To be fair, "actors" doesn't always mean thespians. Is suspicious, though. He would have been better off if he didn't immediately correct himself, for the term used wouldn't have been too far off base. |
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Did you know that Satoshi Nakamoto is pseudonym?
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Yea right, troll away, it's about the same size as a Core 2 duo and it's heatsink/fan, which runs at 65watts all day. So the Jalapeno at 30watts is going to be a lot easier to cool.
Not when they stick it in a closed case with minimal ventilation. You mean the "closed case" with the airflow slots across the bottom and the fan that's as bit as a 65watt core 2 duo fan, maybe bigger? Name: erk Posts: 91 Position: Jr. Member Date Registered: April 14, 2013, 11:37:45 PM Last Active: Today at 12:04:51 AM 91 posts total, 70+ posts on BFL threads... Avalon employees are not ashamed to identify themselves as such. I wonder why the BFL employees are afraid to? I wanted to answer this so badly with a pic of a three letter acronym, but instead found the following more appropriate image while searching for NDA:  |
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Have you every tried to place an order with BFL in BTC? It takes you to Bitpay which immediately converts your BTC into USD and pays BFL in USD at the current exchange rate. So these claims are bogus.
You don't know that. Even if Bitpay pays out their merchant in EUR or USD, the merchant can still opt to convert some of it into BTC for the long term. So Bitpay has no option to pay out the merchant in BTC? Seems like a lack of service... Bitpay can convert BTC to BTC, but whats the point? BFL could just accept the BTC whien you select that payment option on their website without paying a fee to Bitpay. Bitpay exists to convert from BTC to something else. The following is not a diss toward BitPay, for I like them guys, but the service CAN be used as a mixer of sorts, having the coins first sent to them as payment for a product/service, then either have them set their, convert to fiat, or sent to you via some other wallet. I welcome BitPay to deny or verify the above, for I'm not 100% sure, and don't want to be spreading FUD of their good name. |
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Zero fucks given, regarding presence or non-presence said stickers. [Pssst. I tore the label off my mattress too!]  That is the correct response. Unless their chip emits RF which hoses up your Bluetooth causing your wireless game controllers to glitch causing you to die in HALO. Then you rage.  Really, the only people who are going to care is BFL and the FCC. Unless BFL ends up in court over something, then the plaintiff would care. Eh.. Yes and no.. It should get certified for lots of reasons. If it's not UL listed, I sure as hell wouldn't plug it in. There ABSOLUTELY have been cases of insurance companies refusing to pay for a burned down house/building because the fire was caused by an unlisted device. Enigma Yeah, UL is a different story. The FCC stuff is pretty benign...unless you get malignant tumors from RF. Then not so benign. I agree with the FCC regulation being benign, but it is the law, just like wearing a seatbelt is the law. The UL requirement is not mandatory across the US, but is in many jurisdictions, hence companies who manufacture electrical device opt for the certification since they're most likely going to ship their products to such jurisdictions. Many municipalities, especially the larger ones, passed such laws to protect their citizens living in apartments, and elsewhere, from fires due to faulty unregulated appliances. I ain't got a clue as to how they were able to ship their previous line to Europe without a CE label, but I'm sure it was illegal. They're more than happy to come here and state their case as to how they're able to circumnavigate all three of these regulations. |
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FCC approval takes a lot of time and money, just saying...
In the US, all products containing electronics that oscillate above 9 kHz must be certified. The law that governs this is FCC Part 15 (Title 47 CFR Part 15). Should cost less than $20K. This cert might be what is holding up their bulk product shipments. Who knows, BFL is a black box that says they will ship black boxes. Does the FCC have a clause stating that if less than X units are built and shipped, then FCC certification doesn't apply? I don't know. Also, I don't know what you're referring to regarding black boxes, for I clearly see a logo on them.
black box Noun Any complex piece of equipment, typically a unit in an electronic system, with contents that are mysterious to the user. Ironically, that's the first thing that came to mind when I read the term, immediately thinking back to high school in science class where we had to build a black box out using a shoe box and put an item in it so the rest of the class can deduce what's inside. What I put inside mine was...wait for it...a key (seriously--a common, obsolete house key). |
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FCC approval takes a lot of time and money, just saying...
In the US, all products containing electronics that oscillate above 9 kHz must be certified. The law that governs this is FCC Part 15 (Title 47 CFR Part 15). Should cost less than $20K. This cert might be what is holding up their bulk product shipments. Who knows, BFL is a black box that says they will ship black boxes. Does the FCC have a clause stating that if less than X units are built and shipped, then FCC certification doesn't apply? Also, I don't know what you're referring to regarding black boxes, for I clearly see a logo on them. |
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FCC approval takes a lot of time and money, just saying...
I assume it's a lot cheaper than the imposed fines that can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars on manufacturers and retailers who sell products that don't conform. |
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Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=resTnZa3erg&feature=youtu.beThe accompanying "brick" clearly shows the label, and if it didn't one, the supply sure as hell wouldn't have applied for it. The UL is definitely required being that it's a outlet plug of sorts. If the FCC requirement wasn't important, then Josh wouldn't have taken the time to lie about getting certified. When is the Jalapeno getting FCC approval?
