Now that's a new way to use Google Translate  The "Listen" option is actually called "Beatbox" when you enter in valid options. Should be a lot more fun stuff on its way. zk = suspended cymbal bschk = snare pv = brush bk = bass tk = flam1 vk = roll tap kt = flam2 kttp = flam tap krp = hi hat tap pv = short roll th = better hi hat thp, ds = instant rimshot. Guide @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356 |
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The Newbies subforum is probably the most dangerous subforum on this entire site. Mods and admin do not remove likely scams, so they only remove proven malware and scams (probably well after a good many infections and successful scamming). When you run into a good, service, or website posted in the Newbies subforum, you need to have answered satisfactorily: Why does someone want to advertise their goods or services specifically to newbies instead of the general forum?You should also be very careful when there's a page or two of newbie posts saying something like "I'll give this a try" or "this sounds great!" It could very well be people trying to build their post count up, but it could also very well be the OP trying to build confidence in his scam with sockpuppets. You should consider running any site given in the newbie section only in a secure sandbox application, or at least with NoScript enabled on your browser. NEVER run executables given on the newbie forum, and always make sure the actual URL in the hyperlink is directing you to the website being suggested in text BEFORE visiting (most browsers display the actual URL in a bottom bar if you hover your mouse over the hyperlink). Just because someone gives source code for something does NOT make it safe unless you understand and analyze the code, then build directly from it. If it's posted only in the Newbies subforum, it's particularly likely the source code won't be properly reviewed until hundreds or thousands of people have used the program. One final, obvious-but-forgettable piece of advice: It would be appropriately safe to never use a service posted in the newbies section which asks for anything demanding trust unless you have reason to trust the operator(s). FWIW. Addt'l education: Cryptography & Bitcoin, presented by Khan Academy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258223ETA: I'm not around consistently enough for a full FAQ/guide on Bitcoin & this forum, but I think this is pretty much all the basics you should know before plopping a few hundred down on Bitcoins. |
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Look at the 10-port Apple style one (it's in the "size" selection on the same page as other product). Seems to be more what you're describing. (is $57.99 instead of $49.99 though)
(ETA: only 20 "Apple style" ones in-stock, though...!)
"connected devices should not exceed a combined current of 7A." (note isn't made on the 9+1 hub, though that doesn't necessarily mean the limitation doesn't exist on the 9 non-charging ports)
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I'll trade you a '99 Taurus. Some of the frame hasn't rusted away, yet. Lots of huge holes underneath, though. Tried to jack it up last Winter to replace a tire. Kept placing the jack in different places (spot suggested in manual was too far gone) until I found a spot comfortable with. Luckily, didn't have spare tire right next to me and had to walk to garage to grab it... car fell through the jack with the old tire off, so the whole damned thing was sitting lopsided in driveway. Was pissed. Called tow truck, he had the same problem as me (was figuring he'd just lift the front, but he had other plans), but after a few more holes were punched in, found a well-enough spot. Every couple weeks, another few layers of rust fall off. Hooray, salt trucks! ... It usually runs, only makes loud groaning noises during movement, and the wipers were recently replaced (BRAND NEW).  |
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Adblock (non-Plus) appears to be blocking advertisements without reporting it even being blocked. AB on Chrome, only AB extension enabled - no advertisements. Chrome, no extensions - advertisements. ETA: Actually... some advertisements load under AB. Maybe I'm just being stupid. ETA2: No, AB is definitely blocking ads. Anything with a background image, it seems, possibly more. <TR class="td_headerandpost1373956846" > is blocked <TR class="td_headerandpost1373956921" > is not blocked <TR class="td_headerandpost1373956974" > blocked <TR class="td_headerandpost1373957100" > is not blocked (but uh... it's just a grin emoticon -- dunno if intentional. This place is crazy.) No clue if that helps at all. With AB, ~85-90% of ads are missing. Without AB, 0% of ads are missing. (Not a huge sample size. I'm not going to refresh and stare at ads forever, y'know?!) If it helps, this is what I see when an ad is blocked (again, no notification in AB icon):  ETA: As mentioned above, this is a block by EasyList. bitcointalk.org##a[class^="td_headerandpost"] |
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The English translation is botched (ETA: No, I guess it's not if you read the lines separately. Just me, misreading again...). Idunno, though... the lazy eye and half-eyebrow makes me think we should take this seriously. -Then there's the poor old guy with late-stage Alzheimer's on the back... I know I'd be PETRIFIED if someone handed me one of these notes!
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Site seems to be up but I'm blocked by a server in Frankfurt - 80.231.53.54 - to access the site.
