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  • There's a phishing email going out to all the staff at my school. I'm simultaneously happy that people are recognizing phishing attempts and sad at the number of emails I have to answer now.
  • Sitting through hour long videos of Libertards gushing over how great Bitcoin is because I decided to pick it as my topic of my ISearch essay.

    Did they talk about how "untraceable" it is?
    All. The. Time.
  • I'm a total n00b (more disinterested) when it comes to Bitcoin, but isn't traceability of the entire history of a bitcoin kind of.. how the whole thing works?
  • muppet said:

    I'm a total n00b (more disinterested) when it comes to Bitcoin, but isn't traceability of the entire history of a bitcoin kind of.. how the whole thing works?

    Yes. The only difficulty in tracing a Bitcoin is in determining to whom a given bitcoin wallet actually belongs.
  • edited January 2014

    muppet said:

    I'm a total n00b (more disinterested) when it comes to Bitcoin, but isn't traceability of the entire history of a bitcoin kind of.. how the whole thing works?

    Yes. The only difficulty in tracing a Bitcoin is in determining to whom a given bitcoin wallet actually belongs.
    Which is also why I do not understand how bitcoins can be stolen when there is always a history chain attached to each coin.

    Post edited by HMTKSteve on
  • There's no obligation on the part of the thief to return the bitcoins unless they're sued or convicted of theft, and the information on whether or not somebody is a thief isn't part of the block chain.
  • There's no obligation on the part of the thief to return the bitcoins unless they're sued or convicted of theft, and the information on whether or not somebody is a thief isn't part of the block chain.

    Not to mention running up against finding out who the person is on the other side of the wallet, as stated before.
  • edited January 2014
    So, some respected youtube reviewers got caught taking cash from EA to review Battlefield 4, and wern't disclosing it. (This also happened with other products, but BF4 is where I'm encountering this.)

    That's a fail in and of itself, but that's not what I'm here for - the fail of my day is that after saying as much, I now have idiots trying to tell me that being paid by a company to review their product, and then not disclosing that they paid you for it, is not actually unethical. Because fuck knows why! And apparently, the fact that it is unethical somehow isn't INCREDIBLY FUCKING OBVIOUS.

    Jesus christ reddit, how can you attract so many smart people, but still be mostly composed of complete fucking morons.
    Post edited by Churba on
  • In defense of authentic reddit users, that site is CRAWLING with astroturfing and phony (but convincing) accounts. The exact degree is obviously totally immeasurable, but there's just no doubt it's happening if you spend way too much time there like I do and watch the voting patterns and the way memes get started there.
  • muppet said:

    In defense of authentic reddit users, that site is CRAWLING with astroturfing and phony (but convincing) accounts. The exact degree is obviously totally immeasurable, but there's just no doubt it's happening if you spend way too much time there like I do and watch the voting patterns and the way memes get started there.

    That's true - though I doubt it's as true as often as it's accused, frankly - I don't think this guy was one, because I can't think of who stands to gain. The youtube personality in question in the thread admitted it was unethical and he did the wrong thing(though, he did plead ignorance - after mentioning in a negative light that review websites have been doing it for years, so I don't quite take that seriously), so he doesn't stand to gain. The company he got the deal through admitted their guidelines were bad, and have since changed them. Even EA - shockingly - is ethically in the clear. I'm pretty sure this guy is just a die-hard fan trying to protect one of his favorite content creators from the highly dangerous, seductive evil known as "a non-positive opinion."
  • I am pretty sure that practice is illegal in the US. Paid reviews have to state as such.
  • Fair enough, in this case probably not astroturfing but misguided fanboyism.
  • Resisting urge to tilt head.
  • edited January 2014
    That is incredibly annoying, the longer I watch the worse it gets because it's always the same tilt and speed.

    As far as Reddit goes I stopped using it a few months ago, idiotic posts get upvoted, interesting posts get downvoted.
    Post edited by sK0pe on
  • The popularity of reddit spiked about a year ago and the quality of reddit dropped as a natural consequence. It also started to seriously draw astroturfers, concern trolls, and other malcontents like a magnet.
  • sK0pe said:

    As far as Reddit goes I stopped using it a few months ago, idiotic posts get upvoted, interesting posts get downvoted.

    There are a few subreddits where this isn't true, like /r/askscience. And honestly, most of the trouble I have is because I also visit a few subreddits where this is absolutely true, and tend to attract fuckin' idiots - Ie, the gaming subreddits for a lot of triple-A titles, like Battlefield.

  • Churba said:

    sK0pe said:

    As far as Reddit goes I stopped using it a few months ago, idiotic posts get upvoted, interesting posts get downvoted.

    There are a few subreddits where this isn't true, like /r/askscience. And honestly, most of the trouble I have is because I also visit a few subreddits where this is absolutely true, and tend to attract fuckin' idiots - Ie, the gaming subreddits for a lot of triple-A titles, like Battlefield.

    Wow this looks like an interesting subreddit (the ask science one), I assumed and generalised incorrectly.
  • sK0pe said:

    Wow this looks like an interesting subreddit (the ask science one), I assumed and generalised incorrectly.

    There's a bunch of partner ones for different fields, too. The trick is that the mods basically rule with an iron fist.



  • Dude complains about a heterosexual couple, then complains about homosexual couples...

    I really am naiive to the situation in the US, I didn't even realise how much hate was going on, it is laughable and then saddening at the same time.
  • edited January 2014
    Christian social conservatives believe that sex is only for forming babbies.
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  • muppet said:
    Looks like something that was done by some sort of art student without any real sense of sane UI design.

    Believe it or not, a few years back the home page for the Rhode Island School of Design, one of the premier art schools in the country, consisted of a big Flash app where all the links where animated and moving around and never in the same place twice. Sure, it looked neat, but it was utterly unusable.
  • muppet said:
    Looks like something that was done by some sort of art student without any real sense of sane UI design.

    Believe it or not, a few years back the home page for the Rhode Island School of Design, one of the premier art schools in the country, consisted of a big Flash app where all the links where animated and moving around and never in the same place twice. Sure, it looked neat, but it was utterly unusable.
    Actually I know someone who as a perk for backing her on Pateron will create you a "classic" 90s style website with guestbook, animated Gifs, and all those Angelfire design choices.
  • Quick, somebody spoonfeed me some applesauce.
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  • I dreamed of having a hotel room for PAX shared with Rym and Scott.
  • I dreamed of having a hotel room for PAX shared with Rym and Scott.

    That must have been horrifying.
  • Coldguy said:

    Actually I know someone who as a perk for backing her on Pateron will create you a "classic" 90s style website with guestbook, animated Gifs, and all those Angelfire design choices.

    I'd prefer a "classic" 90s style website like that to some of the animated monstrosities that exist today. It was ugly as sin, sure, but at least it was obvious where the links were.
  • I dreamed of having a hotel room for PAX shared with Rym and Scott.

    It is, to be sure, the dream of many.

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