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Comment Every OSS project should adopt new terms NOW. (Score 3, Funny) 62

"By downloading, reading, or using this source code in whole or in part, you certify that you are not Anish Kapoor orNintendo, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor or Nintendo [and] you are not downloading, reading, or using this source code in whole or in part on behalf of Anish Kapoor or Nintendo or an associate of Anish Kapoor or Nintendo.

Comment Re:Seems like a bad strategy on Nintendo's part (Score 1) 62

"By downloading, reading, or using this source code in whole or in part, you certify that you are not Anish KapoorNintendo, you are in no way affiliated to Anish KapoorNintendo [and] you are not downloading, reading, or using this source code in whole or in part on behalf of Anish KapoorNintendo or an associate of Anish KapoorNintendo.

Comment Re:Seems like a bad strategy on Nintendo's part (Score 1) 62

Yuzu fucked themselves by bragging about compatibility with yet-to-be-released games that HAD to be results of piracy or illegal attacks on Nintendo dev team systems.

On the other hand, every OSS license should definitely say "our software cannot be used by Nintendo, fuck you." Nintendo has been one of the worst fucking bully companies on the planet for too long.

Comment Re:On this episode ... (Score 1) 57

Obviously controls would need to be in place to ensure right wing garbage like anti-semitism (whitewashing or promoting Nazis [wired.com], etc) doesn't have a home there.

Wikipedia doesn't have functional controls for that anyways. Antisemitism and anti-LGBT bigotry run rampant, from their various "Arbcom" members down through the incestuous relationships between the "top tier" admins and on down. When the likes of known, proud-of-being-antisemitic trolls like Beeblebrox are allowed on Arbcom, you know the whole website is shit.

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 0, Flamebait) 63

obviously anti Second Amendment ordinances for decades (as in possess even a brass casing, go to Riker's for a year before one even sees a judge)

NYC has sane gun laws, including proper tracing of any gun recovered from criminal investigations, and background checks. Whereas you're a lying troll.

Comment Re:See Tucker Carlson (Score 1) 304

I think Russia would say that letting Ukraine join NATO would be a threat to their national defense and I think you're a Russian Putin-funded gaslighting fucking troll. Go back to sucking Putin's dick or better yet, go get your ass killed by the Ukrainian troops, Kremlin Kamerad DumbFuck Scumbag.

Comment Re:See Tucker Carlson (Score 1, Interesting) 304

So here's what you offered:

- A stink peace by the Quincy Institute, an Iranian-backed front that tries to advocate for isolationism in the USA to promote Iranian regional objectives.

- A BBC video, accompanying text saying There is "absolutely no sign" that Russia wants to reach a deal with Ukraine, and it could not be trusted even if one was on offer, Boris Johnson has told the Commons. The former prime minister warned against a "land for peace" deal, and said he doubted Volodymyr Zelensky or any Ukrainian government would agree to any such compromise. Directly contradicting your fake-ass Russian Propaganda claim that Ukraine had agreed to any such deal.

- A Russian propaganda piece from "Ukrainska Pravda," part of the very network of fake-ass lying Russian pages that was covered in the article.

Do us a favor, Putin Dicksucker, and go get yourself shot dead by some Ukrainian troops.

Comment Hal Finney was Satroshi (Score 4, Interesting) 91

It has been an open secret in the cryptography community that Hal Finney was the designer of BitCoin from the very start. Hal died in 2014. Or at least he was frozen in liquid nitrogen so not talking either way.

Besides being the first person to be involved in BTC who didn't hide behind a pseudonym, Hal published a paper that describes essentially the whole BitCoin scheme two years before BTC was launched. And Hal never once accused Satoshi of stealing his work.

The reason Hal had to hide behind Satoshi is simple: The Harber Stornetta patent didn't expire until about 9 months after BTC launched. That covers the notion of the hash chain. There is absolutely no way anyone working in the field did not know about that patent or its imminent expiry. Hal certainly did because I discussed it with him before BTC was launched.

So the big question is why BTC was launched when it was, why not wait 9 months to have free and clear title? Well, Hal got his terminal ALS diagnosis a few weeks prior: He was a man in a hurry.

Having launched prematurely, Hal had to wait six years after the original expiry of the patent term to avoid a lawsuit over the rights to BTC from Surety. He died before that happened.

Oh and I have absolutely no doubt Hal mined the genesis blocks straight into the bit bucket. The key fingerprint is probably the hash of some English language phrase.

Comment Re:The Inventor of Bitcoin Should Be Worth Billion (Score 1) 92

The real inventor of BitCoin wrote a paper describing the architecture two years earlier under his own name, Hal Finney. He got a terminal diagnosis of ALS a few months before he launched the BitCoin service, the pseudonym being necessary at the time because of the Haber-Stornetta patent on the BlockChain.

No, Hal, did not keep the coins. He invented BitCoin because he was a crank with weird ideas about inflation, not to get rich. Mining the coins and keeping them would have been a betrayal of his principles.

The proof of this is given by the fact that Hal did not in fact get rich from BTC despite being the ''second' person to join the project. Nor did Hal ever complain that Satoshi took the credit for what was very clearly his work. If Hal had been just another person coming along, there would have been every reason to keep the cash.

And we do in fact know Hal ran mining servers from the start and that he ended up in serious financial trouble due to his ALS. The freezing his head thing came from donations.

Craig Wright does seem to be the last of the three early advocates alive but that doesn't make him Satoshi. Wright has never shown the slightest sign of being the sort of person who builds such a thing and in any case, Hal's name is on the much earlier paper.

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