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Trick question.

Profits are calculated after salaries are paid.

How would you get one?

ASIC owners are paranoid about their earnings. They would notice they are getting less than they usually do the next day after the infection.

There's no jail limit for contempt of court.

14 years: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/07/14/man-jailed-on-civil-cont...

7 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong

"by distances of up to about 65 feet (20 meters)"

Good luck getting that close to a server in a data center.

No, a botnet can't ever achieve 51%. One modern ASIC rig is equivalent to a few thousand average CPU+GPU computers that make up a botnet.

I fucking hate this slideshows, they never work. Clicking around, scrolling, nothing happens.

Solution: limit the total number of likes per account to something like 50.

Mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208005209/http://accu.org/i...

But Bitstamp isn't in the US, so they don't give a crap about that law.

Just like you don't worry about crazy laws in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait that prohibit drinking alcohol.

> There's now been reported a way to hack a computer by way of its microphone, so that particular method is out.

No, it's not. It's in some server in a datacenter. If you can get to the server, you can just change the Poker code, no need to do any crazy microphone hacking. Plus you'd need to know exactly when and how the microphone was sampled.

> CPU temperature doesn't change enough to serve as a secure source of entropy.

Doesn't matter how much it changes, the lowest bits are random on a large enough time scale.

You can just run the sampler until you get enough bits, it will take a few minutes. Or you can run it constantly and add more and more entropy as you go.

US can change their laws all they want, they still can't shut down a bank in Slovenia because it has a British business account.

They can try and press the UK, but that, at best, will only result in Bitstamp moving its headquarters to a different country, which would result in a ton of taxes leaving too.

Bitstamp is outside of NY or FL jurisdiction.

In engineering terms it would be easier to cover a shitty webcam with a bag, take a photo, and then use the lower bit of each pixel as the source of entropy.

You can use other things, like microphone input, or CPU temperature.

No need to buy expensive hardware generators.

Then you can use something like Fortuna to generate more random numbers from that seed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)

Here's the comment from MtGox from around 24 hours ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x91xq/mtgox_announ...

> Hello all. We just want to reiterate that this is not a “stop” but a temporary pause so that we can implement a proper fix to the problem. To analogize, not pausing withdrawals would be like trying to fix a car while going 120mph down the highway. The issue merely compounds on itself. This pause is clearly not ideal, but it will lead to a better outcome than doing otherwise. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience.

I've been hearing about the 16-bit support in GIMP for at least 5 years now. I will believe it when it gets released.

The problems with GIMP, the last time I checked, were - no support for 16 bit, problems with color management, slow (photoshop is extremely optimized, and now has GPU support). Plus I hate the default UI - they need to redo it completely.

Photoshop is not mainly a painting application, though it can be used as one.

The strength of Photoshop is in its automation, ability to integrate with all kinds of things, ability to open a hundred different formats by default, plugins, 16-bit-per-channel support, color management, work with huge files, etc etc etc.

This looks like a competitor for ArtRage or Corel Paint.

There's no mobile phone camera that's even close to GoPro's video quality. I can't put a phone on my helmet and go skiing or windsurfing, it will simply not survive.

The whole market depth is very important. Should they report thousands of numbers now?

Just because there's a buy bid at $700 for 1BTC and a sell bid at $703 for 200BTC, doesn't make these two prices equivalent or equally important.

> This is in part why it is irresponsible for exchanges such as mtGox to report a single "price" for bitcoin

No, it's not. They are reporting the price of an actual trade, where buyer met the seller. At that point the spread is effectively zero.