Wow. Fuck Moore and his pessimistic law. $67 on Amazon with 2-day Prime shipping, now. Maybe time to upgrade from now-archaic 60GB Agility2 which has me staring at the WinDirStat screen every freakin' week (frequently-cleaned 17.5GB Windows folder doesn't help).

"Minimum" fee should be significantly reduced. If you're splitting a relatively large output into many outputs, there's a much greater savings. Outside of having all the outputs linked together in the blockchain (which may be a privacy concern), I don't know of any disadvantages to sendmany... maybe messier to deal with if manually entering it into the console?

"The university decommissioned the compromised servers and then physically destroyed them."

wat?

Nice of them to let you know your SSN and other info may've been compromised. Just a year ago, companies thought it was okay to keep silent about break-ins until they could confirm sensitive data was leaked and being used nefariously. If your security measures to prevent unauthorized software was thwarted (esp. if a remote attack), it's not unreasonable to assume information stored on the same servers successfully attacked is compromised, too.

Useless speculation from way-too-early data (and they included Christie? Really??): Assuming there is no Cruz and Cruz goes mostly to Paul and Ryan (instead of Perry and Bush), Paul and Ryan cannot both compete and win unless both Bush and one other in "that subfaction" (Perry, Huckabee, or Santorum) also run, though Bush would still likely win unless Rubio endorsed either Paul or Ryan, where it'd become a pretty level playing field.

You can count Huckabee, Perry, and Santorum as Bush, while Cruz(?) and Rubio can be counted as either Ryan or Paul. Wildcards are made up of Christie and Walker. Most likely, the "tea party" subfaction will be split up while the "establishment" subfaction will only consist of the most likely victor (Bush or Huckabee). During play-out, I imagine the vast majority of money will back Bush for a lack of known stances nation-wide and that ability to be "convictionally flexible" while fundraising.

I'll go ahead and make my prediction now just for the sake of being able to look back and laugh:
(establishment) Bush - 33%
(compromise) Cruz - 28%
(radical) Paul - 16%
(weird old uncle) Unknown guy like Herman Cain who pops up out of nowhere next year - 14%
Stragglers: 9%

Dem side has a lot of unknowns. Very weak candidates. I don't know half the people listed, though I think Warren would be a smart choice for them, which is why I doubt she'll be in the primary. Booker T Washington has 3%?? I doubt Hillary could run.

I'll crystal-ball for them, too:
(compromise) Cuomo - 39%
(establishment) Unknown person who pops out of the woodworks - 20%
Stragglers: 17%
(weird old uncle) Biden - 14%
(radical) Other unknown person - 10%


Unimaginable to have a Dem next term, but with an opponent like Bush, very possible. ETA: Dem establishment candidate may be Rahm Emanuel who's "endorsed" Clinton.

I do strange things with my free time. I think it might be too pretentious. Thanks all the same.

Here, Vod: http://www.scribd.com/doc/212655817/wip?secret_password=28ohqtolkxi1sx8enmjk

I should be finished with it by 2020, at which time almost all listed games will be pushed into the "history" list. I'd guess your best bet would be with Jagged Alliance 2.

It's pretty unusual for government to ever go after end-users. Johns aren't often prosecuted, nor druggos unless they're being assholes. Buyer won't be getting what he paid for at collection time, though, and probably not a refund either. (whatever happened to SR funds? Still just sitting around?)

Collusion is a word, not a typo.

Hey, guys. Amerifag reporting.

For most, "income" is the most flexible (and game-able) tax category. For example, as income, it counts toward the EITC, meaning that a low-income and even middle-income (and especially no-income) person mining likely is not only owing nothing in taxes, but can receive $thousands each year in tax "refunds." This may or may not be relatively harmful to larger players, but they can work that out with their tax attorneys.

The collusion issue with Opt2 multi-sig escrow you mention is very serious on a site which has a fair chance at being a honeypot, and it's especially dodgy given the number of accounts being "hacked." If the government is both escrow and either the seller or buyer, you're still completely screwed when they decide to harvest the project.

This would usually be in the realm of "outfield conspiracy theory," but I think it's definitely worth seriously considering for potential transactors on these kinds of sites, especially as a seller since you aren't particularly protected using either multi-sig method (I'd imagine most people use option 2, but Idunno how it works on those sites).

Oddly enough, they don't seem to honor member resignation/revocation requests. In February, I spoke to one of the Foundation attorneys, asking to be taken off the public list of members. He gave me a helpful response asking for a quick clarification but assuring me it was doable, then dropped contact. Still get their spam, too.

Oh, well. Good job, PG.

