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DC Gamer Club / UBER-CRYPTO CURRENCY COOLNESS! FOR GAMES!

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 08:17 AM »

YES! ALL CAPS! WHY? BECAUSE THIS IS JUST ALL THAT FRIGGIN' AWESOME!

http://www.coindesk....gamers-win-bitcoins/

LeetCoin enables skilled gamers to win bitcoins

LeetCoin
It seems as if bitcoin and gambling are inexplicably intertwined.

With that in mind, here’s a look at LeetCoin. It’s a platform that allows multiplayer gamers in genres such as first person shooters to really know the score. That’s because the winner gets bitcoins, while the loser gives some BTC away.

The concept of LeetCoin is simple. You sign in with a Steam account – a digital gaming distribution platform – then you are routed to LeetCoin’s servers, where you play Steam-based games through a wagering system. Kingsley Edwards, the developer behind LeetCoin who decided to get involved with bitcoin earlier this year, describes his service as similar to that of a poker table.

“It’s like a poker game. The servers you connect to (via Steam login) are like a table. Each server has a different wager. Right now, it is set at 0.001 bitcoin for each kill,” says Edwards.

More at the link.

http://www.leetcoin.com/

How It Works

• Deposit Bitcoin into your account.
• Authorize one of our high speed game servers.
• Play and Earn! BTC will be transferred instantly to the winner's account.

If you're a hard core gamer, and that didn't get your juices flowing, you're not a hard core gamer.

For the real hard cores, soon you'll be able to put your bitcoins where your mouth is.

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Living Room / Re: Core Internet Institutions Abandon US Government

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 06:46 AM »

The Tech Dirt article has one mention of the ITU in passing. THOSE are some of the people that have no businesses whatsoever being anywhere near any of this. They are dangerous. No good can come from them having ANY involvement. Even for them to be spectators is too much. Did I mention I loathe the ITU?

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 02:48 AM »

Here are the top 10 again:

http://torrentfreak....-of-the-week-131014/

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Living Room / Pirates Jump on “The Walking Dead” Despite Legal Options

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 02:46 AM »

This is pretty interesting. Seems to raise questions about distribution methods and how they matter.

http://torrentfreak....egal-options-131014/

The start of the fourth season of “The Walking Dead” has resulted in a worldwide piracy craze. More than half a million people downloaded a copy of the show during the first few hours following its premiere, despite efforts to minimize the release lag to 24 hours in 125 countries. Fox had hopes that the global release would curb online piracy but thus far there is little evidence that this is the case, not even in the U.S. where AMC streams the show for free.

...

In part this might be because some prefer the unauthorized download option simply out of habit. This is especially true for U.S. file-sharers. As we reported earlier this year, many people who pay for a Netflix subscription downloaded Netflix’s exclusive Arrested Development release, preferring the download experience over online streaming.

There is also another group, one that simply doesn’t want to pay for a subscription, which is required in Australia for example. It’s also possible that they are just unhappy with the viewing options currently on offer. In many countries viewers still have to tune in at a fixed time slot while many prefer to program their own viewing schedule.

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Living Room / Re: Core Internet Institutions Abandon US Government

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 02:40 AM »

Tech Dirt weighs in on the topic:

http://www.techdirt....vernance-model.shtml

Always worth reading Tech Dirt, so no point in posting a quote.

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Living Room / INTERVIEW: Steve Wozniak on Internet Surveillance

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 02:35 AM »

Should be an interesting tidbit for a few people. Steve Wozniak certainly ranks among the top few computing demigods.

Published on Oct 13, 2013
Four decades ago, he almost single-handedly kickstarted the PC revolution, co-founding one of the world's largest corporations. Will the technology he helped create liberate humanity, or will it make us more isolated, more addicted to our own enslavement? Is there a secret to innovation and what is The Next Big Thing? Apple co-founder and IT guru Steve Wozniak joins Oksana to mull over these issues.

READ FULL SCRIPT http://on.rt.com/ol0dyp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for recording audio continuously

« Last post by Renegade on October 15, 2013, 12:46 AM »

Hmmm... Interesting...

