Oof. I fucked that up.

"*Ideally, upload your files to Scribd in .odt or .doc format (.odt preferred). Scribd does not provide the option to download files which were uploaded in .pdf as .odt unless the file was originally uploaded in one of those document containers."

should be:
"*Ideally, upload your files to Scribd in .odt or .doc format (.odt preferred)." (ETA: .docx is also fine - just not .txt or .pdf, please)

(extra, not relevant to most) *For segmented episodes, either add relevant participants under the header of each segment, or add them all at the beginning of the transcript for the whole episode with a note describing who's participating in a particular segment. Example:

ETA: Please don't ever add breaks unless a speaker has completely finished speaking and a new speaker is talking.

ETA2: I misspelled readability in FP guidelines, too. lol

That's pretty awesome. Shared. Could next update have the cumulative total per country shown visually (maybe just shade the countries) instead of just the text data at the bottom?

(the scrolling "morse code" toward the bottom of the map also makes things pretty messy)

I think I sent an application to somewhere like Coinbase. A question asked for improvements, and I wrote a paragraph or two on why they need more bitches in their advertisements. I recall being sober enough to describe previous advertisements I'd seen... something like "so there was this police officer and a woman for BitInstant, I think it was, and the policeman's like whooooa slow down - haha." Might be in my outbox somewhere.... don't think I'd like to see it.

Yeah... This thing's pretty terrible (in the moral and negative impact way), but I'm kind of excited to see what they can do in the next version (if they don't shred the files now, they sure will later), though I wish the ransom were much lower. $350 is pretty mean. Maybe $35/BTC.1 once they have enough to sustain themselves would be nice. Idunno - is it weird to think that? It's kind of like a physical theft done in a novel-but-effective way, like tunneling under a gold bar reserve, or using large drones to capture high-level employees at a gold mine in a net and flying them back to the Lair of Evil, demanding $25,000 from the employer for each worker. It's interesting to see how they do what they do, and what they'll do next.

Maybe just from being jaded, but it's hard to feel much sympathy for the victims, too (this is said as someone who's been on the receiving end of a lot of preventable BTC theft). Even if "old people" are statistically less likely to be PC-literate, it's still a very preventable crime. You leave your garage door open all night, one day someone steals something, and if you tell your neighbors, they'll all roll their eyes and ask why you thought it was a good idea to leave your garage door open every night. I wonder if it's irresponsible to sell PCs to people without making sure they're fully aware of the dangers and fairly basic ways to prevent them. There's really nothing you can sell with as few safety warnings for the risk as a PC. First of all, the cases never say "DO NOT EAT." At least with the batshit-insane NSA in the US, it will soon be trivial to enforce a requirement that US Internet users have some "certificate of safe use habits." Children, think of the grandparents! ramble, ramble, ramble...

What a bizarre twist that the bio-scanning ATMs I thought very creepy-intrusive end up being a powerful money laundering tool, anyway.

I'd guess the most realistic solution is to have people switch their email providers to one which is exceptionally good at blocking malicious emails. Gmail is pretty good at this, though not perfect. Alternately, it takes maybe 15 seconds for an end-user to use a DNS different than their ISP. Are there any decent public DNS servers operating on a whitelist? I hate whitelists, but in cases like the OP's old woman - sounds like the best solution, though it still wouldn't be completely safe.

Though.... I guess the more safety you add, the greater the sense of safety, which causes carelessness. Hm.

ETA: Hey - out of curiosity, does CryptoLocker shred files after moving them to an archive, or does it just do a cut & move execution? There may be a decent chance of recovery if the files weren't "deleted" deleted.

Well, there are a lot of factors which need to be considered.

*Is your office well-ventilated?
*Is your office made of flammable materials?
*Do you care about soot on your walls, ceiling, and furnishings?

I, for one, can't wait to boot up the Bitcoin client and have a tall rectangle on the left-hand side trying to get me to play all the gambling games. Every day, I'll open up my email account and see the client has barraged me with messages... "You have one new transaction." "Do you know Satoshi Nakamoto?" "Cameron Winklevoss has invited you to Bitcoin Shiny Slots." "Gregory Maxwell has asked you for manure!" "Dank has posted a new message. 'weed cures vitamin K deficiency.'"

Edit: This is deprecated. Please see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=562541

[this list will be updated as there's progress. Sorry it's on pg 10.]

