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261  Other / Off-topic / Re: favorite dos game? on: March 09, 2014, 07:56:47 PM
Test Drive 2 - The Duel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGav0UyQMRY

Wolfenshtein 3D

But not that much DOS gamer. I played using Windows 98 machine that ran both Windows and DOS games equally well. From Wolfenshtein 3D to Battlefield 1942. AMD K7 128 RAM RIVA TNT2
262  Other / Off-topic / Re: VMware ESX 5.1 Question on: March 09, 2014, 07:47:26 PM
1. Explain more clearly using correct tech terms
2. Physical hardware under your control? If No then go to toilet. Check host hardware and OS for malfunctions, available performance, configuration and so on.
263  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russia Invades Ukraine. Whats next? on: March 04, 2014, 12:19:03 AM
I will post here reply I made to one PM.

News here are unreliable. According to first hand sources in Kharkov nobody knows who is in charge. Everyone is waiting. In Sunday mobilization of Ukrainian army was announced but nobody is giving orders for attack. From official news sources comes information that most garrisons in Crimea and eastern parts of Ukraine are surrounded by russian troops without signs of recognition. But they all are waiting and nobody is shooting as of yet.

I doubt that Ukraine alone have capability to maintain all it's territory if full scale war breaks out. Sure it have rather strong army but russians have everything in more numbers. Full scale war can turn out similar to Finnish-Russian winter war when Finland lost it's most precious lands but did not lost whole country. With the bonus of Ukrainian resistance fighters attacking military and civilian targets all over Russia and Ukraine for next 10 years.

I'm mad how all world leaders are acting like they are made from KY-jelly. Not a single leader promised to give military help to Ukraine in upcoming war unless Putin withdraws from Crimea. Everyone is talking like they are held at gunpoint by Putin and afraid for their life. And I'm mad how Ukraine voluntarily gave away the nukes they had. This alone would prevent the hostile actions by Russia and equalize positions if war goes full-scale.

What will happen if Ukraine removes Russian invasion? Well I put this that way. Russians are imminent and real threat to every nation who live near them. European Union with all the capitalism and gayfags and niggers are threat that can be avoided if Ukrainian leadership does not align with European union. There already was struggle between pro-european and ukrainian nationalists.
264  Other / Off-topic / Re: Time to get my brain back on track - detox and rehab in 1 week on: March 03, 2014, 10:36:37 PM
The rehab doctors will make chemical lobotomy to you. You will be more fcked up after that than by taking your drugs. I can suggest to try working things out in your life with psychotherapist and staying away from medication. Get drunk on beer and Vodka once in month if You feel to need to switch your brain off for one evening.
265  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russia Invades Ukraine. Whats next? on: March 03, 2014, 10:30:53 PM
From here Ukraine is only short overnight trip away. If I had money for the road or someone traveling to Ukraine from Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania with similar intent I will go with You and help to repel russian invasion. I speak latvian, russian, english and understand and can read ukrainian. I also know how to use weapons (AK-74, FN-FAL, MG3, MP-40, F1 hand grenades and small arms). I'm willing to kill enemy and risk my own life while doing that in name of freedom. This is my best chance to get into real action and even more important this thing matters because next will be Latvia that is invaded by mr. Putin. Write to me in forum PM and I will reply in 24 hours or less.
266  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Be honest, do you miss CPU/GPU mining days? on: March 02, 2014, 09:32:32 PM
You must be rich
I was rich. Made some purchases with bad timing, became unemployed, sold all my coins again with very bad timing. Now I have exactly 0.03 USD worth of coins.
I miss the days when my xeons were actually worth something... All my 5850s/5970s burned out long ago mining litecoins and I haven't bothered to replace them.
If the GPUs are dead are You willing to give away them to me? I'm learning myself how to reball BGA chips and could use them for training.
267  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Be honest, do you miss CPU/GPU mining days? on: March 02, 2014, 09:17:53 PM
Somewhat miss the CPU/GPU days but I'm proud to have lived and participated back in 2011. Command line GPU miners, solo mining in summer heat till seals and stickers pop off from computer case. Scamcoins are not worth anything to me. I want to get Block erupter asics or similar and be again mining.
268  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 12 Signs that you might be a Crypto Newbie. on: March 02, 2014, 09:08:30 PM
Links appear clean, no malware spotted. Using Firefox 27.0.1 with AdBlock Edge. Still reading the contents will cause similar effects on your intelligence as taking a hit from crack pipe.
269  Other / Off-topic / Re: Utopia Drug Marketplace Shut Down by Dutch Police on: February 13, 2014, 02:45:44 PM
amazing! 1 week. The owners got snitched before it went live or some other shit? I think I could host clear net CP site in USA or anti-putin page in Russia for twice as long Cheesy
270  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: An Exercise in Playing the Devil's Advocate on: February 12, 2014, 04:43:40 AM
Ignore all the shills with few posts telling that bitcoin is collapsing and you need to sell. I'm in Bitcoin since March 2011 and I see no way hat Bitcoin is going to die. Only way for this to happen is when Internet and computer networks does not exist anymore. Internet is already a pain in government's ass but they will not destroy Internet. They don't have the technological capacity to do it completely and there will be riots all over the world if Internet is going away completely.
271  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Thought experiment, DDOS attack on: February 11, 2014, 12:37:25 PM


