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14881  Other / Politics & Society / Re: PRISM - Who else is disgusted by this? on: June 15, 2013, 05:31:57 AM


That's a good idea.  Do it!
Did it.
14882  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: WTB 3 btc monthly with paypal on: June 15, 2013, 03:06:00 AM
Hi,

wTB 3 btc monthly with paypal. At the begining we can do it on small amounts so you can be sure everything s ok.

I will need it every day 5 of the month. We can establish a standard price like mtgox high on day 5 of the month or something like that.

Please post or pm me.
Thank you for posting this question.  This is a fundamental issue, moving funds into countries with currency controls.  I know others have suggested you are a scammer, and that concern is always present.  But the essential issue of USING bitcoin as a means to transfer value, through the internet, is the very point of your question.  Further, it poses that question where oppressive rules by government seek to control behavior.

14883  Other / Politics & Society / Re: PRISM - Who else is disgusted by this? on: June 14, 2013, 03:18:15 PM
....you don't build something that large without an excellent process to index and categorize the information you are collecting in a thousand different ways/views.
SO...they know exactly what you bought with Bitcoins last week...

No, wait...they don't....

As for that "excellent process to index and categorize"?

You are kidding, right? 

For three years the IRS persecuted me with threat letters saying that I had two kids, not three, and so I was not allowed the third deduction for a dependent.  No number of letters to them made any difference, the threats kept coming.  "Notices of intent to seize", etc.

Man, they sure had some excellent processes to index and categorize, didn't they?

Every bureaucratic system regresses to the mean of simple, plain stupidity.
14884  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NSA killed Sillicon Valley on: June 14, 2013, 01:26:23 PM
don't kid yourself, everything you do and say online is being monitored

This. Believing otherwise is pure denial of facts.
But it is not by any means the whole story.  Through our advanced comm tech, the power of the individual increases as well as and alongside the increased power of the state.  These war with each other.   Obviously.

But the individual represents billions of experimental paradymns, some fraction of which actively experiment with the interfaces.  It should be obvious that any centralized system cannot begin to cope with, monitor, control or regulate these individuals en mass.

So the state moves more and more franticly, to scoop up the last bits of data.  That's a failure of an attempt at a singularity due to poorly constructed node interconnects and guidance by political factions.

I see this similar to Obaby's attempts at gun regulation, just causing millions to go out and buy.  Now millions go into stealth mode on the internet.  The governmental system is subject to numerous single point failures, eg the current whistleblower and others like him.  How do they respond?  If they choose wrongly, more like Snowden emerge...

14885  Other / Politics & Society / Re: IRS will soon be armed? on: June 13, 2013, 10:51:39 PM
http://www.wyff4.com/news/local-news/anderson-news/congressman-irs-agents-training-with-semiautomatic-rifles/-/9654706/20537966/-/3onpkt/-/index.html

It's interesting because it may really solidify the value of a currency that the government can't seize. Brain wallets for all!


I'm so relieved!

....someone wouldn't let these dufus beancounters go full auto!

Smiley
14886  Other / Politics & Society / Re: IRS will soon be armed? on: June 13, 2013, 10:49:19 PM
Um, didn't they get armed about 15 months ago?

Full swat team and riot gear?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/20/usa-tax-irs-transfer-idUSL1E8EKHU220120320
The link does not lead to an article that supports them beefing up swat teams, but instead to a discussion of transfer payment taxation.
14887  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NSA killed Sillicon Valley on: June 13, 2013, 10:08:21 PM
....Using encryption and being careful online is the only way to preserve privacy somehow.
Some people claim that NSA can decrypt all publicly known encryption algorithms, but in that case you have protected yourself from everybody else.

The NSA has purposefully developed a mythology on this issue.  More likely, they totally suck about as bad as the IRS or the EPA.
14888  Other / Politics & Society / Re: General Hayden Former NSA Director: "This Is not A Constitutional Issue" on: June 13, 2013, 10:03:36 PM
Let's stop right there, as there is zero authority on whether something is constitutional on the part of the head of the NSA.   In fact, if not you or I, then certainly a Congressman would be capable of speaking on that subject.  Ultimately, such a question is decided by the courts.

But never - ever - should it be decided by the NSA, as part of their mandate has always been to do covert ops - lie, cheat, steal, as the case might require. 

Therefore, the statements in the video can be understood in context.

