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[xhomerx10]

Do you guys know any good places to spend crypto? Like airplane tickets and hotels?

 I just got an e-mail from coincards.com a day or two ago - you can now purchase hotel.com gift cards up to $2000

Hotel.com you say? Sounds promising. Have you used coincards before?

 I have - quick and painless.  Also Bitrefill.com which I used to top up my Romanian phone before I arrived so that when I landed I would have phone and internet  Worked like a charm.  They have a pretty good selection of gift cards.  Coincards needs an e-mail address but so far I haven't been asked for any personally identifying information - same with bitrefill.

[xhomerx10]

[gentlemand]

What about the air tickets at cheapair? Have you been overpaying for them too?

They're fucking useless if you're European. They don't list any of the most used airlines. You'll be able to fly from London to Oslo direct for $60 with Ryanair or Easyjet or go through them and spend 190 hours waiting in Baku for a legacy airline connection and pay $500 instead.

They can also stick $20-50 on most long haul flights too. One thing I'm not going to do is pay more for the honour of paying in BTC.

[goldkingcoiner]

Do you guys know any good places to spend crypto? Like airplane tickets and hotels?

 I just got an e-mail from coincards.com a day or two ago - you can now purchase hotel.com gift cards up to $2000

Hotel.com you say? Sounds promising. Have you used coincards before?

 I have - quick and painless.  Also Bitrefill.com which I used to top up my Romanian phone before I arrived so that when I landed I would have phone and internet  Worked like a charm.  They have a pretty good selection of gift cards.  Coincards needs an e-mail address but so far I haven't been asked for any personally identifying information - same with bitrefill.

Seems europe is a no go on coincards.

[El duderino_]

Sonic for the dude

just how it is

It was pretty enjoyable..... gonna follow up now with a HODLsleep

Night brothers of the WALLwatch

[Lambie Slayer]

Feels good being invested in the safest haven there is as the Stock Boyz meltdown continues.

[cAPSLOCK]

We might be on the cusp of said global economic reset now.

Everyone is worried about the virus, but the irony is that the second and third order effects would kill a lot more people than the virus.

Everything successful scales in layers.

[Lambie Slayer]

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101

[jojo69]

plot twist (((they))) had a head start

[Lambie Slayer]

plot twist (((they))) had a head start

Just got lucky in the lab they said. 


"“Let’s call it pure luck,” he said. “We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.”
But after scientists sequenced the DNA of the novel coronavirus causing the current worldwide outbreak, the MIGAL researchers examined it and found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human one, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, which increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time, Katz said.
“All we need to do is adjust the system to the new sequence,” he said. “We are in the middle of this process, and hopefully in a few weeks we will have the vaccine in our hands. Yes, in a few weeks, if it all works, we would have a vaccine to prevent coronavirus.”
MIGAL would be responsible for developing the new vaccine, but it would then have to go through a regulatory process, including clinical trials and large-scale production, Katz said.
Akunis said he has instructed his ministry’s director-general to fast-track all approval processes with the goal of bringing the human vaccine to market as quickly as possible.
“Given the urgent global need for a human coronavirus vaccine, we are doing everything we can to accelerate development,” MIGAL CEO David Zigdon said. The vaccine could “achieve safety approval in 90 days,” he said."

[jbreher]

CP/M here i come (again). RS232 and a terminal emulator is all i need. stocking up on 8" and 5 1/4" floppies now

I really regret not keeping my Osbourne...like really

I still own a pair of (working) Compaq 'sewing machine' 8088-based PC clones. DOS on floppy, store to floppy. Woo-hoo!

[jbreher]

Indeed, I’ve shipped devices that provided canned boot sector data before - not as an exploit, but because the operating environment needed such in order to function. Of course, that was a ‘from the factory’ thing, not a field exploit.

Yeah, that's exactly what THEY wanted you to believe

Just kidding. Or maybe not... Was that "canned boot" somehow easily replaceable with a different one afterwards? Ie: the canned boot residing in another area of the HD which could be updated or using a custom tool? Or just reusing all the developed firmware, replacing the "canned boot" and generating the payloaded firmware?

Well, the canonical example would be to package a disk with a 'paddle card' protocol converter which sits between the drive and the system's SCSI | ATA | Fibre Channel | 1553 | Ethernet | InfiniBand | whatever bus. The canned boot sector would be resident in the FW of the paddle card. Used for things such as allowing contemporary HDDs to be used as boot devices on legacy systems built before the dawn of large HDDs.

[Elwar]

When did scientists stop working to cure diseases?

Is it because they can make more money injecting the 99.99% of people that do not have the disease than they can make curing the .001%?

[bitserve]

Indeed, I’ve shipped devices that provided canned boot sector data before - not as an exploit, but because the operating environment needed such in order to function. Of course, that was a ‘from the factory’ thing, not a field exploit.

