No, swiss cheese is fine.  Please do not make such experiments, though.  You'll get as many examples as you want when googling trypophobia.

Well, good for you.  I can tell you the first time I realized I can't watch this kind of things, was with a picture of a particular plant.  There was no human skin involved, just the particular shape of this plant was made of a bunch of wholes.  I don't know what plant it is, I don't wanna know, and don't ask me to find one on the internet.  Just thinking about it gives me the creep.  It's a really a weird and surprisingly powerful phobia.

Well, to tell the truth they are helping the blackmailer just as well.

I'm not even sure we can ever be sure of it, unless Romney publicly admits having paid, or the ransom is not paid and the tax return forms are released.

If it's hoax, it is perfectly possible that the author actually owns more than 1M$ in bitcoins.  Then, he could publish a bitcoin address and make a transaction to himself, pretending it was from Romney.  Couldn't he?

I knew for a long time that I can't withstand watching this kind of pictures, but it's only recently that I learned the name of this phobia.  Apparently, not everyone is concerned.  Are you?

Again:  BE ADVISED:  watching these pictures can really be disturbing, especially if you were not aware that you just can't watch them.

Yeah.  Good point.

Yet one might argue that financial privacy should not apply to politicians,  otherwise corruption would be too easy.

2012-09-06,  forbes:  Blackmail and a briefcase of bitcoins

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106219.0

Some quite bold statements from John Matonis about the Mitt Romney's blackmailing case.

« But, is blackmail really an illegitimate act? [...]
Professor Walter Block of Loyola University New Orleans reflects on the old axiom that “the truth shall make you free” and says that a blackmailer is simply setting the truth free to do whatever good or bad it is capable of doing. »

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/09/06/blackmail-and-a-briefcase-of-bitcoin/

Salut et bienvenue,


Bah maintenant les sources d'informations sont tellement nombreuses qu'il n'est plus si intéressant de savoir comment les gens apprennent l'existence de bitcoins.   Les nouveaux sont donc dispensés de nous raconter ça, dorénavant 


Euh... non, ça parait pas normal.  Mais il peut y avoir des tas de raisons pour ça.  Je doute fort que ça soit limité au forum bitcoin, en tout cas.

Shouldn't all press articles reporting the same event be listed in the same thread or something?  It's kind of annoying to receive a different notification for each of them.

« Nearly a quarter million dollars worth of the peer-to-peer currency was stolen by accessing unencrypted backup wallet keys. »

Someone has put online an unencrypted backup of his 25kBTC wallet??

Well, if that is not an epic fail, I don't know what is.

I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with the flash storage device, but rather with the USB connection which just can't transmit data fast enough.  I guess the problem would be the same with any kind of USB external disk drive.

That's great, but it's very hard not to suspect a politician to accept bitcoins only because it would be soooo easy to hide some of the donations.

At some point if politicians start to accept bitcoins, they would have to make an official declaration about their receiving bitcoin addresses and electoral authorities would invite the public to consult this list before making any donation.  If a politician were to request donations on his website with a different bitcoin address, this would be considered as fraud.

Ok.  Good to know.    But if you use a memory based fs, you need quite a lot of RAM, right?  I only have 1Go so I guess that won't do.

I totally disagree with you guys:  BB definitely rocks.

Walt's character does absolutely make sense:  he goes from being a humble science teacher who endorses crime only because of his fear of cancer, to being a narcissistic mastermind who wants to build a drug empire just to prove himself that he can achieve what he failed to do earlier in his life in the legit science business.  Walt's not addicted to meth, but he's addicted to adrenalyn and power.  Just remember the "stay out of my territory" scene long ago when he decided to cook again on the parking of a hardware store, and you'll realize this aspect of Walt's personnality was clear right from the start.

http://youtu.be/pLMF7p8hO7A

Sure, the series had some lows (some of them being due to budget issues), but so far it's been fantastically awesome and this last season is just one of the best of the five.

Yeah...  It was late and I wrote that because I was kind of bored.  Now I realize it was not very pertinent.  Sorry.

Ok according to the wikipedia definition, the short answer would be no.  Because bitcoin is just not complex enough:  it was designed by one person and it now works exactly as it was designed for.  It is not complexity emerging from multiple and simple interactions.

But let's give this idea a second chance, based on this:  no one can stop bitcoin.  Satoshi can't.  Gavin can't.  Justin Bieber can't.  Even Chuck Norris can't.

I believe this is not a trivial statement.  Bitcoin is an unstoppable machine.   It takes its root in human greed:  miners want the block reward and hoarders want to become filthy rich in a thousand years.  Human greed is not something you can get rid of easily so yeah, imho bitcoin is here to stay.

This count number is the start of something that will stick to humanity for a while:  an unstoppable clock used to synchronize economic transactions worldwide.

And as it is something that is beyond the will of any single human being, I believe it is in some way something we can consider "autonomous" and somehow, emergent.

Assuming you're talking about quickmeme.com, yes I could not get the image either.  I made an other one on imgur:  https://i.imgur.com/yKGsY.jpg

Ok, sorry again.  I edited the post.