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1976

Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Renegade on May 26, 2014, 10:32 PM »

Elsewhere in the leaks department:

USA Today’s William Cummings: “White House blows cover of CIA chief in Afghanistan” The White House accidentally blew the cover of the top CIA officer in Afghanistan Saturday, when his name and title were released in an e-mail sent to reporters who traveled with President Obama on his surprise visit to Bagram Air Field. The CIA officer’s identity was released as part of a list of U.S. officials who were attending a military briefing with Obama at Bagram, the Washington Post reported. The individual was identified as “Chief of Station,” a term used for the top spy in a country, according to the Post

-ABC News

http://www.usatoday....s-cia-chief/9586633/

I wonder if they'll be honest enough to prosecute themselves..

-Stoic Joker (May 26, 2014, 09:10 AM)

Honest? Politicians prosecuted? BWAHAHAHHAHA~!

However, in Iran a bankster was sentenced to death for a $2.6 BILLION fraud. Ironic how one can only view that sort of justice from afar. (I'm not in favour of CP, but seeing a bankster convicted of a crime is refreshing.)

Then there are more corrupt politicians/bureaucrats in China facing similar fates.

It's just bizarre. I don't typically think of Iran or China a being particularly "just" countries.

But it gets you thinking... If there is a God, then he is likely one of:

• Dr. Seuss
• Lewis Carroll

It was springtime in the Rockies
The snow was falling fast
A bare footed man with clogs on
Went slowly whizzing past

He went round a straight crooked corner
To see a dead donkey die
He pulled out a gun and stabbed him
And then began to cry.

I went to the pictures tomorrow
I took the front seat at the back
I fell from the floor to the ceiling
And broke the front bone in my back.

They took me to Cardiff Infirmary
And starved me with plenty to eat
They fed me plain cake with currants in.
And whipped me and tickled my feet.

1977

Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Renegade on May 26, 2014, 08:23 AM »

Here's a recent C-SPAN interview with Glenn Greenwald:

http://www.c-span.or...nwald-edward-snowden

1978

Living Room / Re: Blog Essay: The Indie (Game) Bubble Is Popping

« Last post by Renegade on May 25, 2014, 11:29 PM »

You're seeing the same thing happening with music and literature.

You have a large influx of B-grade and C-grade "talent" glutting the market. (See Kickstarter for some truly cringe-worth examples.) And that's because "everybody has a million dollar hit song or book inside them" according to the people who run those $1500/2-day seminars that "teach you the top secret techniques the pros use." And those that don't charge (i.e. NaNoWriMo) but merely encourage large numbers of the highly motivated and sincere (but still untrained and largely untalented people) are also feeding that glut.

Once you have a market glut and the quality (inevitably) declines significantly, the product quickly becomes generic - and a commodity item. Before long you see the entire market living with generic and commodity level prices.

Professionals cannot compete with low-ball amateurs on price or quality. (Repeat that 3 times.) Low-ball amateurs can, however, quickly force out the professionals - who need to make a living from their craft - and charge appropriately to do so. Excess amateurs in a field do this by lowering standards and reducing customer expectations to the point of indifference, Eventually, the market arrives at the point where the price becomes the only real selection criteria. Because the market is so loaded with junk that most buyers no longer expect (or get) very much for their money.

You'll see this in mature markets all the time: Crap drives out quality. Lower quality results in lower prices. Lower prices necessitates compromise, and attracts amateurs into the field, further lowering overall quality. Lower overall quality produces more crap. Repeat.

Sad state of affairs. But nothing new. It's just finally caught up with the game industry.

-40hz (May 25, 2014, 08:02 AM)

Bingo.

I see this all the time.

A lot of products/services have the bar set low and become commodities.

A similar concept is Gresham's Law - "Bad money drives out good".

Competent professionals drop out of some markets because it is no longer worth their time to compete there, and consumers are left with crap until they start squawking. There are some examples, e.g. Consumers sick of toxic & GMO food > there are now organic & bio-dynamic options if people look. But, they are more expensive.

