Posts made by MrMazda

As for HIV, I don't get tested to see if I have it at all anymore since, well… you can only catch it once.  ;D

As for other STI's, I generally follow the rule of getting tested every 4 to 6 months just as a general precaution, even when I'm in a dry spell in the sex department. Most liberal healthcare folk will tell you to get tested every 3 months, however a more conservative and realistic safe schedule (for those of us who aren't total sluts like I used to be) would be every 4 to 6 months. If you're only really having sex once in a blue moon however, it may make more sense to stretch it out to every 6 to 8 months.

As long as your uTorrent is not setup to use a random port, it appears that it is reporting that you use port 53101 in your case. You need to make sure that this port in both TCP and UDP is forwarded from your router to your computer. Doing this however requires a little knowledge of how your network is setup, which I can help you with if you'd like.

I can use TeamViewer in order to possibly help do this for you. Once you do this, you should have no trouble getting uploads to work.

Also, the no open-source thing also has a lot to do with user security. It helps to keep a better control of exactly what kind of security measures are put into it. We do however have a team that works on such things, so if there's a particular improvement, depending on what it is, would depend on how and where you could submit a request or idea.

In the actual binary system, the comparison works like so:

(Where the accepted standard is that capital B refers to bytes, but lowercase b is bits)
(The same in theory holds true where for example K refers to 1024, but k refers to 1000)
1 B = 8 b
1 KB = 1024 B
1 MB = 1024 KB
1 GB = 1024 MB
1 TB = 1024 GB

Now… When talking speed, they refer to what I like to call "Chinese Bytes", which breaks it down a little farther. Speed is measured in mb, not MB, so it's important to know how to factor to get it back to the scale as above. To do this, you break it down as follows (basing it on a 6mb/s line)
(6 mb) x (1,000,000 b/mb) = 6,000,000 b
(6,000,000 b) / (8 b/B) = 750,000 B
(750,000 B) / (1024 B/KB) = 732.42 KB
_Now… If this number were greater than 1024, you would divide again by 1024 to break it down into MB instead of KB... Again, if after dividing by 1024 to measure in MB is still above 1024, then you would divide again to give you TB.

I know it may seem confusing that hard drive space and internet data transfer speeds are measured in different units that would appear to be the same, however this is not the case. You do get used to it in time though._

The part about not backing PrEP due to the fact that it does not protect against other STI's is rather insane if you ask me. Other STI's do not kill you if untreated or otherwise possibly become life threatening… HIV on the other hand does.... So to me, this whole part about not wanting to cover it because it only protects against HIV in my opinion is a piss poor and pathetic excuse.

@wrestling82:

You do realize some people feel that way about gays, right? How would you feel if they said that about gay people?

Yes… Sadly, opinions are like assholes... Everyone has one, and most of them stink  :lolp:

EDIT: Allow me to add one thing… Just because someone has an opinion doesn't mean that anyone else has to agree with that opinion. Sadly though, too many people in this world cannot agree to disagree. It's a concept found in the principles of pretty well all common-law countries. That being said though, how (or in some cases, even that) you express that opinion, or even taking action on said opinion in some cases is a completely different ball of wax.

Yes… With the GT.ru tracker, not forwarding your proper port both in TCP and UDP from your router to your computer will have a serious and detrimental effect on your ability to upload content with GT.ru. If you're interested, I can also help you with what you need, such as looking up your port number based on the data that your torrent client has previously submitted to the tracker, and also helping you setup the port forwarding in the first place.

@farkme:

Another good idea is to search for DVDs you have and make a modern MKV rip of them if only AVIs exist. You would be contributing a better quality version made for modern computers.

Not just computers… Some mobile devices as well, such as my new Motorola Moto Z Play smartphone, which can handle pretty well any format, up to and including full 1080p HD. It's apparently a VERY new and also pretty badass little handheld device that even out-powers my relatively recent Asus laptop, as sad as that is to say.

@semurg30:

@Popper:

Yes, removed. He was saying something like he wished immigrants could be treated like the American Indians and put in white sacks (don't remember the exact word, but it meant a sack for dead bodies).

I didn't say that. I said Muslims should be given smallpox blankets. But now I remember.

You mean the same way that the Canadian government did with the Wahta Mohawk tribe up in Muskoka (Ontario) when they were forced out of their original home land in Québec by the government?

I'm not sure about the price in the UK, but I know that the price in Canada at the cheaper independent pharmacies is around $1050 for a 30-day supply. I know this largely because I used to be on it after I was first diagnosed.

@Duvet:

Well since being to a commited relationship I do not get tested, but before going bareback with my partner we did all the tests to be sure we were healthy.

I sincerely hope that this works for you. Having spent a lot of time as a volunteer at a local clinic, I saw cases where someone would come in who believed that their partner was committed to them, only to find out that their partner had brought them home an undesired present or "gift" as it were. Granted, I know nothing about you or your partner, however I sincerely hope that this does not become the case for you.

From a health perspective, most medical professionals will recommend the use of gloves, largely due to the fact that the under side of your finger nails (no matter how short) are a magnet for bacteria. When inserted inside of someone's rear end, there is obviously going to be large amounts of fecal bacteria, including the potential for ecoli, which if picked up and accidentally injested, can be quite harmful, or in extreme cases, even fatal. Granted, the risk of it becoming fatal is not that great, but nevertheless, it is a theoretical risk. So, if not for the STD factor, for the simple health perspective behind it, I too recommend this as a good idea. It also helps prevent finger nails from cutting into the sensitive tissues inside of one's rear end.

