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I am voting against the draw offer. I find it premature in this kind of position.
29. b4 (ArticMine, XMRpromotions, smooth)
Draw offer
For: smooth
Against: ArticMine
If tie the draw offer stands since the for preceeded the against.
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Well after reading this thread here is an interesting link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door. It is not just about earning 1,000,000 USD or more many people do that, it is about keeping it. I stand by my position that in places such as Europe and North America the secret to wealth lies on the expense side rather than the income side of the ledger. Just as the secret to personal privacy and freedom lies in saying NO to the sales pitches of major corporations so does the secret to wealth. |
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Edit: The first step in dealing with a threat is to correctly identify it. ?
Like MS + Redhat teaming up ?
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This misses the point entirely. It does not matter who writes the Free Software Microsoft, the NSA etc. What matters is that anyone can independently review the software. With propriety software you are not even allowed to look at the code, in fact in many cases it is actually illegal to look at the code. With DRM you do not even have control of your devices. What you have is the illusion of control. Focusing on governments ignores the real threat which is corporations trying to control your every move for profit. Those who do not see the real threat need to learn about the PRISM program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 Cutting off the corporations from the data deals with the whole threat including the much smaller threat posed by governments who for the most part obtain their spying data from those same corporations. Edit 1: This quote illustrate what I mean by the illusion of control. The only entity who owns a Windows computer is Microsoft. i think your high on crack buddy.. brain damaged from meth ?
it was a terrorist attack.. plain and simple
save the conspiracy for the Chemtrails and Big Foot.
Since you don't know how privacy laws work or laws that branch country to country
or even how computers work i will just say it wouldn't happen.. ever.
WHY ?
Because guys like me would crack it in a few minutes and spread it across the globe in a heart beat.
I found a Firewall program i liked for windows about 10 years ago now.
You're supposed to buy it to unlock the full version..
So i keygened it and posted it online.
It used a caeser cipher and SHA 256 encryption.
I made 3 keygens.. 1 in .NET (with GUI)
then i made 2 in 'C'
one with a console and one with out. (Win32 API GUI)
THEN.. when i was getting mouthed off by the developer about my handy work online..
I told him he should watch it or "the scene" would have a run at him..
Then i posted a patched .net binary and a picture showing how i could crack and patch his Firewall security
with 1 single fucking byte.. he said i was a liar.
So i posted the picture plus a tutorial and source code for all three keygens and asked him
what did you say ?
He claimed my patch did not work LOL
of course it did hahahha
Then within the week scene groups in the warez scene started pre'ing his ass hard = i had my ROFL'z
But hey it's cute you think you know about computers though.. how adorable LOL
Moral of the story ?
ANY program i have on my machine i crack at will.. i own them.
I am the boss and i AM in charge.. i'm Spoetnik dammit !
Like robin hood i will knock the faggots out and hand the shit out to the common man.
Unlike rich fuckers who live in a Castle with a Bentley.
..uhhm like you ?
PS:
You forgot to self mod this topic baby..
And uhh Off-Topic much champ ?
Edit 2: The next time you go out count how many security cameras are pointed at you. 1) Those controlled by private businesses 2) Those controlled by governments. Then one finds out who is really doing the spying here. |
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I like b4 better. Be6 seems likely followed by Rf6 and then we just move the bishop back. At least with b4 we are advancing our pawns to the point where black may at some point need to give something up to stop them. Probably not (and we still draw), but it is possible.
3 votes for Be6: ArticMine, LucyLovesCrypto, XMRChina
1 vote for Bxc6: nwfella
2 vote b4: XMRpromotions, smooth
Yes we both had the same reason for voting b4 last move. I think we should play Bd5 here. After Nd4 we have another chance to play b4. The position is now about even because of the time we just wasted. However like you said the most likely result probably would have been a draw after 27.b4 anyway (although I did prefer our position and thought we had at least some winning chances). After 28.Rxd6 black can play Kf8 (preventing 29.Rd7+ getting us out of the pin and threatening Ke7 and Nd4) making our material gain only temporary. 28.Rxd6 Kf8 29.c5 Ke7 30.Bd5 Rxd6 31.cxd6+ Kxd6 32.Bxc6 simplifies the game to a dead drawn position Don't be mad about me sharing any secrets. I am virtually certain that at least one or two of the Boolberry players saw the Kf8 idea before playing e5 (based on my observations of their skill in this game and in the games vs letsplayagame: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148538.0) 28.Bd5 is the only chance we have to keep things somewhat dynamic. 1 vote for 28.Bd5: XMRpromotions I thought Be6 won a pawn:( If I had seen all of that I would not have voted for it. At least we did not lose any material:) 2 votes for 28.Bd5: XMRpromotions, LucyLovesCrypto I must admit I missed 28. ... Kf8; nevertheless I would not play 32. Bc6 in the line above. The bishop is stronger than the knight in that ending. What I do not like about that line is the centralized black king. I am voting for 28. Bd5. Admitting one is wrong is needed more often than not in chess as in life. |
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Yeah. The world is moving closer to the time that the NSA etc. can actually use the data they have stolen over the years. People will be divided to sheep and goats, and 8 million pairs of shackles are awaiting the goats in FEMA railway cars. Long time ago I estimated that 75% of the bitcoins are accessible to the NSA with no torture whatsoever, just that they have stolen the passwords via the malware and other methods at their disposal.
