I didn't think of that. I'd like to change my vote!

Known secure? What the Hell does that mean? 

If you use Tor, admin/mods blanket-ban Tor IPs to help prevent spam-bots.

From what service are you trying to recover your password?

Could we get high-scorers @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats ? Bottom two categories don't appear to be functioning, anyway.

Hey! Wanna play, uh... five-ish sometimes-loaded questions? (just as speculation, not legal advice)

If MtGox were to become compliant, do you think they'd need both federal and state FinCEN/MSB compliance (assuming they don't latch onto a national bank/CU somehow)? Most people seem under the impression you can just register with FinCEN and it's done - woohoo, you're fully compliant, and this is the "compliance" most BTC MSBs seem to be talking about. But, these companies do business in all 50 states, and all these states have their own laws, licenses, and usually crazy-expensive fees.

Am I wrong, or is federal FinCEN registration as a MSB not enough?

Do you know of any US-serving exchanges which you believe probably are fully compliant?

Do you believe the USG (particularly, the courts) will accept Bitcoin being treated as a currency, and do you think that premise they're seizing Gox due to should be legally challenged? If you think it should be challenged, who should be challenging it? In an niche economy of startups, maybe we should all chip-in for a legal team to challenge the definition of BTC as a currency?

For almost all of us, we've treated Bitcoin as a commodity rather than a currency for tax purposes - especially relevant because complying with tax regulations as a miner would be an enormous, practically unfeasible pain in the ass. Still, AFAIK nobody's really bringing this up. The implications of letting FinCEN and other bureaucracies call Bitcoin a currency seem pretty unexplored, and there are people just saying "it won't affect me, I'm in the UK" when the US has a tendency for its precedents/definitions to be adopted elsewhere. Do you think the Bitcoin community has under-reacted to the likely changes in definition of Bitcoin will bring, or is it appropriate just to wait until we're explicitly told by a government we're doing something wrong (IF we're doing something wrong)?

The market obviously thinks MtGox should die. It totally boggles my mind, but the price is spiking a little bit, going over $120 -- this might be related to some very recent and major progressions in merchant adoption, or that SR is functioning properly again, but the price did hold pretty steady while the Gox news broke and worsened. I guess we'll see $1000 coins when all the non-compliant exchanges open to US customers (just about all of them) are shut down with funds seized. MtGox probably will die within the next couple years between the bank seizures, Dwolla severing, and valid-seeming $75m lawsuit. If it's CoinLab which kills them, they might at least compensate shafted customers with CL-USD/CL-BTC. Idunno, though. I apparently over-reacted, because I completely sold out a few days ago and won't be going back in until the price tanks or someone challenges Bitcoin legally being a currency in court and wins.

Maybe the problem is how few of us actually understand Ripple.

When I look at the linked page, it seems Ripple is telling me TF owes ~$900 and ~.04BTC. How do we see how much money TF took from others (not trust, but the redeemable BSTP BTC notes)?

What are the barriers to entry for someone interested in moving?

I went off on a tangent after reading about a rather peculiar tactic the Israeli gov't used. According to an article from a year or two ago, they targeted a couple Palestinian sewage treatment plants. Someone wondered if human poop could be used as fertilizer, and then.....

Oh, okay. It's legit then if "you" say so.

Sending the creation of bodily functions (poop and blood in particular) is generally illegal due to the fairly high risk of transmitting disease. To send biohazards like that, you need a medical shipping license and follow a special ruleset. Neither of those sites sell real poop, though "poopsenders" is trying to avoid admitting it isn't real, untreated poop. US, though -- dunno elsewhere.

ETA: Actually - poopsenders might be selling animal poop. I have no idea if that's regulated or not.

Isn't that what a hacker would say?   

With the LLC, the USG may also be going after Gox itself (rather, Mark) given the violation carries up to five years' prison time. Idunno what all requirements are needed for extradition, but I can't imagine why Japan would deny it.

Yep, except there's recourse if Gox fails to repay, because you did not turn over ownership of anything to Gox, only control (and very limited control, at that). If Gox holds $10 of yours, it's still yours.

- So the analogy doesn't fly. Gox isn't giving you IOUs (except with GoxUSD and GoxBTC codes which are no longer available) - they aren't giving you anything -- they're just showing you what of yours they are in partial control of.

*ahem*

What did we learn today, class?

Here are Theymos' guidelines:
"You have compiled mountains of evidence that the person is guilty, and the person has been given several weeks to respond to the allegations (because you've posted a topic about it and you've PMed the person), and you have a global moderator or other very trusted person second your request. (Have the trusted person contact me to make the request.)"

So, you need to get logs of everything and send it over to someone like Maged or JohnK (or whatever his u/n is now... used to be johnthedong).

It's frequently worse. 15-35% in admin/advertising for the really bad ones (the big cancer and Alzheimer ones are 20-30%, IIRC). 7% is relatively cheap.

I've never really liked the Caviar models. 2 of 3 (1 RMAd.... then the RMA failed) have failed within 5 years with the other occasionally sounding the death click alarm, and they don't have anything particularly exciting going on, so I'm not really sure why it's supposed to be "caviar." I guess it's supposed to be like the "Deluxe" pasteurized processed cheese product they sell in supermarkets.

Good luck recovering your HDDs, OP.