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the thing that bothers me is that he was very open about the whole project. its not like it was a secret, this was months in the making, and pretty well documented on social media. at any time the Thia government could of said, look, you cant do that here.
instead, they wait till its up, send a naval warship and charge them with a crime that can carry the death penalty or life imprisonment?
thats gonna do wonders for the Thia tourism industry.
a stern warning, tell them to tow that thing elsewhere and that would be enough to send the message.
and i always had Thailand on the list of places i wanted to see in my travels. not so much now.
elwar, my prayers are with you and your wife. stay safe and hope to hear from you soon.
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another easy method of ransonware protection is to have several portable harddrives and backup important documents daily to them, syncback free will do this. leave a drive plugged in overnight and have syncback do its backup in the wee hours of the morning. then in the morning unplug that drive and plug the next one in the rotation in. if you have several days (drives) worth of backups, all disconnected from the computer, ransomware cannot touch them.
if you get whacked, just reformat/reimage the OS drive and restore the documents from the latest backup drive.
the important thing is to have several drives that you rotate, and keep all but one unplugged. the more drives you rotate, the better.
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May be you guys will tell me something... I started Tribus miner on my CLE215+ miners, but I can see only 30-40 MH/s at the pool side, while there are 5 CLE215+ are installed and I see 156.25 MH/s in miner output. What's wrong?
what pool? im at tribus on zergpool, just now my three 215+ show 134 at the console, 128 at zergpool. seen it go from 85 to 150. varies a bit just refresh and youll get sometimes wildly different values poolside. also make sure youre running the latest miner and bitstream, there are several floating about, |
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Bad new for the superstitious... I'm sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to Mexico City.
This wasn't planned. My lovely Mexican GF is having a medical emergency and is flying up to MC from Cancun this afternoon to see the far superior doctors in MC. I want to be waiting for her at the airport when she arrives to take care of her.
Hopefully we'll get her fixed within a week and I can fly back up for a week or so before flying back down to Cancun on April 29 for my final dental work.
If she had a passport I'd be bringing her with me. While we're in the big city maybe we can get her one.
Good news for the superstitious... I'll be flying back up in early June for the rainy season and will be in Canada until probably November after the hurricane season.
sorry to hear of your gf medical problems. hope all goes well with her and she has a speedy recovery. |
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To create a time-machine, we will need someone from the future to show us the technology. In order for that "someone" to visit our current time and show us their technology, we must find a way for him or her to get back to his or her time. In short, we need to build a time machine (randomly) to send future time traveler back before we can have a fully featured time-machine.
And in order to make sure that our plan works, all of us in our current time will need to make a promise to ourselves that we will visit our current time in the future once we have the technology to do so.
Anyone understand what I'm trying to say?
Ok you have an idea about how to use a time machine, but I how do we build a time machine, and where do we find that "someone" who comes from the future? and how do we know if he wants to travel back to the future? perhaps we could use some sort of bait to lure a time traveler back to the present. say take an extremely valuable, irreplaceable object (art? some curtural icon? some tech that was found accidentally so would not be able to be found again? not sure what would work). publish in all major publications that it will be destroyed on a particular date, so that some copy or another of that publication would be read by future folks so they would know about it. state the only way we would not destroy that object on that date was if a time traveler from the future came back to claim it, but in return they would need to prove they are from the future and give at least hints as to how to make a time machine. in short, gotta make it worth while for the traveler to come back. |
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mic, dispute the short time he has been here, has been one of the most active, cheerful, and involved persons ive seen. just the amount of merits he has received in such a short time says a lot just by itself as to how respected he is.
he encourages others to participate, run free games with not unsubstantial btc prizes (and faithfully pays them out), and is always willing to learn new things. he has been striving to improve his writing and english skills (with help from other members here), as it is not his native language and has made great progress on that front.
in short, he is very dedicated to this forum and BTC.
and he is very free with giving out merits, in fact he is usually out of them. basically he uses merits the way they were meant to be used.. get them out into circulation.
he has my vote.
