That's correct, but some -- which are more into computers (not necessary tech savvy) -- may prefer to build the machine by themselves. You know, in modding, for example, there is a saying: 'the normal user says "why change it (in this case it's about the PC's case) if it works like this?", while a modder says "why not change it if I'm able to change it?"'. I believe this can also apply to building a computer piece by piece instead of buying it built by a shop.


Why do you think they are overkill?


Well, that could be a problem for some old motherboards. That is, if you were talking about free PCI Express slots. Regarding M.2 slots, these are always free, unless you already have a SSD plugged into the M.2. And these ports were launched in 2012. What I'm trying to say is that many recent motherboards are equipped with such slot for a SSD. And you can use it for both NVMe SSDs and SATA III SSDs (although SATA III SSDs with M.2 form factor are rare).


Uhm... that's debatable. I mean yes, HDDs are not immortal. I was talking about the lifespan now. I guess you can say both that the allegation is true and not true, depending from which point of view you say it. In my case, knowing for sure that my SSD has XXX writing cycles (although this number is the order of thousands) scares me in part. Because I know that when that number is reached, the SSD is gone. Each of its cells was (re)written that XXX number of times and all are dead now. On the other hand, HDDs are more sensible as they having moving parts inside them. You have to be careful when you transport them, try to avoid shocks and so on, indeed. And if you give them a bad treatment they're gone too. I understand that. But at least I know I'm not limited from the very beginning of using it to a fixed number of writing cycles.

So, regarding that, I'd say (as an old rabbi, lol) that I assume we are both right.

A good SSD is one which has NVME technology (Non Volatile Memory Express), which uses the speed of your PCI Express. There are two types: M2 format factor and those which plug directly into a PCI Express slot. The lattest reach speeds of at least 2 GB/s for both reading and writing.

There are also other SSDs which use the SATA III's speed, but these ones are way slower. SATA III supports a maximum speed of 600 MB/s but most of SATA III SSDs will reach a 450-500 MB/s speed for reading/writing (the writing speed is always lower than reading speed).

That being said, not all SSDs are a "must have". Indeed, even a SATA III SSD can revive an old PC, but if you really want to feel the benefits of a good SSD, you should buy a NVME SSD.

excepting this, HDDs should not be fully excluded from PCs. They are cheap now, even large ones (4-6 TB), as the price per GB dropped to a few cents, and they are a good way for storing your rarely used data (photos, old movies etc.). There is no difference in watching a photo/movie stored on the HDD compared with doing the same operation with such file stored on a SSD.

The problem with SSDs is that they have a limited life time. They can be fully filled with data for a certain number of cycles. That's why you should avoid over-using a SSD. Use a HDD each time when it's not necessary to use the SSD. Indeed, the OS should be placed on SSDs. And so too should the games. But avoid using the SSD for movies, photos, audio files or other archived files used rarely, in order to extend its life.

Also, for the same reason, a SSD should never be defragmented. There is no need to, as it is very fast. But also, when you defragment a disk, it moves your data in order to better arrange it. Doing that on a SSD implies that the defragment program will erase some data placed on a specific part of the drive in order to move it somewhere else, thus all data will be arranged. But this operation would also lower the (limited) writing cycles of the SSD.

What about a prize for the most illiterate user? I'd propose hacker1001101001 and andulolika. There would be a great battle between them, but I'd bet on andulolika for winning this prize.

Also: what about a prize for the lamest Otoman? The list is big here, but best nominees would be DragonDance, wolvoo, mhanbostanci, BitcoinTurk, Cean, Vispilio, Blacknavy, gumusi or miyav.

While it is an honor for me to see my masterpiece mentioned here, I don't know how OP could use my topics though...


If you want to quote lock topics, you can follow the information from this topic: A guide to quoting posts in locked topics. You can use the first way described there, the second way, or a mixed way. I found a third way which implies combining the first two methods. However, it's not difficult. If you still can't manage, let me know and I'll try to explain with more detail

Actually, there are four of them There was also a 1 season Twilight Zone in 2002 and the host of the show was Forest Whitaker: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318252/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_8.

Twilight Zone is indeed a very good serie. I already recommended it in a previous post, containing many other great TV Shows. I remember that from about same time as the '80s serie other great similar TV shows emerged, such as The Outer Limits, Nightmare Cafe or Tales From the Crypt. However, The Outer Limits was the most close to Twilight Zone.

