People confusing "than" and "then" drives me nuts. They don't sound the same and they aren't synonyms - how the hell can you confuse them, especially in writing?
They're are worse problem's then that, but if you don't like it than why don't you do something about it? FTFY  |
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I don't want to force anyone to become the coin holder, but if it comes down to a bet I could suggest the following names:
nanotube
DeathAndTaxes
theymos
Keefe
unless someone else wants to volunteer.
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I was going to suggest around 18 months or so.
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#1 from mrbubl3s
02:47 04.07.12
mrbubl3s Can you be more vague please +1 |
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I need to search for some more antistatic bags and packaging materials and boxes. Unfortunately, I seem to be short some of those.
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It would perform better with a huge L1 cache, from what I understand. And all those 8 cores have extra x86 cruft that could be deleted to make room for more cache and dedicated hashers. Once you reach the magical memory mark of however many MB of cache you need, the rest is just processing power. If you are under that magical number (which for LTC is actually lower than reference Scrypt implementations, so it would be easier), then you have to worry about swapping out to slow onboard dram and that's where the performance loss is incurred.
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A Faraday cage only needs to be grounded when you want to use it to protect the contents from high voltage. No ground is needed for a foil wrap to reflect radio waves.
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… or 0xECUTED
Hex parse failure, aborting. |
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rjk, I firmly believe that this guy is a scammer! Are you seriously saying that I should shut up and let him steal everyone's money?
Also, betting with someone about when he himself will choose to default?
I can do four-digit BTC, against you, right here. We need to get some mod we both respect to hold the funds, and that's that. Betting on this does not scare me at all, I'm not just trolling for the heck of it. On the contrary, this is exactly what I want.
Give me financial instruments to go against these types of operations, and I will crush them with precision every time and make a killing off it. The only thing is that time-scales must be conservative now because it is public, Pirateat40 can just play as some other account, and thus I have to pick scales and bets that don't let him trick me.
But he's not going to bend over for 1k BTC, especially not on a long-term bet, so bring it on.
I don't gamble. I just wish that there were proof (from both sides, but meh); indeed such proof as would stand in a courtroom, not speculation. I don't see him advertising at all, or drawing anyone in, or what have you. This concern perhaps extends to his lenders that are making him more accessible to others, but really that is just additional risk for someone to consider (pirate risk + lender risk). I recall Deepbit when it was becoming large and perceived as a threat. There was all kinds of fuss and FUD, and he had a gentlemen's agreement to cease advertising. A year or so later, he is still going strong, still without any advertising, and seemingly without fail. I know this is no analog to Pirate's operation, but I'd like to think that it could be resolved similarly: just let it run and see what happens. I'm sure you wish to do your duty to prevent scams, but really, I think that your bullheaded forging ahead is causing some to invest purely out of spite for your (and others') further discomfit. I think it needs to be laid to rest and put to bed, and when it fails you can say "I told you so". |
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What, look at the odds of that thing!  jk, that was me just now. I don't know whether I want to trust the site with more than 250 BTC, it's some anonymous whatever. But odds are quite green for now. Well I was trying to avoid betsofbitcoin, because I was thinking in sums of perhaps 5k BTC and a similar amount of USD as some kind of hedge or something, to be paid to pirate himself (not counter-gamblers) in case of continued solvency. But coming to think of it, I really don't care about that, I was just hoping there would be a bit of sting in it in case of continued solvency and operation (not that I expect either). However, I would be satisfied by just a general toning down of your posts, and a reduction of the bile and vitrol content of them as well. The same goes for others, as well! |
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I'm not asking you to take anyone's money, I am asking that you put up YOUR OWN money.
Of course I'll put up! Just wanted to put to display that I am immediately in on this. We need a trusted third party, of course, in the case I am a scammer.  I'm totally aware of what you are offering and I mean exactly that by heaven, because this is a bet with the best odds ever. The main problem I guess is that we don't know how long Pirate plans to continue operation, so it makes it a bit more complicated. Sorry I may have posted in haste when I put that out there, but if someone wants to manage it, please weigh in here. I don't want to nominate a third party because I don't want to saddle them with some excess responsibility. However, I suggest that the bond be split and denominated in USD and BTC, and be held somehow in cold storage for some period of time. There are some bets on Betsofbitco.in, but I'm not sure if they would serve the purpose well enough. I'll be back after some eats to see what everyone has thought up. |
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LOL rjk, wow.