The question is whether or not a premium can be set for quality games. But... being digital, they're easy to reproduce...

I think that there needs to be a more holistic approach to games than there is now. Most are focused on platforms, SDKs/APIs, & software. Hardware is often left out, as are other accessories. There is a lot that can be done there. Bringing the game "out of the device" is where I see room for innovation in gaming.

1979

Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by Renegade on May 25, 2014, 09:22 AM »

Apollo 18.
 (see attachment in previous post)
Finally got to see it all the way thorough.

It's...not bad actually. Some pretty good low-key acting on the part of the astronaut characters in a few scenes. It could have been a lot better however. And all this "found footage" schtick is getting pretty old. But Apollo-18 is nowhere near as badly done as some reviewers would have you think.

So, for a cheap no-brainer bit of sci-fi inspired throw-away horror, it's moderately entertaining - even if you can guess the ending from about 20 minutes into the movie. After that, the final "big reveal" is pretty ho-hum. And it's also one that's been used before.

Possibly worth a watch if you don't have anything better to do (I'll admit to a little web surfing while watching it after about 45 minutes in) - or there's nothing else on.
 

-40hz (April 03, 2014, 12:56 PM)

That was a fun flick!


In the morbid vein...

Oculus

A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

It stars a few people you'll know, and... c'mon... Who doesn't love Amy Pond?  

A lot of horrors are pretty bad, but this was really good. If you like horror films, this is worth a watch.

1980

Living Room / Re: If you remember Weev... He's BACK! :)

« Last post by Renegade on May 23, 2014, 10:34 PM »

An interview with Weev (he exposed an AT&T security exploit):

1981

Living Room / Re: Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords (AKA DOOOOOM)

« Last post by Renegade on May 23, 2014, 11:15 AM »

One word: FidoNet.

"Let's go living in the past."

-40hz (May 23, 2014, 10:57 AM)

No. Today we have meshnets.

I know you hate Reddit, but... it's a good start:

http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/

GAME OVER.

Technology cannot be stopped. Something else will rise up. The technocrats cannot win. Ever. Except for those that willfully surrender.

This is not over yet. http://youtu.be/qn0B4OhipVs?t=3m22s

1982

Living Room / Re: Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords (AKA DOOOOOM)

« Last post by Renegade on May 23, 2014, 10:41 AM »

Dear FCC,

Thank you for taking the time to ignore me.

F**k you,

Renegade

I think that's probably about as productive as it will ever get. The same assholes that had their asses handed to them over SOPA only brought it back with a different acronym. They'll continue until they have worn down any resistance and gotten what they want.

There is no "democracy". There is no "justice". There is only "just us" - and you and I are not a part of "us".

Bend over and learn to like it. Or at least get used to it. We don't have a choice. Our voice means NOTHING. They don't care. We are nothing but cattle to be milked & slaughtered.

This is a feature of the system - it is not a bug.

Now... repeat after me... MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Old McDonald had a farm...

1983

Living Room / Re: If you remember Weev... He's BACK! :)

« Last post by Renegade on May 22, 2014, 08:30 PM »

Oh man... this is GOOOOOOOOD!

http://www.activistp...edge-fund-seeks.html

TRO LLC: Hacktivist Hedge Fund Seeks Crowdfunding


There aren't many ways to hold large tech companies accountable for leaving your personal data unprotected or, worse, selling your data to third parties including the government.  If the government is complicit in violating your privacy, who then will hold these players accountable?

Andrew Auernheimer, also known as 'Weev' in hacker circles, was caged in federal prison for revealing a massive privacy flaw in AT&T's public server. He recently invoiced the U.S. government, payable in bitcoin, for having his life violently and fraudulently stolen from him for three years. This letter was mostly symbolic and unlikely to produce reparations for Auernheimer.

So he seeks a more productive way to fight back, a way that privacy activists can financially benefit while holding large corporations accountable for their failures and/or tyrannical collusion with the government.

