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1361  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 90 BTC stolen! on: June 07, 2014, 11:07:37 PM
Using Windows? It's full of malware and keyloggers. Switch to Linux, it's serious OS.

http://unrecom.net/features.html   Works on Windows,Mac, Linux and android via Java
I keep getting it in phishing/fake emails.

I think the best way is cold storage. You can get virus/malware anywhere, but using the official repositories you can avoid them to a large extend;

1362  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is BitCoin faucets really worth the time? on: June 07, 2014, 08:18:34 PM
I wasted a lot of time on faucets, so no it's not worth your time. Find better ways to get them.
That's the problem, you used -a lot- of time on faucets. They're not around to provide a income.

Faucets are there to provide a income to the site owner (advertising revenue). Wink
I doubt they make enough to quit work. Smiley

Freebitco.in makes 0.1 or 0.2 BTC per day, if I am not mistaken. Errr now its 0.175 BTC per day.

As I mentioned in my above post, that is how much the site makes for just the bottom ad.
You can find a few more google ads on the page, and so the total ad revenue should be much much higher. Smiley

How much does google pay out per impression?
1363  Other / Off-topic / Re: NEW HIDDEN WIKI LINK 2014 on: June 07, 2014, 08:14:20 PM
Is there any alternative other than Tor?


There is an extension for chrome that allowes you to visit .onion websites. But I would highly recomend do download the full TOR browser bundle and mabe even use a VPN wne using it.

+1 do not use chrome to visit .onion sites, you do not want to be associated with all the sites you visited in the same way that advertising algorithms work.
You can get tor from here https://www.torproject.org/
1364  Other / Off-topic / Re: NEW HIDDEN WIKI LINK 2014 on: June 07, 2014, 06:58:41 PM
Unfortunately my browser couldn't find the page.  Sad
Excuse me, what's that link for?

You have to use Tor browser bundle to open the link. I did not open it, but it seems to be the 'hidden wiki'. A collection of hidden sites on the web.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Wiki
1365  Other / Politics & Society / Re: See, THIS is why we shouldn't have included Russia. on: June 07, 2014, 06:25:22 PM

because it has 10 years left of operation and it's costly to maintain...

The ISS is arguably the most expensive single item ever constructed.[263] As of 2010 the cost is estimated to be $150 billion. It includes NASA's budget of $58.7 billion for the station from 1985 to 2015 ($72.4 billion dollars in 2010), Russia's $12 billion ISS budget, Europe's $5 billion, Japan's $5 billion, Canada's $2 billion, and the cost of 36 shuttle flights to build the station; estimated at $1.4 billion each, or $50.4 billion total.

+ it will send them a good message
that you're don't care if it's profitable or not, you'll get revenge

that's a good message for your enemy

It is cheaper to ignore it, than to blow it up.


not as cool

but isn't it cheaper to blow it up? Cheesy

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because it has 10 years left of operation and it's costly to maintain...

The ISS is arguably the most expensive single item ever constructed.[263] As of 2010 the cost is estimated to be $150 billion. It includes NASA's budget of $58.7 billion for the station from 1985 to 2015 ($72.4 billion dollars in 2010), Russia's $12 billion ISS budget, Europe's $5 billion, Japan's $5 billion, Canada's $2 billion, and the cost of 36 shuttle flights to build the station; estimated at $1.4 billion each, or $50.4 billion total.

If you act like you are not involved, all the costs would be for the other nations to maintain. This would cost them more than sending a bomb I think
1366  Other / Politics & Society / Re: See, THIS is why we shouldn't have included Russia. on: June 07, 2014, 06:21:04 PM

because it has 10 years left of operation and it's costly to maintain...

The ISS is arguably the most expensive single item ever constructed.[263] As of 2010 the cost is estimated to be $150 billion. It includes NASA's budget of $58.7 billion for the station from 1985 to 2015 ($72.4 billion dollars in 2010), Russia's $12 billion ISS budget, Europe's $5 billion, Japan's $5 billion, Canada's $2 billion, and the cost of 36 shuttle flights to build the station; estimated at $1.4 billion each, or $50.4 billion total.

