So far, every time. Same with the wild white rhinos that wander onto my property. ;-)

Dunno about that. Ask any police dispatcher. They do whatever they can to find range time for the patrol folks. I've been told that FBI field agents are in similar situations.
They've got a less than 25% chance of connecting in their "double tap"
I spend more time on the range than the typical field agent. I also wouldn't bother coming out the door to shoot them. I'd just put a shot through the window and drop them at the end of the drive. A coyote is a lot smaller and a lot faster at 100m than a FBI agent. (And yes, I realize that I just got on their watch list. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last)

Hate to break it to you, friend, but that would end you up in jail, or a casket.
Castle Law has an exemption. The intruder must be acting illegally. Since the 9th circuit ruled that this is currently legal, you'd lose immediately.
I don't agree it should be legal, but it currently is.

The only tools I know of, that the poster seems concerned about mentioning are tools like aircrack-ng. It's loaded in the Backtrack CD set. (Which I highly recommend as a tool to audit your own networks) He is correct, you can crack a WPA2-AES password. It's not easy, and it takes time. Basically what you do is start dumping the stuff you see in the air, identify a target network, send a disassociation notice to the client that's connected to the AP, spoofing the MAC of the AP, a bunch of times. You record the traffic its sending back. The password will be in that traffic, encrypted, of course. Then you do a re-play and dictionary attack against the replayed traffic. It does work, but it doesn't work against long, complex, and random passwords in a short period of time.

This is where redundancy comes in, and rigid "Dev" "Stage" and "Prod" environments really shine. Where I work, if it does the job, then it is acceptable, as long as you can get it to 99.999% available to the end user. You have to prove that in staging before its allowed in production.

For some people, a 6 block walk is impossible. I have a number of disabled co-workers who drive simply because they have no other option.
I choose mass transit because I believe in it.
My morning commute: Drive 45min to the nearest train station.
Ride the train for an hour
Walk half a mile to my office door.

Doing the "right" thing gives me a 2 hour commute each way. It's also the only job I have been able to find recently. I've got a family to feed, so I do it.
I could save 30min off that trip if I drove, but then I'd have to pay for parking, and I don't have that money.

I live in the San Francisco bay area. We have a fairly good public transit system compared to most parts of the US.
When my car broke down, I had to take the bus. I was leaving the house at 4:22am to make it to work by 8am. The trip home was equally bad.

Oh, and we don't have any confidence that the mass transit will get us to work on-time either. MUNI regularly has delays, as does BART.

You placed something on my car? Huh. That's odd. I've got no clue about what it is, was, or where it is. Sorry.
I went over a really bumpy road a while ago. Sounded like something fell off, but the car was driving fine so I just kept going

Or hey, maybe do something really fun, like call in the bomb squad, and have them detonate the thing.

You don't know what the device is, how it got there, or what its purpose is. Say it looks like a bomb to you.

I get the massive fear of law enforcement and the FBI, but really, the vehicle is your property. You can do anything with your car you want. (Assuming you've got the pink slip.) Heck, if I found one attached to one of my cars, I'd seriously consider sending that car off to the smasher.

I think it must just be Dell in the EU. Here in the US, you can still configure systems preloaded with Ubuntu.

In fact, I just ran the numbers. Buying a Latitude 13 configured exactly the way I like it, running 9.10 (32bit): $1753.98
Running Windows7 (32bit): $1862.98

I didn't see a way of doing 64bit installs for either option. This also doesn't take into account any of the specials that may be running, or employee discounts, etc.

In this circumstance, the Microsoft tax is $109

Verizon's had a bundled version for a while. It was not available to the general user base.

If using SIP with an Android phone was as easy as installing Skype, then you'd have a point there. The problem with SIP is that it has a high barrier to entry for VoIP usage. Sure, I can figure out Ekigia, but most folks can't, or don't.

I looked at using Google Voice with my G1, I've looked at SIP, and a few options. I didn't see how it was anything more than "complexity for the sake of complexity." If it works for you, then good for you. It doesn't work for me. Skype does. Skype is easy to use, and in this case, ease of use counts.

Still, I applaud mercurized for actually taking the time to look at the permissions requested, and think critically about them. We do this with apps we install on our PCs, why not on our phones?

For starters, I posited the theory that if there was a better value provided, there would be less piracy. I didn't condone the piracy.

Additionally, piracy isn't "stealing" contrary to what the RIAA and MPAA are trying to program into our culture.

Oh for mod points.

So, rather than read the article, and comment, I actually went out and checked out the software package in question. It's Screebl by Keyeslabs.com.
There is a free version out there for folks to try out. That said, it does't actually do much of anything useful. All it does is use the position of your phone to keep your screen on. They want $2 for the app. Now we're talking about perceived value. In the case of this specific app, there is no value to me.

I buy apps regularly that work, work well, and provide a good value for their money.
If this app was actually useful, and provided some value, I suspect that the would see less piracy. Oh, and their report is crap. We really need stats to look at this.

I think the poster was referring to ROMs used by the phone, i.e. Cyanogenmod and the like. Those aren't piracy.