The Most Important Word in Bitcoin | Bingo Blog

"The Concise Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary didn’t deem Counterparty worthy of making the cut, so lets suppose here a sane dictionary style definition stripped from the legalisms."

Counterparty: 1. Someone who through your transacting with them exposes you to risk 2. Everybody you transact with.

Free Bitcoins, Anyone ?

Let's see how well this goes...

A Kiss for Midwinter

I'm reading A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan on the Kobo app. http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/A-Kiss-for-Midwinter/book-IzhfQ5ebR0aPakXj77_AGA/page1.html

Word to the wise...

"Never trust a fat man begging for food."

OpenBitcoinStore | Full – Not accepting new stores, sorry

Anyone have any feedback on the site http://openbitcoinstore.com?

About

Launch your own bitcoin store, for free in an hour, no technical skills needed

OpenBitcoinStore is a really exciting non-profit community project, which is making it easy for non-technical people to launch a complete bitcoin store, very quickly.

OpenBitcoinStore is based on WordPress, Woo Commerce, and Bitpay to offer a fully functional e-commerce store, with the following features:

• Easily define products and price them in any currency, including bitcoin

• Accept payments in bitcoin, via a Bitpay merchant account

• Host online, for free, on a number of hosting sites (Heroku, AWS etc)

• Also accept credit cards or Paypal, or Google Wallet, or many other payment types

• Handle complex shipping, by weight, or fixed, with multiple carriers worldwide

• Handles sales tax, both origin and destination

• Uses any existing Woo or WP template, many beautiful themes available for free

• Can also sell intangible products, services or downloadable media, content or software

• All the code is open source

• Completely free

10 Years With Google AdSense: Which Was Your Best Year?

"...Google AdSense is ten years old today and Google wants everyone to know about it - as they should..."

Bored? Get a cotton swab.

Bored?

Go grab a straw and cut a cotton swab (Q-tip) in half.

Place half-swab in straw.

Breath in.
Hold breath.
Place tongue on tip of straw.

Aim.

Remove tongue and BLOW.

Repeat until your code compiles. :)

ParisLemon — What A Difference Six Years Makes...

Balmer vs Apple.

ParisLemon — What A Difference Six Years Makes...:

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When subjected to heat, why do some objects melt while other objects burn?

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To answer this question fully let's explain why things melt and why things burn. So let's start with melting.

Melting is what is called a phase transition. That is when a substance changes from solid to liquid to gas. Temperature affects how much the atoms of a substance move, if they are really hot they will be too energetic to hold together at all and be a gas. At lower temperatures, they move less so they can hold together but do not have any solid form, a liquid. At even lower temperatures, they form crystals, solid forms, and become a solid. These changes are caused temperature and pressure. Floating in space, an object is under no pressure, space is a vacuum. However on earth. We on the surface have about 15 pounds of atmosphere pushing down on every square inch of space. Every object's phase transition can be described in a chart like this[1]  . That shows how temperature and pressure affect phase transition, notice how when air pressure is lower, water also boils below 212F/100C.

Burning is a totally different physical property, that describes combustion, and (at least to me) is a little more complicated to explain. This is a property separate from phase transition that describes chemical reactions called combustion. These reactions give off energy in the form of heat or light, and require an oxidizing agent What on earth is that? The most familiar oxidizing agent is oxygen, it makes stuff burn. "Yeah, genius," you say, "but how?" Now we have to delve a little more into chemistry. Most atoms are held together by covalent bonds, atoms share one or more electrons, becoming a new substance, like water plus hydrogen makes water, the hydrogen and oxygen share electrons which bind them into water.

Burning is the result of a chemical reaction where the oxidizing agent accepts electrons, creating new compounds that are smaller than the ones you started with. So when you burn sugar carbon dioxide and water are created. (your body also does the same thing at much lower temperatures, burning sugar to make water and CO2. The heat provides enough physical energy to allow the reaction to occur.

This is how we send rockets into space btw. The rockets have tanks of compressed hydrogen and oxygen, whch have nozzles which meet at the end of the rocket. When you're ready for liftoff, you open the tanks, add a spark, and BOOM. That big trail of gas that comes out of the end? That's water vapor.

So when you strike a match, the friction raises the temperature of the phosphorus in the match head to create an oxidizing reaction, making a flame, since combustion creates heat, this starts to heat the rest of the match, making it burn.

