Appears something is amiss.   All the miners I have are down, and if you look at the stats page, they're not mining anything anywhere.

I rebooted my Windows 8 machine running this and two of those miner sticks and got those messages, however shortly after they started mining no issues.

Did you happen to let it sit for a bit after pushing start?

I have been using bitminter for some time now, but recently something odd is happening on a Windows 8 machine I've been running it on while I work.

If I try to start the client, it'll just disappear.

Is there an error log somewhere I can look at to see why it's closing?  I've rebooted, refreshed my Java installation, anything I could think of.   It fires up, and when I hit the start button, it disappears.

Well considering the first time I decide to use them, create a dwolla account and get some money out of a few bitcoins I have and they get their money faucet in the US seized?

not so safe...