+ it will send them a good message
that you're don't care if it's profitable or not, you'll get revenge

that's a good message for your enemy

It is cheaper to ignore it, than to blow it up.
1367  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is BitCoin faucets really worth the time? on: June 07, 2014, 06:11:02 PM
I wasted a lot of time on faucets, so no it's not worth your time. Find better ways to get them.
That's the problem, you used -a lot- of time on faucets. They're not around to provide a income.

Faucets are there to provide a income to the site owner (advertising revenue). Wink
I doubt they make enough to quit work. Smiley

Freebitco.in makes 0.1 or 0.2 BTC per day, if I am not mistaken. Errr now its 0.175 BTC per day.
You can find the statistics here: http://adbit.co/?a=Advertise
Other faucets have lower rates, such as    0.007 BTC per day or 0.00011512 BTC per day.
Say you own freebitco.in then you make ~ 5.25 BTC per month, which is about 3365.99 USD.
Depending on where you live, it is enough or not enough. Of course, I do not mean to say that if you open a faucet it would run like this, but it could be profitable.
1368  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware on: June 07, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
If the murder rate would be down because of the conviction rate the other crimes would be also down like that but the percentages are not showing it at all.

Who said that the other crimes are not down?

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Japan/United-States/Crime

For example, the incidence of rape is 66 times lower in Japan, when compared to the US. Car theft is 20 times lower, and Assaults are 15 times lower.

You are obsessed with the us .. let it go for god sake

Seems like the conviction in japan isn't affecting kidnappings more than the one is Austria for example...

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Kidnappings
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Austria/Japan/Crime

Or the number of car thefts compared to ... Russia Smiley.




What is software piracy doing in the list?  It is very debatable whether software piracy is a crime.
Its a shame spyware is not on the list of crimes, spyware is simply allowed to be included in (commercial) software packages.

1369  Other / Politics & Society / Re: See, THIS is why we shouldn't have included Russia. on: June 07, 2014, 06:06:14 PM
simple

blow it up

With what use?
1370  Other / Off-topic / Re: Apollo 11 fake or real? on: June 07, 2014, 06:03:18 PM
The Soviets had put the first man in space, the Russian Yuri Gagarin. For this reason, the US wanted to be the first on the moon. The moon is not that far, 356,400 km to 406,700 km. Compare it to the distance to mars (average) 225.000.000 km

Sure, its was complex mission to put a person on the moon, and it could have been faked. But after ww2, they had the rocket technology (Operation Paperclip) to do the initial work. I think it is unlikely to be faked. Its generally seen as a big deal, but really, the moon is like a fish in the ocean.

Just because something is possible it doesn't mean that it is real, right? It does make it plausible though.

Right, it makes it plausible. If it really happend, I dont know
1371  Other / Off-topic / Re: Apollo 11 fake or real? on: June 07, 2014, 05:01:14 PM
The Soviets had put the first man in space, the Russian Yuri Gagarin. For this reason, the US wanted to be the first on the moon. The moon is not that far, 356,400 km to 406,700 km. Compare it to the distance to mars (average) 225.000.000 km

Sure, its was complex mission to put a person on the moon, and it could have been faked. But after ww2, they had the rocket technology (Operation Paperclip) to do the initial work. I think it is unlikely to be faked. Its generally seen as a big deal, but really, the moon is like a fish in the ocean.
1372  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 90 BTC stolen! on: June 07, 2014, 04:14:54 PM
I do not have any malware or key loggers on my PC according to my antivirus software. the wallet software was not even active when the transaction was supposedly executed - I launched it at around 12:45.

Windows antivirus softwares are not complete protection against malware. I've seen so many cases when antivirus software just can't see malware and block it. I administer around 500 computers, know what I'm talkig about.

Linux is the only way for fairly secure computing.

Anti-virus is only a 'fishing net' so to say, it may catch most of the spyware and viruses but not all. This is because, at the time a virus scanner is developed, several new viruses could be made - or they could come out after the virus scanner is released.
Linux is not the only way, I think you should be good with systems like FreeBSD also.
1373  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How many bitcoins are there? on: June 07, 2014, 04:11:45 PM
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21 million is a lot...

Can you imagine it to be physical coins lol.

