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1  Other / Off-topic / Re: Windows 11 pro's and con's? on: November 03, 2023, 02:15:42 AM
I Windows 11 is fine once you get used to it. You can customise it enough such that anything you miss from Windows 10 can be tweaked back to how you had it, eg the taskbar.
2  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Do you do in your free time? on: October 29, 2022, 10:47:02 PM
I collect Aroid plants, including: Monstera, Philodendron and Epipremnum pinnatum!
3  Other / Off-topic / Re: favourite movie on: May 15, 2022, 11:24:08 AM
Black Cat, White Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat,_White_Cat
Where the Buffalo Roam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Buffalo_Roam

Probably my two favourite films Smiley
4  Other / Off-topic / Re: What crypto feels like atm. on: May 15, 2022, 11:22:58 AM
If I spoke to someone for the first time, there is no way I would recommend them to get into crypto anymore... unless they need to do so for whatever reason, due to what they buy/sell.

I think for me once NFTs and all the scammers took over, things have gone way South.
5  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bitcoin as a longterm gift on: May 15, 2022, 11:20:04 AM
Definitely, though you have to give them one whole bitcoin Grin

Seriously though it is a great gift... but I would find a way to store it physically somehow if you can.

Websites and services may not exist in 15 years time.
6  Other / Off-topic / Re: Top books you have to read on: May 15, 2022, 11:17:58 AM
Mine:

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Every single book by Terry Pratchett ever! Especially all of the Discworld series
7  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Do you do in your free time? on: May 15, 2022, 11:10:50 AM
I have taken to doing blogging and writing in spare time at the weekend these days. I find it super hard to find the time to write during the week because of my consultancy work... so the W/kend is usually the only time I have to relax and think about things properly.
8  Other / Off-topic / Re: Which anime did you watch first? on: April 01, 2022, 02:37:41 PM
Akira is a great anime film to start, pretty sure it was my first one to see.
I don't think I've watched this. is the anime akira fun enough?

I happen to be looking for fun anime no matter the old or new anime

Yes it is very fun. A little dark in places. But it is 10/10 entertaining to watch.

9  Other / Off-topic / Re: Are you living a healthy life? How? on: March 29, 2022, 10:05:29 PM
Vegetarian. Eat lots of organic food. I use an air filter in my room and have over 100+ plants in my office Smiley
10  Other / Off-topic / Re: Which anime did you watch first? on: March 29, 2022, 03:11:27 PM
Akira is a great anime film to start, pretty sure it was my first one to see.
11  Other / Off-topic / Re: [WO/Hat-Gang Only - MODERATED] The fucking COVID vax thread (No hat? Fuck off!) on: March 28, 2022, 01:03:46 PM
PLEASE, stop spreading the microchip nonsense  Roll Eyes
One vial serves five doses of the vaccine, a little bit of it is wasted.

Stupid questions:
Which portion has the chip in it?
Are there enough chips in a vial that every of the five vaxxed persons is guaranteed to get (at least) one?
What if one or all persons gets more than one chip?
Will they connect and form a multiprocessor-unit?
If not, which chip will be the main one?
What happens to the other ones? An explanation for blood clots?

WTF.
Common sense seems to become even more rare than liquid bitcoins...

Its chip soup, there are hundreds of them floating around in there waiting to be connected up to Covid-Bluetooth-19
12  Other / Off-topic / Re: Which social platform do you prefer? on: March 27, 2022, 09:51:00 PM
Reddit is where I spend too much time, for fun. Twitter for work. LinkedIn also, for work.
13  Other / Off-topic / Re: Ever been to Thailand? on: March 27, 2022, 09:39:18 PM
Thailand is a very beautiful country with lovely people.

Unfortunately the laws in Thailand and the legal system is not great in my opinion.
14  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Do you do in your free time? on: March 27, 2022, 09:37:31 PM
I grow plants, mostly! Haworthias and Aroids in particular. Haworthias are the most incredibly beautiful type of plant, from South Africa originally.
15  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Time to help Ukraine push back on: March 27, 2022, 08:46:14 PM
The danger of WW3 is so high. Would be great if some non-Nato countries were able to offer help maybe.
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Confido - huge undervalued coin on: November 20, 2017, 01:15:05 PM
Ooops! They did it again.

