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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on October 11, 2013, 01:25 AM »

I'm waiting for Google to be ordered to stop indexing and providing search results for the terms 'Bitcoin' and 'crypto-currency.' They're already trying to have Google do that with VPN and share sites in some countries.

-40hz (October 10, 2013, 01:08 PM)

That's a different topic, but Google *IS* already and has been for some time censoring and politically skewing search results. Their search results are NOT as relevant as they'd like to say they are. They are purposefully and maliciously skewing search results. I'm not the only one to have noticed this. Google is playing the part of a political activist for the establishment. They are shills. No further comment on it as there is no point in trying to convince people - they can only go out and look for themselves.

That aside...


Want to see some regulators and the like get their asses handed to them? Crappy audio quality, and fairly long, but man... Worth it.

Check at about 37:00 for a question that gets nothing but silence because they can't answer. The looks on their faces says it all. (It's about 1 minute.)

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 10, 2013, 11:09 PM »

This is really just an ad, but it's darn cool:

http://gizmodo.com/w...out-coffe-1442158546

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 10, 2013, 12:09 PM »

^ 

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on October 10, 2013, 11:56 AM »

And from the pure malice department:

http://www.coindesk....ank-account-bitcoin/

Capital One has closed a bank account belonging to a company that produces metal medallions after it started selling commemorative silver and copper bitcoin coins.

Rob Gray, CEO of Mulligan Mint, Inc said Capital One gave him no warning before it closed his company’s bank account. He has since contacted the bank, but isn’t satisfied with its response.

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 10, 2013, 11:13 AM »

From the EFF:

https://www.eff.org/...ware-new-revelations

How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations

Phishing + MitM? Sigh...

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 10, 2013, 10:39 AM »

Interesting:

http://www.techdirt....ill-unanswered.shtml

Three Months After It Cleared The 100K Signature Threshold, 'Pardon Snowden' Petition Still Unanswered

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Living Room / TrueCrypt Audit

« Last post by Renegade on October 10, 2013, 06:22 AM »

(In case you aren't familiar with security audits, they are to determine the security of a piece of software and are quite intense.)

A fund has been set up to pay for a security audit if TrueCrypt:

http://www.fundfill....JdDQk211KJDAUfcOw==#

A site is also set up:

http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

Anyways... Interesting. Publicly and openly audited.

Stay tuned. This could be important...

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 09, 2013, 06:09 PM »

THIS.IS.TOO.AWESOME.FOR.WORDS.

http://mentalfloss.c...opens-only-canadians

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on October 09, 2013, 12:40 PM »

Want to see a credit card company soil itself?

https://insights.mas...reat-silk-road-bust/

Why Would You Want to Be Anonymous? Or, Bitcoin and the Great Silk Road Bust
Theodore Iacobuzio | October 7, 2013

It’s a fair question. Now that Silk Road has been busted (the details are ultra gamey) is there any reason for Bitcoin, the anonymous online currency backed by nothing but its users (i.e., not by any state), to continue in existence? After all, the only other reason to hold it is for fun, speculation, and… anonymity. The first two do not promise great volume. Is the last always sinister?

That depends, it seems to Global Insights, on how important your personal information is to you. Just this week we went public with our own look at these issues in The Digital Sharing and Trust Project. One important segment, Proactive Protectors, is very concerned with actively guarding their online identity. And while they are by our estimate 17 percent of the global market, 17 percent of the global market is a lot. Seventeen percent of anything is a lot. Enough to keep Bitcoin going, one would think.

As I say, we’re about to find out.

They're scared. Very scared.

A payment system that lets you pay anyone, anywhere, near instantly, and basically for free.

Mastercard, Visa, etc. - their days are numbered as their business model is a thing of the past.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person bothered by the differences in Free?

« Last post by Renegade on October 09, 2013, 12:29 AM »

WTFPL FTW! 

-Renegade (October 08, 2013, 03:41 PM)

... And then they Copyrighted the page!