The NFL is a much greater threat to civil liberties than the NSA. The reason: The NFL requires people to accept DRM and proprietary operating systems in order to watch the Super Bowl. Edit: The first step in dealing with a threat is to correctly identify it. |
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Without the co-operation of the operating system this is very difficult if it is even possible at all. More often than not the malware is installed via Windows. The proper way to deal with this is from the prespective of risk mitigation. One can never eliminate all risk, but one can can eliminate by far most of the risk by simply running a FREE SOFTWARE operating system on the hardware. Edit 1: One must keep in mind that there remains the risk of being hit by lightning. Edit 2: Free Software operating systems remain safe to use. |
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But as to the main point - are there any technologies that allow you to store and move value online so that nothing you ever type on your keyboard can be used to decipher access codes that allow the transfer of more value in the future? How does that work?
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Very simple. Say no to proprietary operating systems. The first step is to click I do not agree on Microsoft's and Apple's EULAs. I posted on simple solutions using GNU/Linux in the Windows 10 security issues thread. If you trust Microsoft and the US Government with your private keys then by all means use Windows 10. I use GNU/Linux and I must say that I trust the US Government way more than many on this forum.
As for staying with Windows 7, why keep fighting change? The direction that Microsoft is heading in has been very clear for a very long time. I moved to GNU/Linux back in 2006 since at the time I did not like the "vista" on the horizon.
I switched to GNU/linux back in 2009. The only problem for me arose when I bought an HP laptop. It has been a pain in the ass only to install Ubuntu due to UEFI restrictions. After I installed everything, wifi and video card would not work properly and I had to go back to win 8.1 I also tried manjaro linux (based on Arch) and opensuse but nothing changed. Do you know any good laptop which are fully compatible with linux nowadays? The first thing to understand about buying a laptop from a vendor such as HP is that there are basically two kinds of laptops. Those sold to consumers and students which are basically junk that is engineered to fail in about 6 months, and those sold to businesses that are quality products designed to last for a long time. It is important to realize that the same manufacturers are selling both the junk and the quality products. The simple way to tell them apart is that the consumer versions come with a glossy high glare screen and the "standard" "home" or "personal" versions of Windows while the business versions come with a matt anti glare screen and the "pro" or "business versions of Windows. So "HP Laptop" is meaningless depending on whether it is consumer or business it is either a piece of junk or a quality product. The option for a GNU/Linux laptop are several depending on budget. 1) Purchase a Laptop that is designed from the ground up to run GNU/Linux Here are some examples: https://puri.sm/ This in an over subscribed crowd funding campaign for a Laptop designed for 100% Libre GNU/linux distributions. This by the way ensures it will work with virtually any modern GNU/linux distribution. https://system76.com/zareason.com/etc. 2) Purchase an older (Windows 7 era) business laptop, and upgrade the hard drive to large SSD and possibly also the RAM. Before buying check online if that particular model has any driver issues with GNU/Linux. One thing to keep in mind is that if it is two or there years old and there little or no hits on the fora then it is likely to have few if any problems. Also when it comes to drivers GNU/Linux is very good at supporting hardware typically after about 2 years so something that failed say in 2013 could very easily work fine today. I recently bought two HP 2760p EliteBooks from a government auction for well under 200 CAD each. After adding a 1 TB SSD each and upgrading the RAM on one to 16 GB and the other to 8 GB I have two quality laptops that will last me a long time. One of them replaced an HP Evo 1000c with a Windows 2000 logo and 3.5in floppy drive that provided me with close to a decade of service. When I replaced it this summer it was running a full Bitcoin node using Trisquel GNU/linux. By the way UEFI should not be a problem if it is unlocked (Windows 8.x and earlier). Just go into the bios and unlock it. If it is a Windows 10 machine it may be locked. I suspect that most of the locked Windows 10 laptops will be sold to consumers as part of Microsoft and its partners ongoing junk for consumers program. 3) Buy a Chromebook and upgrade the hard drive. Chromebooks are good GNU/Linux computers except that they have ridiculously small hard drives. They have to be sold unlocked because Chrome OS contains GPLv3 code. Edit: I have been using this very simple solution for well over 9 years before crypto currencies even existed. |
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Damn he got a nice car (and a castle), you guys donīt even have a driver license.
You gave it to him!
