pantaril

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by pantaril 9y ago
>Fiat money isn't a pyramid scheme. You don't buy in on the assumption of future market growth that will drive up the value of what you have. You expect your fiat to become worth less, not more, over time. Wow, so if bitcoin is
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by pantaril 9y ago
You usually don't know if the address is known drug site wallet, dark markets usually generate unique address for each transaction. Even if you do know it, you can't know if the user bought something illegal, there is also legal s
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by pantaril 10y ago
"A person in the US who, for example, wants to watch all but the latest season of Game of Thrones" This is simply not true. In my experience, only the most mainstream content is available legally on portals like itunes or netflix.
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by pantaril 11y ago
> A computer on the other hand does have access control. The default response then becomes "wow the authorised user of this computer set the background image to 2 gay men kissing". I wonder what is so bad about two men kissing?
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by pantaril 12y ago
>we need to be on the right side of the fence I agree but i think that current copyright is on the wrong side of the "fence".
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by pantaril 12y ago
>As copyright is regulated federally It's even worse, copyright is regulated by international treaties[1]. Every time someone comes up with an idea to reform copyright, shorten the terms etc. it's immediately shot down by the a
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by pantaril 12y ago
>and if you take away the ability for people to monetize media He is talking about figuring out another way for creators to monetize their media without artificial restrictions on sharing/copying. He doesn't want to take away m
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by pantaril 12y ago
>"On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode. Unlike our competi
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by pantaril 12y ago
>But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid. If i had so many bitcoins as Satoshi Nakamoto i would certainly not store them in my basement. I'd split my private key using n:m scheme
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by pantaril 12y ago
>DNS is useful because it is authoritative. What would happen if two parts of this 'distributed' ICANN disagreed on something? Different parts of the internet would see a completely different state (e.g. who owns gov.uk?), Thus
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by pantaril 12y ago
>I've been thinking a lot the past few weeks about the preservation of art and goods in general. I've been thinking about this myself. What i found out is that current copyright law is terrible for preservation of our culture b
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by pantaril 12y ago
> Seems like a brilliant solution to this problem The law students worked on this for months for free and the paten troll got away without any fee. I don't see what's so brilliant about it. Looks like shity system to me.
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by pantaril 12y ago
>Bitcoin was released in staunch opposition to the banking system. No, i think that quote makes it clear that bitcoin was released in staunch opposition to centralized currency, where some authority (central bank) can issue new units of
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by pantaril 12y ago
If i understand it correctly there is no open source baseband available because of various patented technologies and it is imposible to create one. But why not treat the baseband as part of insecure transit network? I'd like to see pho
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by pantaril 12y ago
English is not my primary language and i don't know the exact etymology of the word 'sanitize' but it sounds more to me like you have to make the input 'sane' or acceptable. It doesn't imply to remove anything
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by pantaril 13y ago
>"We're not making any money off of it" is kind of a moot argument. Sure, sharing intelectual property should be OK even if you make money on it.
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by pantaril 13y ago
>But very rarely does it have properly synced well-written subtitles, multiple audio tracks, and a quality encoding. My experience is diametraly different. Legal sources like netflix, TV or some DVD's are usualy low quality, cenzore
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by pantaril 13y ago
Exactly. When i hear a discussion in public, i won't ask for permission if i want to use or reproduce part of it elsewhere. I would give them attribution (i don't like to pretend that i came up with some idea when it isn't tr
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by pantaril 13y ago
False, sending/recieving bitcoins/litecoins/dogecoins/monopoly money is not regulated in us. Only if you exchange those for real money in certain ammounts you need to aply for money bussiness transmition/exchange li
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by pantaril 13y ago
You are wrong (no citation needed either). On the other hand, the apple store is complete joke. IDK how anyone can use a store where such basic application like bitcoin wallet is missing.
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by pantaril 13y ago
"Fuck Kim Dotcom. He's a scumbag piece of shit who deserves to rot in prison. He plots and schemes way to put hundreds of millions of dollars into his pocket off of the works of others. Anyone who supports him should be ashamed of
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by pantaril 13y ago
But they are accepting payments in bitcoins.
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by pantaril 13y ago
Dunno about overstock but when i'm buying humble indie bundles with bitcoin, they use coinbase too and i have no coinbase account. I just scan the QR code using my android bitcoin wallet (called mycelium) and tap 'send'. No c
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by pantaril 13y ago
<i>The whole "replication" angle is a total red-herring brought up by apologists for movie pirates. People are entitled to sell their work for the price that they can get for it, irrespective of the marginal cost of producti
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by pantaril 13y ago
For example Trezor hardware wallet ( http://www.bitcointrezor.com/ ) generates its private key when it is first initialized. This way, the key never exists outside of the wallet.
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by pantaril 13y ago
How is it worthless? It protects you against passive monitoring/data retention!
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by pantaril 13y ago
There are flaws with current PKI infrastructure but as you say, it's better than nothing. There are also several initiatives to improve this situation. Google has come with certificate transparency ( http://www.certificate-t
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by pantaril 13y ago
From http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-kil... : "The missile killed him, his teenage cousin and at least five other civilians on Oct. 14, 2011, while the boys were eating dinn
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by pantaril 13y ago
>You say that the legal system only works for the rich and powerful, but don't back it up. I cited from the article that $50000 is required to hire lawyer and fill the required paperwork to defend the case. As i said i'm not f
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by pantaril 13y ago
>I don't know what this guy is getting so upset about, he claims his company isn't infringing the patent, so all that he'll have to do is file a DJ for non-infringement. If he's not infringing, he'll win I gues t

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