Inflation has been significantly more than 10% for the main component of the price, fuel.

You pay 0.25USD/kWh? owned (it's 0.07USD/kWh in california...)

Gawker media should be summarily banned.

For those who don't know why http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/12/2234252/Gawker-Source-Code-and-Databases-Compromised

SQLAlchemy isn't actually being actively used. I'd appreciate issue reports on github though.

If anybody is interested you can purchase bitcoins through https://mtgox.com/

Not that I'm aware of, the protocol is more or less packets sent over TCP port 8333.

I've been working on a full client implementation in python https://github.com/phantomcircuit/bitcoin-alt

Just so people know BitcoinJ is not a full p2p node.

Not much since you're supposed to bury them 10m underground?

So this has no relation to the two previous articles? http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/0432226/Richard-Stallman-Cell-Phones-Are-Stalins-Dream http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/1513257/Encrypted-VoIP-Meets-Traffic-Analysis

This Janet Napolitano guy

The current line up of AMD GPUs have far more stream processors than the NVIDIA models, and run at roughly the same clock speed. Why would anybody buy the NVIDIA ones?

High profile sources? presstv.ir? infowars.com? seriously?