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661  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 13, 2012, 10:41:59 PM
If Kony is not yet dead then their is a viable non-invasion strategy, though unpleasant, that can destroy him for good. Since Kony and his men rape and capture children to become soldiers, and Africa has a very large AIDS epidemic, infected people can be moved to the areas where the attacks take place. They will be ensnared by their own destructive tendencies.
662  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? on: March 12, 2012, 10:34:17 PM
Note: When I first joined this forum I made a post in the Newbie thread, "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?". Since this thread has the same title I'll repeat my post here because it's relevant.

Quote from: Dinkytoyz
My bet is that he/she is just a middle aged American with a anime fetish or so
I can see your perspective.  Wink

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Oshi, which means “Push,” is inspired by a Japanese legend in which the Goddess Amaterasu gifted the first Japanese emperor with her ancient wisdom, in the form of a game. The game is said to have taught the emperor and his court to temper their influence and power with caution.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23935/oshi

There is even a reference to low earth orbit debris that might give some kind of geo positional location.  Lips sealed

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because government can make the law against bitcoins, when it become enough popular that government become crazy about hidden money (unpaid taxes), and satoshi can finish in the prison or he can be hunted by police.
Maybe Bitcoins were created because the enforcement of Laws were unjust already.

Originally posted in the Newbie thread: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
663  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Got my BFL Single today and I'm raffling it away for 0.5BTC! on: March 12, 2012, 05:37:44 AM
Umm...

Butterfly Labs BitForce Single Raffle
Baekdu Mountain, Pyeongyang Korea North

What?!
Was covered earlier on up in the thread, look for the picture of a high mountain lake.
You mean it's not up for more rational suggestions?  $12.10 USPS to Korea? Cheesy

Mathew N. Wright, millionaire. He owns a mansion, not in Nigger Creek, but in some White Haven. Cheesy
664  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 11, 2012, 11:05:57 PM
Kony is a Fraud?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTAI0MTZ9E

Meet Joseph Kony: 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiF9hSgyoU

Manhunt: Catching Kony 2010 (His army is 80 strong.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Q93a7OOMA
665  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi Nakamoto Found ~ Introducing the CMG on: March 11, 2012, 01:07:03 AM
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The big difference between offline anonymous digital cash and offline identified digital cash is that the information accumulated with anonymous digital cash will only reveal the identity of the spender if the cash is double spent. If the anonymous digital cash is not double spent, the bank can not determine the identity of the original spender nor can it reconstruct the path the cash took through the economy.

With identified digital cash, both offline or online, the bank can always reconstruct the path the cash took through the economy. The bank will know what everyone bought, where they bought it, when they bought it, and how much they paid. And what the bank knows, the IRS knows.
http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/mepeirce/Project/Mlists/minifaq.html

Why would those who respect anonymity so much choose an identified digital cash system?
666  Other / Off-topic / Re: Keeping your identity secret on: March 10, 2012, 11:21:31 PM
 Lips sealed
667  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Panetta Publicly Admits U.S. Military/Obama Takes Orders from The U.N. on: March 10, 2012, 09:31:24 PM
The degree of paranoia you suffer from must be dreadful if you interpret that as "taking orders."
...snip...

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Let me be clear so there is no misunderstanding, when it comes to the national defense of this country, the president of the united states has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country, and we will. If it comes to an operation where we are trying to build a coalition of nations to work together and go in and operate as we did in Libya or Bosnia or for that matter Afghanistan we want to do it with permissions either by NATO or by the international community.
-Secratary Panetta



Note my emphasis.  Bind is saying "Panetta Publicly Admits U.S. Military/Obama Takes Orders from The U.N. "  That is a woeful misinterpretation.

All your other points make great sense.  
So why not say this instead of what you said, note my emphasis. I only have an issue with your characterization of bind, based on this post, that he is paranoid. At most he is guilty of sensational verbage, but you attack his mental fitness.
668  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 10, 2012, 09:08:16 PM
If Kony hasn't launched an attack in 6 years and Ugandans who live there are not worried about the LRA, then what threat is their really?

The resources of Uganda are rare earth elements currently. Since China controls most of the rare earth industry, is this an attempt to gain control of a part of that?
Also:
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Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt. The country has largely untapped reserves of both crude oil and natural gas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda

So this may also become an oil/natural gas grab.

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coffee, Uganda's principal export.
For the love of God we must prevent Obama from invading Uganda, he will disrupt the farming of coffee, and my Revolutionary Beverage will be unaffordable. Someone should make a movie from this perspective while spoofing the Kony 2012 movie.
669  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Panetta Publicly Admits U.S. Military/Obama Takes Orders from The U.N. on: March 10, 2012, 08:15:25 PM
The degree of paranoia you suffer from must be dreadful if you interpret that as "taking orders."
Why not say outright that you support the downfall or overthrow of the constitutional government.

Since you have difficulty with some legal language, I'll help you out.

