I am looking forward to that. Unfortunately, as a one man shop, I don't have the money to pay experts. I am offering free licenses to the library (with the applicable NDA) for the first 20 or so medium size businesses that want to give it a trial run. I am also working with the company that I work for (my day job) to see if they will sponsor the testing / trial of the software with some of their clients. Additionally, I have many software professionals as friends whom I have asked to do code reviews and in-house trials.

One more nail in the coffin... (See http://nearlyperfectsoftware.com/secureajax.html for other hacks). Good thing I'm working on a protocol and libraries / utilities that can be used to replace it for all of my work, and my clients... Starting with a secure ajax framework, then on to things like POP, IMAP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. Should be cool once I get them all done.

They will be "looking at" China developing a space program, as well as India. Like it said in the Tom Lehrer song... "And I'm learning Chinese, says Verner Van Braun"... It seems that like everything else in this country, we're outsourcing our space program to China and India... Go Figure

The "space race" in the 60's and 70's were for national prestige. We couldn't let the Soviets beat "us"... and everyone was afraid of having Soviet dominating Space... imagine having Soviet missile platforms overhead and us not able to do anything about it... So, now, lets let China take over space... After all, they're the West's best friends and would never take undue advantage of their leadership position. They are currently on track for dominating science and engineering completely as well... Maybe they'll ferry our secret spy satellites and our military hardware for us? We can have them send our astronauts up as well. After all, the name of the game in this country is outsource everything! We don't need no stinking jobs or industry!

One more reason I do not go to the theater any more...

Absolutely!!! I think ALL search engines should specifically BLOCK all of Murcoch's web sites... everything including personal sites. There is no law that says that they HAVE to include anything...

To me, the only disappointment in the Palm Pre is SPRINT!

You know what, I know most of the staff at google, yahoo, M$, et al are slashdot readers... So... Hey Guys... please update your code to OMIT all of Murdoch's companies web sites from ALL of your indexes.... Drop them to last place. Don't show ANYTHING from them ANYWHERE... and see how long it takes for them to beg you to include them again...

At least there is one SciFi sort-of space type show on TV... That's about it... no other reason to watch it... It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great... I'll watch because there is nothing else on...

Media industry (MPAA / RIAA)... How can this not be an option?

Again, one more reason for me NOT to upgrade to HD / BlueRay... There is no incentive for me.

With 3 kids, I do not want to have to shell out THAT MUCH money when the scratch / break a disc. That's why my originals are NOT on the shelves. I also like having my homebrew HTPC... I can have my DVDs on hard drive, and watch/dvr my TV shows. I can't do that with HDTV or Blue Ray as effectively. Yes, I can get OTA ATSC, but that's what 4 channels out of the hundred or so I get now with Cable Ready and the hundreds I can get with a set top box connected to my DVR? With HDCP required, that blows that scheme out of the water. No homebrew DVR there...

Again, I see no compelling reason to upgrade.

Personally, I have not purchased a CD in almost 10 years, and I will not purchase another CD from an RIAA label EVER. That is the only way we can make our voices heard... DO NOT BUY FROM THEM.

Oh wow... Now I HAVE to play a round of Alpha Centauri!! Best game ever!

First, build on top of a mountain on an remote island (raze the top of the mountain first for a nice flat building space and a clear 360 degree view). Second, lots of automated point defense guns (think US Navy CIWS). Third, many dangerous carnivorous animals on the island. Preferably genetically engineered mutant nasties. Finally, a big space-based laser. If you can't get the laser, then missiles would do fairly well... Maybe a bunch of expatriated Tomahawks...