This would hit all the large pools Elegius, Ghash.io, btcguild, discus fish, slush, bitminter, deepbit, together these make up approx 90% of the network.

Would this reduce the hash rate enough to stop new blocks being found and undermine the strength of the network catastophically?

 Undecided

 
No. The difficulty can drop only after 2016 blocks and if DDoS attacker reduces network hash rate he will need to wait much longer than 2 week average for adjustment to take place. Meanwhile he will need to maintain DDoS for more than month. And reduced actual hash rate does not make network less secure because the attacker still need to overcome original difficulty to do 51% attack.

DDoS against pools is good to do following things:
1. Reduce rate of block creation and confirmations take much longer.
2. Price drops as people who are in bitcoin for pure speculation start panic sell.

And Bitcoin will quickly recover as soon as DDoS is over. And maintaining weeks of DDoS against several targets when the targets are smart and try to cope with that might be problematic even for NSA. They probably will do it in different way like disrupting critical network infrastructure points by router backdoors or 0-day exploits against operating systems.
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In this scenario I reckon that altcoins would simply take over
Seriously? Scamcoins with 1/100 of Bitcoin network hashing power and size? I think the altcoins are permanently under attack then. And not by NSA but Thomas Nasikomo like coders with too many spare time and ability to modify some parts of Bitcoin sourcecode. And the IXCoin was not so scammy like some of the other altcoins.
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The result is that such an attack is ineffective because the pools have ddos protection. If the attack is large the pools just buy more protection. DDOS is a thing of the past.
You cannot have protection against nuke. DDoS is like nuke, if You are hiding in bunker it is only question to get bigger nuke.
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DDOS protection is snake oil. It's just a new service that's being advertised with purpose to be sold for profit to computer illiterate customers. Just like antiviruses.
This.
272  Other / Off-topic / Re: Are you a virgin? on: February 11, 2014, 12:21:17 PM
Money can buy you hookers but it can't buy you love.
Probably best Dank post on this forum. So true.

And virgin is for girls only. For boys this condition is called Gamer! Cheesy
273  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is this domain worth anything? on: February 11, 2014, 12:10:50 PM
nothing special. 3 random letters with country TLD. Even not "domain hack" like goo.gl or similar.
274  Other / Off-topic / Re: Cold storage guns on: February 11, 2014, 12:04:57 PM
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The Glock? It's a tank. It's extremely reliable, durable, and safe. It's also extremely easy to maintain. There are some tests on the internet showing off it's reliability (one where a glock is fired after being buried for several years, one where a glock is fired after being thrown from a helicopter, et cetera). Almost every police station in the US uses Glock pistols. You could call it "the AK of pistols". It's also inexpensive, like the AK.
I wont call Glock inexpensive. In USA maybe. Where I live on legal market it costs almost 3x more than other alternatives.
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What you described is what we in the states call "Israeli carry", where you need to rack the slide to fire the gun. I think if you life depends on it, you don't want to take the time to rack the slide.
I did not know it is called Israeli carry but after quick googling I confirmed that. Bad surprise for me as I don't like jews at all.