Right...

-TaoPhoenix (October 08, 2013, 11:43 PM)

It is ironic, but it's also a systemic problem. You can't have 50 versions of a license, so you can't have people take "WTFPL", rewrite it, and call it "WTFPL". It defeats the purpose of a license.

So while it is ironic, it's really no different than using any given word. When I say "tree", I can't be talking about something to drink coffee out of, or a mode of transportation. If people did that, communication would be impossible.

For a great example of why this is, watch this Twilight Zone:

https://en.wikipedia...y_(The_Twilight_Zone)

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General Software Discussion / Re: self-hosted, high quality video podcast. How?

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

This is sort of off-topic (i.e. not about bandwidth for streaming), but on-topic for video podcasting:

http://www.corbettre...make-your-own-media/

Show notes minus embedded links

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Final Cut Pro
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Audacity
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“Do It Yourself” Original song by David C Russell
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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person bothered by the differences in Free?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 10:41 PM »

I was thinking more along the lines of a DBAD license.

The Don't Be A Dick|Douchebag|Dumbass|Dork|Dillweed|Dipshit License

1) You are welcome to use the software at no charge.  DBAD.
2) A good faith effort has been made so that the software does what it says.  That said, you, the user, are not guaranteed anything.  DBAD.
3) Use at your own risk; the author shall not be held liable for damages arising from the use of the software.  DBAD.
4) Unless offered of the author's own volition, the author is under no obligation to provide source code.  You, the user, are not entitled to it simply because the software is offered at no charge.  DBAD.
5) Above all, DBAD.

-skwire (October 08, 2013, 10:21 PM)

 

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 05:42 PM »

And so the feds have only stoked the fires of substance freedom.

http://techcrunch.co...aunch-silk-road-2-0/

Deep Web Users Are Ready To Launch Silk Road 2.0

In an interesting post-mortem release by the creators of the defunct anonymous marketplace Atlantis there is information that the former admins and users of the Silk Road are planning to resurrect the service. User RR writes: “We have SilkRoad v2.0 ready to launch and is now in its final testing stages. Our site has all the features of the original one and we have kept the same style of forum for your ease.”

More at the link.

Atlantis post here:

http://atlantisblog....-released-a-monster/

Silk Road Subdued But This Ex-Black-Market Employee Believes Feds Only Woke A Monster

So the gig is up, My two favorite Drug dealers have been taken down in the space of a week, Christopher Tarbell is now the mystery agent who infiltrated Silk Road and can add Dread Pirate Roberts to his list of take-downs which include “Sabu” of Anonymous.

While other sites ramp up server capacity to meet demand and I watch the number of listings on alternative marketplaces such as Sheep and Black Market Reloaded increase at an exponential rate, (Sheep has gone from 500 Drug listings to over 1500 as I write) I can’t help but get the feeling DPR would be relatively happy with the results of his self-professed “economic simulation” as his legion of vendors and customers scramble to re-establish contact on other marketplaces.

There’s also a hint of Karma in the air too, had the Admins behind the failed Silk Road alternative “Atlantis” kept the site alive just two more weeks they’d be swimming in a sea of bitcoins Scrooge McDuck style right now but given the allegations of ex black marketplace employees having hits put out on them maybe I’ll tone down on the criticism and just be glad I was never on the inside.

More at the link.

And BitWasp here (online BTC marketplace):

https://github.com/Bit-Wasp/BitWasp

It's still not completely ready, but it's in the works.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 05:02 PM »

Looks like more people believe in bitcoins than don't:

http://www.zdnet.com...e-of-money/10128933/

75% from what I see there.

Bitcoins: The future of money?
Moderated by Andrew Nusca | October 7, 2013 -- 07:00 GMT (18:00 AEST)

Summary: The FBI's shutdown of Silk Road rekindles discussion about the prospects for that site's preferred currency.

