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You mean, they didn't even put an encouraging note on it? You didn't get your money's worth, citizen!

Let's imagine I have a home printer that prints these microdots. I use it for printing birthday cards, kids' homework, letters to my bank, and other miscellany.

The problem comes when you go to sell that printer, and it is then used to print money.
Shoot first, ask later - is now the official policy in this country.

Now all that illegitimate money printed off your old printer is linked to the families names on the birthday cards, your childrens names on the homework, your name and the name of your bank, and likely your address on one of those bank letters as well.
Plenty of evidence linking you to the crime!

Which door exactly do you think the secret service will be kicking in first, and whos faces will the assault riffles be in? Yes, you and your family.

Better hope your wife doesn't ask what is going on, as that is resisting. They shoot first and ask questions later you know.

A similar raid gone bad in Detroit ended up with a flash grenade tossed in a window, and killing a 7 year old child sleeping on a couch. The father was forced to the ground at gunpoint with his face in his own childs pool of blood, for quite some time before they realized it wasn't even the right house.

shoot first, ask questions later, questions such as: is this even the right house, and could ANY possible circumstances mean we have the wrong person.

For your own sake, I hope no criminals purchase your printer, or dig it out of the trash when you are done with it.
Even more reason to go Office Space on it when you are done with it.

Just wait until they use this on a vehicle that still has a human being still inside it when they turn on their death/maim ray.

They really want to open themselves up to that kind of liability?

There won't be any liability. Just more "victims of the terrorists."

Our police force kill three to four hundred innocent people every year using military tactics, and not a single punishment gets handed down. It's all filed away as officially legal.

Here is the perfectly legal murder of a 7 year old girl
How about all of a 44 year old, 16 year old, two 18 year olds, and an 8 year old
Maybe just a list of 40 some odd innocent victims murdered by police.

Each of those police officers are still employed. No laws broken. No charges filed.

No, anyone made sick or killed by this scanner will be standard-operating-procedure. There will be no liability even if every last person at the super bowl dropped over dead from it.

Jesus, next you'll tell me Siri can't locate abortion clinics!

Oh, wait ...

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/12/01/siri-total-misogynist/

"Though the stranger rape remains entrenched as the paradigm of âoerealâ rape, of rape that is recognized as such, it is not actually the norm."

Slashdot actually had a reasonably well-implemented user moderation system, though. If you want spectacular fail, try (for example) Feministe's rather short-lived user moderation setup, which made the site totally useless for its intended purpose of fighting oppression. (It was briefly a very good place for well-off white women to complain about how the uppity black women were whinging too much without hearing too much from them, though.)

The article isn't very good. Here is a post containing links to previous posts and news articles.

Yes! It's called "higher pay" and it applies to fields of law, medicine, and business. With women generally being smarter and in other fields not needing to interact with as many social retardates, it is clear that there is a cultural imperative to discourage women from programming.

Or maybe it's nonsense like this or this coming from the IT world that keeps them out. Who knows?

allows its users to discuss, criticize, and attack other law students and lawyers by name

Check out http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/03/07/w apo-calls-out-law-school-pervs/

Problem is, guess how much traction any of these women would get going to the police trying to get them to go after these guys.