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Panthrax posted:The state of Ohio is going to be accepting Bitcoin for paying taxes. Well see how it works out I guess. That is one of the last states I would have expected to be first if anyone was going to be. I bet the state only credits the value that they get for the coins so people end up having to pay double taxes as the state inevitably sits on them for a year before liquidating them all at once getting almost nothing.
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pixaal posted:That is one of the last states I would have expected to be first if anyone was going to be. I bet the state only credits the value that they get for the coins so people end up having to pay double taxes as the state inevitably sits on them for a year before liquidating them all at once getting almost nothing. It's also a pretty good way to put a name to a wallet number.
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Dec 19, 2018 15:58
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Inspector_666 posted:It's also a pretty good way to put a name to a wallet number. That makes no sense since you can just generate wallets
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Dec 19, 2018 16:09
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That sounds like when your local police station has a yacht raffle.
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Dec 19, 2018 16:10
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SEKCobra posted:That makes no sense since you can just generate wallets Sure you could still launder the money through shell wallets but you forget: People are both dumb and lazy.
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Dec 19, 2018 16:22
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We're officially up to "at least one hotfix deployment a day", to the point where we have an officially designated hotfix team each sprint that rotates. At what point do you just admit that QA is clearly not doing a drat thing and we really should just burn our process to the ground and start fresh.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:29
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BaronVonVaderham posted:We're officially up to "at least one hotfix deployment a day", to the point where we have an officially designated hotfix team each sprint that rotates. If you solely rely on your QA team to catch hotfix-priority bugs then your process failed well before things got to QA. I would agree it's time to readdress your process.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:34
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pixaal posted:That is one of the last states I would have expected to be first if anyone was going to be. I bet the state only credits the value that they get for the coins so people end up having to pay double taxes as the state inevitably sits on them for a year before liquidating them all at once getting almost nothing. As hilarious as loving with coiners would be, I’m sure it’s more along the lines of how Walmart did it before they dropped it as a failed experiment. They use a middle-man broker who accepts the coins and gives the state cash-money.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:30
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Inspector_666 posted:Sure you could still launder the money through shell wallets but you forget: People are both dumb and lazy. Also transfers from the wallet you used to pay taxes to the shell wallets would be permanently recorded on a public ledger, iirc.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:51
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Hungry Computer posted:Also transfers from the wallet you used to pay taxes to the shell wallets would be permanently recorded on a public ledger, iirc. That's the entire basis for blockchain, every transaction is broadcast to the network and signed by the network. You can trace every buttcoin around everywhere, from a single shared database.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:58
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Hungry Computer posted:Also transfers from the wallet you used to pay taxes to the shell wallets would be permanently recorded on a public ledger, iirc. I did think you could just track every year's payment (assuming anybody bothers more than once) back to the "root wallet" but I didn't want to be accused of nonsense again.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:15
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Gawd damnit, $user, you don't "post to" a mass email, you send a mass email. How can people who use computers every day not know how email works?
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Dec 20, 2018 03:19
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dragonshardz posted:Gawd damnit, $user, you don't "post to" a mass email, you send a mass email. I’ve got some hard truths we need to talk about friend. 
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Dec 20, 2018 03:35
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Apparently there is an issue with a section of our website/mobile app that makes a connection through our website host back to internal server inside out network across a VPN to a device they provide. For years that has run fine, in fact its easy to forget its there. Last week, our CIO came up to our department (networking) and asked us to get on a call immediately. We jump on and find out that we just got invited into a shitstorm, apparently there are a lot of people getting disconnects and errors when accessing this. The developers/hosting company are instantly pointing the finger at us, saying that they have a ton of errors that mean its the network, but not their gear, just ours. We get very little information from them on their equipment, no details on the errors, or anything helpful. We don't even find out that traffic is coming from 2 different data centers until day 3. One of them is positive its a routing issue. So, that night we drop one of our bgp neighbors to force traffic across one provider. Then turn it back up in the morning. Apparently the results are better. Next night, we do the same, connection actually gets a little worse. Day 3's call starts off, and one of their guys asks us to plug their router directly into whatever gear provides a connection to us. We explain that we can't, since we: A. use those connections during the day, and B. can't do that because its not like its a dsl modem there. We explain that we have a switch where internet facing gear is plugged into, it gets a public IP and then goes out across our core router. Then this..loving waste of skin goes: well, we need a static IP and a direction connection, and I don't know what troubleshooting we can. We explain again and he finally goes quiet. Day 4: Yet another call, but now more managers have joined. To provide insight. Waste of skin once again pops up, asks the same loving thing, but now he has a larger audience and one of our dipshit managers goes "well, why haven't you done that." Jesus. End of the call, one of the provider support guys pops up and says, this is weird, we haven't seen any errors for 4 hours now. Usually we have a couple an hour, and now there isn't any errors. I wonder if that will keep up tonight, as someone fixed something without admitting it, or it was a fluke. Who knows!
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Dec 20, 2018 06:49
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“Trouble came clear while testing” is the way at&t used to describe those miracles.
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Dec 20, 2018 13:33
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Antioch posted:You know how a lot of places have the magic word for all computer based problems? THE SERVER or THE DATABASE like "Hey internet is down is the server rebooting?" or "My files are missing, did someone do something to the database?" Haha, here its "the network". Currently we're doing some uploads where we upload a (get this) 3mb file at most to an outside source. Occasionally the whole thing doesn't go through and it'll stop on a random row of the file and report it broken, then you reupload and its fine! This happens literally everywhere unless you're uploading it directly next to our developers server. I've had it happen to me when i've been working at home. Every time I mention it, I get told "yeah its your network". But bro, i've got a solid consistent upload. "It's your network". But i'm not going through any company hardware now and its still happening! "Its your network". I'm literally working from home! "Have you tried when not connected to the domain?". ARE YOU READING WHAT I'M TYPING TO YOU, YOU loving MORON.
