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I'm not American and next time I will post my concerns on other thread. Sorry, carry on with the discussion.
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Before the NSA scandal came out, it was fashionable to publish everything online. Facebook motivates people to post their own lives and intimate details openly, adults and kids alike. There is no undo on the Internet. What a teenager posts may hunt him down as an adult. So, the NSA issue at least had the side effect of forcing people to care about privacy and the consequences of how they act online. I am talking about something and you are referring to something entirely different. I am not talking about NSA accessing the publically available information. I am talking about NSA hacking in to your account and accessing your private information. I know, but still this the point I'm trying to make. My "private" information that I submit to Facebook is accessible to all Facebook employees in the first place. The same with Google. To Amazon and Ebay and Paypal, I'm forced to share much much more data, including address, phone and CC. That is all exposed to Amazon, Ebay and Paypal employees. Who told me I have confidentiality protection? Who told me some employees aren't criminals, or at least unethical or incompetent? Also, the desensitizing and push for sharing everything and disregard people's privacy, including Google's "privacy is dead, get over it" is the actual damage and so are their Google map cars collecting pictures, wardriving and God knows what more. That Zuckerberg punk monetizing me as a product with intrusive javascript,Facebook plugins, behaviour predictors and face recognition, is the actual damage. How is the NSA cracking suddenly the end of the world, and all that shit gets free pass? I understand that my point may sound obtuse, or even apologetic or distraction bullshit. The issue is that NSA's criminal or immoral behavior is not a new motivation for me to not share all kinds of personal data. But for others, at least is in your face obvious, this time you are forced to care. |
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I never understood that, even with 9/11. Why go after the US citizens? Why not hit the government who is responsible for it all? Because the US attacks their rival citizens, and not the rival governments. Take the case of Russia for example. After US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they legalized the production of Opium poppy in Central and South Afghanistan. Then they helped the smugglers in exporting the hash and heroin to Iran and Russia, so that the young generation in those countries become hooked to the drugs. Afghan drugs have killed millions of young Russians. In Iran also, hundreds of thousands of young people have died. So, if I were the Russian president, and if my armed forces were as powerful as the American ones, I'll be definitely targeting the American civilian population. Tit for tat. I honestly don't like your rhetoric, but even being from an US vassal allied country, I see your point. Even in Western Europe countries that lived with Soviet nukes pointed at their heads, the patience is running out. Aren't US drone operators part of "we, the people"? When there was some poll asking if Iraq should be invaded, wasn't it "we the people" that voted yes? At this stage, if SHTF in USA, I barely care. |
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Despite Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt calling for surveillance reform, nothing has changed. The NSA will continue to hack in to your Gmail and FB accounts, and steal your personnel data. The USA Freedom Act would have changed that. But right now, it is stalled by a group of Democrat criminals, led by that arrogant feminist Dianne Feinstein.
There is no such thing as "personal data" after you post it on the internet. Nobody forces people to have a Facebook profile and fill it with lots of personal details. Gmail is a bit more complex, but have 2 more email addresses in other providers, and I don't expect quality of service on what is free. I'm not concerned with the NSA, however I'm glad that everyone else is. People had the stupid trend to post all their worthless personal shit on the web, to be popular on Facebook, to post their pics, to become citizens of the world, to lower their guard. Nice that they feel betrayed, forces them to learn, to care, and teach their kids better, so that other people and their kids don't feel the need to dumb themselves down to fit the "society". But this is another discussion ... I can't believe this? Are you defending the NSA hacking our Facebook and Gmail accounts? Some people are so much used to mental slavery, that even if others try to liberate them they will still stick with their masters. Of course not. Neither I'm using the rhetoric of blaming the victim, just making a side point. Before the NSA scandal came out, it was fashionable to publish everything online. Facebook motivates people to post their own lives and intimate details openly, adults and kids alike. There is no undo on the Internet. What a teenager posts may hunt him down as an adult. So, the NSA issue at least had the side effect of forcing people to care about privacy and the consequences of how they act online. Now, it is of course a very different matter to intercept peer-to-peer private communications, or tracking one's position with malware on a smartphone. That's criminality and totalitarian. But the context is Facebook and email protocol which is plaintext. |
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The point is that fat profits out of thin air, are over at least for now. The margins are minimal, or you just have very cheap power.
Regarding whatmine and any other site, the changes on the coins have to do with difficulty adjustments (or fake/thin buy orders that disappear quickly). Some coins adjust difficulty each block (as fast as ~30 seconds), others can take up to weeks, most in between. Perhaps look into coins where adjustment takes a while...
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In this thread I'd like to have people suggest what they thing is the best pump and dump coin for miners who mine for a living.
At this moment I write this PTS has the highest profitability for pump and dump.
Post what you think is the best pump and dump.
