Just received it, thanks

yay, 0.002 BTC 1M97xiPAfiT6hC9CzDFhuazsjz7fXH7LdX

Maybe so, but they keep a few GB torrents running on a configured area of their hard drive and store the rest on some external hard drive which can be unplugged. The BTC node, on the contrary, keeps it all on the system partition and can't just be split and stored on some external switchable hard drive. Granted 2GB or, to a lesser extent, 20GB aren't too much of a problem, but 200GB would definitely be...

Pruning spent coins sounds great though, can't wait to see it implemented.
+1. As long as the reference client can only be a full node, users are pretty much encouraged to actually run a full node...

Yup. It's for people who missed BTC's early adoption window and who want to try to get rich by becoming early adopter of a useless altcoin...

Well, it seems much bigger so the longest ads don't fit in the allocated space anymore. It also tends to mismatch the usual smaller font of websites or of other ad networks... Doesn't really look good IMO (and doesn't match the preview, too):

Just wondering: what's with the new huge fonts in the text ads? Bug or new "feature"?

How about dropping Big Brother Google anyway? 

Me neither. I'll trust it when a concrete solution to blockchain expansion is implemented (I know, it's been discussed quite a lot already and theoretical solutions have been proposed, but that's not enough yet IMO). That part on scalability is scary too: Buying a new hard drive every 3 weeks is annoying already, but adding it to the computer sounds even much worse... sounds like after a few months of blocks like that you'd need some funky hardware (NAS or whatever) just to store the blockchain. Clearly not an option...

That seems logical to me too. As far as I know it's not considered as a currency, so earning bitcoins is like earning donuts: you don't declare that. But getting dollars out of bitcoin sales is like getting dollars out of donut sales: you declare that. I'm not a lawyer though, only using what seems like common sense.

Dit[Suspicious link removed] This thing seems to be running only when I'm AFK...  

Can't say ditto with a dot?

Yeah, that would be nice. Although it's cool to get free BTC, it's not so cool to have a flooded wallet: I'd prefer rarer but bigger transactions (with the choice as to when to trigger them).

CoinAd is the ONLY website where I fail so often at CAPTCHAs... 

Come on, sure banks can get in trouble if too many loans don't get reimbursed, but Paypal doesn't care about the value of the currency they carry... they just make whatever money there is move...

Similarly, why would banks be threatened by Bitcoin? If they think there is money to be made, I don't think they'll fight it, I rather think they'll invest into it!

I did mine for like 6 months on my laptop, some Radeon 5xxxM (NB: now, about 9 months later, it still works fine). Only reason I stopped is because with the dust accumulating I was getting worried about the increase in temperature (dry air wasn't enough to clean properly, apparently). Just check your GPU specs and make sure your temperature remains in a decent zone. For me I felt it was okay as long as it remained <90°C. Underclocking the memory (a lot, increases performance a bit) and optionally the GPU (a bit, decreases performance proportionally) can help control temperature, too.
But yeah, you won't get much out of such a hashrate anyway.

Question is, will this happen before or after the blockchain doesn't fit on a 1TB drive anymore. Just noticed this morning the blockchain is reaching close to 2 GB. It's becoming more and more of a burden on the system partition... And when noone has a hard drive big enough to store the whole chain, what happens then?

This, too. I've got a separate system partition too and I don't really like programs which flood it with data without asking first...

Same problem here, even disabling the ad blocker. But although I don't get a confirmation message I do get the coins I think (usually I do the faucets all at the same time, so I'm never sure which ones are sending the transactions).
On a site note, my ad blocker doesn't block bitcoin-related ads such as anonymous ads, so not much stealing going on... rather privacy protection (I use it mainly to block Big Brother Google Adsense).

Clearly, I agree that placing the wallet file in some random automatically assigned system folder doesn't sound like a wise choice. Bitcoin should treat this file like KeePass treats its password database, for instance: first time you launch the software, it asks you were you want to put the darn file.