It's not libel or defamation if your business model makes zero sense. Pirate never clarifies anything. It comes with the territory of not releasing any information about his operations.
You haven't been reading all the ad hominim words that have been spewed against him and others recently, it seems. To be clear, I do not currently use or support Pirate's operations in any way shape or form, but the shit I have been seeing recently is painful to watch, and completely unnecessary. |
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The problem is, IF you turn out to be wrong, there is no possible way that any crow-eating of any kind will sort out the wrongs that you have said, as well as the libel and defamation that you have been engaging in for the past while.
I demand that you put up a bond for your words, that will be lost in default in favor of Pirate et al IF you turn out to be wrong.
If you are right, you can keep the bond.
Does anyone else wish to weigh in on the terms and conditions of this bond?
This is heaven. I love you. Whose money can I take? How much BTC pay-back security do I have to sign with? This is gonna be awesome. You're paying me for white-knighting. I'm not asking you to take anyone's money, I am asking that you put up YOUR OWN money. |
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Is he trading with investor funds or running or ponzi scheme? They are two different things yes? Are you saying he is doing both?
If HE traded with investor funds, he won't get them back for you. If he really was so stupid as to do that, he is forced to wish for luck in the Bitcoin price. But Pirateat40 is not stupid. He just sucks at a trader, because he used all his training for running Ponzi schemes. For all I can tell, he is perfectly educated on that, and follows every single rule of running a professional Ponzi. The problem is, IF you turn out to be wrong, there is no possible way that any crow-eating of any kind will sort out the wrongs that you have said, as well as the libel and defamation that you have been engaging in for the past while. I demand that you put up a bond for your words, that will be lost in default in favor of Pirate et al IF you turn out to be wrong. If you are right, you can keep the bond. Does anyone else wish to weigh in on the terms and conditions of this bond? |
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Lol godaddy.
Why you lol godaddy? Because they can and will hold your domains hostage without recourse for any reason under the sun, as well as revealing your personal info on a privacy protected domain without a court order (just takes a little social engineering or a fake DMCA claim). I use and love name.com for my needs. One of the unique features that they offer is the ability to set IPv6 glue with no need to email support or jump through hoops. Or, you could try Zhou Tong's nameterrific.com site, which uses Amazon Route 53 for the DNS backend. |
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It looks like it just says "Cheaper Bitcoins", the logo doesn't reflect "in" very well (or at all).
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This teaches us one thing : when you have problems with BFL come here and call them scammers if you want to get it sorted out ASAP.
They will still sort you out even if you stop trolling and be patient as they have many emails to answer to ... no need to call them scammers and raise a storm here !
Patience : it's a virtue !
Actually if he would have done all the stuff first (contact Bit-pay, use the damn phone), I'm sure it would have been sorted out with no post needed. |
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The Yubikey output contains the serial number, an OTP, an incrementing counter, and possibly some other things that I have forgotten. It is not time limited, so you could generate (say) 15 OTPs in a row from an offline computer, and record them on a bit of paper for later use, as long as they were used sequentially. This would work, but it would be tedious to type in every time.
Got it, the counter. Thanks. The other thing is that you can skip OTPs if you want to, because of that counter. Therefore, you could generate a bunch of keys, but as soon as you used key #15 from the example above, all the previous ones would become invalid unless you had used them in sequence. |
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Well, guys, I don't know how to put this... I've lost all my work on the x6500 support on cgminer... I was waiting for a partial working version to push to my git repo and... the hard drive died. I've had other drives die on me in the same manner (it doesn't spin up, just clicks), and I always got them to spin up one more time to get a backup done, only it has taken multiple days until I managed that. I'm trying...
But I really don't feel like starting all over right this minute, so if someone else wants to take a stab at it I'll be glad to send the board over. I did pay taxes on getting it into EU and I would really like to get that much reimbursed by whoever gets the board. Failing that I can try to return the board to fizzisist and try to get the taxes reimbursed, though I'm not sure I can.
Or once the frustration wears down I can get to it again, but honestly I've put a lot of time in this and this was the most amateurish error I could have done.
But rest assured I did not grab the board and ran, I'm fully invested in ztex boards and am only doing this x6500 thing to help out, as most of you probably know.
I'll let everyone know if I do get to recover my work but don't hold your breath.
It sucks!!!
Freezer trick, and don't forget the plastic bag to prevent condensation. |
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Pending deal for 6 Cards.
+1 |
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