> For people who don't know... Confido had a crash of 90% of their value last night after posting that they would halt the development of the project after a legal issue they didn't specify.
> Their Reddit and Twitter where full of angry investors. Do they took them down, along with their website.
> I guess it was a scam after all...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7e87kc/confido_just_deleted_everything_proving_their/
17  Other / Off-topic / Re: For SEO People Out Here: on: June 15, 2015, 11:24:09 PM
There are millions of such websites working out there . Very less of them have been blocked by google may be due to copyright or DMCA . No doubt yours will not be blocked . Edit your OP , change anwer to answer .

we are doing our best using tools for detecting our content unique as possible and informative, but this stripper site just keep on failing hope this second project wont be fail.

Can you share your URL? It is hard to diagnose problems without this.

What is your specific problem? Are you just not showing as high as you would like, or are you actually not indexed in Google?
18  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamophobia has never killed anyone. Muslim hate crimes are by Muslims. on: June 15, 2015, 01:53:07 AM
> Moroccan man in France brutally stabbed to death by neighbour in 'horrible Islamophobic attack'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2914616/Moroccan-man-France-brutally-stabbed-death-neighbour-horrible-Islamophobic-attack.html

Another false flag. We don't know about the true identity of the attacker. And from the slogans which he shouted before the attack, I believe that he is also from an Islamic background. And from the article, it is clear that the perpetrator suffered from acute schizophrenia. So it seems that the attack resulted from mental illness, rather than Islamophobia.
Well, someone with paranoid schnizophrenia could not be said to be acting from Islamopobia conditioning.

I mean, crazy is crazy.

But we'd have to extend that to Islamics who kill shouting Allah Akbar who are paranoid schizophrenics, too.

I would agree with this. Most people that decide to be a terrorist are probably at least a little mental, the same with people that carry out islamophobic attacks.

Statistically a quarter of people suffer from mental health problems...
19  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How can bitcoin be used in shops, if payments take so long to process? on: June 15, 2015, 01:50:08 AM
Would you say there is any risk for vendors or is it rare to have problems?

There is ALWAYS risk with ANY form of payment.

If you are accepting U.S. dollars, there is a risk that you will accidentally accept high quality counterfeit bills. You may not know this has happened for a day or so until you try to deposit the bill at the bank.  By then, it may be difficult to recall many details about the person that gave you the counterfeit when you talk to the police and they attempt to track down the criminal.

If you are accepting credit cards, there is a risk that a chargeback may occur against your business for a variety of reasons.  If it is due to credit card fraud, you may not know this has happened for several weeks (or even months). By then, it may be difficult to recall many details about the person that used the credit card when you talk to the police and they attempt to track down the criminal.

If you are accepting bitcoins, there is a risk that they will successfully get a replacement transaction confirmed before the transaction that you see is confirmed.  You may not know that this has happened for an hour or so.  Of the three situations we've discussed here, you have the best chance of recalling some details about the thief when you contact the police in this situation.

Furthermore you can create software that checks some very simple details that will drastically reduce the risk when accepting bitcoin transactions.

If you verify that:
  • Your wallet is well connected to multiple geographically distributed peers (or directly connected to several large mining pools)
  • The transaction has been well propagated (especially if your software has heard about the transaction from several large mining pools)
  • The transaction includes a reasonable fee per kilobyte
  • All inputs to the transaction are already confirmed

Then you can be VERY confident that the transaction will confirm.  It would be extremely difficult (nearly impossible) to reverse such a transaction.  I'd personally feel comfortable accepting a transaction worth hundreds of dollars without confirmation if it met the criteria above.
  

Danny thank you for such a detailed answer. You are right about the risk with all forms of payment. I am so risk adverse sometimes, I get a little fixated on the potential drawbacks of something... but I guess it is better to cover all the possibilities!

Thank you everyone else for your posts also.

To take all the answers into account, I guess there will always be a small risk - but with the right procedures it will never be more than you would have with any other form of payment.

Cheers everyone!
20  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Song are you Listening To? on: June 14, 2015, 12:48:24 AM
Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aarb3yVYh3E

Used to love the Deftones Smiley

Listening to Adrenaline now for the kicks!
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