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When OpenBazaar seems more mature I will definitely consider listing (my entirely legal) items on it first, at least to experiment. Lower fees + I'm happy with Bitcoin = Win.

I kinda hoped the devices would actually serve the apps themselves. I guess a URL makes more sense though. But I wonder if it will lead to physical devices that give 404s when they are obsoleted.

Anyway, this seems pretty exciting.

How do you find places to stay, for these short periods? Airbnb? I've been thinking of doing a similar thing.

Blocking of read access is not something I've often experienced before, and certainly not at this scale. Usually it's just one admin blocking an IP here and there, but now, with this job outsourced... To be able to impede an IP from accessing such a huge swathe of sites is a unique and new innovation, and a scary centralisation of power.

The ability to block threats is far greater, sure, but so too is the potential for collateral damage.

In the spirit of hopefully improving things, I'll contact support.

It's still scary the power your company has, mind.

You missed:

> there's plenty of ways a non tech person might have a shared IP

e.g. some mobile internet, university/school campuses, workplaces, shared wifi points. All of which might have some abuse. I guess perhaps not the amount of a VPN/Tor.

That being said, there's more people than ever using Tor lately. And I'm sure CloudFlare are more than aware of Tor already. And lots of relatively casual users signing up for VPNs to get to blocked file sharing sites etc.

Just now, in my other tab:

> Please complete the security check to access torrentfreak.com

> having you tried contacting CloudFlare Support about it?

I could do - but I'm kind of angry that I even have to. What about the less technically literate, who might barely know what CloudFlare is, let alone figure out how to contact their support? (Yes, I use a VPN, but there's plenty of ways a non tech person might have a shared IP.) And why should I have to go to this effort, just to get read access to a website?

And what if I'm on a different IP tomorrow? Begging for my IP to be unblocked is no long term solution. (What about when malicious activity comes from it tomorrow, after you unblocked it? You'll just block it again.)

Just now, in my other browser tab:

>Please complete the security check to access coinmarketcap.com

(btw, Disqus is giving you different comments depending on whether https or not, that's why I missed my comment being published.)

I can understand not allowing me to post anonymously - but to go as far as refusing me read access? Really?

Actually tackling the problem, hmm. Storing a single cookie on the cloudflare domain so I only have to auth with CloudFlare once, would be better than nothing. I don't like the tracking aspect of that though. Maybe there's some kind of advanced crypto which will solve this in a privacy conscious manner one day.

Unless IPv6 takes off fast more IP addresses are going to be shared. It's simply a terribly crude measure to assume IP address = person.

I'm going to repost what I commented on CloudFlare's blog, since they don't appear to have published it (yes, I was a little angry. I've had to put up with these CAPTCHAs for the last week):

Ha, so much irony, CloudFlare.

The company that is determinedly CAPTCHA-walling as much of the internet as it can get its hands on supports Network Neutrality...? Reeaally?

You support network neutrality, as long as your users don't use Tor. And don't use a VPN. Or any other kind of shared IP. Or have cookies disabled.

No, your support of network neutrality is utterly, utterly shallow. You might pragmatically support it, as it pertains to you not having to pay any more for your data pipes, but you share none of the principles behind it - that all people should have the same access to content.

Oh look - I try to access BattleForTheNet.com: "Please complete the security check. Please enable cookies".

An IP address is not a person. Somehow Twitter, Facebook, Google, can figure this out... Why can't you?

Edit: Also, is anybody else affected by these CAPTCHAs? I can't believe it's just me. Literally half of all news articles and such I try to read, I'm getting CAPTCHA-walled by CloudFlare. It's quite scary to suddenly realise how much control this single company has. (Not to mention incredibly annoying. I've taken to simply avoiding several news sites I used to browse.)

Could be some scammer buying something and leaving a fake email.

- Political reasons, supporting a (electronic) currency that has minimal restrictions. (e.g. I don't need anyone's permission to install a Bitcoin app; whereas I'd need to jump through some hoops to get a bank account).

- Absolute control of my own money. My bitcoin payments will never be frozen, unlike my debit card + paypal have been.

- Ease of use; it is simply easier to pay via bitcoin (once you have the bitcoins) versus credit card. (I can click a link, my bitcoin client pops up preloaded with the amount, I click "pay". Only other thing that comes close is PayPal).

- Anonymity of purchases and donations. I can (and have) donated money to random people on internet forums without them needing to even know my (real name containing) email address (such as would be the case with PayPal). I've gifted online strangers with Pizza!

- Don't have to give vaguely untrusted merchants my card details. The most I'm trusting them with is to deliver the product.

- To support the potential future applications. This is programmable money with an API open to any software developer on the face of the earth.

- It's just freaking cool. It's like science fiction. It's like having a star wars credit chit. Which can be stored on my computer or phone. Paper wallets are cool too. So are brain wallets.

There are of course some downsides to Bitcoin, but I'm sure you can think of those yourself ;)

I would like to see the Ebay of local grocery delivery. Maybe with three components: Buyers, Sellers, and Delivery people (for stores that don't already deliver). Matching people in the local area. Rating delivery guys and automatically choosing based on these ratings. Heck, it doesn't even have to have hands on involvement of the store in question - maybe the delivery guy himself can post a list of items he'll buy for you at the store.

Sure, you can use a large supermarket, but I'd really love to go online, see my local store(s), and click to purchase a handful of items and have them delivered within the hour as conveniently as a pizza.

It's one of the many ideas I'd build if I weren't already building stuff ;)

I pay my monthly VPN subscription with BTC, and will continue to do so. That's not a store and certainly a niche, mind.

