Wake me up when they make the movie 

As long as one has reasonable assurance the target in question is indeed a dangerous terrorist, few people will disagree with that. But when its sufficient that some politician can just say he is a dangerous terrorist, with no oversight, no burden of proof, then it becomes a completely different matter. Thats the sort of power that defines a tyranny.


Innocent people die all the time already, you really think those predator attacks shoot arrows rather than missiles that kill anyone in the area? Thats not the question however, the question is, is any of it making you any safer? My guess is: nope, quite on the contrary.

Its a gradual process, aka a slippery slope and you are sliding VERY fast. As a non US citizen it really frightens me to see you heading down the road to tyranny. Do read up on the rise of Nazis in the 30s, there are striking parallels.
What is happening in the US now on a regular basis would have been unthinkable and caused huge outcries only a few decades ago and likewise what you consider unthinkable now may well cause an equally deafening silence in a few years particularly if the country is in a bigger turmoil.

Already US citizens seem to accept their president can liquidate US citizens without due process by just saying he is a terrorist (and with virtually no evidence to support it). Other top politicians called Julian Assange a "terrorist". That guy that was jailed for coining his own money, that was labeled an act of terrorism. Software piracy and hacking is being linked to terrorism. How long until they throw people like that in Gitmo, or a drone attack becomes acceptable? Unthinkable? The legal basis is already in place. If you dont stand up to it now, dont be surprised when it actually happens.

GPU crashes. Try reducing your clocks.

Im not asking you to stand up against those alleged camps. I have no idea if thats true or not, or what its purposes is, but its irrelevant. What is relevant is the power your government has assumed that allows it -among so many other things- to use them. That is, to detain you without charges, without trial, without recourse. Thats what I would fight tooth and nail if I lived in the US. Not because I expect massive abuse by the current administration, but by a future one. And by then it will too late. From the patriot act to this National Defense Authorization Act and everything in between, almost all pieces are in place for a fascist dictatorship. You dont have to be paranoid to fear that.

    First they came for the communists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

    Then they came for me
    and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Who needs camps anyway, when your president can already assassinate you at will and the military detain you forever with no trial or anything?


By then, it would be too late. Now is the time to protest while you still can.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7688&updaterx=2011-12-09+13%3A56%3A19

I would strongly recommend powered extenders though (that get power through an extra molex connector). Many motherboards dont like supplying 3 power hungry cards, particularly not on PCI-E 1x or 4x slots.

Looks like its the same cooler as my 5850 twin frozr II. After replacing the thermal gunk with some proper stuff, I run the fans at 40% and have 55C tops (@850 MHz). Still working fine after a few months, but if one of the fans ever die, it looks easy enough to slap some 80mms on that cooler. Aside from my ridiculous overkill and oversize 5870 Spitfire cooler, that twin frozr II is hands down the best cooler I have.

w00t. Thank you kindly. Please send them straight to my seals with clubs cash in address lol:
1H2wbSo89dtJ3577bViVeUoT3Ee5EonJL5

There is not many things you can buy with $3-6. An app store comes to mind, but not much else.

If you are offering $250 for a 6990 you are not a pitbull, but a troll.

Buying bitcoins with Paypal or visa is problematic; because there is a high risk for the seller (as a buyer you could initiate a charge back) and because Paypal doesnt allow currency trades.

So, who won the bounty?

You should have a longer period between posting deadline and price estimate. Its kinda stupid to guess now when you can post your guess up to 1 hour before the deadline. But hey, Il be stupid and post my guess now:

3.2020202

12qLqDrUT1RvsvnKkFNubnJSs8JEQH5sCN

And that would be close to the truth. But while browsing with Tor might be untraceable , there is nothing untraceable about using your credit card over Tor. The point is you can use bitcoins with something like Tor; you cant use Tor to anonymize bank  or paypal transactions or any other payment processor Im aware off, besides crypto currencies.


Thats your assumption, but unless that somehow refutes the author's point, who cares?

Nelisky, where in europe are you from? I might be interested in a 5870.

Usury used to be a crime/sin in the entire Christian world as well, and I think it still is for Jews (at least when dealing with Jews).

To the OP or anyone else who is surprised that dollars are promises to pay; this might interest you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3sKwwAaCU

I use the above video to help convince people of the need for monetary reform. Its surprising how few people have any clue what money really is.

Which arguably is true if you take proper precautions (mixing your coins, tor, etc).


Actually China already has a few supercomputers with GPUs. IIRC the current ones are all nVidia based, so I dont know how effective they will be,  but as a forward looking statement its certainly true that its feasible for a state player (particularly one like China). Also the cost of developing an asic for bitcoin mining is on the order of a few million $, thats pocket change for a country like China (and perhaps useful for other stuff too); if they do that, they could outhash the rest of us in a blink of the eye.

I dont expect anything of the sort will ever happen, but its an interesting thought experiment to imagine a scenario were nation states are competing for control of bitcoin .

May I suggest a specific target market: remittance (ie immigrant workers sending money home).
In Europe thats usually Polish, Turks, Moroccans,  and some other Northern Africans, and to a lesser degree, Nigerian, Thai, Filipinos. In the US I imagine its mostly Mexican.
This is a huge market. Over $400 billion according to wikipedia:
According to World Bank estimates, remittances totaled US$414 billion in 2009, of which US$316 billion went to developing countries that involved 192 million migrant workers.[2] For some individual recipient countries, remittances can be as high as a third of their GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance

Many of bitcoins feature are a perfect match for it.

Although in some of the recipient countries it might be hard to convert bitcoins in to cash. I think this is actually an opportunity for business to help facilitate this in specific countries (say for instance Turkey or Mexico) and offer a "bitcoin based wire transfer service" that gets cash to even unconnected and PC illiterate locals in those developing countries.

edit: just stumbled upon this:
http://technology.cgap.org/2011/02/18/how-do-migrant-workers-move-money-in-india/

Gives you an idea how much those people pay in costs and what services they currently use.

Already feared it was something like that. Nice of you to pay it anyway. This mine pooling business is becoming a real money printing machine for you, isnt it  ?