There is a project to do this in the physical world (self-reproducing automation): http://www.seed-factory.org/ book: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seed_Factories

I'm a CampBX customer, and use personal checks to fund my purchases.  The first two months were reasonably prompt, but the last two have had increasing delays.  My last check took about ten days more than their stated 3 days for it to post to my account.  Support tickets go unanswered, and there is no telephone number you can call where a human will answer.  The office building pictured on their website under the title "Our Office" isn't really.  That mailing address is merely a mail drop location.  The CampBX people pick it up and apparently take it to their apartment nearby.  I have nothing against people working out of their home, but I do have a problem giving the impression you have physical office space when you don't.

These problems only started recently, and I attribute it to their customer list growing from 20K when I signed up (July) to 33K now, a 65% growth.  That in turn is likely due to people migrating from MtGox once their US bank accounts were stolen.  The trading platform works perfectly.  Orders are executed quickly, and sending my bitcoins out posted to blockchain.info in seconds.  That stuff appears to be fully automated.  Where they are falling behind is anything that requires human intervention - depositing a money order or check, then entering it into an account, answering support queries, etc.  I think they are just overwhelmed with work, and haven't expanded their staff to match the customer growth.  I hope they fix their problems, because aside from the deposit delays, it has been a great site.

The top two current supercomputers do, in fact, use APU accelerators: http://www.top500.org/blog/lists/2013/06/press-release/

The Tianhe-2 (~34 PetaFlops) uses 48,000 Intel Xeon Phi co-processors, with 63 cores each.  The Phi is designed similar to a graphics card, but instead of the cores being optimized for graphics pipeline, they are optimized for general purpose math.  Titan (~17.5 Petaflops) uses 256K x Nvidia K20x cards, which uses the same GK-110 graphics chip as their top end consumer card.  The only real difference is the scientific card uses error correcting memory, and the consumer card doesn't, because dropping a few bits here and there in rendering a video game doesn't matter, but in doing scientific problems it does.

Japanese names are written family name first, thus Nakamoto Satoshi.  Look at the first letter in the family name + first two letters of the given name = NSA.

Nakamoto means "central origin"
Satoshi means "clear-thinking; quick-witted; wise.", ie intelligent

Thus Nakamoto Satoshi can be interpreted as "Central Intelligent"

Thus I believe if he was not *from* the NSA or CIA, he was covertly referring to them in his choice of pseudonym.

The request for account information, before even telling me what they are doing, is what triggered my scam radar.  Just a bit more info, I replied to Mr. Chun by email, asking for more info about what they are doing, and saying my identity on bitcointalk.org is private (I don't use the same account name everywhere).  I got back the exact same email as in the first post, so it's an automated reply.  

Checking their website, it appears to be third party ad referrals.  Given that I use adblock on my web browser, I have a poor opinion of ads in general.  I don't mind targeted ones on topics I care about, or when I am actively searching for a product, but the rest of the time it's just taking up useful screen space, or even delivering exploits.  So I will not only stay away from this guy, but run away and recommend others stay away.

Thanks for everyone's helpful information, I very much appreciate the community here.

Good point, and therefore a phishing attempt.  If he wants help posting here, he doesn't need to know the same user names and IDs on
both systems, just a post and then a link to the post itself to prove it was made.  Bitcoin inherently doesn't need a separate account on
his system, he could just pay direct to a bitcoin address provided by the person doing the post.

Right, now to inform dailybitcoins.

Would having my user ID number (or direct link to my user page which includes the ID number as part of the path)
enable him to have access to my account?  That is what seemed questionable to me that he would need it for any
legitimate purpose.

I have no desire to be a front for someone who is banned, paid or not, so I have decided not to work with this guy
regardless.  Now I want to find out if it's a scam of some kind, so I can report it back to the dailybitcoins.org operator
to remove the ad and not have other people suckered in.

An advertiser on DailyBitcoins.org is offering "Earn 0.1 BTC for making forum post", and contact chromaticcreative@gmail.com

When I contacted them, I got the following email:
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From: Casper Cehng Tsz Chun <caspercat1997@gmail.com>

Greetings!

Thanks for showing your interest to our offer. This offer is for whoever owns a BitcoinTalk account. As we need to check if you are qualified for this event, you need to provide us a user ID of BitcoinTalk.
You can know your user ID by logging in to your account>profile>Additional information>Show General statistics for this member>Copy the URL. The user ID will be http://bitcointalk.org/.......u=<your user id>;...... .

Please copy your user id and go to http://chromaticcreative.net/bitcoin/mega/uid.php?u=<your user id>

Wish us a good partnership.

Casper

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It seems my forum user ID number is not something they need for legitimate purposes, and this might be a type of phishing (obtaining private information by social engineering).  I would like to hear from forum experts what you think.

