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.

However, letting people know when the "coast is clear" and they can speed or (worse in my opinion) use a mobile phone will only increase roadside accidents and fatalities

If they were going to speed or text while driving, they are going to regardless if they have a radio detector or not. Same goes for speeding with radar detectors.

Right. The orbit is 36,000 km from the surface, or a radius of 42,000 km, a difference of...6,000km

MIR isn't that high currently since it was deorbited in March of 2001. Prior to that, it was at an altitude 364 km +/- 10km depending on where it was at in orbit.

Geostationary orbit is ~36,000 km from earth (radius ~42,164km). The moon is 384,000 km (+/- 21000 miles)

But in the mean time, your product looks bad, which makes your company look bad. You may suffer far more than what your vendor will, or their vendor, or however far up it goes in the supply chain.

Another thing is that FTDI may hurt their actual customers that inadvertently received the fake chips. If I'm a manufacturer I wouldn't be happy that somehow my supplier got the fake chips, and I'd understand the actual company not supporting the fakes, but I would rethink whether I want to use a company that harmed me in the process of protecting themselves.