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Let me be clear so there is no misunderstanding, when it comes to the national defense of this country, the president of the united states has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country, and we will. If it comes to an operation where we are trying to build a coalition of nations to work together and go in and operate as we did in Libya or Bosnia or for that matter Afghanistan we want to do it with permissions either by NATO or by the international community.
-Secratary Panetta

Interpetation: We don't need to ask congress to grant the ability to go to war, we only need to ask permission from NATO or the international community.

War = sending troops to a foreign nation to engage an enemy.
Defending a nation = Domestic Security that does not reach beyond the borders of the U.S.

The President, his cabinet, and the Military Command are defying the Constitution by changing these definitions to suit their purpose.
670  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Running P2Pool proxy on a VPS? on: March 10, 2012, 07:29:42 PM
x10hosting is pretty cheap. $4 pay as you go hosting with root access. Not a VPS but very cheap for root. They also offer an unmanaged VPS for $9, x10vps, though not sure if it is pay as you go.
671  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi Nakamoto Found ~ Introducing the CMG on: March 10, 2012, 06:01:38 PM
Leave Satoshi alone!

+1

What good does it do besides providing the chance to show everyone how clever one is?
 
I am glad that Satoshi was not so insecure and chose to stay anonymous and allow bitcoin
to stand on its own merits.  
Do you see any irony in someone who values anonymity so much, publishes a non-anonymous digital payment system.
Also, you could say the challenge of solving this mystery is a result of its own success, providing a nice feather in the cap for the bright penny.

While Professor O'Mahony has spent time developing digital currency payment systems, the systems he has designed are much different than Bitcoin's design. The Bitcoin vision is most certainly not O'Mahony's and anonymity is not his style.

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A coin in our scheme consists of a number of fields, such as the serial number, denomination, validity period and a transaction list. This transaction list comprises of a variable number of transactions items, where each transaction item is the result of a transfer of the coin between two
users in the system. A transaction item consists of n identity strings (I1, I2, ... , In). Each of these identity strings is generated, by splitting the identity of the user using the secret splitting protocol.

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Schneier proposes a digital cash protocol that makes use of the above technique to encode the identity of a user.
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.98/TCD-CS-1998-27.pdf
672  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi Nakamoto Found ~ Introducing the CMG on: March 10, 2012, 04:47:35 PM
I just thought it odd that the dentist and the professor look similar, carry the same name and live in the same country if not the same town.
Here is another pic of professor O'Mahony: http://people.tcd.ie/domahony
Below is one of Professor O'Mahony's documents on micropayment systems.

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3.2 Purchase of a Payment Chain
A mobile user buys prepaid tokens, through their phone or terminal, from a third party broker, using an existing macropayment system. The user nominates any specific service provider (SP), called the enforcer, through whom the tokens will be spent. Service providers include both NOs and VASPs.
The broker creates tokens by repeatedly applying a one way hash function, such as the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) [8], to a root value PX to generate a payment hash chain. The broker commits to the hash chain, or promises to honor its value, by digitally signing the payment chain commitment (CommP), consisting of the final hash (P0), the chain length, the total value of the chain, and the identity of the enforcer through whom it must be spent:

CommP = {P0, Length, Chain_value, Enforcer}SigBroker1

The commitment shows that each payment hash value from the chain represents pre-paid value, redeemable at the broker. The value of a single payment hash is later fixed, on a per call basis, by the enforcer. This allows the same hash value to be used to pay all parties. The mobile user is given CommP and the secret PX from which the chain values can be generated.
Micropayments for Mobile Networks - .doc
673  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi Nakamoto Found ~ Introducing the CMG on: March 10, 2012, 03:54:55 PM
Just read through the other thread on Satoshi Nakamoto and clicked the link to the book "Electronic Payment Systems for E-commerce"; if the picture of the author on that page is correct (which from the page here: http://65.54.113.26/Author/1718958/donal-o-mahony, it is) I'm afraid that Donal O' Mahony the author and Donal O' Mahony of Davy are two completely different people! Which puts paid to the idea that Donal O' Mahony of Davy is our Satoshi, but I'll see if I can find out whether he knows about Bitcoin anyway - if he's interested, I'll see if I can get him to pay the forums here a visit and throw up a post detailing his views on Bitcoin.

- G
Is that the picture of some dentist?
http://www.swordsdental.com/img/donal.jpg
674  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: P2Pool Server List on: March 10, 2012, 02:31:04 AM
That's great. The idea is, for those who don't want to or can't set up their own node but would like to try out p2pool, to provide addresses for them to do so. It is transitional easing. Cheesy
675  Other / Off-topic / Re: Keeping your identity secret on: March 10, 2012, 01:00:05 AM
Great post.
676  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [ANNOUNCE] Webcoin Alpha Sneak Preview on: March 09, 2012, 11:55:28 PM

The idea is great!

Cu,
 Ecki
Not really.

