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Have you had any kind of security audit performed on the site to see where vulnerabilities might exist? It would be pretty terrible if someone was able to use sql injection or something similar to gain access of people's accounts and steal their bitcoins.
If the project is properly secured, I will likely switch over.
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So you predict, that without the FDA, we would have a private company start up as a regulatory company?
Would you then look for a stamp of approval from this private company on any foods you purchased? What would stop a company from just stamping it themselves without approval?
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As a publisher, I can see all their bids.
All of the bids on everyone's site, or just your own? |
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compro, I agree that government regulation is necessary to a degree for a properly functioning free market (can anyone imagine the sorts of trickery that would happen if we didn't have a court system, or how many people would die from food-borne illness without the FDA?). I just don't agree with the current bloated form of government we have, that rewards people for sitting on their rears all day or eating so much they can hardly walk anymore.
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Really depends where you live in the US and the season. My electric rate is as low as $0.06, and maxes out at $0.10, but some people in California pay up to $0.40/kwr in the summer.  Gotta pay for all those green initiatives somehow I guess... |
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Does anyone know if there's a way to see current bids on existing sites? It seems that Operation Fabulous lists out all of the websites and their minimum bids, but do the bids stay hidden, or can I look at them somewhere? Is there a good reason for this?
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Like I said Basiley, I'm not a fan of linux.
Even if you are not. You have all the reason to become one. If you don't have the time to grow knowledge about the OSthen I fully understand; but if not you are making a big mistake. Fair enough. With a wife and 6 month old daughter, and a full time job, time is limited. I really would like to fully understand linux someday, but right now, I really don't have the time. |
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Now it's 21th October... my bet is that God bough some bitcoins and is expecting it to raise to 10USD before sell out and end the World...
But, really, this Harold is playing "Armageddon baseball"? 2 strikes and still want to go on 3rd attempt? Or will he keep "Camping" on random dates as long as someone still believes him or he's alive (whatever happens first)?
This is the best part... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxvuCacdjXM&feature=related |
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I was considering making such a site myself to complement my feedback website, but have two other sites in progress and just don't have the time to do so. If you want, we could form a relationship to where people can optionally hook up their feedback profile to their btcpost profile so that they have some rating to back them up. Let me know if you are interested.
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As long as it's a GOOD PSU, like a Corsair TX series, Seasonic, etc, then yeah, you should be fine. A Rosewill 850w probably won't cut it.
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Location is important with clear. In some areas they are overloaded and I'm some they are way under capacity. I get full speeds in Baltimore , laurel, NYC and Philly. In dc my speeds are 3G like. What is nice for portable service they beat out the 3G services at basically the same price.
Good point - you can't take a cable connection with you wherever you go. I was stuck with the modem thing when I had clearwire, so it wasn't very portable. |
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This is getting way to sidetracked from OP.
Lets stick to the basic, this is guiless so its not essentially WINDOWS anymore, so again I do not understand the point of the OP mentioning FREE and WINDOWS OS.
I would just like to understand why the naming scheme were used.
It would definitely add some clarification if the title was updated to "...FREE gui-less Windows OS!" |
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Ignoring everything else in this thread, I must comment on one statement: They used to be named Clearwire. I guess they had to rename because Clearwire got such a bad reputation. And it's hard to google and find relevant items for "clear sucks" vs "clearwire sucks".
