I wonder if there is a water block out there that would fit...
100GH/s with good cooling, might be worthwhile. 

Wow, that really changes the bang for the buck equation.
What does that do to the temps and power draw?

I was just pointing out the flaws in the analogy. 
Calling Josh an aborted fetus would be an insult to aborted fetuses in jars of formaldehyde everywhere. 

Usually in an abortion, the fetus dies and is discarded, but Josh is still flopping around in the tray.

So far KNC has had reasonable answers to every question asked of them.
We know exactly who is involved in their engineering efforts.  https://www.kncminer.com/pages/aboutus
KNC met their first milestone early and with higher performance than the target.
They are partnered with a real ASIC design company that has a proven track record.

These are not guarantees of success, but at least we know what we are dealing with. IMO If they fail it will be due to engineering mistakes, not from scamming their customers.

Any purchase in mining equipment is a bullish bet on the future exchange rate of BTC.
Litmus test:
One compares the amount of Bitcoin that could be bought instead at the time of the purchase to the amount of Bitcoin that the mining equipment could generate over the foreseeable future. That way, exchange rates are irrelevant. If the you can buy more BTC than the equipment will likely produce, you should not buy the equipment.

Most Jalapeno purchases fail this test (unless you got one for free).

If you spend all your time in BFL threads, you miss things. 

BFL said they shipped one. Gigavps ordered 7.5TH/s of mini-rigs and got 1.5TH/s so far. Nobody else that I know of has said their mini-rig has arrived.
If you know of a second mini-rig delivery, please link to it.

The only requirement is to dispel uncertainty. BFL is under no legal obligation to do so.
BFL issied a press release saying they had a Venture Captial firm backing them.
No Venture Capital firm has ever come forward admitting they are backing BFL (venture firms maintain portfolio lists of the firms they back).
BFL did not name the firm.
BFL has never to my knowledge mentioned receiving funding from a Venture Capital firm since that press release.
When pressed about where their funds came from, Inaba said it was from their FPGA profits not customer pre-orders.
If BFL said they have funding from a VC firm (when they do not) and then solicited business based on that, that is fraud.

If you want to see what an actual bitcoin company funded by VC's looks like, look here: https://coinbase.com/about
You can see that Coinbase claimed that Union Square Ventures invested in them, you can verify that USV put Coinbase on their portfolio page here: http://www.usv.com/investments/
You can see that Fred Ehrsam, Olaf Carlsen-Wee, Brian Armstrong, and Craig Hammel are the founders of Coinbase. You can see what they have done in the past because they are not hiding from you. They are proud to attach their full names and reputations to their work.

Mining is worth it as long as your costs to accomplish the mining are less than the value of the amount you will mine.

A lot of people will not make a profit on the ASICs they bought. They would have been better off getting their BTC from Mt. Gox.

Just think. BFL could have had Foxconn or Quanta assemble these things and they all would have been done in a day. 
Oops.

Right now, it is much cheaper to buy Bitcoin than to buy hardware to mine Bitcoin.

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If it is a spreadsheet, you could put it in google docs.

The information I want to see:
Who works at BFL? Most startups & companies tell you who is running it so you can check for yourself if they have the skill to succeed. With BFL we just get first names.
Who are BFL's investors? BFL claimed they have a Venture Capital firm backing them, but won't say from which VC firm. Highly unusual.
Who are BFL's suppliers? Companies usually (in tech especially) make their large suppliers & partnerships known.  BFL has not said who did the chip design for them or who is making their chips for them.
BFL does not discuss that sort of thing.

If you have the answers to these questions, by all means share them or point them out if they have already been shared.
Until BFL starts acting like a real company, one always has to worry "Will they be there tomorrow?"

If no profits can be had after September due to difficulty, you are better off not starting the operation until that changes.

That sounds sensible. One flash crash from Gox would torque their exchange rates.

Excellent. I wanted the source of the material, not brontosaurus' warped view of it. Thank you for providing it.   

It sounds like KNC are not doing binning. They are confident that the yields will result in a low number of completely dead chips.
If they were making products with 1 or 2 chips on them, one completely dead chip would prevent that unit from being shipped as product.
Since there are a large number of chips per device, it is unlikely that 1 dead chip would make the device undeliverable.
Even 2-3 completely dead chips would still result in a partially functional product, it might not meet spec but it could sit in the corner at KNC and mine, it could serve as a test bed for firmware, etc.

Obviously, chip binning would increase the quality of the product but by how much we don't know. Perhaps spending time and money to get a 5% increase in quality is not worthwhile if they are beating their specs by 30%.
Time will tell.

Chip binning can be done post hoc, to screen out dead chips of there is an unforeseen yield problem.

Great movie.

Yes I think it is odd.
However, I do not automatically assume that Gox = bad because the Department of Homeland Security doesn't like them.
Could Gox be shady? It is possible.
But they are a japanese company that so far complies with all japanese regulations and laws.
Time will tell, unless the US indictments are sealed and the proceedings take place in a secret FISA court.