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For the record I intend to buy BTC for EU or HKD via creditcard at a B2C exchange that directly uses my private wallet.

Also a decentralized transaction could take days if it needs to wait for a bank transfer.

@deeplizard I think point 2 should be reworded: "The country where you open the account from". Or maybe "the country the exchange thinks you're in based their arbitrary criteria".

the three parameters don't have to be the same country.

I just think it is strange they claim to put a barrier on the parameter: "country of residence" and proceed to screen on parameters like "nationality" and "country of bank".

My passport doesn't say what country I live in though.

So even though I might live in the US, they could reject me because my bank account is in country X? While that seems unfair it also seems easy to circumvent since I can open a CC account in most countries without strong address checks.

but a website can be accessed from any country. Even if they check your IP you can just use a VPN to open an account? I don't understand how an exchange can implement an effective location barrier, or why they would want such a barrier in the first place.

In the case of coinbase you mentioned: is a "US customer" a customer who uses their US exchange, or is it a US national? Can non-US nationals use their exchange?

I read that coinbase isn't actually an exchange, but more like a broker for multiple exchanges?

my drive identifies as an attack helicopter

what if you have a virtual drive consisting of flash, magnetic disks and floppies. Define partition plz UEFI.

storage and partitions should be purely abstract concepts.

it's so stupid the definition of a partition changes depending on the physical shape of your storage.

I thought that was for iso 19960 or whatever optical media filesystem

does a superfloppy count as el torito

else it is a single volume drive

by definition a partition is defined in a partition table.

it actually wouldn't surprise me now if some uefi systems could boot from a superfloppy fat32, but it just isn't required in the standard.

So it has to have a table.

so both

"In addition to the standard PC disk partition scheme that uses a master boot record (MBR), UEFI also works with a new partitioning scheme called GUID Partition Table (GPT)"

@Bob when in doubt: wikipedia! :D

xD

probably because the UEFI standard says use GPT, so MBR support is kinda unofficial/not guaranteed, but still works most of the time. As I understand UEFI firmware can choose not to understand the old partition layout.

@Bob it's just that every guide I read about making bootable media for UEFI mentions make a GPT

Porbably thinking about Windows bootloader

ok ok

I thought UEFI doesn't like MBR, even if the partition is FAT32 with proper efi files.

Based on what you said earlier: UEFI works on GPT and Superfloppies

@Bob you mean a GPT with protective MBR

@Bob perhaps it's time superfloppies went the way of the dodo

die lifehackers die :D

yea but I want the beta to die

some I've only visited once, liked them and joined, then never came back :p

I checked my list 40+

I think I've joined too many networks :D time for cropping

deleting your SE profile in a certain community just removes you from that specific community right.

@Bob maybe you can zero the first 512 bytes to be sure

so I read the table start sectors and mounted the same image several times, just different partitions. Long time ago.

you could select the sector to start the mount from

some software, I've used so many I'm not sure. Maybe imdisk?

I'm also pretty sure I managed to mount a disk image with multiple partitions once.

@Bob I've managed to mount FAT32 and NTFS images (i.e. no partition table). So maybe it's something at the driver level requiring the table?

maybe assign it with diskpart

yea I think I read once someone booted from ext3

I knew ntfs had VBR

FAT32 is pretty cool. I think MS still owns it though?

Yea I just read that :D didn't know that.

I'll read those links today