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I have not tried in a bit...last time was 2 days. I have heard they had a backlog due to the withdrawl shutdown but of course that is speculation unless I try to transfer today and see how long it takes.

Is there a problem with USD withdrawls? It looks like I can transfer to my US bank account right now...and I have never had an issue.

Does the order book show all the "dark pool" trades? It surely cannot show all those who sit and wait (or have bots) for the price to change so they can move their ask price up.

I searched for Acura MDX alarm antenna location and a quick glance tells me that the antenna is located behind the glovebox. So I would guess it probably works better from that side of the car...notice they seem to have to get very close to the car.

"...my dirty laundry...the whites."

http://youtu.be/dQbpx5Be5rI

I guess when asked we should just put the camera away, calmly sit down and begin crushing their heads.

http://youtu.be/8t4pmlHRokg

I tutored some adult basic education for a bit...helping people get their HSE/GED. Some of these people had tried to pass the pretest many times and were stuck at fractions. Over and over they failed the tests. I kept hearing "I just can't get this" or "It makes no sense". One of the other TA's and I were discussing it and we realized that a lot of these people were people who had "been around drugs" in their life. So we decided to handle things this way. We went to them with a problem like "5/8 + 1/4"...to which they would respond "I don't know"...then we said "You have bought weed before right?" "yes" is the response. Well...if you have 7/8 of weed and you add another quarter ounce what do you have. Every time...the got it immediately. The teachers came back to us and asked what we had done differently...we explained. They said they really didn't approve but it was working.

It is all about relating things and explaining in a way that can be easily referenced in your mind.

By the way...several of these people who could not pass the TABE tests at the time went on to get their GED's because of that one little step with fractions.

Where Khan Academy has the distinct advantage to me is not in its content or teaching style (both of which seem good) but in the ability for the student who does not grasp the subject to be able to replay the lesson over and over without fear of holding up the class or causing the teacher inconvenience thereby allowing the students who do understand the ability to move on to the next subject without having to "read ahead". The overall content covered can be greater overall in a shorter amount of time.

Kids don't want to seem different from other kids. If a child has to ask the teacher to repeat the lesson or stay after for extra help he may be perceived by his peers (or feel as though he is being seen as) as slower or stupid. With KA on the other hand the student can learn at his own pace...something that just cannot be done in a class of 30+.

Khan Academy does not get upset if a student does a search and finds another method to solve the problem at hand (I don't know how many times I was told "I don't care if you are getting the right answer, we want you to do it our way" when I was in school).

To me it is not about KA at all...but more about self education. The best teacher is you, the lecturer may be giving you the information but how you perceive and use it is entirely based on you. It is a simple fact that teachers cannot at the same time be paid more and have smaller class sizes...the funding is not there. Students are going to fall behind unless they are taught early on to not rely entirely on the teacher to show them "everything". We have at our disposal the most powerful learning tool in the history of man...The internet. No longer are libraries bound to the confines of a building down the road that you may or may not have access to. This is the most amazing thing to me, decentralization of learning, and those who profit from learning in the old system obviously are going to be worried about their future income.

I prefer Reprap. Save the money and spend it developing new expansions. My original Mendel has a 210x210x136mm build area and that is pretty much stock. Nophead's Mendel90 is soon to be released and appears to be a very stable and scalable design.

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I went to public school in Coeur d'Alene and I currently live in Post Falls. I can say that we need more tech in the classroom. There is not enough of a local push for moving things forward, people are mystified by computers and very few over the age of 35 here know anything more than using it for the web or checking emails, things are better than they were but it is even hard to find a mechanic that doesn't say they "hate these new computerized cars" (even though it is old tech by my standards).

The elementary schools here when I went to school in my opinion were moderate. I have more memories of teachers trying to correct my poor handwriting or chastising me for reading ahead of the rest of the class in my books than I do of anyone actually trying to figure out what I was interested in. By middle school my standardized test scores (Iowa tests) put me in the 95-99th percentile in the nation (I took the SAT's in the 7th grade because of it)...by my junior year in high school the vice principal said to me "...why don't you just drop out? You don't want to be here and we don't want you here" That principal was Steve Casey...winner of many awards for education in the area. That is just an example of the system up here.

