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  1. Posted · Edited by at0m

    My $0.02: (Yes, I'm a "tech" guy)

    Paypal

    Pros

    • Easy to use
      • Can use funds from the paypal account
      • Can use funds from a bank account
      • Can use funds from a credit or debit card / Can be used as credit or debit card processor

      [*]Very well supported

      [*]Very well known (gives a level of trust to users)

      [*]Fraud protection

      [*]Multiple currencies & countries

       

     

    Cons

    • Censorship

      [*]​Are not always on the side of the seller when it comes to fraud protection (especially if you're selling even mildly-questionable-by-super-right-wing-nutjob goods/services)

      [*]Big-business (Instantly makes it untrustworthy in my books)

      [*]Doesn't allow access from a few countries

       

     

    Bitcoin

    Pros

    • As anonymous as you make it (ie, if you you transfer all of your bitcoins out of your payment wallet and into a new one which you tell NO ONE about, it's just a bitcoin address. No names, emails, IPs, etc attached to it. I can elaborate on this if you want)
    • No taxes or fees (there is one tiny fee but it's covered by the buyer - it's less than a few cents)
    • Price fluctuates (don't worry, I'll put this down as a con too)
    • Free of big business/govt
    • No censorship
    • No chargeback fraud
    • Can be sent money from ANYWHERE with an internet connection

     

    Cons

    • Clearance times can be quite long (You generally want to wait 6 "Confirmations" before clearing a deposit. This can take between 30 minutes and a few hours)
    • Not easy/fast to get "normal" money in and out of. (You can't buy with a credit or debit card, for example. The only way for Australians to get money into Bitcoin is either doing over the counter trades with people on IRC or the real world or bank deposits which can take ages to clear)
    • Not very well known
    • "Too techy" / A new concept people aren't fully understanding of
    • Price fluctuates
    • Requires an internet connection to check your balance/send funds
    • If you lose your password to your wallet file or the file itself, you're fucked. Your coins are gone and they will NEVER come back. (This can be resolved by always backing up and using a password you remember/have a written copy in a secure location)

     

    If I think of anything else I'll add it. Questions welcome.

    *Edit: Fun fact, Paypal thinks I'm a money launderer because $2-3k went through my account in the space of a day or two. (Bitcoin related :P)

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  2. Posted · Edited by at0m

    Help? I have my browser set to delete cookies when closing, and not retain any history. Is that enough? I do log into gmail, so what do I need to do with that?

     

    https://www.google.com/history/

    Sign in and disable that.

    Also, all of those precautions are well and good but I guarantee ad networks/other places know one hell of a lot about you.

    *Edit

    Also, should questionable content be searched for in google via a proxy site? This is all very fucking intrusive. I used to think google was a cool company

     

    Tbh, don't use Google for searching at all. Give DuckDuckGo a shot.

    * Extra:

    If you use Chrome/Chromium here's some addons which will help, a bit, in securing your browsing:

    Adblock Plus for Chrome

    Google Analytics Opt-out

    Google Interest-based Advertising Opt-out

    Keep My Opt-outs

    Ghostery

    I'll add more/create a new topic later.

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  5. Posted · Edited by at0m

    Link

    MOSCOW (AP) -- It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species.

    The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds.

    The experiment proves that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms, said the Russian researchers, who published their findings in Tuesday's issue of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" of the United States.

    "We consider it essential to continue permafrost studies in search of an ancient genetic pool, that of pre-existing life, which hypothetically has long since vanished from the earth's surface," the scientists said in the article.

    Canadian researchers had earlier regenerated some significantly younger plants from seeds found in burrows.

    Svetlana Yashina of the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy Of Sciences, who led the regeneration effort, said the revived plant looked very similar to its modern version, which still grows in the same area in northeastern Siberia.

    "It's a very viable plant, and it adapts really well," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the Russian town of Pushchino where her lab is located.

    She voiced hope the team could continue its work and regenerate more plant species.

    The Russian research team recovered the fruit after investigating dozens of fossil burrows hidden in ice deposits on the right bank of the lower Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, the sediments dating back 30,000-32,000 years.

    The sediments were firmly cemented together and often totally filled with ice, making any water infiltration impossible - creating a natural freezing chamber fully isolated from the surface.

    "The squirrels dug the frozen ground to build their burrows, which are about the size of a soccer ball, putting in hay first and then animal fur for a perfect storage chamber," said Stanislav Gubin, one of the authors of the study, who spent years rummaging through the area for squirrel burrows. "It's a natural cryobank."

    The burrows were located 125 feet (38 meters) below the present surface in layers containing bones of large mammals, such as mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, bison, horse and deer.

    Gubin said the study has demonstrated that tissue can survive ice conservation for tens of thousands of years, opening the way to the possible resurrection of Ice Age mammals.

    "If we are lucky, we can find some frozen squirrel tissue," Gubin told the AP. "And this path could lead us all the way to mammoth."

    Japanese scientists are already searching in the same area for mammoth remains, but Gubin voiced hope that the Russians will be the first to find some frozen animal tissue that could be used for regeneration.

    "It's our land, we will try to get them first," he said.

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    http://gizmodo.com/5880768/amazonian-mushroom-eats-indestructible-plastics

    Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics

    We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. It's easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn't is recyclable—there isn't a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite.

    Pestalotiopsis microspora (not shown) is a resident of the Ecuadorian rainforest and was discovered by a group of student researchers led by molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel as part of Yale's annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory. It's the first fungus species to be able to survive exclusively on polyurethane and, more importantly, able to do so in anaerobic conditions—the same conditions found in the bottom of landfills. This makes the fungus a prime candidate for bioremediation projects that could finally provide an alternative to just burying the plastic and hoping for the best.

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    http://www.abc.net.a...-police/3805198

    South Australian police have seized more than two kilograms of amphetamines in raids at Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend and Mannum.

    The haul includes more than a kilogram of the drug MDPV (methylenedioxypyrovalerone), as well as ecstasy and a type of methamphetamine known as meow meow.

    A 27-year-old man from Mannum and a 33-year-old man from Tailem Bend have been charged with drug trafficking.

    Police say at least one recent fatal drug overdose in South Australia has been attributed to MDPV.

    Detective Superintendent Des Bray says the drugs seized had the potential to generate about 23,000 doses.

    "It takes on more significance when you look at the harmful effect that MDPV has had but also when you look at the drugs on the table the amount of capsules indicates an ongoing operation over a period of time that had the ability to generate considerable wealth," he said.

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