Or espionage. I am thinking nerd Mata Hari would clean up. All you bases and acids are belong to us!

The problem that I have observed is that there is no effective oversight to complex systems. The people who can deal with the complexity and create things like this work in a sort of isolation. Sometimes this happens when contractors are asked to create a system and then get paid. If they don't get paid, they leave the back door. I can guarantee that this is not the last one that is found and some are much worse than this. I was looking at the javascript linked in an earlier article and it reminded me of the "never attribute to malice ...." . When you add the possibility that espionage or criminality could be involved it gets even more complicated. I help relatives with computer problems on a daily basis and most people have trouble just figuring out how to use the damn things. They are completely vulnerable to even the simplest tech attack or SE.
I also have my own site and I see many things. I know that every day there are people knocking on doors or ports. It is another world that most people only understand as some kind of stuff done by technically afflicted people.

It was an interesting article. I was hoping for something more detailed and technical as well as new. Printed guns got a lot of coverage and I thought that was just a way to get attention through controversy. A rocket that could be -completely- printed would be a far more effective weapon. What I did not appreciate was a gizmag popup that asked for my email to subscribe. I am capable of discovering what I want to read and when.

The problem with your argument is that you assume that I am doing it for you. "Wow really" is certainly a compelling argument but I have advanced technology that absolutely proves "Oh, yeah?". Complicated and impossible is nonsense. if [ N && !N ]. I hope you don't write shell scripts for somebody.

Vast amounts of personal information are already available on the internet. The focus is to monetize what is publicly available. The issue seems to be -who- gains from what is laying around in the open or what can be inferred. The present model seems to revolve about connecting products to sales and taking a cut. That does not seem to be a sustainable gain. It requires that the consumer be actively involved in the process and people can simply stop using the internet without dying. The internet has exposed almost every person to scrutiny. Information does not act by itself. It is the motives and real world actions of those who observe that information that matter.
I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see.

The biggest advantage that could be achieved in 3D printing is the self replicating printer. That would seem to be the best focus for a first design.
There are many ways to achieve that goal and I have tested several methods that can be integrated in a single device. The challenges include working directly to metals, printed electronics, precision and speed. These are all attainable goals and it seems that the hype goes more to what can be done to monetize and control the industry of 3D printers.
There is no doubt that other things can be done when the proper framework is created. It seems that the technology is at that threshold similar to the first integrated circuits on a chip and a complete microprocessor. The real progress comes when the device can successfully duplicate itself. It would be the Cambrian explosion of the personal industrial revolution.
It presents many new problems for society as a whole because it short circuits the consumer pathway from manufacturing to sale. The actual cost of products drops radically when you cut out several layers of middle men. There is no doubt that it will eventually happen. There is also no doubt that the existing economic and political structure will vehemently oppose such a process.

Suppose a person taped that missing episode at that time for themselves. Would they get a share of the profit they make for archiving their stuff for 50 years or would they be prosecuted for theft if they came forward? Copyright is very strange. I suppose it depends on the local laws. It seems there is a statute I recall from grade school called "Finders keepers, losers weepers".

What you said is exactly what I thought. As somebody who has done several high end graphics cards and even worked on the first "Paradise" VGA compatible, drivers, VESA, stuffing, ASIC, fabless, FPGA, and CAD for a board are all commodities ( and 200k isn't a big sticker price for that). I like the idea, but doing this is like asking to be sued. It is something that should be done and perhaps a better way would be to create a multi-core RISC that was so flexible that it could run from an installed microcode.
But then if you make money you will get sued anyway by some patent troll. I wish there was more information than just a page of description as it would be nice to know how they would answer the patent question.

I paid for abuse, this is merely contradiction, I want my money back.

