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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 01, 2014, 05:29:32 PM »

If by "I" you mean most businesses in America then yes.

Different currencies are accepted in different places. I can't pay for a pizza in America with a handful of Euros. I can't throw dollar bills at my monitor to buy things from Amazon. But oh wait, I can buy things on Amazon with my bitcoins. Sounds almost like... cash.... for the internet? Weird.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 01, 2014, 05:18:44 PM »

you might at least make some effort to justify your outlandish claim that bitcoin is the cash of the internet. Its an absurd statement.

It is the only method of payment on the internet that can not be reversed.

From their high of over $1,100 they are now worth about half of that. I hope you haven't put too much of your savings into them.

This is what people were telling me when bitcoin hit $30 and then dropped to $2. "Wow I hope you sold them all!" You don't know what a Bitcoin is and you don't understand the technology or why it will be worth a lot, lot more in the future. Just wallow in your ignorance if you want, but feel free to wallow quietly as to not disturb me.

Thork is right on this point.  Bitcoins are nowhere near as accepted as they would need to be to be called the "cash of the Internet."  They might be someday in the future, but they're definitely not now.

He apparently doesn't understand what I meant, and neither do you. Just because someone doesn't take a currency, doesn't make it "not cash." If I didn't take physical dollar bills, would that make dollar bills not cash?

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 01, 2014, 03:47:06 PM »

No, they aren't. They are a minority curiosity but people like amazon and wall-mart and iTunes accept almost any currency across the world apart from bitcoins. They are hardly THE cash of the internet.

That was a pretty terrible argument. It's not even worth typing up a response longer than this.

Frankly, I'm with the Finland on this issue.
http://r.duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forexminute.com%2Fbitcoin%2Ffinland-says-bitcoin-is-not-a-currency-but-commodity-22446

Sell your bitcoins dude, I don't think they will ever be worth much more than they are right now. Its just a giant game of the emperor's new clothes and sooner or later the trust is going to go, and that's all bitcoin has. Nothing else backs it.

You can't even tell me what a bitcoin is, you sure as hell can't tell me what to do with them. As soon as you learn what they are and how they do what they do, then you'll know why it's not going away. Until then, feel free to not post here ever again.

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Technology & Information / Re: VM problems

« on: March 01, 2014, 01:01:35 AM »

Parsifal's fix for your situation is to add another layer of headache while not fixing the actual problem.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: March 01, 2014, 12:59:32 AM »

I concede, true vikings are extinct.

You let a true scotsman fallacy work on you. You're a disgrace to the FES.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: February 28, 2014, 03:33:56 AM »

I would have accepted a group of wizards bent on wild climate change before I'd like to see the excuse "god did it!"

Such BS.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: February 28, 2014, 03:26:39 AM »

They used a literal deus ex machina to fix a plot hole. That is the very definition of not fixing the plot hole. But whatever. If Doctor Who can make a whole show where one guy has a screwdriver that does literally anything you happen to need it to when the plot demands it, then ESO can get away with this.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: February 27, 2014, 01:13:21 AM »

He doesn't look like a lord, but he does look exactly like a Dave.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: February 26, 2014, 05:18:50 AM »

Be that as it may, how do you steal bitcoins?  Aren't they unique in that even if you copied the files you couldn't use it without being caught?

Yes, they all have unique identifiers that can be tracked, but you can launder bitcoins just like cash. Run them through an anonymous exchange or tumbler and those coins are gone forever. Bitcoins are the cash of the internet, which has its positives and its negatives. MtGox's coins weren't stolen in one big batch, either. They've been leaking coins because, again, its run by an idiot who didn't know how to run a multi-million dollar business.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: February 26, 2014, 01:54:33 AM »

Incompetence or Ponzi scheme?

Never attribute to malice that which is easily explained by stupidity. They've been straight dumb from the start.



Really. He is really this stupid. Why anyone ever trusted the Magic the Gathering Online eXchange is beyond comprehension.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: February 25, 2014, 10:24:37 PM »

How is this possible?

www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/25/282384924/bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-goes-dark-after-theft-report

MtGox is run by an idiot. I've been telling people that for years. When you trust your money to someone, is it that hard of a stretch to google some information about them and make sure they're not a complete dumbass? MtGox proves that the answer is "yes, it is too hard for me to look that up."

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: February 25, 2014, 05:49:28 AM »

The graveyard sounds like the best option out of those choices. The other two sound like obvious traps, while the graveyard is probably just a setting scare.

Go back to Excel online.

Don't make me break out my damage spreadsheet. I'll fuck you up after a few minutes of calibration and ship fitting.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: February 25, 2014, 05:35:19 AM »

Look at all that glorious fun I'm missing by not playing this game.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: February 25, 2014, 05:14:19 AM »

That's two people, Thork, that have told you that the Surface can be easily held with one hand, but you continue to claim it is too heavy. Maybe you should start taking steroids, your arms are tiny and frail.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: February 22, 2014, 08:50:57 PM »

If you use the pro the battery life takes a nose dive(at least on the first gen).  For the rare times I need it, the RT works well.

Lower screen brightness, undervolt the components, and boom, better battery life than the RT.


I'll admit that's a workaround rather than an actual feature, though. Also installing real graphics drivers was a pain (which can also increase battery life by optimizing energy consumption). By real I mean Intel's latest and greatest, not the old garbage drivers available in the Surface Pro driver package.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: February 22, 2014, 04:50:52 PM »

Also, having now used the surface for work, I love it.  Its weight is great for one hand holding and typing, the battery life is damn good, and excel works oddly easily. 

Too bad the store sucks.

That's the great thing about the Surface (and probably why the store sucks) is that you don't need the store for anything.

Unless you're using the RT. That's unfortunate.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: February 22, 2014, 05:11:34 AM »

I suppose that depends on your definition of open source.

Please enlighten us as to what you define open source as.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8 phone

« on: February 22, 2014, 02:31:39 AM »

Unbeknownst to Thork, Google bought Microsoft in 2008.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Is science reliable?

« on: February 19, 2014, 07:30:43 PM »

The uncertainty principle is not due to insufficient technological capacity, but is a fundamental part of quantum systems.  http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-uncertainty-not-all-in-the-measurement-1.11394

Was there reason for rehashing everything I just said?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Is science reliable?

« on: February 19, 2014, 04:46:38 AM »

If they're mutually exclusive, why not just measure both simultaneously?

The uncertainty principle has nothing to do with our math or our measurements. i.e. we can't simply invent a better way to observe an electron.

They're not mutually exclusive, you can know approximately how fast and where a particle is. The more accurate your estimation of velocity, the less accurate your estimation of location and vice-versa.