In the subject of piracy in developing countries: This is an interesting point that seems to be left completely out of the discussion. The governments of developing countries are responsible for, say, American products (which in today's world are basically a necessity) getting astronomical price tags and therefore they are partially responsible for piracy. For instance, here in Brazil I just checked out a website which sells Windows 7 Professional boxes at the equivalent of nearly U$250. An iPhone 4 32GB is sold for the equivalent of over U$1500 without a network contract. Difference between them is, you can pirate Windows. And therefor piracy is absolutely rampant over here. It's almost cultural, even the ISPs don't care at all. My point is if piracy is bad enough in the US because of high prices imagine in places where the stuff cost over three times the original price tag. Sorry but you'll never ever stop or even reduce piracy in certain countries.

From his website's FAQ:

Why should I care about your personal legal troubles?
You shouldn't. For example, if I was taken to court for sex crimes in Sweden, I would never ask for donations.

Yeah, lose potential donators by taking sides in a controversial topic.

I hope no person in this simulated world becomes The One, gets out of there and kick our asses.

Computers could be considered as "means to access illegal content" as much as Thepiratebay gets to be guilty of "providing means to get illegal content". One lawsuit and kiss your processor goodbye. Awesome news for AMD fanboys though. This could mean several new clients for AMD.

I think this is actually a fairly complex question. Should the user be trusted to do whatever he wants with his machine even if it's highly unsecure? One might say he should be able to do what he wants because he bought the machine and it belongs to him. But then again there are people controlling several thousands of compromised computers in a botnet to cause harm to others. Many of these computers belong to people who couldn't be trusted when it came to the security of their system and someone else might be harmed because of that. It's like selling an assault rifle to someone who keeps it on top of a table within reach of a window (sorry about the horrible analogy. I tried to think of a car one but couldn't).

It might work good for a reasonably fair country like the US but in crap countries like mine where everything is run by cartels and everything is outrageously overpriced I can see myself paying equivalent to 2 dollars per gigabyte or so. Maybe more. And if America implements this the world will eventually follow.

An almost tyrant government with great military power. This never ended well for humanity whenever it happened in history.

I might look like a hardcore old-school wannabe but IMHO all this bloat makes it more confusing than it helps. I prefer the simpler to-the-point BIOS the way it is now. It's not like I go into the BIOS everyday anyway.

"The source or motivation of the attack isn't known" ... "authoritarian nation." Take a wild guess for the motivation.

The aliens have technology to travel several lightyears and have nothing better to do than jerk around screwing with peoples heads? I say don't track the useless bastards. Just let them keep flying around and doing nothing.

The guy obviously overlooked the "people are assholes" factor. Some jerk will eventually show up with a hammer and destroy the thing just for the hell of it.

I wonder what they think about this.

20 megaton? Hell, we did better already. Let's just hope it doesn't hit some crowded area.

Won't someone think of the fucking children?

I haven't read it entirely but does it mention anything about alien forms of life? I'm guessing not. Did God just leave it to us to decide how to deal with aliens? And how could He have forgotten to tell us about such a hugely important part of His creation? That all considering that there are forms of life outside of Earth, which I firmly belive there is because mathematically it sounds feasible.