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As to making coin...I am now out of mining and am 'attic mining' ...selling stuff in the attic I would otherwise 'die with' and putting it into crypto.
selling old mining gear for btc works, anything to increase your stash works actually. being such a small time miner (a dozen gpus max and a few BFL fpga/asics) i have kept all of it, except a few gpus ive given to friends. but my HD4850, HD6870, and HD5830.. those 3 cards (well actually the latter two, the 4850 was just a test to see if mining worked) made so much btc i will forever keep them in a place of honor. they changed our lives. ive considered gold plating them, or at least the shrouds. unreal that those 3 cards still account for a large percentage on my current btc holdings. and when i bought the 6870 (the 1st card for real mining) and showed my wife her words were "WHAT you paid $400 for THAT?  " heh yes i did. and now she doesnt blink an eye when i spend on gear. |
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Highly unfortunate development. I thought Elwar had tacit approval or acquiescence for the seastead. I wonder where the disconnect is. i think he was counting on "flying under the radar" on this one. might be wrong though. definitely sucks but without some sort of formal agreement in place it was bound to happen sooner or later. easy enough to tow to top unit somewhere else but the spar would be harder. might be easier to just sink it. coral will grow on it (already has some i believe) and its just another part of the seabed ecology at that point, so it not pollution. i believe they would have to notify some authority or other that they sunk it with the details of what it is, where etc. anyway hes proved the point that can be done. not many can say that abount a whole new tech. pioneers always expect setbacks. im sure elwar will take it in stride and move on. that penalty. man. doesnt leave much room for negotiation does it. gotta look up that law, im sure its so draconian for a reason, at least back then when it was passed. stay safe elwar! looking forward to updates. |
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joined in 2011, so ~8 years for me.
i originally heard about bitcoin from a tech forum, anandtech i think. loved the concept of digital currency and especially the DIY aspect of mining, the security, the censorship resistance, all that. since i had a HD4850 gpu i got some basic setup info there, then once i had a basic handle on mining and tested it i joined here. been learning ever since.
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it needs cooling on the vrm chip to hit those clocks. sqrl will be sending heatsinks for it to all 215 owners who request it, free of charge.
This I did not know about. Does that include 215+ owners as well? i forgot the plus sign. yes, free vrm heatsinks for the 215+.. i think the 215 too but am not sure as i didnt pay attention if its for the 215 as all i have are 215+ |
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Here is a true story from my life. A good few years ago I bought a derelict farm from a property development consortium. It had an agricultural tie on the land, and they couldn't get planning consent for development. It was next to a large unused field, and the place was overrun with rabbits. There was one large black one that I suspect was an escaped domestic pet. He didn't seem to be a part of any of the rabbit communities there, and I decided to write a story around him. I used the farm as a collection point for my antiques business, and the place was full of things I had acquired from house clearers. One of the items was a sporty remote control battery car toy. My idea was that this black rabbit learnt to drive the car, and he used it to tour the area looking for does with whom he could form relationships. I was going to create a website as a pseudo blog that described his adventures and activities. I even registered a domain name - Bang Bunny . This is parked at the moment, and I really ought to decide what I should do with it. ok so this is a pretty late reply to this post but a story like that does have possibilities. not sure if youre aware of this but some remote control battery powered 1/10 scale cars have stupid amounts of power and very sophisticated adjustable suspension systems and adjustable clutches for differentials and motor coupling . they can reach over 70 MPH easily and some have 4wd. ive seen them do mud racing, hill climbs and flat out "1/4 mile" racing (actual 1/10 of a real 1/4 mile ~130 feet, and hit 70+ mph though the traps, thats what my r/c car did, and i saw cars that made mine look lame). iow your rabbit now has a vehicle that allows access to many locations that can have interesting backstories to them. plots abound in such a situation. |
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A single CLE-215+ acorn can do 50MH 'at best' mining Tribus/Denarius and that's really at best meaning if add VRM heatsinks to the device as they are poorly thermal cooled.
to bad a shit coin garbage miner offered. oh well yup 50 mh at 200 mhz clock on the 215+, and it needs cooling on the vrm chip to hit those clocks. sqrl will be sending heatsinks for it to all 215 owners who request it, free of charge. i had already added heatsinks to mine. i mine at an autoconvert pool and get paid in litecoin. i mentioned progress is being made based in the fact they said they have onboarded new devs, and we know at least one is working on stuff for the 215, as OhGodaBird seems to have had a large part of the tribus miner. the UI on the miner is much improved and more usable. looks like the groundwork for standalone stuff is being laid out. so there is still hope. the acorns main advantage is low power, 15-20 watts max when overclocked to within an inch of its life, and lower with more sane clocks. |
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also, we would need a very good weed simulator that can be uploaded as well.