Auernheimer is seeking crowdfunding for this venture, TRO LLC, a hedge fund that will sell short publicly-traded stocks of corporations that his hacker analysts reveal to be compromised.

More text and video at the link.

1984

Living Room / If you remember Weev... He's BACK! :)

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 10:40 PM »

Weev's back!

CAUTION: YOU MAY PEE YOUR PANTS LAUGHING! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

https://weev.livejou...m/405848.html?nojs=1

I just emailed this to the federal government and bcc'd 200 or so people:
 
Subject: "An open letter to members of the New Jersey District Court, FBI, and DOJ consisting of an invoice for services rendered."
 
To the Honorable Susan D. Wigenton, US Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Assistant US Attorney Zach Intrater, and FBI Special Agent Christian Schorle,
 
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" -Shakespeare
 
It has long been one of the fundamental pillars of our system of law that when one commits a crime against another, they are made to give restitution to their victims.
 
I have, over the course of 3 years, been made the victim of a criminal conspiracy by those in the federal government. This was a conspiracy of sedition and treason, perpetrated with violence by a limited number of federal agents to deprive me of my constitutional rights to a fair trial and unlawfully put me in prison. This is not a hallucination on my part. These claims were in fact verified by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals when they vacated the false judgement against me imposed by the court of Judge Susan D. Wigenton. Perhaps you haven't read the opinion of the appeals court exposing all of you as liars and seditionists yet. If so, here you go: https://www.eff.org/.../2014/04/11/weev.pdf
 
On January 18th, 2011 I was kidnapped at gunpoint by the US Marshals from Fayetteville, Arkansas, the town where I was born, based off a criminal complaint based on complete falsehoods written by FBI Special Agent Christian Schorle. The complaint alleged I had broken into AT&T's servers (I hadn't, as confirmed by the appeals court which verified no evidence was presented that any of my accesses bypassed security restrictions) and that New Jersey was the jurisdiction because AT&T was headquartered there. In actuality, AT&T was headquartered at the time in Houston, Texas. This sort of blatant falsehood is verifiable by a simple Google search.
 
Thus I was taken from Arkansas, the nicest place I ever lived, and brought to Newark, New Jersey, a place worse than any of the many third world countries I have visited. I was held under bail conditions where the government refused to allow me to work in my industry, told me where I could live (I was not allowed to return to my birthplace of Arkansas where I lived at no expense, and instead forced to pay rent in New Jersey), and was subject to the indignity and expense of regular mandatory travel to the Newark courthouse to urinate in front of a federal employee. I was told where I could travel, and where and how I could sleep. My time and life was completely monopolized by the federal government during this period, again based off false statements from a lying piece of shit in the federal government.
 
I then spent a swath of the next years struggling to find an attorney because the overworked federal defender I was given told me to plea to false charges because even if I was innocent there was no way I'd win. I then struggled to get this attorney enough resources to fight the case while he was struggling to keep the lights in his office on.
 
Going to trial two years later, the United States Attorneys and FBI repeatedly perjured themselves in order to wrongfully convict me. FBI Special Agent Phillip Frigm claimed that the manufactured evidence was "secured" by MD5 signatures. This was factually wrong and perjurously asserted as true under oath-- MD5 signatures do not work in the manner he implied. Assistant US Attorney Michael Martinez claimed that I committed a crime because my use of the Internet was "not like going to ESPN and checking my favorite sports team's scores", and Assistant US Attorney Zach Intrater claimed that I had committed a crime because I automated web requests with a script. This, of course, ignores the fact that the vast majority of web requests are programmatic and automated-- total API requests and automated GET per year are approaching the quadrillions. Lie after lie after lie stacked up in open court on behalf of the agents of the government. If there was any integrity left in the justice system there would be special prosecutors appointed to charge you with the perjuries you committed.
 
