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Or to put it more professionally: A "bad option" remains a bad option, regardless of the degree of risk involved in pursuing it.-40hz (November 18, 2015, 12:03 PM)
Which was, I think, was an extremely significant factor in getting her the backing she got - along with her roughly 14 years of "street cred" and active involvement with her fan base leading up to it.-40hz (November 18, 2015, 12:03 PM)
So I don't see a return to patronage as necessarily desireable or without danger to artistic integrity.-40hz (November 17, 2015, 07:26 PM)
I also think she was the right person, with the right project, in the right place, at the right time - and the crowdsourcing scene was in a unique moment where it wanted to put some real momentum behind something. So I think it was more a phenomenon rather than a sign that pointed the way for others.-40hz (November 16, 2015, 09:33 PM)
Amanda Palmer-40hz (November 16, 2015, 07:58 PM)
I'm in if you'll take DonationCredits!-ayryq (November 14, 2015, 09:17 AM)
My intention was to use it to whitelist processes allowed to interact with my most important data. That's variously stored in D:\Project, P:\ for my photos, etc. But as far as I can see in WinAntiRansom, you can only designate one part of the filesystem (a non-root, non-virtual directory) below which everything is protected. That means I can only use it to protect *one* such area, not all of them. And that makes it almost useless.-CWuestefeld (November 09, 2015, 12:55 PM)
It's gone down about $10 since I started looking for ways to buy BTC locally (about an hour).-Deozaan (November 10, 2015, 04:38 PM)
Hell its dropped almost $70 total today. If highend can wait till Saturday he might just get it for a song by then. I can't afford to move any of mine right now, I'm to far under water.-Stoic Joker (November 10, 2015, 10:31 PM)
Just an update to my CoinJar experiment:
ID verification was completed within 3 hours of uploading relevant info, this now lets me transfer up to AU$2500/day into the CoinJar account.
One bank account linked and verified within 6 hours, two remaining bank accounts linked and verified within 48 hours.
Linking a bank account isn't necessary since you can still deposit to your CoinJar account by using BPAYw, (up to 24 hours to process), or POLiw, (up to 48 hours to process).
If nothing else these guys are ridiculously efficient.-4wd (November 12, 2015, 08:27 PM)
Asher and the guys at Coinjar have worked ridiculously hard against incredible resistance to get things working. I've talked to him about some of those problems on a number of occasions.
What's funny is that both Asher and I have the same problems in using Coinjar due to neither of us being Australian. There are extra hurdles there. He's a good sport about it though.-Renegade (November 13, 2015, 02:00 PM)
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
The pricing for WinAntiRansom on the website is all mixed up. The web page describing the product says $14.95. If you click on the buy with PayPal link, it tells you $29.95, and if you click on the credit card link, it tells you $19.95.-CWuestefeld (November 06, 2015, 07:47 PM)
I've never had any problem with something being done about people who take advantage by delving into Terms and Conditions and driving through a loophole. And that goes for customers as well as providers.-Dormouse (November 06, 2015, 10:32 AM)
I really want to get into BC... but I don't even know where to start with it doing this mess.-wraith808 (November 04, 2015, 02:49 PM)
I read somewhere recently-ish that it was practically impossible (for the average person) to earn more money through mining than the cost of the power expended to run the mining hardware. But that may have been before the even-more-recent-ish rally that BTC has had.
I, too, am interested in getting into BTC, but I have no idea how to create a wallet. And I lack basic knowledge about BTC, such as if it's even possible to have a wallet without mining.-Deozaan (November 05, 2015, 07:17 PM)
They can see what's in your drive? Yes, many of these 'services' can. Especially for de-duping. The big row over that happened a while ago.And it's something that should be complained about again and again and...-wraith808 (November 05, 2015, 11:03 AM)-f0dder (November 05, 2015, 03:16 PM)
So advertising a service as "unlimited" is OK; but trying to see if it really is unlimited is not?-eleman (November 05, 2015, 06:40 AM)
They are changing their policy - it was unlimited, now it won't be and they won't advertise it as such (at least that how I read things).
This change is obviously irritating and inconvenient for people who were taking advantage of large amounts of space, but I don't see anything deceptive about it. In fact they're being quite upfront about it. They offered unlimited storage, found they couldn't sustain it and have changed their policy as result.-mwb1100 (November 05, 2015, 09:28 AM)
The thing that worries me most about this change of policy isn't really the change of policy, but the emphasis in the quote:Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average.-Microsoft
Care to guess why I find that part troubling?-f0dder (November 05, 2015, 09:13 AM)
I really want to get into BC... but I don't even know where to start with it doing this mess.-wraith808 (November 04, 2015, 02:49 PM)
I honestly don't think there is a per se 'Right Way' to get started ... There are however a lot of wrong ways (like investing you life savings, etc..).
I went the mining route, because the whole investing/currency exchange thing confuses the shit out of me. But if you're good at that type of thing maybe pushing some shitcoin around might be a good way in.
In retrospect, I put more into the mining equipment than I should have and the money is kinda stuck there now ... But at the time - it looked good - I couldn't see the bottom falling out shortly thereafter. I'm not looking to pull out completely, I'd just like to break even.-Stoic Joker (November 04, 2015, 03:52 PM)
She actually did some pretty good stuff for a while in the music industry... and on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack.-wraith808 (November 01, 2015, 10:25 PM)
I thought she performed better in films of the campy SciFi type such as Not Of This Earth than those she is known for.-MilesAhead (November 02, 2015, 06:47 AM)
might just need a restart of SC then.-mouser (November 02, 2015, 04:36 PM)