I didn't know that the serie was relaunched in 2019. I just made some digging and I saw that a second season was aired already in 2020. This morning I already downloaded the two seasons and I'll start watching them as soon as I finish Lucifer season 5. Thanks for this precious info! It's very precious for big fans of Twilight Zone, such as I am!


I believe that if you watch them in this order (if you never watched these series), you might tend to not enjoy watching the old series after the newer ones, as the old ones have fewer visual and audio effects, the image is less sharper and so on. My advice for someone which wants to watch all the series would be to start with the old ones and watch the new ones only after.

Hehe, actually there will be a next Matrix: The Matrix 4. It is supposed to be launched on April 1st, 2022.

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Excepting the news about the next Matrix, these are the movies I watched lately:

- Artemis Fowl
- Bad Boys For Life
- Prisoners
- The War with Grandpa.

I wasn't too impressed by Artemis Fowl, but the last three are great movies. Bad Boys For Life doesn't need any introduction (I presume ), while Prisoners is a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. The War With Grandpa is a nice comedy starring Robert De Niro.

I also watched a nice, 6 episodes TV series, named Into The Night. Its action remembered me of first season of Lost. And I said about the first season of Lost as that one was great; the other ones just destroyed the series lol. If you'll enjoy first season of Into The Night, there are good news, as another season will be launched.

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One last TV serie which I just started watching: Lucifer season 05 (which is supposed to be also the final season). The first part of the season (containing 8 episodes) was launched recently; the second part of the season will be aired at the beginning of next year.

Since two days ago I started reading another book from the ones I ordered recently:



Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange - Underground

It is a fascinating book about the rise of Australian hackers and phreakers from 1980s, including the early activity of Julian Assange which, by that time, was known under the nym Mendax. For all Assange lovers this is a must read.

Besides , when it was launched in 1997, the book's price was 400$!!! I managed to buy it now at about 19$. Get it while you can!

I just reported 69 shillings of OP, as she followed the same path as CoinIdol News. From these 69 reports, 21 were shilling topics which were locked by the moderator. The other 48 were simple shilling posts, which were deleted. As a result of having less topics, OP turned back to Newbie rank, while she was a Member (or Jr. Member) before I made these reports (I don't remember exactly, but I believe she had the Member rank though).

Seeing now that her posts were also deleted, I hope she understands once and for all to stop these spams and shillings.


I was the hunter.

And I'm hunting any spammer / shiller. It is hard to find them all, but we, the spam guards are doing our best to keep the forum clean. Some are missed at a moment, but found later (as it happened to your posts, for example). But there is no double standard. It's just there are not enough reporters to properly compete with all the spammers. Besides, there are not enough moderators to analyze all the reports. I, for example, have 1055 unhandled reports, which will never be analyzed as they were made more than a month ago and the mods can;t see them anymore.

What I want to say is it's just a matter of time until other spammers are reported as well. No double standards, don't worry

Revolut is not a crypto wallet, do not let yourself be tricked into that! With Revolut you can send and receive money (fiat money), usually faster than using regular banks, but it certainly is not a crypto wallet. Similar with eToro, on Revolut you have CFDs (Contracts For Difference), not crypto. Which means that you have in possession the value if your crypto, not the cryptocurrency itself. You don't have a public key, nor a private key. It is not a crypto wallet.

If mods would take your appeal into consideration and unban you, given the change of rules to temp-ban for plagiarism (which I'm not aware of, anyway), then they should ban you again (permanently) for evading you ban. Thus, you'll end up where you are now.

From my side, consider that you were unbanned for plagiarism then banned again for evading the ban, if that makes you happier. Forget about the ban for plagiarism: now you are banned for another reason.

Thank you all for sharing your opinions! But how about the second suggestion? Nobody said anything about that. Do you think it would prevent the spam if the mods would close topics left unattended by the authors for long time?

That would be a part of the solution, yes. But it is hard to define what is notable and what is not, as you don't have a proper metric. Even if a publication would be considered in a select circle of respectable sources, this wouldn't automatically mean that all its articles are notable, right?

On the other hand, spammers would continue to exist. And they could farm their accounts by posting just articles from Guardian...

I reached to this idea after seeing a recent post of hilariousandco:


The fact is that the Press board is spammed a lot by various users for various reasons: farming accounts, building notoriety, shilling, hoping to obtain visitors for a specific website and, lastly (and unfortunately), for sharing news with the forum members. I said unfortunately as that although this should be the main reason for posting in Press board, it became the last reason.