I approve of the pay by performance idea for teachers and I think tech should be funded before athletics since that is what truly will push innovation and bring us out of the recession that we are in.

I got in on that promotion also. I joined the IRC channel but have been too busy to start doing anything with it. Pretty interesting. Especially with the motion/sound sensing and audio out built in.

I thought I recognized this rant...same one that has been repeated for the last 2 months in the BTC forums. Miners don't care...I should know, I am one...and given my current power cost I may be one of the last. I will start worrying about mining profitability when Vladimir starts shutting down one of his 3 data centers...since he pays 7 times the power I do. At that point folding@home or seti gets my GPU cycles...that is if nobody figures a better way to profit from leasing these machines for other than bitcoin use (legal ways that is).

Exactly...that is the same thought I had initially when viewing the data...when viewed on a per capita basis it becomes something else...not that I doubt the US is not the worst.

This is exactly what I needed...Thanks.

He must be thinking of the flash crash...it recovered in minutes.

Agreed, I personally know 2 people who make their living playing poker...both are former magic players. It was explained to me like this...magic has so many different variables the odds on different hands are very complex, poker by comparison is very easy (odds wise vs. magic). I used to watch one of them play online, 3 monitors with 8 tournaments running per screen at the same time, I think he was in the top 50 worldwide for a bit there (not to mention winning a very large sum in one of the poker tours).

Both of them moved out of country when the Poker stars crackdown happened so they could keep playing.

When I mentioned I liked Blackjack they laughed and said "...odds are terrible...you might as well play the stock market..".

I assure you I get that point...I just doubt it...and I believe it could be easily figured out. Just a lot of speculation that this is actually happening...its funny how they can be criticized for not having their site secure enough and for not "rushing" to get it back up at the exact same time.

So far there has been no evidence that Mt.Gox did anything except get hacked...even Tradehill was using the same encryption that Mt.Gox was until the hack...everyone upgraded after the incident.

The flaw here is there is typically more BTC sellers than buyers due to mining/dark pool. That combined with BlockExplorer tracking makes it pretty much impossible. Unless you are seeing something I am not.

I guess your theory will be tested when a large majority pulls their money from Mt.Gox...that is if that happens...we will all know in the next few days.

Based on what I just read they all seem to be snitchin on each other....Stop snitchin' fellas....if you do the crime do the time. No need to point fingers around saying since he told on me I'm telling on him...snitches are snitches.

This is impossible...every bitcoin has to be verified every time it is transferred...there is tracking no matter what anyone says.

http://blockexplorer.com/

You can see any and all transactions.

Any bitcoin in/out of Mt.Gox has to be verified by the network...a "fake" bitcoin would never get out and it would not benefit Mt.Gox to transfer fake BTC around internally.

A bitcoin cannot be counterfeited easily...hence the beauty of the system.

People can claim that there was never 500k bitcoin in Mt.Gox but the fact still remains there was a transfer of 500k just days before this incident that was discussed as possibly being Mt.Gox moving their internal wallet around.

Now if someone controlled over 50% of the network hashing capability that would be a different story...possibly they could inject false info or something like that (I admit I know very little about this part, just briefly reviewed it enough to know its bad) but that's why you see postings in the forums telling people to switch "guilds" to spread things out. Deepbit approached 50% last month and there was a mass exodus. Most of the people involved in this know the risks and work very hard to self regulate.

Exactly...had it been a real selloff by some crazy early adopter the market would have absorbed it and recovered. Circuit breakers prevent mass panic sells...I guess a lot of those panic sells were prevented by server load (inability to log in fast enough).

I doubt the real stock market could take something like what happened without serious issues remember 500k/~6M were exchanged in a matter of minutes at a rate that was obviously far below market value.