21 million bitcoins, but many many more satoshi.  If I am not mistaken  2.100.000.000.000.000 satoshi
I could imagine it as physical coins, in fact they seem to exist:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-year-Silver-Plated-1oz-Bitcoin-Casascius-BTC-1-Physical-Bit-Coin-/161323538166?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item258fa1d6f6
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BITCOIN-Gold-plated-1OZ-coin-2013-AOCS-/191202039237?pt=UK_Coins_World_RL&hash=item2c848795c5
1374  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Edward Snowden calls for greater online privacy in Reset the Net campaign on: June 07, 2014, 04:01:58 PM
He can endorse whatever he feels to, its a free world isn't it.

No.  It isn't.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Its the wild wild west if anything. Dragnet surveillance and freedom do not go hand in hand
1375  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware on: June 07, 2014, 03:59:28 PM
The explosion of new laws allowing citizens to carry firearms concealed is a large factor in the crime drop over the last 10 years.

I'm old enough to remember the horror and gnashing of teeth when Concealed Carry was proposed in Texas.

The media assured us there would be gun battles in the streets every 15 minutes over contested parking spaces if filthy sinner humans were allowed to carry self-defense weapons.

The exact opposite happened.




Homicides rates:
 United States   4.8[9]
 Germany   0.8

Much more to come...

Compared to say Canada the homicide rate are much lower as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate  10.3 as compared Canada 2.38. Mexico has 11.17  and Australia 1.06



I wonder why Japan has such unbelievable low rates...

Interesting read:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-land-without-guns-how-japan-has-virtually-eliminated-shooting-deaths/260189/

But it offers no real explanation other than culture.

South Korea and Azerbaijan are also very low, could be a cultural thing, or climate;
1376  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware on: June 07, 2014, 03:35:18 PM
The explosion of new laws allowing citizens to carry firearms concealed is a large factor in the crime drop over the last 10 years.

I'm old enough to remember the horror and gnashing of teeth when Concealed Carry was proposed in Texas.

The media assured us there would be gun battles in the streets every 15 minutes over contested parking spaces if filthy sinner humans were allowed to carry self-defense weapons.

The exact opposite happened.




Homicides rates:
 United States   4.8[9]
 Germany   0.8

Much more to come...

Compared to say Canada the homicide rate are much lower as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate  10.3 as compared Canada 2.38. Mexico has 11.17  and Australia 1.06




1377  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Why bitcoin is going nowhere (too hard to buy bitcoin) on: June 07, 2014, 03:13:29 PM
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Ok, so I want some bitcoin in Australia.

What are my choices?

There are so many ways to get bitcoin.

Signature advertising
Provide services (on this forum), for example write some text, site reviews etc;
Sell products for btc
Sell services for btc
Bitcoin ATM. See http://bitcoinatmmap.com/  Shows two ATMs in Australia if you zoom in. In Melbourne and Dunning.
Work for btc (lots of jobs)
Make a website with (bitcoin) ads.
Faucets (gets you some btc, but mostly waste of time)
Meet people on a bitcoin conference, trade there. http://www.btcconference.com.au/
1378  Economy / Speculation / Re: Who wishes they had bought bitcoin when it was $540 or so? on: June 07, 2014, 12:56:52 PM
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Who wishes they had bought bitcoin when it was $540 or so?

I bought at $450 or so, rather wish I bought at $1 - but there was no way I could have known about bitcoin back then.
1379  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is BitCoin faucets really worth the time? on: June 07, 2014, 12:44:51 PM
It depends on how much bitcoin will be worth in the future.  Say you get 0.0001 BTC from a faucet, which is about 0.06 USD. Then if BTC will rise 100%, you'd have 6$ from the faucet. If that's worth your time depends completely on how much money you have  Smiley

Looks like you want to say "rise 100 times". Grin
When you are comparing faucets with other ways of earning bitcoin (such as sig program), the bitcoin price is irrelevant as both the payments are in btc.


Of course, when you compare it to other ways of getting btc (sig advertising, services) it is a complete waste of time. I wasnt aware faucets have decreased their payment rate.

1380  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is BitCoin faucets really worth the time? on: June 07, 2014, 11:41:52 AM
It depends on how much bitcoin will be worth in the future.  Say you get 0.0001 BTC from a faucet, which is about 0.06 USD. Then if BTC will rise 100%, you'd have 6$ from the faucet. If that's worth your time depends completely on how much money you have  Smiley
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