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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." AL. I. 40
"thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." AL. I. 423
"Every man and every woman is a star." AL. I. 3
"There is no god but man.
1. Man has the right to live by his own law
to live in the way that he wills to do:
to work as he will:
to play as he will:
to rest as he will:
to die when and how he will.
2. Man has the right to eat what he will:
to drink what he will:
to dwell where he will:
to move as he will on the face of the earth.
3. Man has the right to think what he will:
to speak what he will:
to write what he will:
to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
to dress as he will.
4. Man has the right to love as he will:
"take your fill and will of love as ye will,
when, where, and with whom ye will." AL. I. 51
5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights."
"the slaves shall serve." AL. II. 58
"Love is the law, love under will." AL. I. 57
Too bad nobody posted this in the blockchain, would have been a nice balance to Luke-Jr's prayers...
"thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." AL. I. 423
"Every man and every woman is a star." AL. I. 3
"There is no god but man.
1. Man has the right to live by his own law
to live in the way that he wills to do:
to work as he will:
to play as he will:
to rest as he will:
to die when and how he will.
2. Man has the right to eat what he will:
to drink what he will:
to dwell where he will:
to move as he will on the face of the earth.
3. Man has the right to think what he will:
to speak what he will:
to write what he will:
to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
to dress as he will.
4. Man has the right to love as he will:
"take your fill and will of love as ye will,
when, where, and with whom ye will." AL. I. 51
5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights."
"the slaves shall serve." AL. II. 58
"Love is the law, love under will." AL. I. 57
Too bad nobody posted this in the blockchain, would have been a nice balance to Luke-Jr's prayers...
Military private or governmental will always do abuses, because the training and the discipline is dehumanizing. Probably the best solution is to replace them with robots. Still even so they can be ordered to kill and pillage, and if private it is kinda hard to have measures to prevent that (a private corporation is entitled to secrets). Lets not forget that in ancient times many armies were funded privately, and we know how "well" that worked.
OTOH if the people are armed (and have robots if possible), can serve as a deterrent against invasion, and eliminates the need of a military.
This idea of protecting escrow or free trade is nonsense, in my country they only exist to protect against foreign invasion.
OTOH if the people are armed (and have robots if possible), can serve as a deterrent against invasion, and eliminates the need of a military.
This idea of protecting escrow or free trade is nonsense, in my country they only exist to protect against foreign invasion.
A use for this is using firstbits. Generate a PGP key, until the firstbits are something memorable, then send a small transaction to the address. When give to someone the fingerprint over the phone, just give them the firstbits which is less prone to error.
Would be nice if we could find an alternative to the web of trust. That would also solve the problem with CAs in SSL.
Would be nice if we could find an alternative to the web of trust. That would also solve the problem with CAs in SSL.
A PGP public key can be used to encrypt messages to or verify signatures from the owner. To understand better how it works learn to do once RSA with pen, paper, and a calculator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29#Operation
It won't take long, and it's fun. This would also help you to understand Bitcoin better.
Download GNU Privacy Guard from www.gnupg.org to generate your own keypair. It will generate for you two keypairs, one for signing, and one for encryption (for security reasons). Signing is the reverse of encryption. The hash is encrypted with you private key and decrypted with your public key (from the signing key).
GPG/PGP actually uses hybrid encryption, it encrypts the key (password) with RSA (asymmetric encryption / public key cryptography) , and the rest of the message with AES (symmetric encryption / password / key based). The reason for this is that the size of the message would be to large due to the modulo.
Symmetric encryption is more similar to the secret alphabets kid's play with, if you did that kind of stuff when you where a kid. Except a cipher like AES uses a different "alphabet" for each "letter", and then does a lot of permutations, well it works a bit different, but that's the gist of it. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution-permutation_network
GPG/PGP allows you to choose between different ciphers, but I recommend you stick with RSA/AES (future versions will also include ECDSA (what bitcoin uses). There quite a few user friendly front-ends, and browsers plug-ins.
In terms of security RSA4096 = ECDSA256 = AES128.
In short it's used for signing so that others can verify authenticity and encryption so that others can encrypt stuff to you.
Also think of the public key as a mailbox, people can put stuff in, but you need a key to open it, and only you can take stuff out.
It won't take long, and it's fun. This would also help you to understand Bitcoin better.
Download GNU Privacy Guard from www.gnupg.org to generate your own keypair. It will generate for you two keypairs, one for signing, and one for encryption (for security reasons). Signing is the reverse of encryption. The hash is encrypted with you private key and decrypted with your public key (from the signing key).
