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6021  Other / Off-topic / Re: Atlas / Immanuel Go / Ragnar / ALPHA. / Boss / Jon on: April 02, 2012, 08:51:35 AM
*whistles* Here, Atlas, do a funny post here and make us all laugh! You'll have extra treats if you do it well!  Grin
6022  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: opinion on possible fraud attempt - user pastory99 on: April 02, 2012, 08:49:36 AM
I was about to do a deal with him. Guess I won't. Thanks for the heads up.

Let us know what he does ..

He was happy to do a deal with PayPal as long as it was a gift saying that could be charged back if I didn't get the goods  ... he says he's in upstate NY but his IP says San Fran ..


Paypal + gift option is a pain in the ass. YOU CAN'T CHARGE BACK unless you are using a stolen cc to send the money, which Paypal will charge him back when the CC company contacts them. NEVER send using gift for physical goods, especially with scammers all around.
6023  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: cgminer and --failover-only on: April 02, 2012, 08:36:29 AM
It pools the main pool continuously at the background - my guess is around 100msec or something, didn't check the coding but it's almost instantaneous. It'll shift automatically back one the main pool is up.
6024  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: [105% TESTING] I want your hashing power! "Project #2" on: April 02, 2012, 08:27:30 AM
I think I know why I was labeled - upon inspection, cgminer regularly switches over to my backup pool at abc as project2 keeps going idle after 15~mins of mining and so. Still having problems with the pool?  Huh
6025  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: [105% TESTING] I want your hashing power! "Project #2" on: April 02, 2012, 12:48:42 AM
Why do I have a red "hopping detected" ?  Huh I don't hop (and the only thing I've done yesterday is to change my miner to the latest cgminer)

Edit: It's 'active' again.
6026  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [Dailybitcoins.org] Bitcoin faucet, sponsored by ads on: April 01, 2012, 01:07:25 PM
Have a few problems here - I got the 0.05 prize a couple days ago and I just got debited 0.001 yesterday.
I have sent you 0.05 BTC at March 31.
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/55e4cc39618ebeef42d1cda576f58e38d7f47e9f7eaa45fe5a6bcccf2aa24f4b#o50

I got the 0.01 prize today and I just got debited 0.001 just now too.
Today payment requests were not processed yet. I see you 0.01 BTC pending prize in the database.


Oh - guess I shouldn't reuse my addresses   Lips sealed Now where did I get the 0.001 from  Huh
Sorry for the hassle  Embarrassed
6027  Other / Off-topic / Re: I won $640 million jackpot on: April 01, 2012, 11:38:45 AM
I bought a lottery ticket when it was down at $240 million.  I matched enough numbers to win $3 from my $1 ticket.  So when it got to $500m, then I thought that I'd buy another ticket using $1 my previous winnings.  When I went to put my money in the machine it already had a $1 credit.  Things so I bought a two dollar ticket for $1.  I was thinking "this is a sign!"  Then came the drawing and... nothing.  haha.  Still doubled my money though.  Just think of all the things I can do with that extra $1!

Be careful. Reinvesting winnings into more gambling is a sign of a problem gambler. Sure, it starts out with just a $1 ticket. Before you know though you'll be buying $2 tickets. Maybe even two of them. Then where will you be?
Problem gamblers live in the casino, not buying lottery tix's - however this could be a good start  Wink
6028  Other / Off-topic / Re: Which (natural) language should I learn? on: April 01, 2012, 11:37:56 AM
I advocate learning as many as one can. Neither German nor French should be particularly difficult starting points. Theymos is not likely to get very far with Chinese in a year while remaining on American soil. However, Chinese will help if he intends to learn Japanese later but not much. Except for a handful of characters and old cultural ties, the two languages are quite different (perhaps Japanese is grammatically and lexicographically closer to English than Chinese).

I personally think Germanic languages (which includes English) are ugly. For me the opportunities to speak and the pleasure of the spoken word are most motivating. I speak French and a few Germanic languages, and while not fluent, I enjoy forming words in Spanish more than any other language on Theymos' short list (others being Romanian, Pali/sanskrit, Hausa, any tonal language, and I imagine Khoisan languages).

Given the short timespan and indecision, it might be worth considering the British Foreign Office's categorization from easiest to hardest for native English speakers (diplomats) to learn:

Level 1
Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese

Level 2
Swahili, Icelandic, Malay, Indonesian, Romanian

Level 3
Finnish, Croatian, Serbian, Latvian, Czech, Hungarian

Level 4
Arabic, Russian, Persian

Level 5
Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean

Yay! I know a Level 2 and a Level 5 Language. That makes me a Level 9!  Grin

You're such an idiot! 2 and 5 make 8. Aren't you learned?

