Based on that criteria they are literally giving away cars at your local dealer.

GM: "Your party is enriching uranium when suddenly one of your centrifuges begins accelerating outside its operational parameters. How do you react?"
China: "We cast clairvoyance on the US to see what technology they use to respond to this issue."
US: "We summon a tarasque in the middle east and shout for everyone to look over there."

Is the government then required to make the source available to each individual that it distributes the binary to, or are those individuals considered to be the same entity as the government in the context of the GPL?

Well, unless you count modern art.

Yeah, but who has ever heard of a class action criminal suit? Won't somebody think of the lawyers?

How science was done when the original results were published:

Form Hypothesis
Collect Data
Analyze Data
Determine If Data Supports Hypothesis
Publish Results

How science is done today:

Form Hypothesis
Collect Data
Reinterpret Data Until It Supports Hypothesis
Publish Results (on the evening news)
???
Profit

At last, a way to profit from the disdain of the fairer sex. A little baby powder on each cheek and a night in the bar should set me up for life.

If we start accepting news that is for the various sub-nerds then who knows what we will end up with. Slashdot is only for PURE nerds. Do you really want law nerds dating your daughters?

I don't think video is the proper medium for that kind of content. Candid information from an engineer on an interesting project can be interesting, but slashdot already has a mechanism for relating that kind of information. I understand that there are monetary reasons for pushing video on slashdot, but you would be better served with videos of the interior of data centers or production facilities than you would be with someone talking at a camera.

I suspect that the parking garage is where the card numbers were compromised. Someone likely dismantled the credit card reader when noone was around and added a simple device that tapped into the current MSRs signal line and logged everything to an sd card. They could even give it a bluetooth or wifi interface if they wanted to be fancy about it.

I tried grabbing go and compiled a hello world to compare it to C:

[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ uname -a
Linux talisman-pc 3.2.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 24 09:10:39 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ cat test.go
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, world")
}
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ time go build test.go

real 0m2.215s
user 0m2.547s
sys 0m0.210s
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ ls -lh test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 talisman talisman 1.3M Mar 28 15:43 test
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ time ./test
Hello, world

real 0m0.003s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ time gcc test.c

real 0m0.047s
user 0m0.027s
sys 0m0.013s
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ ls -lh a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 talisman talisman 6.6K Mar 28 15:45 a.out
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$ time ./a.out
Hello, World!
real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
[talisman@talisman-pc:~/tmp]$

This is obviously not a very scientific comparison, but the takeaways are that the go executable was 1.3M compared to the C executables 6.6K and the go compile took over 2 seconds whereas the C compile took less than 0.05 seconds.

Anonymous currency stored on a perpetually networked device with a long list of known escalation exploits? What could possibly go wrong?

Except it isn't really a new payment model. Paying a monthly fee to play on someone else's server has been around since the first pay to play MUDs.

Unless we develop a source of energy that has all the convienances of fossil fuels and costs less we should operate under the assumption that all fossil fuels will be burned eventually. It doesn't matter how many political drawbacks you attach to fossil fuels. If burning oil is the cheapest option then someone, somewhere will continue to do so. Any resources we tie up in trying to slow down the consumption of fossil fuels will ultimately have been wasted.
We have two options when it comes to dealing with climate change. We can invest in developing a carbon neutral fuel source that costs less than fossil fuels without subsidies, or we can invest in adapting to a change that we cannot stop. Everything else is pointless politics that can only hurt us in the long run.

Your hypothetical situation would be more apt if the two options to vote for were anti-matter and a Dodge pickup truck. Dodge pays for a media blitz and greases a few political palms. Finally the public at large throws their hopes for continued existence into the back of a pickup.