Been there, done that. Its a bit weird in linux, but by default the current directory is not in the path, meaning if you try to execute a command or program from the command line, it will look for that command everywhere in the path, but not in the directory you are currently in. "./" means the current directory. Took me a while to get used to that.

really?


If you live in the US, there is a huge chance your jails are run by for profit corporations, and those very same corporations are bribing your government to get as many customers as possible. No country in the world has a higher % of its population behind bars.

That sounds a lot more believable . If zacate could do 250MH/s, Id buy a container full of them!
On a side note, 250 for a 6850 sounds lowish to me, considering the overclock. Give bitminter a try (see my signature), or perhaps cgminer.

Merged mining only means eglesius pool members wouldnt have been penalized by luke's actions, as in, they wouldnt have suffered BTC or NMC losses. It doesnt mean those pool members didnt involuntarily contribute to the attack on coilcoin.

And a, what is it,  3 or 4% fee?
The bad luck block has been solved meanwhile, as well as 2 more blocks in the same day averaging miner revenue out already at or maybe above average.

More importantly perhaps, huge pools like deepbit give their operators a dangerous amount of control over bitcoin.  Luke Jr take down of coilcoin shows this potential. I think its better for cryptocurrencies if hash rate is spread out as much as possible, which is one reason Ill never mine for a pool with more than ~20% of the hashrate.

Maybe you should read what I wrote, before replying. 
The assumption that bitcoin at some point will become as popular as paypal today has about the same likelyhood of materializing as the assumption bitcoin will never become anything more than it is today; an obscure way to transfer wealth for mostly illegal purposes. I never said either scenario is likely or what I believe in.

Ive seen the posts where he took "credit" for taking it down. You will have to forgive me for  being too lazy to find them.
 I havent seen him admit he used his pool's hashing power, but thats a fair assumption to make, as I doubt he (or almost any individual) has enough hashing power of himself.

Define absurd. If your reference is actual economic trade done using bitcoins, any price above $0.1 is absurd. If your reference is bitcoin mid- to longterm potential to become a mainstream currency, any price below at least $1000 is absurd. You seem to use last weeks or last months price as reference, thats perhaps even more absurd.

If you analyze it in detail, you will find its a huge purchase order for Mt Gox!

Well, maybe not, but whatever it is, almost certainly originates from a (somewhat) intelligent species called humans.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/tag/koi-812/

Lol, and that is probably the fastest block ever? DnT, will you marry me

Pfew. About time that . DnT, gimme an address, I owe you .25

It depends somewhat on the card. With 58x0 cards Ive found bitminter to be among the fastest, but cgminer is still a hair faster, and has some nifty features like pool management, fanspeed, clockspeed etc tweaking. It is a bit a of a pita to configure, and its also not been too stable for me lately although that might be fixed now in the git tree.

Attacking a chain is perhaps lame, but I dont see it as a crime.
If its true however, Luke used the participants of his pool's hashing power to carry out the attack, that would be serious indeed. No one should entrust his hashing power to a pool operator that uses it at will for any purpose he sees fit. Its no different than deepbit deciding to attack bitcoin for a laugh.

Its quite clear what it means; the price will go up, and then down. And then up and then down again, before again going up until it goes down. Though Im not quite sure the  first move, it might go down before going up. Other than that, there is no doubt.

Are you sure about this? 250 MH/s from that chip ? That would be spectacular. HD6250 is the GPU part of zacate (AMD c-30) which is a 9W chip. And thats for cpu, gpu and everything else. NOw that GPU is normally clocked at 280 MHz, so I think you mistyped or something

Thanks. Ill give that a try

According to that link; yes, if it is a reference design

You can keep saying that, but it doesnt make it true.  Printing trillions of dollars and giving it to the banks should cause vastly more inflation, If you are so concerned about inflation, thats what you should worry about. But even that so far has not really created inflation. inflation isnt our problem at this point.

 Besides, minimum wage in real dollars today is lower than it was in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

The end is near? That sounds... not very reassuring!

btw, about a bounty system, perhaps you could make proportional to the CDF, once above a certain treshold (say 90% or something). Its something pool hoppers could exploit, but I wouldnt mind some poolhoppers joining at this point.

makes no sense at all.
Aside from the more fundamental issues already addressed, if it works with 1 BTC, there is no reason it wouldnt work with 0.0000001 BTC. The impact of such amounts on the exchange rates would be about zero if for a top game.