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Here's a history of Bitcoin infographic. It is very large.
http://www.visualcap...coin-infographic.jpg
Not hot linking it for obvious reasons.-Renegade (December 16, 2013, 07:29 AM)
Q: How do I install SteamOS?
There are two different install methods for SteamOS. '''WARNING: BOTH METHODS WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON THE MACHINE'''
The easiest method is an image-based install using CloneZilla. You will need to create a SteamOS System Restore USB stick to perform this install. The image provided here requires at least a 1TB disk.The second method is based on the Debian Installer. It requires multiple configuration steps:
- Format a 4GB or larger USB stick with the FAT32 filesystem.
- Use "SYSRESTORE" as the partition name
- Unzip the contents of SYSRESTORE.zip to this USB stick to create the System Restore USB stick
- Put the System Restore USB stick in your target machine.
- Boot your machine and tell the BIOS to boot off the stick. (usually something like F8, F11 or F12 will bring up the BIOS boot menu).
- Make sure you select the UEFI entry, it may look something like "UEFI: Patriot Memory PMAP"
- Select "Restore Entire Disk" from the GRUB menu.
- System Restore will proceed automatically. When it is complete it will reboot into your freshly re-imaged SteamOS
- Unzip the SteamOSInstaller.zip file to a blank, FAT32-formatted USB stick.
- Put the USB stick in your target machine.
- Boot your machine and tell the BIOS to boot off the stick. (usually something like F8, F11, or F12 will bring up the BIOS boot menu).
- Make sure you select the UEFI entry, it may look something like "UEFI: Patriot Memory PMAP"
- Pick "Automated Install" from the next menu.
- The rest of the installation is unattended and will repartition the drive and install SteamOS.
- After installation is complete, log onto the resulting system (using the Gnome session) with the predefined "steam" account. The password is "steam".
- Run steam, accept the EULA, and let it bootstrap.
- Logoff the steam account
- Log on with the "desktop" account.
- The password is "desktop"
- From a terminal window, run ~/post_logon.sh. This will prompt for a password - enter "desktop".
- This script will perform the post-install customizations, delete itself, then reboot into the recovery partition capture utility.
- Confirm "y" to continue and the recovery partition will be created. When it is finished, reboot into your freshly installed SteamOS.
(see attachment in previous post)Remember: "It's not only the cream that rises to the top."-40hz (December 13, 2013, 05:49 PM)
Are you trying not to say shit floats?-Stoic Joker (December 13, 2013, 06:57 PM)
Uh...pork fat, Ren! Pork fat floats on beans!-app103 (December 13, 2013, 07:05 PM)
so for email services, which of the big three would you use?-superboyac (December 13, 2013, 05:20 PM)
While picking on the Email providers do keep in mind that SMTP is about as secure as a Snail Mail Post Card. Because that avenue of exposure has always existed...it's just being exploited by the best of the worst at this point.-Stoic Joker (December 13, 2013, 06:19 AM)
the "Import email accounts" doesnt exist here yet. So definitely not fully rolled out yet - will wait for this and try it out then.-tomos (December 12, 2013, 07:21 AM)
I don't look at it as a rejection or a door closed, but rather possibilities shown... 
I cant quite tie it in with the current definition of a reserve currency a la http://en.wikipedia....iki/Reserve_currency.-tomos (December 12, 2013, 09:23 AM)
I have one very strong objection to this plan, based on personal experience with these types of games (and probably being watched in them).
The people who play them are typically people who aren't going to do anything outrageous in real life. With some rare exceptions, people spending vast amounts of time indulging in a MMORPG usually are the same people that might talk big but not actually act on it.-SeraphimLabs (December 10, 2013, 03:05 PM)
I would bet that it's gamers who now work at the NSA who came up with this idea. "Noooo... we are NOT just playing games at work; we're monitoring potential terrorist activity in the gaming and virtual environment areas..."
I mean, how do you manage to get a job like that? Convince your boss that you need to play games all day long in the name of national security? What a sacrifice for their country! Heroes, I say!-J-Mac (December 11, 2013, 09:32 PM)
The only problem is when they're watching something that we believe should be entirely private, or held in confidence between myself and whomever I'm interacting with. Surely if I'm in a virtual public spot in, say, WoW, I can't object to someone observing what I do.-CWuestefeld (December 11, 2013, 01:48 PM)
The NSA document, written in 2008 and titled Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments, stressed the risk of leaving games communities under-monitored, describing them as a "target-rich communications network" where intelligence targets could "hide in plain sight".
Games, the analyst wrote, "are an opportunity!". According to the briefing notes, so many different US intelligence agents were conducting operations inside games that a "deconfliction" group was required to ensure they weren't spying on, or interfering with, each other.
If properly exploited, games could produce vast amounts of intelligence, according to the NSA document. They could be used as a window for hacking attacks, to build pictures of people's social networks through "buddylists and interaction", to make approaches by undercover agents, and to obtain target identifiers (such as profile photos), geolocation, and collection of communications.
The ability to extract communications from talk channels in games would be necessary, the NSA paper argued, because of the potential for them to be used to communicate anonymously: Second Life was enabling anonymous texts and planning to introduce voice calls, while game noticeboards could, it states, be used to share information on the web addresses of terrorism forums.
Given that gaming consoles often include voice headsets, video cameras, and other identifiers, the potential for joining together biometric information with activities was also an exciting one.
But the documents contain no indication that the surveillance ever foiled any terrorist plots, nor is there any clear evidence that terror groups were using the virtual communities to communicate as the intelligence agencies predicted.
