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Let's hope not.

Awesome. I'm glad that the answer is "yes", though I backed it regardless before I saw your answer. I hope I can make the event.

Does a ticket to the event mean you get to participate with the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club?

I have a little NES programming experience. The 6502 assembler I use is NESASM, which is also the one those tutorials recommend. There are others called Asm6 and CA65 that I haven't tried.

The syntax that each assembler recognizes is slightly different so source code that assembles properly in one assembler may not assemble properly in another. This is something to watch out for when looking at code examples on the nesdev.com forums.

HAVE FUN with NES programming! :) I've only ever made simple programs. However, the only limits are your imagination. The homebrew game "Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril" was created recently, which is one of the best NES games in my opinion.

I became a member of that site when it started; "e-peen measuring contest" is an accurate way to describe it.

I know HTML pretty well. However, I don't know all the HTML5 JavaScript APIs so I'd wouldn't call myself an expert.

I find it an oxymoron that you have to sign up for an account to a government website to sign a petition asking for them to stop invading my privacy. Maybe I'm just being cynical.

"no direct access" Of course the gov't didn't have raw dumps to the SQL databases, they have their own neat little front end web application that Facebook provides to them.

I'm 25 and I can read it fine but I agree it needs to be bigger. 14px is a good starting size IMO for fonts.

> The other approach is make the conversion of state currency into BTC illegal. But the implications of that are unclear. Would people adopt a different crypto-currency? Would all crypto-currencies be banned? Could a BTC black market still exist like drugs?

I think more than likely it would be like torrents are now: a large amount of the tech-savvy population uses them and loves them, but a lot of people are afraid they'll get sued or have a letter written to their house from their ISP (which means nothing), and would rather just pay $7.99/month for a worse selection on Netflix and maintain a peace of mind.

Good point. I know how reluctant financial organizations are when they have to actually spend some of their own money to upgrade something.

I also get a FB OAuth Invalid API key error when I try to "play" the app.

On a related note, I know the candidates have nothing to do with this, but I'm extremely impressed with Barack Obama's web presence. I was also very impressed with Mitt Romney's web presence during the election.

I'm surprised it's not 1080p or similar quality yet. That technology is so cheap these days; I'm sure it'll be a few more years before all security cams are recording in HD as the norm.

vag.io is no longer available. But vagio.com is. I have a feeling it wont be in a little while after I make this post. Sucks domain squatters are such fucking scumbags. Plus nobody is interested in the term 'vagio' in the first place or else both domains would have been taken before today, so there's no demand or means to make a profit off of them. I hate domain squatters... the worst form of scum on earth!

Could somebody explain to me the imporance of .io domains in today's market? It seems they are very hot right now, especially in the startup world and I think they could even become as popular as .com.

Hard to imagine it was 'only' 20 years ago. Can you imagine what will come 20 years from today, in 2033?

OHHHHHH. I get it now. Thank you for the explanation.

My bash does this automatically and I do not have a ~/.inputrc file. I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.2 using the Terminal app (which is a bash command line interface). I assumed this was a default feature of bash but apparently not. If somebody can explain to me why I have this feature by default, I would be grateful.

I miss when webpages used to look like that!

BarackObama.com is hosted with Amazon Web Services as well. We can know by examining the domain servers when you look at the [whois record](http://whois.domaintools.com/barackobama.com) for that domain. (On a related note, the domain registrar used is GoDaddy)

It makes sense - government needs to host their files somehow, as we are moving into this digital age.

I don't see anything wrong with it, though it will further cement Amazon's standing as a big business superpower.

Bitcoin is still pretty new and volatile, but it is slowly but surely becoming more stable over time, in my opinion.

I haven't thought about this as much as you, but I see the recent increase in Bitcoin's value related to the recent rise of gold value - people are starting to lose faith in the USD and wanting to put their money somewhere else. Gold has been sharply increasing in value since 2001: http://i.imgur.com/PTyNacP.png

I do remember that there was a Bitcoin crash around November 2011, though, so maybe you are right that it will happen again.

> "he did it on a computer so burn him at the stake"

This is a result of the general public's incredible ignorance when it comes to how computers work. I hope this trend will fade soon as newer generations that have been raised on computers become older. I really dislike the whole "he did it on a computer so burn him at the stake" mentality that government seems to have today.

I'm not sure what laws it breaks but the laws are so ambiguous you could really be charged with a wide variety of things all depending on how much the prosecution wants to put you away. Could be anything from money laundering to computer abuse to mail fraud depending on a lot of variables involved - and also very much depends on what country the person accused is from.

Yes, there will always be people that invest time/effort into figuring out how to exploit a system when there's money involved! I am sure there are still many exploits, it's just a matter of being more clever than the individual(s) that designed the system, and being willing to take the risk of indictment in case your scheme is discovered.

Be sure to also read the follow up for the actual solution that Ad-safe implemented here: http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/03/50-of-ads-are-...

I immediately think "kaching" as well. However this article was published in March 2011, and I imagine the advertising world has evolved slightly to prevent this fraud from happening, so your scheme would have to be clever enough to outwit any changes. If the scheme has been exposed for two years I imagine there are more players utilizing this scheme in the fraud-market. Only way to know for sure is to try it yourself and learn from experience, in which case you'd be breaking the law and taking a risk.

> he said something about it in the irc channel

What IRC channel out of curiosity?

As kevinwuboo said in this thread:

There are a few points from this publication that are suspicious:

1. There's no mention of funding sources for this study. 2. It's a small sample size of "two major studios". 3. Most importantly, this study isn't peer reviewed.