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41  Bitcoin / Press / Re: Bitcoin press hits, notable sources on: June 08, 2011, 01:01:39 PM
I haven't listened to Jeff's CBS interview yet, but judging from the reaction here, I'd say it differs significantly from Jacob Appelbaum's response to NPR regarding the notion of building backdoors into Tor. I would have hoped for a similar response from Jeff.

That said, Bitcoin is open source and honest users and developers will simply route around any treachery.
42  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I spoke with Loretta Sanchez today about bitcoins... on: June 08, 2011, 02:42:58 AM
Hmm... I am suggest they will spit in my food ...
Hope they did not will know that i m said this, at least fast food workers.
Didn't mean to jump on you like that. English clearly isn't your first language. Fast food workers may not have the most desirable jobs, but they are still workers, not servants. "Servant" comes off as rather demeaning.
43  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I spoke with Loretta Sanchez today about bitcoins... on: June 08, 2011, 02:09:08 AM
Well, that place police officers in a row with fast food servants...
Servants? Really? They're workers. I mean, what do you think would happen if they knew you called them servants?
44  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I spoke with Loretta Sanchez today about bitcoins... on: June 08, 2011, 01:36:23 AM
Those are just bad apples, you can't lump all cops in with them! Grin
Don't you mean bacon?
45  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I spoke with Loretta Sanchez today about bitcoins... on: June 08, 2011, 01:29:33 AM
Damage control and basic psychology, buddy.  If you treat cops like human beings, they're vastly more likely to treat you like a human being.  If you open the door with a fuck the pigs attitude, they're vastly much more likely to think, "well, fuck you, too".  You must understand that drug raids frequently see armed combat, and everyone on those teams is surging with adrenaline when they knock on (or kick down) your door.  Being non-confrontational and cooperative puts everyone at ease.  It may even save your Corgi, if the dog follows your lead, as dogs have been doing with their masters for thousands of years.
Okay, this sort of apologetics makes me want to rage. But, I know better.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/16/a-drug-raid-goes-viral?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FArticles+%28Reason+Online+-+All+Articles+%28except+Hit+%26+Run+blog%29%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Quote from: Radley Balko, Reason.com
In an email message she sent me in April, before the video went viral, Montgomery said she was reading to her son in his bedroom when the cops came in. Police fired on the dog within seconds. “I’ve never felt so violated or more victimized in my life,” Montgomery wrote. “It’s absolutely the most helpless and hopeless feeling I could ever imagine. I can’t sleep right…and I am constantly paranoid. It’s a horrible feeling…to lose the safety and security I thought I was entitled to in my own home.”

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The Columbia video wasn’t even a “no-knock” raid. The police clearly announced themselves before entering. The Supreme Court has ruled that police must knock and announce themselves before entering a home to serve a search warrant. If they want to enter without knocking, they have to show specific evidence that the suspect could be dangerous or is likely to dispose of contraband if police abide by the knock-and-announce rule. As is evident in the Columbia video, from the perspective of the people inside the home, that requirement is largely ceremonial. If you were in a back room or asleep, you would have no idea that the armed men breaking into your home were police officers. The first sound you would have heard during the Columbia raid would have been the battering ram, followed by gunfire.

Also: http://articles.cnn.com/2008-08-07/justice/mayor.warrant_1_dead-dogs-cheye-calvo-trinity-tomsic?_s=PM:CRIME

And finally: http://fuckyeahwelshcorgis.tumblr.com/
46  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin will visit the CIA on: June 07, 2011, 11:25:16 PM
Don't quit your day job.  Oh, sorry.
47  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin will visit the CIA on: June 07, 2011, 11:16:29 PM
Haha, you definitely have an alternate career in stand up comedy! Smiley
Stand-up comedy is my career, you fucktard.
48  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin will visit the CIA on: June 07, 2011, 11:07:16 PM
I vote lamb. Lamb tastes better. I've never had Satan, but I imagine the meat would be a bit overcooked...
Seitan is rather flavorless unless you marinate it well.
49  Other / Obsolete (selling) / Re: BitVinyl on: June 07, 2011, 04:06:30 PM
Is anybody wanting to buy records but is hesitant due to the massive upswing in BTC value?

