Sounds like your Multibit client isn't sync'd or its database is corrupt. (or some other error I'm unfamiliar with since I don't use Multibit often enough)

AMD tends to have a significant price/performance advantage in the entry-mid range (<$300), while Nvidia tends to have a significant price/performance advantage in the higher range (>$300). They've had these niches carved out forever, so depending on what you generally spend, you'll probably end up with a bias -- that's my theory, anyway. It's fairly easy to check by looking at popular cards. A 270x is significantly less expensive and more powerful than a GTX 660, while a 290 is significantly less powerful and more expensive than a GTX 780.

Post the transaction ID?

Originally thought you simply didn't include a fee where one was needed, but if an exchange sent it, they'd have to be run by half-brain monkeys to not include needed fees.

Any interest? Busy with other side projects atm, outside normal stuff. Vision:

Peer-edited (maybe not publicly edited until/unless enough interest for it to robustly combat spam/vandalism) wiki going over various methods of scamming in various sectors. Perhaps authoritative sources should be required for article "seeding" (creating a proper scope and path for the article to be further contributed to).

Articles would be written for each particular trade sector. Maybe you have peer-to-peer loans, pre-ordering, escrow, all more related to crypto, then escrow (real estate), business-issued loans, insurance [broken down by category], used car purchasing, and the like targeted at a general audience.

Articles may also cover specific, particularly common and/or complicated "attacks" in trade. Maybe... "vaporware attack," or "building owner impersonation attack."

Article stub:

Vaporware attack
Vaporware attacks (also known as pre-order scams) are described as when a company sells theoretical products they claim to make in the future. For whatever reason, these products are not delivered as advertised or never delivered in any form.

Attack vectors
Vaporware attacks are most likely to occur when the manufacturer is permitted to use pre-order money without restraint, or before manufacturing is ready to begin.

Attack signatures
Signs of having purchased vaporware may include the manufacturer's CTO appearing in an online forum image with a red clown nose.

Examples
Fill in the blank

Prevention
I'm already tired of writing this.

Restitution
Restitution from manufacturers which haven't declared bankruptcy is generally a straight-forward and rewarding process so long as you have a sound purchase agreement. You should first attempt contacting the company using a recorded means of communication to present your concerns and record their statement. [Break down relevant laws by country... Wiki could be language-segregated depending on size.]

See also
suedatass.org*
onlinearbitrationnation.net*
*Partner of DPW, pays hosting costs - hooray.


Wiki should not have scam accusations, which would be a giant clusterfuck. Overall goal is to "compress" and unify the many, many "loose" articles on the Internet and in print to allow users to access concise, searchable information.

SEO bump

.... That's China, dude.

Yes... I've actually seen something similar when I was in Pennsylvania. The video conference "support" was mandatory there, and they used these in all the "pneumatic booths" in the drive-through. When the teller was ready, their face would pop up on a fairly large screen recording all passengers and the rest of your car's interior. The tellers were all in an office inside the main branch and could only interact with one customer at a time, so they watched you pretty intently. I don't think I had or have ever been so creeped out. Never used it again.... started going inside to do basic transactions so I could get a "local human."

I don't really see any reason to worry about privacy, security, or why you should stop using WhatsApp if you already do (though I've never used it, and I think this thread is the first I've heard of it). Further centralization of already-centralized data stores is pointless from a privacy-invasion perspective. You can just as easily demand information out of Facebook as WhatsApp. Outside that, you should assume backdoors are in every product until it's proven otherwise.

Intellectual property rights are a bitch.

I guess Facebook had no idea what to do with all the free assets from its IPO?

They must be in a certain region, or maybe just larger towns/cities? I've never seen an ATM which takes cash. Then again, all the ATMs here are either inside or right outside the credit unions and banks (good if you just want to swing by and grab your balance without spending more than a minute, but with $300 withdrawal limits, not much else).

Being human, we'd just doubt the thing or person telling us. What is its motive? How do we know it even exists? It's probably just Satan trying to throw us off our Godly ways.

It's also worth factoring in the purchase of an account and whether or not your mentor shares "treasure." Highly-used accounts are less ev-, and accounts with mentorship over other active users are practically a revenue stream. Theoretically, you could simply compile statistics on various games along with strategies to "sell" to users in exchange for them selecting you as their mentor. It's theoretically possible, then, to "work" in Dragon's Tale for service fees.

You'd probably need to be on the spectrum to actually compile all the relevant data, though, heh. -Or a income-less kid with a ton of free time and hands-off parents.

Mike effectively ended it. We're in agreement. Maybe we can come up with a little dispute, still.

I think it's sometimes fun to talk about these theories to blow off steam. I think, should this theory be reality, this would be a pretty strong argument against a nihilistic existence. After all, somebody (or something) decided we're worthwhile to study. There is at least a chance we'll be beneficial to this bitchin' future civilization with super-computers.

I'm a soft believer in inevitable universal heat death, so having some type of "ultimate use" beyond our perceived universe's existence gives humans a strong reason to carry on (outside absurdism).

