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I had problem with its repositorys... i prefer Debian mint, though its not perfect, the mint menu is really nice (very vista like)

Yeah its alright, it has some problems disconnecting and reconnecting on my wireless card (intel2200) but its like mint without the ubuntu issues. I just tried the mint 11 cd and it dosent work well with audacious. (a winamp style music player). Definitely my fav so far but still not ideal.

I am a person who has had numerous difficulties with the american banking system. I emphasize this because i went to england for a year and had NO problems AT ALL!. As a result, it will be a little longer before i can have a bank account without paying out a couple of hundred dollars for fees i never should have incured. How is a person without a checking account supposed to easily purchase bitcoins, the only solution i have come up with is a prepaid visa card but they cost $5 and the transaction fees are insane and dont allow me to purchase bitcoins at a rate near the market one. Any ideas, It would be handy if i could get a retailers gift card and purchase bitcoins with that.

Another question i have is, It appears some members of the US and German governments are upset about bitcoin thanks to a darknet web site called silk road. How secure is it, really. I have read that bitcoin uses elliptic curve crypto. I found the following article which has me very concerned. I wonder if a government decided to nationally filter bitcoin traffic, how successful would they be? If the bitcoin protocol always uses the same port it strikes me as being fairly easy, as some of the ISPs in the US alone are rather big. Think comcast, Qwest etc.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Successful-timing-attacks-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography-1247772.html

That said, I really like bitcoin, I am just worried that its not as secure as we would like it to be.

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Not only does your towel allow you to escape the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal but its now a identity mechanism. Nifty!!!!

speaking= seeking. Sorry Caffeine hasnt boosted my clock rate yet this morning and according to science, Our brains have many, many, many cores.

Its Obvious you have no concept of whats makes a platform responsive, it is true that there is about 4 times the processor power at 4GHZ vs 1GHZ but its the operating systems kernel that affects how responsive the device is to your input while the processor is busy doing a intensive task, not the speed of the actual processor itself.

Your words speak of a troll like behavior, Learn some engineering and feel free to comment when u understand what u are talking about.

And by the way 4 cores running a 1GHZ will probably use a lot less power than a core running at 4GHZ. I say probably because it depends on the design of the processor. But it does take a lot more power when you cross a certain threshold with any processor. For example the first OLPC machine ran at around 500mhz because that was the most efficient battery life vs CPU performance trade-off. That was a design decision. I'm almost positive that todays processors sweet spot as far as individual speed (Megahertz) is a bit higher as transistors are smaller, designs more efficient etc.

Think before you speak, Be Truthful when you speak, and dont talk of things you have no real comprehension of unless you like demonstrating that you a full of s**t.
Because you will look like a fool, a idiot and no one will listen to you except idiots.

Sorry, I hate people who talk of things they dont understand. You seem to be one of those people.

Sometime working with embedded products like single board computers, mobile phones etc with some software development (or just some real research) could do you wonders and give you the respect you seem to be speaking.

Yes, You need the ability to write a series of operations that interact with each other. Those operations are instructions and a bunch of instructions and data is what software is. However you don't need Calculus to be a good programmer. It possibly helps with certain areas but for the most part if you can write a sequence of instructions and have the desired result, is that not computer science. Where does the knowledge of advanced maths really fit here? Sure you need to understand Bresenham's_line_algorithm you need to understand integer addition, subtraction and bit shifting, I don't see any Calculus or any other advanced knowledge really needed there. If you can do read a word problem and write code to solve it you can write code, That in effect is computer science. Is it not?????

Computer Science is about the implementation of the many complex details that go into computing. You dont need advanced math skills to be a security researcher for example. It helps to understand crypto algorithms but at the end of the day having a full understanding of what is secure and not secure and why is what matters most. You cant get that kind of security from just the maths alone. The maths involved is a important part of it but the real world results and being able to interpret them and understand them matters most. I doubt strongly that for example sandboxing a badly written app (think adobe flash here) involves a lot of maths. However such a action is a part of computer science is it not????

