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2621  Other / Off-topic / Re: The best smartwatch ever! on: May 30, 2014, 06:53:55 AM
It looks sort of big, but it is really hard to tell by the pic without seeing it on someone's arm.
There are plenty of pictures on the website of it being worn. Myself, I think it needs to be even bigger. I prefer a proper keyboard on my wristlojackimator.
2622  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Can't run sucessfully compile and run bitcoind in debian jessie on: May 30, 2014, 02:06:56 AM
Bitcoind is an ELF executable, not a shell script. What happens when you run exec bitcoind?
2623  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: This a thank you thread to theymos and mods. Free Speech. on: May 28, 2014, 07:01:36 AM
If anyone is curious why I have "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" in my sig, is to protect myself from outside of bitcointalk.org.
*facepaw*

Warning--any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government
Undercover agents need not identify themselves as such, and that includes obeying instructions addressed to government agents.

you do NOT have my permission
They already don't have your permission unless you specifically give it. That's what warrants and subpoenas are for - so that they don't need your permission.

The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information,
What legal privilege would that be, exactly? At the risk of stating the obvious, bitcointalk.org is not your lawyer, accountant, doctor, spiritual advisor, or spouse, so no privilege or confidentiality applies.

You didn't think this through very well, did you?
2624  Other / Off-topic / Re: Paradoxes on: May 28, 2014, 02:24:19 AM
I found an image of the cold plasma, it's a mixture of helium and air and glows purple? I suppose the sun's mix is a bit different.
The sun's mix is different. It differs in that there is no air in space. Roll Eyes

When a sun spot appears it looks dark and cold beneath the surface. I can't help but think all the heat stays trapped in the core, how can heat pass through all that dense matter?
Through radiation and convection. Due to the sun's immense size, this heat transfer is a slow process, taking approximately 30 million years for heat to travel from the core to the surface (the scene in Star Trek Generations where the star instantly goes dark and implodes when its fusion reaction is suddenly halted is, like most things in Star Trek, utter bullshit). Sunspots are regions where convection currents are inhibited by fluctuations in the sun's magnetic field, causing the surface to cool in those regions.



If the game has a fixed limit, it is normal. But then it has no fixed limit because the first player may choose this game, causing it to take longer than its fixed limit because the game may now take up to its fixed limit plus the time the first player took choosing.
It also has no fixed limit because it is played until there is a winner, which is not guaranteed to ever happen (a normal game may end in a draw). Tongue
2625  Other / Off-topic / Re: Paradoxes on: May 27, 2014, 04:19:01 AM
The problem with this theory is that black body radiation results from energy absorbed being re-radiated excluding "fueled" nuclear fusion as the source.
What the damn Hell are you on (about)? The energy from the fusion reaction is absorbed. There is only sufficient pressure for fusion reactions at the core; there's no fusion happening on the surface of the sun, which is what you're actually seeing. Some of the energy from the core is absorbed by the surface layers, which heat up and emit black-body radiation.

A bit of research on the subject indicates  the spectrum is perfectly in line with that of cold helium plasma in a vaccume diode.
Wrong. Have you ever actually seen helium plasma? It glows deep orange. The sun is not deep orange. That alone indicates a major problem with your theory.

Here's the sun's measured spectrum (yellow) compared to predicted black-body radiation (grey):


And here's the emission spectrum of helium:


If you look very closely, you will see that these spectrographs look absolutely nothing alike. The sun is incandescent.
2626  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: This a thank you thread to theymos and mods. Free Speech. on: May 27, 2014, 02:57:26 AM
More specifically, the First Amendment is prefaced with "Congress shall make no law..." It's a prohibition against the government censoring your speech. Private individuals on private property can do whatever they like. Websites such as this one are private property, and nobody has a right to do things on someone else's private property. You can only use a privately owned website to voice your opinion if the owner permits you to use their property this way, and they can revoke that permission at any time for any reason. The admins and mods have the absolute right to censor posts and ban people, and the First Amendment does not apply.
2627  Other / Off-topic / Re: Paradoxes on: May 27, 2014, 02:28:16 AM
If you two are done being idiots, the real reason the sun's temperature can be measured from its colour is because its colour is due to black-body radiation, which is the light and other radiation emitted by non-reflective objects due to incandescence (or, in more basic terms, hot things glow). LEDs are not incandescent (unless you're doing something horribly wrong); LEDs emit light due to electroluminescence, which is in no way related to temperature.

If you're wondering how we know the sun is incandescent, we know because black-body radiation has a distinct spectrum that is not produced by any other phenomenon (and more specifically looks absolutely nothing like the spectrum of light emitted by an LED).