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Had a discussion that lasted for several weeks from somebody who was insisting their connectivity was bad when Remote Desktop users were having a poor experience. We did some troubleshooting and it turned out that everybody on one host had a problem at the same time - even if they were working from home. Everybody on a different host would also have problems at the same time as each other, regardless of where they were connecting from. This apparently wasn’t conclusive enough for the contact at that company, who insisted the bargain-basement VPS that was acting as a RDP host couldn’t have been at fault, but never really managed to explain why. It all went a bit quiet and then a few weeks later we got a complaint about “slow internet”…when people were doing a Speedtest from inside the RDP session. The guy continued to insist this was something we were responsible for as the provider of connectivity into his office. Somebody more patient than me could probably have explained it to the guy using suitable analogies.
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Dec 21, 2018 00:53
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Virigoth posted:I’ve got some hard truths we need to talk about friend. It was a rhetorical question.
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Dec 21, 2018 01:22
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dragonshardz posted:It was a rhetorical question. Is that our new email program we post to?
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One of our senior managers in a nontechnical role (senior position, he’s in his mid-20’s) always refers to distribution groups as listservs. I have no idea where he could have learned that term but every time I get a ticket from him having something to do with distribution groups I 
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Interesting. Usually you can tell the super old people because they leave the "e" off the end ("LISTSERV" = 8 characters) and the people who hear about it from the old folks spell it "listserve."
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skooma512 posted:I missed some of the food at the holiday lunch on Friday as I was late getting to the place because an install took 40 minutes instead of 10. Had this happen today to me & a few others - big catered lunch but 2/3 of our team decided to go at once leaving 5 of us behind to deal with work. The boss asks why we didn't go & acts all shocked when we point out there's poo poo to be done & we've been told countless times to not let so many people break at once. Then again its the same rear end in a top hat boss who'll get on our case about overdue work but never pitches in to help or find us any additional help. Good job boss, now you know why everyone hates this job & the last 3 contractors left after less than a month. Systemic problems don't fix themselves regardless what some glorified team lead jackoff might think.
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Aunt Beth posted:One of our senior managers in a nontechnical role (senior position, he’s in his mid-20’s) always refers to distribution groups as listservs. I have no idea where he could have learned that term but every time I get a ticket from him having something to do with distribution groups I I called them reflectors for the longest time because that’s what they were called on the Alphas my University ran everything off of when I started.
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Ok so I'm pretty sure I'm Inceptioning right now because here's what I'm currently force to work on: Layer 1) My actually Windows 10 laptop - Language English, us Keyboard Layer 2) Windows 10 VM - Language English, us Keyboard Layer 3) RDP to Windows 2016 Server (evaluation edition) - Language English, uk (Irish, maybe?) Keyboard Layer 4) VCenter console in Chrome to a Windows 10 VM - Language English, US Keyboard Layer 5) SSH via Putty to a RHEL7 server - Locale = Italy, it keyboard  Please end my life.
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that is amazing and horrifying all at the same time.
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MF_James posted:that is amazing and horrifying all at the same time. Security and network segregation is a hell of a drug. Also, not this time, but last time I had to deal with this, the linux server has a @ in the password, which in an italian keyboard requires LEFT-ALT, which is a modifer not present on a US keyboard. And since you can't copy and paste into the VMWare java console.... I had to reboot the RHEL server into single usermode, and reset the root password to be able to get in and change the local. I provided some feedback on the to my Italian based ops team that distributes these VMs, and tell them what happened so it doesn't happen again. Their response was to put a password on GRUB. 
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Dec 21, 2018 22:06
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Some idiot dropped a dime bag in the bathroom at work and now upper upper management is on the warpath. Merry Christmas to all ugh.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:08
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What was it a bag of? Relentless curiousity into the weekend they had planned :>
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dime bag I assume weed, are you from some where dime and nickel bags of weed weren't a thing? ($10 and $5) I guess it could be for other drugs but I've never heard of dime/nickel bags of coke or anything like that just weed.
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MF_James posted:dime bag I assume weed, are you from some where dime and nickel bags of weed weren't a thing? ($10 and $5) nickel, dime, eighth, and quarter
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mOY7OMHh4
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MF_James posted:dime bag I assume weed, are you from some where dime and nickel bags of weed weren't a thing? ($10 and $5) The latter. Was referred to for the quantity of the bag, not necessarily for what was in it.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:17
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I was all set to roll out of here for the holiday and then I realized I lost my bag of weed somewhere. Hope nobody finds it!
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Dec 21, 2018 22:20
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Bless weed being legal up here.
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The Fool posted:nickel, dime, eighth, and quarter Yeah but eighth/quarter I have definitely heard for other drugs (mushrooms/coke maybe other stuff) literally never heard of dime/nickel bags of anything but weed; poo poo I haven't heard anyone say dime/nickel bag in a loooooong loving time.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:25
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Inflation.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:29
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I feel like these days any dealer who’s not selling to high school kids isn’t going to waste their time on $5-10 buys.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:30
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But I want my nickel bag of chitownbrown
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Dec 21, 2018 22:36
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It was weed. Preemptive: Yes, I learned that in drug school.
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tactlessbastard posted:Some idiot dropped a dime bag in the bathroom at work and now upper upper management is on the warpath. Merry Christmas to all ugh. Drug tests for everyone who's title doesn't begin with chief
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