I would be surprised if the g-force "problem" weren't solved prior to a hard launch. It's possible to convert the impact felt on humans by converting that energy into something else. For example, you may be able to get the chairs to convert SOME of the "impact" into some type of gyration, which could allow for the trains to even recoup some of that energy. Alternately, and this is clearly too cool to be practical, chairs could ride their own in-train rails, where the seats all roll back which slopes upward (and has chair locks and must have brakes) while accelerating -- you could even make it into a roller coaster. When done accelerating, the track uses a hydraulic mechanism to flatten the ramp which is raised the reversed way when it's time for deceleration.

So anyway.... you go on a 1850mph train, and you have inclined, gyrating seats falling backwards at maybe 5mph on a rollercoaster-type track where your seats also slowly swivel around to face the rear. I bet we could get used to that after only... Idunno, 20 rides?

You don't have to waste the space needed for the "seat tracks," either. Instead, you use the overhead storage for collapsible equipment necessary to run, for example, the dining car, which is set up once the train's mostly finished accelerating. -Or, get really fancy/lazy and have four seat tracks per aisle side -- two seat tracks for normal sitting, and two powered tracks (one for "incoming" traffic and one for "outgoing") which move seats to the "dining car" or piss pots at the button-press of a passenger. Dining becomes more convenient, so people are more likely to purchase $10 microwave hot dogs.

I guess once you've gone that far into extravagance, though, the train may's well just fuckin' fly and have two pneumatic tubes per seat with a little bill changer for the eating and excretion.

I wonder if there are any ongoing pet projects trying to insert a large file into the blockchain which is executed by calling up complete blk files and executing certain lines.

You get - what is it - 140 arbitrary bytes per .0001BTC fee? Let's say you want to put, Idunno, a 40MB Cosby Show episode in the blockchain. .0001BTC=.0001335MB, so ... ~30BTC to get an episode of the Cosby Show distributed to hundreds of thousands of people forever? Everyone should have the same blk files, so you just need a program with precompiled lists for where to find the code to play back the episode. Can you trick a central lite-wallet server into feeding you just the relevant transactions so you can stream it?

Why would I tie up money during a waiting period (based on previously-played-out cycle patterns)?  From ~$2 to now, we've always had the same kind of cycles where we see a bubble beyond our dreams, relatively slow crumbling of the bubble followed by a quick pop, then a long period of ~, followed by a slow ramp-up, and then another bubble. I really doubt Chinese law matters in the long-term, and I don't find compelling the idea that China would disallow Chinese exchanges from operating but permit the exchange of USD<->BTC acceptable. The Chinese would likely end up defying law, but if they're all going to defy the law, how is it not an over-reaction to sell coins? /drunken speculation

It shouldn't be. Listen, if you want to start plastering "Hillary's too god-damn ugly" posters, I'll be the first donor.

We're seriously going to discuss the US presidential election here? You lot take your vote more seriously than those voting by looks? You shouldn't, and I agree - Hillary's too ugly to be president. I don't want to see her face on the broadcast news and papers. Let's get one of the Palin daughters, or at least Janet Reno. Shit.

Is there any way to petition for the SCAMMER tag to stay, particularly on Nefario?

... No way. Cryptsy has a US bank to work with? How'd they get that relationship - go to the local HSBC branch and say they were international drug salesfolk?

I don't mean to intrude with my down-home know-nothing perspective, but it seems to me like we're in a period of "flippant uncertainty" where nobody really knows what to do. We're still way behind our regularly scheduled breakout period, but there's so much confidence that we'll break out that people are willing to gamble a little early, maybe out of laziness/impatience. Any movement that happens within the next couple months will probably be (relatively) minor and corrected within a week. $420->$450 is tony bologna.

Perfect time to loan some money on the leverage market and go to the bar.

Apologies for the wall of text. If you were not interested in a bait-and-switch, look for the bold text in brackets.

A few years ago, I started a modest attempt at testing various batteries, looking at the different characteristics between the many, many chemistry make-ups, designs, and the general tendency of particular manufacturers to either undersell or oversell their batteries specifications (as you might expect, I often couldn't reproduce too close to what they advertised). The most frequently purchased batteries, small alkalines, generally don't have even the most basic of information on their labels, though this may be due to their linear voltage dropoff, where they perform relatively well in low-drain applications with a generous operating voltage range, and poorly in high-drain, precision applications. The market in general is goofy, where nobody seems to care about specs, but are rather interested in whether their battery is heavy-duty, super-duty, or super-heavy duty - whatever the fuck those mean - and few realize how many batteries they thought were alkalines actually turn out to be ZnC. It's especially common on sites like Amazon, which do practically nothing to moderate their battery sellers who apparently have no qualm selling "new" 3-year-old lead-acid batteries with little to no useful information in the product description. In general, I think the consumer battery market is unusually ignorant and too exploitable by vague marketing, which I'd like to help correct.