Orchestrating this circus was the judge, Susan D. Wigenton, who not only ignored my constitutional right to a trial in a reasonable location but blatantly allowed manufactured evidence and perjury on the part of FBI and DOJ employees in her courtroom. The rights I have enumerated in the Constitution (and, in some cases, even The Declaration) were violated with near completion.
 
At sentencing, I made the following statement to Judge Wigenton:
 
"I don’t come here today to ask for forgiveness. I’m here to tell this court, if it has any foresight at all, that it should be thinking about what it can do to make amends to me for the harm and the violence that has been inflicted upon my life."
 
It is time, now that the fraud and violence committed against me has been exposed by the appeals process, to begin making amends to me for the harm her court has done.
 
My current market-determined hourly rate is 1 Bitcoin an hour. I was taken from my childhood home at gunpoint on January 18th, 2011, and I was not allowed to freely exercise my liberties as a citizen until April 11th, 2014. That's 1179 days that you used my time that I am now billing you for (I gave you a discount by not including the last day). I am owed 28,296 Bitcoins. I do not accept United States dollars, as it is the preferred currency of criminal organizations such as the FBI, DOJ, ATF, and Federal Reserve and I do not assist criminal racketeering enterprises.
 
Know that all this wealth will be directed towards a good and charitable cause. I am building a series of memorial groves for the greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer. You see, In the "Special Housing Unit", which is Bureau of Prisons codespeak for "solitary confinement" and "torture", I had enough time to think about the current state of federal government.
 
The federal government has declared war on We the People. I am but the latest casualty of the unjust and seditious war being waged against honest Americans and defenders of the Constitution. At Waco the FBI directed the murder of 76 men, women, and children. At Ruby Ridge the FBI murdered both a 14-year-old boy and a woman cradling her infant child. All federal agents are, in fact, murderous thugs and seditious terrorists. Sedition is the charge for crimes which undermine the Constitution with violence. I can assure you that violence was used against me, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has already verified that the case against me undermined the Constitution.
 
28,296 Bitcoins. This is my invoice. It will only come once. As government criminality continues to be exposed on a daily basis, there is an urgent question which our government must answer: by what civil and peaceful means can those of us harmed by government perjury, fraud, and violence be compensated for the losses we have experienced? My Bitcoin address: 1JTeYcsx37XTq5NRgjepAHDqaLHTZUL88a

Now the government's answer, or lack of it, will be permanently preserved in the Bitcoin block chain as a matter of public record. PAY ME MY MONEY, YOU LYING SUBHUMAN GARBAGE. You also should resign from your posts, as you've shown yourselves to be collective disgraces to rule of law and enemies of the United States Constitution. Those of us who actually love this country should take your places.

Posted all over the place:

http://www.activistp...ds-for-violence.html
http://pastebin.com/Zt7fBtRp

And emailed to many!

More about Weev:

http://www.techdirt....cfaa-questions.shtml
http://www.techdirt....-nuclear-plant.shtml
http://www.techdirt....ts-reply-short.shtml
http://www.techdirt....les-we-made-up.shtml
http://www.techdirt....ing-his-appeal.shtml

1985

Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 09:15 PM »

Interesting development for LEDs:

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...-lightbulb-1.2648126

...
Radovanovic's lab at the University of Waterloo has used chemically-modified nanoparticles to tune LED light to a specific hue, rather than using expensive rare-earth elements to offset the natural blue, red or green light emitted by LEDs.
...

1986

Living Room / Chinese Government Rejects Malware

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 08:31 PM »

Looks like the Chinese government doesn't like malware:

http://www.reuters.c...dUSBREA4J07Q20140520

China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers

China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp's latest operating system, a blow to a U.S. technology company that has long struggled with sales in the country.

More at the link.

1987

Living Room / Ladar Levinson article at the Guardian

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 07:37 PM »

Something of interest for those that like the freedom we might have on the Interwebz.

http://www.theguardi...t-down-snowden-email

My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation of surveillance equipment on my company's network.

The rest is at the link.

