I've noticed certain repeating characteristic in the writing of many members of this forum: they construct grammatically correct sentences but absolutely disregard the underlying semantics: incoming vs. outgoing, local vs. remote, source vs. destination, etc. Here in regards to TCP/IP ports, but I observed that in regards to pretty much any technical issue.

It reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad , but doesn't go as far in the unintelligibility. It is more akin to somebody just memorizing sentences and phrases without any sort of comprehension, something that actors have to do well.

What would be the real underlying psychological mechanism at work here? Conformism? Or maybe there is a physiological explanation, like some sort of milder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff%27s_syndrome ?

I'm really puzzled, because I've noticed this also in some very visible and high-level people, eg. core developers talking about the hardware design instead of the software design.

If they were really honest they wouldn't be mooching off of the collectivists. They would move to a free place and use their own rules-free Internet, drink their own unregulated water and send their children to their own schools free from oppression.

The honest truth is all the libertarian attempts at independent social organization invariably fail either:

1) because they are compulsive tightwads, skinflints, scrooges and grinches who rather die than contribute to a common good. Those are either eaten by the wild animals or easily subjugated by the organized crime gangs.

2) fall prey to the internal criminal abuse from the members who simply pretended to subscribe to their ideals but in reality ripped the rest off in a confidence game.

The only way the libertarians survive is similar to Roma/Gypsy people: a periphery of the stabler societies with more reliable means of production.

You want to think you are different and unique. But no, you are just a basket case of young high-earning programmer who just moved out of the parents home. Your basket stands right next to the basket with very young very-high-earning models who just moved out of their parents home.
Hell is paved with good intentions. Your sincere promise of taking care of your future children is worthless to the society. Beggars (both old folks and children) are considered eyesore by the society and the current solution is to forcibly tax everyone so they can be rounded out of the streets when old/infirm or forcibly schooled/housed when their freedom-loving parents won't care for them.

If you actually had a backing to your promise, like a ownership of land or other means of production, you wouldn't be spouting out the transparently naive individualism. Your parents would have successfully enculturated you into some respect to the neighbors, business partners and you would've clearly shown better understanding of why&how the society creates and maintains its rules.
The hard-core Austrian economics are inseparably mixed with the hard-core libertarianism: by the personalities of the leading thinkers and proponents, by their avoidance of mathematics, statistics and other tools of science. Also there's simply lot of correlation/overlap in the social groups where they gain their supporters. You can't escape that.

Sure. One of my duties is being a liaison with employees (programming & technical support) who have freedom to work out of home, if they so desire and if we have a slow season. So I'm wrong both ways:

1) I'm too nosy when I'm explicitly admonishing them to abstain from using unregulated substances (that they have bought in a person-to-person transactions that the government should have no business regulating) in their own free time. I'm also too nosy when I admonish those peeps to be less egocentric and have a real support network of family and friends (not net-friends).

2) I'm not nosy enough when they die alone and stink up the neighborhood as a result of inhaling those substances (or playing with the guns they purchased with their own money). I'm not nosy enough even if I recognized that they have no real social contact besides coworkers and should have been visiting them at home.

Of the two accusations above I choose being accused of (1), because it gives me some opportunity to warn people in advance, not just react quicker to a problematic situation.

No Nicholas, you didn't talk explicitly about libertarians.

You've just spoken about personal economic decisions like them, especially the ones who are wife-less, child-less & land-less. You are so precariously naive that I don't consider you (plural you, the people in the peculiar social situation like you personally) a worthwhile discussion partner about long-term economic decision making. Because I've seen too many single male programmers/computer technicians with the similar mindset. Either time&life will cure them out of their egotism/egocentrism or they die completely alone and their cadaver is picked up by the municipal services and absolutely nobody shows interest where and when will be the funeral. The employer is finally alerted to their death when those services are trying to collect on the death benefit of the health&life insurance.

I don't remember the exact "death alone" statistics from my employer's human resources department, but the programming department was on top, then technical support, then big gap and then inside sales.

Anyway, since Rothbard was now mentioned twice I'm going to quote a fragment from Chapter 13 "Punishment & Proportionality" from his "Ethics of Liberty".


This may read like ad hominem towards Nicholas, but it really isn't against him, but the class of people he represents in his thinking and writing.

I kinda like playing bullshit bingo. So lets count who has a computer now:

1) Amazon has EC2 computer
2) Microsoft has Azure computer
3) Google has a BigTable computer
4) Apple too has some computer
5) Rackspace has some generic "cloud" computer

Everyone else has either a tablet or a smartphone.