I'm not aware of anything that does what you're asking. For many years the "go to" program was "Total Recorder", but I've not kept up with that.

What you're asking for though would be relatively simple to create - a few days of programming.

I'm pretty much tapped for time at the moment, but if you don't find something by the time I do have some free time, I'll see if I can whip up something that will do the trick.

I should have enough free time to get this done around about mid-November. However, I do love to goof-off (which is primarily what I do here at DC), so if I can manage to swing it before then, I'll give it a shot.

Someone might find something to do it in the meantime though... we'll see. (It does sound like fun to create that though!)

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Living Room / Re: Silk Road Seized - Dread Pirate Roberts Arrested

« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2013, 11:41 PM »

Interview with Ross:

http://www.modernlux...dread-pirate-roberts

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General Software Discussion / Re: LZIP - When you THINK you've seen it all...

« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2013, 08:20 PM »

Seems to have some pretty nifty features. Especially good are its integrity and file recovery capabilities.

-40hz (October 14, 2013, 12:53 PM)

It seems as though it is aimed squarely at IT pros and sys admins. Definitely not for regular user-land.

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Living Room / Re: Core Internet Institutions Abandon US Government

« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2013, 10:37 AM »

a new, trustworthy and international custodianship...

-IainB (October 13, 2013, 08:08 PM)

... and of course we've never seen a trustworthy custodianship usurped...

-x16wda (October 14, 2013, 09:33 AM)

I worry about that.

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Living Room / Re: Core Internet Institutions Abandon US Government

« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2013, 10:36 AM »

Much of the governance of the web (and other things) defaulted to the United States because the general perception was that the United States was law abiding, rational, predictable and fair.

-40hz (October 13, 2013, 10:37 AM)

Hehehe! And how wrong we've been proven!

However, now that the most recent manifestation of the American government has demonstrated a marked tendency to ignore the rule of law, and behave in an arbitrary and capricious (i.e. irrational) manner, many nations (who often decided to take the easy way out and "allow" the USA to handle anything they'd rather not spend the time or money on dealing with) are now realizing they're going to need to become much more directly active in the administration of their global lives and institutions.

-40hz (October 13, 2013, 10:37 AM)

With you so far...

Probably not a bad thing to have happen for all parties involved - including the USA.

-40hz (October 13, 2013, 10:37 AM)

Who are "all"? The same kleptocrats that exist everywhere else?

The US is very far from being the only "bad guy".

http://www.huffingto...anada_n_4086217.html

See! Douchewaddery exists even in Canada!

I don't know what would be best, but I know that if you have governments involved, things ain't goin' ta werk out 2 good.

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General Software Discussion / LZIP - When you THINK you've seen it all...

« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2013, 07:46 AM »

There's always yet another compression scheme out there, and I just tripped across a TAR.LZ file. Never seen one before. LZH and others, but not this.

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html

Seems to serve a purpose, though not really sure if it's not already been covered before somewhere.

But it does seem somewhat odd to distribute files like that as it adds another step when you need to download then ./configure make just to extract an archive. Oh well. I guess another compression format can't hurt.

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Living Room / Re: Google to Sell User Profiles, Photos in Ads

« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2013, 05:26 AM »

Big medico-data-whoredom gets worse.

That health insurance premium hike you had? Could have been because your grocery store loyalty card is used to record what you purchase, then sold to the insurance companies so they can figure out who eats more junk food, etc.

I'm sure it's worse than just that. The last few years have proved that it only ever gets worse.

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2013, 08:52 PM »

-wraith808 (October 13, 2013, 09:41 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2013, 08:40 PM »

There are some real gems in there. Here are some of the more neutralish ones:

Spoiler

Guys, we're 44 levels deep into inheritance. How did you not think this was going to be a problem?

I'm starting to see this error.
malloc(): failed to allocate more money

Lets blame QA. Oh wait, that's EVERYONE in the country!

Whoever wrote this Easter Egg is laughing their ass off right now.

