And the guy who was running silk road didn't have his bitcoins seized and auctioned?
And bitcoin is immune to manipulation of its value against other currencies?

Never underestimate the power of denial!

If something has value, someone has/will figure out a way to steal it or manipulate it, and governments will figure out how to seize it.
There, by reverse logic, I just proved that bitcoin has value.
Happy?

Bitcoin is secure?
Bill Clinton said it best: "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is..."

It was not really a useful wrench. It was a publicity gimmick. 3 in-lbs is finger tight. You don't need a wrench for that.

The design was poor- torque applied to the socket would apply shearing force to the square post on the wrench and tear the layers apart. There was a single pawl engaging the ratchet wheel which means that tiny little bit of plastic had all the force applied to it. Also, the ratchet only turned in one direction- tightening a nut but not loosening. After a relatively few turns, the pawl started to slip and the wrench became even more useless. The pawl was difficult to print because of the tiny print area on the printer's bed. There wasn't much helping it stick to the bed. I had to restart the print a few times before I got it to stick.

A smarter way to make a wrench would have been to have multiple pawls engaging the ratchet wheel to reduce force applied to any one of them, and there should have been a square hole in the ratchet wheel and a second, square cross section part to fit in the hole printed laying on its side. You would put the square peg into the hole and it would be long enough to allow a socket to be put on either side of the wrench- one side for tightening and the other for loosening a nut.

NASA really needs to have contests for this sort of thing. They'd get even more publicity with that.

Haven't there been about 20 star trek movies already? How is this one number 3?

It's like the star wars movies coming out all out of sequence and without numbers. How the hell are you supposed to know which comes after which?

And don't get me started in "Final Fantasy 2-14". I guess it wasn't really final after all, was it?

Get off my lawn!

to paying administrators higher salaries?

is it?

the "smallest miscalculation could lead to disaster". What sort of disaster are we talking about here? Will it tear a hole in the space time continuum and result in an ever expanding vacuum bubble that will engulf the known universe?

Until they can incorporate my driver's license, ADA card, Chicago symphony card, corner bakery free cup o joe card, BLS/CPR card, medical insurance, Saks Off Fith More card, Sam's club card, medical flex account spending card, Bartolotta Rewards card, PADI certification card, DEA registration card, dental license, erewhon explorer card, optical insurance card, credit, debit, and ATM cards, and every other goddammed stupid card that someone forces or wants me to carry around now and in the future because they are too goddammed stupid to put all this crap onto a single memory chipped card, a payment system on a phone is just one more silly thing to have to deal with.

Oh wait....

We'll all be able to store all our "home movies" and photos on one drive!

drug dealers, assassins, money launderers, and other shady types who use Bitcoin a chance to buy back the bitcoins they used on Silk Road at a discount!

It seems their idea of reliability is mainly based on the lifetime of the machine, which I get, but the real reliability problem with FDM printers isn't machine longevity, but the ability to start a print and know it will finish. My machine is built using 8020 frame- no laser cut plywood, and no 3D printed parts in the structure of the machine. I have been working to eliminate reliability problems from the beginning because I want to print full size human skulls from CT scans. Such prints take anywhere from 24-48 hours. The extruder has been the #1 reliability problem- it usually has some problem about 15 hours or so into the print. I've also had some problems with filament tangling on the spool. Slicing software has problems that occur with some STL files and not others.

CAN buses are nice, but I'm not sure that does much unless youre setting up a shop with 20 machines on a network. Show me an extruder than can run without fail for 48 hours at a time and I'll throw some money at it.

devolution of American Culture. We had "Cops" on TV, but that was edited and sanitized. Now we go straight to the video. Next it will go to a "Max Headroom" style live feed direct from the cops camera to your TV.
Wonderful. That's show biz!

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
And Titania, Neptune, Titan.
Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.