And the weed simulator at such a stage of development would make weed seem like catnip. i would not want anything but the weed program, simply because most other recreation drugs alter thing too much for my taste and usually have crashes when they wear off. weed Just Works for my purposes, and i have a LOT of experience with it. its my ultimate drug of choice, no need for anything else. You could have weed that always feels like that glorious first time where you just couldn't stop laughing. Or be as high as you want without feeling sluggish. It could be more intense while simultaneously leaving you with clarity of mind that a normal human can't even have right now. Also, psychedelics have no crash whatsoever and neither does MDMA in sensible doses. I'm not into stimulants or excessive use of alcohol, but yeah I guess those have crashes. very true. never had any crashes with acid or mesc. never did mdma. but the stuff that hooked me back in the day, which i will not mention for reasons, had nasty crashes. btw ever read larry nivens known space series of books? in them he came up with the ultimate drug.. a wire is implanted directly to the pleasure center of the brain and delivers a trickle current to it. its so powerful and addictive that people can starve to death as nothing is more important than that wire. they were called wireheads, and a main character in the ringword series was a wirehead for a period of time. And no, I haven't read that book. Sounds like heroin or that rat experiment with the pleasure button that they preferred over food though. pretty much that, yes. if you read one book by niven, i suggest ringworld, the 1st of the ringworld series. multiple award winner. one of those books you cant put down. even if youre not into science fiction its worth a read, its simply that good. |
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I'm actually a bit of a collector (or want to be when I have the space) of the vintage 80s micros. My only decent one at the moment is the Epson HX-20 (first laptop), it has a built-in dot matrix and micro cassette, I use it for printing out wallet seeds and passwords private keys etc. Very cool. Also, my son enjoys learning to type on it, because of the printer.  heh i have a bit of a collection of early (early to me, i envy you guys with the serious old iron stuff) computers too. * timex sinclair ts 1000 (zx-81 clone) with 16k ram expansion and sparky printer - my 1st computer * commodore 64 with tape drive and 2x1541 floppy drives * trs-80 model 100, looks very similar to your Epson HX-20 but minus the printer (very early portable laptop type computer) with 2400 (or maybe 1200 baud) modem * trs-80 model one with expansion interface, 48k ram, tape drive, 4x5.25 floppy drives * lnw-80 (trs-80 clone, uses trs-80 5.25 drives plus two shugart 8 inch drives) * trs-80 model 4P (two) with 128k ram, bank switched, runs cp/m as well as native trsdos - a portable computer the size and weight of a sewing machine, but it has a handle and is fully self contained. find an outlet and youre up and running, has two 5.25 drives and a green screen plus a built in 2400 baud modem * apple mac classic and mac plus (plus an external apple hard drive) * apple lisa (two) - the later lisas, not the 1st model * one of the 1st ibm clones (cant remember the name), 8088 (8086?), 8 bit expansion slots.. love that HUGE red power lever. took the hard drive like 5 minutes to spin down on power off. everything boots. all work but the floppies are getting to be hit or miss now. there are various software/hardware adapters to use another computer to simulate floppies/hard drives.. gotta seriously look into them. i cut my teeth on those things. all have a fond place in my heart, many many hours of fun and learning. |
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i will never own an alexa/google/amazon voice activated device, unless there is an actual physical switch to cut the mics out of circuit.
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btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates.
so much the attach surfaces are pretty big.
now i dont assume my phone and watch and compromised, but with the amount of money i have in btc it would be foolish to at least consider these scenarios,
like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used.