Seems like you are not in touch with reality here. I don't know the last time you were on Mint's Web site but they have a build based on ....wait for it....... DEBIAN, thats right, I downloaded it, It looks very nice but does not run on my strange desktop (its has no expansion slots and a touch sensor (used to eject the DVD disc) that refuses to work in Linux even with ndiswrapper or wine. Debian is a neat product and the Debian folks have been at it since at least 1994. In fact they got a award presented by Linus himself for their hard work (with a nice big fat check. They have remained completely committed to open source and have never diverted from their "manifesto". However as they do so much work, Debian of course does not have enough resources to be perfect. A lot of the most popular distro projects are based on Debian for a reason (its takes a lot of work out of building a distro for one),(two, they have years of experience, they don't think the x86 platform is the only shining light in the sky (which Microsoft have truly failed to realize for years, though they tried with nt4) and have demonstrated competency). Think Ubuntu and knoppix here. Knoppix is a fantastic product. It was the first popular live CD. Its sad how Canonical releases a product that while being number one because a bunch of idiot fanboys who don't actually use it and talk about it endlessly is buggier than shit and cant even install a graphics card driver properly. If i was a windows user thinking of detaching myself from the Microsoft conjob and i used Ubuntu, I would go back to windows immediately. I was lucky enough to have used the amiga before I fell to the windows camp. I was lucky enough to use Ubuntu when Linux or Ubuntu wasnt as mature and didn't have the clout it does now and before Ubuntu was number one. I stuck with linux because dealing with viruses was a impossible battle, because helping people use windows was never going to fix what is wrong with windows. Ever had your registry get corrupted, Ever tried to shut down a run away task. Ever had to REINSTALL EVERYTHING because windows somehow went into self-destruct mode and system restore didnt work and just got stuck in a endless loop. I Have and i never want to deal with any of those situations EVER AGAIN. However if i was in the same situation and i download ubuntu and it was my first impression of linux, i still be using WINDOZE (why is it called WINDOZE) i tell you, because i could fall asleep telling you the mountain of stories i have trying to get something simple accomplished and how a microsoft product (usually IE or WINDOWS) got in the way. Linux was supposed to be a revolution and Canconcial is going to ruin that and i dont believe Canconcial really cares, its just another faceless non-profit after money, theirs no more morals with this company. They will ruin linux if they are not dealt with. Heres the post i was going to send before I read Yours.

Canonical is leeching here. It seems the entire business model of this company has been about leeching since they found a crowd of poser fanboys to repeat their brand name "Ubuntu" everytime someone mentions Linux. They make very little contribution to the linux kernel. They have made (as far as i am aware) zero contribution to Debian (which the entire distro is based on). They are also diverting money from mozilla via the amazon search feature in firefox. Ever since Ubuntu somehow became the number one linux distro the quailty of releases has plummeted and it makes Linux feel more like windows then Linux. Screw these guys, I am tired of the bad rep and now bad practices that Canonical is using in the name of linux here. Linux is almost like a religon for some of us. As a whole to succeed, we need Linux to be free of cheap con games by shady executives. Linux is supposed to be about transparency and to quote Linus, "The best operating system on the planet". Its not going to get their if businesses who behave in that manner use it to fill their own pockets while delivering crappy products that corrupt the very reptution of Linux itself.

Speaking of that A live CD (KNOPPIX was the first popular one (i believe)), Never gets viruses as you cant write to it. Only the freedom awarded by the open source movement has inspired such ingenuity. Apple didn't think of it, nor did Microsoft. Why is the most unbreakable of from of virus protection come from the open-source software industry and not Microsoft or Apple. Maybe because Neither of them cared enough to actually fix the problem.

Screw Canonical. They have been doing nothing but damage to the entire Linux platform for years now. Its time for them to go, only the users can make it happen. Its all gone TRON.

Three major failures within 8 months made me get busy and drop Windows, Lets help people drop Canonical before they do they same with Linux.

Screw all this talk, lets look at the page source code and go from there. I booted Knoppix, and pulled up Iceweasel and copy and pasted the page source from wikileaks.info. My html and Javascript skills are not the sharpest. My skills are best in other areas. However, I noticed there is too much talk and not enough transparency here so I posted the page source so hopefully someone would analyze it and talk about the contents rather than jumping on sides of the arguments like some deranged trolls. Lets have a discussion that not owned by a bunch of drama queens, True geeks work with logic, not Drama. End of anti-troll rant.. Heres the pastebin link. http://pastebin.com/dyMkdZEG

Wow, so let me get this straight, i need windows os or a mac and not only that i need to buy the product so i can receive and transmit data on the internet via my cell phone, so no i cant use linux (very stupid), i need to spend 10 dollars on this software (for something to move my data from my computer to the cell phone network via my cell) (really stupid), oh and this simple peice of sofware needs how much memory (really stupid) I going to put this in my mental box labeled (tech articles written by people with more money than brains) and my other box (hey this is one of those people that like paying for everything little thing they want to do with my equipment they have already paid for). REALLY, I already purchased the device to communicate on the cell phone network, I already purchased a cable to move data from my computer to my cell phone, Why the hell would i want to run a 17 megabyte application to move packets from my computer to my cell phone providers network when in reality my os has all the code required to move data between my computer and cell phone). How annoying, it was so annoying i felt i needed to spend 10 minutes writing this instead of reading more useful stuff (REALLY, so i dont have to read more crap like it). Heres a quote from the article. "I’m always wary of new installations bogging down Windows, but PdaNetPC.exe is only 17M of memory and 0% of CPU when not in use, so I’m fine with that running in the background." The very idea of having to run windows or mac os x to network another computer and paying for it is the exact time of moron i dont want to help do anything in this world. He promotes the use of software which causes more problems that it solves. In short, Hes the kind of guy that would buy anything to solve a problem no matter how silly the solution is. I hope his other posts aren't as stupid.