Yeah I noticed that majority was gone when I checked the topic  . I also see that you(probably) seriosuly reduced ZYX ANN, and that one is especially annoying. Firstly because they are ponzi, and secondly because they are using those services for months now. I just noticed your post, Rikafip. When I replied earlier to wwzsocki I missed your reply somehow. I don't know if it was I the one cleaning ZYX ANN, as I reported those 14 users or so mentioned above, but if it was me, what can I say? I'm happy I did it hehe Yeah I was also reporting them, but not as many as you lol, that's some serious effort, good job man and keep it up! Thanks man! It was a huge effort indeed... I'm sure though that you also have plenty of reports, maybe more than I have. I started this "job" somehow recently...but I'm doing my best. I have by now about 5300 good reports. By the way, when you have some free time on your hands and feel like reporting, you might wanna check ANN threads that are using bumping services. I am keeping that list regularly updated with all the latest findings. Hehe great minds think the same. Tomorrow I was going to write in that topic too, to announce that I finished reporting all the users mentioned by nutildah in that excel file. Although there were 20 users mentioned, in this case it was a smaller work though - "only" ~350 posts to be reported in total. I have a few remaning, which I'll cover tomorrow, then I'll reply to nutildah in that topic too. And yes, I will also keep an eye in your topic also from now on Thank you for this invite. Thank you for the reminder, I knew about this "hack" but forgot and now it could be not easy to find with no info and I know it will speed up the process a lot, especially, if somebody is reporting hundreds of posts, as I have in plans   . I didn't use suchmoon's tool yet, but it looks impressive. I think I'll try it too at some point. For now, I'm using this script made by Cyrus. I find it useful. Feel free to try it too, if you think it's feasible. |
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I will be happy to help again in The Spambusters club Welcome back! I am not part of this gang, but I'm trying to help as much as I can. I don't know what are the criteria for being accepted, but I'd be honored to be a member here Are you reporting all spammy posts in the threads provided here or maybe you are focusing on particular members and dig in their post history to report spam? Each time I see a list of spammers mentioned I jump to action. I'm checking all the posts of the user mentioned and I'm reporting all their shitposts. So I can say I'm focusing on users, not on topics. We always wanted to make this efficient as possible, I wonder if something changed or still we have to report all spammy posts one by one?
I don't know about any other efficient action excepting reporting all the spam posts made by someone, one by one... In the past, oeleo tried to open a topic for highlighting shillers and report just 1 post per user, with a comment like "mods please review the entire post history of this user", but that didn't work. As a consequence, he closed his topic after while. As far as I saw, reporting post by post is the only efficient way. Most of the above mentioned users are now demoted to Brand New rank, but after a huge effort I made. If you have in mind any other approach, let us know |
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Gonna report all of their spam posts for now, and then I'll see what to do next, as sometimes they just give up when mods keep deleting their spam posts constantly. It's already done I think I took it ahead this time and I started reporting since yesterday all the posts of all the members mentioned by you and Bitcoin_Arena. [...]
Accounts used: CucklerBret823, maraslibas, predbangtursa, MinhDuong355517, dilladegru, nelsonjohn2046, ecviefuca, kresesosal, zoilanikolaus, tonbichlien
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Accounts used: masrasipa, failofule, AndrewGreen1, urloferda, nilycoti, daahicarmi, alegraces, pingtertergda, polar091, atrababul After a few hours reporting marathon I ended up with 870 reports. There were just a few posts remaining to be reported from Bitcoin_Arena's list. I think someone else took it ahead of me too lol. Mods are already working on these posts. As far as I see they keep deleting them. Gg to both of you for spending all that time to find these guys! |
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If there would be two options, I'd first choose a raffle and second to donate to LoyceV. There isn't too much for a sig campaign. But that' just my idea. After all, I'm not even a member of this gang, just a lone wolf doing his best to combat spam, which posted here twice |
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Another idea would be this: to set a rule in the "Share Good Movies Please?" topic, thus each post would contain the movie genre (taken from imdb) and the imdb link.
