Unconfirmed transactions are relayed to everyone on the network. That's how miners get them in the first place. The jewellery store will normally see his original transaction within seconds, and will reject Larry's double spend unless he runs very fast. Bonus points for wiring the point-of-sale terminal to trigger the silent alarm and lock the doors when a double-spend attempt is detected.

While there is always a risk of double-spends against unconfirmed transactions, the chance of success is so low, and the risk of being caught is so high, that in practice it should not be a problem.

It is normal if the block index got corrupted. This can be prevented by the operating system using a journaling file system, which it seems Microsoft still hasn't gotten right. There's really nothing you can do about it other than to use a less unreliable operating system.

A recession is a symptom of the economy doing poorly. It makes just as much sense to ask "is sneezing good for your health?"

False. It states "bad money drives out good when the exchange rate is fixed by law". When the exchange rate floats, as is the case with Bitcoin, bad money simply drops in value relative to good money. With a floating exchange rate, there is absolutely no reason why a person shouldn't spend whatever currency they please and exchange it for other currencies as necessary.

Not at all. I just got tired of trying to convince you that consuming disinfectant will accomplish nothing other than to save your mortician the trouble of embalming your corpse. Maybe he'll even give your survivors a discount.

Don't worry about my feelings, though. I think if you're stupid enough to try this despite my warnings, then you deserve to die. I will not miss you.

Fine, whatever. Go eat pool chlorine and wash it down with bleach if you want to. See if I care. It's your funeral (probably literally). Hopefully nobody else is stupid enough to follow you.

Calcium hypochlorite. You know, the salt you were talking about your post, and listed on the warning label I was quoting?

I told you how it makes sense in my first reply. Hypochlorous acid kills germs because it kills everything. It is not normally present in the body; as you point it, it is produced on demand by neutrophils to attack pathogens. It will kill the body's own cells just as readily, which is why autoimmune disease is a thing. "Adding a little more hypochlorous acid to the body" will cause injury or death, and the generic term for substances which cause injury or death is "poison".

No, that's the old formula, which killed people in the past. I'm talking about the new formula, which kill people in the future.

Impossible. Chlorine dioxide is a gas at room temperature. Unless you've been living in Antarctica, I doubt you ingested much of it.

I'm Foxpup is sorry if your BADecker's inability to understand pronouns confuses you BADecker. I'll Foxpup will try to use simpler language for you BADecker in future.

What are you talking about? It shows the benefits quite clearly: it "chlorinates, shocks and kills algae" and is "good for all pool surfaces". Not so good for making drinks.

Miracle Mineral Solution? That's the same company that was forced to stop selling their original formula because it seriously injured literally every person who tried it, several of whom died, which I warned about in another thread. It's not entirely clear to me why the people involved aren't in jail.

They most certainly are not ignoring it. It is a widely used industrial chemical and accidental exposure is not uncommon. Your local poison control centre can tell you all about it.

Here's some clear, honest information: IF YOU DRINK POISON, YOU WILL GET SICK AND PROBABLY DIE. Anyone who ignores this advice deserves a Darwin Award.

That's your change.

Yes, the moderators resent your silly posts. So do I, for that matter, and I thank the mods for deleting them.

The mods resent useless and insubstantial posts even more than silly ones.

They think your posts are resentable. They have not been hacked, and they only got drunk (if they did) to see if your posts make more sense that way (which they don't, BTW).

Due to sig spammers blowing out my ignore list to ridiculous proportions (1,253 users and rising), the new forum needs ways to make extremely large ignore lists a little less unmanageable. A search feature would be indispensable, along with being able to add or remove multiple users without displaying the whole list, since loading my entire ignore list takes absolutely forever. The ability to add reminders of why I ignored a particular user would also be useful.

Also, will the new forum bring back ignore button highlighting?

No warnings? What's this, then?



"Highly corrosive. Causes skin and eye damage. May be fatal if swallowed.
Read all precautionary statements on back label and first aid statements before use."

"IF SWALLOWED: Call a poison control center or doctor immediately for treatment advice. Have person sip a glass of water if able to swallow. Do not induce vomiting unless told to do so by a poison control center or doctor. Do not give anything by mouth to an unconscious person."

Yup, perfectly safe.

FTFY. Just tell the store to hold the item for you until tomorrow and come back with more money. Is that so hard?

Man, what the fuck is wrong with people? First hydrogen peroxide, then chlorine dioxide, now this? Yes, disinfectant will kill germs. No, drinking disinfectant will not kill germs inside your body. Instead it will kill you. Calcium hypochlorite is not "safe", it is fucking poisonous. That's why you get sick if you drink a lot of pool water, and if you drink it in a more concentrated form, you die. Are people completely fucking retarded?

MultiBit and Electrum both support opening Bitcoin links.

Oh, I've made stupid mistakes, believe me. And I've paid for them. You should be grateful yours only cost you BTC15. I've got a long way to go before I'm truly an "old fox". But that's another story.

Bitcoin is not a soft currency. It is a hard currency, like cash. There is no way to block or reverse transactions and it is entirely the sender's responsibility to ensure transactions are made correctly. The situation is exactly analogous to you sending cash in an envelope to the wrong address, even after the company has repeatedly given you the correct address. They can't give you your money back because they don't have your money and can't get it. Bitfinex has taken reasonable steps to ensure you have the correct addresses, so it's your responsibility at this point.

You can view a demonstration BitPay order page here: bitpay.com/demos
This should give you an idea of what to expect.

For clarification, the reason you should not expect this is because Hive currently doesn't support this feature. Otherwise, clicking the "Pay with Bitcoin" on the BitPay invoice would indeed open your wallet's send dialog with all the details filled out correctly, at which point all you generally need to do is enter your passphrase to authorise the payment.

1. Not if they told you beforehand that it's not their address anymore...
2. ...which they did. At least twice.
3. Because a company being hacked is bad news, and they risk losing customers as a result, so they're not going to publicly announce that fact unless it was actually true.
4. No.
5. You can sue them, which will force them to explain how it's all your fault. They took all reasonable measures to prevent you from sending your money to the hacked address, but you (or your employee who you're responsible for training) did it anyway. That's your fault, so you will almost certainly lose if you take the matter to court.

You're right. Most atheists do know God exists more than you do. After all, you're a thief and a scammer, while most atheists are not. We're angry at God for failing so miserably at getting His so-called followers to behave ethically.

I just told you exactly why not. As unlikely as it is that a person making a clichéd argument about the existence of god on an Internet forum would have a least one friend, the concept is at least self-consistent and is not logically or physically impossible, and hence is believable (albeit with some difficulty). The notion that the universe was created by an omnipotent God is another matter altogether, and in any case has nothing in common with belief in a random forum-user's friend, so it isn't a valid comparison in the first place.