Guns may be the hot button, but it got the conversation started. These printers have been around for a while. The bigger picture is that anyone can get and use a 3-d printer, cost permitting (which will drop eventually), and 'print' pretty much anything that can be made from these types of plastics. In the future, will the 'copyright/trademark police' come after you for printing copies for profit, rather than pay the manufacturers prices, or 'making available' the files to do so?

Break out the Moon-based neuralizer! Everyone has just found out about the "Ark Net" shield! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl

Let us hope that they have better QC and design than was used on the X-Box 360. If I recall, the key reason for the RROD (Red Ring of Death) was fractures in the Ball-Grid array soldering due to board flexing, which will occur when memory, PCI cards, cables, etc. are installed or removed.

Agreed. Motherboards have been doing this for YEARS! At the very least, have a minimal permanent/ROM Bios that can do a download.

We have many older applications on our systems, that either are not compatible with Win7, even in 'compatibility mode', or would require re-activation with the vendor, which would require either new licenses (send money, please), or is not possible due to the licensing servers no longer being available (Vendor stopped supporting the app). There are no replacement apps for these, either. Also, some of these same older apps that 'shell' out to Internet Explorer will not work with anything above IE6. We fall in the 'not broken, does the job, leave it alone' category.

that Philips was the only entrant, and was the 'winner' by default?

Would this fall under the FCC's control of 'hate' speech in a broadcast, as they are 'broadcasting' the name to anyone with a receiver (aka a wi-fi adapter), or does it fall under the local municipalities' laws about public speech?

... just how strong the magnetic field is, for it to affect the hard drive of a computer at any likely distance. It seems like metal objects would be flying through the air and sticking to the floor. Also, I have to wonder how a static magnetic field would affect most phones. Seems there would have to be an alternating field of some sort to do so. Finally, any links to the 'numbers' (field strength, gauss, whatever the proper term is)?

I have to wonder, sometimes, if China is building up to closing off their internets to the outside world entirely, or getting the rest of the 'internet community' to do it for them, by acting so irrationally?

I have to agree with Gorkman. If I can't see what your box does from A to Z, then I am not going to put my neck on the block for the possible HIPPA violation, let alone trying to track a bug caused by incorrect configuration, extra services such as DNS, etc. This doesn't even take the yearly security audit into account, where I have to explain what your box does. 'I don't know' doesn't go very far with them.

Heads up! Goatse link!!