The scammer successfully made off with $460,000 that never existed. This is no "I need $200 from you to cover the transferal fees" scam. This is some crazy shit.

But why intentionally leave it up to the world to reverse engineer the thing instead of just provide drivers or basic info on how to do it?

Err, bomb in a suitecase... ahem.

Oh yeah, did I see that somewhere? I forgot where it was from.

At any rate, if I ever were to decide to take down a plane with a suitcase in a bomb, I guess I'd make sure it was ticking lol.

Some day some terrorist is going to try to smuggle a bomb in a dildo, and the TSA will respond by declaring that all dildos are banned from air travel and are to be confiscated at the gate by security officers.

If you click the "if it was real" link, you go to a page claiming it's fake with absolutely nothing to back up the claim other than "there's dirt on the screen"? And then in that article, you can click on a link to Engadget swearing its real and coming to market. Whats the deal?

What about them? My Smartypants are flea proof.

Does this sort of negate his accomplishment of predicting Hawking Radiation 30 some years ago which was recently observed in a lab, thereby eliminating his chance of winning a Nobel Prize?

I mean, my physics teacher would have given me a pretty bad grade for getting 1 out of 2 questions right.

Haha, cute, but the mice are dead, and the classic scenario will not apply...

Problem solved.

Tell me how you would design such a feature to distinguish between driving my car, and walking down the street, riding a bus, or just being in the passenger seat? This type of solution will never be viable.

Forget about the story. Next time could we please be warned that we're about to click on a link to the Temple of Doom?

Sales of teargas has unexpectedly tripled, leaving the industry to scramble to meet demand...

Boy, you must have been disappointed...

"weapons" are things which are intended to do physical harm. "information" is something that exists purely in abstract.