Found via TechDirt: http://www.techdirt....gainst-lavabit.shtml

1988

Living Room / Re: ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 06:23 PM »

Let's just keep on top of this kind of thing and make sure the really bad stuff (that Carol reported earlier) does not sneak back in.

-mouser (May 20, 2014, 02:23 PM)

The compliance officer at OC is a good friend of mine and I was talking with him the other day. He filled me in on some of the new tricks that some of the bad guys are doing. It's outright dirty. Here's one...

Some companies will instead of installing browser plugins or the like, they'll instead monitor all network traffic. They will then inject ads and the like into web pages as the traffic comes through... :O

These guys are really smart... It would be nice if they'd turn their attention away from the dark side and instead create solutions to help people.

1989

Living Room / Re: Programmers: What size monitors do you guys prefer?

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 06:19 PM »

Anyone use a rotated monitor in portrait mode for coding?

-mouser (February 04, 2014, 03:04 PM)

A bit old but...

Yes. And I love it.

I have 3 monitors on this box. 2 x 24" and a 22". The setup is 24" (landscape) - 24" (portrait) - 22" (landscape).

I keep Visual Studio on a landscape monitor, then tear off a document tab and put that in the portrait monitor. Generally I work with 2 monitors side-by-side for 1 task with the third being for email, surfing, video, Skype, or whatever else.

But portrait is beautiful, especially when you want to see more of your code.

I didn't go for 27" because of space limitations on my desktop and costs. 24" is lots big enough for me (even if I'd rather have 27"), and the limited space with 4 monitors (I have a Mac as well) on my desktop really stops me from having more. I already have about 120 degrees of monitors, and pushing that to 180 degrees would really make things more difficult.

1990

Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 06:08 PM »

On the other side of the LED issue...

I do a fair amount of work in the semi-conductor industry, and LED lighting is a good part of that.

Going forward, what you need to be aware of is that LEDs ARE SEMI-CONDUCTORS. This is important.

The capabilities of lighting devices will expand well beyond "lighting" in the future. Any number of different sensors can be included with them.

Expect LED lighting to include more sensors, and to have the capability to spy on you. It will happen. Just keep your eye on the added "benefits" that they tout in their marketing.

I'm well aware that a good number of people here think that I'm a paranoid conspiracy theorist. You wouldn't if you saw what I saw. I get to look at internal documents that aren't public. As an example, I recently had a document come across my desk from a large semi-conductor manufacturer talking about how they were near ready to distribute tracking chips designed to be embedded in people. This is almost not-news at all. It has been reported for many years, and the technology is near ready for large scale deployments.

LED lighting has huge potential. It can recreate what looks like sunlight. The range of light that it can replicate is astounding. The development kits for lighting device manufacturers are becoming more and more robust with lighting being able to be upgraded through simple engine replacements rather than through complete redesigns.

But... it's a Trojan horse. Make sure your horse is empty before you let it through the gates.

1991

Developer's Corner / Re: Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 05:50 PM »

"So Ren, if you send me a nice picture of a space alien from DeviantArt, I'll send you a dollar!"  *

*Some conditions apply.

 

-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2014, 09:31 PM)

...

Thanks! You can send your dollar to me in bitcoins here:

1LoZLVjjzJp6Vt3Q4AaTkVHuM8i3obhw7Y

Well, maybe we're talking about different dictionary definitions of Trust.

I meant at a much more human level of "do you believe this guy will actually shell out the money?"

-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2014, 09:31 PM)

And that's the point. You don't need to trust anyone as you can eliminate trust through escrow and multi-sig sending.

-Renegade (May 18, 2014, 10:21 PM)

Heh hysterical pic!

But we're still talking about different defs of trust. Even before it gets into escrow, you have to "Trust #2" that it will get into escrow! However, see that Tarot Kickstarter thread, if I say I am too lazy to figure out how to get you your dollar in bitcoin so I won't send it and "Oh look! The Season Finale of Warehouse 13 is on!", ... then you can't "Trust #2" in me no matter how fancy the tech side is.

