FWIW, I've run a local DNS server since my client was OS2 2.0 and my connection was dial up, with a slow connection it did a lot for reducing perceived latency when web browsing.

These days there are a lot of alternatives, but the standard is a program called BIND, which can be had for just about any platform. Linux distributions provide it universally, and it's pretty tolerable to set up on Windows as well. It does things beyond simple caching that the built-in Windows DNS cache does not.

http://www.isc.org/software/bind

The simplest thing to set up with BIND is a caching server with forwarding, the last time I installed it under Windows ( sometime in the 1990s ) this was the default configuration. You do have to add the IP addresses for your forwarding servers ( e.g. your ISP ) and then point your local IP configuration to query the local name server at 127.0.0.1 .

The reason I mention all this is that I had a hard time replicating the problem described here, I'd never seen it. It had been so long since I did my set up I had to consider why.

As it turns out, my DNS forwarders are Comcast and Google. Here's a portion of my named.conf, one of the configuration files for bind ( the program executable is usually "named" or "named.exe" ).

        forward first;
        forwarders {
                75.75.75.75;
                75.75.76.76;
                8.8.8.8;
                8.8.4.4;
        };

Beyond that BIND will identify the authoritative name servers for a given name and query those directly, in this case NS1.XWAYLAB.COM and NS2.XWAYLAB.COM for bitcoinica.com .

So, using BIND can provide robust name resolution from multiple sources, it worked transparently for me with the bitcoinica .com DNSSEC issue present, most likely by using Google to resolve the authoritative servers and then using those to resolve the actual name.

Assuming using only one account you are correct.

Bitcoinica just locks the front door when things get away from them, there are pluses and minuses to that approach.

Combinations of moving averages of various types, sampling periods, and intervals can be used to fit a wide range of assertions to arbitrary data samples. I'm not dismissing Goomboo's results on that basis, I just know that to be true by virtue of having done it. In a small, mostly rigged game like bitcoin, I don't find technical analysis very meaningful at all. The best models for understanding bitcoin as it is can be found in the realm of pretty standard penny stock manipulations.

I was speaking in much broader terms of the applicability of the PSAR. There are measures I have found helpful, particularly after adjusting the parameters, I find the usual fixed default values for things like MACD, Bollinger bands, etc on most canned chart packages ( e.g. Bitcoinica's charts ) are not very useful.

I base this on having done quite a bit of back testing on historical data with all manner of measures. For example I was using Bollinger bands years before John Bollinger put his name on them and I found them very useful for picking entry points for an enhanced dollar cost averaging savings approach for mutual funds/IRAs/401K plans/etc. OTOH I find them much less useful in application to individual stocks.

It's worth going through the exercise of analyzing these measures that get tossed around so frequently, for one thing it becomes evident that by adjusting the parameters one can construct quite different conclusions for both specific and general scenarios.

As far as reversals go, the simplest example of a useful indicator I can think of would be a triple top or bottom, and those don't always work out either.

I definitely believe there is a large aspect of self fulfilling prophecy resulting from the use of the same technical indicators by so many parties. That alone is reason enough to watch them, but I don't believe anything all the time.

Agreed, I always found PSAR to be good for confirming what had already happened too late to act on it 

Take a deep breath. A little paranoia around recent events is to be expected so it is helpful to know that and keep it in bounds.

As it turns out the technical explanation is reasonable, DNSSEC is working the way it is supposed to work. Are you ready for IPV6? 

Everyone was so happy with me when I dredged up this poll the last time that I wanted to know if that special feeling was a one time event 

If you voted, you can always change it.

+1
You got it. Freeze like a bunny.

One could try running ~100 bots at 10:1/$2000, although I would recommend starting small with the bot count and activity and doing some probing/tuning before executing an actual attempt. The following joke is also relevant:

A man noticed a farmer walking with three-legged pig on a leash. It looked very odd. He said, "Farmer, why are you walking a three-legged pig?"

"Why, stranger, this is no ordinary pig," the farmer replied. "One night our barn caught on fire, and before my wife and I even woke up, the pig had called the fire department, and herded all the other animals out of the barn. The next week, a burglar got into the house, and the pig had him tied up and the police were on their way before I even realized what had happened. Then just last week, I fell into the duck pond and was like to drown, except this pig jumped in and pulled me out. Like I say, this is no ordinary pig."

"Well, that truly is a remarkable pig. But tell me, how did he come to have only three legs?" "Are you kidding? A pig this good, you don't eat all at once."

Yes. To speculation, agreed.

This has probably been posted in reference to walls before, but anyway:

Stupid sheep runs into a wall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaSBsJyOoM

Stupid, stupid sheep, look at them 

Thanks for the reminder, sometimes I forget that I'm here to serve my lord and master Satan in helping to bring suffering, desolation and hopelessness to all human beings. Be careful how you request something, otherwise you may not get the response you expect 

True, this kind of operation is right out of the Penny Stock Scams 101 course, it's not rocket science. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king 

If there wasn't a whale in the game before this week, there's bound to be several now.

If all it takes is $200K or so to make the price swings we have seen in the past few days, it could possibly be best to stand back and let them fight it out. All this tells me that until further notice bitcoin is strictly a lunch money grade amusement comparable to liar's poker played with one dollar bills.

Whether all those inclined to hold onto bitcoins can get flat by shorting an equal amount without drawing the attentions of this pod of killer whales, I don't know.

One thing is certain, the biggest show in Nakamototown right now is at the Bitcoinica casino, the rest of the bitcoin world is a bunch of hot dog stands surrounding it.

Time to go get 'em tiger, you first 

"Ah, an educated Vulcan... like Karl Marx himself."

Who's a cute little Spock quoter? You are! You are! 

You got it. If they're screwing around with bitcoins at all right now, they're on their phones playing a game of "Probe The Starfish" between drinks. Lots of "Hey! Watch this!", "Oooh! That was tight!" and hootin' and hollerin'. Then it will be time for dinner. America Drinks And Goes Home  

Looks like it's time to give the throttle another twist, oboy oboy oboy! You may start dancing on the command:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60307.msg702249#msg702249

These free markets are so cool and all and everything, don't you feel free? I know I do 

I wonder what kind of Elliott Wave pattern that is 

  !!! That's not how it's supposed to work, is it?

I have a canary ( tiny ) limit buy order that's around 25 hours old and should have been hit several times. There are some posts elsewhere here grousing about getting withdrawals. I could imagine lots of things going on within the operation, and that includes nothing in particular; this could be the new normal. Yawn.