More lying.
14889  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NSA killed Sillicon Valley on: June 13, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
The only solution of course is to start using open source software with homomorphic encryption or go to full open systems like Bitcoin that record your economic data but not your name... this way we all win, no secretive cabal can dominate, their effects are recorded because they are part of the system too and everyone can observe them... or with encryption not.

With homomorphic encryption there is no need for a third party security provider, another case of white collar industry being automated by advances in cryptography.

We can't bypass the spying all countries do regardless if you trust them or not. look at Libya, Egypt they found data logging software that
was filtering the entire internet... they were able to shut off the internet! don't kid yourself, everything you do and say online is being monitored,
they are just hoping for the day that they can tag all your regular mail, cheques, person to person conversations and filter it all so one single person can monitor all humanities activities.  This is evolutionary, data is getting so complex but singular people need to understand it so the advancement goes from increased complexity to simplification to more complexity and simplification this is how our pattern recognizing minds work.
A stronger move by intelligent people toward various secure methods can not be anything but a good thing.  Yes, with 100 or 1000 times the effort the NSA could track.  But commercial data mining companies could not.  And the IRS couldn't.  And so forth.

I'd say also that people around the world are not simply going to say it's okay for the US to datamine their every word, link and friend.  They are going to say "Hell NO and Fuck You!" to the US companies that are implicit in these schemes.  Which means yet more profitable opportunities for people to devise solutions.

May Facebook rest in peace in that happy LaLaLand with Myspace and Friendster.  May LinkedIn join them soon.  May they hold hands with Prodigy and Compuserve and sing along.
14890  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: WTB 3 btc monthly with paypal on: June 11, 2013, 02:03:06 PM
Hi,

wTB 3 btc monthly with paypal. At the begining we can do it on small amounts so you can be sure everything s ok.

I will need it every day 5 of the month. We can establish a standard price like mtgox high on day 5 of the month or something like that.

Please post or pm me.
There is an interesting but small quantity of bitcoin being bid on on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Bitcoin-1-BTC-Digital-Currency-/300918183116?pt=UK_Coins_World_RL&hash=item46101f14cc

The prices appears to reflect the bidders acceptance of risk level as to the value of bitcoin at the time of auction end.
14891  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Worldwar 3 and EMP bombs on: June 11, 2013, 11:34:07 AM
I must point out that in the case of a launch of an EMP weapon from a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, there would be no immediate traceback to the perp
So, they can track missile launches on the other side of the planet, but not in their own back yard?
The key word here is boat. If a missile is launched from mainland North Korea, it'd be pretty obvious that the missile belongs to North Korea. But a boat in the Gulf of Mexico could belong to anyone. It could be North Korea. Or maybe China, or Russia, or literally any other country that owns both boats and missiles. That's why submarines are such a critical part of nuclear strategy: they can go almost anywhere in the world without being detected and then fire their missiles without anyone knowing which country was responsible.

Actually I would not be so quick to believe that a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, large enough to launch an EMP device able to have a significant effect would not be tracked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar



There is a reason why the drug smugglers are using these now:




I think you've made a plausible case there.
14892  Other / Politics & Society / Re: PRISM - Who else is disgusted by this? on: June 11, 2013, 03:34:38 AM
I'd hoped never to see it confirmed, but it's a US problem only I hope:

Documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden[6] in June 2013 describe the PRISM program as enabling in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information. It provides for the targeting of any customers of participating corporations who live outside the United States, or American citizens whose communications include web content of people outside the United States. Data which the NSA is able to obtain under PRISM allegedly includes email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice over IP conversations, file transfers, login notifications and social networking details.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

I would say it is more targeted at non-US citizens.

So what? Are foreigners not people who deserve privacy?

I'm not saying it is right.  I'm just noting that it is ostensibly directed at non-US citizens and communications with them.
I am reminded here of a number of things.  Like picking out a place to sit down in the grass and avoiding one where there are a couple ants.  Because there are never "a couple ants."   There's a huge swarm of them of which I saw a couple.

It's the little bit pregnant type of a problem.
14893  Economy / Economics / Re: This week has given me pause: I'm getting out of BTC on: June 10, 2013, 03:52:33 AM
I might be on the same boat if it wasn't for all the VC money pouring in to Bitcoin startups.  VC's have a good eye for "the next big thing", so I'm going to follow their lead on this.

+1

Of course maybe you can win more money just selling now and buying at $70, $50 or $30 (if we get there) but if you believe in the long term of bitcoin is better just to stick in, unless you really know what are you doing.