That's what I was referring to about that contest, it looked like some key info was missing. Maybe I'm blind but I didn't see any proofs that it was all sewn up and ready to go.

-TaoPhoenix (May 20, 2014, 12:03 AM)

You can mine any other cryptocurrency then sell it for BTC.

Still waiting for my dollar of BTC here...

But my mistake wasn't the same mistake as you've mentioned -- the amounts we're talking about are inconsequential, and I had fun posting that pic. I didn't really expect $1 as it's all just in fun.

However, if I really did want my dollar, I could have gone and arranged with you to set up escrow, then posted the pic.

Basically, the conversation goes like this:

You) I'll give you $1 to post an alien pic from Deviant Art.

Me) Sure. Put that $1 in escrow.

You) Ok. Done.

Me) Let me check... Ok. Looks good.

...a little while later...

Me) Ok, here's your pic!

You) Great! Let's finish off the escrow.

Us) Yay! We both got what we wanted! 

At no point do we need to trust each other there. When I ask you to put the $1 in escrow, that guarantees your end of the deal, or you can look at it as me saying, "Really? For sures? Like totally for reals?" My posting of the pic is the completion of the deal before escrow completes.

1992

Developer's Corner / Re: Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 20, 2014, 05:44 PM »

I don't think that it's money.  I think it's the same thing that everything has been rooted to before money even existed as a concept- power.  All else is just an expression of this.  Power corrupts- and all of the expressions of it also.

-40hz (May 18, 2014, 11:22 AM)

I'd rather say that too little power corrupts. If you have unlimited power you also have the power to do and get anything you want without hurting or exploiting others... 

-zenzai (May 20, 2014, 06:50 AM)

For the first part, "I'd rather say that too little power corrupts," I'd say that the way that is working right now is in how the ruling class (politicians) are enforcing socialism on people to drive them into poverty and dependence, which results in the disenfranchised masses returning to the poles to vote back in their oppressors. They vote for the very corruption that has created dependency for them.

For the second part, the current power structure is one of domination and exploitation - it is not unlimited. It relies on the suppression and dependency of others.

But, this all has little to do with nabbing that $100k bounty!

1993

Developer's Corner / Re: Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 18, 2014, 10:22 PM »

No. It's not so much people suck as they get weird - and do weird things - around money.

-40hz (May 18, 2014, 06:11 PM)

I don't think that it's money.  I think it's the same thing that everything has been rooted to before money even existed as a concept- power.  All else is just an expression of this.  Power corrupts- and all of the expressions of it also.

-wraith808 (May 18, 2014, 09:13 PM)

+1

1994

Developer's Corner / Re: Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 18, 2014, 10:21 PM »

"So Ren, if you send me a nice picture of a space alien from DeviantArt, I'll send you a dollar!"  *

*Some conditions apply.

 

-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2014, 09:31 PM)

http://wafflesmccoy....-Bunny-Babe-34186316



Thanks! You can send your dollar to me in bitcoins here:

1LoZLVjjzJp6Vt3Q4AaTkVHuM8i3obhw7Y

Well, maybe we're talking about different dictionary definitions of Trust.

I meant at a much more human level of "do you believe this guy will actually shell out the money?"

-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2014, 09:31 PM)

And that's the point. You don't need to trust anyone as you can eliminate trust through escrow and multi-sig sending.

1995

Developer's Corner / Re: Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 18, 2014, 08:07 PM »

So while I think it's great that Mssr. Jannsens has proposed this (hopefully with the most noble of intentions) I don't think it will ultimately turn out much different than what has gone before it.

-40hz (May 18, 2014, 11:22 AM)

Read more through that thread. Some people have already pointed out projects that are similar.

This all goes towards the DAO - Distributed Autonomous Organisation. They're coming...

1996

Developer's Corner / Re: Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 18, 2014, 08:05 PM »

- I'd want a CPA/Other kind of professional to certify this guy. Coming from my position of know-nothing, this could dangerously be copied as text to become Phish V3.0, way nastier than any Nigerian! And even from him, "Hi, I'm running a huge contest, so send me a month's worth of work" leaves a lot of holes. I'd want to see a "contract/bond to pay the prize money already in escrow" for something like this.