So, uh, what's the company? I got me some Bitcoins here. (Partially serious; chances are you don't sell what I need, but if you did, I'd rather support a Bitcoin accepting company.)

And yet... we still did it. Is it simply a matter of having enough aggression, or something, such that we continued anyway?

In which case, it would certainly be nice to see more sensitive people of either gender encouraged to take up the subjects they are truly interested in. There's a pervasive culture of social shaming of people who don't fit the norm. Will it ever go away as a whole, or is it a unchangeable component of society?

I felt exactly the same as your daughter as a kid, and I'm a guy. The cause was the shyness, not gender.

>even though this kid sometimes yells out answers without raising his hands even when the teacher says not to do this

Seems like the problem there is extroversion vs introversion. Less sensitive vs sensitive. Something I can totally relate to.

I always feel slightly bitter about stuff like this. As a male, I don't ever recall being encouraged to work in tech. Any geeky pursuit made me the subject of ridicule. There was always a battle with my mother as a child to even be allowed access to a computer. Bleh.

The "and" leaves that sentence somewhat ambiguous with respect to any cause and effect ("and so" or "because I" might have swung it either way). But in the further context of:

>Dude I absolutely love being alone

>"Relaxing", "exciting", and "interesting also apply

I feel it becomes elevated to "quite" an assumption.

>Your preference for working alone is because you avoid being in a team

That's quite an assumption to make. We could easily turn it on its head: My avoidance of being in a team is because of my preference for working alone.

I might indeed be terrible in a team, and sadly go off alone. I might be terrible in a team, and yet happily go off alone. I might be terrible in a team, because I enjoy being alone so much more, and so I rarely get any experience with being in a team. (And when I do, I might barely put in any effort because I find it so tedious and unpleasant compared to my preferred manner of working).

If I know I'm happy doing A, and there is a disjoint activity B, then naturally my tendency to A will reduce my time spent doing B. There may or may not be correlation.

The classic Ubuntu look I used to love. Almost tempted to try it, though I'm mostly happy with Linux Mint Cinnamon now.

An important life lesson, surely?

Actually, I remember now, before Lego I had some large wooden bricks. Building towers and bridges was pretty neat. Playing physics based puzzle games is still great fun!

...maybe I should also add: A doll and a hair ribbon or something, too.

Hey, while not dolls, I had great fun with my teddy bears as a kid. Served up some mean teddy bear picnics. With the participation of my sister, made some teddy bear magazines for them to read. My mother baked them some miniature cakes. Of course, the bears went parachuting and such too.

It really all starts with Lego IMO. Give all children male/female a box of Lego on their first birthday. Either they'll take to it or they won't. Problem solved!

Damn, just when I was starting in gamedev again. But was there really ever a bubble? As long as I remember it's been insanely difficult to succeed. These sort of complaints have been going on in indie developer forums for years. w.r.t Steam, it sounds like the Apple App store all over again (or at least played out in slower motion). Enormous/easy profits for the early adopters, then diminishing returns as competition increases. For different reasons; new technology (iOS) vs careful curation (Steam). I'd say actual game quality improved as a result though. It's all good for the consumer!

Making games is just fun, everybody and their dog wants to do it. To succeed commercially a game can't just be good, it has to be insanely polished, deep, or unique. (Yes, or lucky... and preferably all of the aforementioned.)

Yet another "made for mobile" site. I hate these. Huge font sizes, massive images, wide margins surrounding all elements, wasted space everywhere, floating header obscuring the content. Ugh.

The guy who made this is one of the Lulzsec guys, and recently got out of jail: @APT1337

On my last OS reinstall, I tested out Qubes but was put off by the lack of AppVM graphics card support (I do game development) and lack of bluetooth (wireless mouse + headphones) support. I understand these are key security holes and are absent for a reason, but in my view being able to enable these would have been an acceptable compromise between usability and security - the reality is that my personal security situation is not so critical that I am going to go without these modern conveniences, but I would still like to make it as difficult as possible for attackers otherwise.

Surely Qubes even with these security holes would be better than vanilla Linux? (This was roundly shot down as a proposition on the Qubes mailing list)

Perhaps they assume all software is buggy, so they may as well own the bugs?

There is a real world cash based economy. A lot of person to person trust exists in that world too. Not everyone is middle class and above, drinking their Starbucks coffees paid for on their credit cards, even in this "first world"... Have you never been to a local market? Stallholders generally much prefer cash, even to the extent of causing the customer inconvenience. Bitcoin is the internet equivalent of this.

I don't actually think it will be of huge benefit to people like you who are happy with their credit cards. What Bitcoin will (and is already doing) is enable new applications and a new internet economy where location and real identity is no longer important.

(In this sense, I suppose I'm kind of agreeing with you, since I don't necessarily think there are any absolutely concrete examples of Bitcoin supplanting CCs. I think Bitcoin's greatest potential is elsewhere in untapped areas.)

Some weeks ago I tried to buy a mobile top-up online - my bank card was repeatedly rejected for some unknown reason (after having to re-enter my entire address and card numbers multiple times). More recently, I decided to try Bitcoin for this, and was able to buy a top up voucher code with no problems.

This may be a rare example, but it highlights something key: The merchant is getting cash. They have no need to perform fraud checks. They have no worries, and can make the customer's life easier as a result.

I've struggled with traditional card payments many times in the past. Using Bitcoin is pure bliss in comparison.

I see a future where Bitcoin wallets are browser add-ons, and payments really can be one-click on any website.

Kids who may not have bank cards yet is also a hugely overlooked area imo.