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  • Example of Bitcoin Community Stupidity: Absolute Disrespect For Satoshi Nakamoto

    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1045689.0 (note, was moved from main Bitcoin category, hidden in Off-Topic)

    Why haven’t there been any Q&A requests for Satoshi Nakamoto?
    May 02, 2015, 08:56:05 PM
    Eastfist: I’ll answer any questions you have for him. Wink

    May 02, 2015, 08:58:30 PM
    MicroGuy: Why did you vanish with over 1 million bitcoins and why did you decide to start unloading them in 2013?

    May 02, 2015, 09:01:05 PM
    Quote from: Eastfist on May 02, 2015, 08:56:05 PM
    I’ll answer any questions you have for him. Wink
    pereira4: Simply because it’s pointless since he has been missing in action since forever now. What would be the point of making questions to someone that is definitely not going to be replying to them? Only if he came back under an official profile (like on this forum) I would bother.

    May 02, 2015, 09:03:05 PM
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    Quote from: MicroGuy on May 02, 2015, 08:58:30 PM
    Why did you vanish with over 1 million bitcoins and why did you decide to start unloading them in 2013?

    Eastfist: I didn’t vanish. I left early on because I noticed how overzealous the puppeteers were. The “million” bitcoins just remained there from my mining tests in the prototype software I wrote. I’m surprised Hal carried it over. I tried to “unload” them through my Mt. Gox wallet, but you can see how history turned out with Mt. Gox. My wallet was hijacked and I was locked out of it. I threw away the keys because I realized the “puppeteers” would never pass that value to me and that was that. This is why those bitcoins “never moved”. Not because I didn’t want to, because I can’t. (more…)

  • Microsoft Patch For Font Corruption Windows Update KB3013455

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/2885974/patch-management/microsoft-surreptitiously-reissues-kb-3013455-for-vista-windows-server-2003.html

    Well, well, well Microsoft, not bad turnaround time to fix my Windows Vista problem. Microsoft releases supposed patch for Windows Update KB 3013455. You have to install it manually though. But it seems to fix the problem. You can install the newly issued KB 3013455, BUT THEN YOU MUST download and install KB 3037639 AFTER it, which will patch the corrupted font bug.

  • Leia Pseudo-Holographic 3D Mobile Imaging

    Named after Star Wars gimmicky visual effect of Princess Leia, mobile phones might soon be able to project a holographic effect on their displays. According to the description of how the technology works, the LED shoots the light at 64 different directions. It layers images on top of each other, much like a CT Scan and the optical effect is something that is 3D. I imagine, when displays get high enough frame rates with more efficient power consumption, then this thing will become the norm. Now, the question is, how would you prepare a image for 3D holographic display? You’d have to prepare every layer or model the image in 3D. Not real efficient use of time for average user. But this stuff would be awesome for medical field and possible video gaming.

  • Jeffrey Robinson Was There From Bitcoin’s Start

    http://www.americanbanker.com/video/how-transparent-is-bitcoin-1072982-1.html

    C’mon, Jeffrey, get real. He’s gotta sell books, but he’s also playing coy. He was there when Bitcoin started back in Charlotte, North Carolina. Again, back to how the devils work: it was a bunch of old men taking advantage of teenagers. Aaron Sorkin was there fishing for new drama to exploit (or manufacture) for his Hollywood bullshit. It’s all so very convenient.

    In Sorkin’s “Social Network”, it was actually Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins meeting with me at their “clubhouse” to steal my idea for Bitcoin. Zuckerberg handed me a sandwich. They put that in the movie, but made Zuckerberg into me. Why do you think they cast someone that doesn’t look anything like the real Zuckerberg? Pretty much, Zuckerberg and Winklevoss twins have always been in cahoots. The filmmakers even admitted that the film version is a “composite” of characters. They love rubbing salt in the open wounds.

  • Why Net Neutrality Is Vital To Productive Society

    http://news.yahoo.com/the-fcc-will-vote-to-regulate-net-neutrality-thursday%E2%80%94it-s-time-to-understand-what-that-means-214646803.html

    Why Net Neutrality is Vital To Productive Society
    By Chongchen Saelee

    SMDH. I really hope the FCC doesn’t regulate the Internet and let the greedy Internet companies get more power. For those who don’t know what “net neutrality” is, it means that anyone with an Internet connection should be able to access any and all information on the Internet without limitations such as censoring content, transfer speeds, special treatment between content providers, etc. In the case of pursuit of knowledge and free speech, I think it’s incredibly important to have net neutrality.

    The reason this has been controversial lately is because there is a political ulterior motive involved. It’s not that people are getting free Internet and 11-year-olds are making pipe bombs and blowing up their schools. People already are paying their Internet Service Providers (ISP) for access to the Internet already. So all this bullshit about how companies now want to control the actual bandwidth of transfer for customers willing to pay more for special treatment, or to give content providers preferential treatment to stream faster content, just sounds like money grabbing bullshit. The payment system already exists for us where we can buy into the Internet via different bandwidth speeds. So I don’t know what these greedy Internet companies want other than more money.

