The actual small print: $19.99 is for the power cells. The charger that the cells and your phone plug in to doesn't even have a price listed yet, which probably means it costs hundreds. Oh, and it's also not available yet, and pre-orders are sold out.
Slashdot fact-checking fails again. Great job, guys!
For fuck's sake, guys, let it wait! In ten years or twenty years, once 3D printing is generally accepted in the home, then go ahead and make your little plastic hobby guns. 3D printing is an unbelievably vital technology, we need it to grow free and unfettered, and you assholes are handing the government a golden excuse on a silver platter to nip it in the bud and regulate it into uselessness because you just can't bear to wait to have shitty, worthless plastic guns.
What would file-sharing look like now if someone had found a way to, shit, I dunno, kill a 12-year-old with Napster three months after it launched? The RIAA would make that happen with a time machine if they could. Nothing turns the general public against a new technology like a solid, broad-spectrum THINK OF THE CHILDREN ad campaign. Do not let them do this.
Well, dang, Slashdot doesn't normally post good news! A scumbag gets caught and goes to prison. Justice is done, the system works, etc etc.
You hypocrites. If this article was about a EULA where someone claimed the right to publish the contents of your email without permission, Slashdot would be (rightfully) up in arms. But when some stalker-ass waste of skin actually does violate the privacy of a bunch of innocent women, suddenly privacy violation is perfectly okay as long as the victims were popular and used naive passwords.
Or else you're puking up non sequiturs about HSBC. Yeah, those fuckholes deserve to rot in prison too, and it's criminal that they won't be published. That's got nothing to do with Christopher Chaney's guilt.
Do that many people give a shit or have feelings for strangers they happen across / first meetings?
Yes.
There's something oddly appropriate about this question being seriously asked on Slashdot.
Here in Lexington, Kentucky, I see more bikes every year. The city has been steadily adding bike lanes to every road in the downtown/university area. Local businesses are getting together to install bike hitching posts in the restaurant-and-bar districts around campus, and even Wal-Mart has started installing bike racks. Critical Mass rides happen several times a year, and there's more people every time.
Some places in the US maybe losing their bike culture, but not all of them.
Oh, we don't have a helmet law, either. I don't think there should be one. That doesn't make you any less of an idiot if you don't wear a helmet.
Oh, and they continue to be a nuisance when parked as well because most bike riders seem deadly afraid of walking which results in huge piles of seemingly discarded bicycles packed tightly around entrances to malls, stations and similar. There will be bikes parked against almost all lamp posts, traffic signs, free-standing trees and walls.
As a cyclist, I agree 100% with everything you said about unsafe riders, but this particular thing wouldn't be a problem if businesses would provide proper bicycle racks for their customers. Half the point of a bicycle is that you shouldn't have to park three blocks away from your destination. It's ridiculous that large businesses will buy up acres of land for parking lots and refuse to spend a few hundred dollars on a bike rack.
Couldn't these guys have waited just a few years, until 3D printing is popular and ubiquitous? Instead, they've handed the feds a silver-platter excuse to preemptively regulate the hell of it while it's still a novelty item.
Thanks, assholes. You've destroyed a world-changing technology because you just couldn't wait one more second to own shitty, worthless plastic guns. Great job.
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