This is the third virtual currency I have been involved with, and I made money in the first two (Second Life Linden Dollars and Blue Mars Dollars), so exploring Bitcoin as another opportunity. 

I think you misunderstand what the Bitcoin network actually is.  It is a globally distributed account book keeping track of what balance each account number has.  Transactions are just requests to move a balance from one account to another.  "Mining" is just securing a set of transactions (a block) with cryptography so it is easy to prove the transaction history has not been tampered with.  Keeping the account books is a useful function.  Every bank and stock brokerage has to do it, so they know which accounts have what balance.  The Bitcoin network rewards people who do this useful function with a fresh balance that didn't come from another account.

But keeping the account books is not the only way to earn income, and in fact because it is so easy (it's automated, and requires no work on your part once you launch the software) it is very competitive.  In the long run you are better off doing something else which is not so easy, and therefore does not have every Tom, Dick, and Harry using their gaming rig GPU to do it.  Yes, doing something hard is actual work that takes actual effort, that is what "earning income" is.  Turning on mining software is about as hard as turning on a water faucet.  It's not actually work for you, and you can't expect to make free money doing it.

People can and do trade anything for anything.  For example, loaning out tools to a neighbor in return for a future favor moving furniture is a valid trade.  What tends to rise to the level of money is the most easily traded and most accepted good or commodity.  So while your weed & beer exchange was definitely a trade in the economic sense for plumbing services, most people would not say it has risen to the level of money.

Bitcoin balances in the global account book (block chain) is a traded commodity also, but is still working on reaching widespread use as money.  Ease of trade and general acceptability are not there yet, though they have been improving quite rapidly.

Indeed.  In Firefox 17:

"SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)"

6.5 year veteran of Second Life here.  I don't see how it would be possible to do this.  Linden Dollar balances only exist on the Second Life servers, tied to an account name.  Even Virwox itself and the Second Life company account (named "Supply Linden") have account names.  To have an account name, you must open an account on Second Life.

The important question is *when* you report it.  I have made money in the Second Life virtual world for the last 6 years, and it has it's own virtual currency used internally.  But the owners of Second Life reserve the right to delete your account for any reason.  So my balances in virtual currency are not "in my hands" yet, they are just a data entry on their servers.  What I do is report cash out to US dollars at the point it reaches PayPal from Second Life.  At that point I have "constructive receipt" in the sense the IRS uses it, meaning I can spend the PayPal balance on other stuff, or deposit it in checking like I would a paycheck from a job.  So far, the IRS has not questioned my returns.

An issue with reporting accumulated bitcoin mining balances as income is what value to put on them, since that varies constantly.

First of all, welcome to Bitcoin.  Next, posting in the newbies section of the forum is perhaps not the best way to get the attention of miners.  There is a separate mining section.

Third, standard for where?  Bitcoin is trans-national, so what makes sense to a US investor may be different for one in a different country, as far as how the data is presented and what terms are used.  I'm not an accountant, so correct me if I am wrong on that point and there are accepted international standards.

Fourth, what is the incentive for miners to use a standard?  If they are raising enough funds as is, and there are no regulatory requirements to meet, they may be happy with the current situation.  I think you need a stronger argument to get acceptance of such a standard.

Fifth, my understanding is the Bitcoin network is a distributed account book with means of transferring balances between accounts.  "Mining" is the process of updating and verifying the transaction history.  A "bitcoin" is an arbitrary unit in the account book, which only has the value people give it by exchanging it for other goods and moving balances.  How you define what mining is and what bitcoins are would seem to be a critical part of any standard.  I would be interested in what your understanding is.

Note: "Bitcoin" capitalized usually refers to the software client people download, and the P2P network that delivers transactions.  "bitcoins" uncapitalized usually refers to the units in the transaction history.  People often confuse the two.

Hello new people, hope you learn something interesting.

History in the same sense that 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program, but Neil Armstrong is the one people remember.

List mining as either "Accounting Services" or "Database Services".  This is on the premise that what mining does is maintain the Bitcoin account books (the block chain).  Mining rewards are merely a data entry in the account book.  It becomes income for tax purposes when you get local currency or some other barter value out of your data entry.  The IRS calls this "constructive receipt".  Compared to an independent accountant who does work for other people, maintaining paper accounts or a spreadsheet and making entries for his own time are not income yet.  It becomes income when he gets a payment from someone that he can go spend elsewhere.

Like any business, you can deduct expenses for hardware, software, networking, and utilities.

It's possible there are errors in reporting hash rate, if the reward is factored in anywhere in the calculation.

I'm using https://www.virwox.com/index.php

First, because I was in Second Life long before Bitcoin ever existed (2006), and second because Virwox has also been around for a number of years with lots of customers, so I trust them more than a random newbie startup exchange.  I'm less worried about fractions of a percent in fees than the risk of the exchange getting hacked or just going completely out of business.