How does one even do that?

No, there's no existing alternative. No, the alternatives you cite won't work. There are good reasons we're pursuing the path we are.

A little more helpfully, the threat model we're working towards is a completely malware compromised computer, in which the attacker has unlimited skill and control over the machine. This is a very strong threat model. In fact, it's one so strong that no existing financial system has ever managed to survive it. Even European banks that use hardware second factors aren't really resistant to this scenario because the devices they use have extremely limited I/O bandwidth (you have to manually type in codes) so it's possible for a virus author to rewrite IBAN codes to different ones and get you to sign a wire transfer to the wrong place.

In practice such viruses don't seem to crop up because wire transfers are very rare in the current banking system (they're extremely slow, awkward, expensive etc), so the banks don't have much incentive to fix it. Credit cards don't even try and survive this threat model, they just leak money all over the place. In person debit card transactions have secure hardware but assume a trusted merchant (they're not peer to peer).

So we're being very ambitious with this effort but it's the only approach that will put us on sure footing, long term.

I think you can see why the solutions you've proposed won't work given a malware compromised host. You really need the wallet to be controlled by a device that is secure, and the only known way to make such a thing is to severely limit its abilities. So, eg, smartphones can help a bit because they have more secure operating systems than desktops, but their huge abilities make it hard to secure them and lots of people have insecure smartphones as a result. A Trezor + authenticated payments s really the best possible solution.

See - payment protocol, Trezor.

2FA for desktop wallets is a project that has been in progress for many months now. And things are coming together nicely, but it's still nowhere near ready for launch yet.

It's too bad that stolen bitcoins cannot be redflagged so they can't be spent or sold on exchanges. If every bitcoins previous chain of owners can be verified it shouldn't be too hard.

Very cool idea (esp. the custom service) and great promotion.  I don't know if you are interested, but since you likely have hardware setup just for this purpose, you might want to try some of the bounties (although I think the math is off in some cases) - https://vanitypool.appspot.com/availableWork - although honestly I think most of those would likely take some time (lol I tried "1Casascius" across 4x Quad-Core Xeon 3.5 GHz processors at work... the best it could tell me is that there was a 50% chance that I would find a working key within a year... I think I let it run for 4 hours before I shut it off... who knows, I could have found a key if I had let it run for 4 hours and 1 minute =p).

Oh also registered =).

So they have started to trickle prototype quality Jalaps, so what is going on with the rest of the product line? i.e Litte Single SC, Single SC, Minirig.

Address in question is 1HHwDwxpeq4ZxRDE3TDNVfhT6jyj6Cx6nE

I don't have nearly 500 BTC.  That's what is screwed up.  Only one of the accounts on that list is from me which seems very odd given not sure how transfers from multiple separate accounts could be under one transaction. 

SgtSpike - Just went back and re-read my original post.  Don't recall asking for handouts.  Just trying to do public service.  Don't jump down my throat.

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By your logic, video cards should be in plain brown packaging too, as they are also money machines.

The merit to plain packaging, is that it protects the original box. eg. wrap it in brown paper.

I see it rebounding quickly.  Hardly anything in the way of asks right now.

I found a great address pre-generated, and I really want to use the PHYZERO code. It will not work.

Look, you and I are not going to agree on the semantics of this BUT what I would ask you to think about is whether the above is reasonable to bring into the debate at all?   BFL has no control over that only over their claims of being superior and their constant claims of delivering in the fall of 2012.

I would argue that your statement above is akin to the 100 MPG car company citing a drop in the price of gas as an excuse as to why my 100 MPG car, that only gets 30MPG is "fine".  

Everyone here understands that delivering at a 14,000GH/s Network rate compared to at 120,000GH/s is VERY different.  When you have been emphatically told you are receiving it at the 14,000 point and you get it when the device will produce 1/9th of what you assumed, you have been scammed.

BFL has no control over that

I would think COGS on a Jallie would be around $80.  Then there are operating costs (think rent, wages of 22, electric, ads, phone etc) to cover with the gross profit of $67, which they could not cover at this production rate.
So, to answer your other question, it really depends on what you mean by scam/scheme.   Using pre-order money to conduct research and development of a product you have no experience nor idea how to produce is a scam.   It was not presented that way.   It was not presented as "give me your money to TRY and make an asic but btw, I have never done this before and I am assuming you can google a clue (or buy one with a quarter so to speak)".
It was presented as "we will ship an amazing product in three months and everyone else is an idiot (implying BFL were the EXPERTS at making ASICS).   That is a scam.

To your point of "they are now delivering".   Everyone here understands that delivering at a 14,000GH/s Network rate compared to at 120,000GH/s is VERY different.  When you have been emphatically told you are receiving it at the 14,000 point and you get it when the device will produce 1/9th of what you assumed, you have been scammed.

Sort of like pre-ordering a betamax and getting it in 1988.

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