Does this sound better? It would involve managing just 1 topic and much less time. Indeed that topic isn't moderated, but OP and others (such as me) should report all posts not respecting the rule. The second one is better and everyone can contribute and distribute the managing load over the one person. Hope every guys will contribute as much as I can. I just made the suggestion. Now let's wait for OP's response. Let's hope for the best! |
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@peter0425: after an interesting discussion with a fan of romantic movies which took course in this topic, he suggested to have also the movie genre listed somehow. And I thought about if you would like to state a rule in OP with a formula for mentioning the movies here, which will help in two ways: - reduce spam - know the genre of each movie. If you think that would be feasible, I'd suggest that all future post to have a form similar to the following one: Movie title - genre - imdb link As for example (the form could also present the year when the movie was launched): Seven Pounds - 2008 - Drama - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0Finding the year and the correct genre is simple, as they are stated on imdb. However, for reducing spam we should pay close attention to all future posts, to respect the rule (if you decide to update the OP). As you can see, many Newbies are spamming this topic for farming their accounts and they post in a manner which obviously reflects the fact that they just post for having a bigger number of posts. Take this guy for example: interstellar, hands down best movie of all time. Maybe a close second would be inception? Kamilaz was also busted for being part of the Hack Forums invasion. He posted just because he had to post, not for trying to contribute to the topic. For one reason, the movie's name is Interstellar, not interstellar. Please let me know what you think. |
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I just finished reporting all the shitposts made by all the above mentioned members - 718 posts. As I progressed through the reporting process, I observed that mods already started to take actions. Let's hope that all these users will be nuked or banned. I'll keep you posted with the status of the reported posts. |
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So, I think something is wrong with me. I wrote more than 15 posts since I joined till Sunday. Brother I just check your post history you posted nearly 17 posts and from these few are in Games and Round section which are not counted All posts are counted, from all boards. Not that is the problem. The problem is the following: - you had 3 posts like this one: I like your promo!
Username: PokerPlayer
Thanks!
These posts are not counted. So from start, from your 17 posts you remained with 14. - you had also 2 posts of 1 line and 1 post of two lines. This kind of posts are mostly zero value posts and rarely are taken into account. So from 14 eligible posts you remained with 11. If you have less than 15 good posts, you will see yourself with 0 in the spreadsheet. If you have 20 posts, for example, and 2 not eligible you will see the 2 denied posts and the 18 eligible. But if you have less than 15 eligible posts you will always appear with 0 as it would be a waste of time to write also the denied posts since the participant will not be paid anyway. |
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The first to really capitalize on the market I would say. Since, eCash, although being very different from Bitcoin of today was a concept back in the 1980s, which I think was implemented into Digicash? As far as I know, this is the very foundations to what we now call cryptocurrencies, and its interesting to me that the concept was thought of many years ago. I'm not sure of the success of eCash, or Digicash, but I believe Bitcoin is the closest thing we've had that uses similar ish concepts that has garnered the interest of the mainstream media. That's correct. Dr. David Chaum's (author od eCash) previous work was the one that inspired the Cypherpunks to try to implement a working and decentralized form of digital, untraceable money. Some of these cryptographers started working on this dream they had: electronic cash. And they had a role model: Dr. David Chaum's DigiCash. David Chaum's work represented an inspiration for the Cypherpunks group and he can be called the grandfather of Cypherpunks. His writings (such as " Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms", " Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments" or " Security without Identification Card Computers to make Big Brother Obsolete") proved he was thinking way ahead of his time. In 1989 he already managed to launch the electronic money company DigiCash Inc. The company offered to the public the eCash payment system and the CyberBucks coins, which were based on blind signatures. The proposal was actually applied in real world payments, being adopted by several banks, such as Mark Twain Bank from St. Louis, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Norske Bank and Bank Austria. Other big players became interested in Chaum's creation: Visa, Netscape, ABN Amro Bank, CitiBank and ING Bank. Even Bill Gates tried to embed DigiCash in Windows '95. Unfortunately, these last mentioned players never signed the contracts with Chaum. In the end, in 1998, DigiCash Inc. went bankrupt. People were not attracted to use the system. Chaum's proposal was also above of its times. The Cypherpunks thought also that the failure of DigiCash Inc. was determined by the fact that it was based on a central authority. The key to success was a totally decentralized form of money.What I'm trying to say is that eCash was real. And it was used. But it was a centralized form of digital money and maybe that lead, in the end, to its failure. And also the fact that the invention was implemented in the real world ahead of its time. Even now, for example, Bitcoin is not used but too many people all over the world. It;s still hard for some to understand it. Now imagine how hard eCash was back then.
