A proper manifestation of greed is simply raising the price.  You could pretend it's because of inflation!  Stealing my time for purchasing your consoles is odious.

Well, never again is an easy enough solution, I suppose!

I actually agree with your larger assertion that you perhaps inadvertently made. That is, I believe that ISPs should be held culpable for subject matter found on their servers. Their immunity as it stands, however, is not a quid pro quo. It is the result of legislative action that arose from conservative politicians in the house wanting to shield a company called Prodigy (do you remember it?) from liability. You see, Prodigy had some damaging material on their servers back in the '90s, and a party moved to have them remove it. In the published opinion, the judge in the case found that because Prodigy had held itself out as a family friendly service, they had a constructive duty to manage their servers, and remove potentially damaging material. Members of the house moved quickly to assure that family friendly businesses would not suffer such culpability in the future, and so made a law that stated that no ISP would be responsible for material found on its servers. And it is that simple. Unintended consequences of legislation dot our history with massive craters. In this case the contemporary decaying abomination that is social media, grew from the misunderstood promise of network computing, and well intentioned dimwits who knew better than the body of our knowledge gained over one hundred and fifty years of precedent regarding publications. I also agree that limiting the speech to "legal speech" would improve the experience of most users. How is it possible that the same ill advised comment on twatter or whatever it is does not constitute defamation, while if it were published in any newspaper, certainly would?

Almost certainly not another galaxy, but yes, I believe you meant did it come from outside of our solar system. Yes, they predict that it did based on it's trajectory through our solar system. And of course, they don't profess to know what it was.

The information asserted in the article is incomplete at best. I am assuming that it means that this person submitted an application for a word mark, and that their application satisfied all of the legal requirements for issuance, and that the mark was then published in the USPTO's Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) for opposition. I assume this because the opposition period is the only thirty day period in a trademark application timeline. The extension request could be innocuous, and though it probably evoked some stress in this Amazon employee, I really don't see an assertion of this active trademark against the application succeeding on the merits. It may be an attempt to pad hours, or it could be a pusillanimous mouthpiece who is afraid of every image of potential dilution that they see in the mirror. Either way, am I reading this right, that it was just a letter? Well I suppose they can be scary. But opposition is typical in trademark applications, which leads me to believe that the applicant may be representing themselves pro se, or worse, have an attorney that has no idea what they are doing. Either way, I suppose it is entirely appropriate to leap into the sewer of the attention economy and cry foul! Kotaku, you bastion of veracity, can you believe this shit?! Alright, back to lighting those torches!

When you click on anything in an attention economy sewer, you are the product! Smile!

Giggle!

Give them Raspberry Pis and a handful of Picos while you are at it! Tell them that if they want the new fangled laptop form factor, they will have to make it themselves!

Haha!

Well played! If you are so filthy, they kick you out of the sewer, then go build your own sewer! That'll learn 'em!

The Sewer!~(tada!) A great place to take a shit, but don't swim in it. And do I have to mention not to drink it?

Sounds good to me, I need another one!

You are partly correct. The 3D printed parts of the weapon are ergonomic bits, while the receiver, firing pin, and recoil spring are manufactured from metal. These metal parts are sold as unregulated kits and when included with the 3D printed parts, make up the ghost gun. It is essentially a gun without a manufacturing, or more importantly, a sales history. Most current 3d printers used for this purpose are fused deposition modelling (FDM) printers manufacturing parts out of ABS plastic. Your incredulity about the effectiveness of an ABS weapon made exclusively on a FDM printer is correct. Most completely printed guns will fire only a handful of times at most before becoming useless, and are not very accurate to begin with. These 'kit-bashed' guns overcome the difficulty of successfully designing a usable firing pin and barrel by simply substituting metal ones.

Good for you! I think it's important to ask should something be done, beyond can it be done. What's more, putting a military acronymed slug thrower on a clot of servos is not cutting edge development. I am also an engineer, and I applaud your ethical restraint. Let's hope the weaponized robot dogs exercise it as well.

Generally speaking, espionage is giving secrets or information to a foreign sovereignty or interest. Treason is espionage where the secrets are given to a defined adversary. I wonder where those electric impulses went?

The doubt about the propaganda is what makes the propaganda untrue.