GPG/PGP actually uses hybrid encryption, it encrypts the key (password) with RSA (asymmetric encryption / public key cryptography) , and the rest of the message with AES (symmetric encryption / password / key based). The reason for this is that the size of the message would be to large due to the modulo.
Symmetric encryption is more similar to the secret alphabets kid's play with, if you did that kind of stuff when you where a kid. Except a cipher like AES uses a different "alphabet" for each "letter", and then does a lot of permutations, well it works a bit different, but that's the gist of it. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution-permutation_network
GPG/PGP allows you to choose between different ciphers, but I recommend you stick with RSA/AES (future versions will also include ECDSA (what bitcoin uses). There quite a few user friendly front-ends, and browsers plug-ins.
In terms of security RSA4096 = ECDSA256 = AES128.
In short it's used for signing so that others can verify authenticity and encryption so that others can encrypt stuff to you.
Also think of the public key as a mailbox, people can put stuff in, but you need a key to open it, and only you can take stuff out.
There's a reason I didn't quote those parts of the fables.
There is more to it. Mankind is at war with Nature; humans have endured a lot during their evolution. From their awakening to sentience, and mostly during the Ice Age, it is a history of pain. Buried down in the subconsciousnesses. God (thou it doesn't exist, and even if it did) is a symbol of nature, and the desire of vengeance must satiated. Yet mankind can't strike at God. But whenever someone takes upon themselves to be the chosen or children of God (or even followers/worshipers), the opportunity shows itself to send a message to God or the void.
This is what happened to Louis XVI, during the French Revolution; they couldn't kill God, so they killed Louis. Same with the Czar. And now I will sound callous: This is what happened to the Jews during WWII. These weren't the world bankers - "International Jewry" - Hitler was raving about. These were the "chosen people of God"!
But they didn't understand, nor learned their lesson. They went to the accursed holy land, which was occupied by another people of God. And a new drama ensued. Mind you, the whole land could be rendered unholy, by destroying the holy sites; building orphanages or night clubs instead; peace could be achieved in time.
Short story: We hate God, and God hates you! So why not drink, be merry, fornicate, and eat some pork? And let the name of Yahweh/Jesus/Allah/Zeus/Brahma/Krishna/etc be forever accursed.
For a funny/sad note, lookup the etymology of the word "holocaust", and tell me you can't make a connection to all those lambs.
Re: Should a Jewish resturant owner be forced to serve a skinhead?
It will be in Jewrmany
LOL! I had to laugh at this. Mostly because of this: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/USA
I suppose you're right, but in other ways, I'm having trouble agreeing. Though no one person can own any word, or group of words, they are often attributed to them. For example:
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
― Aristotle
There are likely many variants of this quote, but this is the gist of what Aristotle was saying; though it could be attributed to anyone, we assume Aristotle is the originator of this quote. But is he the originator of the idea? Impossible to know (and highly unlikely, anyway.) But we can at least say he, in a way, owns this phrase, since I cannot put my own name beneath it and claim I said it.
Now, let's say I took a string of numbers, letters, and punctuation, and created something that never existed before; couldn't I say I owned it? If this cannot be considered property, what of the patterns that dictate a private key? Couldn't someone own a private key? Though it is intangible, this person is the only one who owns it, and thus, owns the bits which make up a Bitcoin; but perhaps the major flaw in this argument would be, I'm not sharing this key with anybody, therefor it is, in fact, private, as opposed to a novel, which is meant to be read by other people. In other words, if I wrote a novel, and never let anyone else read it, could I then truly own that long string of paragraphs? After all, if I shared my television with the community, it ceases to be private property.
I suppose this is the major dividing line between property and creation. But it is rather funny how people can own another artist's painting.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
― Aristotle
There are likely many variants of this quote, but this is the gist of what Aristotle was saying; though it could be attributed to anyone, we assume Aristotle is the originator of this quote. But is he the originator of the idea? Impossible to know (and highly unlikely, anyway.) But we can at least say he, in a way, owns this phrase, since I cannot put my own name beneath it and claim I said it.
Now, let's say I took a string of numbers, letters, and punctuation, and created something that never existed before; couldn't I say I owned it? If this cannot be considered property, what of the patterns that dictate a private key? Couldn't someone own a private key? Though it is intangible, this person is the only one who owns it, and thus, owns the bits which make up a Bitcoin; but perhaps the major flaw in this argument would be, I'm not sharing this key with anybody, therefor it is, in fact, private, as opposed to a novel, which is meant to be read by other people. In other words, if I wrote a novel, and never let anyone else read it, could I then truly own that long string of paragraphs? After all, if I shared my television with the community, it ceases to be private property.
