and we all know how much developers love to test (and to document).

What are these "test" and "document" things you speak of?

Having never been in a firearms store, let alone purchase one, what do "real" firearm shops use as a payment processor? Surely they take credit cards, don't they?

Stripe makes it clear that they don't want to participate in transactions for regulated products and services. I don't see what the problem with that is.

I doubt the shirt had anything to do with him being caught other than just a coincidence. His name matching that of someone wanted and thought to be in the area probably had more to do with it.

That's the great thing about having multiple choices. It may not be a solution to your problem, but it could be a solution for someone else.

But this is for developers, not for designers that want to pretend that they are developing.

That's different because the NSA has good intentions and it's for "national security". You can trust them unlike the Chinese...

Unless they plan on forcing ISPs to store every single URL that every single person in australia accesses 24/7/365.

Don't give them ideas. Actually, they probably just need to call the US's NSA if they wanted it anyways.

Perhaps you should find a better theater to go to. The last movie I went to, St. Vincent, was quite enjoyable. Heard everything quite clearly. Temperature was quite comfortable. My feet didn't stick to the floor. I must have waited a whole 3 minutes for my tickets, but most of that was because the printer was misbehaving. The $10 was more than I like to spend, but aside from that I didn't have a problem.

Mr Warg argued that although the computer used to commit the offence was owned by him, the hacks were carried out by another individual who he declined to name.

Every bittorrent user has tried that excuse when they were caught and I don't think it has ever worked. Try to be a little more original next time Mr. Wang.

It goes both ways though. Do you want the IRS to be able to audit you or your company going back indefinitely? If your company is sued, do you really want to have to go back forever as part of discovery?

There are practical reasons to limit how long information is retained. I'm not saying that in this particular case 5 years is too long, just right, or too short, but it's not always about plausible deniability.

Nope, that's more or less it. It uses the same system that you get paid by with direct deposit, make your utility and mortgage payment because they don't take credit cards, and fund your paypal account with a bank transfer. It cuts the credit card companies out of the process so the retailer saves on fees, but the consumer lose the protection that those fees help pay for such as fraud protection.

You'll never know your balance!

You know, there's a solution for that. Some forms even work when your electronics are dead.

What's your point? It's obvious that this isn't for a "serious 3D printer maker" and is priced accordingly. While accurate prints are always the goal, having micrometer accurate prints aren't always a requirement. If it was, there wouldn't be a large community of enthusiasts building their own inferior "icing/glue gun method" printers.

That might ok in the winter when you can make use of the heat. But in the spring/summer/fall when you don't want the extra heat, or worse when you're running an air conditioner, you're just undoing the advantages gain during the winter.

Plus electric resistance heat is about the worst way to heat a home from a cost per BTU perspective.

I'm not sure how much it was an over reaction. Seemed reasonable to me. It's unfortunate it happened, but TPTB were screwed no matter what they did.

If it was reported, and did nothing, then it gets out that authorities didn't investigate a possible threat and are inept.

If it was reported, dismissed, and something bad happens, then it was something that was preventable.

If they did what they did, it's labeled as an overreaction.

It's not like passengers were ordered off the plane, stripped searched, and received a free body cavity search. They were inconvenienced for a few hours before a 11 hour flight. It happens.