Evidence is planted during legal searches. That isn't a problem with the method of investigation/acquisition, it's a matter of humans being untrustworthy by default. We're all looking to further our own agendas, be they breaking the law or breaking the law to catch people breaking the law. There can be no true justice while while trying to maintain some semblance of order and "freedom".

So... it's bad that you can be caught breaking the law? Maybe not breaking the law would be better then complaining about the cops being able to catch you?

Isn't the 4GB mark a limit of how many addresses the CPU can address? It's been my experience with 32bit XP that when you put in a 512mb card, your available system ram goes down by 512. I knew a guy that put in some beefy cards in sli and wound up with less than 2GB of 4 available.

My first car analogy on Slashdot! I think it's more like driving around in your car with people in the back seat shooting guns out the window. Sure, you're not pulling the trigger, but they're still racking up collateral damage via your car.

And if I was doing more than just booting to the desktop, 1GB is the minimum amount of RAM I'd want on an XP system.

What kind of sense does that make? If you raise the minimum, you raise the average unless you lower the maximum.

Not only the above, but you can also fit more than a dozen tapes worth of data onto a single USB drive the size of your thumb. If you want to go crazy, you can get an external hard drive and carry around 100 more movies in a space less than a single tape. USB is a lot more universal than VHS. I believe the argument you're really trying to make is, "I'm stuck in my ways, now get off my porch."

*shazzam* http://www.cru-dataportstore.com/htmldocs/products/DP30.html

What kind of sense does it make to have to verify you're over 18 to access content with your G3 connection? Do a lot of people 17 and under have credit cards, their own laptop and a G3 card + service? Isn't one of the provisions of getting service being of legal age since you must sign a service contract? I'm so glad companies and governments are taking it upon themselves to be my conscience.

What kind of connection do you need to have to get away with several terabytes of data before someone notices? Users on my network get pissy when someone downloads a few dozen megs.

Can you hear me hear you now?

How many decades is it going to spend blinking 12:00?

Space memes...

The more rope you give a criminal, the more likely he is to hang YOU with it.

I can already feel my epeen swelling.