When he got the castle my first thought was how much would it cost to heat it in the winter and whether mining a POW crypto currency would be a cost effective way of heating the castle. Edit: It gets pretty cold in Estonia during winter. |
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Nothing happens to empty blocks. Blocks can include up to 60 KB of transactions without any penalty (60 KB/2 min so 50% increase from the current 20 KB/1 min). Above 60 KB, more transactions can still be added up to double the current full reward zone size but they will incur a penalty. The 60 KB full reward zone can grow (and then subsequently can shrink) based on the median size of previous blocks.
This is why Monero, unlike most POW coins, does not have a max blocksize issue such as the 1 MB blocksize limit in Bitcoin. |
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Yes that is right. The block time and 60 KB full reward zone (minimum amount of transactions allowed in each block without any penalty) can't be changed without a hard fork, so that will wait until April or so. Most of the features of 0.9 will be active right away though.
So would I presume the now min 0.6 XMR (based on 2 min blocks) per block tail emission since that was not included in the official 0.8.6.6. binaries as far as I understand. |
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26. a3
Takes b4 away from the knight and in this type of ending the pawns belong on a different colour square from the bishop.
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So what are the technical weaknesses of Monero, nutilduh?
We've discussed the weaknesses of dash: the algorithm(s), the instamine, darksend, the fallacy of decentralized goverance where a few probably hold an inordinate amount of coins thanks to an instamine and the lowering of emissions shortly thereafter (I may have missed one or two).
... or economic or regulatory for that matter? |
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Just stating the facts, ma'am.
"Facts" that are irrelevant to the debate. |
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Shouldn't this thread have been titled "Icebreaker is a Hardcore Monero Shill?"
It would have made much more sense.
Maybe if we focused on the technical, economic and regulatory strengths and weaknesses of both coins rather than this endless bashing of personalities we could have a somewhat civilized debate. |
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The less scrutiny an algorithm has been under the more risk for vulnerability existing.
11 times whatever likelihood is still less likely than the 100% certainty of launching with an intentionally crippled miner. Unless you believe 11 times 10% risk is 110% risk for example.
Why are you trying to distract from the issue? The crippled miner issue was fixed quickly in Monero and with little effects, whereas the instamine 100% happened to the tune of 30% of current emissions and the algorithm issue is current and on going, and far as I know, has no plans of being changed. ... but what is far more important than the instamine, is that the multiple algorithm issue remains as a vulnerability in Dash. Edit: The instamine issue in Dash has been beaten to death and distracts from some significant technical and economic weaknesses and regulatory risks in Dash that are far more serious. |
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it's better to load up a virtual machine than spending money on a second computer, there is no way to have the access to the VM, unless they have admin control or something in windows 10
so run the client inside this vm and you're done , or simply remain with windows 7, there is no need to switch even to windows 8 let alone 10...the problem might arise if they cut the support of win 7...
Running GNU/Linux in a VM as the guest with Windows as the host will not help. A keylogger in the host will easily capture what is being typed into the guest. Furthermore Microsoft retains a higher level of administrative control than they grant the "administrator" accounts. This is required for the DRM in Windows to work since the end user is not trusted, and has been the case especially since Windows Vista. Edit: A good rule is that if the OS supports DRM at the OS level then there is no privacy at all for the end user. A computer cannot have two masters. |
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It's hard to trust anything that Microsoft puts out. They've never hidden the fact that they mine for our information. So, the question shouldn't be "are they collecting our information?" but more exhaustively, "what are they doing with the information they've been collecting?"
Well there is PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/06/06/new-leaked-presentation-nsa/, but the real motivation is to sell this information to marketers so that they can target ads. An "advertising ID" was started with Windows 8.x. One must also keep in mind that one's "buying habits" can be used to identify a person's ethnic origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, sexual identity etc. The lessons of history tell us that the latter information have on more than one occasion placed people at risk of becoming the victims of genocide or ethnic cleansing. Edit: One of Bitcoin's advantages is that when used properly it provides way less info about a person for data mining than credit card or debit card payments. |
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Oh. That's a good idea! If I get a laptop that can do hardware virtualization that might work really well!
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Virtualization is supported in processors at the hardware level if the processor supports the Intel (VT-x) or AMD (AMD-V) instruction set. Most processors released since 2006 do; however in many cases this has to be enabled in the bios. On older pre-2006 processors one can still do virtualization however it is slower. One modern processors using Intel (VT-x) or AMD (AMD-V) I find that both Windows XP and earlier, Windows 7 and Windows 10 work very well as guests on a GNU/Linux host. As for Windows 8.x this is one situation where I would upgrade to Windows 10 or downgrade to Windows 7. Also for Windows Vista I would also downgrade to Windows XP or upgrade to Windows 7 or 10. The key to make virtualization work is to have more than enough RAM memory for both the host and the guest (both regular RAM and emulated video RAM). |
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