Nah, if he makes them himself they're easy/cheap to make.

Female bud -> collodial silver -> they produce pollen and self pollenate -> XX seeds, no males.

You fem them with colloidal silver?  I've had bad luck with 'femmed' seeds with 50% male rate .

How tall do they get?  Can you suppress the auto-flowering through photoperiod manipulation?  Average yield/plant and growth time?

Rainbow tables exist for 10character alphanumeric... they're only ~320GB.

The official client just needs to be updated to support an encrypted wallet.dat file, would that really be so hard?

Also, Google "AaronBarr Anonymous", I'm sure this is a prank

No, it's even worse.

1) Hack Account.
2) Cash out at Mt. Gox.
3) Some sucker's account get screwed because Mt. Gox is trying to ()

Nobody is going to hack an account and hold on to the bitcoins when they can convert them to cash after a short delay... Mt. Gox locking accounts is stupid and damaging to it's function as an exchange.

Yes I would buy it.

It churns out bitcoins, either bitcoins make you money or you can sell it and get most of your money back

If we give money to low birth weight babies, mothers will smoke because it will earn them more money?  Do you really think this is how people who receive welfare think?

What's the alternative to a welfare safety net?  People bootstraping their way into a job with 9%+ unemployeement and a down economy?  Should they just give up and die/be homeless?

Of all of the things the government spends their money on, I would much rather pay and extra $200 in taxes to feed poor Americans than 50%+ of my tax money going towards bombing other countries.

Nice attempt at a troll, ever hear of Escrow?  I don't know if I've mentioned Clearcoin enough times...

Bitcoin is an hero to every boy and girl

The vulnerability is just a side-effect of being a new currency.  There is nothing inherent to cash that makes it safer... we've just been using it long enough that companies have sprung up around the flow of this money to provide services like chargebacks, electronic transfer, etc.

You essentially just mailed someone, who you didn't know, cash in an envelope.  The same scenarios apply (no insta money back, screwed if buyer dies, etcetc).  Luckily we're already starting to see services (Clearcoin) that help people with these issue.

I look forward to the lifting of the veil.

Don't take it as a problem of the currency, think of it as you learning to deal with a new financial system.  One of the major draws of Bitcoin is that the transactions are non-reverseable so there is a lot less risk in accepting payment.

Use an escrow service like Clearcoin (free) to handle transactions like this.  If someone screws you, you can get a refund.  (Note: Bank Wire transfers (which are about as close to Bitcoin as you get irl) are also non-reverseable without some major legal wrangling (read: $$$).

Sending someone Bitcoins is permanant, Paypal is not.  Paypal scams are pretty common in Bitcoin, Clearcoin takes care of most of the problems (most scammers won't accept Clearcoin, saying it's unsafe or some other BS).

and whitey is still on the moon...

This is good news.  Mostly because it makes news that Bitcoin is important enough to warrant taking a stance on.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Gold became unsutable because you couldn't carry around .00000001 gold coins. :v

More fun from the crowd that brought you 'Pool DDoS-gate'.

Yeah, I'm not going to upsell mining as free-money or anything.... but he'd already heard of mining.  I think they're more interested in the concept/potential application for freedom angle than the get-rich-quick scheme.

I've sent him some info to get them started (basics: white paper, trade data, Wiki articles/calculators on mining, list of merchants, 'weusecoins.com', etc).

+1 to Ataranlen, purchased my copy of Terraria.

^ Thanks