Yeah, that's exactly what THEY wanted you to believe

Just kidding. Or maybe not... Was that "canned boot" somehow easily replaceable with a different one afterwards? Ie: the canned boot residing in another area of the HD which could be updated or using a custom tool? Or just reusing all the developed firmware, replacing the "canned boot" and generating the payloaded firmware?

Well, the canonical example would be to package a disk with a 'paddle card' protocol converter which sits between the drive and the system's SCSI | ATA | Fibre Channel | 1553 | Ethernet | InfiniBand | whatever bus. The canned boot sector would be resident in the FW of the paddle card. Used for things such as allowing contemporary HDDs to be used as boot devices on legacy systems built before the dawn of large HDDs.

Yeah, well, THAT doesn't look like it would be so easily repurposed for malicious intents. But anyways, the point stands, not only it is theoretically possible but also psycodad has provided some links that would suggest it being exploited in the wild.. even if rare and requiring the exceptional talents and resources of the Equation Group (the malwaretech PoC was not even close).

[Searing]

Feels good being invested in the safest haven there is as the Stock Boyz meltdown continues.

Bitcoin 'the merciless bitch' is still thinking about following the stock market..or more likely is just messing with our minds for a few days.....

When did scientists stop working to cure diseases?

Is it because they can make more money injecting the 99.99% of people that do not have the disease than they can make curing the .001%?

here ya go..what they have been discussing..buying back their own stock or cures the last few years

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

[Lambie Slayer]

Feels good being invested in the safest haven there is as the Stock Boyz meltdown continues.

Bitcoin 'the merciless bitch' is still thinking about following the stock market..or more likely is just messing with our minds for a few days.....

When did scientists stop working to cure diseases?

Is it because they can make more money injecting the 99.99% of people that do not have the disease than they can make curing the .001%?

here ya go..what they have been discussing..buying back their own stock or cures the last few years

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

Bitcoin has performed much better than gold, silver, and stocks since Cornavirus became news on Dec 31. Stocks just had their worst day in years today and Bitcoin was not phased. Stocks are in a bubble. Corn is cheap.

Bitcoin is the superior safe haven and has proven it for two months straight. Dont get fooled by profit taking or technical dips.

[bitserve]

When did scientists stop working to cure diseases?

Is it because they can make more money injecting the 99.99% of people that do not have the disease than they can make curing the .001%?

Scientists need resources. The time to discover pennicilin with a simple experiment and a microscope is long gone.

Pay them and give them resources for whatever you want and they will try their best. In the meantime they will work on whomever sponsoring their investigation asks them to do. There's nothing evil in that, it's just how the world works.

If any big pharma stopped thinking in optimising the profit from their I+D they would soon stop being a big pharma and replaced by a more efficient one.

That being said, it is not that they do not work on cures. They do too.

[Lambie Slayer]

https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers/

RIP Pope??

This guy shakes a few hundred peoples hands each day all over the world. He is the Earths nexus point for germ spreading. At 83 years old if he has it, well its not gonna be a walk in the park. 14 percent mortality at that age.

These are dangerous times and King Bitcoin is here to keep everyone safe.

[bitserve]

https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers/

RIP Pope??

This guy shakes a few hundred peoples hands each day all over the world. He is the Earths nexus point for germ spreading. At 83 years old if he has it, well its not gonna be a walk in the park. 14 percent mortality at that age.

These are dangerous times and King Bitcoin is here to keep everyone safe.

He has top notch medical service you could only dream of. He will do well.

[Hueristic]

Exactly. I always do this, and also use VM to test-drive apps before installing on my main (host) PC. No viruses, no malware, no corruptions, no problems!

Edit: ...and always disable AutoRun after a Windows installation.

Always do ... what? Always attach found USB to a computer running Knoppix from write-only media? Always attach found USB to a computer running a VM? Always attach found USB to a computer running Knoppix from write-only media within a VM? Great.

What protects your BIOS/FW? What protects your hypervisor?

When I want to read a "dangerous" USB stick, I launch my "test VM" in VMware and mount it there. AutoRun is disabled on both the host and the guest OS. Never had any issues in 25 years of Windows computing.

How can mounting a USB stick on an AutoRun-disabled VM affect your host's BIOS? Honest question, I want to know.

BadUSB attacks through drivers vulnerability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91lx4zv9Hms

and VMs can be escaped.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/hack-that-escapes-vm-by-exploiting-edge-browser-fetches-105000-at-pwn2own/
https://securityboulevard.com/2018/11/zero-day-exploit-published-for-vm-escape-flaw-in-virtualbox/
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3182816/pwn2own-hacking-contest-ends-with-two-virtual-machine-escapes.html