Seems the case - else OP is very unlucky. I've had six 270s running at 87-95*C for months without issue. Five more run at 86-92*C.  Other eight chill out at 78*C or less because they're outside. (inside ones provide free house heat). A separate 5850 I saved from Bitcoin GPU days for general computing purposes has been heavily used and now hashes Scrypt like a champ. Once Summer rolls around, they'll all be hashing at around 95*C and enjoying that lovely outdoor humidity. I've never had a single GPU fail, including over a year of 16 5850s hashing SHA256 at fairly high temps. Seems about as common for a GPU to fail as a CPU anymore, which is to say it's extremely unusual (except for laptops, which generally have the cooling capacity of a PC put in a giant hole and covered with dense clay).

Associated honesty: though I'll always recommend top-shelf PSUs to others because I'd feel bad if their families had their faces burned off, I run the shittiest shit able to be shit out the shit-maker. You know - the not-even-gold-certified OEM garbage which hums so loud you can't even hear people in the same room, which is on 70% clearance sale direct from the manufacturer's warehouse of misery and regrets, where they ship it out with the metal enclosure mangled and barely hanging onto the actual PSU, where you have to bang it back together with your fists before jamming it into the cheapest case you could find so it can run on the $30 motherboard utilizing the latest 1-star 2005 refurb HDD (complete with an IDE connector) semi-attached to the case by only one screw.

Another fun fact proving why I deserve this forum handle: I didn't like the results given by home routers I had laying around, so I have my general PC (which is a bunch of components on a modular plastic shelving unit -- no case for three years, eaten and drunk over) taking a wireless signal from phone by using a dongle, internally bridging the connection to a LAN port which runs to a large Ubiquiti router. The general PC won't accept an Internet connection through the bridged connection, so a second dongle pokes out the general PC's motherboard. The Internet setup is made more complex by an outdoor and indoor antenna boosting 3G and 4G signals. Naturally, these aren't hard-wired, but instead run loose along the floor. Still, this is far superior to my previous solution of making my own phone antennas out of copper wire and gorilla tape (this eventually ruined the phone's 3G radio).

It's pretty easy to discount the cosmic ray bit. Unimaginable devastation would arise if the simulation were subject to uncontrolled, "random" errors. Entire solar systems could suddenly disappear because a cosmic ray affected the simulator.... or maybe error-correcting code simply erases our knowledge of their existence to compensate. What a clusterfuck it will be if the ECC fails. It'd be fun to see how we react to such an event.... clearly, whoever's running this experiment is terribly boring or they would've had been messing with us for a long time. Anyway - we have pretty solid knowledge on how to eliminate cosmic ray interference... civilizations so far advanced really shouldn't be having issues with it.

Otherwise, totally plausible, just like all theories on how we exist. It's kind of silly to write it off because it's non-beneficial. You may's well call the theory of universal heat death junk because it's non-beneficial to our will to survive, too.

It's probably a network issue on your side - high latency (which could also be from being far away from the mining server) or frequent hiccups (very likely if you download large files without throttling it -- home routers and operating systems do a god-awful job of distributing bandwidth). What're we talking about - 5% stale?

If talking about HW errors, the solution usually is to lower intensity. Many cards won't efficiently mine Scrypt on max intensity.... often have to lower it to I 12 or 13.

Though I'm still being slow, I'll take on Kieran's workload if he/she doesn't return. The episodes still in queue have been on there for a shockingly long time, but there are very few episodes left. It won't take more than two weeks to clear the queue (this is likely the final time this project will have a PR backlog, though I've been saying that to myself for a while...).

I give 60+ episodes priority because they generally only take me around an hour to go from downloading the transcript to emailing qwk the revisions. Some pre-60 episodes only take that long, but it usually takes at least a couple hours and sometimes over 4 hours (some have been quietly retranscribed from scratch).

After a year and a half of 15-100kbps and 350+ ms pings, I've had enough. I can't stream audio, it takes forever to catch up with the blockchain if I've fallen behind, and miners submit a horrible number of of stale shares. I'd done quite a bit to try getting a 4G signal, which is about a mile or two out of my phone's reach, from rooting and trying to grab the msl code (which is just about impossible on my particular phone... there was eventually a kludgey method where you boot the phone into a particular shell which runs script and a particular script had to be run) and forcing the phone to only connect to 4G towers, to putting the phone in the attic of the horse barn, to building my own antennas with copper wire (... this eventually ruined a radio port and the phone needed to be replaced).


I finally got a Wilson electronics signal booster using the kit here (they're expensive -- referral link included - maybe can recoup a bit in costs). The snow outside's very deep and I can't even get to an old cable port running from my office to the outside, so I'm temporarily running the outside antenna inside with gain reduced quite a bit. Even so, I get 3 bars of 4G signal. It's very strong and voice calls are no longer a long monologue of me saying "Hello? Are you still there?" and apologizing for it every minute. It's awesome. My current vital Internet connectivity stats have me at a 110ms ping, with 1.62mbps down and .47mbps up, which may seem like a poor connection these days, but when my only other options are satellite and dial-up out here, it's the difference between using the Internet and staring at a "server sent no data" screen and refreshing until the page loads properly.

Hooray!

You mean without sex? No, that's no good. Get a goat or dog or something. We've let gays marry and sex with each other, so you may's well.

Turning off the money-burning machines seems like an attractive option.