Right now fiat is crashing, is matter of time we have another news like Cyprus.
Or new decentraliced p2p exchange, etc
Good perspective.

Let's recap.

People bitching and fucking moaning about bitcoin volatility.

Meanwhile fiat is rock steady...steady....steady as she goes...ride her on down....down...down...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc
14894  Economy / Economics / Keep it simple, and make some money, stupid on: June 10, 2013, 03:03:55 AM
So I just now exited a screen on a demo software, was going to buy it for $25.  Because on that Purchase License screen ... I saw a whole page of entry blanks.  Maybe 18.  Probably a couple of emails after that.  Probably a new litany of spam.  

And I quit.  Don't need it that bad.  Don't want to waste the time.

Now if they'd just asked for their 0.2 BTC and one click....
14895  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) on: June 09, 2013, 10:00:36 PM
The bomb system is actually plane easy to break.
If 0.01% of the internet users would randomly insert known keywords into all communication, no system in the world could handle the information.
Inshallah!

Warning: Not advisable for people living in the Land of the Free.
This shows something of a "present moment focus."  These systems are intended to allow total trackback, so for example once someone is targeted (for whatever or whatever reason) the system contains everything, so everything is immediately available about that person.  More importantly, the nexus - his friends and associates, same deal.

EG

I'm curious about Mr. Smith.
<total dump of Smith received>
Let's see his son, his wife, her lover, the son's best three friends.
<total dump of 6 more received>
Run cross check with known religious kooks, anti-abortionists, Tea Party members (or whatever, insert Islamic terrorists if you wish)
14896  Economy / Economics / Re: What would you do with 10K USD in Bitcoin on: June 09, 2013, 06:55:27 PM
Hello guys,

If you got 10K USD and just want to invest in Bitcoin industry, which investment would you choose and why?

Please imagine it must be invest on Bitcoin.

It can be Trading, Building Devices, Place Pre Orders, Place Instant delivery Orders or anything else that you think would be profitable
in long or short term .


The thing is I don't have any trust to place preorders Sad .

I got this money and just want to invest on Bitcoin or any other CryptoCurrency .

Cheers
Just use it for transactions.  Stay out of mining equipment.
14897  Economy / Economics / Re: This week has given me pause: I'm getting out of BTC on: June 09, 2013, 06:23:37 PM
....

The problem with Bernanke, from day one, is that he's fighting the wrong war.  He's a student of the Great Depression (liquidity crisis) and is very well versed in how to combat this problem, however, this is not the problem we are facing today.  We have a problem of solvency, not liquidity, which is why all this money printing is doing nothing to help the situation.  He mistakenly thinks he's fighting the same war but this is an entirely different animal.  It would be similar to thinking because water put out a house fire, now I should use water on this grease fire.  All fires are not the same and in the case of a grease fire, water actually makes things worse.  Maybe his successor will realize this but I'm not very hopeful.
Meanwhile they took over both home and student loans and nobody blinked.

Now interest from that debt base is real money, a lot better than nominal income from T bills.  And it's so easy to take over one or another chunks of private lending with printed money, then site back and enjoy those income streams.

Life is good.

Wink
14898  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Top Secret Court Order Leaked: Telecos ordered to give NSA ALL phone records on: June 09, 2013, 05:56:10 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no person shall disclose to any other person that
the FBI or NSA has sought or obtained tangible things under this Order


You are in violation, sir.

You too, seeing as you quoted that statement on a public forum.  Tongue
What is curious is that the companies that have publicly denied this, such as Google and Verizon, did not just on being asked the question reply "No Comment."
If they admitted it then it would ruin their rep.
Sounds like what was called in gangster parlance a "made man", eg , some honest guy that got blackmailed, honeytrapped or otherwise made into a member of the gangsters.

So evil has spread?
14899  Other / Politics & Society / Re: DOJ & FBI raid news media offices after releasing story on Obama... on: June 09, 2013, 07:44:46 AM
What a freaky website.  The comments are all redneck, too.  I dunno what to think of this one.
You been pwned, bro.
14900  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Worldwar 3 and EMP bombs on: June 08, 2013, 05:04:14 PM
What will happen if worldwar happens and some countries use EMP bombs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

http://www.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb.htm

No internet, No phone, No BITCOIN
That means no on line porn?

I guess we could go back to live strip shows.

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