To answer your question water can burn, if you add pure phosphorus, it will combust and make an explosive chemical reaction. Wood can liquify, heat it and it'll burn first, turn to charcoal, heat that enough, and it will liquify. It happens in the earth, plants and animals dead for millions of years, get buried are exposed to tremendous heat and pressure and become raw petroleum.

Configure PHP.INI settings for a Windows based server | Kayako Community Forums

Configure PHP.INI settings for a Windows based server | Kayako Community Forums:

safe_mode = Off                ;not everything works with safe mode
max_execution_time = 300       ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 120        ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 8M              ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE       ;Normal operating mode.  Set to E_ALL if you need to debug
display_errors = OFF           ;Normal operating mode.  Set to ON only if you need to debug.
display_startup_errors = OFF   ;Normal operating mode.  Set to ON only if you need to debug.
log_errors = On
error_log = C:\TEMP\PHP.LOG    ;I write errors to a log file. This file MUST be in a folder writeable from all websites.

post_max_size = 32M            ;Max size of messages and files that can be posted by PHP in Meg.

extension_dir = "C:\PHP"       ;Assuming you have copied your extensions into C:\PHP like I told you to
cgi.force_redirect = 0         ;Must be turned off for IIS.

file_uploads = On              ;If you want users to be able to upload files using PHP scripts.
upload_tmp_dir = "C:\TEMP"     ;Path must be in a folder writeable from all websites.
upload_max_filesize = 32M      ;Max file size that can be uploaded.


register_globals = On

session.bug_compat_42 = 1
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 100
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.save_path = c:\temp      ;note this path will be different if you are on a linux box
session.bug_compat_warn = 1

session.save_handler = files
session.use_cookies = 1

Custom php settings for your site! | WinHost blog

"...With the introduction of PHP 5.3.10, we have provided you with the ability to upload your own user.ini file, in order to specify php settings you wish to change for your account. If you’ve used a php.ini file on a linux server, this is the same concept. You simply create a text file named user.ini in the root of your account. The file can include php settings such as:

upload_max_filesize = 200M
date.timezone = “Europe/London”

These settings will be changed for your site only. While most of these settings are safe to change, the user.ini file does give you a lot of control over how php works for your site, so use your best judgement as to what you change...."

MyFaucet - PHP Bitcoin Faucet Script

Now this would be cool to try.. /me dusts off php books.

MyFaucet - PHP Bitcoin Faucet Script 

A lot of people seem to want to run their own faucet. So here's a PHP faucet script, powered by Inputs.io!

http://glados.cc/myfaucet/

Features:
Inputs.io powered - no bitcoind required
RECAPTCHA Captcha to prevent botting
IP and email limits, all faucet dispenses logged
Completely automated - don't get carpal tunnel syndrome
Built in advertisement rotation - text, banner and square
Randomized prizes - choose your drops
Cash out - instant payouts via Inputs
Referral program - build your faucet virally
100% configurable - claim times, rewards, cashout periods, referral %, etc.

XSS Fix, PLEASE APPLY! -

Code:

[- faucet.php on line 93
echo "

Successful cashout to $email - enjoy!

";
-]

Fix:
[=
echo "

Successful cashout to "+htmlentites($email)+" - enjoy!

";
=]

I am not the owner of this script, but I can help provide help to the best of my ability 

Attached File(s)

  myfaucet.zip (Size: 10.43 KB / Downloads: 2)

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BTC Address: 1CoinBaKLgDsBkaLWw2eK7kit41JBmM34L

List of working mods for Minecraft 1.6.2 as of September 19, 2013

Found a list of working Minecraft mods that work both server side and client side at http://aibrain.org/minecraft/1.6.2/mods/

They're all ad linked, but that's easy to get around /wink.

Important change to Diablo III: we're going to be removing the gold and real-money auction house

We are writing tell you about an important change to Diablo III: we're going to be removing the gold and real-money auction house system from the game.

When we initially designed and implemented the auction house system, the driving goal was to provide a convenient and secure system for trades. But after much review and player feedback, it became increasingly clear that despite the benefits of the AH system and the fact that many players around the world use it, it ultimately undermines Diablo's core game play: kill monsters to get cool loot.

We're working out the details of how the auction house system will be shut down, but we wanted to share the news as soon as we made the decision in order to give everyone as much advance notice as possible. Please note that the final shutdown will occur on March 18, 2014. We will keep everyone informed as we work through this process, but feel free to check out our blog post on the subject, and stay tuned to Diablo 3.com for further details.

