I think fundamentally the issue is one of accountability and trust. The company being unwilling to disclose the name of its chief executive or its true physical location is (and should be) a major red flag. That same company is also offering a product that once installed will have complete access to a user's computer and data. To me at least this is enough to call the legitimacy of the company into question.
An employee account was compromised and privileged information (in this case user email addresses) was accessed. The attacker exploited a flaw in dropbox's password policy / authentication system to access the information. Dropbox is modifying their systems and policies to prevent this sort of attack in the future.
All that together certainly adds up to an intrusion and is well within the definition of a "hack".
Even if they aren't given to children I don't think they set off the "hey this is really dangerous" alarm for a lot of people. Ideally an adult would play with these then count them all to make sure none are missing and store them out of reach of a child -- every single time with no mistakes or exceptions. Requiring that level of care kind of moves these out of the "toy" category in my mind.
Your last line is an excellent point and really the crux of the issue. These buckyballs are marketed as a toy and widely understood to be a toy. Just glancing at the website there's "NOT A TOY" in large font but a little further down is a quote saying "There's no better desktoy". It's not surprising that there is some confusion. People just don't associate magnets with danger and the toy-ness of this product certainly doesn't help.
The "security questions" really are terribly insecure. I've seen questions as bad as "What was the color of your first car?". I wouldn't be surprised if 90%+ of answers fall into three or four colors. What I recommend to people is using a password manager like 1password or lastpass. Copy each question into the "notes" section, use the password manager to generate a random answer and then save it in the notes as well.
This is the only spec that we have to work with: http://0x10c.com/doc/dcpu-16.txt . Notch said he's reviewed quite a bit of feedback on the spec and to expect revisions although it may be a while.
The rest of our information comes from Notch's tweets. Interrupts are unlikely. IO is memory mapped. There's been some guessing about display and keyboard but nothing set in stone.
If an mmo version of asteroids sounds interesting then you should try out Continuum (http://www.getcontinuum.com/) It was released commercially in 1997 and subsequently abandoned by its developer. The community took over the client/server and it has evolved into a pretty complex game.
There's an interesting study in the New England journal of medicine related to this. The authors found that having social ties to an obese person significantly increased an individuals chance of becoming obese.
From the study:
A person's chances of becoming obese increased by 57% (95% confidence interval [CI], 6 to 123) if he or she had a friend who became obese in a given interval.[0]
One of the authors is quoted as saying:
“You change your idea of what is an acceptable body type by looking at the people around you,” Dr. Christakis said.[1]