True.

My better half wouldn't be the least bit interested in attending.  She's still stymied as to why people want Bitcoins, exactly. 

I'd be willing to share a room with 2-4 others, so that would certainly reduce costs.

That would be awesome indeed if you could finance your trip with a barn pull.    I've always been fascinated with the art of reclaiming abandoned wood, but I am too far from the world of physical labor to accomplish something like that on my own.

Wouldn't it have two points, even in the event of them NOT being in a straight line?

A triangle still only makes a flat shape.  If you take elevation into account (wherever the point to be identified is on a plane other than the same plane as the triangle), wouldn't there be two possibilities with regards to location?

Taking this into consideration, then, what happens if the triangularly-generated plane isn't level with the ground?  You could get two fairly different potential locations.

I couldn't readily dive in to all the maths behind this, and am no expert by any means, so someone tell me if I am wrong.  I am just picturing some convoluted shape being derived out of 4 points, and then the same shape mirrored across the plane of the triangle making up its base.

Sorry torac, but what you are doing is illegal, unethical, and immoral (in my eyes).  I completely agree with your banishment from selling these wares on this forum.

Inactive accounts?  What if the user comes back, only to find their account has been "overtaken" by someone else?

It's like stealing a TV from someone's home because you knew they hadn't watched anything on it in 6 months.  It's still their TV, you have no right to take it from them.

Of course, you're going to defend the practice because you are profiting from it.  You only "care" about the forum and people here because it helps put more money in your pocket.

This man speaketh the truth!

I'm still waiting for a "Bitcoin For Dummies" book.

Is the ticket price not set yet?

Something like that, yeah. 

They haven't been produced yet.  Feel free to cancel and get a refund.

Somewhat related: Social Security.

The SS tax has been increased by 2% to 6.2%.  If we assume the same rate of payout is still available in 2053 (my year of retirement at age 66) and my monthly income does not change, I would generate about $6,500.00 in a monthly paycheck from the government. (source: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/quickcalc/)

If, instead, that 6.2% was invested in the private sector (stock market), which has, historically, generated 10% investment return per year, then I would have accumulated $1.3M of retirement wealth.  If I withdrew the investment income (10% annually) from that accumulated wealth, or almost $11,000/month.

Now, this doesn't have much of a direct tie-in with welfare, but it still jerks my chain that we're forced to participate in this system instead of being able to use that money towards something more.... profitable.

Ah, I see... so a site being listed in that directory helps a search engine determine what sort of content it is based around then..?

I live just up in Oregon, so hoping to attend this one!

BTW, the website makes no mention of conference ticket cost.  And if I am cost-conscience, are there any hotels available cheaper than those with "blocks" allocated to the conference?

Who is running it?  It sounds like Yankee is involved... who else?

The only way it can be disguised is by not garnishing much of the hashrate.  Say, 10% or less.  10% of 3600 BTC/day is 360 BTC/day.  360/BTC day is 10,800 BTC/month.  10,800 BTC/month is $145k/month, or $1.7M/year.

BUT, when you take into account the costs of creating the ASICs (likely in the range of several million dollars), the cost of producing them, the cost of running/maintaining them, and the opportunity cost of NOT selling them, you're in the red by quite a lot, even after several years.

BFL has sold up to 150TH/s worth of preorders.  Even at the worst price (for them) of selling them in the 1 TH/s form, that's still $4.5M worth of preorders.

Anyone who makes the argument that a company would risk bankruptcy, a ruined reputation, and fraud charges/jailtime over $1.7M a year (less expenses) instead of running a legitimate business grossing $4.5M a year is just not thinking things through.

Well, the public would know if anyone was hashing with ASICs.  And if the public knows that a single entity has that much power over Bitcoin mining, the public will drop Bitcoin like a rock.  When the public drops Bitcoin like a rock, no one wants to buy Bitcoins.  When no one wants to buy Bitcoins, Bitcoins become worthless.  When Bitcoins become worthless, mining for Bitcoins also becomes worthless.  When mining for Bitcoins becomes worthless, suddenly, those millions sunk into ASIC creation are a loss instead of an investment.

TL:DR; It'd be a horrible idea for any ASIC manufacturer to even attempt such a feat.

I disagree.  As soon as they start delivering, people will cancel their orders with the other ASIC vendors and put that money towards orders with BFL.  The smartest thing for ANY of the ASIC developers to do is to deliver units as soon as possible.

I was spanked sparingly when I was young, and I will say it truly did make me more aware of the wrongness of what I had done.  Sure, I feared my parents spanking me, but that lent to fear of the action I took that caused the spanking in the first place.  It kept me from repeating it for sure.  Timeouts were obnoxious, but even if I knew I'd get a timeout, I would sometimes do mischievous things.

I probably got spanked twice in a year, on average.

Like jasinlee has said, I believe it to be a good tool used sparingly depending on the situation (and obviously not in an abusive manner - if you can't control whatever anger/rage you have over what your child has done, then you needn't be touching them until you calm down).  To this date, I haven't spanked my children at all, but I am not discluding it from the realm of possibility down the road.

That's like trying to guess which of a variety of coin-flippers will flip the next heads.  It could be any of them.

I like most of the naming, but pointed out a few that I thought could use changes.

A) Completely disagree with "Online Wallet".  If you're truly trying to make this noob-friendly, then don't use the word "online" with anything that isn't web-based.  When you say "Online Wallet", the first thing people will (generally speaking) think of is a wallet hosted at a website.  I think "Hot Wallet" is the best terminology to use here, though it is still a bit on the geeky side.  Maybe "Live Wallet"?

D1) Call it "Read-only wallet".  People already understand what Read Only means, may as well take advantage of that phrasing for the Bitcoin counterpart.

D2) "Unlocked wallet" is the best noob-friendly term I can come up with.  "Full Wallet" is a vague description and conjures up zero images as to the usage of said wallet to a newbie.

E1) I do like "Chained Wallet", but I think "Seed Wallet" might do a decent job as well.  More and more people know what a computer seed means (from games, random number generators, whatever), so I think it might be good to piggyback on that naming convention.

H) "Proposed Transaction". Simple terms that still do a decent job of explaining what the object is.

I) "Proposed Transaction ID"

Yes.  Since then, changes have been made (no more hotwallet, etc), so it *should* be more secure now.  Roman is also attempting to recover funds for the users from whom the funds were stolen via transaction fees generated from the exchange, so I would appreciate more people using it. 

Yes, luck absolutely plays a role in it, so if you're basing calculations off of coins received, it makes sense why it was off significantly.

I use this calculator often: http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator

A coin every 5-6 days?  That's a monster of a 5870!  Even at 400 MH/s, you should be getting less than 2 coins a month.  To maintain 5-6 coins a month, you'd need around 1,200 MH/s.