- The Diablo III team

Word of Wise

"Don't take any unnecessary steps. Just make sure you take all of them."- Protiguous

Everything *is* in color already.

Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers

So... one person wasn't done learning yet, so everyone else is wrong?

No.

It doesn't work that way.

Blizzard Kills Diablo III Auction Houses

Mixed feeling about this..

PNG or TIFF – Do You Know Which Format Won’t Hurt Your Scanned Photos?

Good points.

My summary: saving images on your computer: use PNG. Archiving: use TIFF.

I really don't believe using lossless compression will affect the image (as the author seems to worry about it).

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

wow.. !

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Main article: German compounds

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz  listen (help·info) (RkReÜAÜG) (literally,Cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law) was a law of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern of 1999, repealed in 2013. ^[1]

It dealt with the supervision of the labeling of beef.^[2]

The name is an example of the virtually unlimited compounding of nouns that is possible in many Germanic languages. German orthography uses “closed” compounds, concatenating nouns to form one long word. This is unlike most English compounds, which are separated using spaces or hyphens.

Strictly speaking, it is made up of two words, because a hyphen at the end of a word is used to show that the word will end in the same way as the following. Consequently, the two words would be Rinderkennzeichnungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz andRindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.

This is the official short title of the law; its full name is Gesetz zur Übertragung der Aufgaben für die Überwachung der Rinderkennzeichnung und Rindfleischetikettierung, corresponding to Law on delegation of duties for supervision of cattle marking and beef labeling. Most German laws have a short title consisting of a composite noun.

Words as long as this are nowhere near common in German. When the law was proposed in the state parliament, the members reacted with laughter and the responsible minister Till Backhaus apologized for the “possibly excessive length”.^{[citation needed]} In 1999, the German Language Society nominated Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz for its Word of the Year award, but it lost to das Millennium, a German word that gained in usage at that time, complementing the German word for Millennium Jahrtausend.^[3]

In 2003, a decree was established that modified some real estate-related regulations; its name was longer than the above law:Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung (long title: Verordnung zur Übertragung der Zuständigkeiten des Oberfinanzpräsidenten der Oberfinanzdirektion Berlin nach § 8 Satz 2 der Grundstücksverkehrsordnung auf das Bundesamt zur Regelung offener Vermögensfragen, GrundVZÜV), roughly Regulation on the delegation of authority concerning land conveyance permissions. At 67 letters, it surpassed the RkReÜAÜG, but was repealed in 2007.

How-To: Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna

How-To: Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna:

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Copyright? Bull Crap.

No, Walmart, you do not have a copyright on a picture of my family just because your minimum wage worker pressed a button.

We paid you to provide a service to us. The plumber does not own the sink he just repaired for us. The gardener does own the plants he planted for us.

You providing the camera and pressing a button does NOT grant you a copyright to US.

Twigs of Yore - Blog: Don't judge a genealogist by their Ancestry.com tree

hehe, another good read.

snippet:

"I have seen at least a dozen Ancestry trees that show my grandfather married to the wrong woman. Right time, right place, right name, wrong parents. There are also many Ancestry trees that kill off my great-great-grandfather in his teens, well before he had any children. 

From time to time I send off notes advising of the errors, or questioning the findings. These are mostly ignored. It really doesn't worry me - I know that I am here."

Scientists grow mini human brains from stem cells | Reuters

Scientists grow mini human brains from stem cells | Reuters: ""Saying you can replicate the workings of the brain with some tissue in a dish in the lab is like inventing the first abacus and saying you can use it to run the latest version of Microsoft Windows - there is a connection there, but we're a long way from that sort of application yet.""

'via Blog this'

Horton hears a Who...

Visual Studio Tips: Copy & paste tricks - Go DevMENTAL - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Summary learned from the page: Thanks, Susan!

Line Copy

If you want to copy a single line of code, did you know you can just put the cursor anywhere on the line of code and then use to copy the line to your clipboard. When no text is selected, the default is to select the entire line.

How to Not Accidentally Copy a Blank Line

From the menu, select Tools | Options | Text Editor | All Languages

Then deselect the checkbox beside Apply Cut or Copy Commands to blank lines when there is no selection

How to Cycle the Clipboard Ring

Each item you copy to the clipboard is kept in the clipboard ring, you can actually cycle through the clipboard ring by using the keyboard shortcut .