    So the only thing left is the ulterior motive of controlling “information”. And that’s political. Once that information is controlled, then we’ve now become a country that is living under lock and key. And that’s going to be incredibly frightening. If this is a CIA or NSA operation to lock down the Internet, then they should know better. If they truly had any intelligence, they wouldn’t be putting any of their government secrets and important stuff onto the Internet anyway.

    And I think that’s the problem with the way human intelligence thinks. They still need the Internet for their operations, but they also shoot themselves in the foot by regulating it. At some point, freedom really is about being free. There are no such things as freedom isn’t free. If it’s not free, then what is it?

  • Why Bitcoin Cannot Save Greece

    Why Bitcoin Cannot Save Greece
    By Chongchen Saelee

    You can see the desperation in the eyes of Bitcoin’s cultish eloquent tragic hero Andreas Antonopolous who believes himself the savior of his beloved Greek peoples, having “inherited the Greek Drachma”. It seems Greece is victim to crooked banksters and politicians taking good chunks out of its citizens money, apparently to pay off national debts. How could Bitcoin possibly save anyone if it’s just a matter of replacing an exploited currency with another one? If those crooks can take the Drachmas, what’s stopping them from taking away the people’s Bitcoins?

    Money only works when there is trust amongst the people using it. It’s an abstract concept. The farmer who raises the cattle for your hamburger is more valuable than you if you don’t know how to raise livestock. However, if you are a charismatic sociable person with resourceful friends who could possibly trade resources with you and the farmer, then you’ve got a little bartering ecosystem going for yourself. You may very well become very valuable to the cattle farmer if you have a friend that knows how to mend shoes, or grow a special crop, or give awesome haircuts. The value is relative to the people in the ecosystem.

    So if Greeks want to stop their crooked government officials from taking their hard-earned money, then they gotta fix it themselves. Why do they owe so many people? How are they going to pay back their debt? You wouldn’t honor your debts if you’re not honorable people. And I think that’s the whole point behind politics. People are sometimes so honorable, they let others take advantage of them.

    Without doing anything extreme, I’d say the best solution for Greeks feeling ripped off by their authorities is simply to move and stop using Drachma. People have picked up and moved in a heartbeat since the beginning of time. If you got the will and are a hardworker, you can make it. Now, whether or not Bitcoin is a suitable currency to replace Greece’s weakened financial system, that’s just not predictable. But I’d say to avoid it.

    The only thing that can save Greece is its own people. No amount of money, even fake money can solve the fallacies of human dynamics.

  • Practicing Coloring and Lettering Comic Book Page

    A page from James O'Barr The Crow colored and lettered by Saelee
    A page from James O’Barr The Crow colored and lettered by Saelee

    Here is a scan from my The Crow trade paperback. Since my drawing style is closer to that of James O’Barr, I thought it’d be better practice coloring and lettering similar artwork. The page is scanned in at 1200 dpi grayscaled. Combined with new lettering and colors, the file is a little under a gigabyte as Photoshop file. That seems about correct. It will be resampled to 300dpi for publishing at a company like Lulu though. The goal being to do Agent S similar to this style, colored and lettered.

  • Windows Fonts Are Messed Up February 2015 Updates

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/566588/did-new-windows-updates-and-now-my-fonts-look-bad/

    If you’re Windows fonts just recently look fucked up, that’s because of a bug in a recent February 2015 Windows Update, particularly KB3013455, which fucks up your fonts. So you can uninstall that for now to remedy the bug.

    At first, I thought it was just Google Chrome, but I noticed Notepad++ fonts were fucked up too. Then I opened Firefox and the fonts were fucked up there. So that meant it was a system problem.

    Man, and I blamed Google. My bad. Microsoft sure is shitty and shoddy.

  • Caveats of Bitcoin 2015

    From my observations of Bitcoin as it has evolved:

    -Bitcoin REQUIRES electricity
    -Bitcoin REQUIRES Internet
    -Bitcoin REQUIRES US Dollar (not gold, mind you) to have value IF user wants to buy and sell real stuff
    -Bitcoin REQUIRES at least two users
    -Blockchain access MUST REMAIN FREE TO ANYONE

    Other than that, you can use Bitcoin for anything.

    Because in the modern age, everyone is an emperor. So everyone gets to coin their own currency. Now whether or not those custom currencies have any real value, that’s up to serendipity and a lot of other mystical stuff.

    Let’s go more into detail: (more…)

  • I’m Satoshi Nakamoto, fools!!!

    I’m Satoshi Nakamoto, fools!!!

    By Chongchen Saelee

    Well, before this Bitcoin circus gets too out of hand, I thought I’d finally out myself as the inventor of the Bitcoin protocol. I know a lot of Bitcoin loyalists don’t personally like me, even though ironically they enjoy being the prom queen at my expense. The real story isn’t even that exciting, but let’s sober some of the hysterics up. (more…)