- Don't think only potentially "spy" devices could be an attack vector. You said you were discussing key recovery with your wife... good thing you didn't say the passphrase but not because of your smartphone an/or smart watch.... more traditional eavesdropping methods like a laser beam mic could be employed against you. Always try to consider all potential attack vectors, and pay special attention to traditional ones as thats where the easiest exploit usually comes. good point. laser mics have been around since what.. 80 or 90s? im not sure how common they are or if civilians can legally use them but thats pretty much irreverent. just the fact they exist is enough to take precautions. i wonder if music or pink/white noise played in the high 90s or 100 db level would help. but modern signal processing can probably do a lot to isolate stuff like that from conversation. but an isolated room with several soundproofed walls between it and the exterior of the house may help.. anyway at this point its been proven that alexa etc are easily false triggered and thats not even considering the possible transmit mode happening outside of the wakeup phrase. as for the phone/smartwatch at this point im just operating on worse case scenarios. overkill perhaps but i DO NOT trust google, amazon etc to actually have real security and auditing in their software. or to even tell the truth about what their devices actually do. and they can always push updates that change the device behavior anytime they want. |
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If you didnt spend 5 minutes waiting for an audio tape to load a game, you didnt live the golden age. I miss my ZX Spectrum..All the squeaks and sounds only to end with an "R Tape Loading error" 10 Rem This is my private key Save "wallet" ...good luck retrieving it  yeah. i had the timex-sinclair version of the zx-81. my 1st computer. 16k ram upgrade, and the sparky printer. i used to save each program on at least 2 cassettes. my c-64 and trs-80 model one were originally tape based too, till i added floppy drives to each. still have a shugart 8 inch floppy drive for the trs-80. thing must weigh 20 pounds. |
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i will never own an alexa/google/amazon voice activated device, unless there is an actual physical switch to cut the mics out of circuit.
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btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates.
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like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used.
The only sure way is to unplug everything and remove the batteries. some devices dont have removable batteries anymore (think latest gen smartphones) and they may have super capacitor backup.. again, not removable. and most all devices nowadays are still minimally "on" even when theyre "off" via the power button. something is always running, if only to monitor the power button status. and if it can do that when "off" it can do most anything else when programmed right. camera, mics, access files ect. therefor they can be compromised even when off. they have to be far enough away that they simply cant spy on you. |
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also, we would need a very good weed simulator that can be uploaded as well.
And the weed simulator at such a stage of development would make weed seem like catnip. i would not want anything but the weed program, simply because most other recreation drugs alter thing too much for my taste and usually have crashes when they wear off. weed Just Works for my purposes, and i have a LOT of experience with it. its my ultimate drug of choice, no need for anything else. btw ever read larry nivens known space series of books? in them he came up with the ultimate drug.. a wire is implanted directly to the pleasure center of the brain and delivers a trickle current to it. its so powerful and addictive that people can starve to death as nothing is more important than that wire. they were called wireheads, and a main character in the ringword series was a wirehead for a period of time. as long as you (or the copy, whatever) can elect and is able to end its existence at some point. who wants an eternity of boredom?[/qoute] Although I personally wouldn't pull the plug on "uploading consciousness" until there is a way for me to simultaneously and willingly experience both the real and virtual me as well as turning one or the other off at will.
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There is no limit to novelty. So if you ever get bored you can always just hibernate or erase memory before coming back for more. Existence could then be like the ups and downs of the corn. I doubt that death is anything other than that, just in a more saddle way.
simply erasing learned experiences just means you will likely reach the same result (more or less) as the 1st run that led you to being bored to the point of wanting to cease existence. and i dont want some person to be able to modify my thinking or change the way i run such as restart/modify the way i run (like a "safe mode"... my consciousness doesnt do "safe mode") and no one should be able to override my choice if i chose to erase meself rather than enter hibernate or whatever. if i so chose to end it, i want the copy, and all backups gone. if i hibernate i will always be ale to be restarted. thats a negative. another thing about uploading some ones conscious that others me is the fact that others would now have access to the "source code" of you so to speak. its possible someone can change your thought to want to, say, run machinery, ships, anything that needs AI with a touch of human ingenuity and problem solving no thanks. |
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so here i am in my own house, wondering if anything i say might go out to servers that humans can access (humans review random snips of voice data).
wtf, my own home, which i have spent considerable time and money hardening both physical and electronic networks, is useless if the closed source algo that trigger sending data for no fully understood by the end user.
btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates.
so much the attach surfaces are pretty big.
now i dont assume my phone and watch and compromised, but with the amount of money i have in btc it would be foolish to at least consider these scenarios,
like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used.
Faraday cage room and Cryptosteel.  sure i understand Faraday cages, even built a couple as projects back in the day. even if you put the phones/tablets etc in there, that doesnt mean they cant record things (some have batteries so will still be "on", store in local storage on the device, and send that out once its connected back to the network. i would have to move them to the Faraday cage or another room in either case, so another room is fine for my purpose. so, being the lazy sod i am, i fall back to the easier route, and adhere to KISS principal.turn off, power down, put em couple rooms away. i have long realized how stupid and forgetful i am, and now make allowances accordingly. and sometimes the old tricks are the best tricks. |
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