Add Code Snippets to the Toolbox

If you select code and drag it to the toolbox it is saved and at any time you can drag the code from the toolbox back to your code to paste it. The best part is the code you drag to the toolbox will be kept there from project to project, even when you close and re-open Visual Studio. It’s a great place to put favorite comment blocks, error handling, or any other code you want to be able to re-use.

Defeating the Trust Attack

[1.6] FNI Photo Realism x256 UPDATED!! Minecraft Texture Pack

A beautiful texture pack. Only issue I've noticed is the compass does not point..

How to play Minecraft 1.6.2 with server and client on the same computer.

Steps to reduce rubberbanding (lag where blocks repop after being mined or Steve retakes the same steps again) in Minecraft version 1.6.2 while running the client on the same computer as the Minecraft server. This may work on other versions of Minecraft, but I have not tried them.

Summary: Changing the processor affinity is easy and seems to reduce the input lag and rubber-banding issues on this computer. The change is not permanent and in no way should it ever cause harm to the computer.

1. Install the correct version of Java (32bit or 64bit). TIP: Match the OS you have installed.
2. Install the recommended Minecraft server installer from http://files.minecraftforge.net/minecraftforge/.
3. Install the Minecraft client files (these should already be installed if you've been playing Minecraft!).
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop to start the server. TIP: Try the shortcut "C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe -Xmx512M -Xms512M -jar C:\Minecraft\minecraftforge-universal-1.6.2-9.10.1.859.jar -server -XX:+AggressiveOpts"
5. Create a shortcut on your desktop to launch the client. TIP: Set the profile options to "-Xmx1G -Xms1G -XX:+AggressiveOpts"
6. Start the server.
7. Using your favorite program (I use Task Manager), change the processor affinity on javaw.exe to 0. (Keep note of the PID).
8. Launch the client.
9. Using your favorite program (I use Task Manager), change the processor affinity on the second javaw.exe to 1.

Your results may vary.. Let me know!

[Update 9/19/2013] Removing the flags that the minecraft forum on Reddit said contradicted each other and did not help has reintroduced some weird block repopping side-effects. I'll have to add the flags back one at a time and do some more testing.

Truth

"Truth is that which lasts to the End."

Deep..

My Life as a Warrior Princess - NYTimes.com

"...Xena, however, was also special. It was feminism at work, with female lead characters who were unapologetically powerful and sexy. During my time on the show, on six episodes from the fourth to the fifth seasons, I kicked butt. Off screen, I was trained in numerous fighting techniques, in archery and horseback riding. On screen, I hung with a Christ figure called Eli; I had a same-sex lover and a boyfriend of a different race than mine; I threw bombs and walked along high wires. I killed so many bad guys that they began to look the same. In fact, they were the same — 20 or so stunt men and women who did the most difficult tricks and falls, making the rest of us look good..."

Was a good read.

ZenoCitium comments on This is happening in nearly every cell in your body, and at this speed.

ZenoCitium

DNA at its simplest is made out of molecules. Molecules are just clumps of atoms. For example a water molecule is made up out of one Oxygen atom and two Hydrogen atoms. DNA is a more complicated version of that example. DNA as a molecule is actually a collection of molecules. Four of them being Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine. The order in which these molecules are bonded to each other in the DNA molecule strand can be read as a genetic code, A T G or C.

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Klimpen

To go into a bit more depth without [hopefully] sacrificing any readability.

A chromosome is a single strand of DNA, a single molecule.

DNA itself is a polymer [literally: poly-mer, many-parts] made up of monomers [mono-mer, one-part] called bases or nucleotides which include A, T, G and C for DNA. Any organism made up of DNA will have its entire structure encoded within those four base pairs. Organisms which use DNA include anything you'll actively interact with, though at the smaller scale things do change a fair bit.

The chain itself is made up of alternate phosphate and ribose links, with the base portion being attached to only the ribose portion.

There are a number of other types of organic polymers related to DNA which are used in your body every day. RNA is the most similar, it merely has a U instead of a T nucleotide and is single stranded.

There are also proteins which are directly encoded from DNA/RNA by way of Amino Acids. Amino Acids are a macro molecule, each of which is associated with at least one three base combination. So, when you have a strand of RNA being 'made into' a protein, you'll have a series of Amino Acids combine in a similar manner to the video here to create a single Protein.

