What is so terrible about minty-fresh poop?

You mean it wasn't profitable for them.

Making ass pennies.

Firstly, from this article:

The attack is based on known weaknesses in the cryptographic hash function known as MD5. In 2004, researchers from China showed it was possible to generate the same MD5 fingerprint for two different messages using off-the-shelf computer hardware. Three years later, a separate group of researchers - many who participated in Tuesday's presentation in Berlin - built off of those findings by showing how to have almost complete freedom in the choice of both messages.

Maybe I am missing some precision thrust of meaning with your choice of words but my understanding is that the researchers utilized brute force to readily take advantage of a known weakness of MD5. No, it is not broken for everything, but it is most definitively broken for use within the PKI infrastructure (signing certificates).

I wonder how many readers here actually get the joke? The thing is, it looks more like an F-102 Delta Dart/Dagger to me.

I don't know how seriously you were asking this question, but this probably works specifically on roaches because their legs are somewhat autonomous, but still controlled by the brain. So really I would guess it's the sort of situation where if the brain is not sending the legs commands, they can be manually directed (e.g. like being towed by a wasp). Now whether it would work on Humans is another story. While walking is mostly a passive brain activity, the brain is still required for walking to happen. If a Human were dosed would this, I would imagine something bad would happen aside from inability to walk, probably collapsing to the floor and the lungs ceasing to function. However, TFA did mention it only inhibited "complex" actions, so maybe breathing isn't considered "complex" (NFC to be honest).

However, if you wanted to make someone a zombie (at least temporarily), you wouldn't need to get them stung by a wasp in the cerebral cortex! There's a popular drug used for both date rape and robberies in South America known as "Devil's Breath"; usually some mixture containing Scopolamine. It basically puts you into a waking sleep where you are extremely complacent and easily influenced into doing things, with no memory of anything you did. Of course, these effects are only obtained in extremely high doses. So, there's also a pretty good chance it will just kill you instead.

When you see a wasp sting someone with this, then get's them to rob a bank, we're all fucked.