DO take away the source of the addiction and everything which might pull him back in.
DO /active/ fun things with him.
DO have a person in authority around. This person should be able and competent, not some moron.
DO give something back (or enable him) to replace the addiction. Preferably something he likes or complies with his goals in life.
DO give space for emotions, but...
DON'T allow his emotions to control your (re)actions.
DO be honest (100% needed here).
DO take time for your own emotions. You're going to shed some tears, trust me on this.
DO establish structure in his life. Shove it down his throat if needed, however...
DON'T become abusive (in any way).
DON'T allow yourself to be abused.
DO remain calm.
DO try to figure out what created the space for the addiction to occur in the first place and send him to therapy, if needed (make sure he goes).
DO be patient. It takes time to get rid of addictions.
DO be observant. In the beginning he'll do anything to get to his addiction.
DO have a social worker or (even better) a therapist available.

If the person starts shouting, his eyes dilate, his face becomes red and he starts clenching his fists, lower your voice to a level that he's got to concentrate to hear you. Anger and concentration cannot occur together. Doing this might very well spare you several bruises. Making him laugh will also help.

Overwrite your entire mp3 collection with the sound of somebody taking a crap. Of course each of those files should be of different length and each mp3 should be somebody else taking a crap. The end result might be madonna taking a crap, michael jackson taking a crap, etc.

In court you could then claim you collect sounds of various famous persons taking a crap in various stages of their life.

I wonder when they will come banging on the door of senior SCO managers who performed insider trading. Also, it wouldn't amaze me if they follow the cash donation (that $500.000.000 they got from Microsoft) back to the source and start asking some very nasty questions over there.

SEC's arguments: competition fraud, misleading shareholders, inciting forgery of papers, inciting abuse of the judicial system.

When will that RICO act be invoked against Microsoft by the SEC?

I'll provide you with step 3... "author's" "rights" blacklists, websites offering drugs or the materials needed to commit suicide.

This is all becoming very disturbing. Who is directing all this corruption? The media companies is just a bit too obvious for my taste.

Clean, impulse free room... except for the LOUD non-distracting and motivating music (this mostly means techno or metal). The other extreme is complete silence.

Also, any windowing environment helps bringing down my productivity. So it's console for me. Just nano, gcc, cmake and subersion for me.

When I tried emacs, I ran away screaming. Vim ended up annoying me (but was a much nicer experience as emacs). Since my distro defaluts to nano, I started using nano and I liked it.

We're all Spartacus, except for Dave who is HAL 9000 in reality.

But he should hire companies to contribute to specific projects (those project should be of interest to the state in some way). The check over these companies is simple: ask the project about the contributions of said company. If the company is the sole contributer to the project the project should be checked by a different (random) company or a coder hired by the state.

- Provide the cables with some steel/copper insulation and electrify it (animals hate to be electricuted). This is a short term solution, while you take care of the problem.
- Get rid of (potential) food sources.
    - This means that there should be no food like scents (this includes scents you don't like). Rats trust their nose to find food.
    - Have garbage taken away on a daily basis, or at least gathered at a central location which either serves as a rat trap or is unreachable for rats.
    - Food supplies should be sealed and stored in a cold and dark room. That room should be hard to reach/get out of for rats.
    - Kitchens (or anything kitchen like) should be /clean/, cleaning should be a constant job in those areas.
- Make sure the building is cleaned on a daily basis.
- Don't have hollow walls, unless where strictly needed.

Microsoft should be forced to remove DirectX from windows, as that is one of the pillars of the vendor lock-in going on. If Microsoft isn't allowed to deliver DirectX with any version of windows and even forced to ask money for it on the consumer and developer levels, different toolkits stand a chance.