Maybe two weeks? We are waiting for the test lab to issue the test report. With the bump in power requirements on the MR and the new screen, we had to make changes, although the new screen is already certified. We are doing all the devices at once, since they all share the same board. The video is proof that this is a customer's unit and not that of a developer, therefore, at this speaking, Butterfly Labs is breaking the law. Also, as of Friday, BFL has not apply for FCC approval of any of their units. To be clear, if the FCC received a unit in their facility on Thursday from some entity, it would most definitely be on this website on Friday: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm?calledFromFrame=NSearch it yourself. |
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With the advent of Google Glasses, we're virtually there. Mark my words, within ten years, looking like Borgs will be coming into vogue, with the pages taken from the steampunk community somehow making the visible equipment required fashionable.
Can I get mine in brass? Sure, but don't complain to me if you're wearing brass when copper and zinc may be what's in vogue. |
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Hopefully they use this case for both the 25 and 50 GH/s units, I don't want my little single crammed into the original single housing.
According to the BFL news feed, this new case can house two of the new boards, so it's looking like the 50GH/s units will have two boards while the 25 would only have one inside.
"...25/30/50/60 SC case" "BFL_StevenM (Shoutbox): We are trying to fit the 25/30 in the original Single SC case with modification, but no promises." At least they're trying:  |
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It seems like every other day someone makes a post about how we ought to make our own nation. About how its such a great idea. +1 +1 +1 they say. Well saying +1 isn't going to make it fucking happen. So enough talking about how cool it would be, lets instead talk about what steps we need to take inorder to get there. It seems to me that step one is find a location. it seems to me that it should be an island and it should be close to the US since thats where most of us live but not TOO close to the US for obvious reasons. It needs to have fresh water. It needs to be accessible. We need to be able to grow atleast a little bit of food and it needs to have atleast a little bit of wild game. So step 1 is compile a list of all available candidate islands and then we can move onto weighing the costs and benefits of each option. (please dont stop reading just because of the next few words libertarian anarchists) In order to be recognized by the international community we will need a government. Now i know many of you are recoiling in horror but not only would there be a general lack of belief in the legitimacy of the government, there would actually be a general understanding that the government was illegitimate by design. Since all governments rely on the perception of legitimacy among its constituency there would be no fear of this government ever taking over, we would all know that it was ceremonial and nothing more. So if we need a government i say lets keep it as simple as possible, if we elect 300 members of congress they could potentially begin to conspire, i say we just elect a new dictator every year and according to the law no dictator can ever hold his position for more than 1 term. Also if more than 50% of the population signs a petition to have him removed from office than he can be removed from office at any time. Basically we will need this person to organize the migration, charter the boats and sign treaties with other nations. My personal recommendation and vote goes to doug casey as he is an anarchist and has some experience in these matters and i think he would get a serious kick out of writing "the anarchist king" on his tomb stone Next we need to figure out how much its going to cost or at-least a rough estimate so we can set a funding goal then finally we need to raise the funds. This could be accomplished through crowed funding (like kick-starter). Those who pledged to the campaign would be rewarded with a deed to a piece of property on the island that corresponded to their contribution (if they donated 1% of they funds they get 1% of the land) This way pledging would not only be a charitable act, it could be considered an investment, after-all a piece of property in galt's gulch could end up being the most valuable piece of realestate on the planet very quickly. Considering that land is a heterogeneous good we should probably use some sort of raffle system to make the distribution provably fair. the tough thing is raising the amount of money we are talking about here would require some reliable escrow providers. Inorder to make this thing work we would need a big fish to do the escrow for us. By big i mean stefan molineaux or tom woods ect. anyway im going to start on step one now and search for candidate islands. How about an island in Canada currently controlled by one of them sovereign Indians? |
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Since the advent of the internet as we know it today, I've always envisioned no physical keyboard, mouse, server or monitor. A simple device, which is carried, connects one to the cloud, with communication done via voice or a holographic keyboard on a holographic monitor. With the advent of Google Glasses, we're virtually there. Mark my words, within ten years, looking like Borgs will be coming into vogue, with the pages taken from the steampunk community somehow making the visible equipment required fashionable. Don't believe me? Who in their right mind would ever miss a meeting when the staff looks like this?  |
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 Groucho Zerlan (brothers not shown) readys the Minus Rig for the first CES show. Guess which hand the silver quarter's in. |
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Thus, the birth of TSF (The Scammer Federation Inc.), with the OP as the lead dev.
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Is OP an owner of the http://bfl.ptz.ro/ ? The list looks good and visually much better than the one over here in bitcointalk.org Could you please add the following functionality to the site: Allow people to communicate the following info: 1. Modifications to existing Orders (upgrades from 5GH to little single or single). 2. Canceled Orders 3. Change status of the order: delivered/shipped 4. Send comments/corrections about existing orders Holy Shit! That explains why there's been no call for tradeins yet, for only Jolly Jellies are currently being shipped and the tradeins don't apply. Slick move! |
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