It's even more hilarious to do this.

It's not like that at all. If you're in a bar or something with a bunch of other people, nobody has to stick their hand out to send or receive donations. You just say "You know what, I like you; let me buy you a beer." and then you buy them said beer. However, since the people in this forum don't all hang out in the same bar (though I like to imagine that they do), it is not possible for us to buy each other beers. So we need some other system in place to facilitate the sending and receiving of beers. Signature addresses are that system. By having Bitcoin addresses in our signatures, other people can buy us beers without any awkward confusion of where or how to send the money. That's all there is to it.

Your account has not been hacked (or if it was, it's not related to this problem). You are automatically logged out after 60 minutes by default unless you ticked the box on the login page that says "Always stay logged in", in which case you will never be logged out unless you click the Logout button or clear your cookies (this is a dangerous option if you are using a computer that other people have access to, which is why this option is not the default).

To avoid losing your posts, it is wise to always do a quick Select All + Copy (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C) immediately before posting, so that you can just Paste (Ctrl+V) it into a new window if anything goes wrong.

Good thing it's not true, then. I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading the order in question and it doesn't say a damn thing about giving the President (or anyone else) the power to shut down all (or even any) US communications. It's actually all about ensuring that government communications and emergency broadcasting systems etc. stay online during a crisis. That's all.

Where does all this bullshit news come from, anyway? Oddly enough, it doesn't come from RT (who are allegedly the source of this story); they don't say anything about the President being able to shut down US communications except for a single quote from EPIC (most likely taken out of context since it doesn't seem to refer to anything in this order, or even anything that's even news at all), though their version of the story is still sensationalistic (the President's "control" over private communications systems is limited to using them to broadcast emergency messages).

People who want the lexicographical order to correspond to chronological order, that's who. That's literally the only reason Press topics are supposed to start with the date at all. Putting the date in any other format is no better than omitting the date completely. It's all explained in this sticky thread, which people are expected to actually read before posting here. But that's probably expecting too much.

Well, I don't have to worry about that, because I know exactly what kind of monsters and serial killers are waiting in my room: the kind that can pick locks without making any noise. Who in their right mind doesn't lock their doors at night?

SatoshiDice is not lying, you just made a simple mistake in your calculations. Specifically, you forgot that SatoshiDice pays you a small amount (0.5% of your wager) if you lose, that way you always get something back whether you win or not (unless something's gone wrong), allowing you to easily tell the difference between a loss and a failure to pay out a win due to technical problems.

In the case of lessthan 32768, you will win 1.957x your wager 50% of the time, and 0.005x your wager the other 50%, giving an expected return of (1.957x0.5 + 0.005x0.5) = 0.981 for a house edge of 1.9%.

It is not the case. Storing fractional numbers with infinite precision would require a computer with infinite memory, which is of course impossible (there are systems for storing numbers with "arbitrary" precision, but they still have a finite limit determined by the amount of memory available). In the case of Bitcoin, fractional units are only stored to 8 decimal places. The block reward is always rounded down (never up) when 8 decimal places aren't enough, which will first happen at the 10th block reward halving (sometime around the year 2048) when the reward drops from BTC0.09765625 to BTC0.04882812 (rounded down from BTC0.048828125). Eventually (the 33rd halving, around the year 2140), the block reward will drop from BTC0.00000001 to BTC0.00000000, no more bitcoins will ever be generated, and the currency supply will be fixed at exactly BTC20,999,999.97690000 (the series of block reward halvings theoretically converges on exactly 21 million, but it does not actually reach this number due to the aforementioned rounding errors).

Miners receive transaction fees in addition to the block reward. As the block reward gets smaller and smaller, these fees will make up a larger and larger proportion of the total payment received by miners, resulting in a smooth transition to the eventual "transaction fee only" model.

More than $1,000. Probably much more, if the Winklevoss ETF gets off the ground.

You guys do realise this is a spambot, right? But, anyway...

It is an old type of TV notable for its bulk, curved screen, good contrast and refresh rate, and unique ability to produce equally fuzzy images regardless of the resolution used. Most are perfectly capable of displaying HD video; they just won't display it any clearer than SD.

Actually, it does. Military GPS signals are cryptographically authenticated. But Iran jammed the military GPS frequency, and the drones were programmed to automatically fall back to the civilian GPS system if the military GPS system fails. Civilian GPS signals are not authenticated, and the decision to not authenticate civilian GPS signals was a deliberate one, as back when GPS was invented, cryptography was a restricted technology (and still is to an extent, which is why SourceForge is not allowed to make cryptographic code available in Iran) and the military decided that civilians have no need for authenticated GPS signals. Whoops.