I suppose this is the major dividing line between property and creation. But it is rather funny how people can own another artist's painting.
I think the problem is with copyright, and this is something USA imposed its will on the world. I respect authors, but not copyright. As for Bitcoin Private Key it's your duty to protect it. If someone spends it, thats the end of them. We don't want a central authority protecting our BTC. Now that I think of it, I don't even like the idea of Bitcoin Police. I want full anarchy on the Internet.
Ha ha no kidding 
Now this is a quiz.
I think I did pretty well.
Now this is a quiz.I think I did pretty well.
That diamond is old, we need a new political spectrum for the new age. Don't get what I'm hinting at? Think of Zeitgeist/Anarchy/Pirate Party/etc (and no, they can't be truly included in that diamond).
Stop right now everybody! It's apparent that all this anti semitic flaming the newb "antibanker" has started in multiple threads the last two days, is an attempt to smudge Bitcoin further than we are capable of our selves.
The global media attention we have now means that several reporters already have read this thread. So the intent of hammering on about a "Jewish world conspiracy" is the conspiracy. Got it, don't be stupid guys!
Yesterday some on the Hebrew thread talked about that banks in Israel were refusing to do transfers to bitcoin related businesses. This could be Mossad agents posting here for all we know!!
The global media attention we have now means that several reporters already have read this thread. So the intent of hammering on about a "Jewish world conspiracy" is the conspiracy. Got it, don't be stupid guys!
Yesterday some on the Hebrew thread talked about that banks in Israel were refusing to do transfers to bitcoin related businesses. This could be Mossad agents posting here for all we know!!
That wouldn't be far fetched. I have exotic tastes; I enjoy reading MysteryMiner, but clearly antibanker is a troll (regardless of his agenda).
Because the bankers which run the world (if you believe in the conspiracy) are generally Jewish, the connection is made that all Jews are the cause of the world's problems.
A disproportionate number of bankers, etc. are Jewish. That's a fact. But I see them as no more Jewish than George Bush or Jerry Falwell as Christians.
People can call themselves anything they want. There are lots of poseurs in this ol' world.
This was the Judaism I learned before I gave up on it all but kept the good stuff:
"You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt."
"You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance."
Cursed be anyone who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.
Judaism: the first decentralized social network.
What about all the people killed while conquering the promised land? Such as Canaanites, Midianites, Amalekites, and many others (the Old Testament is full of them). I know these are just stories, I don't believe the Jews were ever in Egypt. But a religion bragging about killing people, burning cities, rules about slavery, rape, etc. Is just sick.
Lazar Kaganovich was a man who killed some 7-10 million gentile Ukrainians.
The reason why you will never hear of Holodomor,even though it took place a few years before ww2 started....
Was because the man who caused it was Jewish.
The reason why you will never hear of Holodomor,even though it took place a few years before ww2 started....
Was because the man who caused it was Jewish.
Your Haiku writing needs work.
I think the main reason we never hear about it is because it happened a few years before WW2... and in Russia.
We're still finding out about some of the crazy shit that went down in the USSR.
But none of it, even this, surprises me.
Because Socialism.
I'm not advocating socialism, but Holodomor was genocide, with intent, and had nothing to do with socialism.
Re: Should a Jewish resturant owner be forced to serve a skinhead?
If the skinhead is behaving in a civil manner then I believe that he should serve him. It is unlikely though that a skinhead would go dine and support a jewish restaurant though. Ghandi once said, "You need to be the change you wish to see in the world".
And if he knew you were using that quote in this context....You do know that Ghandi was a friend of Hitler, yes?
As a racist I try to avoid jewish and immigrant establishments whenever possible. Long time ago I entered jewish restaurant and asked for pig steak. Surprisingly me and my friends were kindly offered alternate kosher foods. I was dressed in black shirt with runes and black beret, cammo pants and paratrooper boots so the waitress could not mistake us for ordinary customers.
Sounds like a scene from The Beliver: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247199/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
a movie that can be enjoyed by both nazis and jews alike.
¿Jewish facial characteristics? You can talk about asians, africans, european, americans, but consider a religion as a base of "race" is ridiculous. Or what, isn't there no black jews?
