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Comment Re:So what's up with those bitcoins? (Score 1) 104

by Angrywhiteshoes (#50231427) Attached to: Japanese Police Arrest Mount Gox CEO Mark Karpeles

The biggest advantage of Bitcoin is that it's anonymous. The blockchain might identify which wallet had those bitcoins, but there is no way to know who actually controls that wallet.

For me, the biggest advantage is actually that I can spend it anywhere. What I mean is that I don't have a 3rd party telling me that my sale has been declined because they don't like where my transaction is being routed through. With crypto-currency I can send direct to the person I want and no middle man, except the exchange I purchased it from, but that is less of a worry for me, because all I want is for my money to get where I want it to go.

Comment You never lie in your Gov Background Check (Score 1) 499

This is her fault. #1 thing you don't do is lie during any kind of background check for the gov. Most of the time they're not looking for if you did anything bad in your past, but whether you're an honest person or not. Lying flags you as dishonest and you will be fired or not-hired in the first place.
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New Apache Allura Project For Project Development Hosting 43

Posted by Soulskill from the new-and-shiny dept.
New submitter brondsem writes: "Today the Apache Software Foundation announced the Allura project for hosting software development projects. Think GitHub or SourceForge on your own servers — Allura has git, svn, hg, wiki, tickets, forums, news, etc. It's written in python and has a modular and extensible platform so you can write your own tools and extensions. It's already used by SourceForge, DARPA, German Aerospace Center, and Open Source Projects Europe. Allura is open source; available under the Apache License v2.0. When you don't want all your project resources in the cloud on somebody else's walled garden, you can run Allura on your own servers and have full control and full data access." (SourceForge shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot).

Comment Re:Fantastic ROI (Score 1) 275

by Angrywhiteshoes (#46594253) Attached to: Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins
Realistically, you have a small point. It's hard to dump large sums. But I can see you probably aren't in the cryptocoin mining community. When I first came up on my huge dump, I had a problem getting rid of them for what I felt it was worth at the time. So... I traded coin-to-coin evenly for every alt-coin that could be sold for cash and was selling. Then dumped for cash on those markets. Granted, my operation was not up to this scale, but at the time, I was making it rain.

Comment How does this stop me from sharing from a USB? (Score 1) 467

by Angrywhiteshoes (#44047273) Attached to: Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates
Is there something I don't know about the reader software on my computer? Is it leaking info about what books I'm reading?

On the other hand, how does anyone know if I put it in dropbox and share my dropbox folder with someone? Or rename the file or strip any identifying meta-data and just host it on a private website that requires password to view?

There's lots of things that don't make sense to me about how this will actually thwart piracy by striking fear into people's hearts. But then again, I (and we) are probably not the intended target(s) of that fear.

Comment Re:Seems like crossing a line (Score 1) 239

by Angrywhiteshoes (#44041505) Attached to: BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law

If I were to do business in Japan and moved money in and out of a Japanese account for my business in Japan, does the IRS have the right to tax my business in Japan?

The IRS taxes on US business activity... in US currency. Not sure I agree with the IRS getting involved with something like this especially since I think they really don't understand what they are getting involved in.

The IRS taxes Americans on American income. Bitcoin is income for most people involved. They should pay taxes on it.

I already claim it as income.

Comment Re:Misleading summary (Score 1) 306

The summary "By Algorithm, Not Human Review" implies that the algorithm is somehow evaluating pictures. In fact from TFA it is clear all it is doing is looking for copes of known existing images by hash-code. If it were examining images I would be worried about false positives, but as it just looks for know child porn I cannot see any down-side - this is a good move.

So they store CP and search for CP at the same time? Why is that good?

Comment Re:I was an ACM President, here is my advice (Score 1) 66

by Angrywhiteshoes (#43897103) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Start and Manage a University LUG?

Your core will eventually disappear

College is a revolving door and the 5 core members who really tied the group together will graduate and you will be left with people who don't care as much. I saw this happen to ACM while I was at my school before I got involved with some friends forming the "new core," then we graduated and my dept chair emailed me saying "ACM is now dead." So you need to ALWAYS be advertising and finding people who are interested, or you'll have a huge hole in your group. You'll also be trying to find a way to make things go back to how they were and recapture that magic, it won't happen. Don't get discouraged.

You have to include any possible new active people in your "core" as soon as possible. Then you intentionally leave them the room to operate. Creating a culture that passes on this model of passing on responsibilities and power is the single hardest thing. Create traditions. Create expectation that some thing _must_ be done (one of these should be finding a new "core" to keep on going). If you don't do that the group will die. Other option is to not care about it, and just do as you feel like. If the group dies when you leave then it dies. The people coming after yuo can then find their own groups or whatever.

Exactly, my standpoint was that ACM is a professional group and should live on, without having to be resurrected every few years. But cores are important and will be replaced, it's just that while you're a part of the core, and everyone else leaves you will feel like you're the only one who cares and it will get very discouraging to the point where you'll think "what's the point?" If it dies after HE leaves, no big deal, if it dies while he's still there, it can be disheartening.

Comment Re:I was an ACM President, here is my advice (Score 1) 66

by Angrywhiteshoes (#43897067) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Start and Manage a University LUG?

I know for sure Google, Fedora and Microsoft (I know... but it has perks for the club) have ambassador programs and will provide funding and raffle prizes that can be used for fundraising to keep the club going.

It may be my lack of Google skills, but I can't find any evidence of a Red Hat corporate presence in Ghana. (and both surprised and slightly disappointed to find very few pictures of Ghaneans wearing fedoras instead but I digress...)

I will bite on this.

Something I found in the past is, if there is no presence where you live, contact the company and create the presence there. They will often work with you for loads of promotion that will cost them almost nothing.

Ambassador Programs
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/programs/uscanada/ambassador/ (find your region)
http://www.microsoft.com/de-ch/students/en/getInTouch/MicrosoftOnCampus/Ambassadors/default.aspx#fbid=6Weg8o4CBmr
http://www.apple.com/education/campusreps/

Don't forget to contact other major distros and see if they have anything similar or would donate some shirts, dvds, usbs, keychains or ANYTHING to your group to help promote Linux.

Sign your team up for Dreamspark and get Microsoft OSs running as VMs on top of linux so you can know about the issues involved with running MS services in VMs. They also have something like "Microsoft Services for Unix." It's always good to know your "enemy."

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