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Living Room / Re: INTERVIEW: Ladar Levison of LAVABIT Talks to Luke Rudowski

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 04:55 PM »

Here's another interview with Ladar:

http://chycho.blogsp...llance-state-is.html

An example of how the surveillance state is hurting the U.S. economy: Ladar Levison confirms that he will be forced to move his business overseas

In a sign of things to come for the U.S. tech industry, Ladar Levison, the owner of Lavabit, the secure private encrypted email provider that shut down after 10 years of operation (2, 3) because he decided not to abide by the demands made by the United States government to spy on their 400,000 plus users, explains that if he loses his case against the U.S. government he will most likely hand over his company to someone overseas and let them run it. It’s important to note that the U.S. government already new that this would be the end result, that revelations about NSA’s PRISM program would hurt American Technology companies, but they didn’t really care.

More at the link.

Video cued to him saying that he'd have to move overseas:

http://www.youtube.c...?v=lePRRymRSeg#t=645

Full interview:

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General Software Discussion / Re: self-hosted, high quality video podcast. How?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 04:46 PM »

YouTube does have some kind of live streaming. Every now and then I see some rock concert or something streamed live on it. You might want to check that. Not sure how it works though.

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 04:45 PM »

Canning or barrelling?

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General Software Discussion / Re: self-hosted, high quality video podcast. How?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 03:51 PM »

So, you're interested in live streaming primarily? The title led me to believe something different.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person bothered by the differences in Free?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 03:41 PM »

WTFPL FTW! 

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person that has a real big problem with software like this?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 03:36 PM »

I tend to look at the larger societal picture every time I look at technology. Because in my mind, discussing a technology divorced from its the user (and the society he/she lives in) is meaningless.

-40hz (October 08, 2013, 02:35 PM)

Again, more good points that I certainly wouldn't disagree with. You're quite correct.

But as I just mentioned above, are you divorcing the underlying motivations behind the behaviour and their intended purposes? (Well, I didn't mention purposes above, but hopefully it could be inferred.)

App103 made similar points as you about the slippery slope of Pavlovian conditioning (though she didn't phrase it as such).

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person that has a real big problem with software like this?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 03:32 PM »

I think it makes complete sense to the people behind PRISM over at the NSA. That's pretty much been their argument all along.

They keep insisting they're not spying on Americans. They're just collecting metadata - and they only really look at what they collect if they think there's a problem.

-40hz (October 08, 2013, 08:39 AM)

You do have a point.

I would only ask how much difference there is between the NSA/government and parents when it comes to actually caring. I somehow doubt that the former really cares about people, whereas the latter do care about their children. This for me is an important distinction. i.e. What are the motivating factors behind the behaviour? (Again, I'm coming out with my Kantian leanings.)

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person that has a real big problem with software like this?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 05:23 AM »

Y'know... I was brain farting, and it occurred to me that there's a bit of a disconnect in this thread (maybe more than 1).

Specifically, the difference between "monitoring" and "logging".

From the techie-type perspective, if I'm monitoring something, I've got that piece of software running and I'm consulting it every so often.

Logging on the other hand is completely different. I just log stuff and forget about it. Then, if there's a problem, I go back and check to find out a bit about the problem and hopefully get some idea about how to solve it.

Does that make any sense? I don't feel like typing anymore.

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

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2013, 02:42 AM »

Obamacare gets some attention from the medical professions:

...

In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the #ssholes in Washington.

-IainB (October 08, 2013, 01:23 AM)

HAHAHAHA~!

That was good! 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Idea Thread - Post Your Program Ideas Here

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2013, 11:42 PM »

Quick question... Is there a gallery of Cody images? I'm thinking of a tiny little fun thing based on Cody. A range of images would be needed though. Animated GIFs would help out as well, if there are any.

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General Software Discussion / Re: self-hosted, high quality video podcast. How?

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2013, 10:27 PM »

Why don't you just upload to YouTube? It's pretty darn hard to beat their CDN for video. Or Vimeo? They're also excellent.

If you want to gain attention, YouTube is the way to go.