PR done:
55, 53, 20, 47, 56, 18, 11, 14, 9, 30, 42, 59, 58, 13, 33, 40, 10, 36, 4, 38, 3, 51, 60, 2, 15, 1, 6, 12, 48, 34, 49, 46, 37, 32, 65, 62, 63, 57, 64, 66, 68, 7, 72, 54, 50, 41, 44, 31, 5, 45, 8, 43, 19

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Part 2: http://www.scribd.com/doc/193377813/Let-s-Talk-Bitcoin-Episode-39-Watershed-Starfish-Part-2
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Kluge:
Already-paid work (e21-e29)

Suspended:
66 [Invalid reservation, suspended indefinitely] - http://pastebin.com/7b5ikNsy

Not to be a dick (well... maybe), but on Google's first page of results for asic-technologies.com are scam warnings and tons of obvious spamvertisements on various unrelated forums (like anime and knitting forums).

You're obviously wrong, OP - just look at their advertisement on their front page...

"We're always on. Buy and sell Bitcoin 24/7/365 with the world's most sophisticated trading platform."

As you know, there are NEVER any issues with the Gox trading engine. Never ever.

Have you seen this? No idea if it'd help.

(haven't had time to look into problem on laptop)

Fragmented "privkeys" (or, m of n). These can be created using the casascius address utility and probably some others.

You basically create a kind of fragmented privkey*, where there are (usually, but not necessarily) three different privkey fragments. You require at least two to discover the privkey. There are some different ways of doing this from here. You could keep one, give one to the beneficiary now, and have the lawyer/whatever hold on to the other. This doesn't cover you and the beneficiary dying at the same time, but since "m" and "n" are variables, you could have a 9 of 10 kind of key and probably figure something out with the tradeoffs you're most comfortable with.

*it's not actually a privkey - Idunno if there's an actual name for it... archive? I guess it is technically a private key, but not the privkey to a pubkey in Bitcoin. It's just a secret to get the privkey. (I think)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Worst fear outside of having a needle go into my eye while open. I swear I have a nightmare about that fucking needle going in every night. I've never had a severe injury. I stick to getting at least one significant infection in intestines or lungs per year, which I write off as building immunity. Long-term investment.

Hehe, here's one I received recently... they thought of everything, even a mailing address:

New way how to use bitcoins in all e-shops in the world.

Exchange rate of bitcoins is very high now. Use Pl[scam, don't visit]azacoin.com and spend your bitcoins in your favourite e-shop!

Pl[scam, don't visit]azaCoin.com is new revolutionary way how to do shopping everywhere in the world. Just enter the product you want to buy with BTC!

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Whoa, friend. Don't underestimate the Earned Income Tax Credit. Deduct like your roof depends on it and they pay 100% APR or more. With the power of FUBAR tax code (without even considering the more direct welfare benefits), pumping out children can become a profitable venture. Put them to work, and even though the little shits generally have low output and poor QC, they can wind up returning tens of thousands each year.

Maybe buy them a cigarette roller for their fifth birthday.

Total time logged in: 75 days, 20 hours and 40 minutes.
-And I'm still a dumbass.

Sure - and what credit card companies and Paypal act as, in effect, is a kind of escrow service, whether they're choosing to be, or forced to by law. Most companies taking plastic won't actually pay merchants for weeks (or months) after they ship product to the customer, and sometimes seize merchant's funds. At least here, it's one more area where law enforcement is semi-privatized, where government sets the rules and forces companies to enforce them at their own expense.

An automated escrow service isn't much more different than a debit card processor, except that it's much more time-efficient for the merchant in most cases (assuming the merchant has a script to automatically mark an item as shipped in the escrow service when they mark it as shipped in their own systems), because the merchant receives funds when the customer marks the item as received and releases escrow, instead of waiting weeks or months for a "grace period" where the customer can initiate a chargeback ends. It's a much more organic and precise process than what currently exists, because Bitcoin is a much more secure, verifiable payment method - but there's no explicit reason an automated escrow service couldn't turn into a more conventional processor, where they have long waits for merchants to receive funds and allow the customer to initiate a chargeback.

Well, I have alt currency subforum ignored -- so what happened?

Sounds like you're looking to buy.

$50K is pretty reasonable, I think, maybe even low. Steamgames alone probably brings in a solid $100/wk revenue, GBTC another solid chunk. It also holds the distinction of not having been the target of a devastating hack while having a relatively good GUI (which is just about impossible to find in BTC services without VC funding). It has first-mover advantage in the space, and a pretty diverse crowd of users.

There are also three or four (maybe more) threads on BitMit closing, so you can't just look at this one.

It's too old to remember without reading through the thread again. He gave away "TF BTCXRP," allegedly to show that BTC on XRP isn't actual BTC, just a debt note, usually without any terms - and without terms, it's worthless. Adding insult to injury, he ended up being very highly trusted on the Ripple network, even though his notes were worthless. Someone (and there's a good chance I'm not remembering right, here) sold their debt note, and the person who bought it ended up screwed out of what they paid.