We're talking about the Google authenticator, which is an app that creates a new 2FA code every 30 seconds (synced to universal time). You need that code to log into some service. If you lose the secret code needed for Google authenticator to generate those 2FA codes, you're screwed. You can't restore them unless you ask all your services to disable 2FA for you, which is a pain.

May 25th (delivery mid June), chips selling at 22CNY (2.2CNY / GH/s = $0.35): http://www.cybtc.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7951&highlight=%E7%83%A4%E7%8C%AB
I though this was already accepted canon around here. We may speculate on 'selling at cost', but selling at $0.35 already in June is a fact.

Well, programs do need to access additional data form time to time so there's that. But the thing is, disks get fragmented over time, you can't do anything about that, not even defragment them will alleviate that completely. SSDs don't care, because they have no physical access time. They stay as fast as they ever were. And yeah, you can improve booting up your machine from 2-3 minutes to about 15 seconds. Definitely. They're the best.

That chart speaks for itself. Thing also is: We've seen offers for gen 3 chips at about $ 0.35 / GH/s in early June from resellers. There have been rumors at the end of June that AM sells at about cost. Yes rumors, but they've been quite believable and no one has ever proven them to be wrong. If gen 3 was actually selling well, why would FC start to resort to such a great focus on mining again, which he didn't want to do as much anymore. Is there anything to BTCGarden's post that AM is indeed working on a 28nm design or is this just common anticipation of the next generation. Oh and last but not least: The questions haven't been answered for almost a month now, that worked better with the friendly pumpkin. Whoever chased him away, shame on you!

Wouldn't there be quite a lot of data throughput? Isn't there a lot of traffic on Twisted Pair / RJ45 cables that adding a diode does actually show you 'real' traffic?

Whoah, that's really something not very likely to result in success. I always thought about what the mining software must think when you hooked it up to some testnet with a difficulty of 1 or feed it the correct result of a block that it's supposed to find. It's like tricking someone into thinking their lottery ticket won!

Exactly. Couldn't have phrased that better! If we took all the money that goes into the US military and gave it to NASA, I guess they could almost build the first warp-engine prototype. I mean the first contact would come about 40 years earlier! We could avert the 3rd World War as well! Oh, and Orion slave girls....

You should complain. This may not happen. Prepare yourself and go into one of their retail stores or call them. When you're talking with them, keep reminding them that you are 'a very important business man' and insist that they 'keep the promises they gave the board of your NASDAQ-listed company' and that otherwise 'followup orders in the magnitude of a couple million USD won't materialize otherwise'.
Some people had some success with threatening to 'roughen them up a bit'. I don't know about that, though...

How would you love someone if you aren't even alive? There has to be life so there can be love to begin with! On the other hand, love can survive death and live on forever. Tough question!

Make sure you get an SSD. You don't want anything but an SSD for a hard disk. Believe me, there's nothing better than having an SSD. It's not a lot faster, it's a whole universe faster.
Also, people I know had bad experiences with Toshiba. I'd stick with Lenovo if I were you!

This is a bad sign. All the people who readily want to invest in bitcoin now don't have any money anymore!  How is the price supposed to rise with (25*6*24 = 3600 BTC) new BTC per day?

Just think of all the people in the southern hemisphere. They can now enjoy winter. Pretty amazing that they can enjoy building snowmen while we are suffering in the burning sun!

I don't want to eat something that only a freaking super hero can eat! Imagine what that stuff may do to the regular person! Also, that place looks pretty busted, what happened? Did they trash that place?

That truly is a rpietila exchange! With the sole exception that rpietila never sells any bitcoins. He just accumulates and becomes wealthier and wealthier by the minute.

The Honey Badger is hungover and just decides to hibernate for a couple weeks or months more. But when it awakes it has to eat. And it likes to eat fresh FIAT, that's for sure!

I don't wand people to know that I own a metric crapton of BTC. I can barely store them, they just take up too much space. If people are aware of you BTC holdings, you may become the target of people intending to steal them. Also I guess a lot of people may want to hide their BTC from tax authorities.

blockchain.info never really recovered from that one outage they had, the one where amounts were shown multiplied by 2, etc... Funny how everyone's darling can, after a small but shocking incident, become the laughing stock of all of Bitcoinland.

What if they just decide to use force? Imagine you're the last person who hasn't given up their coins. You now have to fear that every sound you hear and every shadow you see in the corner of your eyes is a creepy guy who's after every single satoshi! If he has some weird attraction to BTC, you'd have to face a very aggressive and potentially dangerous collector!

You don't have to. Just have a dedicated partition for it or use a live cd to sign those transactions. That way you'd have to spend 0.50-5.00 USD I guess...

Yeah, but it won't happen. No growth can be sustained forever! Also, I believe it's a tad delusional to think that bitcoin will actually replace the dollar. I guess it'll find it's place somewhere alongside regular FIAT currencies and the current banking system.