Are you sure they are on?  I can't see a noticeable bump in total network power.  The increase is steady within normal variance.  Perhaps a lot of GPU miners shut down their systems at the exact same time?  Sure you didn't mix hash/s and Mhash/s?

I know more than one who has stopped completely or reduced their activity due to heat.  Summer is coming. And I think the high difficulty make many CPU miners give up.  Too hot and enough fan noise for almost no coins.

50!

Perhaps you should try listing it on biddingpond or similar?

It's OK with me if they don't want to pay fo their own line and use mine, but I doubt it would be very practical for them.  The signal doesn't go that many houses away.  I guess two neighbours get an acceptable signal.  The others will struggle with weak signal, low bandwdth and many shadows.  (Partly based on the signal levels I see from them.)  The latter is OK as emergency comunications when your own line is down.  Not as a primary internet line.

So far I haven't seen my internet degraded due to other people using my line, but I can easily throw them off if they do.  And I don't think any broadbrand provider around here offer download limits.  I would certainly not buy it. :-)

My network is open, and I use one of the neighbours open networks when my own network is down.  I expect my neighbours to do the same.  Why not?  We couldn't do that if everyone encrypted their networks.  In practice I can in most cases, because people use stupid passwords or even WEP, but it would be more hassle to do so.

If some random passer by wants to use my network, that's OK as well.  Why not?  I'm not going to demand anything back.  Unused bandwidth isn't worth anything to me.

Your network isn't degraded with normal use, unless you still use a modem or something.  If someone abuses my wireless network, I can easily block that client out, but I never had to.  The sinner has always turned out to be in my own house, or someone attacking my network from the internet.  Since wireless bandwidth degrades with obstacles and distance from the router, it is unlikely that a neighbour would be able to saturate my internet line.

A dark ask at 1.6 (very low compared to the smallest visible ask when it showed up) kept the bulls back until the bears woke up.  The bears are not in control either.  My guess is there will still be cheap coins to buy at or below 1.6 until tomorrow when the Europeans are back from their Easter holidays and banks start processing transactions again.

Thus is a good idea.  You may get some inspiration from my miner.
I think ArtForz should follow up this idea.  His ASIC does 200 Mhash/s at only 8 watts, and can probably be variably clocked to follow the MPP of a small 10W solar panel.  It would take considerable time for an investment in his miner to pay for itself, if ever, but what the heck.  I run all my gadgets on solar power myself (anything which can be charged via USB), just for the fun of it.  I get about 1 kWh per year from my smallish flexible panel, and it will of course never pay back the cost of the equipment.  Sunlight is scarce and power is cheap where I live.

If you get a lapse of nostalgia, you may still buy a 1 GBP gift certificate at 30 BTC from Bitcoin Pay Shop. :-)

I know there is an issue with the USPS.  Apparently rules have changed.  Shipping two pounds of coffee now costs USD 45 to many countries.  Same as for five pounds.  He is investigating other options.

I miss my coffee as well.   :-(

I think it will climb again.  Slowly at first, then accelerating.  I don't know exactly when this begins, of course.  I base my expectation on two observations:

1. Interest is growing.  I have been selling BTC for NOK and EUR on #bitcoin-otc for a long time.  Primarily for selling bitcoins I mined myself for currencies useful to me.  My offer is by far the longest standing on the channel.  During the last weeks I have been selling more and more, and I get a new customer almost every day now.  Old customers come back to buy more.  I sell much more than I mine, and have to  buy BTC at mtgox to satisfy demand.  I do this at almost no profit (for NOK at least) to help spread Bitcoin by better availability, and it works!

2. A lot of people are waiting for an opportunity to buy at mtgox.  The sum of money in the visible bids on mtgox is as high now as before the jump above parity with USD.  You don't keep money at mtgox and active bids unless you have an intention to buy bitcoins.

Bitcoin Central has 1 BTC order limit.

If this happened to any other nation in the world, death tolls would have been measured in per cent of the population, and the country would be completely in ruins.  Completely and utterly destroyed for the foreseeable future.  Not only because of the quake and the tsunami, but because of all the effects.  Buildings, homes, schools and hospitals falling down on people or getting washed away with people inside, chemical plants blowing up, large spills of everything poisonous, infrastructure destroyed, meltdowns in every nuclear plant, etc.  Uninhabitable.

Japan is another story.  Japan is prepared.  If Japan asks for something, give them that.  The Japanese Red Cross would probably also be a good idea.  Otherwise, just sit and watch in awe how the Japanese handle this.

Without a few more rules, like maximum trades per day, it will be easy to cheat by trading with yourself.  Even automated trading between bots.

If you went into a bank and transferred USD 100 from an account to yours, signed with a false signature, and this was noticed by the bank after you left, your account would be locked at once.  No waiting for law enforcement to catch up.  Believe me.
Swiss banks locks accounts on suspicion.  High profile cases lately is Mubarak in Egypt and Gadaffi in Libya.
If I suspected MtGox of being illegal or endorsing illegal activities, I would keep far away from it!

Keep a history of your transactions, and you'll be safe.  If you sold an item, you probably have a name and/or address of the buyer.  If you don't know who you got the coins from, or even how the coins came into your possession, and you are caught with stolen coins, then you are in trouble.  Just as with stolen goods in real life.  The larger the sum, the more important to keep account.

There should be a service to quickly check for stolen coins given an address.

Yes he did.  He wrote that he was trying to get in touch with Baron, and while the investigation goes on the less details Baron knows the better.  Yet some people here keep nagging.  Please shut up and read his very concise posts which explain everything you and Baron need to know.  It is better that Baron doesn't know everything mtgox knows at this point, since Baron keeps changing his story.  Hold some facts until Baron's story has stabilized somewhat.

Really?  This is exactly what Baron is doing.

Mtgox behaves exactly as I would have done in the same situation, and I am no scammer.

AFAIK mtgox hasn't taken anything.  He has locked an account and is waiting for the owner to identify himself.

Too bad, because in my country mtgox would have to go to prison for up to three years if he didn't lock the funds.  Aiding trade of stolen goods is illegal in most places.  In my country the law will not normally be included in the terms of service either.  It is obvious.
Good luck with that.  If the exchange declines to follow the law in the country where it is located, your money and coins may disappear very quickly when the owner goes to jail.