Bit over 5 days left!

Jesus - that's one Hell of a title.

Fwiw, Bitcoin was previously on Jeopardy. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=373998.0

You're in for a nasty surprise when iTunes revokes your use privileges when you try using it to manufacture chemical weapons.

Thanks. I'll get to it late tonight or really early tomorrow.

Hm. Well, I'd prefer the 12th, obviously. I guess the 15th is fine. I sent an email to qwk and Adam where I gave a conservative estimate and assumed we'd have all loose ends tied up "before the 15th." Looks like I confused myself.

For better or worse, I'd post about twice as often if there were [abridge] tags. If you read what I write too often, you'll notice I have a bad habit of including way too much information, frequently going off-topic. In fact, the majority of my time posting is spent in post-posting, trying to remove information but getting so caught up in internal debates over whether or not I should delete something, I end up ADDING a paragraph to expand on a quip in case it might be misconstrued. When I catch myself doing that too often, I delete the entire post, including the on-topic contributions.

The [abridge] tag could work in either or both of these ways:
1) Hide the text but provide a javascript-powered (or whatever) asterisk. A user could click on that * and see the hidden text in case they don't understand what was said or maybe otherwise want more details.
2) Hide all abridged text and have an "unabridge" button which reveals all text within [abridge] tags.

This is meant to be a much less space-consuming form of "spoilers," though I can't think of any reason to not just have "spoilers" have these options.

There are some benefits to keeping it, not the least of which is the comfort of having plenty of cash on hand (though this really isn't an issue for long since you're knocking off such a big monthly expense). Due to how stupid the system is, paying it'll probably also negatively affect your credit score a bit. So long as you have good job security, though, you can always use it for a HELoC (rates are similar to traditional mortgage and you can lock in at a fixed rate) if you should want to, and while you don't, you're saving all that cash you'd otherwise be sending to The Void in interest and fees while also being able to really build your savings/retirement by knocking what I'm guessing was a ~$1k/mo bill.

Way more important than savings rate vs. mortgage interest is mortgage interest vs. inflation (at least in the US, where the savings rate is practically 0%). It's probably one of the best times in history to get a fixed-rate mortgage (and pretty much any cheap debt you can get your hands on) in the US, but that doesn't mean it's a good time to get or keep/refinance a mortgage for you. Inflation/Fed rates have been astoundingly low, which has to eventually change, likely quite significantly where your debt is devaluing significantly faster than the interest rates you can lock into today with you having access to savings rates >0%. Of course, right now, you could use all these different "accelerated checking" schemes (credit unions in particular are good for this, but they're always named something different) which actually pay decent interest (~5% annually) if you jump through a bunch of hoops (generally, something like ACH deposit 1-3 times [Paypal] and use your debit card 5-12 times [Amazon Prime membership will do you well, here, though Meritline can be a great choice, too]), and they usually have maximum deposit limits of $5k-25k.

With or without the mortgage, there are all sorts of different ways to play it -- you have tons of options open -- go have a nice dinner and burn your mortgage papers up if you haven't already. Important to note, too -- there's nothing wrong with being safe... if you're happy with where you are, all you're really doing each day you work is decreasing the amount of time until you can retire.

Deadline for pre-e131 episodes has passed.

Reservations purged (these cannot be reserved by anyone):
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104 (colin012)

Reservations kept for 24h until we figure out what to do with them:
80 (KieranJones1)
93 (im_here_now)

Reservations valid until the end of August 15th:
131 (bitcoinlovesme)
132 (KieranJones1)

Well, the "castration" could be done with a machete under Man's Law - and whether it clots in time for the person to live or not is clearly Divine Judgment.

You're either with us or against us. It sounds like you're pro-rape to me.

Having the punishment for rape be castration might dramatically reduce the number of unplanned and out-of-wedlock pregnancies, ultimately decreasing population growth if you have to be exceptionally sure the mate won't turn around and press charges against you. I guess it may also increase the amount of amateur porn floating around if "safe sex" is when you do it in a recording studio.

That's disappointing. Oh, well... maybe Dennis Kucinich will run again. (Please, God, don't make me vote Libertarian!)

Maybe. I've found a wide variety of experts in the community on ALMOST everything. What I've actually always done is to just contact a corporate or standards-producing-organization directly, and oddly enough, someone always seem to have time for me, but it seems like a waste to have them only explaining to a single person instead of having it public - but jeez, I'd have to register on so many separate forums for all these nagging questions.

I was thinking about offering bounties, but I'm far too poor, really, so I'm hoping to cash in on a positive question-answering balance.

