[XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

[Wanderlust]

Also I didn't mean I'd willingly disappear, I meant I'd *be* "disappeared" by forces unknown:)

That's how I read it. Altho one might be willing to cease development rather than visit gitmo.
And presumably a dead man's switch ready-to-go? Man… the future sucks.

[GetDotBit.com]

MoneroWallet.com is coming soon (details in this reddit post) http://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3axapc/androidios_client_side_web_client_coming_soon/

MoneroWallet.com is nearly ready to be released. We have a fully functioning POC, and just are making CSS and HTML changes before release.

We are in need of a logo and are running a contest - 25 XMR to the chosen design.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[wpalczynski]

lol lawlz lolololololololololoo so much funny biznissss so funnee wow much jokez lol.lolololololo

Yes, that's why a project is kept open source, whether the project in question is Monero or what-the-phack-ever.

To prevent the use of "backdoors" etc and malicious code in general. Transparency.

Do I really have to explain EVERYTHING to you like you're five?

Are you five?

I assumed you were referring to future arrests/interventions (as I did). And who would undertake to maintain a life-threatening Git repo? Few.

I agree open-sourcing is about transparency. Still - that hasn't helped OpenSSL fast enough…

BTW Asking "stupid" questions is not evidence of stupidity. Not asking questions is.

Asking trolling questions is evidence of trolling.

Ahhh... wanderlust the inquisitive gentle troll(tm).

[generalizethis]

As for the latter I have no idea so would also include the ? you did.

question mark

noun

1.
Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.


Because I was asking generalizethis if that was the correct tl;dr.

@ Fluffy-- Yes, that would be the correct TL;DR.  

And look at this:


-troll (n.2)
"act of going round, repetition," 1705, from troll (v.). Meaning "song sung in a round" is from 1820.

-troll (n.1)
supernatural being in Scandinavian mythology and folklore, 1610s (with an isolated use mid-14c.), from Old Norse troll "giant being not of the human race, evil spirit, monster." Some speculate that it originally meant "creature that walks and talks clumsily," and derives from Proto-Germanic *truzlan, from *truzlanan (see troll (v.)). But it seems to have been a general supernatural word, such as Swedish trolla "to charm, bewitch;" Old Norse trolldomr "witchcraft."

The old sagas tell of the troll-bull, a supernatural being in the form of a bull, as well as boar-trolls. There were troll-maidens, troll-wives, and troll-women; the trollman, a magician or wizard, and the troll-drum, used in Lappish magic rites. The word was popularized in literary English by 19c. antiquarians, but it has been current in the Shetlands and Orkneys since Viking times. The first record of the word in modern English is from a court document from the Shetlands, regarding a certain Catherine, who, among other things, was accused of "airt and pairt of witchcraft and sorcerie, in hanting and seeing the Trollis ryse out of the kyrk yeard of Hildiswick."

Originally conceived as a race of malevolent giants, they have suffered the same fate as the Celtic Danann and by 19c. were regarded by peasants in in Denmark and Sweden as dwarfs and imps supposed to live in caves or under the ground (in their parents basement).
They are obliging and neighbourly; freely lending and borrowing, and elsewise keeping up a friendly intercourse with mankind. But they have a sad propensity to thieving, not only stealing provisions, but even Monero threads. [Thomas Keightley, "The Fairy Mythology," London, 1850]

[aminorex]

who am i fooling? no way i have the time for a translation ask until my day job stuff takes a breather. 'twas a fallacious conceit to consider.

[Globb0]

BTW Asking "stupid" questions is not evidence of stupidity. Not asking questions is.

you bolded this, so it was extra important presumably.

It seems, from the language you chose, you accept the presupposition that you are/were asking stupid questions.

[generalizethis]

BTW Asking "stupid" questions is not evidence of stupidity. Not asking questions is.

you bolded this, so it was extra important presumably.

It seems, from the language you chose, you accept the presupposition that you are/were asking stupid questions.

Customer asks clerk, "I have a coupon for 25% off a hundred dollar purchase. How many dollars does that come to?"