I understand this is not an ideal situation for a BTC merchant, are there any suggestions on how to address this?

~S
If you set your prices according to a 24hr average exchange rate, your customers would have a little breathing room to buy back the bitcoins on an exchange and avoid feeling burned should the exchange rate increase. I believe that's what we agreed upon during our transaction. But that's up to the customer. Keep in mind that you're peddling a somewhat esoteric medium to the users of a rather esoteric currency, many of whom may actually have an appreciation for the sound of second or third order 128kbps mp3 transcodes over anything else. It's a sick, sad world, I know.
50  Other / Archival / Re: Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) on: June 07, 2011, 01:08:34 PM
Or was she pushed?
Mrs. White, in the library, with the keyboard, or something.

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I have given it some thought, about suggestions on handling illegal drug transactions in an ethical and moral fashion sans rule of law.  I conclude that SR or anyone else for that matter, should follow standard harm-reduction principles as much as possible. 

I think the first priority should be to design and implement an age-verify system.  An unrelated 3rd party could be contracted to, given a name, date and place of birth, use public records to verify the buyer's age then return a special key to the buyer.  The seller can then request that key as needed, and use it in a query on the 3rd party's server to return an accept or reject directive.

I guess it could not be mandatory, but perhaps it could be rewarded by positive reputation points for sellers who require age-verify.  I suppose too that once age-verify has been established true, the same seller and buyer would not need to repeat the process so it would only impact the first transaction.
I suppose that might work sans law, but sans law, the Silk Road model wouldn't serve any purpose. Furthermore, the law precludes any such age verification because of the risks involved in conducting such extralegal transactions.

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Sellers or SR or both should make the following absolutely clear to all buyers of hard drugs:

  • The safest drug use is no use.
  • Never take a drug you do not completely understand.
  • Do not inject or consume any narcotic alone, if possible have a non-user by your side.
  • Never mix alcohol use and narcotics.
  • Always use a new, sterile rig when injecting.
  • Follow appropriate cleaning (sterile pads) of the injection site prior to injection.
  • If you feel you need help dealing with drug addiction call this help line (research a service)

There are additional guidelines that would be more appropriate for other substances that should also be considered.  And of course any manufacturers and pharmaceutical information, instructions, pamphlets, or packing material should be included in every order of this sort.
These are reasonable suggestions, but, beyond general advice like set and setting, I think Silk Road could better serve its users by referring them to authoritative sources like Erowid rather than duplicating the information and trying to keep it up to date. No need to run the risk of falling behind.
51  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I spoke with Loretta Sanchez today about bitcoins... on: June 07, 2011, 12:37:35 PM
For some reason, I was compelled to google* "DEA raid corgi" and I found out this actually happens. They just "Bang" shoot your dog, based on the SUSPICION of you being involved in something illegal. How exactly is this innocent until proven guilty?

Just came to mind, lets say that you are mining bitcoins and consuming unreal amounts of electricity and "non-existent" thermal scans show a incredible amount of heat in his living room. DEA gets warrant based on "you has pot farm, supar seckret sources tells me so". DEA breaks through your front door and finds your dog, of course, because they have a warrant, they shoot it. They then find out there is not a single illegal substance anywhere to be found in your house. What happens now?
Sadly, botched raids happen all the time. I think part of the problem comes from an over abundance of SWAT teams and a relative dearth of appropriate scenarios for them. And laziness. Why bother with good police work when law enforcement can just surprise suspects with overwhelming force and just troll for evidence of criminal activity?
52  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Official DiabloMiner GPU Miner Thread (now with Long Poll and BFI_INT support) on: June 07, 2011, 02:51:19 AM
Hrm, update to the newest one, but I don't think any of the updates effect Nvidia users.

