Poll needed a zero option so not to skew the results. Good idea though  |
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What about a sufficiently long password? For example: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe" contains more than enough entropy (if I'm doing it right)
I wouldn't recommend a full quote from a very famous piece of literature either - might have enough entropy word-wise if you make it long enough but it would no doubt be ranked among much lower entropy passwords in any sensibly crafted password cracking wordlist. An adversary having some knowledge about your person might even limit the genres of possible literature etc... Yeah, it would have to be something obscure. One of my previous password policies was to use ironic quotes from "The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing" as my key. |
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(2) It appears to be a one-man operation, which is fine, but he acts like it's a multinational conglomerate with 100's of agents working on his behalf.
It certainly started that way, but now there are 4 participants at the executive level and 6 at the lower management level, and that's just for the UABB alone. The UABCI has already 30 members participating. [/quote] Sounds like you have 10 managers and nobody to manage! I hope you're paying the going rate for these grandiose titles, say $500k a year for executive management. You are actually paying people, right? (I mean today, not in X years time) Here on the Internet we have the most respect for organizations that operate as meritocracies and laugh at hierarchical management structures with nothing holding them up. Can you show that you're not the gobshite that you appear to be? |
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You lazy bastards, I'm actually working while watching mtgoxlive
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This is very dangerous and very stupid, and I'm talking about sending BTC to an anonyomus Nevis LLC level stupid here. What about a sufficiently long password? For example: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe" contains more than enough entropy (if I'm doing it right) |
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If the person with the least reputation sends first, like in usual transactions, this would still be useful. Two people who lack any reputation would have the issues described above though.
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Question to Flexcoin: do you have insurance in case you lose everyone's accounts in a hack attack or similar?
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Sure, still willing to pay .1 btc for prank calls to his number that are recorded. Also, bonus btc for hilarity!  Did you check out the info I posted? Was it him? |
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In fact, I challenge anyone to think of a single job that a mixture of software and machinery is fundamentally incapable of. I can't think of any myself. All forms of artistic/creative endeavor and innovation. Do you think robots are going to expand the frontiers of science or give us new advances in technology on their own? Do you think robots are going to invent new styles of games like Civilization, or say Minecraft? What about the classical stuff like new works of art, music, et al.? Think robots could be creative enough to come up with innovative music like say, Metallica? (admittedly, they could probably easily create some of the popular crap nowadays without breaking a sweat). Think robots would make good poets? (Again I guess it depends on your taste) That's only assuming that some magical attribute called "creativity" exists, something that is impossible to describe as a system of symbols and therefore uncomputable. I personally believe that the steps of the creative process can be described using words, which are symbols, therefore it is computable. At the base level I'd say it's just a matter of exploring problem space by starting with a bunch of known ideas and applying old patterns to existing data, finding new problem solving patterns and adding them to your repertoire. I don't see why this couldn't be represented as an algorithm, an automated dumb process that does not require a conscious mind. Science and technology are relatively easy in this regard. As for the arts, an AI that can write poetry, literature or compose classical music (Metalica is still pop music  ) would require a model of a human mind. This is a bit harder than just innovating, but I don't see why it would be a fundamentally impossible task. They'd only need models that are accurate enough to fool humans, which has to be relatively easy if you're several thousand times more intelligent than any human who ever lived and know every cultural work ever created in immense detail. |
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Seriously dude pull your head out of your bum, you couldn't even be bothered to research anything of what I said before you blathered on with that garbage you wrote.