So the prediction is true, the world has about 5 computers and lots of dumb terminals. Win for economic modeling from the sixties!

OK, this is bullshit. You must have slept through some lecture at your school. This is true only if your state vector is zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-space_representation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory

It is hard to argue with the rest of your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmik_Debris if we aren't using the usual mathematical terminology anymore.

Edit: Actually I take back "hard to argue". I should've written "not worth to argue". I re-read you previous reply where you mentioned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter . In any sensible control theory curriculum they discuss things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luenberger_observer way earlier, when still explaining LTI (linear, time-invariant) systems.

So the conclusion is that you either:

A) come here to intentionally confuse (a.k.a. troll),
B) studied control theory from the special curriculum for Austrians where they only consider memory-less systems (a.k.a. undereducated or retard).

In any way, not worth further discussion.

Sorry, I'm long out this market segment. I handed the project I was involved to the production people long time ago. I'd used commercial/for-pay software and hardware that I don't think is relevant anymore.

Two suggestions:

1) look not for "QR code reader" but for "image processing library/toolbox/toolkit".
2) if you use an open-source (or paid for closed-source) then getting the required FEC/payload ratio and S/N ratio is a quite simple modification. Few lines of code at the maximum. In my experience the difficult part is to understand the underlying concepts of forward-error-correction and channel noise and how they are used properly or misused (nefariously or due to lack of understanding).

I'm just going to guess that you are completely unfamiliar with modeling of chaotic systems.

Here's the simplest to understand example that I know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_diagram

"These algorithms" give ranges of answers, not single answers. It is up to economic decision maker to choose which portion of the range they are aiming at and which portion they want to avoid.

Can you distinguish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy ?

Are you really taking your knowledge of economy, statistics and other sciences from the TV and political speeches?

Are you pretending to be member of the uneducated underclass as a way of jump-starting the discussion?

Or do you really behave like the uneducated masses in your real life? I'm really confused. Are you a self-taught programmer or did you study computer science in some formal educational institution?

Spoken like true wife-less, child-less & land-less libertarian. In the real society your personal choices affect the life of your current family, your future family and your neighbors life and land values. Therefore the society has a stake in influencing your decisions.

The general problem with Homo Sapiens is that it is most fertile when young and stupid (or at least when not that smart). Even the ultra-assholey people who would have no problem with killing dumb libertarians (or letting libertarians kill themselves as a result of their stupidity and short-term thinking) will have problem killing children of the libertarians. So the society has a stake in forcing libertarians to send children to school instead of sending them to steal or to beg.

Libertarians are like Roma/Gypsy people in the sense that they can exist as a semi-stable community only at the periphery of the regular society. And the regular society has a stake in periodically culling the worst excesses in those roaming bands.

Anyway, read the "Ethics of Liberty" and please point me to the libertarian way of preventing infanticide or other within-the-family crime.

Why you omitted time-variant models from the consideration?

By whose definition?

Scientific literature is full of hidden-state/unobservable-state and reflective models, "observers" as an algorithmic way of estimating the not-directly-observable state, etc.

I don't know if you are trying to omit most of 20-th century research as a dialectic technique or are you simply unfamiliar with the required math and therefore consider it all false/impossible?
 
Sounds more like a religious credo than a science. And that is the problem with most Austrian economic literature: they very much resemble theological tracts.

Edit: But in comparison to other religions the Austrian economics is a sort of religion without ethics, (programmatically so, because of the free-choice axiom). This is the reason why many (if not most) consider them morally bankrupt from the start.

Ha ha, we went through this argument (about not begin able to step into the same river twice) about 2000 years ago. I actually had to consult the Wikipedia, it was 2500 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

Both philosophy and science made significant progress since then.

I'll now repeat what I've said before: an admiration for the founders and faculty of my Alma Mater who forced on us 2 semesters of general philosophy and 1 semester of philosophy of science. It seemed so useless then, when I was young. Now that I'm older I can just laugh out at the naives getting snared into the bazaar sophistry. This type of argumentation must have been ancient Greek bazaar equivalent of the three-card-monte of the modern swap-meet.

Next time I'm going to visit my Alma Mater I'll propose adding one more semester of "philosophizing for profit (with fun optional)". This should teach the future graduates how to profitably exploit the knowledge that e.g. quantum mechanics is both demonstrably false and fruitful area of scientific research. With Bitcoin as a bait it will be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

The account system within Bitcoin Core is conceptually broken and will be depreciated. Do not use it.