Worm brains were used some time back. Given some of the recent research in the genetic area it would seem that some sort of hybrid would be the best approach and a bit more cost effective. There are ethical issues but that doesn't seem to be a concern for anyone. A combination of technologies using 3D printing, integrated circuits, and techniques developed by studying the homeobox genes (HOX) has a more realistic chance of producing results. A biological system has the advantage of being self replicating as well as extensible. A static fabricated silicon solution would likely branch to chaos as easily as come to a solution.
Neurochip
I wonder what the goal is here. If it is the continuance of being it becomes a philosophical issue. It is a "Ship of Theseus" issue and somebody has not thought this all the way through. Nature has designed a composite structure and parts can't be added or subtracted to enhance memory or IO without changing its balance. It functions as a whole like the universe that it models. The universe functions on factorial infinities and even the best brain will only cut a small slice of those infinities.
There are Hidden Markov Models there and my little noodle triggers alarm bells, but the advance of technology does that to me quite regularly and now it has just become a cacophony of sirens and so I ignore it. All of these advances can be positive and what worries me is the fact that the original motives define the direction of application. What seems to be the motive is to extend a dominant biological position into a dominant mechanical position. In other words they want to create a mechanical system that rules the biological as an extension of their own biology. They are confused and they wish to extend that confusion to gigantic proportion.
--John Connor

1. Someone gets arrested for prostitution.
2. Internet publishes their picture.
3. They get more business.
4. Profit!

I am guessing this has little to do with morality and more to do with gaming the search engine. If they paid for ads it would be different. This is as absurd as people who want an erase switch for the internet. I want the feature from "Asylum of the Daleks" that erases my name from the collective human consciousness. Motey who? Some seek fame or infamy and others shun it. Slashdot should charge us to delete stupid comments from their servers. The only problem is that I keep making the same mistake. Doh!

This is a very odd juxtaposition of concepts. It could be said that the Jewish people should have know better than to tweak the nose of a Gestapo agent and thus they are to blame for their own deaths because they opposed the policies in Nazi Germany. The public cleansing of conscience serves as a warning to others that established power will continue to act as they have before and others should come in line or they will get the same.
This type of post event manipulation of public opinion is a hallmark of good propaganda. You start with getting them dirty with exaggerated claims that disassociate the person from the people who might sympathize, then smear them until they are forgotten.
It looks very much like the actions of a wolf pack leader that sees a threat to their position. First cut the offending subordinate out of the pack. Then proceed to punish them until they submit or die. Then strut and publicize dominance.
A more recent example comes to mind and I can't ever know the real facts if everybody is just cherry picking to promote their own interests. I model the process and wonder why every event follows the same script?

Shots fired at the Capitol, Woman shot policeman, Woman shot at police, Woman is shot, Woman has baby with, Woman didn't shoot at police, Woman was crazy, Woman believed that government was spying on her "which is absurd" so don't think that way. Baby is safe in the arms of the people who killed their mother. NSA records of the spying on her reveal many incidents of paranoia about being spied on. Obviously deranged. Praise to the soldiers in full battle gear with machine guns that faced such a dangerous situation with such courage.

To me it looks like a directed graph that is designed to start at various points and ends where it is driven.

There is quite a difference between a nation joined in willing common pursuit and a nation where fear of consequence and psychological manipulation is the driving force. These kinds of situations never end well for anybody.

Foolish person does stupid inconsiderate thing. Rocks are dangerous too. By the time that object is 15 it should know better.
I have a 20 meter tall walnut tree and that scares me too as that is high enough for a walnut to reach near terminal velocity (v=sqrt(2ad). I think that squirrels should be imprisoned because they chew them off and them fumble them with out any consideration that I have to get the lawn mowed.
If stupid was an enforceable crime then congress would have to hold session in the prison laundry. Please don't beg them to make possession of heavy objects a felony. Officer : "Judge we need a warrant and we have proof the perp has at least a 3 pound baby." Judge: "Be careful when you go in that they don't drop it on you, you are authorized to use lethal force." Michael Jackson . Too soon?

AC with an EE?

That is one of my questions also. In microbiology this type of effect is everywhere. The nature of polar and non-polar molecules is the key to the cell bi-layer and is self assembling in the fact that polar loves polar. The natural process of body cooling incorporates hydrophobic elements in the cooling ducts. I don't see how this is big news. I would like to see some more information on Dr Sadoway's work at MIT on the liquid metal battery. If he is correct it would help more than this by many orders of magnitude.