• nationalDebt keeps blowing the stack, we should probably just lower the number
• I'm not sure, but I think the blame function just creates pointers that end up in a loop
• Only the GUI is crashing, everything is still running in the background. It just makes the user think the program has "shut down."
• The uninformedCitizens variable should be removed and combined with informedCitizens
• I think this if statement needs to be checking for a value around 0.60 instead of 0.90 if (pissedOffPeople == 0.90){ fixYourGovernment() ;}

I went back into some history and the createCandidatesfunction dynamically generated candidates until 1996. Someone hardcoded only two candidates named republicans and democrats after that point.

I think I found a solution:

rm -rf ~/United_States/Federal_Government/Legislative_Branch/Congress

Refactoring the Military class library should free up ample resources to let app run correctly.

Scrapping the following methods fixes the bug:

function NSABudgetForSnooping() {
return infinite;
}

function operationAfghan() {

}

function operationIraq() {
}

as suggested by @Snowden

Particularly fun!

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1. /etc/init.d/nsa/surveillance stop; rm /etc/init.d/nsa/surveillance; rm -rf /home/nsa/prism
2. rm -f /home/whitehouse/aca/individual_mandate
3. echo 'No citizen may be forced to purchase any product or service against his or her will.' >> /etc/constitution/proposed_amendments
4. # have to clear the slate before starting constitutional_convention...
5. userdel -r house
6. userdel -r senate
7. /etc/init.d/lobbying stop; rm /etc/init.d/lobbying; userdel -r lobbyists
8. adduser house
9. adduser senate
10. /etc/init.d/house_election start
11. /etc/init.d/senate_election start
12. echo "Peer reviewed academic/scientific research" > /etc/policy/decision_basis
13. chown american_citizens:american_citizens force_recall.rb
14. chmod 700 force_recall.rb
15. wall citizens may now use force_recall.rb
16. # now that the slate is clean we can run:
17. /etc/init.d/constitutional_convention start

Contents of force_recall.rb:

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1. #!/usr/bin/env ruby
2.  
3. house = Congress.new(:house, members: 439) # 6 non-voting
4. senate = Congress.new(:senate, members: 100)
5.  
6. [house, senate].each do |assholes|
7.   (assholes.members.select( { |prick| prick.is_a_tool? || prick.paid_off? } )).each do |corrupt_politician|
8.     corrupt_politician.actions.each { |act_of_aggression| act_of_aggression.freeze; act_of_aggression.legal_basis.mark_for_review }
9.     corrupt_politician.campaign_financers.where("contributed > 1000.00").map! { |f| f.flag_for_fbi_investigation }
10.     corrupt_politician.imprison
11.   end
12. end

And finally:

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1. /etc/init.d/federal_government restart

Having consulted with a few people I am recommending someone try this--

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1. cd /
2. rm -rf /congress
3. git init congress
4. git pull constitution master
5. /congress/setup --newInstall --noParties --strictConstitutionView

CHUCK NORRIS!

Suggested fix:

congress.each().apply(chuckNorris)
federalreserve.closeQuietly()

Adding this output filter to /bin/congressd might smooth resource requirements:

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1. for bill in *
2. do
3.     split -p "--line item--" $bill $bill
4.     rm $bill
5. done

@Xinbi I think the problem is actually with the Politician class

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1. namespace US.Government
2. {
3.     public class Politician : Chamber
4.     {
5.         public override VoteResult VoteOn(Bill bill)
6.         {
7.             if( ! bill.BenefitsCountry(USA))
8.             {
9.                  if(bill.BenefitsPoliticanReElection() && bill.BenefitsPolitician())
10.                 {
11.                     return VoteResult.Against;
12.                 }
13.                 else
14.                 {
15.                     Politician.Spin();
16.                     return VoteResult.For;
17.                 }    
18.             }
19.             else
20.             {
21.                 if(bill.BenefitsPoliticanReElection() && bill.BenefitsPolitician())
22.                 {
23.                     return VoteResult.For;
24.                 }
25.                 else
26.                 {
27.                     Politician.Spin();
28.                     return VoteResult.Against;
29.                 }    
30.             }
31.         }
32.     }
33. }

According to the documentation for the Democracy library, the Politician class always checks this method first.