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Man-in-the-browser (MITB, MitB), a form of Internet threat related to man-in-the-middle (MITM), is a proxy Trojan horse[1] that infects a web browser and has the ability to modify web pages, modify transaction content or insert additional transactions, all in a completely covert fashion invisible to both the user and host web application. A MitB attack will be successful irrespective of whether security mechanisms such as SSL/PKI and/or Two or Three Factor Authentication solutions are in place.

A MitB Trojan works by utilising common facilities provided to enhance browser capabilities such as Browser Helper Objects (a feature limited to Internet Explorer), Browser extensions and User scripts (for example in JavaScript) etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Browser

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An MitB attack starts with malicious software (usually a Trojan like Zeus or SpyEye) lurking on a seemingly innocuous website. When visitors arrive the malware takes control of their Web browser and modifies pages, content or transaction data presented to the user.

All of this is done without the user's knowledge in a completely covert fashion. Depending on what the browser is being used for, MitB enables attackers to silently steal anything from login credentials to account numbers or financial information. With browser sessions often containing the logon details for email systems, VPNs and cloud services -- such as cloud CRM -- it's critical to lock down these sessions without impacting performance. Making the situation worse is the explosion of mobile devices and the multitude of people who can access enterprise resources remotely.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2011/033111-mitb-attacks-enterprise.html

Since these threats are invisible to the user, they will be very dangerous for those using your Webcoin platform.
What security do you implement that will limit damage by javascript, ajax or browser based malware when using Webcoin?
677  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi Nakamoto Found ~ Introducing the CMG on: March 09, 2012, 09:12:21 PM
Looking around at bitcoin.com, Domaintools lists a 173.193.106.10 address out of Texas while Network Solutions lists the address as 66.246.76.246, which is Linode. archive.org only goes back to 2009 for bitcoin.com nothing for 2008. What is interesting is the micropayments for web apps model, which is different than the current view many hold with Bitcoins as a competing currency.
678  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Major Ed Dames (ex-CIA) talks about The Big Event on: March 09, 2012, 05:55:38 AM
Remote Viewing was not only funded by the Goverment, it was done at a premiere institution, Stanford, through their organization, Stanford Research Institute. Major Ed Dames claims he has Remote Viewed God and Satan. According to Mj. Dames, "Satan is real, a being of light. God is very dispersed."

I rest my case : utter bullshit.


Do you have problems with the existence of the spirit?

Not at all.
I use it all the time to clean my brushes after I paint stuff.

If you have a problem believing there are spiritual bodies than you would have the same issue believing in the mental body, they are equally intangible.
Riddle me this, Znortman: Where do ideas come from?
They don't come from huffing turpentine.
679  Other / Politics & Society / Re: RPF members uncover possible evidence of election fraud in Romney's favor on: March 09, 2012, 05:43:02 AM
Some voter fraud stories:
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19098003
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120216/NEWS05/202160337/Indiana-Election-Commission-examine-Santorum-petition-signatures

http://www.wtoc.com/story/16571904/south-carolinas-attorney-general-detects-voter-fraud-for-primaries
http://www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/iowa-vote-fraud-official

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Mr. Lawton then states that at 8:00 pm a precinct which he believes to be Prater’s Creek came into the office without the “zero” tape; the device that shows the voting machines were started at a vote count of zero. Without the “zero” tape, there is no certainty that the voting machines did not begin operation loaded with votes for specific candidates, a very serious issue to say the least.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/witnesses-document-potential-vote-fraud.html

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As if anyone who’s been paying attention over the last few weeks is actually surprised, another caucus state is taken down by GOP officials, permanently altering the outcome of yet another election, rendering its results forever in question.

This time, however, the people of Nevada are the immediate victims of mounting state GOP scandals, as the historical “First in the West” Nevada Caucus has been officially rendered a fraud, and the unwitting citizens and voters are once again left holding the bag.

So far, the overall magnitude of the circumstances has gone largely unnoticed by the people of the US in general, but that didn’t deter NV GOP Chairwoman, Amy Tarkanian from filing her resignation the very next morning on Sunday, as obvious and rampant, widespread election fraud is sweeping through the country in an establishment elite attempt to hide the real results, in favor of a pre-chosen candidate, despite the wishes of the American people.
http://www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/nevada-vote-fraud-official

Plenty of proof of vote fraud occuring with or without the statistical analysis.
I'm sure Reddit will debunk the Higs-Boson too.
680  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Major Ed Dames (ex-CIA) talks about The Big Event on: March 09, 2012, 05:10:00 AM
Remote Viewing was not only funded by the Goverment, it was done at a premiere institution, Stanford, through their organization, Stanford Research Institute. Major Ed Dames claims he has Remote Viewed God and Satan. According to Mj. Dames, "Satan is real, a being of light. God is very dispersed."

I rest my case : utter bullshit.


Do you have problems with the existence of the spirit?
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