Because hashcash was before bitcoin it doesn't mean that bitcoin was bornt from hashcash. Bitcoin is a creation that took some important accomplishments back in the 90's and implement them to create a digital currency. Satoshi had referenced to bmoney too. It doesn't make bmoney a cryptocurrency. Bitcoin was something innovative. It was, indeed. But both HashCash and b-money helped Satoshi to place all things together. But these two weren't the only proposals, there was also another one: Nick Szabo's Bit Gold, which also opened the idea of smart contracts. However, all these 3 proposals of digital money, but also eCash, had various flaws: they were subject of sybil attacks, they were not decentralized or they were never coded. Bitcoin took the best from all the previous proposals. With other words, we can say that Satoshi learned from the mistakes made by his predecessors and made sure that he won't repeat them. He used HashCash, proof-of-work, 0 central authority, public/private keys and a distributed ledger - which came to be known as the Blockchain (although this term was never used in the Bitcoin white paper). But his innovation was that he used the chain of signatures which link with hash functions every coin (transaction) to its previous owner (author) in an unbroken chain which ends at the generation of the respective coin. Practically, nobody can falsely allege that he owns a coin, as the real owner can sign a message from the transaction which attributed the coin to him, proving that the other one is an imposter. And the importance of this invention can be seen now, many years after Bitcoin was launched, as you know: CSW is trying in vain to steal Satoshi's identity and also to convince people that he owns several of Bitcoin's first addresses -- addresses which are supposed to belong to Satoshi; actually no matter to whom they belong, it is certain they don't belong to CSW as he is unable to sign a message from them. Furthermore, he was ridiculed by the real owner of such address, which signed a message from his address, saying "Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message.". Furthermore, the recently moved 50 BTC from the address created in 2009 ( movement observed also by many forum users) were contained in an address previously mentioned by CSW as belonging to him. The movement of these coins by their real owner proved that he didn't control that address. This concept, which proves 100% the real owner of a coin, was not present in the previous electronic money proposals. Excepting all these, Bitcoin also managed to avoid the 51% attacks. As Satoshi had forseen the need for proving the ownership (described above) and many other technological (but also political and ideological issues) which could appear after offering his brilliant invention to the world. He also anticipated that Bitcoin could become the subject of various types of attacks, one of them being the so-called 51% attack. For those which don't know, a 51% attack represents an attack to the network, the attack being performed by a miner (or a group) having more than 50% of the total hash power of the entire network. In such cases (which in Bitcoin network's case the chances are astronomically low of occurring), the respective miner would have absolute power over the protocol, including but not limited to: stopping other miners from finding new blocks, find all the blocks by himself and obtain all the mining rewards, rewriting the blockchain history, double-spending etc. (more details can be found on Bitcoin Wiki). Satoshi knew that such attack could occur and implemented two methods for mitigating the risk, as it follows: 1 He detailed an incentive in the white paper meant to keep honesty among the network participants: "The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth.". Besides, regarding double spending and attacks, the white paper also details the following: "We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU proof-of-worker. As long as a majority of CPU proof-of-worker is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to attack the network, they'll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers. The network itself requires minimal structure." 2. The second measure was not based anymore on users' honesty, but rather on code: Bitcoin is programmed to make it more difficult the process of finding new blocks as more hash power is brought inside the network. Practically, the more the nodes are, the more difficult the mining process gets. And, as a consequence, as the network expands more and more, it would be way more difficult for an attacker to control more than 50% of the network's hash power *. Regarding this second solution, laszlo ( the pizza guy) alleged in recent CoinTelegraph article that Satoshi told him at some point that he has coded a mining software for GPUs and he was prepared to switch the actual (at that moment, of course) CPU miner to the GPU software, if he really had to defend the network. Of course, the defense would mean to raise exponentially the difficulty, as the GPUs have much more computing power than the CPUs. Laszlo, which according to his topic from May 2010 might have been the first developer (excepting Satoshi) of such mining software for GPUs, could have said the truth or could have lied in the interview. But what's certain is that Satoshi had two ways for avoiding these attacks in Bitcoin network, this being an aspect where Bit Gold and b-money were vulnerable. |
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I demand hacker to obey to the two Legendary members trying for so much time to summon him and to honor with his presence here! If until recently there were "just" a Legendary member and a Hero trying to summon him, now there are two Legendaries, taking into account JollyGood's recent rank up.
