will there be another bitcoin show? that might be an episode i watch 

if you ask me, london is the best place. its kind of like the worlds capital, and i live in the US.(yeh i know NY is also more accepted, but i duno, i just seem to like london better)

if your homophobic, just say so.

also, i find this thread to be very funny

i think bruces presence rubs all over cryptocurrencies in general, as they are all based almost completely off bitcoin.

this would be similar to if the president said he was a homosexual, if you supported homosexuality or not, you would not like misrepresentation of the US as a whole. it may or may not play out like that, but anything is possible.

I am interested in what you guys think of it.

me personally i don't care. i would like for homosexuals to have equal rights like everyone else, and i would vote in favor of it.

history lesson: greeks and romans too i think, thought it was nothing AFAIK.
it also seems to be a US thing, although i don't know much about what Europeans think of it, i think i can safely say it is less hostile compared to the US.

it would be good if nobody used a certain set of words in this thread. if you dislike or even hate homosexuals and or their behavior, you can say so, but say why and do so in a civilized way.

i would have to say i am slightly relived that he is not a pedophile. However I don't think we really ever needed a "spokesmen".

I also think all the shit people are giving him is uncalled for. Although i didn't see as much as you would think, but i still don't particularly care for it.

just a small little feature that would be nice.

instead of having your coins spread randomly across many addresses randomly, why not have each private key under a separate "account". each account has its own tab or you select what account you want to use in a drop down box.

also, don't forget import/export (save as or open) "accounts"

when was oil $180 a barrel?

i don't think its as bad as you all describe, but its not worth my time to watch. everything i saw on the show i knew already.

iv herd for some online retailers, its sometimes as high as 10%, and dont forget chargebacks. if you get chargebacked too much, then they can even drop you, so its a double lose.

as far as security goes, dropbox is a joke, one time for like an hour, you could literally log on to the website without a password. not only that, but your files are not really "encrypted" so you only can access them. the dropbox staff is able to access them, if there were really secure, that would not be possible.

as long as the "ground" is able to flex by about 5-10 degrees every 100 meters or so, i think would be adequate to be safe.

you could also make a bunch of platforms and just join them together with bridges, so if one goes down, they don't all go down lol

also, how do you keep the island from floating too much without having to waste a bunch of energy on motors and such?

how about food, import it all? or set up farms?

according to this http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_agricultural_land_can_feed_one_person

300 square meters is enough for 1 person. id imaging this would scale some, and allow for dietary variety with about 100 people.

for 100 people thats 30km, square. depending on the meat to veg ratio (although i bet fish would be the main diet thing and i dont know how much that number assumes on hunting and fishing and such)

assuming it takes on average $75 per cubic meter of concrete to be laid, and the land or platform is .5m thick. 75*0.5*30*1000=$1.125m and that is just for the concrete to make the land to grow the food you eat, this would probably be higher, as i have no idea how much that $75 per cubic meter really covers. id guess its like $150 or even $200, as you are laying it in the ocean. this does not cover the cost of buildings or the soil you put on the concrete, along with roads and everything else. from start to finish, id throw out $100m or $50m if you are optimistic. although im sure the number could be in the billions.

another idea is everyone builds their own house or business to working standards and specifications. then people who agree to the same things, like laws and ways of government, simply latch on to each other and make a micro nation. if you do not like the way things and running, move your house or business elsewhere. when you make things this scale, overall it costs slightly more, but the cost load is distributed a lot more. so instead of billions, you talking maby 200-300k for the platform and another 100-200k for the house. if everyone had an efficient garden on their roofs, you could probably cover 10-30% of your dietary needs(one person, not a family).

wanna sum it all up so i don't have to read 15 pages of high level math and complicated quantum theories?

simply put, what brand do you like best in a GPU and why, this is AMD specific.

some things to take into account

reliability
features (things like different coolers and heat blocks and such, not factory OC necessarily)
warranty
customer support(RMA, not telling you how to use the product)
other things

personally, i like asus, xfx and gigabyte, mostly because i have never had a problem with anything i ever had

although the crosshair formula IV has the problem where if you put the heat sink on all the way(its not loose or anything) it simply does not boot and does weird stuff. i have no idea if the same is with the crosshair V, but i think my next build will be the 1100t 6870 and the crosshair V because i have been happy with what i have now.

thats not encryption, thats 2 factor verification, and it too is easily defeated

man in the middle attack
how do you handle it when you "lose" your security token?
phishing

bitcoins can not be charged back, paypal can, so what is to stop you from buying coins, and chargebacking your USFRN.

AFAIK cryptography is never "safe" it has many weaknesses.

1. the vault is only as secure as the key

in theory you never need to encrypt you private keys, just keep them in a place where others can not see it or access it.

2. all encryption can be broken with enough time AFAIK

3. to combat QC now, simply increase the encryption now to unrealistic heights. then you have time to reimplement the needed security once you understand the problem.

to find a private key from a public key would still probably take a while, my guess would be at best, a few days.

4. alternate chains will emerge and probably try to address these problems

and lets not forget the most important thing.

i have yet to see any real benchmark of QC doing real work, and i don't see that happening in the next 5 years.

went on ahead and added your idea to the list. any other ideas are welcome.

i agree that you would get more storage out of that, however it would require you to constantly refill the water? or is it able to be recycled? why do you choose making an engine out of the hydrogen and oxygen instead of using it as a fuel cell (requires Pt i think).

how big is reasonably sized? about a car tire? a bucket?

in reality, if you want the energy to be kept for longer than an hour, you need to have it suspended inside a vacuum chamber with magnets. i can see that costing quite a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_b5oMqc2M

that is just a small weight and it can power a flashlight for a little while.