"Other" also includes people who are just fucking with the poll.   

Very likely.  Which means it will be years before Luke-Jr will be satisfied.

What I'd like to know is whether an OLPC system will display this alleged "standard" symbol.

Goldbugs obviously, and a growing number are taking a position in Bitcoin.

Why is this hard for some to accept?

Not until there's something very specific that the lawyer can handle.  Lawyers charge for every phone call they take and every email they answer.  Unless you've got unlimited funds with which to pay your lawyer, you're not going to pay him to take 500 phone calls telling people the same thing you've already told them.  Bear in mind that attorney-client privilege severely limits the information that your lawyer is able to disckose to others, too - even if your lawyer knows exactly what is going on, that doesn't mean he can legally disclose that information to your creditors.

We've already established from the numerous responses to you earlier in this thread that you're one of the exceptions who can see this symbol, you're not in the majority.  Not by a long stretch.

I expect (and intend) to use a symbol which will display on the widest range of hardware and software available globally.  This means taking into account older systems and operating systems.

So as much as you may wish it weren't so, both ฿ and Ƀ still have an edge.

Holy shit, I was trying to kill that damn bug. good job.

Their SDKs are payware and their binaries must be signed.

But the majority of the work isn't hardware dependent.

If you can come up with a console app that will run under Linux, perhaps takes some entropy or a 32-byte private key and prints a single bitcoin address to the console, I can convert it to run on the credit card machine.  I can also provide the part that sends QR codes to the printer, given just the string to encode.

Importantly, it can't depend on having the whole openssl suite available, nor any libraries.  Whatever it is has to be pretty much self-contained, sort of like bitaddress.org is completely self contained.

I just don't understand the inner workings of the EC math to go at it myself, but if that part were self-contained I'd have no problem producing the binary.

Well I finally became a bit security conscious and have searched for anything I can find about how to create a secure savings wallet and I really don't like any of the answers available.

I don't like paper wallets because I don't want to print anything on a paper and I don't like liveCDs because I don't want to download the entire blockchain every time I want to spend from my savings wallet I also don't like a brainwallet because it exposes me to the risk of being robbed while entering my pass phrase when trying to spend from it.

Is there really no option to simply have a USB drive that I can pop in, before doing so restart my laptop, boot the USB and have a ready to go client and wallet with a connection ready and free of any worry of getting hacked?

These are my conditions for what I'd like to use:

-I want it in a digital form, preferably on an encrypted USB stick
-I want to be able to use it with my primary and only laptop (needing to reboot my laptop is fine)
-I want to be able to at least send myself an email with an address where to send the coins to and be safe doing so or use some other way of copy/paste
-I want to spend from my savings wallet without having to download the blockchain

This is what I see:

So... what reality is more material: paperbugs, cryptobugs, or goldbugs?

Pirateat40:
freenode.net #btcst
Link from the topic: http://pastebin.com/DVNsx7xz

Content from Link:
Q: What's going on?
A: In short, one of my largest clients decided they would make things difficult for me.  In the heat of the moment I made a move to secure the USD backing the coins when they were not returned and has made things much more difficult.

Q: Where have you been?
A: I realize not having information is annoying and somewhat concerning. I’ve stopped responding publicly until hard information was available due to some legal concerns that developed.  Once the attorneys (both mine and my clients) got involved, everything slowed down while everything was sorted out.

Q: When will we get our coins?
A: As of today the earliest estimated time that coins can begin moving is Friday, Oct 12th.  I can only keep you updated on this date as I have more information.

Q: Why did you require PPT operators to submit their account holders information?
A: There’re a few reasons for doing this.  The largest of which was to remove the PPT operators from the added risk of their users claiming they were not paid once the main account was paid. The other reasons can not be disclosed.

Q: What is going to happen with bond issuers?
A: Since bonds can be traded and have taken a large hit due to the closure of BTCST, I’ll be working with the bond issuers to find a solution that best suits their investors.

Also...

Those looking to file a suit against me or BTCST will not be eligible for repayment.

GPUMAX has never been associated with BTCST nor have any of it’s partners.  GPUMAX shared a wallet with one of the BTCST operating wallets for security and is now running it’s own secured wallet which is no longer associated with BTCST.

Threats are taken seriously by myself and my attorney.  A few of you will find out how serious I mean.

That’s all for now, I’ll be providing updates here when more information is available.

Thanks

You should have bought them from me instead of from Ebay. You'll be sorry when you notice you're bitcoin account is missing $800.

I keep pitching credit card machines for this, since obsolete ones are available cheaply, they run C/C++, and have a satisfactory sized screen and printer for the purpose.