"why don't you just go to whatmine?" because whatmine blows and according to whatmine we should all be mining DonkeySlongCoin and in 2nd place is "SaturnMoonCoin" or some other artificially inflated bullshit coin
Huh? Miners don't "pump and dump". That is a speculation technique. Then, if you just mine and dump, I'm sure you will not make a living out of this. Because that is self-defeating and leads mining income to converge to operational cost and now below it, not even speaking about the loss for coin holders. Finally, whatmine "blows" if you are clueless. Nowhere does the site tell you what you should do. One collects hints there, like in many other places. |
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We are everywhere. You are either with us or against us.  I hope in the future a powerful rival to the US will use such drones to launch rockets targeting the American civilian population. WTF? Well, otoh, there no need for a "powerful rival". I'm sure those Bundy ranch "patriots" that belong to militias, are at least being watched by drones |
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Despite Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt calling for surveillance reform, nothing has changed. The NSA will continue to hack in to your Gmail and FB accounts, and steal your personnel data. The USA Freedom Act would have changed that. But right now, it is stalled by a group of Democrat criminals, led by that arrogant feminist Dianne Feinstein.
There is no such thing as "personal data" after you post it on the internet. Nobody forces people to have a Facebook profile and fill it with lots of personal details. Gmail is a bit more complex, but have 2 more email addresses in other providers, and I don't expect quality of service on what is free. I'm not concerned with the NSA, however I'm glad that everyone else is. People had the stupid trend to post all their worthless personal shit on the web, to be popular on Facebook, to post their pics, to become citizens of the world, to lower their guard. Nice that they feel betrayed, forces them to learn, to care, and teach their kids better, so that other people and their kids don't feel the need to dumb themselves down to fit the "society". But this is another discussion ... |
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If you think you are safe. You are not.
If you think you can hide something on your computer. You can not.
If you think you are anonymous on the internet. You are not.
If you think that they are ways to keep your privacy. They are not any.
Bear that in your mind. This is the world we are live in.
That "you" is a bit of a stretch. Yes, the adversaries are very competent at cracking and spying, but there are ways to improve one's privacy and anonymity to the point of being able to do most of one wants, electronically and comunication wise. We just compromise this due to lazyness and for the sake of touchy touchy screens, virtual friends and "apps". |
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Russian space technology, as of now is much more advanced than the American public one.
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No wonder many critical bugs are still unpatched and being exploited in the wild.
How does that make sense? The NSA discovering a bug but not publicising it leaves the world no different to if the NSA had never found it, or if there had been no NSA. The NSA knew about this 2 years ago... the bug popped up 2 years ago... I don't think it takes a tin foil hat to put them together here That the NSA is much better at finding software vulnerabilities than the open source community? Of course it is! It's part of the well paid job of thousands of very high grade professionals. The open source community writes code "for fun". Squashing those last bugs is time consuming and boring. Code quality tends to be higher when it's fun to code. When you work for the money, have to meet the deadline, have to work on the project you don't really have passion for it degrade overall code quality. Plus source codes of free software / open source are open. And it's been proven that programmers tend to produce better code with good documentation, and pay more attention to details without derails(work around and hacks). Because people are watching what you've done, you will go back to your work for typos and grammars. Ok, but that has barely anything to do with my point. Note that I'm not saying if NSA is better at writing code than the open source community, or not. The "comparison" is made between NSA hackers/exploiters ability to crack vs OSS developers to plug holes, not OSS vs commercial devs, neither NSA vs Defcon participants. It's somewhat apples and oranges comparison, yes, but that is what I'm replying to. |
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No wonder many critical bugs are still unpatched and being exploited in the wild.
How does that make sense? The NSA discovering a bug but not publicising it leaves the world no different to if the NSA had never found it, or if there had been no NSA. The NSA knew about this 2 years ago... the bug popped up 2 years ago... I don't think it takes a tin foil hat to put them together here That the NSA is much better at finding software vulnerabilities than the open source community? Of course it is! It's part of the well paid job of thousands of very high grade professionals. The open source community writes code "for fun". Squashing those last bugs is time consuming and boring. |
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Make sure there isn't something that triggers the PSU's Over Current Protection (OCP), or a short circuit. Also, could be something wrong with your mains power. Do you have an UPS? Do you have a voltmeter that can measure up to 250V AC? When you power on, what precisely do you have connected? Just motherboard, CPU, RAM? Or a Radeon too, some usb adapter, HD, etc... You may have screwed up something with dual-PSU, two different kinds of risers, and some connection error  |
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"intensity" : "18",
"worksize" : "128",
"kernel" : "darkcoin",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8193",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-engine" : "1070",
"gpu-fan" : "50-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-threads" : "4",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.1",
"temp-cutoff" : "70",
"temp-overheat" : "65",
"temp-target" : "60",
"expiry" : "30",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "30",
Works, but it's not optimized
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Well, because Bitcoin is U.S. centric, from the Bitcoin Foundation to Github where the source code is hosted.
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Undervolt (more), make sure the fans are at 60% minimum, and don't mine scrypt
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The point was already addressed, but I'd like to reinforce it. If it is "hobby"-mining, then it is not dead. Hobbies typically cost (a lot of) money. If lack of profit makes you stop mining, then you're doing something else besides an hobby. Yes, it can become a little frustrating to operate at break-even or even at loss, if you don't have a speculative attitude.
otoh, how nice it would be that Ham, Satellite, wifi or SDR gear could pay for itself like my 2 mining rigs did...
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Everyone on the 750ti, and my 760 gets no love  We need a Floating Point (FP32) PoW coin. |
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