                            Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

                            Yeah, is running in Chrome, but it's not using my GPU. Hmm... Maybe if I tell it to run on the NVIDIA Adapter... Food for thought, ha ha.

                            Yeah, if it isn't using the GPU, it seems like it must be super slow.

                            I'll cash it out today and see how much it's actually making me. I've been piddling with it since the beginning of November and I'm up to $3 and change. Not to shabby for not having to do anything but keep a web page open.

                            Looks like all sorts of scripts are around that do this, going to do some experimenting with it myself. Not that I expect to keep it running myself, but if other people want to run it for me, well, I wouldn't argue.

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                            • RojoLocoR
                              RojoLoco @travisdh1
                              last edited by

                              @travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                              Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                              Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

                              Yeah, is running in Chrome, but it's not using my GPU. Hmm... Maybe if I tell it to run on the NVIDIA Adapter... Food for thought, ha ha.

                              Yeah, if it isn't using the GPU, it seems like it must be super slow.

                              I'll cash it out today and see how much it's actually making me. I've been piddling with it since the beginning of November and I'm up to $3 and change. Not to shabby for not having to do anything but keep a web page open.

                              Looks like all sorts of scripts are around that do this, going to do some experimenting with it myself. Not that I expect to keep it running myself, but if other people want to run it for me, well, I wouldn't argue.

                              Um, I'm expecting you to run it for me.... wtf, man???

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @RojoLoco
                                last edited by

                                @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                Seems like browser mining must be very CPU inefficient compared to alternatives.

                                Yeah. But I also don't have to worry about installing the software, updating the software and all that jazz. The miners that I found for Windows were slower than the Web page I'm using, lol.

                                Well in theory web pages can access CUDA. Maybe it has some good code. Chrome?

                                Yeah, is running in Chrome, but it's not using my GPU. Hmm... Maybe if I tell it to run on the NVIDIA Adapter... Food for thought, ha ha.

                                Yeah, if it isn't using the GPU, it seems like it must be super slow.

                                I'll cash it out today and see how much it's actually making me. I've been piddling with it since the beginning of November and I'm up to $3 and change. Not to shabby for not having to do anything but keep a web page open.

                                Looks like all sorts of scripts are around that do this, going to do some experimenting with it myself. Not that I expect to keep it running myself, but if other people want to run it for me, well, I wouldn't argue.

                                Um, I'm expecting you to run it for me.... wtf, man???

                                Well, if you don't give me a link to the web page to have my computer sit at, I can't very well help ya out now can I. 😉

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                                • momurdaM
                                  momurda
                                  last edited by

                                  You all should use extra computing cycles on BOINC for science instead of making fake, soon-to-be-illegal-or-taxed-at-ridiculous-rates money. Ive been doing this since 1998 when I got my first laptop for university.

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                                  • RojoLocoR
                                    RojoLoco @momurda
                                    last edited by

                                    @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    You all should use extra computing cycles on BOINC for science instead of making fake, soon-to-be-illegal-or-taxed-at-ridiculous-rates money. Ive been doing this since 1998 when I got my first laptop for university.

                                    Or I could mine free digital money and get out before it collapses.

                                    N.B. - telling certain people what they "should do" can be very dangerous to your health. Careful with that statement.

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                                    • momurdaM
                                      momurda
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                                      You cant really make money doing this unless you have a farm of gpus to do this stuff with. 2 ati/NVidia somethings aren't going to do squat by the time this is regulated to worthlessness.
                                      Especially if you live somewhere where power is more than 8c/kwh.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @momurda
                                        last edited by

                                        @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        You all should use extra computing cycles on BOINC for science instead of making fake, soon-to-be-illegal-or-taxed-at-ridiculous-rates money. Ive been doing this since 1998 when I got my first laptop for university.

                                        Taxing a currency is a weird thing to do. Doesn't really work.

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                                        • momurdaM
                                          momurda @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller Not directly, but youll be taxed when convert it to real money.
                                          Also at current rate and difficulty, you need to be outputting thousands of GH/s to make BTC faster than the cost of electricity to make them.

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                                          • RojoLocoR
                                            RojoLoco @momurda
                                            last edited by

                                            @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            @scottalanmiller Not directly, but youll be taxed when convert it to real money.
                                            Also at current rate and difficulty, you need to be outputting thousands of GH/s to make BTC faster than the cost of electricity to make them.

                                            Unless you choose some other crypto currency... Oh wait, I'm supposed to be BOINCing for science, right???

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