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41  Bitcoin / Press / Bitcoin In The Beltway - Episode One - Jason King Sean's Outpost - Perianne Bori on: July 06, 2014, 04:38:55 PM
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdw_kbxIpyI

Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/29ywgz/bitcoin_in_the_beltway_episode_one_jason_king/
42  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: one antminer S1 + two bfl power supplies (fun) on: July 01, 2014, 08:32:50 PM
Do you want an S1 or the charred remains of what once was an S1?

+1

If you use those BFL supplies (the ones that look like huge laptop bricks with a little fan) you will probably end up with something broken or worse. 

If you got a name brand power supply from BFL with a professionally made on jumper like I did you should be ok. 
43  Economy / Marketplace / Re: BitCoin Refrigerator magnet 2" x 8" with bitcoin.org website address for BTC on: June 29, 2014, 04:48:02 AM
necrobump - now $1.99
44  Other / Politics & Society / Re: North Korea threatens "merciless" response over Seth Rogen film on: June 27, 2014, 01:36:22 AM
Funny, they threatened the USA........

SETH ROGEN IS CANADIAN!
45  Other / Politics & Society / Re: USA is getting adversely affected by Immigrants on: June 24, 2014, 04:40:26 AM
The problem with the US is that they are getting too few high-skilled immigrants and they are getting too many of those illiterate and illegal immigrants.

For any person who is working in white-collar fields such as IT, Banking or Medicine, the American Work Visa is extremely difficult to get. The Democrats have made it extremely difficult for Europeans to get the US visa.

Wow.  I actually agree with you. 

The Mexican illegals on the other hand have no such problems. They are being able to travel to and fro as they wish, and work without paying a penny in taxes. They even have sanctuary cities, which protect them.

Mexican illegals actually do pay taxes.  They often work under other peoples SSN, paying the tax but unable to collect the benefits.  They also pay sales taxes and since they are usually poor, it is usually on most of the items they buy.   They DO get some other benefits such as education and free hospital care (because they often do not pay for it even if it is billed). 

On the balance, most studies show they do not cost more then they provide as they are unable to get many benefits from their taxes.  They for example cannot get Social Security and unemployment insurance payments even though they generally pay into these. 

Since they provide low cost labor to the service industries and farming that other Americans SIMPLY WILL NOT DO they do provide a service.  In the case of farming they provide a significant amount of food security to the USA.  On the eastern shore of Maryland we have farmers unable to fill picking jobs even at $10+ an hour, properly advertised so these workers are not yet taking ENOUGH jobs and certainly not from Americans.     Most of this farming and yard work is done my Mexicans.  After some high profile busts there were not enough workers and crops were left to ROT. 

46  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How The Trans-Agenda Seeks To Redefine Everyone on: June 24, 2014, 04:30:05 AM


The transgender movement has strong totalitarian overtones that Americans don’t fully understand.

[...]
It’s About Control, Not Rights

The transgender movement has strong totalitarian overtones that Americans (especially certain senators) don’t fully understand. How else to describe a crusade with such far-reaching consequences for First Amendment rights? The legal destruction of gender distinctions will inevitably dissolve family autonomy, thereby uprooting freedom of association. Free expression becomes “hate speech” if one doesn’t fall into line with the directives of the transgender lobby or its pronoun protocol. Freedom of religion takes a direct hit any way you look at it.

Under the guise of “rights,” the transgender movement can serve as convenient cover for consolidating and centralizing power under an ever-expanding State. Once we allow the State to refuse to recognize that children result from the male-female union, we grant the State more power to separate us from our children. As power becomes more centralized in the State, the individuals and institutions of the State, inevitably flawed, end up owning our personal relationships. With weakened mediating institutions—family, churches, private associations—we lose the buffer zones that stand between individuals and an encroaching state.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/23/how-the-trans-agenda-seeks-to-redefine-everyone/



This article is trash.  It does not even clearly state a point, is wrong about almost everything it says and is almost unreadable. 

47  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian CPU on: June 24, 2014, 04:23:17 AM

This is awesome news to me for a variety of reasons.  My interest is mostly associated with security, but some of them simply technical in terms of architecture.

  http://www.techspot.com/news/57199-russia-plans-to-ditch-us-processors-inside-government-pcs-in-favor-of-local-chips.html

I'll certainly try to be one of the first customers and an active tester of secure OS's that might run under the architecture.  Russia is not saying specifically that they don't trust American made chips to be free of back-doors.  Nor have I heard any official statements that the effort is to be sufficiently open-source.  It could be that Russia simply wants their own back-doors.  Even in this case, as an American a Russian exploit is less threatening to me than an NSA one.