Where I live the gun laws were inherited from ussr. As civilians was not allowed to have weapons then the police was developing the laws and carry rules. The basic rules and safety practices were developed with very limited weapon models in circulation. For semi-auto pistols they were TT-33 and Makarov PM. Few had Margolin or Luger/Parabellum P08 so he rules were adopted for TT-33 that have no safety mechanisms at all.
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I hear that the Makarov 9mm is a fairly decent, cheap pistol, but I've never fired one.
It have relatively simple construction with straight blowback. It is reliable because of simplicity. Steel quality is great. It is more easy to conceal than TT-33 and in modernized PMM configuration have double stack magazine. Now the bad things. Trigger pull is heavy and many shooters who are not specially trained for this pistol raise or lower barrel when shooting. This trigger pull with relatively low caliber to barrel length ratio is why Makarov have very bad reputation on accuracy. In reality he accuracy is adequate for close-combat and comparable with similar 9mm guns. The 9x18mm is too weak against anything wearing body armor. There are reports of Makarov failing to penetrate winter clothing at longer distance. After dissolution of ussr Makarov was used as a standard gun to police officers. But the TT-33 was absolute favorite for russian mob because of armor piercing ability with even standard FMJ rounds.
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I agree about the localbitcoins situation. There are so many different ways to prepare to make the exchange extremely easy and safe.
I absolutely agree. Bitcoins are such unique and amazing technology that it gives multiple smart ways to deal without unnecessary danger. Not worth to risk for 5% price difference to MtGoatse price.

P.S. this video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=832_1385113019 where the teenager at 0:45 pulls out TT. He risked his balls by carrying with chamber loaded (the half-cocked safety is extremely unreliable).
275  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: what are they going to do when the bitcoin chain becomes prohibitively large? on: February 09, 2014, 05:12:02 AM
Bitcoin will become specialized. Miners (pool operators) need to have a full blockchain. Miners already have specialized hardware that is expensive. Large storage devices to complement the mining are cheap compared to ASICs. I still see no problem.
276  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Breaking news, Mt. Gox is completely down! on: February 09, 2014, 05:07:09 AM
Working for me too. Maybe a problem with cloudflare?
277  Other / Off-topic / Re: Cold storage guns on: February 09, 2014, 05:00:07 AM
If you're cocking a Glock, it's not a Glock.

Indeed, since I believe the definition of "cock" typically includes "hammer", a part which Glocks do not have!

If we are being less semantically precise, we could say that the Glock is "cocked" after you've racked the slide. Otherwise we have to say things like, "The striker is in the ready to fire position." Wink

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_pistol#Cocking_modes

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

Regarding the OP: I am always within hand's reach of some kind of firearm. A pistol's only purpose is to fight your way back to your rifle. Smiley
You are carrying gun with chambered cartridge and relying on safety mechanisms to prevent accidental shot? How reliable is that? As I'm most experienced with ussr-made weapons I always keep the chamber empty but with safety in position to fire. All I need in emergency is to pull the slide and I'm ready to fire. The safety levers for some guns are in positions that are hard to reach with one hand while holding the gun. But the slide can be pulled with one hand against your leg or any other surface if you are attacked and your hand grabbed. Believe me, the enemy is trained to grab your hands first.

But when trading on localbitcoins why not arrange a payment amount and address by online means then create a raw transaction by bitcoin-qt or armory, print it out on piece of paper before going to meet in-person. Get your money and exchange for the raw transaction that can be broadcast on network. Meet in public places so you could not be attacked so easily.
278  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: what are they going to do when the bitcoin chain becomes prohibitively large? on: February 09, 2014, 04:26:33 AM
As I'm writing his message I am running full bitcoin node on 12 years old Pentium4 computer that was made in year 2002. It might not be fast but it works. I think that any Core2Duo or AMD FX based desktop computer with 1TB+ hard drive will be able to run full node for at least next 10 years. Long after these machines will become useless for running latest computer games or watching hyper-HD videos.

If not, use SPV clients like Electrum or Multibit. And at some point Bitcoin-Qt will have pruning. The basics to do this already are in the design and code. The blockchain size is not a problem as I see it.
279  Other / Off-topic / Re: Cold storage guns on: February 08, 2014, 06:54:21 AM
Reading another thread where Localbitcoins.com seller was set up by FBI now I understand why you need to have serious firepower with you.
280  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: what are they going to do when the bitcoin chain becomes prohibitively large? on: February 08, 2014, 04:20:49 AM
Buy 8TB external HDD for Bitcoin data directory and be prepared for next 6 or 7 years of blockchain growth! Or buy the second-hand 8TB drive 5 years from now for couple of dollars.
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