No, jokes are usually funny. You're just pathetic. I'm going to Ignore you until you start making sense (or at least stop producing nonsense).

It's real all right, and I know quite a lot about it. For example, and this is just one instance of the things I know about it, it's just a fucking amplifier! Read the patent for yourself if you don't believe me. Dismantle all your phones and verify that they don't contain hidden transmitters. That's what you would be doing if you actually believed this nonsense and had at least half a brain. But instead you just post some bullshit you read on a worthless conspiracy site and expect us to believe you without any evidence. Which we don't.

You're right. I really don't know anything about this conspiracy. I actually never even heard of it until you started this thread. All this time I thought it was just a boring old amplifier circuit that nobody really cares about. And now there's a crazy conspiracy theory about it. This is like the time I first found out there were people who actually believed we didn't land on the moon. Are you one of those people? I bet you are.

Defending it? Like I said, I'm not even sure if anything even still uses it. It was invented in the late 1950s. We've got far more advanced noise-filtering techniques these days. So advanced, in fact, that in some cases line noise is actually added artificially, as periods of silence were so quiet that people would think the line was completely dead (which is why some mobile phone users keep asking "Are you still there?" every five seconds). But whatever, you can keep believing this nonsense about this obsolete technology if you want to. I won't stop you.

I've never heard of this "GAALT® Industries" outfit. No company by that name has ever existed as far as I can tell, and GAALT isn't even a registered trademark anymore (though it was formerly a registered trademark of International Telecommunication Systems Incorporated, who I think bought the patent at some point). GAALT was invented by the noted aviator and radio engineer Donald Croom Beatty while he working for Hayes Aircraft Coorporation, who also invented various many other kinds of improved amplifiers and other miscellaneous gadgets for the telecommunications industry. There is nothing the least bit unusual or remarkable about his career other than that he was very good at it.

I also have no idea who this Lewis Cass Peyseur character is or how he fits into the picture. Who is he and why should I care?

You know, it really saddens me that nutjobs like you go on about crazy theories that don't make any sense when there are so many real threats to our liberty that we need to focus on.

It's so that they don't have to throw out the entire chip (and the resulting profit) if one of the cores fails a stress test. Instead they just disable the faulty core and sell the chip at a discount. They keep some of the profit, and consumers get low-quality chips at correspondingly low prices. It's win-win. Sure, you can always unlock the bad cores, but if you actually try to use it at 100% load for any length of time, you're going to run into problems.

This is standard practice in the semiconductor industry. Some people say they're actually disabling perfectly good cores, but that makes no sense as that would mean they're selling perfectly good products for less than full-price. Where's the profit in that?

I've heard of it. Fortunately, it's far less sinister than the conspiracy nutters would have you believe.

Actually, it's supposed to be a noise-filtering amplifier (GAALT stands for Gain-Adjusting Audio Level Terminator), embedded in almost all telecommunication equipment since the early 1960s to reduce the impact of line noise. Though I think these days it's been mostly replaced by digital signal processing.

The device is not secret at all, and as a noise-filter, hearing sounds and communications that would otherwise be lost in noise is kind of the whole point. Of course, it does not transmit those communications to anyone other than the person on the other end of the line, and does not assist in wiretapping in any way other than merely improving the clarity of the communication.

A reliable source if there ever was one.

Worst investigation ever. Pretty much everyone in the telecommunications industry knows exactly what it is and what it does. Did nobody on ATS think to actually ask someone in the industry about it?

I honestly don't know where the conspiracy theories came from, as it's hard to imagine a more benign device. Maybe some spy agency praised it for its ability to clean up poorly intercepted transmissions (that would otherwise be too garbled to provide useful intelligence) and someone got the wrong idea about its capabilities. Who knows?

No, silly, we use it to eliminate the need to trust a central bank or government. You still have to trust the person you're actually doing business with; anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

Can't have one without the other. Bitcoin can't possibly be stable at $1, since that would imply a market cap of at most $21M. All it takes is for some eccentric millionaire to think "Hey, this Bitcoin thing seems like a good place to dump my millions!" and the price skyrockets overnight. But at $10,000, with a $210B market cap, the price will not affected so easily.

He said "before long", and it hasn't yet been long. Unless you consider 3 months to be a long time.

For reference, the accepted abbreviation is cBTC, not BTc, as the latter is far too easily confused with BTC. Millibitcoin (mBTC) is more widely used anyway.

People are dumping prizes now? How do I get in on this? I want a prize too! Where can we get these prizes?