I hope that the Russians follow up with (supposedly) secure chipsets and other necessary developments.  Ideally we'll see a complete suite of hardware components that can be audited.  As a consumer I would pay at least double for a device which I could realistically and comprehensively verified to be secure, and probably more.

It is interesting to me that the Chinese have not made more of an issue of this.  A logical hypothesis is that they are at least as interested in and proficient at implementing backdoors as the Americans are.

Not too surprising, Russia wants to expand into other markets. They do not want to depend on other countries for CPU's;
What kind of backdoors are in American CPU's ?


Great.  A political CPU.  I am sure it will be GREAT!

1) It is NOT a Russian CPU, it is a UK design
2) It is not current desktop class
3) It is not X86

The UK design could have just as many backdoors as any US design. 


Sounds nice, but unfortunately you don't know what your are talking about.  If you license a core from ARM you have high visibility into the circuitry and firmware.  This differs significantly from buying a packaged unit from Intel or AMD.  You can take solace in the fact that a lot of others share your ignorance.


It is a shame you followed up with a personal attack.  All three of my bullet points are correct. 

CPU's do not have firmware they have microcode.  Purchasing and seeing both the microcode and the circuitry might give you some chance of spotting a backdoor but no guarantee.  Again, the main point of my statement, a CPU is a bad place to put a backdoor in the first place.  This is political posturing. 

Show me a Russian made motherboard with Russian made support chips and you have something, otherwise it is pointless.

48  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian CPU on: June 24, 2014, 03:42:52 AM

This is awesome news to me for a variety of reasons.  My interest is mostly associated with security, but some of them simply technical in terms of architecture.

  http://www.techspot.com/news/57199-russia-plans-to-ditch-us-processors-inside-government-pcs-in-favor-of-local-chips.html

I'll certainly try to be one of the first customers and an active tester of secure OS's that might run under the architecture.  Russia is not saying specifically that they don't trust American made chips to be free of back-doors.  Nor have I heard any official statements that the effort is to be sufficiently open-source.  It could be that Russia simply wants their own back-doors.  Even in this case, as an American a Russian exploit is less threatening to me than an NSA one.

I hope that the Russians follow up with (supposedly) secure chipsets and other necessary developments.  Ideally we'll see a complete suite of hardware components that can be audited.  As a consumer I would pay at least double for a device which I could realistically and comprehensively verified to be secure, and probably more.

It is interesting to me that the Chinese have not made more of an issue of this.  A logical hypothesis is that they are at least as interested in and proficient at implementing backdoors as the Americans are.

Not too surprising, Russia wants to expand into other markets. They do not want to depend on other countries for CPU's;
What kind of backdoors are in American CPU's ?


Great.  A political CPU.  I am sure it will be GREAT!

1) It is NOT a Russian CPU, it is a UK design
2) It is not current desktop class
3) It is not X86

The UK design could have just as many backdoors as any US design. 

If I were trying to ensure Russian computer security I would be much more concerned about software, chipsets and networking components.  It is much harder to put MEANINGFUL backdoors in a CPU then in the items I mentioned.  Unless the chipsets and networking components are MADE IN RUSSIA it is pointless where the CPU is made. 

49  Economy / Goods / Re: Bitcoin T-Shirts and embroidered polo shirts paid via BTC on: June 22, 2014, 02:45:36 AM
bump
50  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Argentina Debt Crisis: U.S. Demands 1.5 billion cash (Bitcoin to Rescue?) on: June 22, 2014, 02:43:14 AM
U.S. wants 1.5 billion cash, Argentina says they can't but are willing to settle.  

If I were in Argentina, I'd be moving my savings to Bitcoin ASAP.

Argentina: Won't submit to 'extortion' on debt

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/High-court-rejects-Argentina-s-appeal-over-debt-5555358.php#photo-6463213
Why would they need to move it to bitcoin?

Really it's too late for that. But the point would be if it was in Bitcoin he could not be seized. The private investors will be attempting to seize assets all over the world including even things like spacelaunch contracts.

Even if they had it in bitcoin, private investors could seize whatever assets Argentina were to buy with their bitcoin when they go to spend it

Depends on how they did things.  If they only spend the BTC in places that don't recognize the debt they will be fine.  If the debt was not valid in China, they could purchase items in China shipped directly to Argentina.   I am not advocating this, I am just pointing it out. 
51  Bitcoin / Meetups / Re: Bitcoin Conference Russia, August 9, St.Petersburg on: June 22, 2014, 12:22:30 AM
Bitcoin is considered illegal in Russia. Why do you  plan such a meeting?

