How can you pass your pants???

And still no details. Nothing about how it will actually work, or how to transition to such a system

Thanks, I guessed this was the case. But what I can't figure out is how does the offline computer know you've used a new address?

Kids, a million dollars really isn't all that much anymore.  I know it appears to be alot if you are making minimum wage and living in your parents basement.  But if you are out in the world and paying your own way, your own insurances etc (because you are living on your million dollars without having a job), you may not even be able to live to retirement age on that much money, much less continue on into your golden years with a reasonable level of finances.

Just sayin...do the math and tell me I am wrong...

Say you are 25 years old and will retire at 65.  One million dollars is only $25,000 per year (not counting a hit of about 38% in taxes).  Then at 65 you will have about zero dollars remaining.

Don't tell me about making wild interest on your money.  Interest rates are near zero.  Inflation is going to further erode the value of your money.

One million dollars is not nearly enough to get you through life comfortably.

This is a real noob question but here goes...

How does the offline wallet know about new receiving addresses created on the online computer? The reason I ask is that I clicked the "Receive Bitcoins" button on the online computer and a new receiving address was created. My immediate thought was that the other computer is offline so how is it going to know about the new address and the coins it has received? Will the received coins show in the offline balance? How does this work?

Can someone explain to me how such a low volume of trades (compared to april of last year) can raise the price this high?

You have to measure volume in USD my friend, as the price is going up.

There are 5 major exchanges now. When you see a 1K buy you need to imagine it is a 5K buy.

That 14k of buying earlier on gox was like 70k of buying - market changing. We are going to the moon.

slow and steady we will escape earths gravity!

is there a safer option (other than paper wallets) where they don't have to download the whole blockchain?edit: sorry OT

How is it that online wallets are so vulnerable to thefts? Do they all have the same vulnerability which can't be fixed or something?

They said : "bitcoin went too high too fast, big bubble danger, stay away, because we're not done buying yet."