Incidentally, we know the sun is powered by fusion not because it is hot (there are plenty of other process that can produce such heat), but because it emits other kinds of radiation that are only produced by nuclear fusion.
2628  Economy / Speculation / Re: Benford's Law? on: May 27, 2014, 01:03:54 AM
Classic gambler's fallacy. "I'm more likely to roll a two, because I pre-rolled the ones out." Roll Eyes

So do you think after that we'll have a long period with the price around $20,000-$29,999?
Of course. It'll certainly last longer than the $30,000-$39,999 range... because $20k-$30k is a 50% increase, but $30k-$40k is only a 33% increase. (How do you think Benford's law works in the first place?)
2629  Other / Off-topic / Re: Paradoxes on: May 26, 2014, 02:39:31 AM
If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess exactly what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father correctly guesses that the child will not be returned?
That's not a paradox. If the father correctly guesses that the child will not be returned, then the child obviously will not be returned, by definition of his being correct. The crocodile is simply a liar (this is a trait common not only to crocodiles, but talking animals in general).
2630  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Families Boycotting Overstock Due to Them Accepting Bitcoin on: May 26, 2014, 02:31:28 AM
Phinn, you're losing it.
2631  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Problem with Bitcoin-qt on: May 26, 2014, 02:20:56 AM
It doesn't update my libboost, do you know how to do it? I use debian wheezy
Switch to jessie, upgrade libboost, then switch back to wheezy.
2632  Other / Off-topic / Re: How many possibly bitcoin addresses are there exactly? And how long does it... on: May 26, 2014, 02:07:24 AM
minimum size of a molecule is 2 atoms; diatomic molecules. So it's definitely >2
The mean is greater than 2, but not the median, which is a more appropriate average. (A molecule with 2.1 atoms is certainly non-average. Wink)
2633  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Problem with Bitcoin-qt on: May 25, 2014, 02:49:08 AM
What makes you think libboost is what cause Gnome to stop working? You say you upgraded the system. That implies you did more than just accidentally uninstall and reinstall libboost. In particular, the upgrade shouldn't have removed libboost in the first place; it's possible other critical packages were removed at the same time.

Just go ahead and install libboost; even if it does hose your system, it's a fresh installation so you won't lose much (except time). In the future, pay attention when upgrading your system, especially if any packages are to be removed. When in doubt, press Cancel.
2634  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: different connection limits on each connection type on: May 25, 2014, 02:24:45 AM
The obvious solution is to just not listen on your public IP. I'm not sure why you'd want to in the first place; it seems like it can only be counterproductive if your objective is to help Tor users.
2635  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Why bitcoin is going nowhere (too hard to buy bitcoin) on: May 25, 2014, 01:39:11 AM
Do you object to providing detailed personal information to a well-known company? BTC Markets verifies your identity through greenID; BTC Markets never even sees the information you provide to greenID.
2636  Other / Off-topic / Re: Anyone wanna play Russian Roulette? PC Style? on: May 24, 2014, 08:24:52 AM
Code:
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
You're lucky
Some say it's unsportsmanlike to wear a bulletproof vest while playing Russian roulette. I say the only unfair fight is the one you lose. Cool
2637  Economy / Economics / Re: Pricestamp on: May 23, 2014, 03:08:34 AM
As for this topic, if am US based and I sell in euro, convert to US and report on my tax form as net income there is an easily trackable cost basis for the conversion in Fiat as opposed to my BTC wallet which just shows received X on Y date.
If you exchange your bitcoins for dollars, the exchange will tell you the exchange rate for that transaction, exactly as if you exchanged euros for dollars. If you don't exchange your bitcoins, you won't have that information, but this is exactly the same as if you had euros and didn't exchange them for dollars. In that case you just look up the exchange rate for that date and use it. There's no difference.
2638  Economy / Economics / Re: Pricestamp on: May 23, 2014, 01:50:58 AM
Right now if I wanted to run a business incorporating crypto on my own, frankly it would be a bit of a nightmare(no pun intended). When I receive .000XYZ and keeping track of what the P was at that time, compared to when I sell or use the currency could take days if I do volume. Its almost like a barrier to entry, or at least a damn that is slowing adoption down.
How? It's no different from dealing with foreign currencies, and literally every company that does business internationally already has that all figured out. Fluctuating exchange rates are not actually a difficult concept for businesses to grasp. If you think it's difficult, then maybe you shouldn't be running a business.

Is there a movement to get this type of info associated with each transaction ever made ?
No. The price is independent of the transaction itself.
2639  Other / Off-topic / Re: What do you do to have fun when you are sad ? on: May 22, 2014, 12:39:47 PM
I play video games. Then I remember the reason I was sad in the first place is because my graphics driver stopped working and I can't play video games anymore. Sad
2640  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Importing private key back-up into Bitcoin-QT on: May 22, 2014, 07:19:17 AM
That is just not true. I downloaded the blockchain 3 times. The Transaction are not shown in Bitcoin-QT until it has downloaded the blockchain to the Point, where the Transaction was made.
Have you tried what you suggest your self? I don't think so.
I have. Several times, in fact. I've no idea why it's not working for you. Irregardless, transactions are stored in the wallet. What do you suppose the -rescan and -zapwallettxes options are for?
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