I wonder if its just yet another Nvidia driver bug.
I don't know what's going on. Ubuntu says that the Nvidia proprietary driver is "activated but not currently in use" whatever that means. Unity works. ::shrug::
53  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin for Iceland on: June 07, 2011, 02:05:08 AM
Bitcoin is still too young for any government to trust it enough to accept it as legal tender, unless you meant that Icelanders should adopt it unofficially.
54  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Official DiabloMiner GPU Miner Thread (now with Long Poll and BFI_INT support) on: June 07, 2011, 01:58:21 AM
If it happens infrequently, ignore it. All hardware does now and then (maybe 1 or 2 in 1000 blocks or so). However, if it does it frequently, then your card is either overheating (no more than 75c for a Geforce), or you have it overclocked too far.
I get a bunch after every block as soon as I start mining with my GTX 460, and its temperature is 56C. I've been using -w 256 with a Diablo Miner binary that I d/l'ed on June 1.
55  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I spoke with Loretta Sanchez today about bitcoins... on: June 07, 2011, 01:40:28 AM
Trying to decide if I'd tap that.

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Nope.
56  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin will visit the CIA on: June 07, 2011, 01:33:17 AM
I am describing total social chaos because I flat out don't believe that anarchy as you subscribe to it can bring about the kind of functional, free form social structure that the career anarchist subscribes to.  I don't recognize a difference.  This too will pass, as we change as a race.  But for now, we'll have to agree to disagree.
If you think that we cannot hope for more than chaos in the absence of government and other authoritarian social relationships, and that we cannot possibly achieve anarchy, then say so. Anarchy and chaos, however, are not synonyms, so the whole association between Mad Max 2 and anarchy makes no sense.
57  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin will visit the CIA on: June 07, 2011, 01:16:12 AM
Have you watched Mad Max 2?  That's going to be my new catch all line against ridiculous anarchists.  Fact is, there's an income tax now, and the current power structure will collapse without it.  There would be a total lack of order.  Mad Max 2.
Before you go throwing that a-word around, learn what it means. You are describing chaos, not anarchy.

http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnarchistFAQSectionA1
58  Other / Archival / Re: Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) on: June 06, 2011, 11:54:25 PM
...black transactions ... black market...
Why's it gotta be "black"?

Because I'm not sure what's really going on here I don't think I'm in any position to judge what is or isn't "feasible."
I think that will a little bit of due diligence, you know, reading up on Bitcoin some more, reading the thread, perusing Silk Road, you'll find yourself in a better position to contribute to the thread with useful suggestions and debate. I write this entirely without snark in the hopes of driving the point that the people running Silk Road have no power to exclude anyone. Its operators can try to ban certain products, but they will just show up under different names. As we know (and for those who hadn't, you're welcome), in the absence of an adult services section, you need to proof-read for accidental innuendos in your Craigslist post, lest you encounter a large woman with a strap-on instead of the pegboard you expected. Furthermore, the folks at Silk Road can't stop those running a Silk Road clone from catering to people wishing to trade in whatever products the original had banned.

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If it's a hoax, it's beautiful.  On the other hand if it is not a hoax...
Let's just assume that it's not a hoax.

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...then I believe it becomes part of the problem. Certainly nothing like cartels and gangs, yet still operating as if it, Silk Road, were above the law.  My aim has always been to change the law and make things better for everybody, except of course those who get fat off the way the law is today.
Everyone, raise your hand if you broke the law today. Working within the bounds of the law will only get us so far, so fast. Is the thought of breaking the system, or letting it break itself, so bad? Se cayó.
59  Other / Archival / Re: Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) on: June 06, 2011, 07:21:56 PM
While I don't suggest SR or Bitcoin would actively participate in acts of overt violence.  I still think we need to ask if selling tar heroin to a young teen isn't a from of violence in and of itself?
Assuming that it is, what feasible recommendations do you have for Silk Road on the matter?

</feeble attempt to get back on topic>
60  Other / Archival / Re: Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) on: June 06, 2011, 05:03:57 PM
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The interrobang: I love it. However, you should only ever put one at the end of a sentence lest, as I understand it, you defeat part of its purpose, to reduce punctuation. That is, a single interrobang serves the purpose of a question mark followed by an exclamation point, halving the punctuation you'd otherwise require to convey such a tone.

But, I digress...
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