Is this something that can be bypassed? Would you leave an unencrypted wallet behind it?

And while we're talking about it. If I don't browse to anything the least bit shady I'm not going to get a 'buntu worm guaranteed, right?

Bitcoins are NOT untraceable, and are anonymous only if the addresses used to receive them cannot be linked to real people. If exchanges become regulated and will require ID from all users, it will be extremely easy to see (in the block chain and in correlation with the exchanges databases) who paid how much to whom and when. This is a performance that cash will never achieve!

The good part: thieves will be easier to catch.
The bad part: farewell, privacy!

Like most things in life, bitcoin has two sides 

Ya tiene credibilidad. El problema es que la mayoría de las persona tienen que dormir, madurar, el concepto varios dias, meses, para entender porque esto es revolucionario y positivo.

Eh, I think we are only going to achieve a personable forum is if we take out all discussion and limit it to tech support. That's what Nintendo did a few years back. They certainly got the professional atmosphere they desired but it reeks normalcy and sterility.

Nobody speaks for Bitcoin as a whole. Not even the forum staff. It's not a company. It's a product used by all. The views of its users represent Bitcoin.

Saludos chicos,
Llevo unos dias minando y siguiendo el mundo del bitcoin, parece que entre en un momento difícil después del ataque sufrido a una de las grandes casas de cambio,voy hacer una pequeña inversión actualmente mino a 650 Mhash/s aprox con una ati 5970 , quiero alcanzar unos 1600 Mhash 24/7, vosotros como veis el tema ahora mismo me sera rentable?

Después quería comentaros que hay una nueva mina que dan 5 BT de recompensa por el primer bloque, cuanto se puede tardar aprox en solucionarlo?

Bueno un saludo a todos espero que nos veamos mas por aquí y los Bitcoins se hagan fuertes xD

Remember boys, everybody is stupid for not understanding, you don't need big organizations accepting Bitcoin for credibility, and you don't need good PR:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/06/bitcoin-eff-wikileaks-fsf-donations/39055/

Victims of the Sunk Cost Effect can form a line below.

I actually think this will lead Bitcoin to a needed bump.
Its insane deflation was ruining all btc based business, as it was more profitable to simply hold to the bitcoins and wait then to trade with them, now with the speculators scared as hell and away of it, it could be an opportunity to actually create a Bitcoin economy.

"Intrinsic" value in this context does not mean intrinsic value in a philosophical sense.  Rather, it means having value other than as a medium of exchange.  IMO the industrial use for gold is rather weak compared to silver or oil or copper or rice, but even gold has SOME industrial value, while bitcoins do not.

As a medium of exchange, bitcoins do have value, but usefulness as a medium of exchange does not lead to long term stable prices.  And perhaps not even short term stable prices.  In the interview Donald Norman is completely correct in saying that bitcoins make a good medium of exchange but a poor store of value.

Is this dude really that stupid or just a shill? Bitcoin exchange is hacked therefore bitcoin is not secure, published it in Forbes no less.

If anything, persistent attempts, whether successful or not, to steal bitcoin demonstrates exactly the opposite i.e. that bitcoins are very valuable. Criminals do not steal worthless stuff.

I think this right here is the crux of our difference. Nothing I have read of Keynes suggests that his ideas are about extending government action beyond its primary responsibilities. My impression is that there are people who have that agenda that invoke Keynes to justify their objectives. I just don't think this fairly represents Keynes himself or his ideas, regardless of whether you agree with the guy or not.

I happily admit that Keynes model of the economy does not represent a number of things in real life, there are fair grounds to disagree with him, but don't forget that models are just that, simplified maps of reality the purpose of which is to try and capture certain relationships or behavior. Keynes did a lot for macro-economic, he basically founded the study. I just think criticisms of his ideas should be more constructive and not just used as a banner for metalists to rage and condemn and project their issues with their father or whatever with.

My own belief is that both Keynes and Hayek have something to say worth thinking about, I'm not interested in the kind of stop-think demonization used by "Keynsianism!" shriekers that replaces what should be enlightening debate.

I've found that AMDOverdriveControl will put memory clock ranges outside that of what aticonfig --odgc reports. On my 5960's it will let me take the clock down to 75. The reported low is 1250, and the aticonfig command line refuses to clock under that. It will not mod the voltage or main clock speed outside the reported values.

Answer what exactly?

Look, I'm no professor of economics, but from what I do know, the Keynes-hate comes over as pretty retarded. So Keynes intentions weren't good? To my mind his ideas were a matter of practical problem solving, that's all. And his actual job at the time was a matter of post war rebuilding. So the guy considered government to have an important role in that context, big fucking deal. The concept of aggregate demand pulling everything along is a concept, it's not exactly nazi-ideology.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

So essentially the libertarian solution to the problem of externalities is to make use of the legal system.  I agree this can work in cases where this a clear delineation of the infringer and the victim -- for example if an oil company pollutes my property.  However, how would you handle cases that transcend national boundaries, and/or the victim is the globe as a whole?  Acid rain was a classic example of the first case: sulfur emissions from power plants in one country would cause acid rain to fall in countries downwind.  I reckon this could still be solved using the legal system, though it would require a transnational legal system that all nations would be bound to.  Anyway, I'm glad that libertarians also agree that we do need strong transnational institutions (like a World Court).

What exactly is your question, I looked back and couldn't find a single question mark in your posts. As I recall it was I that asked you a question. Ask me now and I'll see what I can do, though I suspect that I won't agree with your premise.

By the way swapping out Keynes for Stalin means fuck all. If you seriously mean to imply Keynes and Stalin were basically the same, I cannot help you.

I know what aggregate demand is.

Government is the tax-payer, merely another economic agent, it's not some alien force from space.  There is an argument that a society cannot sustain itself on expansive monetary policy and I agree. But Stalin was for discretionary monetary policy, it's not the same thing as talking as if Stalin just wanted inflationary big government all the time.

Government is as big as the people need it to be to address the problems they need addressed, and if rebuilding nations is the problem you face, then leaving it to the likes of Ron Paul and his ilk just isn't going to cut it. I'm pretty sure Stalin did not envisage inflationary government for its own sake, that would be pointless.

On a side note: thats what the bankers did during the great depression. Panic the markets into selling then buy up the stock quickly.