No fuel, ok but what powers the electronics and servos?
Wind/water turbines and/or solar. I'd like to see a craft that mimics a shipping container, mostly submerged, slowly propelled with the juice from some roof mounted solar cells. Security through obscurity? |
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Just be sure it put it in a shady place out of the reach of too much moisture (urine). |
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It's doubtful that they will let him roam the halls with this own electronic devices.
I'm sure they will with theirs, you know, in his butt. |
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Has anyone considered that Silk Road (and other similar sites) actually makes the drug trade less, in spite of prohibition? Consider the combination anonymity, escrow/arbitration, and a reputation system.
Reputation allows buyers to make informed decisions, escrow gives both buyer and seller added protection against fraud, arbitration gives both parties a non-violent recourse to disputes, and anonymity protects against any violent recourse outside the system. Notably, anonymity not only protects from violent recourse from other traders, but also from law enforcement.
Just something I was thinking about...
I think Silk Road is still a little too esoteric to make much of a difference, but, yes, I agree. It means less business for the dealers at the ends of distribution chains who do nasty things and/or try too hard to make friends with customers. |
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Do you think the groupon-model would be a nice system for Bitcoin drug pushers to get new costumers through hard discounts?
Not really. Drug dealers don't sell drugs. Drugs sell themselves. It's crack. It's not an encyclopedia. It's not a fucking vacuum cleaner. You don't really gotta try to sell crack. Ok?
I've never heard a crack dealer going "Man, how am I gonna get rid of all this crack?!" |
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Uruguay and Chile both seem like nice places to live.
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Just received the records I ordered. They arrived in the condition that Scottingham described and were relatively well packaged. It was a pleasure doing business with him. I'm going to have to find a bigger CD player though because these won't fit.
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The Constitution says the Supreme Court is the "supreme law of the land". This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. Article III, sections one and two, which define the Supreme Court, do not give its justices Judge Dredd powers. |
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How's this? A little harsh. Here are my edits: Your story tonight regarding Bitcoins was interesting and informative. However, I wanted to clarify that, while Bitcoin is designed for anonymity, you incorrectly stated that "no record of the transactions" exists. In fact, every legitimate bitcoin transaction exists on a record know as the blockchain, and everyone has access to it. Every user's Bitcoin client reviews the blockchain and that's how the system works to prevent fraud!
That said, the blockchain doesn't include users' names and IP addresses. You can use a site called http://blockexplorer.com/ to view every Bitcoin transaction, and see the path from one user to another. You cannot identify those users by name unless you happened to have transacted with a user, and that user happened to give you the same payment address as he gave to someone else.
Also, All Things Considered disappointed me with the undue weight it gave to potential illegal uses of Bitcoin. If you were doing a story on the US dollar or the euro, would you focus on that? Criminals use cash, of all kinds, illegally all the time. No news there.
The story here isn't that criminals have another currency. Rather, now EVERYONE can accept a form of cash over the Internet as easily and independently as they might in person. |
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Trying this again with the canned response feature from Google. I even added my own line breaks where necessary. It should work now, but I'm sure I'll find out if it doesn't.
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And the reporter said there's absolutely no record of the transaction, which isn't quite true.
There's a long answer and a short answer to the question "are bitcoin transactions anonymous?". The short answer: yes. The long answer: kind of... It was a short bit so I can't really blame them for going with the short answer. |
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Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court doesn't make laws. |
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Is it Ƀ or Ƀ in a circle? |
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2. Get the Enigmail extension. It's by far the easiest way to encrypt or sign mail in Thunderbird.
Yes I have Enigmail and it's worked well for signing and encrypting messages for me. However, when Thunderbird replies with a template, it doesn't sign it. When I sign a message in my text editor, and then paste it into a compose window, the PGP bits disappear leaving only the message. Not sure what's going on here.  |
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To verify my public key, please send an e-mail to kurt dot padilla at gmail dot com with "FF7E7CCD" in the subject and "bitcoin" in the body text. You'll then receive a signed response referring to this post.
I've received a few responses referring to this post, but all of them were unsigned… I've now received a bunch of signed messages. The showstopper now is that they've been converted to HTML after signing: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
Hash: SHA256<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
You've received this message because you followed the instructions
in this forum post:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9251.msg134453#msg134453">http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9251.msg134453#msg134453</a><br>
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In it, I stated that I am Kurt Padilla and that my public key
fingerprint is 5D67 9B6C 3A35 D9B5 5A76 42F9 D188 DC4D FF7E 7CCD. As
such, you can verify my identity, or at least that I own both
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kurt{dot}padilla{at}gmail{dot}com">kurt{dot}padilla{at}gmail{dot}com</a> and FatherMcGruder on the Bitcoin.org forums.<br>
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Once you do, please sign my key.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Kurt<br>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)<br>
<br>
iF4EAREIAAYFAk3ZGvsACgkQ0YjcTf9+fM3NtAD+LI/2pZ9v1uWRbUoT9XWXfyl7<br>
6+zR9kSh0hZT0fITD+gA/RfweaUqCwYODY04G+zaNffWaCaCQxEU8JVrlDQbbJbo<br>
=rgX9<br>
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>
</body>
</html>
Cheers, Ugh. Let me try again... hold on. |
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If this is supposed to happen automagically, it didn't…
Cheers,
The automagic should be working now, I think. Apologies to anyone who got more than one response, or got responses that weren't very good. I'm using Thunderbird, if anyone has any tips on that. |
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