Hot dog beats hamburger. Blocked by a weiner... would mean you were cock-blocked? Har, har. ... Har. |
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The more expensive BTC is, the less useful it becomes.
I disagree. The price of Bitcoin has nothing to do with its use as a money transmitting vehicle. If I wanted to send $1ooo to a relative and Bitcoin was going for one million per Bitcoin then I would only need to purchase .001 Bitcoin to send it to them but if Bitcoin was only worth $100 each then I would need to purchase 10 Bitcoin. Either way they get their $1000 and at the same cost to me.
The price of Bitcoin only affects the traders and the savers
You'd need to purchase .001BTC keeping in mind the likely fee to transmit (if BTC is successful) would be at least 50% of that, or $500. At best, you could probably get an exchange willing to do internal exchanges (which'd be nothing more than internally assigning numbers, not actually trading Bitcoins), but then you still have wire and exchange fees, so why bother even using BTC as an intermediary in that case? Fees ("bid-to-transmit") are practically nothing right now because it's heavily subsidized by block rewards. Soon enough, the block reward will decrease to 12.5BTC, and fee/reward parity might be consistently achieved before then if Bitcoin continues growing its user base. Within a decade, the block reward will equal 6.25BTC. Bitcoin is currently able to get around a lot of the bandwidth/storage costs of including microtransactions by shifting it all on people who run full nodes, but there's a reason light clients and web clients are seen everywhere in the community. Running a full node is practically impossible for anyone with capped data bandwidth, and difficult for anyone with an uncapped ISP option lesser than DSL. Bitcoin's on an exponential growth trend greater than Moore's Law and subject to explosion if it should become mainstream, while the only solutions are really only to either decrease number of full nodes by increasing the amount of transactions/second (increasing the burden to run a full node, while each full node dropping off only compounds burden on those still running), or to accept the current t/s rate and allow the free market to increase fees. Once the subsidy drops off, large fees will likely be mandatory, and full nodes (if users can find one unburdened enough to connect to) may be primarily run by mining pools which won't even bother to relay microtransactions. Bitcoin has a rough road ahead of itself before it can sustain a dramatically higher price (rather, the higher volume of transactions which'd sustain it), and we don't even fully know what kinds of changes the rules and software will need to keep Bitcoin chugging along, but I doubt the days of <$.10 minimum bids for a quickly-included transaction will be here for even another year (whether that's because of an increase in number of transactions, or increase in price, or the likely combination of the two). Bitcoin simply isn't built for microtransactions, and that'll become more apparent as it continues to grow. |
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The more expensive BTC is, the less useful it becomes. A LTC long position is ultimately a BTC long position, hoping BTC outprices itself as an efficient medium of exchange (for amounts under $100). In that scenario, LTC would really shine.
So, there's always going to be that kind of price ceiling with BTC. ... It doesn't stop PM traders, though. Almost all the talked-about metals have been priced so high, they're no longer cost-effective in industrial use, so I guess there's no reason Bitcoin can't have the same fate, where it's just a token the rich agree is worth $x for large transactions, and there'll always be that floor where NORPs would be able to cost-effectively use Bitcoins as a medium of exchange again.
(I like how this sub-forum now color-codes based on poster's outlook!)
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Bump. While-intoxicated-only offer of free critiquing, grading, and proof-reading. (pricing for sober editing updated in OP for exchange rate changes) Send me essays, screenplays, or audio files (no videos). Need something proof-read? Fine. Don't want to pay for it? Fine. Just send me some fucking text! Hell, I'll grade the content if you want (topics you'd possibly want me or wife to grade on content or accuracy for include organic chemistry, six sigma, politics and/or government, game design, philosophy, and anything k-12). I'm so fucking bored! Help! I'll even write up essays for a few bucks! Need a critique of Countdown to Crisis: The Upcoming Nuclear Showdown with Iran written up? Have you covered! So original, nobody'd ever believe any human being wrote it. Need a topic sentence to get your professor to really examine points you want to get across? How about something commenting on the tireless bastardization of capitalism within the media?! Tired of grading kids' essays and just want to sit at your desk playing solitaire? You're covered, lazy pig! Need worksheets written up for subjects you want to cover, but don't really want to do any work in covering?! COVERED! Writing an essay on Great Gatsby with mandatory analysis of quoted material? You need to (hire me to) analyze the implications of the "modish negroes" line! Every single word was chosen intentionally -- why was that particular sentence with those particular words included? Nobody hyper-analyzes little details like that - except for me, and that's why you ought to send me some god-damned fucking text right now! Work at a parts-supplier for Toyota, or Toyota itself? I've seen the horrible pamphlets they send employees, written by poorly-educated Japanese natives - and I've even kept a particularly terrible one on six sigma as a memento from a previous job. Don't punish your employees with illustrations showing a man bent over "cumbustible" materials! I'll even critique your damned illustrations if you send them! Translation, transliteration, decantation, deamination, analyzation, titillation! You're motherfucking covered, friend! ETA: Off to sleep.  |