-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2014, 05:39 PM)

There you're missing one of the beauties of cryptocurrency - trustlessness. With multi-sig transactions you can effectively have an escrow and you don't need any certification or trust in the original person paying.

While the mainstream is blathering on about the "next big thing" being "trust" (e.g. web of trust), cryptocurrency is eliminating the need for trust.

1997

Developer's Corner / Want to make some extra coin? Like a LOT of extra coin? BIG BOUNTY!

« Last post by Renegade on May 18, 2014, 03:55 AM »

Want to make some extra coin?

http://www.reddit.co...e_platform_that_can/

$100,000 bounty for software platform that can replace the Bitcoin Foundation

Hi Everyone,

My name is Olivier Janssens, early adopter and Bitcoin millionaire. The Bitcoin foundation has had its role in the last 2 years. Unfortunately, it is internally recreating the same archaic political system that fails to work for society. Bitcoin is the currency of the internet generation. It puts the power back into the hands of the people. You cannot expect its main representative organisation to be exactly the opposite: A non-transparent, political and secretive elite. We have been trying to push the BF for transparency and clear communication for years, without result. Meanwhile they started creating even more political structures inside, such as committees, which can only be accessed by knowing the right people. At the bitcoin 2014 conference, organised by this same organisation, I expected to see full internet participation + live streaming of their events. Especially of the BF member meeting, where they are supposed to get input from their members and disclose what they have been up to. Instead, the board decided that the event is not to be recorded or broadcasted. We have also no idea or say on how our money is spent. Half of their board gets elected by industry members (a group of about 100 companies), and recently lead to another extremely controversial election of Brock Pierce, which has a history of being connected to cases involving fraud and pedophilia. This needs to stop.
We as an internet community, don’t need public figures to decide what’s good for us. We need to stop politicking and start focussing on the projects directly. For example, we need a project to fund the core development of bitcoin, and put our money straight to that. We need a project to have lobbyists in Washington, to fight the anti-bitcoin lobbyists from Mastercard, and to prevent the government from destroying the currency. Basically, we don’t need another intermediary. We can do this ourselves. Therefor, I want to announce today that I am organising a contest and giving $100k USD in BTC, to the group that can come up with the best platform to make this happen. I am thinking of a system where prominent people can voice their opinion, where people can propose projects, and where the core devs can actively show their roadmap with detailed features + costs, and where we can vote on the features being implemented by sending bitcoins towards the feature of our choice. This will allow the core dev team to expand by being able to add/pay more devs for feature requests which are fully funded. Maybe we can even evolve to a system later where anyone can work on a feature, which, when programmed properly (approved by the core team), will receive the bounty. The same applies to lobbyists, we just send bitcoins towards the one that we consider the most competent for the job. This will allow Bitcoin to grow and expand at a rate it deserves, a rate that a political organisation such as the foundation can never accomplish.

Let’s liberate bitcoin.

Olivier

Rules of the contest:

• Anyone can participate
• Software will be open sourced
• I will cover the initial hosting costs, until it can be self funded and created as a DAO
• Reddit community can help by voting on the platform submissions they like the most
• Ultimately I will decide who wins, but I will take all votes and feedback into account
• Deadline for submissions is 1 month from now: 17 june 2014 at 12:00 UTC

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Renegade on May 13, 2014, 04:31 AM »

:O

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Making You SHUT UP!

« Last post by Renegade on May 13, 2014, 04:18 AM »

It seems a few more people have noticed the crApple patent:

http://thefreethough...de-police-brutality/

Slowly, slowly, slowly...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Renegade on May 12, 2014, 05:34 PM »

Spotted at: http://6000.co.za/th...-vikings-are-coming/ (see attachment in previous post)

-IainB (May 11, 2014, 05:28 PM)

   Beautiful!