A day that will live... in INFAMY!!

Seriously, expect wholesale user screeching of "Hey, my (fill in the blank) stopped working properly after I upgraded! What gives?" will start shortly thereafter.

What usually happens with these kinds of unconstitutional laws is they are rammed through with the authors knowing full well they won't stand up to a constitutional challenge. Think about certain aspects of the Patriot Act, the laws regarding civil asset forfiture, and the Lautenberg amendment to the Brady Bill (AKA the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban where you are denied 2nd amendment rights forever after having a restraining order lodged against you or being merely accused of a crime, even in absence of a conviction thereof).

What happens is the courts pile on the charges so high that defendants are forced to settle for a plea bargain, which is how 95% of all trials are resolved. Thus laws which blatantly violate the constitution are allowed to sit on the books forever with no effective challenge against them, generating eternal revenues for the state and ensuring that a long line of semi-innocents head off to the hotel-with-barred-windows for violating some petty legal technicality. The Branch Davidians were gassed and incinerated alive for nothing more serious than an unpaid tax or unfilled-out form regarding certain firearms laws.

The same nasty precedent set by the previous examples will be precisely how it plays out here. Not only will this law pass but it will be misused and abused left and right, and nobody will cut it off because that would stop the gravy train.

You know, M$ has always been behind the curve when it comes to security and structuring their OS to be secure from the ground up; security has been a real afterthought for over a decade, and that's simply not acceptable. I don't envision this changing anytime soon, either with Vista or whatever other junk they're peddling.

One of the statistics I had read years back illustrated that 87% of the people who get into these schemes lose their "investment" in the "course." 7 out of 8 get nothing at all.

To top that off, with any kind of pyramid-structured business, regardless of whether it is Mary Kay or Avon or the brand new Ponzi, Inc., you only get on average two people to come in beneath you, not the dozens that will make you millions.

This game works for those that are professional closers but they thrive off the expense of people who are professional losers. You'll make more money working part-time at Wally-Mart or McDunkie's.