I personally doubt Mt.Gox had any bad intentions and I personally do not think they are lying now...but then again I had no money in the exchange at the time. Also, I am aware Mt.Gox is (was) the biggest exchange out there but there are many others...they are not the only fish...just the biggest, for some reason news articles typically imply they were the only option for BTC exchange.

If Bitcoin failed tomorrow I would still be glad to have been a part of it, history is being made as we speak...even if history just writes it off as a failure.

In this case circuit breakers were not needed...it crashed down to .01 and was on its way to recovering (back up to $14) within minutes before the exchange was shut down...all this situation did for me was steel my resolve that it can handle a 2% market selloff at virtually zero.

I was in the forums and watching the Mt.Gox ticker while the "crash" happened.

I was in that forum while that was happening....lol.

My response was to a comment that was deleted...If you go and read the thread he posted to...which is about the supposed theft last week there seem to be a bunch of inconsistencies with the story...the biggest being he supposedly had 3btc stolen but he leaves his wallet unencrypted, unprotected, on a computer that after having supposed 3btc stolen and flagging a virus threat...either he is lying or he is very stupid...either way I do not feel bad.

As for what happened this morning I believe that the market snapped right back was a good sign...someone dumping .5M BTC at once at the lowest possible amount and it still came back in minutes.

and honestly it only dropped for a minute...then it went right back over $14...so even if this had really been legit it would have sorta recovered.

I was in the bitcoin forums and mt gox as this happened...they shut down afterwards.

You know whats funny about that whole 25k thing...he has shown no proof, says he filed a police report but has not shown it, media went wild with it (with no evidence) and to the best of my knowledge no media outlet has interviewed the supposed law enforcement regarding the matter....I smell some FUD...there are numerous more inconsistencies with his story and many believe him to be a troll.

NO early adopter leaves his wallet.dat file unprotected on a known compromised computer. Especially one who claims to be an early adopter and saying he got in later in the same post. If you really read that whole thread you will smell a rat or troll also.

Sometimes I think ADD/ADHD is overdiagnosed on a massive scale...I can get a bit touchy about it sometimes...the author was explaining ways to cope without medication.

I worry for the young geniuses who are currently being dumbed down to the national standard with medication in order to stop them reading ahead in class...I am fortunate to be old enough to have missed it.

Edit: I am not trying to knock anyone that medication has worked for, or saying you are stupid for taking it...just pointing out (my opinion of) what happens when you give it to someone who does not need it.

There is a difference between not being able to maintain focus and getting bored easily (or when not challenged). I can only speak for myself but I consider myself a motivated self teacher...I can focus for as long as I need but if I do the same thing with no challenges I become very bored/depressed and I start thinking of all the things I should be doing with my life instead of whatever it is I am doing...if I have multiple projects going on at once I feel better...I prefer the traditionally uncomfortable feeling of not understanding something...once I figure it out I have to move on or further development. I prefer technical reading to fiction and would rather spend my idle youtube time watching MIT lectures as opposed to general youtube footage. It is just my way...I would never consider seeking help or medicating myself over this...many of the true innovators in history have been dubbed insane or eccentric...if the average person has no idea what I am talking about or working with then I am on the right track.

Some people are just not meant to be robots...I use depression/boredom as a symptom that something is wrong and find the cure...but I can only speak for myself.

It is not that I am lazy...things just have to be done according to a different timeline...I will work 12 hrs a day but it has to be 12 hrs of my choosing. I saw no point in spending hours a night doing homework if I could learn something by reading the chapter. School and jobs have been difficult for this reason...I work for myself now...its better to go broke giving it a shot then it is to wonder what could have been and feeling trapped.

If you are replacing the connector and you don't care about reuse I find it is best to cut off the part then just do cleanup, remove as much as you can to eliminate the heatsinking. Then its up to tip size, temperature and flux...even still I can't say I have not lifted a few pads in my day.