And, even when I don't like it, the guy who make the mural has talent.
And, even when I don't like it, the guy who make the mural has talent.
I agree that considering religion or culture as a base of race is ridiculous. Unfortunately you see this all the time in the media were Muslims are referred as a race or ethnicity. The problem with the word "Jew" stems from the fact it refers to both Judaism and a semitic race (or khazars according to some).
Enlighten me, unless you are doing ad hominem.
And tell us at least one jew characteristic you see on the mural, because I can't see what you see.
And tell us at least one jew characteristic you see on the mural, because I can't see what you see.
The nose for one, they are also drawn similar to some nazi propaganda (not the extreme ones).
It's because of the eye; EDIT: Freemasonry symbol, which "happens" to be on a lot of things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence
The Freemasonry symbol is the Compass and Square, not the eye on top of pyramid.
Actually, how about 160bit hashes are put in the address directly then?
I always said that's the best idea; both blockexplorer.com, blockchain.info, and bitcoin bash tools can be used to convert 160bit hashes to bitcoin addresses and vice versa.
Re: Setting up a distributed file system in Linux: Looking for tips
There are a few distributed FS into the Linux Kernel IIRC, but I haven't played with them. If you want a centralized solution you could setup a RAID5 on the server using mdadm, and share the files with NFS or NBD (network block device).
I wonder if you could create a RAID5 with NBDs, that would be distributed. Anyway check the all the FS in the kernel, they are there for a reason.
I wonder if you could create a RAID5 with NBDs, that would be distributed. Anyway check the all the FS in the kernel, they are there for a reason.
GPG is an identity mechanism, and is tied to your email. Bitcoin addresses are all anonymous, and aren't really easy to pin point to a straight forward id.
You don't email to use GPG, and you can be anonymous. Technically both Bitcoin and GPG are pseudonymous.
It would be cool if GPG would implement some things from Bitcoin: Instead of hex, encode the hash (fingerprint) into Base58/62. Support for ECDSA/ECDH (or something similar to go with ECDSA). Include public key in signature.
Re: Campaign for XBT. A new ISO Currency Code is required for Bitcoin
Buying Bhutan is unrealistic, and do we really want Bitcoin to loose it's international status for "BTC"? I much rather see Bitcoin among XAU, XAG, etc, than among the corrupt curriencies like USD, EUR, JPY, etc.
Actually I hope buying Bhutan never happens. I don't want history to remember the Buthanese ASIC Design and Development Death Camps, Voorhees Harem, and the Karpeles years of terror. And the name of Satoshi Nakamoto equated with Satan. Religion should be interesting since there will be a conflict of interests between Luke Dash-jr and IBB, whats clear there would be no trace left of Buddhism.
Remember Lenin, Hitler, Mao, and Kim Il Sung all started with good intentions...
Actually I hope buying Bhutan never happens. I don't want history to remember the Buthanese ASIC Design and Development Death Camps, Voorhees Harem, and the Karpeles years of terror. And the name of Satoshi Nakamoto equated with Satan. Religion should be interesting since there will be a conflict of interests between Luke Dash-jr and IBB, whats clear there would be no trace left of Buddhism.
Remember Lenin, Hitler, Mao, and Kim Il Sung all started with good intentions...
while I agree with you on some of your points, I really have issue with what you said about trust.
without trust, astronauts couldn't reach the moon, air travel would never be possible, no one would drive on the highway, I'll not eat food bought from grocery stores -- the whole modern society is based on trust.
Let's face it, humans are social animals, social animals, be it a troop of monkeys or a pack of wolves, they rely on trust to survive.
without trust, astronauts couldn't reach the moon, air travel would never be possible, no one would drive on the highway, I'll not eat food bought from grocery stores -- the whole modern society is based on trust.
Let's face it, humans are social animals, social animals, be it a troop of monkeys or a pack of wolves, they rely on trust to survive.
Trust didn't take astronauts to the moon, it was nazi scientists and scientific skepticism. Air travel, highways, and food, are more safe when you double check.
I agree that humans are social animals, but I wouldn't want us to behave like chimps/wolves (chimps have gangs that kill, wolves only the alpha male/female can reproduce, and are generally fascistic). Usually trust in leaders brings on atrocities. Humans can be social without trust and leaders.
Except for BDSM (which I'm not into), I don't see where else trust would be required.
Trust is also what made people loose money with pirateat40, GLBSE, and with many other scammers or well intended people. If people would have demanded more transparency, they wouldn't have been victims.