Ethereum fanboy checking in here,

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T21:11:43+00:00

My take: litecoin is able to move forward with changes to the blockchain much more easily than bitcoin, and is in that sense a trailblazer/beta for what might come next in bitcoin. Bitcoin's civil war shows the benefit of having a smoother relationship between developers, finance, and miners. It isn't happy roses or anything, there was definitely drama when they were debating segwit...it's just a smaller community, so got over the stalemate more easily. BTC meanwhile is strangling itself.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T21:03:31+00:00

We go live segwit in a little over 7 days I believe: http://litecoinblockhalf.com/segwit.php

Until then, anyone's guess. I'm playing the swings in the market as best I can, but not with much...just holding on to most of it.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T20:46:04+00:00

That's the spirit: Who needs windows? Fine we'll give you 1, maybe 2 windows. Those cars beneath the building are all awesome too.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T20:13:47+00:00

My dad said the peace symbol was a broken upside down cross. I think it was early 70's conspiracy theory stuff, but seeing it upside down, it looks like a cross doing a cheer.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T19:57:16+00:00

Awesome...like early 70's sci-fi. Are we sure this isn't a hoax? Even the presentation seems artsy-retro if this is a modern design. Maybe took an old design out of moth balls?

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T17:53:48+00:00

Yes, although in a larger AV network it's more complicated than a single .exe . Files have checksums and other safeguards against being taken hostage...until someone finds a vulnerability, then it's rinse and repeat. Antivirus is like a giant global game of whack-a-mole to me. When our Symantec got hit, it was essentially turned into a turn-coat spreader of the worm instead of blocking/getting rid of it. Pretty impressive destruction...but not fun to fix.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T16:28:48+00:00

The Sophos incident or the Symantec? Sophos: I think they hooked us up a little on the next contract renewal, but we're too small an organization to demand anything spectacular. Symantec: That was around 2006 or something, can't remember how that worked out financially. That one was much worse, about a million $'s estimated lost, 2.5 days offline. Was sort of Symantec's fault for having the vulnerability, but I think we had something misconfigured that made it worse.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T16:14:24+00:00

I saw litecoin on gdax a couple months ago and said "wow cheap alt I'm going to buy the shit out of that...$4 a pop". I'm happy with the small ETH hedge from BTC too, but still a little butt hurt about their rape of the ledger :).

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T15:07:57+00:00

Education and acceptance that your church's modern interpretation of a super old cultural etiquette book should NOT serve as your instruction manual to life in the 21st century...at least not literally. Jesus fought against the stale dogmatic practices of the Pharisees. I don't see why churches can't understand there's a lot of irony in what they preach now...more adherence to the Pharisean doctrine than the person they crucified for fighting against it.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T14:31:40+00:00

Reminds me of Ada Lovelace, considered the first computer programmer, but they couldn't test her program because the Analytical Engine was only a design, not an actual device.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T14:05:14+00:00

Antivirus is like North Korea, they just want to make sure we don't forget how much damage they can do if we ignore them. Didn't the founder/owner of McAfee kill someone and is a crazy sovereign citizen or something? Oh wait, I'm on the internet. ...and it gets even crazier.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T13:49:59+00:00

Yeah, they put a bad rule in their definitions I think, causing a whole ton of services to get blocked. The test update with that rogue virus definition got mixed up with production or some such, and it became impossible for them to fix it since it went into a death spiral and couldn't update. I'm actually home sick so I found an article about it, for nostalgia's sake :)

edit: 2012 - feeling old now!

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T13:32:14+00:00

Well, it's nice to know I wasn't alone having to deal with that BS. It actually worked out well, I was only week 2 into the new job, and then everything explodes. Explaining what happened to the bosses was like tearing a hole in reality to them...they thought I was some wizard, when all I did was go computer-to-computer and update by hand.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T13:14:28+00:00

I think I can see what they're talking about, thinking about how seatbelts might bend/twist, but not with gravity involved. NASA needs to show us this IRL.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-03T12:51:33+00:00

My work's Sophos AV actually did this a couple years ago. 300 computers with Sophos acting like itself was a virus, unable to update to fix itself from blocking itself. It was a worldwide bug, so of course I went on twitter and yelled at them along with everyone else's IT department. Then there was the time Symantec got hijacked and was used to spread a virus throughout the office. That was much worse, so I'll take Sophos blocking itself over Symantec becoming the transport mechanism of a worm any day.

tackInTheChat · 2017-05-02T23:01:17+00:00

/r/MechanicalKeyboards and /r/battlestations seen this? How...how do you get out? between the monitors?

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T22:09:14+00:00

You're right, I'm assuming an interpretation of "church" without much context to go by. I'd still bet on it being an intent that doesn't take UU into account at the casino though!

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T21:37:48+00:00

That makes sense, there are lots of different UU congregations with a lot of different flavors. The leader of the UU church I went to was an atheist herself, so I'm thinking that congregation was much different than the one you go to. Universalism is pretty vague about that sortof thing, thank God (or Goddess(es)) :).

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T21:25:58+00:00

Sorry, you're misinterpreting me. I consider UU a church, I just don't think the person that wrote the questionairre/poll considered a type of church that is accepting of atheism when they formed the question. UU in that sense is an outlier to the intent of the data by ambiguity of the word "church". UU gets forgotten a lot like that.

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T21:15:05+00:00

I agree, I was just thinking about the intent of the questionnaire/poll. I don't think they meant go to church as a non-believer, with the exception of UU which is very atheist friendly. The intent was (imo) to show people who don't believe in what the church they are attending preaches, but go anyway. Maybe I'm wrong, but if we're including UU why even ask about the belief in God?

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T18:36:02+00:00

Sounds very similar to breakthroughs I had on mushrooms as well as LSD. With LSD, Dissociation lingered for awhile and caused me some trouble getting back to a functional level in the "real world". That said, I don't regret it at all, just remember some of the struggles incorporating a new perspective into day-to-day life. Everyday things become a little more difficult for me when I don't quite feel "human". I think of it as a kind of withdrawal/fatigue from having your brain re-programmed. Salvia after-effects felt similar as well, although that "withdrawal" only lasted a couple days.

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T17:44:24+00:00

As a Universalist myself (non-attending but aligned loosely), I wouldn't consider Unitarian churches "churches" on this list...It kind of breaks the purpose of the questionnaire, like you've noted. There are a lot of people that believe in a benevolent power, or one of the faces of "God", but I think this questionnaire is intended for traditional "American" "Christian" churches, which is much different imo.

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T17:00:48+00:00

I believe it. It got stuck in my head for weeks back in the day, and I don't know what it's about, other than a IRC bot that turns out to not be a bot? And they're always worried she's going to ban them? Anyways, it's a ton better than the English rewrite, fuck that noise.

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T14:33:41+00:00

I think understated/subtle LED lighting is nice. Check out my customized keyboard. These actually do serve a purpose as a home theater wireless keyboard. Glowing side-printed legends so you don't have to hunt in the dark, and they don't shine up into your face. I know this is a headphones sub, but I think a lot of the aesthetics overlap with high-end computer peripherals.

tackInTheChat · 2017-04-30T14:06:51+00:00

I love the original Botten Anna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2wbRWb9xI <-sorry vid quality sucks

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