An open source license will help get those bugs squashed in no time! ;)

Not to mention giving attention to the act and criminals, thereby potentially motivating other evil attention-seekers to perform similar acts. The media needs to report it once, maybe the odd update when it matters, and Never, Ever, name those responsible. (Saying whether they were caught is OK, but why make them famous/infamous and go down in history?)

Yessir! A one-stop-shop for the authorities (or anyone smart enough to side-step their "security").

Not that wild. This is the stupidest thing I've read on Slashdot ever, considering they already cost less than $2000: http://www.robo3dprinter.com/

Open source too ;)

+300 mods points!

Scientists in Canada confirmed Posilac (the growth hormone they give many dairy cows in the USA) causes cancer, which makes sense considering what cancer is. What would seeds that don't reproduce naturally do to us? (SEEDS! that grow plants that don't reproduce?!) Is anyone else concerned?

I gotta say - you sound crazy; however, the same happened to me each of the three times I bothered to get the flu shot. I don't know why, and I don't tell anyone not to get it, but I skip it and some winters I simply don't get sick.

Satellite providers can you fool you with that all they want (and maybe they can handle the bandwidth requirement, although I doubt smoothly), but in any case no channel broadcasts in 1080p yet, so you'd be a sucker to buy into it.

Is this a joke, FUD, or idiocy?

They should have named it Dine.

Touché!

Why not vote it legal and then choose to continue to buy it illicitly to avoid the tax... so that it's not a crime when you're caught smoking it??

Technically, 1984 is further every year...

I almost choked laughing at "popup book"... but you posted anonymously so I can't "thank" you in person!

I agree 100%. It would just get sticky with voters because a) to quote George Carlin on the law of averages: "Think of how dumb the average person is, then realize that half of all people are even dumber than that!!" and b) they will sling it as protecting children and fighting hate-speech. I'm not saying protecting kids or fighting hate-speech is bad; it's just stupid how few people would realize it wouldn't do either of those (it might make protecting kids harder actually) and as you say just give them the ammo they need to try to shut you, the free-speaker, up.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree or disagree that anonymous speech had any effect on history (the fact that those in power write history as they see fit not withstanding) but I have to ask... if that's the case, then why the hell do they care if people post anonymously?!

To me it's more about privacy. I do of course understand the desire to prevent serious hate-speech (the only true enemy to free speech in my opinion, not counting these politician douchebags) but having everyone use their real name won't prevent it... best-case you get fake names and still have to delete the hate-speech manually. I think the only way is to let people voice their opinion, privately (anonymously in this case I mean) and ban by IP if necessary. Even that's not all that fool-proof, but as someone above said, how do they think they can enforce this?? Short of selling out every bit of privacy left (which would lead to worse problems related to predators and stalkers as far as I can see) you will only end up hurting those who bothered to use their real name.