They also have great resale value should you decide to upgrade, if BFL even makes something within the next while.

Do you REALLY think that the guys that have developed GPU kernels and spent hours and hours optimizing them really want to re-do all their hard work just because of a non-existent problem? What you would get is some non-optimized kernels for the new version, with all the optimizations being done by private farm owners, resulting in them STILL being faster than you, even on the new algorithm.

In essence the ONLY reason to change the algorithm is if there is a security problem with it, which at the moment there is not.

Probably started with hardcopy and decided that for not much more cost to go full custom... just guessing though.

Would the flame burn hot enough to make an appreciable difference in light output? I'm guessing (didn't research) that the increased light output from the thorium may be due in part to the heat of the gas flame, which might not be applicable in a candle scenario. Wonder if you could make Sterno cans work with such a wick?

Pen testing is big business, and cracking passwords in real time without having to spend a week on an expensive GPU cluster is attractive.

Go ahead and drop a bot on it if you are worried.

Append ";wap2" to the querystring for a mobile version with reduced functionality.

Oh god you are so completely retarded. If you came up with that bullshit after reading all the info available to you on this forum, then I would have to say that your reading comprehension is, at best, not up to snuff.

I'll answer each point just once because you need some help in the research department:

The forum did NOT design the Single for BFL. Where you heard this, I don't know. Citation please? They (BFL) suddenly appeared with a website and a promise of extraordinary performance, including a finished design. The performance claims were ripped to shit by the forum, and they eventually got around to building their design and found out that the cooling and power were insufficient. At no time did they even solicit design suggestions from the forum; all decisions were theirs alone.

During this design process, some high resolution photographs of the PCB and the chip were uploaded, and the folks here guessed based on those that the chips were EP3SL150 devices. This is before any of them shipped.

After that, they finally started shipping, and one of the units made their way into the hands of ngzhang. He did not have to "hack the shit out of it", he simply had to solder on a single resistor or jumper in order to reconnect the JTAG pins. After that it was as simple as hooking it up and reading the IDCODEs. There is no possible way that the chip on the board would have been something else; that would have required a board level redesign which would have been nothing more than a waste of time and a diversion. Replacing the chip on the board and retaining a functional or partially functional device without a board level redesign is highly unlikely to the point of being absurd.

And finally, even if ET or ngzhang were to verify the authenticity of a Single by saying they have one, you would just be there saying they don't exist either. Why shouldn't anyone be informed about what they are getting? It requires professionals that know what they are doing to identify much of this stuff, it isn't something that 99% of the consumers can do.

Please shut up and stop bullshitting. You are only making yourself look more stupid.

Bitcoinica can just pull that info from their account history on mtgox, no need to get them involved in any way.

First of all, this topic belongs in the Alternative Cryptocurrencies section. You can move it yourself using the link at the bottom of the page.

Secondly, it is not unheard of at all for a block to be orphan, usually because someone found it at the same time or just a few seconds before you did.

Should I eat the yellow snow?

Well you could try to band-aid the current system by restricting it to specific POS devices and educating consumers about where not to swipe their cards,.... but I don't like that.

Additionally, consumers are unlikely to switch quickly or easily over to a chip&pin system either. Although Canada has chip&pin literally everywhere, consumers in the US have been known to microwave and hole-punch the chips out of their cards, because of their latent paranoia about "the system".

It's the same thing as bitcoin mining in terms of CPU % usage, just a different algorithm. I doubt a game server actually runs at 100% 24/7, and of you can find a host that will allow that, then have at it. I actually used AWS EC2 with Litecoin and fired up a dozen high-CPU instances at once, but the coin generated didn't even pay for 1/100th of the cost to run the instances.

Sucks Atlas actually didn't off himself, he's been posting up a storm on reddit and has his own lame blog now too.

If we assume that the magstripe card gets skimmed at some point, but the skimmer doesn't grab the PIN, what's to prevent him from bruteforcing it? If it's limited to digits 0-9, 10 characters is a cinch to crack. Is there any other protection?

Is the PIN encryption combined with some kind of provider based encryption, or is it standalone? If someone obtained the track data from a malicious POS or some other method, would it still be hard to bruteforce the private keys?

5.5 Gbps is at a core frequency of 735 Mhz, and the 3.1mW power number has this note by it: "The power consumption is estimated for the frequency of 100 MHz". Furthermore, all the numbers are synthesized. They say they plan to tape out all the different implementations for comparison, but I don't think that's actually been done yet.

What happens on unexpected reboot or power loss? You may wish to consider PXE booting.

Wah wah wah! You aren't really entitled to something that is being given away for free out of the goodness of someone's heart. nice try though.