iirc, some BIOS have CPU frequency scaling or similar settings, although I doubt their default settings would limit CPU frequency. Please correct me if I'm wrong. You could look into BIOS to check or change the settings. Please don't change BIOS settings if you don't know exactly what you're doing since you could damage your hardware beyond possibility of repair.

I found it. The "storage.swf" was injected by the Firefox extension "pdfforge toolbar 5.0", installed by the open source "PDFCreator" from http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/ - it also did install the Firefox extension "Widgi Toolbar Platform 5.0" which seems to be used to implement toolbars like the "pdfforge toolbar". If I wasn't using "FlashBock" Firefox extension, I probably would never have discovered this strange "storage.swf".
Thank you & have a good night.

What is this storage.swf hosted on Amazon Cloudfront that I find on so many websites including bitcointalk.org? Do I need to load this flash thingy or is it just Amazon spying on us?

it's good to have you on the forum, giving your thoughts based on your professional insight .. having professionals being active in bitcoin community is generally a good thing™

No, I'm from germany where you need to have a certain age to be fit to make contracts. If I'm not wrong, the parents can always cancel the subscription and charge back, if the kid who made the subscription is not old enough. I would expect a 16 year old teenager to be able to do such contracts, but not a 10 year old kid. From a capitalistic point of view, this may be unsatisfying, but I think as humans we need to care about each other, especially about the kids.

In germany there are also TV spots advertising cell phone subscription services, but you need a good enough TV to even be able to read the fine print, on a small kitchens TV the fine print would be impossible to read.

but we are wandering far OT now. I just want to say I don't know you and your business, my criticism is not about you, I am just speaking generally. I don't want to suggest anything about you and your business specifically. We need business people in our societies.

You have to backup the wallet.dat file.
If you don't have a backup, and lose the file or lose the keys contained in the file, your bitcoins are lost.

Also look on stackexchange: How should you backup your wallet?.

I don't know what happens if the computer crashes while having wallet.dat opened or while writing into wallet.dat file.

I am a CoinWorker fan too. I noticed the tasks are offered on some US$-PTC/Bux sites too, but they mostly have a high payout limit of something like 5$ or 10$. In contrast to this, the near-instant payout of CoinWorker is a real upper for me.

@psy
I understand your scepticism, especially after hearing about your own business model.
I hope you don't mind me saying that i liked the law makers and courts in my country for restricting subscription companies from profitting from little kids who just got their first cell phones and didn't know better.

For what it's worth, I will get my cell phone invoice tomorrow (I hope) and report back about any charges.

you are right, the whois entry has the name "Domain Manager" and not a real person's name... smells cheesy indeed. why use anon domain?
I did not find much on the forum search about it either.

I hope it's legit and not a scam...

mmh perhaps there is no information on cost of sms because they send the sms to you, not the other way around. could I be wrong? can I still be charged for receiving a sms?

I am not sure anymore after your post...

Dear psy, not so fast, I did not know that, so please don't call me a scammer.

I used the faucet 1 on pre-paid phone number and never got charged. I will check immediately my post-paid phone invoice and block the payment. Are you sure about it being a scam?

I don't know much about geocaching. Before using geocaching locations to promote bitcoins we should make sure that the geocaching community will not be anti-bitcoin because they feel we are "hijacking" geocaching for something that has nothing to do with geocaching.
But why not "fork" the geocaching idea by creating new geocaching locations containing bitcoins (Bitcoincaching), so we contribute to geocaching and to bitcoins at the same time. New locations could be re-stocked for prolonged promotion (who would want to pay for the re-stocking?), or a new location could just be advertised to contain some bitcoins for the first one to find the treasure.
You see that I did not do many thoughts on combination of bitcoins and geocaching, your thread just gave me the idea...

I did not do it, I just had the idea that we could do it. There is a geocaching location in the forest where I live, some hundred meters away from my home, that's why I had the idea of "hijacking" geocaching for bitcoin promotion. I'm not a geocaching enthusiast myself.

I think the best method would be the physical casascious coins or some other way to be sure the person who finds the geocaching treasure really gets the bitcoins contained within. The finder should not be disappointed when trying to redeem the bitcoins, that would not be good promotion for bitcoins. A simple printout is not enough. Perhaps a printout in an envelope, so if the envelope is not intact, the finder would know that the bitcoins are probably already redeemed by someone else. Printout and envelope would need to provide all the neccessary information to enable the finder to easily redeem the bitcoins.

For me it was more like every 24 hours. I last used it about four days ago.

To get bitcoins for "free":

• There is also http://dailybitcoins.org/ (just like CoinAd).
• BitcoinCaptcha.org pays you for solving captchas.
• Bitcoin Faucet 1 needs verification by sending you a cell phone short message containing a code that you must enter on the website. They send some advertising short messages after giving you the bitcoins/cents. I heard of virtual cell phone number providers where you can get free cell phone numbers, so you could keep your privacy.
• Bitcoin Faucet 2 needs verification using your Googlemail account.

To promote Bitcoins, we could put some btc at already existing geocaching locations (or new locations).

Hi,
I'm just observing bitcoins,
collecting some free bitcoins (my wealth is 0.3 BTC),
but no plans to invest at the moment,
although I am interested in FPGA mining.
Bye