In US real-estate that's not that bad.  We have 1 home that was bought for 600K and went down to 330K at one time.  It's still about 110K under.

If they were homosexuals then their colors schemes are way off.  I mean seriously what were they thinking?

Sexual tyrannosaurus.

Where is the part about the 10k scratches to your face and arms when the cats senses you're going for a toilet dump? 

Been surfing the web on a 17" laptop the last 5 years.  Rarely go to my big desktop anymore.

As noted above you need to protect your wallet.dat file like you would your own wallet in your back pocket.  It doesn't not store the bitcoins.  The bitcoins are on the blockchain, similar to being on the cloud and the network is what is keeping track of it.

The keys in the wallet.dat file simply allow you to open or unlock your bitcoins.  If somebody else gave you their keys and you knew their addresses you could grab their coins.

While true, that's like saying I can sell these comic books that I bought that nobody wanted at any time.  The comic book store is buying them back for 1c after selling to me for 25c.

All the pools must be having bad luck.  200 blocks into this difficulty and the re-target is the same as the current difficulty.  Bitminter just had a 1 day+ block and they have more hash than us right now.

And this is why PPS in the old form would kill any pool.

See, that's where mining sickness has clouded your judgement.  It's the VOCs given off by the hardware .  I can understand running them in winter at a loss for some heat, but not in summer.

I know you have VAT but 225 pounds sounds was overpriced for the S1, especially since most people are having to undervolt/underclock them now.  Try looking in the marketplace and buy one locally - should be a lot cheaper.

That's 10 days at 0.01, then difficulty goes up 20% so no you get 0.0083 for 10-11 days, then 0.00065 for 10-11 days and so on.

As you approach the 3 month time period the electricity costs more than the income, so you turn it off.

You will not recoup your 1 BTC.  Unless the network crashes and burns in which case you get thousands of useless BTC lol.

Unfortunately any large company will not sell you something that had a realistic chance of making more $ (since then they would be losing out on potential profit) - this is assuming the company knows how to do math.  If they are stupid it's possible for them to sell too cheaply to end users.

You could try to mine with your computers CPU or GPU - but that would be like trying to dig a tunnel with your fingernails.

What you need are some devices called Bitcoin ASICs - these are computers built solely for mining Bitcoin, they can't do anything else (except other SHA-256 based coins).

We have an entire subforum on pretty much all miners here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.0

Look for reviews and use a calculator before buying - you will end up losing money most likely.

Dev and IXC only add about 0.1% more to your profits and it's another coin you have to send to an exchange and then dump for Bitcoin (assuming you only want BTC).  I think the uptime and security affording by this pool and others like Bitminter and Elegius exceed the paltry add on of those coins.

You know it's scarry when people in WA state are contemplating buying over mining.  My family in WA is paying 1/10th of what I pay here in Southern California.  What a difference 1000 miles and 2 states makes.

Undervolting is changing the voltage to a lower voltage. Since power used is based off the square of the voltage, a small change in volatge can mean big power savings.  But of course it can't run as fast.

Underclocking means turning down the speed (clock speed) that the miner runs at.  This can be done usually without touching the voltage.  Typically most people try to run the fastest clock as the lowest possible voltage needed to get them to the desired clock.

If you like having miners buy it but you'll be losing $ (or PPC in your case).  If you want the most PPC, send the cash to an exchange and buy PPC directly or buy BTC and convert to PPC.

Trust me, their efficiency is not the issue this time (that was the 2013 failed promise).  The issue currently is their boards are pulling too much power and burning out.  Apparently their engineers at the zoo are busy throwing poo.

BFL advertised a 600GH/s device.  Unlike their last go around they can't just give you smaller units like they did with the minirig.  Most people only have 1 PCIe slot per machine that could handle that much heat.  So they are forced to try to cram 600GH/s onto a PCIe card.  It is doable if done by professional.  But BFL would have to find some professionals since they can't even handle their own PR mascot correctly.

So that he can earn 45 cents just before he melts the board or the cheap $3 fan cooling the GPU?  Have you ever tried to change a fan on a pain in the ass laptop like a HP DV4 series.  You would rather poke your eyes out.

I loved reading that pop mech story.  Makes me want to see those old movies again.

Still remember the Taco Bell ads with the chihuahua "here lizard, lizard".

Most Cali people who live in the mountains know how to drive in snow.  It's all the clueless snowboarders and skiiers going to Big Bear, Mammoth etc.  Now rain, we are just complete morons.  People seem to actually drive faster since traffic moves too slow for them.... and then they fly off the overpass or slam into the center median.