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I had this as a day dream a month ago. Though it would work as in-app currency that I would give to the users and the servers / aws bill would be subsidized by the collective micromining.

Sigh... Guess I won't ever see Gene Simmons Tesla President's day KISS-A-THON sales event.

Yeah, $120k (even if only ~20k$ is cash), is a drop in the bucket compared to the WHOLE IP catalog.

Could be that pre-OSX was built with very good localization for more obscure* languages and it carried over into today.

*(Icelandic has at most has ~350k speakers)

I would say that this falls squarely into the consciousness of this forum. On this forum there is non-stop debate on the NSA surveillance and this, while not part of spying, demonstrates the over-reach of government law enforcement.

Could someone who deals with PCI compliance please explain some other nuances of credit cards that I've been curious about:

* Fault/Decline Codes returned from processors like CyberSource. How are these factored? How do processors do Regex on names/addresses? [1][2]

* CVV numbers and what they mean/how they are treated in the system? If CVV number is included does this increase chargeback protection?

* How CHIP cards work differently in the processing system, if at all?

* Do "knuckle-busters" (carbon copy physical imprints) follow any sort of compliance anymore?

[1] http://apps.cybersource.com/library/documentation/dev_guides... [2] http://apps.cybersource.com/library/documentation/dev_guides...

Better idea would be to do a Media/Advertising/Entertainment focused start-up in West Hollywood in Los Angeles.

Yeah, I live in Southern California and I've never heard of 99% of these Hispanic first names.

Or Scenario 1.1:

Buyer and Gov settle as a well below market price, possibly to rid of these e-tokens. Buyer then floods the market with cheap coins that are still a markup from what he bought them at. Market panics ($1000 vs $100), price of bitcoins drops.

I just discovered Flex* today, another must have.

* It's an easy way to flip values for tweaks for apps and Springboard. Saves a lot of time vs one by one installing these in Cydia. Eg: Staff Mode for Instagram, 5 icon dock, remove ads... Plus many users have saved tweaks to Flex's cloud.

"3) SteamOS users will be less annoying than Xbox and PS3 users"

If I wasn't at work right now I'd bet the farm that there's a page 1 post on /g/ with "SteamOS Master Race".

What's the legal term? I think it's "double construction"? Where the prosecution knows it's you from illegal means (wiretap/NSA spying) but by that knowledge can go back and construct the legal case in reverse.

It's been rumored that Dread Pirate Of SilkRoad case was figured out that way.

They already exist, there's a small fruit-named company that happens to make them.

/Did/ well. It's virtually known by everyone in the know that OCZ is synonymous for being unreliable.

Yeah, but I don't go around farting/burping in peoples faces. So don't blow your e-vape shit in my zone.

It's about common courtesy.

Everyone in Mexico uses it too

I think I can echo having a list package from my mailbox vs front door and it has everything to do with FedEx/Ontrac/UPS leaving the box at my front door.

One of my favorites is the recommended carrier of Monoprice, Norcon, that emails you a photo of the delivered package once delivered.

Ontrac is a west coast delivery service, and from what I can tell they keep prices low by using mid-90s beater white minivans with a company logo magnet and issuing their employees a polo T uniform.

Portland, Oregon can be /very/ cheap if you live outside the city. And, if you live in a large 4br house with other people (or even just another person if you both make enough) you can get your rent down to $400ish if you live with 3 other people, $800ish if you live with one other person.

Ljubljana, Slovenia is really nice. It's a mix of east & west, uses Euros/EU, and rent is fairly inexpensive. I met a few ex-pat Americans that were working in tech / IT.

No one will ever expect you to learn Slovenian too, it's such a complicated language that unless you were a native speaker, it's next to impossible to speak correctly.

Yes, there's a whole world of difference between developing a pressurized self-contained water pistol and a vague all-encompassing concept like "cloud backup".

or * Amex Corporate that start with 3787 * Australian Bank Cards

But surprisingly handles JCB and Diners Club.

Easy:

0% APR + new car warranty + lemon law protection + 0 miles > whatever APR you get on a used car + 30 day at best warranty + 40k-60k miles

God bless http://twitter.com/NeilHamburger for engaging these worthless pieces of PR fluff.

Honorable mention belongs to http://twitter.com/RealCarrotFacts

God yes, I love this aggregator but anything that isn't a valley dick sucking contest isn't "hacker"

They aren't going to tumble all 32 million. Even 10k-20k USD worth of coins is enough to work with for most criminal cases.

I've never gained anything beyond mountains of spam from IT recruiters from LinkedIn.

Does anyone (here or anywhere) gain anything from LinkedIn?

"[Flat] is the worst form of [design], except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Given a choice between Skeuomorphism overload and the look of bundled software with a new Motherboard I'd opt for Flat any day.

A friend of mine touring through Norway decided to get a pizza and a 6 pack of beer. Ended up costing him ~$65.

How was a trust relationship built?

I could assume that major vendors with high ratings could do early FE as their means, but would unrated vendors have to essentially front and hope that the buyer would FE?

Was the FE ever automated based upon FedEx/UPS tracking numbers?

Could someone explain how Silk Road handled it's transactions?

I've been reading on it and it seems they kept in escrowe the Bitcoins until the package had been marked as "Shipped"?

Was there a central wallet that one would send/receive coins from or was it flushed on the in/out through random wallets? Can the blockchain be traced to DRP's primary wallets?