I would say asking stupid questions is sometimes evidence of stupidity and not asking questions can mean you already have an answer or are willing to work it out on your own or are timid, none of which are stupidity. I'm almost tempted to take you off ignore to see what other words of high-school teacher wisdom you have for us.

[Wanderlust]

BTW Asking "stupid" questions is not evidence of stupidity. Not asking questions is.

you bolded this, so it was extra important presumably.

It seems, from the language you chose, you accept the presupposition that you are/were asking stupid questions.

Customer asks clerk, "I have a coupon for 25% off a hundred dollar purchase. How many dollars does that come to?"

I would say asking stupid questions is sometimes evidence of stupidity and not asking questions can mean you already have an answer or are willing to work it out on your own or are timid, none of which are stupidity. I'm almost tempted to take you off ignore to see what other words of high-school teacher wisdom you have for us.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question

" '(There's) no such thing as a stupid question' is a popular phrase that has had a long history. It suggests that the quest for knowledge includes failure, and that just because one person may know less than others they should not be afraid to ask rather than pretend they already know. In many cases multiple people may not know but are too afraid to ask the "stupid question"; the one who asks the question may in fact be doing a service to those around them.

Carl Sagan, in his work The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark said: "There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question"

A woman, recounting a story about an old man who used to answer all her "stupid questions", explained "Chica, if you ask a question it makes you look stupid for 5 minutes - but if you don't ask - you stay stupid for fifty years, so always ask questions in your life". "

[DaveyJones]

In other news: https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials/319/monday-monero-missives-30-june-29th-2015

to come back to the important things and not your way too off-topic talk

[GingerAle]

https://youtu.be/WnWLSy36pQA

how to run huge memory version of Monero on Windows as a scheduled task, so it doesn't interfere with your daily activities, but you can still keep your node up to date.

could also be interpreted as Gingeropolous's Super-Hacky Smart mining, because you can make the task scheduler run bitmonerod.exe with --start-mining flags.

[medusa13]

thank you for this missives!! it was really time  
glad you had a good time in europa

[GingerAle]

In other news: https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials/319/monday-monero-missives-30-june-29th-2015

I have to say the old format was much more digestible.

explain - which format?

1. original missive
2. my digests
3. podcasts with brief summary at beginning

[ArticMine]

BTW Asking "stupid" questions is not evidence of stupidity. Not asking questions is.

you bolded this, so it was extra important presumably.

It seems, from the language you chose, you accept the presupposition that you are/were asking stupid questions.

Customer asks clerk, "I have a coupon for 25% off a hundred dollar purchase. How many dollars does that come to?"

I would say asking stupid questions is sometimes evidence of stupidity and not asking questions can mean you already have an answer or are willing to work it out on your own or are timid, none of which are stupidity. I'm almost tempted to take you off ignore to see what other words of high-school teacher wisdom you have for us.

This is actually not a stupid question because one has to take the newspeak of marketing into account. The correct answer would be along the lines of 24.99 less applicable handling fees and taxes.

[GingerAle]

In other news: https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials/319/monday-monero-missives-30-june-29th-2015

I have to say the old format was much more digestible.

explain - which format?

1. original missive
2. my digests
3. podcasts with brief summary at beginning

The original missives. Your digests are very good as well. If it is not convenient or circumstance/environment doesn't permit listening to the audio, then it is terribly painful to read the transcription. Not that the transcription is done badly but the non-formal, conversational flow is just a terrible format to consume via text. Also, there is no distillation of the information. Some people may enjoy the conversational tone, but it is mostly just fluff to me. I could take 2 minutes to grab the important parts in the original missive format. It is not possible in this current way, whether the audio or transcription, to skim through for the pertinent data.

agreed, I get it. No ones stopping nobody from making original-style missives from the podcast. The podcast had 2 goals - 1. make more digestable for most (i think this is a silent majority) and 2) free up fluffypony from doing most of the work for the missive.

indeed, if you recall, the first podcast had mixed reviews, and someone actually offered a bounty for someone to create a digest / summary of it. So there's that. i think it was good ol' stslimited. Where's he been? U lurkin?

