If you have no roommates then I guess you could pick up an S3.

If you have roommates I would suggest dropping the whole idea until you get a feel of what your roommate is like.

For the time being, sell you system and buy Bitcoin with it right now.

Why not sell snake oil in a back alley?

This will not convince more people to use Bitcoin, this will only convince a few people that they were scammed into buying something was a losing proposition.  1/2 the Bitcoins are already out in circulation.  What we need now is to teach people the benefits of the technology - not some get rich quick scheme.

Pantyhose, S3?  Sheesh, this really is turning into miningpron.  You need to post pics in the Pics of your miner thread.

If you need a finer filter on a fan that has a higher flow rate, used fabric softener sheets work well.

The English and non-technical version: ASICs in this context are CPUs designed solely for the purpose of mining SHA-256 cyrptos - the most popular one being Bitcoin.  Since the chip can only mine and do nothing else (doesn't produce video or audio output, doesn't have extra L2 cache, etc) it is 100x faster than a GPU - just like how a shovel is designed to move dirt while a mop is not.

I have 2 of these codes left.  Bumping for today.

John has a surgery and became JohnK

Congrats on the staff positionhilariosandco!  I thought about reporting more spammies but then I would be incriminated by all the trolling I do to the rude newbies who spam - sorry I just need to sink to their level with classic sarcasm 

I actually like helping them and frequently answer questions in the beginner area and suggest ways for them to help understand how cyrpto "works".  I do get fed up with I and other Hero or Senior members get yelled at and told we're lying or trying to keep mining out of the hands of new people.  That's when I refer them to buying a new Monarch 

It's a good thing they didn't use letters for flight referral because the ALXth of July would have been stranger 

Dank, I've had 2 members of my family have their identity compromised and that was before Bitcoin even saw the light of blockchain.  It happens to people everyday. Although keeping a high profile on here and making "friends" may not help your dad's cause.

Either way he doesn't deserve it.

If they're wearing loose clothing it will get ripped off when the body reaches terminal velocity around 250mph.  Things like shoes shouldn't come off though.  I haven't looked at the pictures yet, just saw the video of the crash site with the bodies there.  Those were partially clothed.

Well when you consider India and China are 2/5ths of the world's population and many of those visitors are probably Chinese and Indians doing Pacific Rim business it makes sense. The only way for western countries to have a high visitor rate is to have a concentrated population density and travel hub.

Los Angeles County is probably higher than Kuala Lumpur, but just counting exits from LAX it's lower.

You know, somebody offers a little bit of sympathy towards you but doesn't want to get down on their knees and cry with you and you insist they're "dumb-confident morons".   It's hard to garner any empathy for you or for your cause when you belittle others.  I'm a US taxpayer and would like to see the 3.7 billion revoked, but your arrogant and flippant preaching is borderline inflammatory hate speech.  Quoting Hitler, yeah real smooth.

You should apologize to counter or you just come off looking like a complete jackass.  I was willing to donate on your first post and after seeing this post I will find a better charity path.

Put things in perspective - Malaysia airlines has had a relatively good safety record compared to many of the other international airlines.  Would you fly Aeroflot or Pakistan International Airlines?

Even carriers in big countries like Japan have incidents like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qyZFASOAe0

No gators, no mosquitoes, no humidity for the most part.  No tropical rainstorms and lightning.

Barring all that I would choose to move out of LA and over to someplace in FL.

Funny everybody wants to live in Silicon Valley, but the cost of living would just shoot up even higher.  The whole SV state would be like NY Upper East Side and land would be more expensive than anywhere on Earth.  Agricultural CA would be able to charge $10 per avocado! 

If you're already feeling a viral infection it has already entered your body's cells, not just your bloodstream or mucosal surfaces.  Unless you're rinsing your nose out with sulfuric acid you're not flushing out anything 

Did it make you feel better, yes.  Did it stop a common cold, most likely not.

Apple is just giving customers what they want... not. I have never seen Apple voluntarily do anything that might slice into their bottom line.  The company that promoted "think differently" now wants sheeple.

Remember the hidden videos that came out of Apple store employees knowingly lying to customers about virus and malware risks:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-store-confession-2011-2

I have my Kindles locked down for my kids and they have only managed to get one app on there (same app bypassed protection twice in a month) and Amazon was good about reversing charges.  Good move by Google.

While not exactly a politician yes I would agree his leadership role was far more exemplary than the likes of current politicians.  Easily gives FDR (who has a lot of baggage) and Churchill a run for their money.

So Amazon must be thinking now do we go ahead and try to make our own digital coin (besides those silly Amazon app coins) or do we just go ahead and go straight for Bitcoin acceptance.  I wonder how low their merchant rates are from Visa/MC/Discover.  Saving 1-2% on their level of gross revenue would be enough to make them profitable 

When producing a batch run of 100k chips, the 500K spent on 5 full time engineers is nothing compared to the $20 million needed for the run.  You are right that to optimize 14nm a LOT of work needs to be done, but most ASIC companies aren't really optimizing their current 20/28nm offerings.  That's why Bitfury was able to do so well on the efficiency end even with a higher node.

I think you mean 10 cents or $0.10 per KWH.  0.1 cent per KWH hour is essentially free and nobody has that - some people have access to small amounts of "free" power.

It's also helpful to state where you are getting that rate.