You could try using a different library, but it seems most other libraries have other issues the Democracy library doesn't

You might try starting an open source project to create a replacement library, but if you try to run it using a USA based operating system the anti-virus software (I believe they use NSA?) automatically sees it as malicious and kills any associated processes.

$killall government
$

everything works just fine

This one is really good!

The real problem is that shortly after the system was installed on the main server new developers started contributing features that were never requested. They failed to realize that the system architects designed it as a hierarchical peer-to-peer network. Each node is fully capable of running independent of the network or in smaller subnets (and, in fact, run more efficiently when it does) but the design included supervisor nodes at various levels for performance and security reasons. The supervisor nodes were designed with 3 responsibilities:

Monitor the status of the network
Provide services for resolving conflicts between leaf nodes
Protect the network from outside attack.
Now, because of feature creep, the central node is bloated and buggy. Luckily the system architects foresaw this problem and provided a back door into the central node's core framework to add and remove features without the current maintainters' or the system admin's consent.

To prevent abuse they required two thirds of the second tier supervisor nodes to send a control packet to the central node. Then the maintainers of those second tier nodes can submit pull requests. Those pull requests have to be reviewed and approved by the maintainers of three fourths of all the second tier nodes before they can be merged into the core framework of the central node.

This approach has been attempted multiple times but communication problems prevented enough nodes from connecting before a timeout occurred. One attempt that came the closest was only 5 nodes short of the threshold. Had it succeeded the plan was to implement QoS and load balancing to prevent processes on the central node from consuming more resources than were available (something all second tier nodes already have in place). Seeing the attempts in the system log the maintainers at the time added a similar feature as an auxiliary process but it didn't take long before the the @SCOTUS board rejected it claiming it was incompatible with the core framework.

I think this is probably the only way to fix the central node. The majority of the current maintainers care only about their own pet projects and each new sysadmin has taken to writing scripts that circumvent established systems when it suits his needs.

P.S. Can someone tell me why the users requested an inexperienced junior developer to be the sysadmin? I mean the previous one wasn't very competent but this one doesn't work well with others, even if they're members of his own user group.

Another really good one:

I say Fork it! And just refactor the whole thing.

Clearly we have an unstoppable race condition that keeps hitting some upper limit every time US.resetDebtCeiling() is called.

Best as I can tell, the original design of the whole State Machine was not designed to scale to this point.

There also seems to be some corruption in the persistence layer. Looks like the issue has always just been patched by adding more cache.

Anyway, I think we should try this fix:

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1. DROP FEDERATED TABLE us_government;
2. DROP TABLE congress;
3. DROP TABLE senate;
4. DROP TABLE republican_party;
5. DROP TABLE democratic_party;
6. TRUNCATE TABLE all_politicians;
7. DELETE FROM TABLE laws WHERE serves_the_people = false;
8.  
9. CREATE TABLE new_functional_government;
10. INSERT HIGH_PRIORITY INTO TABLE new_functional_government SET leadership='to really give a shit about the citizens of country';

If you check earlier posts, you will see one of the original developers (git handle: ThomasJefferson) said that it is good to shut the whole system down and completely refactor all code and expunge corrupt data every 20 years. Clearly that has not happened.

I suggest trying the following commands.

Code: Text [Select]

1. sudo rm -Rf /TheUSCongress
2. sudo rm -Rf /ThePresident
3. sudo rm -Rf /TheVicePresident
4. sudo elect new government
5. sudo reboot

If that does not work, perhaps the following command will work.

Code: Text [Select]

1. sudo fdisk /dev/TheUSGovernment

If that does not work, perhaps it is time to try the Thomas Jefferson "tree of liberty" solution.

A response to the above proposed solution:

Ok, so I got through reboot, it asked me for my keys.

I don't have any now. So I pressed the enter key, and it is persistently asking for my keys.

I can't work my way to fdisking this POS, I won't be able to refresh anything either I assume... Unless I'm sadly mistaken? Can I skip fdisking and start refreshing?