[generalizethis]

BTW Asking "stupid" questions is not evidence of stupidity. Not asking questions is.

you bolded this, so it was extra important presumably.

It seems, from the language you chose, you accept the presupposition that you are/were asking stupid questions.

Customer asks clerk, "I have a coupon for 25% off a hundred dollar purchase. How many dollars does that come to?"

I would say asking stupid questions is sometimes evidence of stupidity and not asking questions can mean you already have an answer or are willing to work it out on your own or are timid, none of which are stupidity. I'm almost tempted to take you off ignore to see what other words of high-school teacher wisdom you have for us.

This is actually not a stupid question because one has to take the newspeak of marketing into account. The correct answer would be along the lines of 24.99 less applicable handling fees and taxes.

Depends where you live, but when I was asked this question,  I was teen working in Pennsylvania at a clothing store where there is no tax on clothing and there wouldn't be a handling fee. The point is to put it in the context of when it would be dumb to ask this; one time invalidates the argument that there are no dumb questions.

But maybe we should get really dumb with it, "If a monkey ate enough beans could he fart his way to heaven and beat up a time traveling Tom Cruise before he ascends the nth level of Scientology and has sex with all our moms?  

Or "Mr Officer, is all right if I take your gun, shoot you and then go on a shooting rampage at the local mall?"

Or just before the prosecution is about to close a slipshod case with no chance of winning, "Your honor, if you found all the money I'm accused of embezzling at 152 North Frampton St. in an 85' red buick with my murdered business associate, 12 kilos of coke, 500 pounds of explosives and detailed instructions to blow up a children's hospital, could I still get my parking validated?"

If you can have intelligent questions, you can have stupid questions. Back on topic, wonderlic's already sidetracked this thread enough.

[child_harold]

If you can have intelligent questions, you can have stupid questions. Back on topic, wonderlic's already sidetracked this thread enough.

I was always taught there are no stupid questions. what's a wonderlic anyway?

[generalizethis]

If you can have intelligent questions, you can have stupid questions. Back on topic, wonderlic's already sidetracked this thread enough.

I was always taught there are no stupid questions. what's a wonderlic anyway?

Did you ever ask these people who taught you, "Are there stupid questions? How would one define a stupid question? What would be the verifiable criteria for a stupid question? If there are no stupid questions, wouldn't it follow that there are no intelligent questions? Are the people teaching me that there are no stupid questions using faulty criteria to establish the answer they want to be true? If there are no stupid or intelligent questions, then what criteria should we use to evaluate a question? Aren't we inferring that the question itself isn't stupid, but that the person asking it is under performing mentally by asking it? Is a distracting or attention seeking question a dumb question as it is hiding the real intention and not serving to move the thought process forward in a meaningful way? Isn't an intelligent question one that opens others to new possibilities of thought, forwards the subject or shows a well endowed understanding of more complex themes in the subject that aren't available to most persons? If this type of forward progress is viewed as positive, can't we also view questions that aren't pertinent or lack understanding of common knowledge or only serve to waste time, as negative? Does it matter how we demarcate these distinctions if we find they exist and show that all questions aren't equal in matter, perception, understanding or desire to further knowledge?...."

Wonderlic is a test used in many industries to evaluate mental performance.

[camu6]

In other news: https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials/319/monday-monero-missives-30-june-29th-2015

I have to say the old format was much more digestible.

+1

I was also hoping for some more updates on the technical work beeing done.  I know you can hop on github and follow the commits... but not everyone in here is able to translate that into something meaningful.

When the devs are busy, maybe some of the technically adept monero supporters could translate it and put it in this thread now and then?

[5w00p]

From https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate:

Bitcoin is a secure and anonymous digital currency. Bitcoins cannot be easily tracked back to you, and are safer and faster alternative to other donation methods.

Julian A. and them seriously need to wake up and smell the Monero.

[smooth]

I know you can hop on github and follow the commits... but not everyone in here is able to translate that into something meaningful.

When the devs are busy, maybe some of the technically adept monero supporters could translate it and put it in this thread now and then?

That is a good suggestion. if someone wants to take it on i volunteer to answer questions that might come up about the purpose of or function of various commits and pull requests.