Bitcoin is not considered illegal in Russia.
State your source or stop spreading FUD.

Russia today and reuters.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1806620140209?irpc=932

http://rt.com/business/bitcoin-russia-use-ban-942/
52  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Argentina Debt Crisis: U.S. Demands 1.5 billion cash (Bitcoin to Rescue?) on: June 20, 2014, 06:21:06 PM
U.S. wants 1.5 billion cash, Argentina says they can't but are willing to settle.  

If I were in Argentina, I'd be moving my savings to Bitcoin ASAP.

Argentina: Won't submit to 'extortion' on debt

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/High-court-rejects-Argentina-s-appeal-over-debt-5555358.php#photo-6463213
Why would they need to move it to bitcoin?

Really it's too late for that. But the point would be if it was in Bitcoin he could not be seized. The private investors will be attempting to seize assets all over the world including even things like spacelaunch contracts.
53  Economy / Collectibles / Re: A new 2-sided Bitcoin Keychain on: June 18, 2014, 03:25:16 AM
Time to mention another reseller, who just reordered our Bitcoin (and Litecoin) Keychains! If you haven't checked out Crypto Anarchy's web store out yet, give it a look:
http://www.cryptoanarchy.com/store

I will be at the Bitcoin in the Beltway convention http://bitcoinbeltway.com/ this weekend with a table.  When people see this keychain in person it sells!  The look and quality really impress.  You can pick one up with no shipping cost and get a free sticker as well. 
54  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Bitcoin T Shirt Store Promo 15% Off All Bitcoin T Shirts (coupon inside) on: June 17, 2014, 08:25:52 PM
Aw, I wish you guys accepted Bitcoin...

Which designs do you like?  Some if them I can make very similar ( as they are rips of my products anyhow ) for similar cost payable in BTC.   I have been selling since 2011.
55  Economy / Goods / Re: Mint iPhone 5s 64gb Factory Unlocked $300BTC ESCROW on: June 17, 2014, 08:21:12 PM
I pmed the OP asking to buy via of ognasty escrow as well.
56  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Addresses: What happens after 20 years? on: June 17, 2014, 06:44:53 PM
I assume this factors in the fact that many people are trying to get vanity addresses?  how fast can these generators generate new addys?

It doesn't matter.  It isn't a concern.

Many people seem to have a very difficult time comprehending just how big the numbers we are dealing with are.

These numbers are Carl Sagan big. 

We can effectively say it is not possible to run out of addresses.
57  Economy / Goods / Re: [wts] New design Bitcoin accepted here stickers, UV protected outdoor vinyl on: June 17, 2014, 05:41:29 PM
bump
58  Economy / Goods / [WTS] Bitcoin bumper sticker "In Cryptography We Trust" for about 5 mBTC shipped on: June 17, 2014, 05:40:32 PM
bump
59  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: <Antminer S1> No lights on RJ45 ports on: June 17, 2014, 02:26:19 PM
to my opinion all 3 ants is kind of difficult to be fried.
put in your computer ip 192.168.1.50  , subnet 255.255.0.0
connect an  ethernet cable from the antminer to your computer DIRECTLY.
ping 192.168.1.99 . you should have a reply.  this ip is the most common for antminers.
When you have your reply, login and configure it according to your needs

Thanks for the response.
I do try that with
IP: 192.168.1.88
Subnet: 255.255.255.0 (not 255.255.0.0)
Gateway/DNS: 192.168.1.1
and ping 192.168.1.99

The thing is it worked at the beginning, but it suddenly stopped working.
I do suspect that it is rare for all of 3 miners to be fried at once.
Is that anything I should check/suspect?
Thanks

One of mine did this same behavour after a power failure.  I reset it, did not help at first.  Then I turned it off for an hour, that helped. 
60  Other / Meta / conferences in the main area not buried in meetups on: June 16, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
All of the conference information is buried in meetups.  Unfortunately many people do not know to look there.  Can major conferences be allowed to have a thread in the main board?   They are more then just meetups that are happening all over the country on a near daily basis, there are about one each month or less and they are a major source of good press and information for Bitcoin. 

Meetups are near daily events with 1-50 people.  Conferences are monthly with usually well over 500 and more like 1000 peolple, they should be treated a little differently. 

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