When propping up an argument you should at least link to papers that have been cited by scientists who are respected in their fields, not YouTube videos and Daily Mail articles. If you buy into the whole mercury in vaccines causing autism thing then you're going against the consensus of the worldwide scientific community, thus we demand extraordinary evidence. In the words of Dawkins: By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Or in other words, stop believing every piece of shit you stumble across on the Internet. |
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Actually, automation allows people to pursue other endeavors they couldn't before. Once we automate thinking there will be very few things left for humans to do. Aside from moving matter from one place to another, people are essentially employed for the sophisticated pattern recognition systems that human brains are good at. Once software is good enough and computers are fast enough, we're useless. In fact, I challenge anyone to think of a single job that a mixture of software and machinery is fundamentally incapable of. I can't think of any myself. So in order to survive I think we'll need to completely redefine ideas of utility, the experience of simply living must be held higher than capitalist ideas of usefulness or profitability. Being neither wealthy or powerful, I think it's safe to assume that this change come be too late for the vast majority of us. Whoever survives will have to reform ideas of progress too, idea-space is infinite; we could burn more matter and energy than the solar system has without even scraping the surface of what things and ideas are possible. Hell, we could waste all the energy in the universe just hashing bitcoin blocks! |
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something might of happened to the webmaster of mybitcoin. if servers are not paid for they will get suspended.
Only the web service is down, the TOR node and Privoxy are still running. |
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I think you guys are making it way too complicated... It's a common scam (in Europe) where you find somebody who sells something online, that only works with bank transfer (second hand stuff or a trader that does not take credit cards). You tell him you seriously want to buy his EUR 100 cucko clock but you have a new bank and as you are not in the same country, you want to do a test transfer first to see how much money the bank is keeping as a fee for a cross border transaction (IBAN is free but for example some French and Greek banks still charge a fee). You tell him to look for the two deposits and he will tell you. This is brilliant! |
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I love all these wannabe experts now days on every topic imaginable that think deconstructing some ones argument some how gives them authority on the subject. We all know you are very discerning, good for you. Now that you are done masturbating your ego, try using your favorite search engine google to verify what I said for yourself like a big boy, because frankly I don't care how convinced you are. I am simply sharing information.
I have no authority on the subject, it just angers me when people make stuff up as they go along. You might be able to get away with it offline where your circle of small-minded friends circle-jerk over what you believe the government/corporate/illuminati/alien [delete as applicable] agenda to be, but out here on the public Internet you'll need concrete facts to back up any claims that you make. I just focusing on the easy two: there's no evidence that Google were funded by In-Q-Tel, there's no evidence that Google have forced users to add a mobile phone number (my account doesn't have one). You were unable to provide evidence when challenged. Therefore IMO, any facts you spout are likely to be not checked at all, any opinions you hold based on bullshit, and any crap that pours forth from your keyboard is best ignored. /thread |
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This was bound to happen eventually, the site was just running without a person maintaining it for at least a month; support haven't answered messages since late June. The guy running the site obviously has better things to do than look after his users, he took 1BTC from me over a month ago, probably not malicious but obviously doesn't give a shit about us.
So if you were still using this service after all the complaints in the forum then you were asking for trouble.
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Simple question. Where did Google get its start up cash from? [citation-needed], it was Andy Bechtolsheim, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital as well as actively blocking web content that is 100% legal, but politically or economically inconvenient. [citation-needed] All one has to do is look at Google's recent decision to force YouTube users to attach a phone number to their account
[citation-needed] The pattern is clear, tempt you with free services, make you dependent on them, then extort information or cash once the market is controlled. This isn't conspiracy, it is corporate strategy.
Conclusion appears to be valid, but your rant leading up to it is complete bullshit. |
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Take your tinfoil hat off for a moment and think about this logically. Google want to know who is viewing what so that they can better target their adverts and profile web users, they've calculated that the cost of bandwidth is less than the worth of this data. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose by actually filtering the web.
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I dont know how much data a router logs, but they might log the mac of all connected devices. so if they see that a specific ip was used in an attack, they simply go to the wifi hot spot and take their router and look up the logs.
even then, going back with a mac address to find the owner would be very difficult. so just buy a cheap laptop at a pawn shop with cash from change and you should be safe.
MAC addresses are changeable in most wireless ethernet drivers anyway; ifconfig wlan0 hw ether ba:aa:ad:f0:00:0d |
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The best option would be to use a separate tool to create wallet.dat from a single keypair, or a different client that doesn't need a bloated wallet
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