I get where you're coming from cannonmc, but I have just one question….

If nobody points out spelling errors, how can they learn? I really don't mean to sound like a dick, but I can see how it may be perceived as such.

@daydrm:

Any link to support your claiming?

http://www.aidsmap.com/No-one-with-an-undetectable-viral-load-gay-or-heterosexual-transmits-HIV-in-first-two-years-of-PARTNER-study/page/2832748

http://www.catie.ca/en/catienews/2014-04-10/insight-hiv-transmission-risk-when-viral-load-undetectable-and-no-condom-used

https://www.poz.com/article/HPTN-052-transmission-27517-8582

http://www.hivplusmag.com/sex-dating/2014/09/15/undetectable-new-safe-sex

On your profile page, you can see the number of invites that you have. You can also access this page here as well. I see that you currently have 4 invites, so you should be good to go.

@samiderwish:

its very dengerus

It's spelled "dangerous", and no… It's not necessarily dangerous. There are a number of factors to take into account when assessing risk factors, the biggest of which is the person's viral load. It is scientifically proven that an undetectable viral load alone is safer than a condom, so I'd beg to differ on that point.

@daydrm: Define responsible behaviour? It's scientifically proven that it is safer to bareback with an undetectable partner than it is to have sex with a condom with a person with a high viral load. So…. how may I ask is having unprotected sex with a person who is undetectable "irresponsible"?

I agree…. Stigma isn't as bad as it used to be, even back as far as 2009 when I was diagnosed. That being said though, there's still a long way that we need to come with stigma unfortunately. :cry2:

@MulderYuffie:

While this a very odd way of thinking I do believe there is at least a one out of four chance that gay/bi people have HIV and don't know it.

According to Statistics Canada, approximately 65% of persons infected with HIV do not know it until the positive test result comes back. Of that 65%, 43% of those do not show symptoms of any sort.

Exactly as I suspected…. When the route goes through Switzerland to China, then it bounces through the United States, the connection works just fine...

When the route tries to run through the 3bb platform most of the way, it seems it chokes.... This confirms what I suspected, and actually makes me think that the technician doesn't know what they're doing :lolp:

What I find interesting is this part of the one traceroute where it does not work

8    34 ms    37 ms    33 ms  mx-ll-110.164.1-6.static.3bb.co.th [110.164.1.6]
9  226 ms  226 ms  226 ms  192.168.255.250

The interesting part is to see if the internal LAN IP that you're reaching where the ping suddenly spikes is on 3bb's end, or if this is an obscure private link between 3bb and nForce that isn't working correctly. Based on the sudden spike in the ping between the two, I'm willing to put money down that says that this is where the connection drops when it fails. If this internal hop is between 3bb and nForce, this may explain why 3bb is saying that the problem is with GT.ru because they're only looking at the packets as they pass through the 3bb network. This definitely does confirm my theory that it's an aggregated network that uses dynamic routing. If they were smart, what they would do is to pull the dynamic route that runs primarily through their platform, since there's obviously a disconnect somewhere between 3bb and nForce when they route traffic this way.

So… It's possible that the packet leaves the 3bb network successfully, but chokes between 3bb and nForce, in which case it would only make sense that 3bb is scratching their heads, because they're completely overlooking a major routing issue. The internal 192.168.x.x IP address is also of some concern as generally speaking, you're not supposed to have private network addresses along a route, unless the route is accessible through your network directly. This is to ensure that you're able to successfully ping and route through that gateway, which leads me to believe that the problem is in fact within 3bb's network, namely in one of their exit nodes that passes traffic out to one of their internet exchanges. If this is the case, then the problem is on 3bb's end because it's one of their own internal exit nodes that is failing. This will no doubt create major routing issues for more than just GT.ru. Come to think of it, it's likely that this internal link is indeed a 3bb link, in which case they're just full of shit and don't want to fix their own platform. I know that latency will vary slightly from one hop to the next, but with a difference in latency like that (spiking from 34 to 226 ms) is generally an indication that either there is a hardware issue with the link, or that said link may be over-saturated with network traffic, in which case, their load balancing is not properly configured.

I'd be inclined to start asking questions about that route myself as the sudden spike in latency is definitely something that shouldn't be happening. Since the problem seems to be with one of the dynamic routes that they're taking, this would explain why a VPN makes it work, as this forces traffic to take a different route, thus bypassing the particular gateway (or node) in the 3bb network that links into the internet exchange to hop over from Thailand to the Netherlands. While the traceroute may be able to make its way through to nForce, I kind of wonder if the larger packets such as would be used for HTTP traffic are too large to be able to pass through, due to whatever is causing the latency to spike at that point in the connection. The other thing that I find interesting is that on two separate routes, there's a ping timeout when the connection routes through China, which leads me to believe that there may be an intermittent problem on that end of the platform when it runs through the Nine network. One thing that I can say for sure though is that there is definitely dynamic routing in place here, which explains why it works sometimes with 3bb, but not others, depending on whether or not it takes the route through the faulty link at the end of 3bb's platform.