I think you are right, the current modell will not work. Bitcoins are perfect for hoarding, but at the same time it is expected that only those using it for consumption will pay the price for keeping the network secure. It seems very unlikely that this will be enough to me. However, it is only the miners who get to vote on how this is solved, so my guess is that eventually there will be some kind of tax. Either from the existing bitcoins or through inflation.

If Bitcoin gets big merchants who are not politically driven will accept both their local currency and Bitcoin, assuming the cost is low enough. There will probably also be companies doing automatic conversion, just like VISA and MasterCard does for practically any fiat today.

They are, but currently they are being outvoted.

Of course it can. Lots of people here would not sell bitcoins at the current exchange rate because they think it's too low, so why would they spend them for something using the exchange price as reference? Unless they have no fiat currency it would be irrational, because converting fiat to bitcoins has a fee. It's more economical to use the fiat.

They will have to start sharing them eventually. If they don't there will be no point in mining, and which means nobody will use their pool.

No, it won't, and you'd better stay away from business if you think so.

We've been over this many times. If you keep them it's speculation, and the potential gain should be attributed to this, not the mining. Also, if you are operating at a loss you should stop mining and buy coins instead.

It will also create pressure for significantly higher fees. If people aren't willing to pay them a lot of miners will stop mining, and the network will get much less secure.

He's put the code on Github, so someone else set up a server here: http://multiclone.us.to:18080/ (mining port 18337).
It has the same problem.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17970.msg302834#msg302834

Did you get anywhere with this?

Try adding
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/user/poclbm

to the beginning of the script. If it still doesn't work, add -L to the screen command to log the output.

Probably not the solution you prefer, but... http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=146804

Great! Where do I sign up to get the free miner hardware and electricity?

They're the only alternative to almost everybody who don't live in the US, which makes them the only alternative to everybody who wants to trade a somewhat large volume.

It obviously didn't work, there is no way those numbers can be correct.

There are probably some kind of pattern in all the difficult looking passwords that the cracker happens to find through cleaver combinations of dictionary attacks, leet speek decoding, common combinations and brute forcing. For instance Ev3rL@NRDX11090821 = Everland (a place) RDX (an explosive) and a number. w@chtw00rdLanimret! = Watch word Lanimret!

I would also have thought some of these were safe, though.

There are various ways to make it work, but I don't know much about it because I don't have any monitors attached to my Linux miners. You can try this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174

Or Google for other alternatives.

I get a very stable 390 MHash at 950/300 MHz under Linux with the newest poclbm. 79C at 64% fan speed, default (1.088v) voltage.

The best thing you can do to secure your SSH server is probably to not run it on port 22. If there is a security hole or somebody wants to try to guess your password there's more than 99.9% chance they're only going to check port 22.

It's mainly luck. I can push my best card to 950 MHz on stock voltage, and the worst only to 850.

Try removing
Section "ServerFlags"
   Option       "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

and if that doesn't work, try removing or renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf and run aticonfig --initial --adapter=all --force

Also, what does
echo $DISPLAY
say?