Proteins are the real driving force of the body, they're the macromolecules which actually transcribe DNA. Certain types of Proteins are known as Enzymes. Each 'bit' attached to DNA in this video is a protein. Proteins work by doing specific things enabled by their physical structure. The exact structure is dictated by the electroweak force and thus, quantum physics!

There are other base pairs which have been created in the lab, it's unknown why we havn't seen these in nature much like a lot of abiogenisis [natural process by which life arises]. There is the study of un-natural life called Exobiology [exo- meaning 'outside of-'], which is a particularly awesome field, imo!

Facebook Feed Change Punishes Pages For Posting Crappy Memes | TechCrunch

Now, even more reasons to hate Facebook !

A man died and went to heaven.

As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.

He asked, "What are all those clocks?"

St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."

"Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?" 

"That is Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."

"Incredible!" said the man.

"That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abraham told only two lies in his entire life."

"Where's Obama's clock?"

"His clock is in Jesus's office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."

Haha Haggis!

I'm reading Tam O' Haggis: Tam O' Shanter for Children by Giglets, Louise Bennett and Fiona Morton on the Kobo app. http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Tam-O-Haggis-Tam-O/book-619IngUK-kSQJ4wZqLACXA/page1.html

Any good? Only a penny!

I'm reading Brookdale and Beyond by Barry Lyga on the Kobo app. http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Brookdale-and-Beyond/book-g2jMuqTc_kK6xajAs0qNzA/page1.html

After moving in to an apartment. I think I know exactly what my neighbor looks like. : funny

After moving in to an apartment. I think I know exactly what my neighbor looks like. : funny:

Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They've Inserted Backdoors Into Internet Encryption : technology

Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They've Inserted Backdoors Into Internet Encryption : technology:

.... "beg"?

lol.

Ocelittle (very cute)

Scary Statistic

THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC, PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST WORRISOME IN RECENT YEARS.

25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.
Twenty-five percent.. That's scary.

It means 75% are running around untreated!

PSA : Minecraft Server Exploit Discovered, Update Immediately! Minecraft Blog

PSA : Minecraft Server Exploit Discovered, Update Immediately!

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Level 60 : High Grandmaster Crafter
Posted about 11 hours ago
09/04/13

Hi there, everybody.

This is just a quick PSA to let everybody know that a recent exploit in servers has caused a bit of a storm on many servers - including our own beloved PMC Server. The issue affects CraftBukkit (and any implementations of it thereof) and vanilla servers - so no matter what server you are running, I recommend you read this post.

The exploit allowed them to log in as any user on the server, causing havoc and doing as they please. Luckily, due to the efforts of md_5, Dinnerbone and others, a patch was quickly devised and rolled out to many affected implementations.

PMC urges you to update your version of CraftBukkit/Spigot/etc to their latest safest development build.

For CraftBukkit, go here:http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/(any build after #2864)

For Spigot, upgrade to at least version 1090

For information on how this all "started", the original Reddit thread is here:http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/1llt2h/craftbukkit_fix_for_authentication_exploit/

Please note though that while this will close this hole, there may still be others, and I don't really want owners to think they are completely 100% safe from something like this ever happening again. Please take precautionary measures in protecting your moderator/administrator accounts on your own servers. Plugins such as SecuritySystem by Lord_Ralex of MinecraftForums (http://ae97.net/projects/securitysystem/) will lock users by their IP and deny entry until another administrator can approve their IP change. There are many other similar systems on BukkitDev, but this is the one we're using on the PMC Server as of now.

Thanks,

-P

Android processes and Zygote

http://coltf.blogspot.com/p/android-os-processes-and-zygote.html?m=1

Fix for Minecraft OpenGL error with older video card in Windows 8.

How To Fix Minecraft OpenGL Error: "Pixel format not accelerated"
Hmm.. I'll have to try this for my kids' older computers..

[UPDATE 9/19/2013] The old computer had an ATI 4350 video card. Installing the ATI 13.1 legacy 64bit drivers worked to get Minecraft playable. Oh, that and the 32 bit version of Java (Release 40).

Link to the legacy video card drivers: ATI. Just use 7zip and extract the entire archive to a temp folder. When Windows asks for the driver, let it scan this temp folder.

Link to the versions of Java.

The Beginning After the End - Stars - YouTube

Awesome short song. Wish it was longer.

Lyrics:

Oh, the blood and the treasure
And then losing it all.
The time that we wasted
And the place where we fall.

Will we wake in the morning
And know what it was all for?
Up in our bedroom after the war?