I think this thread might receive more attention over in the Meta board. You might want to move it.

ROTFLMAO

I love this part

EDIT: 

K.

Thinking of designing a litecoin ASIC miner? 

TSW is probably the way to go, although you'll need to "know people" to get them to take you seriously. 

Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek lawmakers on Sunday agreed to cut thousands of government workers to secure another 8.8 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in bailout funds.

The vote clears the way for 15,000 civil servants to be fired by the end of 2014, the first time Greece's cash-strapped government has said it will cut its workforce of about 700,000.

The right to a permanent position once hired by the public sector had been protected by the Greek constitution before Sunday, and about one in four Greeks is on the public payroll. Cutting that figure is part of the loan agreement between the government and its creditors, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

But the layoffs will be coming when unemployment has skyrocketed to more than 27%. Previous austerity measures have cut pay for public workers as much as 30% and reduced pension benefits.


Sunday's 168-123 vote came after heated debate in parliament and with protesters gathered outside. The civil servants union ADEDY said the measure will signify the end of the country's welfare state, but the three parties that make up the country's ruling coalition supported the layoff bill.

"We are going through a very difficult path, but this is going to be a success story," Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told reporters after the vote.

EU and IMF officials said earlier this month that Greece is on track to reach its bailout targets. But each round of austerity measures has fueled sometimes-violent demonstrations, and critics argue the tax increases and spending cuts imposed by struggling eurozone economies have driven up unemployment without spurring growth.

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(CNN) -- Spanish police say they've arrested the man behind what's been called the biggest cyberattack in history.

The suspect, a 35-year-old Dutch citizen, traveled around Spain in a van he used as a mobile office, Spain's National Police said in a statement Sunday.

Police arrested him Thursday north of Barcelona, Spain, on a European arrest warrant at the request of judicial authorities in the Netherlands, the statement said.

The arrest comes a month after Internet users around the globe faced slowed-down service during the prolonged denial-of-service assault on The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group.

Security experts said the attack used more sophisticated techniques than most distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks and targeted the Web's infrastructure, which led to other sites performing slowly.

In a DDoS attack, computers flood a website with requests, overwhelming its servers and causing it to crash or become inaccessible for many users.

Hi All,

Should this new exchange take Litecoin and other Crypto Currencies?

K

 

Never halt because of news, this just causes more panic.

Never get lag, the engine must run on many servers alone, perhaps AWS has performance product they can offer you?

New York stock exchange handles more trades in a minute than Gox has ever handled in its life. Bitcoin exchanges are the most terrible thing in the world, they really are trite.

So you need to be designed to handle 10,000 trades a second, if you can't then you just going to be another Gox.

(I don't think you can do this though, there isn't enough money in Bitcoin trades yet to warrant someone designing a real trading platform that can handle real traffic, I would love to proved wrong)