While this is true, please do keep in mind that Comcast did the exact same thing. They're slowly trying to make "XFinity" its own brand when really it's just Comcast trying to get rid of its bad image, and in reality things haven't changed a bit. Hell, just look at the past two/three weeks. Mrs. Baker, who was a commissioner for the FCC board for a mere 4 months, who voted to approve the Comcast-NBC merger, just accepted a position at Comcast as a lobbyist to the FCC. If that isn't a conflict of interest, I don't know what is. Every ISP is evil in some way. I say this as an intern of a national ISP (thankfully not Comcast). I've listened to enough conference calls to realize that these organizations are entirely out of touch with reality. But at least you can still visit webpages with Comcast! And they don't try to lock you in to an auto-renewing contract... At least, I've not had a bad experience with them in that regard. At my current location, I have exceptionally good service with Comcast. I always get higher than advertised speeds, they have pretty much ignored the fact that I am running a server off a residential internet connection and have used more than 1TB of upload every month for the past 7 months, despite their unadvertised cap of 250GB. I seriously cannot imagine having worse internet service than what I experienced with Clear. It was just awful. Worse than awful. It was unusable. I would have rather had dial-up at some points. I am more complaining about the service than the name behind it. Comcast was like hopping on to an F1 car after riding my bicycle. Even if I was only getting 1/100 of the advertised speed with them, it STILL would be faster than Clearcrap! EDIT: And I'm not trying to say that Comcast doesn't play political games with lobbiests like any other company, but IMO, they are by far the lesser of two evils. |
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The cause? A huge influx of people buying up video cards in hopes of making a fortune with bitcoins. There is lag time involved in getting video cards up and running, so people who bought two weeks ago are still setting up their new systems, etc.
Is there any data to back this up? I find it more likely the huge increases are being caused by hoards of new miners with unused GPUs rather than dedicated miners buying many cards. If you have 1000 dedicated miners buying 4 cards each that is 4000. On the other side of the coin  news of bitcoin in the media reaches millions of people, if only a fraction of those mine that is going to blow by the 1000 dedicated people upgrading very quickly, and it has the exponential effect, they tell N friends, those friends tell N friends and so on, that's how things increase exponentially. If it were mainly people upgrading the increase would be much more linear or flat. Of course the real world sees increases from both groups, but the explosion part is from new people, not upgrades. *shrug* I think the sudden out-of-stock status of many popular mining video cards indicates a good deal more than normal buyers are out there. I'm certain it is both a combination of new miners using existing hardware and existing miners using new hardware, but there's definitely a LOT of video card buying going on out there. Heck, between myself and 4 friends who got interested in bitcoins, we've bought 10 video cards. |
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I have some questions, basically whats causing the EXPLOSION of difficulty?
is someone with a couple of million dollars blow, mining bitcoins???
second, basically, whats causing the value of bitcoin to go up?
as a noob to all of this, i would assume the value would go up with difficulty
The cause? A huge influx of people buying up video cards in hopes of making a fortune with bitcoins. There is lag time involved in getting video cards up and running, so people who bought two weeks ago are still setting up their new systems, etc. |
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It's fine if you "prefer" Windows. More bitcoins for the rest of us!  Good. I just hate it when people say, "just use linux" as an answer to, well, everything. I don't WANT to use linux, so stop telling me to use it! Lol... |
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Why would they? GPGPU stuff with ATI is just more troublesome on windows as compared to linux.
I missed that this was a gui-less Windows. Still more convenient than linux for me, since I know most of the Windows command-line commands, but I'd rather not deal with a command line at all. Vista Business OEM it is! |
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Would a payment propogate through the node quickly enough to make it practical for something like this?
That is a good question. How fast do payments propagate? Has anybody ever timed a payment? And better yet, is there a way to trace through the nodes from endpoint to endpoint to see how many "jumps" a transaction has to make before it reaches from one end to another? It would be something like X = N/(8^X)... I think. Where X = number of hops and N = number of nodes. So say we have 50,000 people with nodes running. X = 50,000/(8^X) X(8^X) = 50,000 Uh... It's been a while since I took a math class.  |
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Would a payment propogate through the node quickly enough to make it practical for something like this?
Otherwise, with increased acceptance of bitcoins as a payment method, I could see this becoming very viable.
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Wouldn't running a miner on a VM only slow things down? Why not run a bare-metal always-free Linux miner?
You can use the "first instance" of the Hyper-V-Server, no VMs needed. - Is it right, that Server2k8 has the same 4 GPU limit like Win7? My GPUs aren't delivered jet. This is exactly why I asked if he is running it on the hyper-v OS (essentially the hypervisor software is an OS) but it comes without a gui, if that is the case this thread doesnt make sense, people could just use a linux based miner from the get-go. From my understand this thread would make sense if he somehow figured out a legal free windows OS on hyper-v, that part I dont get from this thread. What if people PREFER to use Windows instead of linux? |
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