Yes, I think the low end, efficient, window AC by Haier got bumped by $30-$50 after the summer.  Went looking the other day.

Maybe the reasonable current at European voltages is why.  Not easy in US.  Not like they need US buyers.

Post-WWII baby boom generation is retired or retiring now.  The aforesaid generation grew when European and Japanese factories were rebuilding, almost leveled in the war while we had factories intact and no competition.  Until the 1970's if you had US dollars you were 'loved' anywhere but it was often a mask.  This generation is informed by a mindset that doesn't need the US.

Jupiters will always sell.  If Neptunes can be shown to be powered reasonably in a US home without rewiring then they'll sell like hotcakes but still there will be miners who would rather go with a device a quarter the cost of a Neptune.

Powering is the issue I'm sure.  Some look to remove a module if possible - that hopefully bringing it within range of a 15 amp circuit.  But if that is necessary then multiple Jupiters, perhaps in different rooms for separate breakers, would sell.

As a previous customer who delayed my Neptune purchase and saw the price rise to $13k, I not only get the price increase penalty but will be penalized with a delay as well?  Hell, batch one $10k Neptunes will reach non-previous customer ebay buyers before this Oct. Merc buyer!?  That sucks bevis.

Makes more sense than the 13k batch shipping with the current batch as that would trigger refund requests probably.

There are various services that offer you a static IP for your home network or rather they forward to the dynamic IP your ISP assigns and changes regularly.  You have your router forward incoming http connections to one of the machines on your network, same with ssh or telnet.  I've never tried ssh tunneling tho that's more secure.  But if the miner is vetting incoming IP addresses then I see what you mean.  It is useful tho.  Like logging onto the #kncminer IRC channel I see my IP is exposed.  I use to check lottery numbers from my networking class.  The lotto website was blocked.  I'd use TightVNC to log into my home machine desktop and calling up a browser on the remote machine I could access the lotto website.  Not too useful but could get to a blocked website that way.  One could use the same method to access a miner as the home network machine having the VNC server into which one would log would have a local IP address acceptable to the miner's vetting.

The miner has an address, the laptop has an address the mobile has an address if wifi connected.  Address cgminer using putty on either.

They buried WWII bulldozers and cranes under where you live and the underground metal attracts the lightening.

Ah yes but did you have a lightening strike?  I'm pretty sure it was Phoneix who put together a bridge setup with an early Jupiter and laptop.  Low probability he would have kept it in place after selling the Jupiter but thought I'd ask.

What would be nice is if they put optoisolators between cable in and Cat5 out in all cable modems.  The design for to prevent energy coming in on the cable to reach the RJ45.  Maybe make it a UL requirement.  The insurance companies will save money.

So there's a good chance a new motherboard, CPU, memory and power supply will bring the system back to life with the old hard drive.  In fact you might run down to the store, buy a new desktop, rip out the new system's hard drive, put in yours and boot to your old desktop.  Have your Windows DVD handy for recovery I would think.

Darn, most of you guys have avatars.  My profile sez: Changing avatars is currently not possible.  Any workaround?  I just liberated my ATC ½ Marathon photo (price was a bit high) and tho not very clear, it was free.

May I ask what ports on the motherboard were fried?  I was given a laptop fired by lightening and the RJ45 port was BADLY smoked with molten copper and the power brick port was also fried but to a lesser extent.  A desktop would fry differently but still if the energy got in via the RJ45 that would seem most damaged.

The laptop's hard drive was fine.  A good sized SATA, it's now hanging off my wdtv live, living on.

I recall you managed to get one of your miners 802.11 bridged but you sold them.  Did you keep the bridge up and was anything isolated via bridge damaged?  Thanks.

Will accept refund of my Neptune as 10 krugerrands packaged inconspicuously and shipped to my post office box.

Try a piece of cardboard about 6" wide in the center between the two front modules from the bottom to the under lip above the fans forcing air from the front fans down on the BBB and controller boards.  The slowup not in the modules but in the BBB/controller board and cooling mitigates it.

Luck?  Suppose that lightening had struck before he sold his gear?

Well, BFL delayed shipping due to overheating of a component the datasheet of which clearly stated if overheating it's due to using the wrong FETS.  So there was a long delay in shipping but there were operational devices, buyers just weren't getting them.

Maybe that happened with Hashfast, I don't know I'm not searching it out to follow.

But there is one other way to eyewash customers while getting hashing out to a select few - that's the ASICs themselves to customers buying the ASICs to put on their own boards.  

There's a thread here about the design of a board for BFL ASIC chips.  That was above board and in the open.

KnC producing its ASIC module was key.  It worked and well.  KnC isn't presently shipping any miners.  But is KnC shipping any ASICs?  How does the sale of the ASIC ICs relate to network protection?

BFL never had a network protection statement but they did insist they would not openly sell ASIC chips until their pre-order miners were all shipped but that changed as their definition of pre-order status changed and sure enough ASICs were sold while pre-orders were outstanding causing quite a bit of distress to pre-order holders who hadn't yet gotten their miners.  And what happened when pre-order holders were forced into pre-order Monarch orders instead of their original purchase?  The magical hashrate rise is due to the addition of new miners with ASICs from somewhere.

Noontime yesterday 1/12 RealtimeBitcoin.info had it at 13,185, while noontime today 18,236,

Biggest jump in 24 hours?

Perhaps someone was looking at their total bitcoins value and had failed to factor in an early fiat purchase of cheap bitcoins.