I ended up too busy and set the project aside not terribly far in. My methodology was garbage, with a BS meter for testing. I'm intending to resume the project within the next year with better equipment, better control (and measurements of relevant conditions like temperature), and more relevant stats on the batteries operating results. I feel I'm a good bit closer to knowing what I'm doing. I'm doing this as a "casual consumer watchdog" venture, mostly just because I enjoy doing it (there are explosions!). While I was originally just looking to familiarize myself with different types and get a feel for how bullshit the marketing is, only looking at LR6, I'd like to include car/cart/motorcycle/boat batteries, LiFePO4 (and inferior) batteries for banks with regards to home (or SMB) energy production, UPS batteries, hobby car/boat/plane/whatever batteries, as well as restarting testing for "normal" consumer batteries. I think any market where you need to go to a B&M and talk to an "expert" on the

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What I looked at previously was:
*Watt-hours (along with amp-hours, which battery packaging usually advertises even though it's an incomplete picture)
*Graphed voltage and watt output by amount of discharge (some batteries output a consistent voltage until it's fully discharged, others linearly discharge and could theoretically, if a 1.5V alkaline battery, still output enough amperage to power a device at, say, 1V output, and some others have really goofy curves and random-seeming dropoffs).
*Amp output over time.
*Cost per battery, $/Ah & $/Wh, Ah/g & Wh/g
*#times a rechargeable battery must be recharged to recoup costs compared to "best non-rechargeable" in the category
*Theoretical (manufacturer-claimed) cycle-life & theoretical degradation over time
*Environmental concerns (not experimental, obviously)
*Safe operating ranges with regards to temperature (experimental! Hooray, explosions!) -- additionally, testing at up to seven different temperatures to measure performance (below minimum rated temp, minimum rated temp, freezing, room temperature, hot (~125*F), max rated temp, above max rated temp)
*Effects of recharging a non-rechargeable battery (this is particularly fun, both for the explosions and unexpected results)
*Whether or not non-vented batteries of the particular type are safe to use under max load (they often are not, which I've repeatedly learned with cell phone batteries!)
*How to "clean" the battery in case you have undesirables "gunking up" your battery's internals
*"Battery's future" (heavily speculative, going over whether or not the technology's mature and what kind of projects are going on to improve key specs or reduce costs, talking to available experts, yada, yada, yada)

Really difficult stuff to put out which I'll think about:
*Redneck battery-venting (I'm pretty sure this isn't reasonable in any scenario, but who knows...)
*Experimental number of charges and discharges before "useless," as well as a chart going over degradation by time (this'd have to be far-future... I'm not dedicating $200-700 in equipment testing a single battery over 6 months of unrealistically constant charging and discharging.)


If you're interested in something else, do please let me know.
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For keeping the project financially afloat, I'm interested in forming relationships with reputable manufacturers to lower or eliminate the cost of actually buying all these batteries (as well as getting a direct line to an engineer or few to talk to - though I'm leery about becoming "overly-involved" with a corporation), non-obnoxious referral links (both for consultancy and battery purchases), and creating a sister site dedicated solely to displaying video footage of batteries exploding (high FPS camcorder essential) which'll feature slightly more obnoxious and generalized advertising.

Initially, the goal is to grab ad revenue and a repeat user base with "tabloid" data collection/publishing which goes over exotic designs, earlier-mentioned explosions, and goofy/"innovative" ways to use batteries (maybe an article on... Idunno, building a steampunk electronic coffee maker with no IC, only supercapacitors, a heating element, and mechanical buttons). Ideologically, the end-goal is to have a search engine made for humans to use when they need a battery -- you could select a power-user search engine which assumes you can "build around the battery" and are just looking for "hard data" rather than whether the battery uses an F1 or F2 terminal or if it'll fit in the mounting brackets you have: what are you looking to power, voltage input requirements, "normal" temperature range and max temperature range of where the battery is expected to operate, etc -- it'll then give you a list of batteries with a full list of relevant experimental data and claimed specs for batteries which meet your demands and - this is what I'm really interested in - which battery is most cost-effective and/or hassle-free for your particular use scenario (frequent discharge and recharge, battery types which tolerates full discharge, high-capacity disposables, infrequent discharge and quick recharge, ultra-low self-discharge disposables). That one'd show all the data I've collected, full of graphs which allow even an industrial project to confidently figure out their "what ifs" without in-house studies and best guesses (while I'd be quite proud of this, I don't want to move to a paywall model and would be eminently surprised if a corporation gave a tip, so I'm unsure if there's any way to not be a martyr in offering this). You could also use a more hand-holding kind of search engine: what are you looking to power (if applicable, questions like "how large is the engine?"), voltage requirement, physical size of current battery, terminal size, if applicable, etc. - and this would spit out a good bit less information without charts, but still going over which battery type is likely most cost-effective and hassle-free. With many resources invested, this could become as simplified as "make & model of car," then giving the correct batteries and a general assessment on whether or not the person should consider a Li-ion instead of SLA or AGM, with relevant generic data on all the types, of course.