You computer must haz virus. How much?

Yes, check the decimal thing. You're only allowed to put 2 decimal places.

Nothing in my mail from them. Checked spam box too.

To all those still speculating about Bitcoinica's ownership, allow us to clear up some facts.

Bitcoinica LP is a New Zealand Limited Partnership which is wholly operated by Bitcoinica Consultancy LTD a New Zealand registered company.

Mr. Heaslip is an accounting professional who assisted us with registrations and company formation. He has his own business interests in New Zealand which are otherwise unrelated.

The majority limited partner in Bitcoinica Limited Partnership is an investment fund which specializes in technology start-up investments. Mr. Seale is a facilitator for this fund and was instrumental in bringing investment into Bitcoinica LP to support it's operation and growth. He has also helped bring investment to CoinLab and other bitcoin businesses. CoinLab and Bitcoinica are otherwise unrelated. Additionally, Mr. Seale is an advisor or investor with dozens of companies outside the bitcoin space. Bitcoinica LP and those companies are also unrelated.

While we appreciate everyone's enthusiasm, we would prefer to focus our efforts on restoring account access for our customers rather than squashing additional speculation and rumors here. We will be giving more announcements as updates come.

We thank everyone for your understanding.

The fact that this statement is coming from the 'lead developer' of Bitcoin does NOT make me feel good about the future of the Bitcoin project. Shows a complete ignorance of markets and economics. Epic epic epic fail.

The fact that Zhou thinks that such markets are a 'zero sum game'  as well means that it is a good thing he is getting out. He doesn't even understand what he created. Sad.

I need to find one ASAP

You're on an incorrect thread of causality. Success on the SATs has virtually nothing to do with intelligence; it's about half information regurgitation and half test-taking skills. Scores have declined over the years because a fair portion of the public has realized that standardized tests are no measure of future success and has stopped treating them as such. The fact that people who do well on their SATs are more likely to succeed is irrelevant; simply doing well on the SAT has a significant effect on college admissions, scholarships, and the like - enough to skew percentages that the ETS will no doubt use to persuade people of the validity of its test. I'm not disagreeing with the claim that education in the States is getting worse - nor am I agreeing with it - but in any case SAT scores are no valid proof of anything except the willingness of the public to accept far too much at face value.

I can legally purchase a firearm in the united states. I'm not looking for someone to break the law.....

I sit here quite hours and looking for differences for my old Seasonic SS330-GB and look the pictures for a SS380 and a Corsair VX450W. But the only differenz i can find is the capacitor, that seem to be more bigger in the VX450.
So here is the idea, replace the org. capacitor ( org. 180µF ) to a bigger one 250-280 for example and get more output Power on all rails?

This is old news. FPGAs have been pretty much the standard tool for large-scale cryptanalysis for at least the last decade or so, and in fact can be used for any kind of simple, iterated computation. Anyone who says they have no resale value because they'll be useless if Bitcoin fails or changes algorithms is an idiot who doesn't understand what "field-programmable" means.

I love how the voting list did not include a SINGLE reasonable pro-gun ownership choice. Way to try to manipulate people! The only semi reasonable option "Maintain some reasonable restrictions for safety." could be so vaguely interpreted as to destroy all guns if the legislation maker decided as such.

Throughout history, civilizations have formed around different guiding principles or philosophies.  Different types of states utilize different methods of maintaining political stability, governing birthrates and resource consumption in order to facilitate social and economic progress.  Yet, usually, one method is dominant and thus forms the basis of state power.  Over time, civilizations may take on different attributes of each type, or move from one form of state to another.  These types include:

• The Warfare State -- Help your friends.  Harm your enemies.  Plunder the countryside.  
  • Monarchies tend toward the Warfare State.
  • Prerequisites: resource scarcity, economic dependency
  • Examples:  Roman Empire, Imperial Britain, Imperial France, Imperial Germany, Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia.
  • It works because:  You either win and get more resources or you lose and have fewer mouths to feed.
  • It stops working when:  You run out of enemies who are better-off than you.
• The Welfare State -- Re-distribution of wealth.  Equal poverty for all.  
  • Democracies and oligarchies tend toward the Welfare State.
  • Prerequisites:  wealth disparity, strong central government
  • Examples:  USSR, 20th century Britain, USA & Europe, some ancient Middle-Eastern societies
  • It works because:  Non-starving people have fewer children.
  • It stops working when:  You run out of wealth to re-distribute and/or the economy implodes.
• The Eugenics State -- Survival of the fittest (in theory, at least).  
  • Republics tend toward the Eugenics State.
  • Prerequisites:  cultural diversity, economic austerity
  • Examples:  Sparta, Roman Republic, Nazi Germany, Colonial America
  • It works because:  You can have as many citizens as you want if they are all hard working.
  • It stops working when:  People find out how it works.
• The Education State -- Big Brother sends you to re-education camp.
  • Technocracies tend toward the Education State.
  • Prerequisites:  resource abundance, economic stability, diffuse government structure
  • Examples:  19th century USA, China, 21st century Africa?
  • It works because:  Educated people work productively in their own self-interest to support themselves.
  • It stops working when:  You run out of new technologies or resources, and growth stagnates.

This thread is primarily to recognize the existence of the Education State as a thing and to discuss its properties.  Though all discussion is welcome.

So what properties make the Education State superior?  Education is ultimately just information transfer, which theoretically has a zero bound on cost.  Education is ostensibly meritocratic, hopefully avoiding the unfortunate economic results of the Welfare State.  Compulsory education has relatively few downsides in terms of human rights.  Furthermore, unlike some others, the Education State can be global, egalitarian and completely decentralized.

What are the downsides of the Education State?  These include the downsides of any state, including corruption, abuse, and perversion of ends.  As social critics have pointed out, perverse consequences of the Education State can be especially nefarious due to its cloak of benevolence, which can be used to hide ill intentions.  One generally unrecognized potential downside of the Education State is a downside of any centralized technocracy or meritocracy, namely technological economic centralization, leading to magnification of risk and likely systemic failure.  Another downside of the Education State is that it tends towards utopianism, and thus fails in natural competition with more realistic alternatives.

Where is the Education State today?  With the internet and computing revolutions, the increasing tenuousness of the Welfare State in developed Western economies, and the opening of sub-Saharan Africa to development, much of the world is currently moving toward the Education State model.  At the same time, however, resource conflict, advanced propaganda techniques and information censorship are pushing the world back toward the Welfare/Warfare States.

You're missing out then.