~Cackling Bear~

Oops my fault. Should be 6 instead; -1 for lower-then-usual IQ!
6029  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [Dailybitcoins.org] Bitcoin faucet, sponsored by ads on: April 01, 2012, 11:33:26 AM
Have a few problems here - I got the 0.05 prize a couple days ago and I just got debited 0.001 yesterday. I got the 0.01 prize today and I just got debited 0.001 just now too. However, a previous 0.015 prize made it safely to my wallet. Problems with the coding?
My address: 18c8oXmyvfAFjeR575y5XACJhtrVf9yfjR
6030  Other / Off-topic / Re: Want a free btc-e code? on: April 01, 2012, 07:07:52 AM
Well, still doesn't work for me - I keep getting +varying amounts but no actual usd is credited.
6031  Other / Off-topic / Re: Want a free btc-e code? on: April 01, 2012, 06:09:07 AM
I keep getting '+100 USD succesfully redeemed' but there's no money to the balance lol.
6032  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Guess and Win [Get your cell phone ready for QR-Codes] on: April 01, 2012, 04:04:20 AM
He said "Woe! What you do what you done?" to his servant?
6033  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Guess and Win [Get your cell phone ready for QR-Codes] on: April 01, 2012, 03:52:16 AM
He is asking forgiveness from God? Or is he asking his servant why he had poisoned him? Or he is asking his servant to leave the place immediately?
6034  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for a 10bc loan. on: April 01, 2012, 03:18:26 AM
Frankly speaking, like what I've mentioned just now, you need more rep and proof before anyone would lend you that coins.
6035  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for a 2BTC loan on: April 01, 2012, 03:05:52 AM
I am looking for a loan of 10 bc. I am willing to pay back 5usd if the price is lower than 5usd or also I am planning on paying 5% of the dollar amount as interest. I will be repaying back these payments by next week on friday when I receive my student loans (I go to uni of cincinnati). Please post if you can loan me these.
Just make a new thread, although I doubt anyone would loan you unless you submit more proof and rep.
6036  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is my PC associated with Bitmining botnet? on: April 01, 2012, 03:02:40 AM
You are a part of the botnet. Eligius allows many computers to connect as one address, so the ~5GHs should be from around 10 PC's. I'll PM Luke-JR and ask him to take a look.
6037  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What are botnets? on: April 01, 2012, 02:59:41 AM
Does the word "compromised" in the definition of what a botnet is ring a bell?

While the term "botnet" can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots, this word is generally used to refer to a collection of computers (called zombie computers) which have been recruited by running malicious software.
That's the contemporary meaning of the word. It has strong negative connotations.

While it is true that the word "bot" can mean any program from first-person-shooter games AI opponents to harmless IRC bots, these are not used in the context of botnets(1) and thus irrelevant to our discussion(2).

Unless you want to try a valid argument for a change, I'm done here.

EDIT::a few links worth following:
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/
http://www.abuse.ch/?p=3294
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/p2p-botnets-the-bigger-they-come-the-faster-they-fall.ars

Notes:
(1) you can safely assume your Counterstrike bots won't take over your gaming machine Tongue
(2) effectively outside of the scope

since you're pulling wikipedia quotes i'll pull part of the same quote:

the term "botnet" can be used to refer to any group of bots

i agree that most are probably malicious

i disagree that 100% of them are 'inherently' malicious


I do write a 'botnet' for my personal mining rigs - easier to take control of em when I'm not present. However I'm switching over to teamviewer now  Tongue
6038  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Malware writer here, ask your questions. on: March 31, 2012, 04:37:23 PM
The trojan was uploaded to a temporary host (which automatically would be inactivated after 3 months without login). Anybody could do it.

I was certain that people would download it. Dangerous "security threat" indeed.

[...]

The attacker wouldn't have to do more than creating his trojan and mass-spreading and mass-advertising it on more stable places. I did some light advertising and a not too sophisticated trojan, and 3 months later, I still "harvest".

Do current anti-virus security providers (e.g., AVG, Avast, McAfee, etc.) detect the download as being malware now?   Or is this likely occurring from those who either don't have anti-virus or don't keep it current  (and do dumb stuff like downloading and installing .exes from untrusted sources).
Antiviruses doesn't do good for Dday releases like this one is, unless the heuristics pick it up.
OP has a point there - most Windows users are too moronic to check their downloads, and this is why botnets are so abundant nowadays.
6039  Other / Off-topic / Re: Which (natural) language should I learn? on: March 31, 2012, 04:00:34 PM
I advocate learning as many as one can. Neither German nor French should be particularly difficult starting points. Theymos is not likely to get very far with Chinese in a year while remaining on American soil. However, Chinese will help if he intends to learn Japanese later but not much. Except for a handful of characters and old cultural ties, the two languages are quite different (perhaps Japanese is grammatically and lexicographically closer to English than Chinese).

I personally think Germanic languages (which includes English) are ugly. For me the opportunities to speak and the pleasure of the spoken word are most motivating. I speak French and a few Germanic languages, and while not fluent, I enjoy forming words in Spanish more than any other language on Theymos' short list (others being Romanian, Pali/sanskrit, Hausa, any tonal language, and I imagine Khoisan languages).

Given the short timespan and indecision, it might be worth considering the British Foreign Office's categorization from easiest to hardest for native English speakers (diplomats) to learn:

Level 1
Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese

Level 2
Swahili, Icelandic, Malay, Indonesian, Romanian

Level 3
Finnish, Croatian, Serbian, Latvian, Czech, Hungarian

Level 4
Arabic, Russian, Persian

Level 5
Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean

Yay! I know a Level 2 and a Level 5 Language. That makes me a Level 9!  Grin
6040  Other / Off-topic / Re: TAXES on: March 31, 2012, 02:56:09 PM
Anyone else getting a fat-ass tax return this year?
Or already got one?

(I filed pretty late. In other words, today.)

Wait, what? One can get a check from the IRS simply by filling out those bloody forms?

Wait till we start seeing this forms, a la http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=202713,00.html:

1040BTC

Form 1040BE ~ Declare via Block Explorer
Form 1040BC ~ Declare via Bock Chain
Form 1040MG ~ Declare via Mt Gox
Form 1040MG/EX ~ Declare via Mt Gox extension (our most popular form)

~Cackling Bear~

Then we're set to be mainstream.
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