Even so, thinking that some users are trying to follow the rules and post in Press board just for sharing news, they usually don't share "notable press hits" (this being the board's description), but usual, regular news. Of course, here comes another debatable subject on what is notable and what is not notable, as there is no measure for quantifying a press release and see if it is -- let's say -- very notable (breaking news lol), notable, less notable etc. Practically, considering if a subject is notable or not is up to the topic's author. But, in my opinion, most of the articles shared there are not notable at all. For these reasons, the board's utility dropped very much and it seems now to be leading mostly to spam, shilling, accounts farming and other similar activities.

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Another idea for reducing spamming, shilling and accounts farming is to lock the topics where the authors are not active anymore for a number of X months (let's say 3 months or other reasonable interval; of course, the term "reasonable" should be defined by someone in charge for taking such decision). The same should apply for topics where the authors are still active in the forum, but they didn't post anymore inside their topics for X months.

There are so many topics now which are continuously spammed and their authors abandoned them. They are either not active anymore or not interested anymore about their own topics. The most of these topics are just fueling spammers, leading to 0 benefits for the forum as a whole. If the topics would be locked automatically (by mods or by a script) after X amount of time since the author didn't write anything inside the respective topics, spam would be greatly reduced.

Opinions?

Nu Confunda CAS (Contributii pentru Asigurari Sociale - pe scurt, pensia) cu CASS (Contributii pentru Asigurari Sociale de Sanatate). CASS este 10%, iar CAS este 25%. Suma de 26.760 lei pentru anul 2020 este calculata inmultind cu 12 salariul minim brut, care pe anul in curs a fost stabilit la 2230 lei. 2230 x 12 = 26.760 lei. Daca obtii profit din crypto cu 1 leu peste aceasta suma, esti obligat sa platesti si CAS-25%.

Si da, daca la acest procent de vandalizare a buzunarului de catre stat se adauga si 10% pentru impozit si 10% pentru CASS, se ajunge la 45%. Insa calcul nu se face asa. Regula asta este valabila doar pentru salariati.

Daca tu esti salariat si pe langa salariu obtii si profit din crypto, nu mai platesti extra alti 10% pentru CASS, deoarece angajatorul iti opreste deja 10% din salariul brut pentru CASS. Totodata, indiferent daca esti sau nu salariat, daca tu obtii venituri din activitati independente (deci inclusiv din crypto, chiar daca aici e vorba doar de profit) mai mari de 12 salarii minime brute pe economie, vei plati pentru aceasta suma atat impozitul de 10%, cat si CAS-25%. O exceptie de la regula e cand angajatorul nu ti-ar retine automat cei 10% pentru CASS, desi ar fi ilegal din partea lui. Dar daca s-ar intampla asa, atunci tu ar trebui sa iti platesti singur si CASS-ul.

Uhm...prior seeing this I could swear it wasn't a duplicate... Very interesting. It was my mistake then. Thanks for finding this out, hosseinimr93!


It seems it was my mistake after all, although I still don't realize how this was possible. But I'll follow your suggestion and not worry too much about it.

Din pacate, lumea nu este obsedata de anonimitate. Din pacate pentru ea, evident. Insa cei care pun pret pe anonimitate o fac intrucat nu mai vor sa fie subjugati si exploatati de guverne si de stat. Acestia sunt de altfel si oamenii care folosesc Bitcoin asa cum a fost el gandit de Satoshi: anonim si eliberator. Daca unora le face placere ca statul sa se infrupte mereu din munca lor cu diverse procente (care numai mici nu sunt), e treaba lor. Cei care au inteles ca sunt exploatati pana-n maduva oaselor si care au deschis ochii au realizat de ce este importanta anonimitatea.

Insa anonimitatea financiara este doar un aspect. Dreptul la intimitate ar trebui sa il aiba orice om din lume. Insa guvernul spune nu. Ai auzit cumva de numitul Clipper chip? A fost un proiect prin care guvernul SUA, mai precis NSA, putea asculta legal orice convorbire telefonica de pe teritoriul tarii. Tie iti face placere sa iti fie ascultate conversatiile, sau ai prefera sa poti vorbi linistit la telefon cu un prieten, fara a fi urmarit de guvern? Si chip-ul Clipper este doar un exemplu, dintr-o sumedenie de astfel de actiuni invazive ale statului. Ei bine, pentru a putea comunica anonim s-a apelat la criptarea comunicatiilor personale. Pentru ca guvernul este atat de asiduu in a-si urmari cetatenii, incat acestia sunt nevoiti sa apeleze la criptare pentru a beneficia de intimitate, indiferent de forma ei.


