I just discovered that for high density applications, you can remove the plastic shroud and the blower fan and still have the heatsink attached, making multiple cards fit side-by-side much better, and allowing you to control airflow far more easily. The heatsink under the plastic is basically the same as the FirePro Passive cards meant for servers, and the only remaining issue is the DVI ports getting in the way. Might have to create a small bit of plastic to channel the airflow better around the DVI ports.

Unfortunately, the singles pull in the air at the middle and exhaust it out the top and the bottom. However if you removed the boards from the enclosures, you might be able to optimize the cooling to better suit your application.

Hop like a bunny with wild abandon!

Yeah as long as it isn't a $25 part, I'd find it handy to have since I wouldn't be using a host system to run it.

OK, I thought last time I looked that x6500 was closer to 25 watts. I was not correct obviously.

Interesting concept. In theory, the "exit node" could simply be a drop location, although this could still be subject to surveillance.

That isn't supported by history. In the past, increased war spending has meant floods of war-money into both manufacturing and also R&D efforts for things the military wants. In an increasingly information-centric world, computing power is a resource wielded by powerful nations just as much as missiles and armies are.

He isn't shipping it, he will just be giving you a code that you can redeem at MtGox for the Yubikey. MtGox will then ship you the Yubikey directly.

It does when you sign a message with an uncompromised key from an INPUT that goes to an output that is considered compromised. Take for example MtGox's famous 500K wallet - if the key were stolen, they could prove ownership by signing a message using an uncompromsed key that was previously used to add funds to the big fat wallet.

Now if the addresses were used for customer deposits, this might not be reliable, as anyone could have had a direct input transaction. But if the wallet were used only internally, or if there were other database records that correlated with huge deposits as well as the keys, then I would consider this method reliable. For instance, an archived backup of a database with records of a large internal transaction that went directly to a compromised key.

Who says the POLICE are not asking for the info? MtGox has repeatedly stated that they will comply with investigations of this sort, and just because they don't come right out and say that the cops are currently asking for the info doesn't mean that it isn't happening. Furthermore, the investigators don't know shit about bitcoin, and it is certain that they would just ask for as much evidence as could be mustered in bulk, instead of doing their own gumshoe work. I expect that this will remain the status quo for quite a while yet.

Wow. You seem to think that a forum is the one and only means of communicating the information, and that that makes it automatically invalid?
The ability to prove that they are his with a signmessage doesn't occur to you, nor the fact that the transaction log is cryptographically irreversible?

Why not? A clear and precise link from the beginning of where the issue started, to wherever they are now is pretty hard  impossible to argue with, I'd say.


OT, why is it taking so damn long for Bitcoin to get its day in court?

A block is compiled into a merkle tree by the miner's bitcoind from transactions flying around the net in realtime. The tree is hashed¹, and once a hash is found that matches difficulty, the entire tree is stamped with the hash and sent out as a valid block. If the miner doesn't bother to gather the transactions that are whizzing around the network and compile them into a tree and hash it, only the generation transaction will be included, making the block "empty".

¹ Not all the data is hashed, but that is a bit deep to explain.

I'm guessing it would be the opposite, since it is a little bit of insurance against fraud, by being linked only to you. But I am biased since I am one of the 1500 users that has one, and my account is more secure because of it.

EDIT: Not only that, but since they ship it to you they now have your address on file. No need for a utility bill to prove where you live, unless you had them send it to a re-shipper.

The only other thing I can think of is that Ztex seems to have far lower power use than any of the others. Isn't it like 8 watts for a single chip at 200Mhash? If you double that for 2 chips that makes 16 watts, which is still lower than x6500 iirc.

Not interested? Just out of curiosity, may I ask why?

FTFY

So beautiful. Any pics of the board redesign?

This is pretty much the answer, unfortunately.

Well, I'm not the best writer myself, I just can see how it might not fly the first time.

Maybe some of the following would help:

Referring to "I" and "personally", and offering to "share" it with me sounds somewhat similar to diet pill spam.
Noting that the email "sounds highly spam-worthy" isn't necessary.
Although fees are annoying, they are a part of daily business life and should be approached carefully. It is not fee-free for a merchant to use Bitcoin if they want to convert it to USD. And most merchants will wonder what they are missing out on service-wise if the fee is suddenly "eliminated". Who will answer the phone when there is a problem, if there are no fees to pay an employee to answer it? Get inside the business owner's head and think the way he does.
One of "those" open-source projects - sounds a bit dismissive, even if it wasn't intended that way.
Personal information - most businesses are trained to collect this anyway, regardless of whether you give it to the payment processor or not. They may feel outside their comfort zone not knowing who a customer is.

And so forth.

I'm pretty sure it is only an effort to repair the bad press that they got, since their T&C state that they aren't liable for anything.

What I'd rather see is a breakdown in excruciating detail of a) the reason it happened in the first place (security vulnerability details), b) exactly what fixes have been made to correct the issue (firing bad employee, tweaking PHP config, auditing firewall rules, etc), and c) an independent security audit and the results posted publicly.

I appreciate the effort, but unfortunately that message has too many trigger words and phrases that make me think spam right away. It would be ideal if you could partner up with a copywriter or someone that would polish it up into a fine sales piece. I'm pretty sure my email filter would block it based on heuristic analysis, but with some tweaking it could sail right to the top of an enterprise and become gold.