This is why we can't have nice things. I would LOVE to support democracy locally and internationally by running a Tor node, but I would never run one as long as the risk existed that I'd be questioned about kiddie porn. I know I'm innocent, I could be PROVEN innocent, but anyone who ever heard would always think I was guilty. It's just not worth it to me. It's Kryptonite to free speech.

I was analyzing some issues for a client that was using Microsoft Site Server circa 1999. We took a look at the server and it had been caching every single credit card transaction because a debug setting was on. This wasn't custom code or a hack, this was Microsoft's out of the box configuration. I can COMPLETELY believe that Microsoft would store sensitive information on the local machine especially if they think that they've sandboxed it from the end user.

I was doing it with my Palm Pre several years ago and it had the added benefit of merging my personal (google) calendar with my work (Exchange) calendar.

You don't NEED a CA-issued certificate to distribute Android Software. You can simply use the keytool supplied in the Android SDK (http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html). When you create a market account with google, you need to provide a credit card and a cell phone number, both of which can easily be fraudulent/disposable.

I had to come up with a T-shirt logo for our cub scout pack. I'm not a graphic designer by trade and not enough of a hobbyist to justify purchasing an overpriced piece of software from Adobe. InkScape and GIMP are more than enough for my needs and probably meet the needs of the majority of folks out there.

Just like Microsoft Word hasn't added any must-have features in years, I'm sure that the additional functionality present in the Adobe products caters to the niche markets that are willing to pay a premium. Since I'm not overly concerned with CMYK or whatever the equal-tier feature is in Illustrator, a book like this might just be what I need to get more use out of what I have available.

....then everyone gets all of your private information...and your friends' private information....and their friends' private information

...I was going to post "Well at least you can distill alcohol legally" and then I remembered that's New Zealand. You guys really *ARE* screwed.

symlink the LSO folder to /dev/null

I installed AVG on my mother-in-law's machine because she had an expired trial version of some other AV software. It was great for a while, but they must've had a change in direction/managment. Because all of a sudden they started with popups to get a full paid version of the software - even uninstalling the product didn't fix it. I had to surgically extract crap from the registry and program files folder to finally get rid of it. Avast or ClamWin for me - no more AVG.