[/size]

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2013, 04:37 AM »

I simply CANNOT resist! Read the comments!

https://github.com/W...e/fortyfour/issues/3

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Living Room / Re: Google to Sell User Profiles, Photos in Ads

« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2013, 03:23 AM »

The only surprise here is that they didn't wait a little longer before doing this little inevitable bait and switch advertising maneuver.

-mouser (October 12, 2013, 05:28 PM)

I'm not too surprised. Instagram did the same thing a while back, and FB has followed up on it, so they've had the way paved for them, and so far it looks "safe", where "safe" means people are too self-absorbed, ignorant, and apathetic to notice, know, or care.

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2013, 02:35 AM »

Upcoming interview - Woz on the NSA:

http://rt.com/news/w...rview-apple-nsa-121/

RT finds out what Apple’s Wozniak thinks of the NSA leaks scandal [PREVIEW]

Should be interesting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Structure for HTML 5!

« Last post by Renegade on October 12, 2013, 09:14 PM »

That's kind of a broad question. Being a bit more specific would help out.

At a high level, the general concept is to encapsulate content in tags then deal with layout and display issues primarily with CSS. Is that what you're asking?

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Living Room / Core Internet Institutions Abandon US Government

« Last post by Renegade on October 12, 2013, 09:12 PM »

Good? Bad?

http://www.internetg...n-the-us-government/

In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back on the US government. With striking unanimity, the organizations that actually develop and administer Internet standards and resources initiated a break with 3 decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance.

A statement released by this group called for “accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.” That part of the statement constituted an explicit rejection of the US Commerce Department’s unilateral oversight of ICANN through the IANA contract. It also indirectly attacks the US unilateral approach to the Affirmation of Commitments, the pact between the US and ICANN which provides for periodic reviews of its activities by the GAC and other members of the ICANN community. (The Affirmation was conceived as an agreement between ICANN and the US exclusively – it would not have been difficult to allow other states to sign on as well.)

I can't see any government involvement being a good thing. We're talking about technical standards and the like, and governments are nothing but politics and bickering. How is politicizing the Internet a good thing?

From the frying pan into the fire...

(And that's ignoring other ICANN problems, etc.)

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Living Room / Google to Sell User Profiles, Photos in Ads

« Last post by Renegade on October 12, 2013, 07:47 AM »

Google has joined Facebook and Instagram.

http://blogs.wsj.com...tos-in-ads/?mod=e2fb

Google updated its terms of service Friday to say that beginning Nov. 11 it has the right to sell adult users’  profile names, photos and comments in reviews and advertising.

Here’s how its “shared endorsements” would work: If you rate a product on Google Play or give a product a +1 (the Google equivalent to Facebook’s “like”), those actions can be shown to your friends and connections. So if you gave a +1 to your favorite fashion retailer, your mom might see an advertisement from that retailer that says you like it. Google is drawing that information from your Google+ account (and you might have one, even if you don’t use it).

Enjoy!

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Living Room / Switching to StartPage from DuckDuckGo

« Last post by Renegade on October 12, 2013, 04:47 AM »

I've been finding that far too often I end up searching with "!g" with DuckDuckGo. I really like DDG, but, a bit tired of always doing 2 searches. DDG is great for a lot of general searches, but I just search for too much stuff that's off the beaten path or highly specific.

Anyways, I'm switching over to Start Page:

https://startpage.com

How have people found it?

(Anything else out there that's worth looking at?)

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by Renegade on October 12, 2013, 04:39 AM »

Who knows? Might all have been actors. But, still entertaining. It's hard to know/trust much when it comes to newstertainment.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on October 11, 2013, 08:33 AM »

^video visuals reminds me of the last supper...
 (see attachment in previous post)
(will probably take some time to see who that's ironic for)

-tomos (October 11, 2013, 06:27 AM)

Well, in this case they all got crucified, and they all deserved it.

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 11, 2013, 08:29 AM »

I thought it was rather accurate. The top row keeps churning forward...and the bottom row keeps praying they don't blow up the planet in the process.

-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2013, 06:42 PM)

Hahahaha!

Pretty much!

I'm pretty darn sure that the vanguard of human destruction is "science".