I'm fairly sure Bitcoin client would correct "bad blocks"...

Speculation:
1) Firewall (try disabling for a bit just to confirm if you haven't, already -- it's possibly blocking individual peers, not "Bitcoin" the program)
2) Corrupt, uncorrectable blockchain or something weird going on with peers file (on Windows, goto Users->"Admin Account Name"->AppData->Roaming->Bitcoin and BACK UP, then delete peers.dat, "blocks" and "chainstate" folders)
3) Bad RAM (very unlikely)
4) Proxy was set on -qt which is no longer valid (very, very unlikely, but might be worth going to the "Settings" tab on the -qt client and going Options->Network to make sure a proxy wasn't set, or that it's valid if so)

If none of that works, wait for someone smart to throw out better theories. Then try a fresh install of -qt if they dunno what's going on.

What did they send before that? Generally, they'll have someone personally oversee cases and give you updates.

Theymos can check to see if that IP address has attempted to reset others', or if that IP address is associated with any accounts. If there are multiple instances of it, he can at least IP ban the person - which isn't really a solution worth cheering about, but there really aren't any decent solutions to this outside of ensuring your password is very secure both here and with your email service.

Caps lock, colored text - what more could you possibly want?

This has happened so many times, I'm really shocked it's still happening. You shouldn't be using Paypal for Bitcoins - ever.

Paypal is not to be used for digital goods -- their de jure rules, our de facto rules. She may not have even claimed fraud, but Paypal may have reversed the transaction because you broke their rules (probably eBay's, too) and don't consider the transaction valid.

What was in the email Paypal sent you?

If we're really going to solve this thing, we have to get to the core issue; our culture of destruction.

Take birthday parties. There is a weapon of mass destruction there which will lead only to more bombings - more tragedy - and American parents do nothing to stop it. Some parents even BUY weapons for their children. America's children are led to believe there's nothing wrong with bombs, and that's why they grow up to murder and terrorize. We have to end it now!

This is why I'm introducing House Resolution 2093, "Eradicate Bombs for Our Little Angels" or EBOLA, which will ban the sale of party balloons and finally put an end to predominantly-Brown sales of potentially lethal gases, such as helium. Furthermore, EBOLA will finally require permits for American "birthday parties," where a variety of federal safety agencies will inspect persons and their belongings for potentially dangerous items - INCLUDING ALL PRESSURE VESSELS - confiscate them, box them up, and throw them out airplanes onto Afghan civilians. Call it uhh... "Freedom Care Packages."

~700BTC was lost in PPS SNAFU of 2-3 days ago, and this morning or last night, ~934BTC was lost from Ozco.in payout script being hacked, apparently. Most recent loss is talked about on page 101 and beyond.

IIRC, this was part of Pirate's GPUPower (name right?) scheme.

Send 'em on over to www.bitpay.com

Must be some "fraction" scam like in Office Space. $0.00000000000000136 here and there, over the course of.... uh... five centuries, is bound to yield something significant.

A US journalist recently noted the worst of all this...

Smart shoppers don't even need to BUY pressure cookers. Instead, they can get their WMDs for free using coupons.

Sometimes. There are a few different sites where you can do something like post a $20 price-tag on an item where BTC is accepted. For example:

http://fizzisist.com/priceimg/img/20 (change to what you like)

Various exchanges and other-suchs offer payment processing and merchant solutions where it's done similarly. Generally, everyone uses Gox prices. Some update every 24h, 1h, or quicker. Listing sites like BitMit also integrated the ability to price in USD, where the BTC price changes based on exchange rate.

BitPay, however, will give BTC price based on USD and automatically cash out at the time BTC's received - if that's what you want. They will also direct-deposit right into business account for a fee.

NFB shipped first business day Post was open after order, arrived next day. Very easy to do business with. Difficult to review actual product so early except to say they aren't filled with fast-acting lethal poison - so that's good.   

It took a lot of coins to equal $1 back in the day when only basement-dwellers had the time to even figure out what the Hell a "Bit-coin" is.

fwiw, a USD withdrawal to Dwolla took me ~2 days. Requested on the 12th, I believe. I'm guessing they're not out of cash, at least.

- But yeah, you should probably be poking customer service more. 12 days is insane, over 2 weeks is outrageous. Companies can have a bar of gold shipped to your house in less time than that -- accepting BTC, too.

Yeah. It basically has me looking at Bitcoin (and associated price volatility) as a money volcano. Every day, up $40, down $40. You can't lose!

That'll happen.

If you're a bad gambler, though, you'll note that since this block is taking a particularly long time, the next two to your three will be particularly short, because umm probabilities.

Hmm... I'm leaning back toward the idea that MM is actually a satire, and (behind the fake persona) thinks of theymos as cyber-Hitler.

Back in my day, almost any dingbat with 8 AMD cards running on a folding table could mine profitably with $2 coins. When we weren't running profitable (if assuming immediate cashout to fiat), we still kept running, because way back then, people talked about different ways to use Bitcoin rather than using it to gamble against USD/EUR/etc, so we looked at it as a long-term investment.

You kids these days want everything handed on a silver platter. Back in my day, though, Faygo cost $1 per 2 bottles. I went to Walmart yesterday... $1.19 per bottle! What the fuck, man! Faygo's a ponzi, and I'm too late, and I don't even like Faygo, so...

... What were we talking about?