I'd buy any 22 thats less than .05 per round, preferably aguila 40 grain

It's not illegal to ship ammo to MA, but the big online places wont do it because the MA attorney general is a cocksucker and threatens them. (as far as i know)

Will be interesting to see how the loans go after the recent jump from $13.80 to $14.3. IS there a list of loans with outstanding balances, repayment history, delinqneucy info, etc anywhere that's conveniently available?

You can think whatever you want.  I really dont have to explain myself.   Good luck with your scammer buddy Tom. 

...in a situation where they need a bailout!  Much like another vendor.

I'm getting an uneasy feeling about this.  What if all the ASICs end up in one set of hands?  A set of hands with very deep fiat pockets...

I've never been a user of any of the Bitcoin services where the customer base was scammed, previously. However, I was a user of Bitmarket and while I wasn't personally scammed someone I recommended to the service might've been. I'm thus slightly more interested in this case compared to all the others.

1) Without proof that user funds were indeed used to gamble on Bitcoinica an equally likely explanation is that the site operator is sitting on them. Bailing him out with all these grand business plans makes those bitcoins "clean".

Suggestion: Provide proof of the blockchain transactions and Bitcoinica claim.

2) Any and all business plans that can make 18k BTC in a reasonable timeframe will create zero profit if used with Bitmarket, 18k BTC profit if used with any other site. It's difficult to understand investors who make such a choice.

Suggestion: Provide rational arguments as to why those business plans are better suited for Bitmarket than other sites. They exist, they have large userbases and some have even stayed away from scamming users. Note: The rationale for Bitmarket is not in question, but for the investors it's downright strange.

3) The Bitmarket site owner played the casino with user funds, and lost. If he had won, the profit would've gone to him, not the users. One of the most profitable Bitcoin business models to have surfaced so far (excluding, I believe, Mt. Gox and Satoshi Dice - where I'm wary of the latter) is to open up a service and then simply scam the users. This will continue until one of two things happens:

a) There's a protocol solution making service scamming impossible. This I believe to be critically needed before Bitcoin is a viable transaction medium.

b) Scam artists are prosecuted. We're still waiting for Bitcoinica, but it looks unlikely. Bitmarket isn't, however. Virtual goods have already been the subject of the highest court in the relevant jurisdiction and the site owner has publically admitted to the deed. It would be a straightforward case and likely make future scam artists think twice.

I suspect cognitive biases to play a role here. You would not be as lenient with someone who broke into your house and stole the same amount of money/goods.

correction: bitcoin-qt/bitcoind command-line arguments have a single-dash, so it would be
  bitcoin-qt -server

Since you have to set a rpcuser/rpcpassword in the bitcoin.conf file for -server to work anyway, you might want to put "server=1" in the bitcoin.conf file instead of using the command-line argument...

Another option ("cleaner", theorically speaking) is WinUSB on Windows, then accessing it using libusb on Linux & Mac.

Both are hacks, but the generic HID hack is more popular IMHO.

Another great thing about HID is that it'll almost always work on Windows, even if a policy is used to disable typical USB devices (mass storage ...)

We were planning on purchasing 2 base-level laptops (Acer, Toshiba, or comparable) to use as dedicated machines for the project.  They'll be used for reprogramming, testing, quality assurance, and then end-user testing when the project reaches its final stages.  Because our team could potentially (hopefully!) profit off this project, we're barred from using the lab computers.

At the end of the project, we'll probably sell them back.  We have a suitable mining rig for implementation, and then any expenses following the project timeframe will be paid for by taking low-percentage cuts from blocks generated by users of the TurMine program.

Spike You ban me.... not very nice.... was I earning too much?

Interesting server concept. How many blocks do I have to mine to earn 1 bitcoin?

Troll

This pool is great.  He can't do everything at once.  There are many things I'd rather see Doc work on than remove CPU mining from the client.

Apparently that 1.5% satisfied everyone. I wonder what he has in store next. It'd be nice to see some kind of indicator that "fills up" until the threshold is reached.

Refraction issue is mention here, Spike: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112700.msg1361779#msg1361779

(no alpaca in this race--just passing info)

Is that everyone who signed up? I signed up under kamimatsu and I'm not listed.

Saved by (unsurprisingly) being broke.  A practical advantage of being in such a condition.

Anyway, if I were running a pre-order scam, I'd be targetting people much like yourself...albeit with more disposable income.  Cook up some simple mock-up apps and watch the money pour in.

Almost.

It's more like 50 identical wafers, with a tiny area of each for your project, and the rest of the area of each for other projects.

I understand that BFL did not go this route, and went straight to full wafer production, first for the batch that had a "refraction issue", and then again with the "bullet run" that turned out to need "clock buffer adjustments".  I understand that the third batch, now in production, comes to 100k chips or more.

I imagine they've blown through at least a million bux at this point in masksets alone.

Moving a nuke around is not that easy. There are multiple monitoring stations in most western countries to monitor airborne isotopes. They are used to monitor for nuclear accidents in far away contries. A truck with a nuke would trigger a few alarms if it drove cross country. i would also imagine that ports are screening shipping containers.

A boat might do the trick but an Iranian fishing boat or coaster in the Atlantic would be swept by coast gaurd as it approached national waters maybe even before.

So a terrorist organisation would need some nuke capable state behind it to do the delivering or supply a delivery system, it is not enough to buy a bomb in the black market. If you manage to get an old russian warhead as depicted in movies, It would be booby trapped to prevent enemy theft or reprogramming in war time. It would just blow convetionally but kill you off.

I would imagine that the supply for black market nukes is quite small and the fact that is has never been attempted not even a dirty bomb proves that. There has been some sting operations which caught people trying to get uranium and other isotopes, but they were lone wolf types and not capable to pull such a feat off in my opinion, even if one managed to make a dirty bomb and contaminate a whole neighbourhood and make headlines, the damage would be too localised to terrorize a whole country, as a real nuke would.

So would a state risk retaliation by helping out some terrorists? Would a Russian missle, with a willing crew, be for sale on the black market? I don't think so, it's just too much of a 007 scenario.

In Brazil 25 years ago a decommisioned Cobalt cannon from a closed hospital ended up in a scrap yard and the Cobalt source got smelted into new sheet steel which was sold to a table leg manufacturer.
So suddently a lot of school children got strange skin conditions on their lower legs before they found out what had happend. Several hundred was in contact with the Cobalt and no one died. A dirty bomb has nothing stealth about it so the only fatalities will be the victims of the blast.

Ok, I am 100% agree with you, but not with them. If the intention is to provide a friendlier interface for miners not so geeks like these should have worked a bit on hardware itself. Simply a micro PC and touch screen, a tablet with android will engage customers in a particular profile but expelled more than it has managed to capture, by the lack of options and the bad image created by poorly designed product.