This a thousand times over. Run this equipment with World Community Grid or Folding@Home

How would that work? Do any of these tasks benefit from a metric fuckton of SHA-256 rounds?

Pretty much all the power needed for a transaction is going to be the mining (a transaction isn't valid unless a miner has entered it into a block). So we can do a quick-and-dirty calculation; if we assume:

- 150000 Thash/s total network performance
- power consumption of 1kW per Thash
- power cost of 10 cents per kWh
- 6 blocks per hour
- 400 transactions per block

((150000 * 0.1) / 6) / 400 = $6.25 per transaction

With (true) dual Gbit LAN, I would use a boatload of these. Never mind, there are (more expensive) alternatives.

British Rail did it first with the ATP:

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

And for doing the funny voice.

A turboprop is not a jet engine; it's a turbine engine mated to a propeller.

A jet engine produces thrust using jet propulsion (it doesn't even have to be a turbine).

Bitcoin will soon be on a parity with gold (per ounce) and is much cheaper and easier to secure and transport.

Symmetric (shared-key) algorithms do have vulnerabilities to quantum computing: Grover's algorithm allows a brute-force search to be performed in square-root time of the key size (i.e. 256-bits -> 128-bits, 128-bits -> 64-bits). This isn't a big problem as long as you're using at least 256-bits.

And those wobbly suicide doors are hilarious.

Why can no modern car maker design something with the beauty and elegance of an E-Type or Muira?

The last thing this industry needs is yet another wave of bad Java programmers.

One would hope they do the compression first otherwise there's very little point.

It's actually 400 MB. You need to get this sort of thing right if you're planning a career in the tech industry when you finish school.

I love vinyl and I know for sure that it gives a less accurate sound than CDs. What's great about vinyl is the euphonic distortion it adds to the sound.

There are loads of 1920x1200 monitors available. Looking at my local hardware shop's page, there about 30 different models with both TN and IPS screens from the usual suspects (Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, NEC, Samsung, etc).

I prefer that extra bit of height and use a 2560x1440 27-inch Dell.

Cut your fingernails :/

He probably plays the classical guitar (long fingernails only on the right hand...), so that's not an option.