Looks like I'm the current only login!  I should get a bonus of some kind for that.

Logins:  1.

Well, I'm now consistently getting the CloudFlare page, but not the site itself.  I'll keep checking it.

I notice some work going on.  If who looks like is on this is really on this (some of you may have seen the screen that I'm talking about), it will probably be very soon resolved.

Look forward to it being back up shortly.

Wow, what a scary DDoS.  It actually took five seconds to load the website a half-hour or so ago.

Frankly, I'd put up with delays or an outage if DDoS-related without any loss of reputation.

If you paid off these lame fucks, I'd think y'all were a bunch of pussies, though.

Every little bit helps.  Early surrender, of course, is best of all, but I don't think anyone would offer this in combination with the rest of your fairly favorable ruleset.

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It is typical of a sociopath to deny that others possess good traits they themselves lack.  I suppose it makes them feel better about themselves.

Pretty easy trap for you to get out of, wasn't it? 

If you won, "pay up sucker."

If you lost, "ha ha it was just a joke."

Funny how honest people never end up in such a "trap."

He was just joking about paying off if he lost.  If he won, he was serious about taking the money.  The morality of a thief.  He somehow doesn't seem to realize he just digs himself deeper any time he posts shit like that.  The scammer tag is quite appropriate.

The early launch problems certainly seem to indicate there's high demand for the product.  Whether he can deliver is going to be the issue.  I had a test upload succeed just a bit ago, so the early service hiccups as everyone and their grandmother tried to upload stuff to the site may be over for now.

The API looks pretty open.  If someone codes some kind of front-end for it, I wouldn't be surprised if they did accept BTC.  I'd make a wild guess Kim Dotcom will be consulting legal counsel before doing pretty much anything, at this point, though.

If he has thought about the issue enough to have concerns, they're probably that taking BTC would open him to some kind of trumped-up prosecution for money laundering, and he'd want to make sure he was legally protected from that before moving ahead.

That's nonsensical.  BTC appreciates in price because its actual market value increases over time, on average, at least now.  Nobody is issuing bogus guarantees that it will continue to appreciate in value.

A Ponzi is backed by absolutely nothing, except usually claims of doing some kind of investing which is total fiction.  A Ponzi invariably hits the point of mathematical catastrophe and collapses.

There is no reason to believe BTC has any of the qualities that would cause it to meet the same fate.

Yes, but you're offering a bullshit bet where if they delivered something that operated at 1% of what they claim, to even two people, you still win.  You're basically rigging the bet in your favor.  It could consume the entire output of the Hoover Dam and take five years to generate a block and you'd still win.

Basically, the criterion for what address will work at all is whether if the bet pays out to the same address that sends the bet, the punter gets the winnings.

That's why hosted wallets (or gambling sites where the deposit and cashout addresses are different) won't work.

However, some of the more advanced features of SD are also only available with a full-featured client, like sending winnings to a custom address or making multiple bets in one transaction (to lower transaction fees).

The list in the post right before mine is fairly complete, but you might be able to figure out how to get other clients to do these things.

First off, it's a fake quote Gandhi never said.

Second, what's more appropriate in your case is Bozo the Clown.  "First, they laugh at you.  Then, they laugh at you some more.  Then they keep laughing.  Because you're stupid."

You're just pretty much batting .000 on everything, aren't you?

I'd reckon that's a good guess.  Considering that both codes were redeemed seconds "before" they were posted (presumably due to an inaccurate clock here or on Seals), it seems unlikely they were scarfed up manually.

The PACER stuff is public court records.  It's been released, entirely legally.  Here's the archive.

The government charges $0.08 a page for public access to these documents, but if you have access to PACER and the RECAP extension installed, it automatically uploads anything you download from PACER to the permanent archive, so that it can from then on be downloaded for free.

The government does not like this, needless to say, but there is nothing illegal about it.  The most they did is put a warning on PACER sites claiming that the plugin represents a security threat.  This may be the case if what you are downloading would somehow give something away (i.e. that you or someone with RECAP is researching something), but it's easy enough to turn off the extension when appropriate.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they went after him so hard on something that was a minor illegality to retaliate for things he had done that were entirely legal.

I have a stuck game.  I clicked "Draw" for a game and nothing happened.  The "Draw" button went blank, but 5 credits (at .005 per credit) were deducted.  I left, and a few minutes later, heard a deal happen.  The hand is 2c 5c Qd 5c Kh.  So I clicked to hold the kings, and hit Draw again.  Again, it froze.  Now, if I try to reload, it tells me I'll forfeit the bet by doing that. 

I'm not sure what's up.  The site seems to be down, but I got dealt a hand.

These are the same journals that the "victim" of the "crime" later agreed with the "thief" that they should be more publicly available.  Good move on their part.  JSTOR now has a program where you can access these same journals for free. 

Just so you can understand exactly how stupid this prosecution was, and why the "victim" did not want the "perpetrator" prosecuted.  Swartz went about this the wrong way, obviously, but he wasn't malicious and there was nothing worthy of the name "crime" here, much less something to hound a guy to death over.