That's just plain silliness.  A service and its potential users can eternally play this game of technological whack-a-mole but to what end?  Eventually there would be no users of the service.

Now you can create a Firefox add-on that randomizes the fingerprint instead of making them all the same.  Or even better, create plausible counterfit fingerprints.

What's next?

A custom browser or stripped-down variant of Firefox could be put together that gives away nothing.

Besides, why would someone in BTC want to combat anonymity?  Get burned by pirate?

What's an illegal web site?  I didn't know they existed.

At last.  Maybe people will start wising up and being more careful with their money now that there's no legal recourse for their stupidity.

NOT

To make an omelette you have to break some eggs.

I saw the same thing so I switched to us1 and it went away.

Does your bitcoin client look like this?  Note the settings->encrypt.

MUST.NOT.MAKE.JOKE.ABOUT.PEOPLE.WITH.BIG.NOSES.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.

I see we have some non-Libertarians in the thread who think there should be publicly maintained roads, etc.  

Here's my (working) command line on Windows:

oclvanitygen.exe -d0 "1abcd"

What's your command line?

US1

The pool seems a bit wonky today.  All 3 mining portals (us1, us2 and us3) were experiencing outages intermittently over the last coupla hours.

I run on us2 and my reject rate is always < 1%.  For instance today it's 0.2%

Dude you sound like you need another vacation from cgminer.

FTFY 

If you CPU mined a Pi you'd get hash rates in the kilo hash/sec; not worth the effort.

As a controller for an FPGA-based miner it makes sense for dedicated rigs.  They're dirt cheap at $35 a pop.

Actually the guy's web site doesn't say he's mining *directly* (i.e. CPU mining) but rather he's using the Pi to control a BitForce Single or ZTEX FPGA board.
This sort of arrangement makes sense for a dedicated mining rig since using a PC is overkill.

It's not crazy but it's silly.

Like many people who ordered Raspberry Pi boards, he fell in love with it and is constantly looking for uses for it.