De ce spui asta?


Exemplul tau este doar partial corect. Mai precis, ar fi corect pentru sume (profituri) mai mici decat echivalentul a 12 salarii minime brute pe economie, respectiv 26.760 lei (adica aproximativ 5500 euro). Daca vrei sa mergi legal, pentru a incasa in fiat profituri din crypto care depasesc acest plafon, trebuie sa mai platesti si CAS 25%. Cu alte cuvinte, la un profit din crypto de 26.761 lei vei plati 2676 lei pentru impozitul de 10% si 6690.25 lei pentru CAS-ul de 25%, insumand 9366.25 lei. Cu alte cuvinte, ramai doar cu 17.394.75 lei, ceea ce reprezinta doar 65% din profitul inregistrat de tine. Este ok ca statul sa incaseze 35% din munca ta?

In schimb, apeland la un bancomat si mergand pe anonimitate, ai pierde doar 6.5% (plus comisionul de 5 lei) din cei 26.761 lei, si ai ramane cu 25.021 lei. Minus cei 5 lei comision, ai incasa 25.016 lei. Acum fa si tu un calcul, ce ai prefera sa ai in buzunar, 25.016 lei sau 17.394?

Desigur, exista si varianta de a preschimba crypto cu fiat folosind un exchange descentralizat sau o tranzactie peer-to-peer. Si atunci nu mai platesti niciun comision. Asta cum suna? Ai ramane cu toti cei 26.761 lei in buzunar.

Stating your wish to be a part of a signature campaign doesn't mean that you are automatically added to the respective campaign. You just expressed your availability. The decision is manager's not yours. Being part of a signature campaign is a privilege, not a right. This is why the participants are not picked in the order they expressed their availability, but in the order decided by the manager: only he can say who is eligible for his campaign, depending on his criteria. The criteria may include, but are not limited to, the quality of the posts made by an user wishing to join the campaign, his overall posting habits, if s/he woke up recently etc.

What I don't understand is why you are wearing campaign's avatar, signature and personal text prior of being accepted.

I am also sharing YOSHIE's opinion. His suggestion can be set easy, with a custom title. VIP / DONATOR ranks have certain rules for being awarded, already highlighted by mk4. But a custom title would be able to reflect VOD's contributions.

Actually I asked that too, a few posts upper than this one Apparently, in that case of mine, as hosseinimr93 observed, the reported topics got locked by mods.

Besides, I observed also another instance when posts are flagged as good but they are not deleted: this also seems to happen when the respective user gets banned. I reported many users which got banned and they reported posts were flagged as good, but got never deleted. Perhaps it was work in vain, since the users were already banned.

And yes, I also observed cases when the users don't get banned, the reported posts are flagged as good but still don't get deleted -- but these cases were rare though.



Oh well, if the mod which analyzed this report of mine sees these posts, maybe he will change the status of that particular post. Let's hope for the best

Thank you all for sharing your opinions again.

Actually you are shilling your website. Again and again and again.


See also how many times Coin Idol was mentioned in this topic: List of advertising shills. Mods please review and ban as appropriate..

I myself got tired of how many posts I reported for that account. I spent months reporting every single day all the shillings they made, but it seemed to be in vain. It seemed so much to be in vain that o_e_l_e_o took the sad decision to lock his topic, as he believed there is no chance in the world to stop that bot named Coin Idol.

I kept following everyday that account and I was surprised that it didn't post anymore for the last few days. I wondered if it finally got banned but it seemed too nice to be true. Apparently, it was true. One less spammer from the forum, after I worked for months for this to happen. It's a blessing for the entire forum!

@o_e_l_e_o: We won! The bot has been defeated!

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This is simple: stop spamming and shilling.



You can share the news on your website. There are a lot of crypto news websites but not any respectable one shills itself here: have you ever seen CoinTelegraph shilling itself here? Or CoinDesk? No. Just shady websites like yours do that. There is a bunch of such spammers, hopefully all being banned sooner or later: WorldCoin Index, Fintoism etc. I take hours everyday to report all this nonsense. If anyone wants to read your articles, s/he can visit your website, not Bitcoin Forum and to get redirected from here to your website.


Have you ever seen the description of Press board? I believe you didn't. Let me enlighten you:


"Notable", you see that? Nothing of your spams is notable. Just spamming and shilling.