Some famous people who have died while people were waiting for BFL to deliver:

Edith Bunker from All in the Family (Jean Stapleton)
James Gandolfini (The Sopranos)
Dick Trickle (no lie, that's a real name, he's a nascar driver)
Joyce Brothers (psychologist and comedian)
Jeff Hanneman (founder of SLAYER)
Chris Kelly (of Kriss Kross, gonna make you... jump jump!)
Roger Ebert (Film critic, joined his good buddy Gene Siskel)

and I'm sure many more. It's been a long sad time these BFL non-delivery months.

Only in the bitcoin world do you have morons paying 63BTC for a freaking asic. i can get you 1500 g/h worth for about 500 bucks from china. freaking noobs

Garr255, you do know that you have a quote from Ghandi in your signature.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”  -- Mahatma Gandhi


Here are a few more:
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Try to live up to your hero.
Good to see it looks like you already started.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Again, I sincerely regret what I have done and I apologize for doing it. The small sum of bitcoins I gained from this (until I pay the auction bidders back) was certainly not worth the tarnished reputation. Never again will I allow myself to do something so crooked.

keyword is "at this point".

To be honest, at this point (when they stated that shipping at full speed just began) it would be better for customers if they mined with those Avalons. That would mean no hashrate jump when they finish shipping ;X

No; disgruntled / angsty youth rebel / mis-directed / unfocused stoner ramblings.

... Although I do tend to be pessimistic as well. I do not care much about the financials in this situation, as I don't believe there is much hope from this end.

Politicians have lost their way in the US. Greed, corruption, evil - yes they have all existed for a long time, but they are out of control and in an elevated state. Maybe due to increased population, increased communication/understanding of the world (internet), maybe due to just natural progression - if your not caught or stopped (they usually aren't) - you are going to keep getting worse. Think about how many studies have been done on humans and human behavior... not to mention the numerous studies we probably don't know about. They know how people think, how they act, what they respond to... they know what to say, when to say it, how to say it, where to say it, etc. They are our 'physical' Gods. They have people down to a science.

All people are 'different' and have uniquenesses about them, but IMO there are several classifications of humans, potentially tens of thousands or more. You can call it stereotyping or whatever you want, you can call them democrats, republicans, communists, socialists, etc. This is not how I personally would be naming the classifications... but the fact is that there are people who act/think alike and follow the same ideologies that contribute to who we are as humans and a society and can coincide with how we act, what we do, who we talk to, etc. Albeit, these are human taught classifications and not really something we were born with.

They know what each classification responds to, what they want to hear, what they like/don't like, what they forget, what their interests are, what they buy into, etc. For federal-level politicians, the trick is how to say what you need to say or do what you need to do to a particular group or figure out a way to say something that appeals to multiple classifications, and do it without the other group(s) knowing/hearing about it (assume we would call this being politically correct? - no clue why political correctness even exists)... and this is not very easily done anymore with the creation of the internet and technology in general (mobile phones, video cameras, etc) that catch everything anyone is saying about anything...but its not entirely impossible. Assuming they were not able to bribe there way out of the situation, the strategy right now when you get caught in a situation like this seems to be to apologize, disappear for a while, then come back. (because they know we typically 'forget', based on the aforementioned studies) I assume they will ultimately achieve some type of internet regulations or government oversight to control what information goes 'viral' and what information may be deemed a threat to national security.

For me, if you believe they have knowledge about people and have ways of accessing it... it is scary to think what government developers/hackers could do with a dataset of information like this. Does a database like this exist would be the question (or is it being created)... and where would you put that much information? Who knows... maybe in the new 'spy center' complex that has been established by the NSA to house data/information/servers that will be linked to all of the intelligence 'listening posts' around the world. With four 25,000 sq. feet halls with wall-to-wall rows/racks of servers, you don't really think they are only listening and data mining stuff that is related to terrorism or national security, do you?  

So, is the USA debt repayable?   It doesn't matter... we are all doomed  


I feel like I have slipped passed the line of a rational individual to a conspiracy theorist. I am going to go crawl into a cave now...    

Yeah, I eliminated it too, like I said I really didn't think any one device could screw up something completely unrelated like this. Your bitcoin's been sent. Thanks again!

I've never seen this before, and I've done my fair share of networking. This was the answer. One android phone, when connected to the wireless network, would cause (within 2-3 minutes of connecting) the hash rate to drop to 3-4GH/s and the connection to the stratum proxy to fail. It's an HTC Evo. My phone, actually, which just hurts my pride that much more. The blades are now hashing happily at >12GH/s via the stratum proxy with the wireless on.

Looking back on everything I suddenly feel like this experience was one of those well written detective novels where at the end of the book you suddenly realized you had all the information you needed to solve it from the second chapter. I just moved into this house with several of my friends several months ago. We play Civ 5 over LAN often, and periodically (between 2-5 hours of playing) the game would disconnect for someone or another. I've just always attributed it to poor LAN performance with Civ 5. About a month ago I left for a week (taking my phone with me) and when I came back my friends said they played Civ 5 with no disconnects whatsoever, humorously blaming me for all the connection issues. How right they were. When I'd leave the house and have the blades pointed to a getwork pool, the hash rate would always be at the higher end of the range I mentioned with the initial problem. Anyway, thanks for all the help that everyone has provided.

Wrenchmonkey, let me know what address you want your 2BTC sent to.

ibminer let me know your address too, I'd like to send you 1BTC for all your helpful suggestions.

Oh, and Wrenchmonkey, my 'thanks for the laugh' wasn't supposed to be in response to your quote of checking the firmware, it was supposed to be in response to the person who said to turn it off and turn it back on again. I guess I just fail at quoting. Thanks again!

I've also constantly pinged the blades, there's no change in the ping with wireless on or off, the connection to them is solid.

I've checked multiple times, it's not an IP conflict.