As a consequence, dear hacker, we all know you are shy like a virgin girl, but leave that behind and get over here! Brace yourself and face the questions! Be a man!
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Bitcoin is often described as the 'first cryptocurrency' in media, but I vaguely remember there was some history before Satoshi's (amazing) implementation.
I remember hashcash (not a currency) which was used to prevent spam way before Bitcoin, and Bitcoin uses its idea.
What were the other attempts at cryptocurrencies or precursors before Bitcoin? You can find here a very long and detailed essay of mine, describing all Bitcoin's ancestors: Bitcoin: The dream of Cypherpunks, libertarians and crypto-anarchists. On the second page of posts you can also find a comparison made by me for Bitcoin and all of its ancestors. It was "hand made" to say so, but I think the article can help you understand better all you asked for. |
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Yeah there will be lot of spams as well created especially this is off topic section but if you wanted to do and have time for it then can have moderated thread but it may consume lot of time so just decide which you wanted to do.
Uhm yes...moderated topics for each genre would work but indeed it would be time consuming... I'd better ask also the fellows from the Moviemaniacs Gang to see their opinion too. Maybe if more would be interested, this could be done. But with heavy moderation and much time spent. Another idea would be this: to set a rule in the "Share Good Movies Please?" topic, thus each post would contain the movie genre (taken from imdb) and the imdb link. Does this sound better? It would involve managing just 1 topic and much less time. Indeed that topic isn't moderated, but OP and others (such as me) should report all posts not respecting the rule. Thinking again at the two ideas, I think the lattest is best. |
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I'd advise OP to lock the topic as the raffle has ended, in order to avoid future spam. Take for example fortebetter's post, which posted 2 weeks after the winners were announced.
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Nice and long list, I was looking for some movie recommendation to kill my time for this weekend and here you helped a lot, I will look into the list and watch one or two out of it by tonight. You are very welcome. I hope you'll enjoy any of the movies I suggested. I liked them all. By the way: if you are looking also for comedy movies, I recommended today some which I liked a lot. Should we need to compile separate lists for other genres as well?  That would be interesting, but I'm afraid it would lead to a lot of spam made by various shitposters. If you'll look through the earlier posts of this topic, you'll notice easily there were many posts made by spammers to increase their posts number. Better head to the topic I suggested above - Share Good Movies Please?. You'll find there many suggestions. For exanple, I recommended there almost 1500 movies, about 100 movies which are not released yet (including one which will be released in November 2115 - not kidding) and about 40 TV series. Oh, as a bonus, we also created a gang: The Moviemaniacs Gang! Feel free to join! |
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Loool so it was me scaring him in the end? = ))) I thought all the time it was you and marlboroza. Poor hacker1001101001, he is so shy like an innocent young girl. And so many people from this forum (including me) are mean to him! This is just not right! I suggest that mods to bun me, you and marlboroza! Maybe, after that, the shy, innocent and pure hacker1001101001 will have a peaceful life here... |
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But suppose you delete all posts, does the activity then decrease and you mutate back into a newbie? Yes, this is correct. If you delete your posts manually, one by one, your activity will decrease as well. It can decrease even lower than Newbie: it can decrease to Brand New rank. The same applies for nuking action. Then theoretically he should have been a Senior Member in the time back... That's correct, he was Sr. Member before deleting the posts. I have actually never seen that before...  Look at this topic for another example. I reported so many posts of OP that she turned from member to Newbie rank. Later, she posted againg and became again Jr. Member. Apart from that, for the member, these are the 250 start merits, because he already had his account before the introduction of meritsystem.
