Good point. As someone once observed, you don't own a piece of terrain until a 19-year old with a gun stands there and says you own it.

The global economy is worth almost $70 trillion dollars; a sudden influx of 0.27% of that amount would have negligible impact on the value of goods and services.

Whoever can land on it. Possession being 9/10s of the law and all that.

Have you ever been on fucking Twitter? People retweet shit all the time, regardless of what it says. If they retweet something with the product hashtag, and then get something from Amex to confirm there's a good chance they'll retweet that, too, without even reading it.

Mark my words, this won't last because the public is too stupid to use it safely.

Is see this as being ripe for abuse. The first time this goes live, someone is going to link a hashtag of something innocuous (like #wintercoat) to something expensive, and lots of people won't realize the mistake until they read their monthly bill and see a charge for $2000 on it. I can't imagine the system will last more than a day once people start complaining.

In this case, I imagine a seller creating a short hastag, ala bit.ly, that is used a pointer to the item itself. So the hashtag would be something like #q9iHH8, not the long string you just posted.

.co.us is for the government of the State of Colorado, dumb ass. And go read the FAQ.

If this were slashdot.cn your observation would have merit. But it's not, so it doesn't.

In that case, yeah, that would be a huge help. It would slow down getting into your account, of course, but I think the trade off would be worth it.

DHS doesn't enforce bribery laws so the answer would be no in this instance. However, they could seize the devices if they "suspected" they contained illegal material (eg, kiddie porn, pirated movies, etc.).

So now your bank information is only as secure as your text or email account? No thanks, that's a tragedy waiting to happen.

> Some of us want our kids to grow up in a world where only healthy behaviors exist.

What's unhealthy about homosexuality or BDSM? And why do you get to define what "healthy" and "unhealthy" are when it comes to sexual expression? Maybe I think your prudishness is more a threat to my children's well being than seeing a man have sex with another man, should I be able to censor your views?

What kind of luddite asks for something like this in the first place?

Same here, which is why I think it's a horrible idea for the government to do this.

I've been queued for years waiting for that.