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WOW! This no looks good. Part of the evidence against Brown, authorities say, are computer records from last August that show he printed a map from the Internet that gave driving directions from his house to the local offices of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The letters were printed not on Brown's computer but on a friend's, according to the indictment, as Brown had emailed the person, identified only as "P.H.," to ask to use their printer, using the excuse that his own printer was out of ink. Could P.H. be the starfish? More likely, "P.H." is a typo of "P.G." |
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I see a few sigs denouncing Ripple... Im with you guys escrow is fine, if you can trust them. The way the Govt. is hounding currency exchangers, it wont be long before escrow comes under attack... or am I missing the point? Ya - John offers the most popular escrow service as far as I can tell, but does not live in the US, doesn't have any physical or registered businesses relating to the escrow service in the US (AFAIK), probably doesn't have US bank accounts holding customers' USD, and has no US-controlled domain they can seize. That's practically complete protection from government interference.  Correct - and my country of citizenship does not have a history of giving in to the old States' demands. This may change though as I may need to live in the States for a few years.  Oh, and I would never do fiat-based escrows, just for the record. Need a place to crash? |
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Weed
(-and when did we go back to arguing the value of coins come from the cost to mine? Didn't we realize how ass-backwards that was two years ago?)
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Does Bitstamp give you a blockchain txID?
ETA: Fwiw, google search turned up a few cases of it happening over the past few months. Usually gets resolved within a few days, sometimes automatically. Try PMing hazek on the forum with the transaction details if nobody responds to a ticket on Bitstamp.
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 ETA: You know what... that's a better avatar.... |
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Meaning of press' terribly-worded attempt to mask outright quotation of USDOJ release found... Here's what the DoJ posted: "... The indictment alleges that Brown devised a scheme to defraud Romney, the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and others by falsely claiming that he had gained access to the PricewaterhouseCoopers internal computer network and had stolen tax documents for Romney and his wife, Ann D. Romney, for tax years prior to 2010. ... According to the indictment, Brown allegedly caused a letter to be delivered in August 2012 to the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Franklin. The letter demanded that $1 million worth of the digital currency Bitcoin be deposited to a specific Bitcoin account to prevent the release of the purportedly stolen Romney tax returns. The letter also invited interested parties who wanted the allegedly stolen Romney tax documents to be released to contribute $1 million to another Bitcoin account. The indictment alleges that Brown delivered similar letters to the offices of the Democratic and Republican parties in Franklin and caused similar statements to be posted to Pastebin.com. ..." http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/June/13-crm-721.htmlSo... they're alleging Brown trolled people. Anyone up for a game of wire fraud? We all send PWC an envelope stuffed with a thumb drive containing a document demanding $1b in BTC or we'll release Mitt Romney's tax releases for years AFTER 2010. Include pictures of neighborhood cats on the thumb drive. 830 Crescent Centre Drive Suite 260 Franklin, Tennessee 37067 United States of America Telephone: [1] (615) 503-2860 Telecopier: [1] (615) 503-2870 Lead prosecutor is Anthony "Tony" Teelucksingh - can likely be contacted personally at teelucksingh@yahoo.com (unconfirmed if still live) and officially at *address and phone # snipped for being his actual home info, assumed too intrusive* Fax: 202-514-6113 Email: Anthony.teelucksingh@usdoj.govInterestingly, Tony is likely knowledgeable in pgp and general cryptography. Fairly early Internet user. Looking for a pubkey... pubkey was posted @ http://www.charm.net/~tony/pgpkey.htm but is no longer available and I can't find an archive. Tony previously worked for a DSL ISP, which gives him quite a bit in common with Michael. If they ever have a conversation, it may actually be fairly light-hearted, heh. Tony has also designed websites. Appears to be interested in both Christianity and Islam (sufism, particularly), possibly Muslim. I'd guess Teelucksingh is Indian? Another email contact: tony2@home.net (very likely dead) tony@charm.net (very likely dead) ... So now I'm intrigued. The guy appears very intelligent and level-headed. Not particularly cynical, but not a blinding ray of sunshine. Would be interesting to hear if he actually thinks MB was serious (assuming he did what was alleged), or if it's supposed to be some move against "ransom trolls," or maybe he was just being pressured to do anything. |
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We need a new subforum... Pointless and/or annoying thread accusations. Depending on interpretation of the title, you could move most responses on the forum there.
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