Means he has no self-deserved merit... Yes, no self earned merit in this case. |
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Congrats JollyGood for both achieving the ultimate rank and for reaching 11.000 posts (that's wow)! Both of these trophies can be obtained very hard. What's your next milestone? And a funny suggestion: maybe now you can finally convince hacker to come back to his topic Maybe he'll be more obedient now, that one more Legendary member asks for his presence hehe. |
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I'd also like to contribute to this topic with some recommendations: - 27 Dresses - A Walk To Remember - Adam And Eve - Along Came Polly - Can’t Hardly Wait -Cruel Intentions - Cruel Intentions 2 – Manchester Prep - Cruel Intentions 3 - Date Movie - Date Night - Dear John - Delivering Us From Eva - Friends With Benefits - Friends With Kids - Going The Distance - Good Luck Chuck - Good Will Hunting - He’s Just Not That Into You - Heart Breakers - Hope Springs - I Hate Valentine’s Day - I Love You, Beth Cooper - I Love You, Man - I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry - It’s Complicated - Just a Kiss - Just Go With It - Just My Luck - My Awkward Sexual Adventure - My Best Friend’s Girl - My Big Fat Greek Wedding - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 - My Girlfriend's Boyfriend - My Life In Ruins - My Mom's New Boyfriend - My Super Ex-Girlfriend - Senseless - Seven Girlfriends - Sex Drive - She’s All That - She's Out Of My League - She’s The One - The Girl Next Doo - The Vow - This Is 40 - What Happens In Vegas - What To Expect When You'Re Expecting - What Women Want - What's Your Number - Wild Things - Wild Things 2 - Wild Things 3 - You, Me And Dupree - Youth In Revolt - Zack And Miri Make a Porno
For any other genre of good movies, feel free to visit this topic: Share Good Movies Please? |
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When adding it to an old PC? AFAIK:
~snip~ I understand now what you meant, you were talking for older motherboards and yes, all that you said is correct in this case. I wasn't talking about that old, but a bit more recent ones. Date when the standard was released =/= date when motherboard manufacturers started adapting all (or even the majority) of their boards for it. Yes, that's correct. Knowing how many write / read cycles you're limited to is much better than having an ever shifting hidden pseudo-counter that wipes your data when it reaches number X. When you know how close your SSD is to dying, you know when you have to replace it with a new one. With an HDD, it's a perpetual data loss lottery. Obviously, SSDs aren't impervious to random breakage but at least you can measure and monitor one potential point of failure. That's why I said earlier that this point is debatable Some see from your point of view, some from mine. I guess it's a matter of perception, like seeing a glass half full of half empty.
Excepting all these, I'd like to mention also that I enjoy a lot seeing that there are users with technical expertise on PC hardware on the forum. I didn't see too many though, but it's great there are still some left and you can engage with them in such serious discussions. |
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Most of the movies mentioned here are indeed very good comedies. I'd like also to mention a few more, which weren't posted before: - American Virgin - Big Momma's House - Big Momma's House 2 - Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son - Alvin And The Chipmunks - Alvin And The Chipmunks - The Squeakquel - Alvin And The Chipmunks - Chip-Wrecked - Alvin And The Chipmunks - The Road Chip - Bad Boys - Bad Boys II - Bad Boys For Life - Barbershop - Barbershop 2 - Back In Business - Barbershop - The Next Cut - Beverly Hills Chihuahua - Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 - Viva La Fiesta - Blonde And Blonder - Boat Trip - Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo - Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood - Dorm Daze - Dorm Daze 2 - Freddy Got Fingered - Friday trilogy (Friday, Next Friday, Friday After Next) was already mentioned, but there is also a fourth part: Next Sunday - Fat Albert - Garfield - Garfield 2 - Ghostbusters - Ghostbusters II - Ghostbusters 2016 (a remake from 2016) - Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - Harold & Kumar was mentioned just with this name, but there are three movies actually: Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - High School High - How High - Ice Age - Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - Ice Age - A Mammoth Christmas - Ice Age - Continental Drift - Ice Age - The Great Egg-Scapade - Ice Age - Collision Course - Irish Jam - Johnny English - Johnny English Reborn - Kung Fu Panda - Kung Fu Panda 2 - Legally Blonde - Legally Blonde 2 - Madagascar - Madagascar 2 - Night At The Museum - Night At The Museum 2 - Night At The Museum – Secret Of The Tomb - Paul Blart Mall Cop - Paul Blart Mal Cop 2 - Puss In Boots - Road Trip - Road Trip Beer Pong - The Last American Virgin - Van Wilder: Party Liaison - Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj - Van Wilder: Freshman Year
For any other genre of good movies, feel free to visit this topic: Share Good Movies Please? |
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