(clarification on Q4b: I didn't mean to ask what I did. I meant to ask if transmitters and receivers tuned to a specific frequency would be unreliable if it weren't given a range within a MHz or two, not the antenna.)

August 5th is today! Unless submitted, all reservations (except e131 and e132) will be purged and no longer considered valid in ~21 hours!

They used deposit accounts which you spent from, which they didn't use a daemon for, just internal accounting. Basically, they accepted everything from their forms as true without checking, but allowed a user to specify "LTC" on a "BTC" form by dinking around with the source html (and they literally used those really obvious currency flags). I had LTC in my account there, so I changed the currency flag from BTC to LTC and was able to spend LTC as if it were valued like BTC. Unfortunately, it was only to buy ads.

You "fkn white people" lot are just ignorant to our ignorance.

I made friends with one of my co-workers last year, was friendlier with him than anyone else - really comfortable. Worked in the same place 10 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, and we went out to a bar together, even. One day after around two months of knowing each other, he pulled out a picture of himself ~5 years ago, and I was looking at it really confused-like. I didn't even know who he was showing me a picture of, and I was doing this kind of preoccupied smile-and-nod motion because here was this clearly black guy with an afro. How was this guy relevant to me? All of the sudden, it dawned on me. "Hoooo-ly shit. You're black?!"

I mean, there were only four black people I knew of on our shift of 400, there were only two in our high school of five-hundred (none I recall in elementary or middle school), and I'd never worked with "one of them" before, so... not a lot of opportunities to really understand, and it's drilled into our heads that we can't judge everyone by a few, but with Black History, BET, HBCUs - it seems they must be some kind of completely different people who eat water, wear shoes on their hands, and shit through their belly buttons, and I just can't treat someone truly normally unless I don't know that they're black, or old, or young, or gay, or female, or whatever else. Once I know it, then it's "oh, what's relevant to THEM?" -And I remember, that co-worker told me this before, and I didn't get it at the time - he was annoyed because people kept asking him what kind of rap music he liked.

I'm always up for trying to force data to execute, though IMO, forcing a 100BTC credit to myself is a feature, not a bug. To date, I've only been able to force a small site to accept LTC as BTC, though. Then it was fixed and he never paid the bounty.

If kiosks increasingly dominate, we may not see that effect quite as much YoY, assuming it exists. (unless the kiosks are added to many apartment complexes... -- actually, now that I think about it, why don't many apartment complexes have "normal" ATMs, even?)

I've wondered if hashrate increases faster during cold seasons where BTC's widely mined, too. I'm partially pleased I haven't sold too many of my rigs... electric heating cost isn't too far off propane here, and it's nice to not need to even refill the tank until the Summer discount window.

He doesn't need the blockchain. He just needs the privkey of the pubkey which received the bitcoin, so he needs instructions either to dump his privkeys or convert wallet.dat into something usable by a light client (or maybe some natively can, now, but I'm unaware of them).

There are two methods I know of to do this:
1) Use Core command line to export privkeys. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5324/how-do-i-import-private-keys-from-bitcoin-qt-to-multibit-client

2) Use pywallet to extract the privkeys. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0

#1 includes a method to import the privkeys into MultiBit.

I don't really have an opinion on it. To me, it's the same as gambling, alcohol, and other vices. The solution is never to take it away, but there is a critical difference with what the OP actually asks, because we never talk about actually taking something away - we talk about governments banning it, which is usually has the opposite effect of what's desired.

-But no, I think the positives far outweigh the potential for addiction and some of the less preferable societal changes it's brought - maybe not for everyone, but there are plenty of luddite societies willing to provide an environment where the Internet effectively doesn't exist, though that usually comes with plenty of other restrictions, too. Alternately, you can just move somewhere where there is no Internet connection available, which is made up of a surprising number of places (at least in the US), some without even satellite ISP coverage. Where I am, in a rural community, I do have to put in a lot of effort for an Internet connection which I use from my phone and which requires boosters and antennas (I maintain the hick look by using beer cans so the omni antenna is directional, though ).

The privkey will pretty certainly never change in format any time soon, even if wallet implementations do. If it does, you should still be able to convert the privkey with little effort, keeping in mind that it'd be absolutely insane for the devs to not provide a conversion tool for old wallets (or allow both formats to be used) if they should make incompatible changes.

To answer your question, the level of risk is about on par with someone finding your privkey through brute-forcing.

It's worrying when a shell/shill of a man says this because he thinks it's what people want to hear, and maybe he's right. Sociopaths and other types of chameleons force us to hold a mirror to ourselves.