An update from the USPTO basically they have accepted the bitcointalk forum posts as prior art:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7nOVGhPgqTEY2FIenFpdVlNRzg/
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7nOVGhPgqTEdnowcS1jZm02d1U/

you can view more from the USPTO here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
Use application number: 13/336,779

For the first time in 6 months or so the actual profit has fallen below the expected profit:

Just had my AT&T iPhone 5 unlocked thanks to wtfvanity's service.

He was more worried about the time he took to get the thing unlocked than I was. Great service, looking forward to doing business with you again!

IMHO You are the lucky one to get your refund the others will cry when they get their units after they're worthless.

Take the money and forget BFL ever existed and learn something from this.

BFL can't get out of what they have created and they're playing a tricky game of optics and deadmans bluff.

Either way its up to you and this is my opinion keep the dispute and get your money before things go tits up.

Yep I get a cached version of the website, last showed up at half past.  Miner seems fine though 
Just now Cached for a couple pages then linked me to a live version

Its the bad luck which bothers me though, 4 blocks found in ten shifts owch   

This sounds like a BFL shill.

Everyone knows they aren't shipping anything

Josh, let me help you out a bit.  "How to Handle Online Reputation" for Small Business.  This is a good start.

Tip for July 19, 2013
Overcome Negative Publicity
Combat negative publicity with an honest and professional response. If due to a mistake or error, acknowledge it and offer to make amends. Engaging dissatisfied customers can demonstrate your commitment to delivering good service. Go a step further by using the experience to teach others how to avoid their own mistakes.

http://www.manta.com/small-business/handle-online-reputation?referid=16216

Erik is an ethical business man and was very professional in his operation of SatoshiDice. Let this be an example to anyone who believes that we need regulations and the coercive power of the state in order to have commerce.

Erik, nice job this is really cool and I think that the SatoshiDICE experiment is one for the history books.

Thanks for the answer, i hoped that this was the case. Just noticed on another pool that when a large percentage of hashing was added all at once, instead of the number of blocks found during a day going up, the luck went down instead. I was just contemplating how one could make that happen and i came up with spoofing the pool.

The statement was that we did not refund preorders.  We did.  We are no longer taking pre-orders and we are not refunding orders that are currently in the queue, that's correct.

It was stated multiple times that all sales are final when you ordered.  What part of that were you unable to understand?  We can't be responsible for your lack of reading comprehension or ability to understand simple English sentences.  Sorry for your reading disability, perhaps next time you should get someone to explain what terms and conditions mean to you before placing and order.  Now put on your big boy pants and accept responsibility for your actions instead of whining to me why you are unable to function in normal society and you should be a special case.

I am in disbelief that this is the way a representative of any company speaks to its customers. Is manufacturing ASIC chips really that difficult we are willing to give our money away to these people?

I've got a question that i probably shouldn't ask, depending on the answer.  Proof of Work. does the pool software verify that every returned hash from the individual miners is a valid response and not just some made up number? Considering the high hash rates it seems to me that this would require quite a bit of computing power, but on the other hand it wouldn't be hard to modify a mining program to spoof the results providing a much higher appearing hash rate.

This link shows it better (link to tx vs the address).
https://blockchain.info/tx/f045f489dd97e8a66e4551d67b117678a558a068ce886cba1aa47b6f7eee84f0

That wasn't a fee.  It was change.  Bitcoin can't spend part of output so it needs to make change
The person making the tx had outputs worth:  0.11097293 BTC and wanted to spend 0.1 BTC.
For some asinine reason they decided they wanted to include a single satoshi (0.0000001 BTC) as a fee (not exactly sure why).
Inputs must equal outputs + fee.

However the user didn't want to spend 0.11097292 BTC they wanted to spend 0.1 BTC so the client made a tx like this

IN0: 0.02465968 BTC
IN1: 0.08631325 BTC
OUT0: 0.1 BTC   <---- amount user wanted to spend
OUT1: 0.01097292 <---- the "change" sent to another address controlled by the user.

FEE: 0.00000001 BTC

You will notice the sum of the inputs minus the sum of the outputs is 0.00000001 BTC which is the fee paid to the miner.

Think of it like you want to buy a candy bar for $1 but you only have a single $20 bill.  How large will the tx be.  Well it can't be $1 because you don't have $1.  The tx will be $20. So you send $20 to the cashier and she sends back $19 in change and puts $1 into the store's account.

In Bitcoin terms it would be like this:
IN0: $20.00    <- your single $20 bill
OUT0: $1.00   <- your payment to merchant
OUT1: $10.00  <- your change in the form of $10 bill, $5 bill and 4x $1 bills
OUT2: $5.00
OUT3: $1.00
OUT4: $1.00
OUT5: $1.00
OUT6: $1.00
FEE: $0.00

You will notice the merchant had to give you a large number of discrete outputs (smaller bills).  This is because in fiat currencies the currency can only exist is predefined forms ($1, $5, $20, $100, etc).  Bitcoin however can create a new output of any value thus in the Candy bar analogy it would be like "You hand cashier a $20 bill, she securely destroys it and prints a new $1 bill and $19 bill, she puts the $1 in the teller and hands the $19 bill back to you".

"You hand cashier a $20 bill, she gives it to the government which gives her a $19 bill and a $1 bill. She keeps the $1 and gives the $19 bill back to you"

Dooglas runs JustDice, so I usually find that thread, click 'last posts of this person' on dooglas, and browse through his posts until I find the latest charts.

What's the dividend outlook this month?

read : http://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin-birthday.pdf

From what I understand, the keys are 256 bits (10^77) and there are what? 1 billion keys?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier#Random_UUID_probability_of_duplicates

1-e^(-(n^2)/2x)

EDIT:

1-e^(-(1000000000^2)/(2^256)) =
1-e^(-(10^18)/(10^77)) =
1-e^(-1/(10^59)) =
10^(-60)

Current Block Probability: ~ 10^(-16)

So, getting the block is 10^45 times more likely than a single collision. An attacker would have to hope for colliding with wallets containing trillions of times more coins than will ever have been created. But if an attacker can change the value of 'n' to 10^39 (duodecillion attempts) then he'll likely be quite profitable... but then again he'll only be colliding with his own keys.

This has been discussed so many times already...




And...

I have also ordered one because there are TOO MANY mix reviews on this site about BFL. From what I can tell, people are getting there rigs. I ordered however last month so I didn't expect to receive it for a month plus.

It would do BFL good to post on their site before you order a order date for "Pre-Orders", and the expected date shipping.

The frustration however is insane and I am totally starting to understand peoples frustration.

You, or we, have no idea of the probability of intelligent life appearing on a planet. All we can empirically quickly estimate is... about 1/10, looking at the solar system

I wasn't replying to you.