To directly answer your question: you probably have some other "accounts" with negative balances that altogether sum to zero.

There is no "issue with the files somehow". There is an issue with your hardware or software. In my limited experience the most common problem with corrupted files on Windows, even with "fresh installs", is caused by the buggy antivirus or security packages. Edit: The second most common is that people who claim "fresh installs" actually don't do a fresh install but some sort of "OEM restore" that riddles the Windows with crapware, which although not malicious is frequently ultra buggy. The true "fresh install" is from non-writable original Microsoft disk or from a writable disk/image with SHA1 verified with MSDN/Technet/other official Microsoft channel source, not through an OEM. End of edit.

Bitcoin lets you be your own bank. Then just be your own bank and put your wallet on a backup computer (you do have a backup computer, right?). You'll quickly learn that you have problem with your primary computer.

I think the "mask" you are talking about is a 2-dimensional implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorrelation or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitening_transformation . It only needs to be pseudo-random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler , not an actual non-deterministic noise source.

QR codes are deterministic, but contain error-correction information in addition to the encoded payload. There are a lot of libraries that intentionally do a sloppy work in letting you specify the ratio of payload bits to forward-error-correction bits to be user-friendly (or loser-friendly). Get a good library and you'll get 100% reproducibility.

Moreover get a good QR reader that not only displays the payload bits but the signal/noise ratio for the decoded result.

Edit: OK, I need to explain the "loser-friendly" to avoid making it sound like a vain vapid insult.

One can intentionally produce "bad" QR code images in the sense that they aren't perfect representation of the correct encoded bitstream. Because of the redundancy in encoding they will still read correctly with a normal decoder (with S/N ratio of say 20dB). The "bad"-ness is a side channel that can still be read with a modified decoder that not only reads the "main" payload but also the "side" payload (with a lower S/N margin of say 3dB).

Tricks like that have been used in e.g. theft tracing or as a secret "cookie" in marketing campaigns intended to be read by some closed-source free app. So if your good QR reader some QR code with very large noise margin or surprisingly large ratio of FEC bits you may have a reason to believe that the QR code contains a side channel.

Edit2: Obviously with cryptographic application modified QR codes with side-channels can be used to leak the private key information, but I haven't heard of that happening yet.

Either hardware problem in the VM host or corruption in the VM guest.

Good stress test for the host hardware: http://www.mersenne.org/download/ . If the host passes the test reinstall fresh guest VM from the clean Windows media.

No point in futzing with Bitcoin, just make sure to have a good wallet backup.

Edit: PS: Move this thread to the "Technical Support" forum. "Move" is available to you on the bottom left of the page.

Dude, you are just a confirmation that Hughes does have a correct policy of treating all consumer-level users as either hicks or repeated TOS violators who burned all possible terrestrial ISP options in their location.

Anyway, for the people interested in the satellite ISPs the intelligent user plan is two point:

1) learn a bit about the specifics of the satellite technology so you don't sound like a vengeful hick with a shotgun,
2) escalate through the installer/reseller support channel.

Edit: I don't want to play thread bump games with tvbcof, so I'm going to edit this message.

Bingo!

I don't want to drag this thread further away off-topic, so a few more observations of importance to those who have to use the wireless ISP:

3) large percentage of customers for those ISPs are high credit risk people. Many non-mobile wireless ISPs therefore sell and install rather strange configurations where all the expensive equipment is outdoors (easier to repossess after payment default) and only an elaborate but cheap power supply is indoor.
4) the same ISPs have seemingly strange fixation on selling "family" plans. It is their way to filter out dangerous loners with no wife/children. The "militarized loners" market segments are separately served through other outlets like military surplus stores.
5) even with very minimal technical skills you should be able to rent and configure yourself a remote server that you can locate in an well-connected area and minimize the bandwidth requirements for "the last miles to the cabin in the woods."

Yes, I did. I even got invited to Hughes' headquarters in Inglewood to discuss various technical options (not related to Bitcoin).

I think you understand that their consumer market are the proverbial "hicks" and it requires the approach appropriate to hicks. From your avoidance of the 3 technical questions I asked I'm going to assume that you actually don't have the required technical background for a productive discussion with their engineering and NOC staff.

At least T1 is fully symmetric, so you'll have no problems then.